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64 records found for Phil Silvers
1954-02-19, WNBC, min.
Sponsored by Knickerbocker Beer (on Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday only) on NBC Local, it was seen in only three states: New York, New Jersey, & Connecticut from 11:20pm to Midnight, Monday to Friday, 40 minutes long, broadcast from July 27, 1953 to September 24, 1954. "The Steve Allen Show presented by Knickerbocker Beer" on NBC Local was the forerunner of the NBC National broadcast of "Tonight Starring Steve Allen" which began its official debut on September 27, 1954. Broadcast theme song, "Stay Just A Little While With Me," opens the show. NOTE: After a successful fourteen-month local run, THE STEVE ALLEN SHOW became a network show. Beginning September 27, 1954, the show retitled TONIGHT!, and expanded to 105 minutes from 40 minutes. NOTE: Sound of this Television Audio Air Check is PRISTINE. A rare return to an early television broadcast when Late Night Television was so informal and relaxed with open ended time dedicated to a person, topic, music, or just impromptu comedy.
1954-02-19, WNBC, 17 min.
TEX AND JINX Radio & Television BROADCAST HISTORY: April 22, 1946- February 27, 1959. WEAF (WNBC, WRCA), New York weekdays at 8:30 A.M. until 1954; at 1:00pm,1954-1955; then at 6:30 and 10:35pm until July 31, 1958, moving briefly to WOR, broadcasting at 2:15pm. In addition to the Kollmars (Dorothy Kilgallen and husband Richard Kollmar) and the Fitzgeralds (Pegeen and husband Ed Fitzgerald), another well-recognized New York couple, newlyweds Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg, added their own bread-and-bacon banter to the local airwaves between 1946 and 1959. Their gabfest, initially Hi Jinx but later revised to Tex and Jinx, was beamed over WEAF which was subsequently re-lettered WNBC and later WRCA. In limited doses, the flagship outlet of the National Broadcasting Company transmitted Meet Tex and Jinx to the whole country during 1947 and 1948. Tex and Jinx devoted most of their airtime to lofty and noble concepts, visitors and sidebars. Tex and Jinx [on WEAF-WNBC-WRCA] were interviewing Bernard Baruch, Margaret Truman, or Ethel Waters…. McCrary built the show on the assumption that the early morning audience was not stupid, as programmers generally assumed; that people in general had fresher minds and were more open to serious topics at the beginning of the day.” Their joint radio venture began in April 1946 just 10 months following their nuptials (June 10, 1945). Launched as a breakfast feature, the series later shifted to afternoons and finally into the evening hours before departing the ether a dozen years afterward. They were branded by one journalist “Mr. Brains and Mrs. Beauty.” In early 1947 NBC put them on its television network as a portion of a Sunday evening quarter-hour dubbed Bristol-Myers Tele-Varieties. “The McCrarys were naturals for TV,” wrote a reviewer, “with their combination of friendly chatter, interviews, and features.” That summer the web awarded them an exclusive Sunday night half-hour format under the appellation At Home with Tex and Jinx. A decade later, in the 1957-58 season, the duo hosted a daytime NBC-TV showcase, The Tex and Jinx Show. When hepatitis sidetracked Falkenburg in 1958 from their broadcast commitments, McCrary carried on solo on their radio show for another couple of years. In the 1980s, however, the couple separated, remaining on genial terms. McCrary died in New York on July 29, 2003 and Falkenburg expired just 29 days later in the same city, on August 27, 2003. NOTE:: The scores of TEX AND JINX SHOWS archived by Archival Television Audio, Inc. were originally obtained as original 16" Electronic Discs from Barry Farber, producer of the show (1957-1959), in 1960 after he had begun his own career in front of the mike at WINS Radio. These discs were subsequently transferred to 1/4" reel to reel tape, and then disposed. These broadcasts are rare and represent the largest known collection of TEX AND JINX extant broadcasts in the world. Guest: Phil Silvers.1955-12-22, Live, 70 min.
