1951-06-27, NBC, 30 min.
October 4th, 1950-July 18th, 1951 (NBC)
This Wednesday-night variety hour featured four rotating hosts; Danny Thomas, Jack Carson, Jimmy Durante, and Ed Wynn. In the fall of 1951, more hosts were added, and the show was retitled All-Star Revue.
Guest: Constance De Mattiazzi, The DeMattiazzi's.
Host: Danny Thomas.
1951-07-11, NBC, min.
October 4th, 1950-July 18th, 1951 (NBC)
This Wednesday-night variety hour featured four rotating hosts; Danny Thomas, Jack Carson, Jimmy Durante, and Ed Wynn. In the fall of 1951, more hosts were added, and the show was retitled All-Star Revue.
Premiere of guest Paulette Goddard.
Host: Danny Thomas.
1955-03-07, WRCA, 96 min.
Broadcast from 11:30 pm to 1:05am, pre-empling Tonight Show starring Steve Allen, The seventh annual Emmy Awards , and for the first time televised Nationally. From Hollywood Steve Allen. From New York Emcee Dave Garroway. Commercials included.
1955-03-30, NBC, 79 min.
The third televised Academy Awards with M.C's Bob Hope in Hollywood and Thelma Ritter and Conrad Nagel in New York.
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.
1958-02-01, NBC, 51 min.
Dean's guests on this variety special are Frank Sinatra, Danny Thomas, Barbara Perry, and Jill St. John.
Sponsored by Chesterfield and Oasis Cigarettes. Both products are plugged by Dean and Frank.
Highlights include:
"When You're Smiling"- Dean, Frank, and Danny
We Hope You Enjoy Our Show Tonight- Dean, Frank, and Danny
"Getting To Know You"- Dean, Frank, and Danny
Dean sings while Danny does a comedy bit during the song
Dance Routine performed by Barbara Perry
"Last Night When We Were Young"- Frank
"I Love To Love"- Dean, Frank
Stand-Up routine about Vegas
"Forgetting You"- Danny
"That's Amore"- Dean
Tribute To The Academy Awards-
"Three Coins In The Fountain"- Dean
"April Love"- Frank
"Our Love Affair"- Dean
"Sayanora"- Dean, Frank, and Danny
"All The Way"- Danny
Finale- Dean, Frank, and Danny
1958-10-05, CBS, 17 min.
June 20, 1948 - May 30, 1971
ED SULLIVAN SHOW, THE, (TOAST OF THE TOWN)
Television's longest running variety series. Originally, titled, TOAST OF THE TOWN, the name of the series changed on September 18, 1955 to THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW. Most remembered for introducing many stand-up comedians, and musical acts, including The Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, The Beatles.
Most of the 1,087 broadcasts, encompassing 10,000 performers, have been archived. The major exceptions are the first half year of shows circa 1948 of which a few kinescope excerpts survive.
The ED SULLIVAN SHOW was a spectacular show-case that for twenty-three years entertained the American family. In its prime, more than thirty million viewers, young and old, tuned in at the same time to view popular culture.
Guests: Danny Thomas, Patachou.
1959-03-03, NBC, 00 min.
Stars from the world of show business pay tribute to the late Emanuel Sacks. Their tribute takes the form of 90 minutes of entertainment by Sid Caesar, Rosemary Clooney, Nat King Cole, Perry Como, Eddie Fisher, Betty Grable, Bob Hope, Harry James, Tony Martin, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, Kay Starr, Danny Thomas, Jack Webb and Jane Wyman.
Some of these entertainers were discovered by Manie Sacks, all of them were helped by him during his years as a record-industry and television executive and all were his friends.
1961-09-01, WNBC, 20 min.
Dean Miller and Helen O'Connell chat with Andy Griffith, Danny Thomas, Joey Bishop and North Carolina Governor Terry Sandford, who hosts a special party honoring Andy Griffith.
1961-12-13, WNBC, 57 min.
Bob Hope's guests are Danny Thomas, James Garner and Nancy Kwan on this Christmas special.
1962-04-19, WNBC, 67 min.
