1956-02-27, WNBC, 15 min.
September 27th, 1954-May 25th, 1957
A sixty-minute comedy show starring Sid Caesar. Most of Sid's old gang of regulars from "Your Show Of Shows" returned. They included Nanette Fabray, Janet Blair, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, and Pat Carroll.
This episode: Tribute To George Gershwin.
Nanette Fabray, others.
1956-11-30, WNBC, 6 min.
September 27th, 1954-May 25th, 1957
A sixty-minute comedy show starring Sid Caesar. Most of Sid's old gang of regulars from "Your Show Of Shows" returned. They included Nanette Fabray, Janet Blair, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, and Pat Carroll.
This episode includes a spoof of the game show, "What's My Line?"
1957-03-16, NBC, 56 min.
The Ninth Annual Emmy Awards for the best in television for 1956 are presented from the NBC studios in Burbank, California. Personalities include Ed Sullivan, Phil Silvers, Carl Reiner, Robert Young, Jimmy Durante, Lloyd Nolan, Jack Palance, Claire Trevor, Peggy Lee, Perry Como, Dinah Shore, Danny Thomas, Sid Caesar, Nanette Fabray, Ralph Edwards, Loretta Young, and Peggy Wood, "Requiem For a Heavyweight, a presentation of "Playhouse 90," was voted the Emmy Award for best television presentation of 1956.
Desi Arnaz is the host. Dave Garroway concludes the program.
1957-03-30, WNBC, 2 min.
September 27th, 1954-May 25th, 1957
A sixty-minute comedy show starring Sid Caesar. Most of Sid's old gang of regulars from "Your Show Of Shows" returned. They included Nanette Fabray, Janet Blair, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, and Pat Carroll.
This episode includes the show's ending only with Carl Reiner.
1957-04-24, NBC., 10 min.
Broadcast from July 14, 1952, to September 23, 1960, on NBC, CBS & ABC Networks. Host for this run was Bud Collyer (1952), Douglas Edwards (1953), Peter Donald (1954-1956), Eddie Bracken (1957), Robert Q. Lewis (1958), and Bert Parks (1958-1960).
After a fourteen-year absence, "Masquerade Party" reappeared briefly as a syndicated series in 1974 & 1975 with host Richard Dawson and announcer Jay Stewart.
NOTE: At the beginning of this broadcast the announcer states this short lived standard opening used to indicate an NBC COLOR TV transmission.
"This program is brought to you in COMPATIBLE COLOR on NBC."
Shortly after, the word "COMPATIBLE" was changed to "LIVING."
Only one episode is known to exist from the 1974-1975 syndicated series which is archived at UCLA FILM & TV ARCHIVE. These Richard Dawson shows were broadcast initially from September 9, 1974, to September 1975. During 1976 syndicated re-runs were telecast.
Even the original 1952-1960 programs are mostly "lost."
The library of Congress has only one episode.
UCLA Film & Radio Archive has only two episodes.
Paley Center for Media has five episodes.
In this episode, the masquerader is Yankee pitcher Whitey Ford.
Eddie Bracken is the host.
1957-05-04, WNBC, 3 min.
September 27th, 1954-May 25th, 1957
A sixty-minute comedy show starring Sid Caesar. Most of Sid's old gang of regulars from "Your Show Of Shows" returned. They included Nanette Fabray, Janet Blair, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, and Pat Carroll.
The Show opening with Sid Caesar and Carl Reiner.
1957-05-18, NBC, 06 min.
September 27th, 1954-May 25th, 1957.
Sixty-minute variety/comedy hour starring Sid Caesar. It followed "Your Show Of Shows" which left the air in 1954.
Sid Caesar is joined by Carl Reiner. This was the next-to-last show of the series.
Skit: "Break Your Brains" with Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner, Janet Blair, Howard Morris, and Pat Carroll.
1957-09-26, CBS, 78 min.
