HERE'S MORGAN (HENRY MORGAN AND COMPANY) syndicated.
February 13, 1959-June 19, 1959 (90 minute show)
June 26, 1959-September 11, 1959 (60 minute show)
September 14? or 21, 1959-November 20, 1959 (30 minute show)
Total of 39 broadcasts, few of which survive.
Sharp tongued Henry Morgan, who never was able to keep a television series on the air for more that a brief period of time, lasted only nine months with three different time slot entries for this early late night talk/variety show.
Syndicated and broadcast in New York on WNTA Channel 13 this series had a 90 minute format (10pm-Midnight), and two additional time change formats all in 1959.
Morgan's show was revised from a 90 minute format to a one hour broadcast time slot and continued for another three months and then again revised to a half hour for another two months before being cancelled altogether.
Ferdinand Waldo Demara, more popularly known as Fred W. Demara appears on this broadcast along with auto biographer, Robert Creighton who discusses his book about Demara entitled "THE GREAT IMPOSTER," a descriptive accounting of the colorful and very intelligent person who assumed the identities of others in order to shortcut through life and place himself in various positions or careers. Amongst others, over time, he was a Canadian Navy Surgeon, civil engineer designing a bridge, a sheriff's deputy, an assistant prison warden, a doctor of applied psychology, a hospital orderly, a lawyer, a child-care expert, a Benedictine monk, a Trappist monk, an editor, a cancer researcher, and a teacher - and at the end of his life a hospital chaplain in his own name.
Henry Morgan chats with Fred Demara asking many questions and at the same time adding humor to the conversation, as he does at the top of the broadcast taking to his audience about a myriad of topics including Holy Bread, Hulu Hoops, Books alright to purchase but banned from mailing, Charlie Knickerbocker, columnist Sidney Skulski, recognizing celebrities in public, and the firing of Tony Marvin by Arthur Godfrey after being his announcer for twelve years.
Orchestra leader, Norman Paris leads the band in "Hooray For Love."
NOTE: This was the first of only five television broadcasts that Fred W. Demara (Ferdinand Waldo Demara) would appear.
The others:
Jack Paar Tonight Show (Aug. 27, 1959)
Take a Good Look with Ernie Kovacs (Oct. 29, 1959)
You Bet Your Life with Groucho Marx (Nov. 12, 1959)
Jack Paar Program (Nov. 16, 1962).