From two successive telecasts, guests are double talker Mr. Laud Brooks Schmidt,appearing on April 18, 1962, and the following night, April 19, 1962, Ernest Borgnine, Danny Thomas, Edie Adams, Sonny King and Lenny Kent.
1962-09-24, CBS, 17 min.
A Fall preview of CBS programs.
Five stars of TV comedy, Lucille Ball, Jack Benny , Andy Griffith, Garry Moore and Danny Thomas blend their talents for an hour to poke fun at the new 1962-1963 TV season and themselves.
Written by Larry Gelbart.
Announcer: Don Wilson.
NOTE: Some variations in sound quality, but most of the audio is excellent.
1962-09-24, KCBS, 00 min.
Andy Griffith, Lucille Ball, Danny Thomas and Jack Benny perform.
1963-09-23, WCBS, 53 min.
CBS-TV Preview of the coming 1963-1964 season with Jack Benny, Lucille Ball, Garry Moore, Andy Griffith, Phil
Silvers and Danny Thomas. Don Wilson is also on hand.
1964-10-30, WPIX, 37 min.
Celebrities include George Cukor, Audrey Hepburn, Jack Warner, Frederick Lowe, Troy Donahue, Caesar Romero, Rex Harrison, Danny Thomas, Gladys Cooper, Ed Begley, Hoagy Carmichael, Natalie Wood, Yul Brynner, Maureen O'Hara, Jim Backus, Bill Burrows, Henny Backus, Hugh O'Brian, Walter Pidgeon, Rock Hudson, Richard Crenna, Steve McQueen, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Marlo Thomas,
Live from the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, California.
Co-Hosts: Arthur Godfrey and Bill Burrud.
A presentation of WPIX-TV Channel 11 in New York City.
1964-11-13, WNBC, 52 min.
The first of five scheduled Danny Thomas specials to be aired in the 1964-1965 television season. The premiere program is a comedy and music program.
1964-12-10, WNBC, 52 min.
Comedy-music-dance show presented and videotape recorded at the Ambassador Hotel's Cocoanut Grove in honor of the night club's 40th year in show business.
1964-12-10, WNBC, 50 min.
A special Danny Thomas variety hour with guests Eddie Fisher, Joey Bishop and Jimmy Durante who celebrates his 50 years in show business. Also on hand is columnist Walter Winchell.
1965-02-04, WNBC, 53 min.
September 12, 1955-June 12, 1963.
September 12, 1955-June 12, 1963.
Comedian Danny Thomas and singer-actress Shirley Jones join Perry's cross-country TV tour at Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis on tis live telecast. Also on hand for Perry Como's fourth special of the season are the Ray Charles Singers and announcer Frank Gallop.
Danny Thomas offers one of his night-club routines in a Yiddish accent. He also confirms the gratefulness all should have living in America.
Thomas also joins in the singing and invites Perry to appear as a guest on his next special.
HIGHLIGHTS:
"St. Louis Blues," "Somebody, Somewhere,"
St. Louis Melody--------------------------------------Perry Como
"Something's Coming", medley from "Oklahoma!" "Carousel"
and "Music Man"........Perry Como, Shirley Jones, Danny Thomas
"Lida Rose"...................................Perry Como, Shirley Jones
In the fall of 1955 Perry Como returned to NBC where he hosted a weekly hour show. From 1955 to 1959 it was seen Saturday evenings and was titled "The Perry Como Show." From 1959 to 1963 it was seen Wednesday evenings and was titled "The Kraft Music Hall." Regulars included Frank Gallop and the Ray Charles Singers. After his final weekly June 12, 1963 broadcast Perry Como appeared in scores of specials, beginning October 3, 1963, airing on NBC, CBS & ABC, and concluding on December 6, 1986.
1965-02-12, NBC, 61 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.
Johnny's guest is Danny Thomas.
1965-02-14, WNBC, 52 min.
A reunion of actors comprising cast members of Danny Thomas' icon series "Make Room For Daddy" which originally aired from September 29, 1953 through September 2, 1971.
1965-03-14, WNBC, 52 min.