October 4, 1956 - May 18, 1960
Most television historians and critics of the medium would agree that PLAYHOUSE 90 was the most ambitious of TV's dramatic anthology series which was a genre that thrived and predominated in the 1950's. PLAYHOUSE 90 presented a ninety-minute dream each Thursday evening, mostly LIVE during its first two year run. It was broadcast as a series of specials during the 1959-1960 season, and reruns were aired in 1961. More than 100 plays were presented during the series four seasons on television.
A mild-mannered schoolteacher gradually abandons all his principles and finds the success which has always hitherto eluded him.
1958-01-26, ABC, 14 min.
January 26th, 1958-May 25th-1958
A short-lived half-hour comedy show starring Sid Caesar who was reunited with Imogene Coca for the first time since "Your Show Of Shows" left the air in 1954. Other regulars were Paul Reed, Milt Kamen, Carl Reiner, and Howard Morris. The show was dropped by the ABC network after just four months due to low ratings.
This is the season premiere with Imogene Coca, and Carl Reiner.
Announcer is Hugh Downs.
1958-01-26, ABC, 30 min.
January 26th, 1958-May 25th-1958
A short-lived half-hour comedy show starring Sid Caesar who was reunited with Imogene Coca for the first time since "Your Show Of Shows" left the air in 1954. Other regulars were Paul Reed, Milt Kamen, Carl Reiner, and Howard Morris. The show was dropped by the ABC network after just four months due to low ratings.
This is the season premiere with Imogene Coca, and Carl Reiner.
Announcer is Hugh Downs.
Includes commercials for Helena Rubenstein.
Duplicate of #13,264 which is a fourteen-minute excerpt. This version is complete.
1958-05-18, ABC, 20 min.
January 26th, 1958-May 25th-1958
A short-lived half-hour comedy show starring Sid Caesar who was reunited with Imogene Coca for the first time since "Your Show Of Shows" left the air in 1954. Other regulars were Paul Reed, Milt Kamen, Carl Reiner, and Howard Morris. The show was dropped by the ABC network after just four months due to low ratings.
Next to last show of the series. Joined in progress, last twenty minutes only.
1958-10-08, ABC, 00 min.
September 24th, 1958-March 16th, 1959.
Live musical variety show hosted by singer Patti Page.
1959-03-09, WRCA, 14 min.
From 11:15pm to 11:30pm THE JACK PAAR TONIGHT SHOW is pre-empted.
Carl Reiner hosts the live Premiere of a new Broadway play, "JUNO" at the Winergarden Theater in NYC. The play, adapted from "JUNO & THE PEACOCK" stars Shirley Booth and Melvyn Douglas.
AT the theater host Carl Reiner, who praises the play, interviews:
Joseph Stein, writer of the adaptation,
Marc Blitzstein, composer of the play,
Jose Ferrer, director of the play,
Mrs.Jose Ferrer,
Melvyn Douglas,
Jayne Meadows,
Agnes DeMille, Choreographer of the play.
1960-04-04, NBC, min.
Bob Hope is host for the 32nd Annual Academy Awards ceremony, telecast live from the RKO Pantages Theater, in Hollywood, California.
1960-10-27, WABC, 00 min.
Debbie Reynolds first television special.
1962-03-07, NBC, 28 min.
October 11th, 1961- June 13th, 1962 (NBC)
A thirty-minute variety series starring comedian Bob Newhart. Newhart won fame by performing his classic telephone comedy routines that he would end by saying, "well same to you, fella."
Regulars on the show are Jackie Joseph, Kay Westfall, Jack Grinnage, Mickey Manners, Pearl Shear, June Ericson, and Andy Albin. The announcer is Dan Sorkin.
Guest: The Limelighters
1962-04-06, ABC, 00 min.
Johnny Carson hosts this tongue-in cheek survey of some current brands of humor, spotlighting Carson,Buddy Hackett,
Mata and Hari, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Kay Stevens and Dr. Joyce Brothers, who explains why people laugh.
1962-05-22, NBC, min.
The 14th primetime Emmy Awards are held at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angelos, California. Among the personalities present are Leroy Collins, who served as the 33rd Governor of the state of Florida, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, and Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson.
Host: Bob Newhart
1963-03-13, WNBC, 33 min.