- Liberace
- Humphrey Bogart
- Bob Hope
- Frank Sinatra
- Jan Murray
- Red Buttons
- Phil Silvers
- Alan King
- Lauren Bacall
- Maurice Chevalier
- Clark Gable
- Joe E. Ross
- Eddie Weiner
- Charles Coburn
- Lou Holtz
- Gene Baylos
- Solly Violinsky
The most complete recording known running almost ten minutes longer than what has been uploaded to the internet of this rowdy uncensored early Humphrey Bogart Friar's roast, recorded live almost 70 years ago. Paying "tribute" to our guest of honor is Master of Ceremonies, Red Buttons, HIstorian of the Friars Club, Eddie Weiner, Joe E. Ross (missing from you tube uploads), Alan King, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Coburn, Lou Holtz, Gene Baylos, Phil Silvers (missing from you tube uploads), Solly Violinsky, Lauren Bacall, and Humphrey Bogart (part of his speech missing from you tube uploads). Red Buttons reads telegrams of congratulation from Liberace, Frank Sinatra, Clark Gable and Bob Hope each using a term for copulation in their quotes). Processed from an original recording with flaws (edits, under and over modulation, clicks and gaps) acquired over 30 years ago, Phil Gries, founder and owner of Archival Television Audio, Inc., has improved the quality and flow of this extraordinary Friar's Roast lampooning Humphrey Bogart just 13 months before his death at age 56.
1956-09-18, CBS, 23 min.
September 20th, 1955-September 11th, 1959 (CBS) Thirty-minute comedy series starring Phil Silvers as Sgt. Ernie Bilko. The series was originally titled "You'll Never Get Rich" but after a few weeks, the name was changed to the Phil Silvers Show. It was one of the favorite 1950s sitcoms among TV viewers.
1956-11-11, CBS, 7 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. The guests are Louis Armstrong, Phil Silvers, Bing Crosby, and Julie Andrews.#13141: EMMY AWARDS: NINTH ANNUAL
Order1957-03-16, NBC, 56 min.
- Robert Young
- Jimmy Durante
- Claire Trevor
- Danny Thomas
- Ralph Edwards
- Phil Silvers
- Dinah Shore
- Sid Caesar
- Ed Sullivan
- Peggy Lee
- Carl Reiner
- Dave Garroway
- Loretta Young
- Lloyd Nolan
- Nanette Fabray
- Perry Como
- Jack Palance
- Desi Arnaz
- Peggy Wood
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.
#11441: PHIL SILVERS SHOW, THE
Order1957-09-03, KNXT, 30 min.
September 20th, 1955-September 11th, 1959 (CBS) Thirty-minute comedy series starring Phil Silvers as Sgt. Ernie Bilko. The series was originally titled "You'll Never Get Rich" but after a few weeks, the name was changed to the Phil Silvers Show. It was one of the favorite 1950s sitcoms among TV viewers. On this episode: Fort Baxter is the scene of a huge uranium search when Bilko and the boys decide to Strike it Rich. SELECTIONS FROM ORIGINAL GRAY AUDOGRAPH DISC RECORDINGS, RECORDED OFF THE AIR, REPRESENTING SEVEN CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF KNXT LOS, ANGELES BROADCASTING, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 THRU 7, 1957. These LOST CBS broadcasts represent an unprecedented one complete week, sign on to sign off, September 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1957 (130 hours on 130 8 & 1/2" diameter discs with a capacity to record 32 minutes per side (side one and side two had the potential capacity to record 64 minutes). These discs were obtained in Los Angeles by Phil Gries, creator and owner of Archival Television Audio, Inc. in 2011. They were originally found in an establishment, located in Burbank, California, selling old records dispersing its inventory as they went out of business, a few years before. The rarity of this type of media to record television is not known to have occurred beyond a few incidents, as stated below, at any other time, which make this collection of TV Audio Airchecks, recorded on Gray Audograph discs, an amazing surviving artifact. The sound quality varies with different broadcasts. After a period of almost three years, processing and digitizing these 130 two sided discs, there is recognition of the rarity of some of these broadcasts providing one of a kind surviving Television Audio Airchecks and are extremely desirable regardless of some of the extraneous sound artifacts heard on some of these tracks which were painstakingly processed and transferred one by one to optimize the sound quality and proper pitch. NOTE: To listen to a seminar Phil Gries presented at an ARSC presentation in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 