Variety show recreating the "Wonderful World of Burlesque" in music, comedy and dance.
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.
1965-11-08, WNBC, 52 min.
A musical-variety show, the first of five scheduled specials to be broadcast this season.
1966-02-06, WNBC, 52 min.
Musical-variety show, based on the theme that for an actor, the studio lot is his home town.
1966-02-16, WNBC, 52 min.
Bob and his guests in an hour of comedy, music and song.
1966-03-13, WNBC, 52 min.
Musical-variety special with a rural twist.
1966-04-20, WNBC, 52 min.
Musical-variety special based on the theme of Danny Thomas' adventures when he visits his relatives in Lebanon.
1966-12-11, WNBC, 52 min.
Danny Thomas is the star of the first of three specials in his season's series, presenting the third annual edition of his interpretation of the old-time family version of burlesque as it used to be.
1967-02-10, NBC, 00 min.
1967-02-10, WNBC, 52 min.
A musical book comedy starring Danny Thomas. The story involves a chase all over Japan with Jonathan Winters tailing Thomas and Jack Jones, who are trying to produce Danny's variety show.
Jack Jones and Danny Thomas sing “Japanese Holiday.”
Jack Jones sings “They Can’t Take that Away From Me.”
Duet by Jack Jones and Romi Yamada, “She Loves Me.”
1967-04-12, WNBC, 52 min.
September 11, 1967-June 10, 1968. An all-purpose hour hosted by Danny Thomas. Presentations include musical programs, comedy and variety hours, and filmed dramas. Of the series' 22 shows, only 6 were taped and devoted to variety, comedy or musical specials.
A variety program recreating the old fashioned block party, with various ethnic groups represented.
1967-04-17, ABC, 68 min.
April 17, 1967 - December 26, 1969
Joey Bishop is the host of this week-night-talk show originating live from Hollywood. The announcer and sidekick is Regis Philbin. Johnny Mann conducts the orchestra.
The ABC Late Night chair had previously been occupied by Les Crane when the show was called THE LES CRANE SHOW, and later by a succession of guest hosts (when it was called NIGHTLIFE).
Bishop gave it a two & half year run but he was never able to beat Johnny Carson in the ratings, and in late November 1969 Joey was fired by ABC. Bishop had one more month to fulfill with the show but decided to walk out, a similar deja vu moment on TV when Jack Paar walked off his TONIGHT SHOW 13 years before.
Dick Cavett then took over the ABC late-night seat after the final JOEY BISHOP SHOW which aired December 26, 1969, closing out the decade of the '60s.
Guests: Ronald Reagan, Debbie Reynolds, Joe Besser, Danny Thomas, Michael Landon in the audience.
Co-Host: Regis Philbin
Music by Johnny Mann
Series premiere. The first 68 minutes of the show, includes commercials.
1967-09-11, WNBC, 52 min.
September 11, 1967-June 10, 1968. An all-purpose hour hosted by Danny Thomas. Presentations include musical programs, comedy and variety hours, and filmed dramas. Of the series' 22 shows, only 6 were taped and devoted to variety, comedy or musical specials.
1967-09-25, NBC, 52 min.
The Danny Thomas Hour was an American anthology television series that was broadcast on NBC during the 1967–68 television season.
Robert Stack and Geraldine Chaplin star in a drama about a man who gave up a promising career as an artist to provide security for his family. Angelo (Robert Stack) involves himself in a contemporary "now" world of hippies testing his passion to pick up where he had left off many years ago.
1967-10-02, WNBC, 52 min.
September 11, 1967-June 10, 1968. An all-purpose hour hosted by Danny Thomas. Presentations include musical programs, comedy and variety hours, and filmed dramas. Of the series' 22 shows, only 6 were taped and devoted to variety, comedy or musical specials.
1967-10-23, WNBC, 52 min.
September 11, 1967-June 10, 1968. An all-purpose hour hosted by Danny Thomas. Presentations include musical programs, comedy and variety hours, and filmed dramas. Of the series' 22 shows, only 6 were taped and devoted to variety, comedy or musical specials.
