1956-01-29, CBS, 28 min.
January 3rd, 1954-January 21st, 1979 (CBS)
Long-running Sunday morning religious program, a fixture on CBS for two dozen years. Merv Griffin hosted the show briefly in 1955. In later years, different religious and cultural themes were explored.
On this episode, host Merv Griffin is joined by the jazz band of the Don Elliott quartet and sings "That's All" with the Elliott quartet.
1962-04-16, CBS, min.
June 19th, 1952- April 3rd, 1967 (CBS)
Syndicated- 1972
June 15th, 1976-July 6th, 1976 (CBS)
Popular prime time game show in which four panelists try to guess the secret of the contestant.
Garry Moore hosted the show from 1952-1964 and was replaced by Steve Allen. Allen also hosted the 1972 syndicated version. Bill Cullen hosted the 1976 CBS version which had a brief run of less than one month.
The panelists are Henry Morgan, Bess Myerson, and Betsy Palmer and Merv Griffin. Celebrity guest, Jonathan Winters.
The host is Garry Moore.
1962-07-30, WNBC, 10 min.
April 2, 1962 - September 28, 1962
The Second Interregnum for The Tonight Show. 19 substitute hosts presided during the six months after the departure of Jack Paar and the emergence of Johnny Carson the new permanent host of The Tonight Show premiering October 1, 1962.
Sophia Loren is interviewed by host Merv Griffin in a rare one on one recently filmed interview segment.
1962-11-01, WNBC, 32 min.
October 1, 1962 - March 29, 1963
Merv Griffin's guests on his first talk show day time series are Jack E. Leonard and Ann Sothern.
NOTE:
All but one of the 125 NBC Daytime THE MERV GRIFFIN SHOW broadcasts are NOT know to exist. The Network wiped them as was the current practice at the time to reuse the 2" quad video tape.
The one extant broadcast...Danny Kaye appearing November 9, 1962.
However, Phil Gries founder of ARCHIVAL TELEVISION AUIDO, INC. is personally responsible for audio taping 35 of these shows, direct line on to 1/4" reel to reel audio tape, during the original airing of these shows...historically remaining the only broadcast record (approximately a third) of Merv Griffin's first television talk show series.
1962-11-19, WNBC, 6 min.
Merv Griffin's guests are Anna Quale and Henry Morgan.
1962-12-05, WNBC, 26 min.
Merv Griffin's guests are Tony Perkins and Henny Youngman.
1962-12-27, WNBC, 37 min.
Elwood P. Goodman (Jonathan Winters), poses as Merv Griffin's uncle and opens the show. Winters, Griffin, and Carol Channing take on numerous comedy improvisations.
Note: Originally scheduled guest Woody Allen could not make the show at the last minute and Jonathan Winters filled in. One of the most hilarious appearances on the Merv Griffin NBC show. It would be Winter's only appearance.
1962-12-31, WNBC, 16 min.
Guests are Henry Morgan, Jimmy Piersall, Adam Keefe and Woody Allen.
1963-01-14, WNBC, 13 min.
Guest Hugh Downs conducts the NBC orchestra with his own musical composition "Sandwriting." Also, comic Joe Philips appears.
1963-01-22, WNBC, 9 min.
Merv Griffin sings a duet with Shelley Berman. Louis Lomax also guests.
1963-01-23, WNBC, 12 min.
Merv Griffin's guests are Basil Rathbone and Genevieve.
1963-02-01, WNBC, 44 min.
October 1, 1962 - March 29, 1963
Excerpts from two programs. Jan. 31, 1963 comic & impressionist, Adam Keefe. Feb. 1, 1963 Merv Griffin's guests are Edward Everett Horton, Buddy Hackett and Bobby Breen. Mrs. Miller tells a joke to Merv who also plays the piano.
NOTE: All but one of the 120 NBC Daytime THE MERV GRIFFIN SHOW broadcasts are NOT know to exist. The one extant...Danny Kaye appearing November 9, 1962. However, Phil Gries founder of ARCHIVAL TELEVISION AUIDO, INC. is personally responsible for audio taping 35 of these shows direct line on to 1/4" audio tape, historically remaining the only broadcast record.