Merv Griffin's guests are Carl Reiner, Peggy Lee, Adela Rogers St. John and Senator Burton K. Wheeler.
1963-05-26, NBC, min.
The 15th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards are presented from the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, California.
Hosts: Annette Funicello and Don Knotts.
1963-06-28, WPIX, 38 min.
Steve Allen's guests are Louis Nye, Carl Reiner and Rowan & Martin who appear in an "America Talks Back" sketch.
1963-08-07, , min.
Comedy from Carl Reiner and Jonathan Winters.
1963-12-01, WCBS, 00 min.
Between September 24th, 1955 and March 19th, 1963, Judy Garland appeared in four television specials. This March 19th, 1963 program was her fourth before she would appear in her own network series, "The Judy Garland Show." (September 29th, 1963-March 29th, 1964).
September 29th, 1963-March 29th, 1964. Variety show hosted by Judy Garland.
1964-05-25, WNBC, 94 min.
Hosts for the sixteenth annual Emmy Awards are Joey Bishop in Hollywood and E.G. Marshall in New York. Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore introduce this special telecast. Humorous excerpts from past Emmy Award telecasts are played. A galaxy of celebrities appear including Danny Kaye, Hugh Downs, Chet Huntley, Rod
Serling, Patty Duke, Jane Wyatt, Carl Reiner, David Janssen, Jerry Paris, James Franciscus, Dean Jagger, David Frost, John Daly, Don Defore, Shirley Booth, Tom Gries, James Drury, Roberta Shore, Polly Bergen, and Mel Brooks who with Reiner does a "2000 Year Old Man" skit. Other personalities appearing include Inger Stevens, Richard Deacon, Gene Barry, Ruth White, Zina Bethune, Shirl Conway, Garry Moore, Jack Klugman, Vince Edwards, Shelley Winters, Nat King Cole, Johnny Carson, Milton Berle, Lorne Greene. The cast from "That Was The Week That Was," Elliot Reid, Nancy Ames, Pat Englund, and David Frost satirize the 1963-64 television season. Jack Benny presents the Emmy Award for Program of the Year, "The Making of the President." Mel Stuart and David L. Wolper accept the award.
1964-06-07, WCBS, 26 min.
April 5, 1964 - September 9, 1965
Host Carl Reiner welcomes celebrity guests Mickey Rooney, Lee Marvin, Nanette Fabray, Agnes Moorehead, Oscar Levant, Ann Blyth, Gordon MacRae, Sheila MacRae and Sal Mineo to this primetime comedy quiz.
NOTE: Very few examples of this series in video or audio survive.
1964-06-14, WNBC, 26 min.
Host Carl Reiner welcomes celebrity guests Howard Duff, Ida Lupino, Cliff Arquette, Pamela Tiffin, Jack E. Leonard, Anne Baxter, MacDonald Carey, Nancy Sinatra and Tommy Sands to this primetime quiz show.
1965-04-23, WNBC, 52 min.
Cameo guest stars appear in this Danny Thomas special. They include Walter Brennan, George Burns, Bing Crosby, Bill Dana, George Gobel, Bob Hope, Don Knotts, Rich Little and Dick Van Dyke.
1965-06-03, CBS, 29 min.
April 5th, 1964- September 13th, 1964-April 8th, 1965-September 9th, 1965- (CBS)
Carl Reiner hosted this primetime quiz show which was similar to the Hollywood Squares. It featured two contestants and a panel of nine celebrities. It first replaced the Judy Garland Show in 1964 and then The Baileys of Balboa in 1965. A Merrill Heater-Bob Quigley production.
1966-05-22, CBS, 162 min.
The 8th Annual Emmy Awards are presented live from the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, California.
Chet Huntley presents a special award to Edward R. Murrow
Outstanding Dramatic Series: The Fugitive
Best Variety Special: Bob Hope Christmas Special, Carol Baker accepting
Hosts: Danny Kaye and Bill Cosby.
1966-11-27, WNBC, 52 min.