1967-12-18, WNBC, 49 min.
This cartoon musical is freely adapted from the Christmas tale Charles Dickens wrote in 1845. Voices include those of Roddy McDowall, Danny Thomas, Marlo Thomas, Ed Ames, Hans Conreid, Abbe Lane, and Paul Frees.
1968-01-08, WNBC, 52 min.
September 11, 1967-June 10, 1968. An all-purpose hour hosted by Danny Thomas. Presentations include musical programs, comedy and variety hours, and filmed dramas. Of the series' 22 shows, only 6 were taped and devoted to variety, comedy or musical specials.
1968-02-26, WNBC, 52 min.
Danny Thomas' one-man supper club act.
1968-02-26, WNBC, 50 min.
Danny Thomas works before a packed Lake Tahoe, Nevada night club audience. He mugs, mimics and reminisces drawing upon material and memories of 35 years in show business.
1968-03-20, WNBC, 52 min.
A comedy-variety special "Jack Benny Hour" broadcast, with guest stars.
Duplicate of #5284.
1969-04-14, ABC, 52 min.
Danny Thomas and Carol Burnett join Carol Channing for a lighthearted look at the seven deadly sins...Miss Channing opens with "Sing, You Sinners," and joins Miss Burnett for a sketch on gluttony. They sing "Food, Glorious Food." In a Biblical sketch, Elijah (Danny Thomas) finds his wife (Miss Channing ) green with envy wanting to keep up with the Noahs. Miss Burnett laments her lust to "The Shape Of Things." Danny expounds on wifely wrath. A bejeweled and avaricious Miss Channing sings "I'm Old-fashioned."
Danny and the ladies chat about the pride of being a good entertainer, then close with "happiness."
1969-06-26, NBC, min.
September 16, 1965-May 24, 1974.
A variety hour hosted by Dean Martin. Several of the shows were celebrity "roasts," set at a banquet table, in which the guest of honor was showered with insults by other celebs. Regulars of the series included pianist Ken Lane (1965-1972), Kay Medford, Lou Jacobi, The Golddiggers, Marian Mercer (1971-1972), Tom Bosley (1971-1972), Rodney Dangerfield (1972-1973), Dom DeLuise (1972-1973), and Nipsey Russell (1972-1974).
Don Rickles in a special segment recreates his nightclub act, needling a celebrity audience that includes Pat Boone, Ross Martin, Danny Thomas, Ricardo Montalban and others.
Repeat of 11-30-1967.
1969-09-22, WNBC, 52 min.
Some of Bob's fellow comedians join him for an hour of comedy.
1969-10-31, WABC, 52 min.
September 26, 1969-July 4, 1970. Hour-long variety series starring Jimmy Durante and the singing Lennon Sisters (Dianne, Janet, Kathy, and Peggy).
1969-11-24, NBC, min.
A variety show presented as monthly specials on NBC.
Guests: Danny Thomas, Virna Lisi, Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme.
Host: Bob Hope.
1970-01-28, WCBS, 52 min.
An all-star musical-comedy look at times past, present and future.
1970-03-17, WCBS, 52 min.
September 20, 1970-December 13, 1970. This broadcast was a Special. 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.
1970-09-20, CBS, min.
June 20, 1948 - May 30, 1971
ED SULLIVAN SHOW, THE, (TOAST OF THE TOWN)
Television's longest running variety series. Originally, titled, TOAST OF THE TOWN, the name of the series changed on September 18, 1955 to THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW. Most remembered for introducing many stand-up comedians, and musical acts, including The Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, The Beatles.
Most of the 1,087 broadcasts, encompassing 10,000 performers, have been archived. The major exceptions are the first half-year of shows circa 1948 of which a few kinescope excerpts survive.
The ED SULLIVAN SHOW was a spectacular show-case that for twenty-three years entertained the American family. In its prime, more than thirty million viewers, young and old, tuned in at the same time to view popular culture.
Host: Ed Sullivan. Entertainer Of The Year Awards from Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. Guest: Tom Jones wins most popular male singer of the year award and sings " Cabaret."