1963-02-04, WNBC, 20 min.
Merv Griffin's guests are Montgomery Clift and Don Adams.
Note: In Merv Griffin's 1980 Autobiography "MERV" he states:
"Of all the remarkable guests on my NBC talk show, one appearance remains in my mind as the most memorable, Montgomery Clift." He did very few televisions interviews in his life, and arrived at the studio, intoxicated, while Griffin was already on the air. However, when Merv introduced him, Clift walked on stage like he had pushed a button inside his brain that brought self-control. Montgomery Clift gave Merv Griffin, that afternoon, a lucid, fascinating interview including anecdotes about his relationship with Marilyn Monroe. By the end of the interview they both shook hands. Monty waved to the audience and strode offstage...collapsing against a wall the moment he was off camera.
1963-02-08, WNBC, 26 min.
Merv Griffin's guests are Woody Allen, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Merriman Smith and Val Pringle.
1963-02-12, WNBC, 28 min.
Merv Griffin's guests are Jack E. Leonard, Leo Genn, Al Capp and Joey Forman.
1963-02-13, WNBC, 13 min.
Merv Griffin's guest is Buddy Hackett.
1963-02-15, WNBC, 32 min.
Merv Griffin's guests are Basil Rathbone, Margaret Leighton, and George Frazier.
1963-02-18, WNBC, 35 min.
Guests are John Daly, Charlton Heston and Diahann Carroll.
1963-02-19, WNBC, 15 min.
Guests are Jack Haley and Stan Musial.
1963-02-20, WNBC, 24 min.
Guests are Pat Harrington Jr., Romy Schneider, Robert Taylor and his wife, actress Ursula Thiess and comedian Charlie Dornin.
1963-02-25, WNBC, 24 min.
Merv Griffin's guests are Gloria Swanson and Hal March.
1963-02-27, WNBC, 28 min.
Merv Griffin's guests are Dr. Albert Burke, Milt Kamen, and Hedda Hooper.
1963-03-04, WNBC, 32 min.
October 1, 1962 - March 29, 1963
Merv Griffin's guests are Jack Benny, Peter Lorre, Dr. Joyce Brothers and Bobby Breen.
A rare interview appearance for Bobby Breen.
NOTE: All but one of the 125 NBC Daytime THE MERV GRIFFIN SHOW broadcasts are NOT know to exist. However, Phil Gries founder of ARCHIVAL TELEVISION AUIDO, INC. is personally responsible for audio taping 35 of these shows, direct line, on to 1/4" audio tape when these broadcasts originally aired. They remain the only broadcast record.
1963-03-05, WNBC, 20 min.
Merv Griffin's guests are Jack E. Leonard and Lou Holtz.
1963-03-06, WNBC, 34 min.
Merv Griffin's guests are Greer Garson, Carmel Quinn, Milt Kamen and Gino Tinnetti.
1963-03-07, WNBC, 39 min.
Merv Griffin's guests are Joan Crawford, Allen Drury, appearing on March 7, 1963 and Adela Rogers St. John, Bert Lahr, Walter Slezak and William Saroyan, appearing on March 8, 1963.
Two shows combined.
1963-03-11, WNBC, 22 min.
Merv Griffin's guests are Milt Kamen, Eli Wallach and Ann Jackson.
1963-03-13, WNBC, 33 min.
Merv Griffin's guests are Carl Reiner, Peggy Lee, Adela Rogers St. John and Senator Burton K. Wheeler.
1963-03-15, WNBC, 27 min.
Merv Griffin's guests are Shirley Booth, Peter Cook, Louis Lomax,
and Marilyn Lovell.
1963-03-20, WNBC, 42 min.
Merv Griffin's guests are Leon Bibb, Basil Rathbone, Elsa Lanchester and George Frazier.
1963-03-21, WNBC, 10 min.
Merv Griffin's guest is Milt Kamen.
1963-03-22, WNBC, 13 min.