September 27, 1962-September 3, 1967 (NBC); September 20, 1969-July 17, 1971 (NBC); 1976 (Syndicated). In 1962, Williams was finally given a fall series on NBC; the hour show lasted five seasons and featured The New Christy Minstrels and the Osmond Brothers. His third NBC series, which premiered in 1969, featured comics Charlie Callas and Irwin Corey, along with Janos Prohaska; the hour show lasted another two seasons. In 1976, Williams hosted a syndicated series, entitled "Andy." The half-hour show featured puppeteer Wayland Flowers.
1966-12-30, WNEW, 40 min.
The Movie Premiere of "A Man For All Seasons," starring Leo McKern, Robert Shaw, and Paul Scofield. Directed by Fred Zinnemann. Live from the Music Hall in Beverley Hills, California.
The movie won the award for best picture at the 39th Academy Awards, Fred Zinnemann won the award for best director, and Paul Scofield won the best actor award. Broadcast on WNEW-TV Channel 5 in New York City.
Host: Bill Welch
Joined in progress.
1967-00-00, PBS, 00 min.
Host Keith Berwick interviews comedian Carl Reiner.
1967-04-05, WCBS, 51 min.
Television's "Golden Age" is briefly reviewed by Sid Ceasar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, and Howard Morris - the comedy wizards of the long running classic of television's memorable "Your Show of Shows," broadcast 1950 through 1954.
1967-04-08, WABC, 00 min.
January 4, 1964-February 7, 1970. This hour-long variety series was a midseason replacement for "The Jerry Lewis Show."
Hosts: Tony Martin and Cyd Charisse
1967-04-08, WABC, 33 min.
Host Tony Martin welcomes guests Cyd Charisse, Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, the Kim Sisters and Jackie Clark.
1967-05-11, NBC, 00 min.
A special revival of the Colgate Comedy Hour.
Dupe Of 1020.
1967-05-11, WNBC, 52 min.
An hour of comedy with Carl Reiner, Mel
Brooks, Phyllis Diller, Shelley Berman, Dick Shawn, Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, Edie Adams, Kaye Ballard, and Nanette Fabray.
1967-05-15, SYN, 7 min.
1965-1967 (SYN)
Thirty-minute talk show starring host, Gypsy Rose Lee.
Gypsy Rose Lee, who is generally credited with introing the idea of gab as an adjunct of peeling, is still talking on this ABC-TV syndicated strip now being distributed by Seven Arts.
This show debuted on KGO-TV in San Francisco (the station that produces it) in April and was picked up by KABC-TV in Los Angeles
a month later and is now on WBKB-TV Chicago.
Miss Lee is a greatly uninhibited and somewhat undisciplined hostess, both factors which provide the best and worst of the show. She's quite well-informed and widely experienced and has a considerable knack of showing interest in and contagious appreciation of her guests.
Guests: Carl Reiner, Red Buttons, Ann Rodgers.
1968-06-02, WCBS, 52 min.
February 5, 1967-June 8, 1969. "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" was a breath of fresh air, but to CBS the Smothers Brothers seemed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, with the wrong things to say.
1968-10-20, CBS, 52 min.
Henry Fonda narrates this Special Broadcast Satire , PAULSEN FOR PRESIDENT as Pat Paulsen runs for President of the United States on the Straight-Talking American Government ticket- the STAG Party. Included is a roast held in a Beverly Hills cafeteria, and flashbacks of Paulsen's editorials for The Smother's Brothers Show.
1969-02-13, ABC, min.
Actor-singer Dean Jones is the host for this weekly melange of satire aimed at every facet of American life.
Guests: Marlo Thomas and Carl Reiner join Dean Jones and the "World" company. Marlo finds a lesson in human relations in a box of Valentine candy. Carl spoofs French singers. The finale salutes fifty years of US-Soviet relations. Series regulars include Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon, (lampooning modern life), singer Gerri Granger(who joins the company in the weekly vaudeville show segment), and commentator Alex Dreier, (spoofing documentaries.)
Created and produced by Saul Iison and Ernest Chambers, who originated "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour."
The show ran from February 6th, 1969-May 1st, 1969. In late March, the show became "The Dean Jones Variety Hour." Both formats proved unsuccessful and the series was dropped after a thirteen week run.
Second show of the series.
1969-02-20, ABC, min.
Actor-singer Dean Jones is the host for this weekly melange of satire aimed at every facet of American life.
Guests: Dean Jones welcomes Art Carney, Tom and Dick Smothers, and Alice Ghostley. Satirical targets: dropouts, discrimination and political extremism. Tom and Dick turn a simple song into "controversial material" and join Dean in a folk singing spoof. Series regulars include Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon, (lampooning modern life), singer Gerri Granger(who joins the company in the weekly vaudeville show segment), and commentator Alex Dreier, (spoofing documentaries.)
Created and produced by Saul Iison and Ernest Chambers, who originated "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour."
The show ran from February 6th, 1969-May 1st, 1969. In late March, the show became "The Dean Jones Variety Hour." Both formats proved unsuccessful and the series was dropped after a thirteen week run.
Third show of the series.
1969-03-30, WOR, 52 min.
Carl Reiner is roasted. George Jessel emcees this hour variety roast series featuring testimonials to guests of honor. This syndicated series aired from September 15, 1968 to March 9, 1969. Reruns ran through March 1, 1970.
1970-10-18, WCBS, 52 min.
September 20, 1970-December 13, 1970. Tim Conway's second 1970 show was a variety hour. List of regulars: McLean Stevenson, Sally Struthers, Art Metrano, Bonnie Boland, Belland and Somerville, the Jimmy Joyce Singers, and announcer Ernie Anderson.
1971-05-17, NBC, min.
October 1, 1962-May 22, 1992. Johnny Carson, host of NBC's network late-night "Tonight Show" reigned for 30 unprecedented years...five times the combined tenure of Steve Allen, and Jack Paar. Carson was impervious to competition, including efforts to dethrone him by Les Crane, Joey Bishop, Merv Griffin, Dick Cavett, Jack Paar, Pat Sajak, Joan Rivers, and Arsenio Hall. Sadly, very few complete "Tonight Show" broadcasts survive during Johnny Carson's first ten years of broadcasting. Around 1965, through the early 1970's, oldest tapes were first erased systematically by orders from myopic NBC executives, to be recycled for purposes of saving money. Ironically, in many cases, these older master tapes were too brittle, and portended probable drop-outs for re-use after being erased. Subsequently blank after being erased, these older questionable master 2" Quad tapes were either sparingly used or never used again for recording new programming and eventually were discarded. Saving thousands of dollars at the time (wiping master tapes for potential re-use) resulted in losing millions of dollars by NBC in today's marketplace, and more importantly wiping thousands of historic TONIGHT SHOW broadcasts, which contain precious personal anecdotes from political, show business, and sports icons of the past.
Guests: John Byner, Carl Reiner, Ruth Gordon, Lou Rawls.
NOTE: This specific TONIGHT SHOW may only contain an opening monologue by Johnny Carson.
Other content, as listed, will have to be monitored and confirmed upon your order request.
1971-11-25, WNBC, 52 min.
September 17, 1970-June 27, 1974. A successful variety hour hosted by Flip Wilson.
1971-12-02, WOR, 52 min.
Host Carl Reiner conducts a round table discussion. Included are topics related to love, money, poverty and wealth.
1972-08-24, WNBC, 52 min.
July 27, 1972-September 7, 1972; January 19, 1973-April 27, 1973. Bobby Darin was given his own series in 1972, a summer replacement for "The Dean Martin Show." The series was revived that winter as a midseason replacement. Regulars included Dick Bakalyan, Steve Landesberg, and Rip Taylor.
1972-09-20, WABC, 52 min.
September 13, 1972-April 28, 1973. Variety hour hosted by musical comedy star Julie Andrews and featuring Alice Ghostley and Rich Little.
1972-11-29, WCBS, 52 min.
September 11, 1967-August 9, 1978. Popular variety hour hosted by Carol Burnett. On her own show, she brought together a group of talented supporting players: Harvey Korman, Lyle Waggoner, Vicki Lawrence, Tim Conway, and Dick Van Dyke.