Merv Griffin's guests are Adela Rogers St. John and Ira Hershman.
1963-03-25, WNBC, 24 min.
Merv Griffin's guests are Henry Morgan and Kaye Ballard.
1963-03-27, WNBC, 29 min.
Merv Griffin's guests are the Smothers Brothers.
1963-03-28, WNBC, 37 min.
Merv Griffin's guests are Milt Kamen, Hermione Gingold, singer Don Stuart and Lorne Greene.
1963-03-29, WNBC, 43 min.
This is Merv Griffin's final daytime talk show series program, which premiered October 1, 1962. Guests are Milt Kamen, Shelley Berman and Adela Rogers St. John.
1964-02-17, WABC, 53 min.
Guests on this live telephone talk show are Jack E. Leonard and Bobby Darin. Merv Griffin phones in as well as viewers with questions for Les Crane's guests.
1964-03-28, WABC, 60 min.
Les Crane's guests are Merv Griffin and Don Knotts who answer phone calls from viewers including Andy Griffith and Milt Kamen.
1964-05-30, WABC, 54 min.
Jayne Mansfield, who replaces scheduled guest Abbe Lane, joins other guests, Merv Griffin and Milt Kamen on this late night phone-in live talk show.
1965-05-20, SYN, 65 min.
October 1, 1962-March 29, 1963 (NBC); 1965-1969 (Syndicated); August 18, 1969-February 11, 1972 (CBS); 1972-1986 (Syndicated).
Host: Merv Griffin.
Merv's ninth show since his return to syndication.
1965-06-10, CBS, min.
October 1st, 1962-March 29th, 1963-NBC Daytime
1965-1969 Syndicated
August 18th, 1969- February 11th, 1972- CBS
1972-1986- Syndicated.
From August 18th, 1969- February 11th, 1972 Merv Griffin appeared in a late-night talk show format on CBS-TV. It's believed that all of his CBS talk shows were bulk-erased by the network. In 1972, Griffin returned to the syndication market where he remained until 1986.
Topic: The step-up in the Vietnam war.
1965-08-24, SYN, 9 min.
October 1st, 1962-March 29th, 1963-NBC Daytime
1965-1969 Syndicated
August 18th, 1969- February 11th, 1972- CBS
1972-1986- Syndicated.
From August 18th, 1969- February 11th, 1972 Merv Griffin appeared in a late-night talk show format on CBS-TV. It's believed that all of his CBS talk shows were bulk-erased by the network. In 1972, Griffin returned to the syndication market where he remained until 1986.
Merv's guest is comedian Jackie Mason.
1965-08-26, SYN, 16 min.
October 1st, 1962-March 29th, 1963-NBC Daytime
1965-1969 Syndicated
August 18th, 1969- February 11th, 1972- CBS
1972-1986- Syndicated.
From August 18th, 1969- February 11th, 1972 Merv Griffin appeared in a late-night talk show format on CBS-TV. It's believed that all of his CBS talk shows were bulk-erased by the network. In 1972, Griffin returned to the syndication market where he remained until 1986.
Merv interviews Captain Mitsuo Fuchida commander of Japanese planes that attacked Pearl Harbor
1967-01-31, WCBS, 52 min.
September 25, 1962-June 23, 1970. One of television's most inventive and popular comedians, Red Skelton hosted his own series for twenty years, seven of them in a one-hour format, "The Red Skelton Hour" on CBS. Skelton began his television career on NBC September 30, 1951 with a half-hour filmed variety series lasting until June 21, 1953. He then began his CBS affiliation, and began hosting "The Red Skelton Show," a half-hour variety show broadcast live until October 18, 1960, and subsequently on videotape. This series aired from October 13, 1953, continuing until June 26, 1962. From July 21, 1954 through September 8, 1954, "The Red Skelton Revue" was broadcast live on CBS in a one-hour format. Red Skelton returned to NBC in a half-hour taped format for his final series. "Red" as the show was known, premiered September 14, 1970. The first four broadcasts included introductions by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew (September 14, 1970), Dean Martin (September 21, 1970), Jack Benny (September 28, 1970), and Johnny Carson (October 5, 1970) who got his big break writing for Skelton in the early 1950's. Red Skelton's last first-run regularly scheduled television program aired on March 15, 1971.
1967-03-21, SYN, 21 min.
October 1, 1962-March 29, 1963 (NBC); 1965-1969 (Syndicated); August 18, 1969-February 11, 1972 (CBS); 1972-1986 (Syndicated).
The 1967 Photoplay Awards are featured representing TV broadcasting excellence as voted by the public (1966/1967).
Guests include David Janssen, Marty Allen, Ginger Rogers, Phyllis Diller and Barbara Stanwyck.
Winners: David Janssen Favorite Male Star for "The Fugitive."
Ginger Rogers: Editor's award for "Hello Dolly" on Broadway.
Barbara Stanwyck: Most popular female star starring in "The Big Valley."
Phyllis Diller: Best Comedy Star.
Host: Merv Griffin.
Arthur Treacher opens the The Merv Griffin Show. Merv talks to audience promising tonight's show to be special. Editor of Photo
Play Awards, Fred Klein, discusses the history of the magazine which votes on best TV programming by the public.
Awards are announced and introduced by Fred Klein.
Favorite Male Star David Janssen shares thoughts with Merv and confirms that the final episode of The Fugitive is already conceived. Ginger Rogers receives the 4th Special Editors Award. She thanks her fans. Phyllis Diller receives Best Comedy Star award and does a stand-up comedy routine.
Fred Klein introduces Miss Barbara Stanwick who receives a Most Popular Female Star Award. She thanks her public and mentions how much such an award means to her. Stanwick' sit-down interview with Merv Griffin is brief but salient and one that is rare. This is only one of two formal sit-down interviews that Barbara Stanwick has been known to accept. The other was with Joey Bishop.
Merv Griffin states to Barbara Stanwick what a great thrill it is to have her grace his stage. She states that this is the first time in many years that she has been on stage. She does remember and talks about starring in Burlesque Queen, and her first job as a chorus dancer, filling in one day with a dramatic part replacing another actor and remaining in the part. She states that when the show moved to Broadway, New York, director Willard Mack, who died at the age of 61 in 1934, suggested she change her name to Barbara Stanwick. She expands on the circumstances.
1967-12-15, SYN, 27 min.
October 1st, 1962-March 29th, 1963-NBC Daytime
1965-1969 Syndicated
August 18th, 1969- February 11th, 1972- CBS
1972-1986- Syndicated.
From August 18th, 1969- February 11th, 1972 Merv Griffin appeared in a late-night talk show format on CBS-TV. It's believed that all of his CBS talk shows were bulk-erased by the network. In 1972, Griffin returned to the syndication market where he remained until 1986.
Merv's guests are comedienne Totie Fields, actor Elliott Gould, and producer David Merrick.
1968-01-03, SYN, 12 min.
October 1, 1962-March 29, 1963 (NBC); 1965-1969 (Syndicated); August 18, 1969-February 11, 1972 (CBS); 1972-1986 (Syndicated).
Guest: 35-year-old comedian Dick Gregory who lost 49 ibs as a result of a twenty-day food feast in protest of the Vietnam war.
1968-02-29, WCBS, 16 min.
Merv Griffin's guest William Holden offers his philosophy on the subject of wild life conservation and other topics.
1968-03-15, SYN, 90 min.
October 1, 1962-March 29, 1963 (NBC); 1965-1969 (Syndicated); August 18, 1969-February 11, 1972 (CBS); 1972-1986 (Syndicated).
A musical celebration of St. Patrick's Day.
1968-03-17, WNEW, 52 min.
Merv visits Ireland for this St. Patrick's Day tribute. Touring the Emerald Isle, Merv visits the country homes of movie producer-director John Huston and actor-balladeer Burl Ives. Huston recites "Come Back to Erin" and Ives does "The Song of Wandering Aengus," written by Irish poet William Butler Yeats. Interviewed in the U.S., John Wayne recalls filming "The Quiet Man" in Ireland.