2014, about these Gray Audograph Discs...their genesis, discovery and contents, go to the ATA website www.atvaudio.com and click on ARSC which can be found within the right column on the ATA Home Page. GRAY AUDIOGRAPH (1946 - 1976) History: The Gray Audograph was a dictation disc recording format introduced in 1946 by the Gray Manufacturing Company in the United States. It recorded sound by pressing grooves into soft vinyl discs, like the competing, but incompatible, Sound Scriber and Voice Writer formats. Audograph discs were blue thin plastic flexible discs, recorded from the inside to the outside, the opposite of conventional phonograph discs. Another difference compared to phonograph discs (78, 45, 33 & 1/2) was that the audograph was driven by a surface-mounted wheel, meaning that its recording and playback speed decreased toward the edge of the disc (like the Compact Disc and other digital formats), to keep a more constant linear velocity and to improve playing time. The mandatory speed variation correction requires playback on an Audograph player, which ATA possesses and has modified, allowing line out output connections, direct line, to the input of any other recording format device. Gray Audograph discs were available in three different sizes. The 6-inch diameter disc offered 10 minutes of recording time per side, the 6 & 1/2" disc offered 15 minutes per side. The 8 & 1/2" disc, which is extant in the ATA archive, offered 30 minutes of recording per side. ALONG WITH THE DICTABELT RECORDER, A GRAY AUDOGRAPH RECORDER MACHINE CAPTURED THE ACTUAL LIVE SOUNDS RECORDED OF GUN SHOTS AT THE TIME OF THE JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION. THESE AUDIO SOUNDS WERE USED IN THE REVIEW BY THE UNITED STATES HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS. THE GRAY COMPANY CEASED MANUFACTURE OF THE GRAY AUDOGRAPH RECORDER IN 1976.#10280: PHIL SILVERS ON BROADWAY
Order1958-05-13, CBS, 00 min.
- Phil Silvers
- Allan Melvin
- Georgann Johnson
- William Redfield
- Walter Dare Wahl
- Darryl Richard
- Gloria Krieger
- Billy Sands
- Herbie Faye
- Maurice Gosfield
Phil Silvers stars in a live variety show, with the accent on comedy. Duplicate of #7351.
1958-05-13, CBS, 00 min.
- Phil Silvers
- Allan Melvin
- Georgann Johnson
- William Redfield
- Walter Dare Wahl
- Darryl Richard
- Gloria Krieger
- Billy Sands
- Herbie Faye
- Maurice Gosfield
Phil Silvers stars in a live variety show, with the accent on comedy.
1959-01-23, NBC, 52 min.
- Phil Silvers
- Sydney Chaplin
- Diana Dors
- Ronnie Graham
- Joe E. Ross
- Harvey Lembeck
- Herbie Faye
- Paul Ford
- Maurice Gosfield
A series of specials broadcast on NBC-TV. The Pontiac Star Parade presents Phil Silvers in "KEEP IN STEP." Phil Silvers is seen as himself and as Sgt. Bilko in a one-hour musical comedy. His is joined by Diana Dors and Sydney Chaplin, as well as the members of Bilko's platoon (The Phil Silvers Show). The plot finds Chaplin arranging to use Bilko's life story as the theme of an Army musical. Bilko goes to Hollywood to look over the star who has been selected to play him - none other than Phil Silvers, himself. Original songs were composed by Ronnie Graham. They include: "I've Got the World on a String"............................Sydney Chaplin "Plea to Col Hall".............................................Bilko, Platoon "Famous Beauties...........................................Bilko, Platoon "Emma".................................................................Sydney Chaplin "Freeze".........................................................................All
1959-05-06, WRCA, 72 min.
- David Brinkley
- Don Knotts
- Jack Benny
- Mickey Rooney
- Chet Huntley
- Fred Astaire
- Phil Silvers
- Tom Poston
- Art Carney
- Ed Sullivan
- Dick Clark
- Louis Nye
- Robert Young
- Dinah Shore
- Raymond Burr
- Barbara Hale
- Richard M. Nixon
- Mike Nichols
- Elaine May
- Dayton Allen
- Walter Brennan
- Dennis Weaver
- Ann B. Davis
- Don Hewitt
- Donna Reed
- Judith Anderson
- Bobe Hope
A galaxy of stars salute their own for the 1958-1959 TV season. Raymond Burr, Robert Young, Dennis Weaver, Barbara Hale, Art Carney, Dinah Shore, Tom Poston, Ann B. Davis, Phil Silvers, Don Hewitt, David Brinkley, Elaine May and Mike Nichols, Walter Brennan, Jack Benny, Donna Reed, Fred Astaire, Louis Nye, Dayton Allen, Don Knotts, Mickey Rooney, Judith Anderson, Dick Clark, Bob Hope, Ed Sullivan, Chet Huntley, & Vice President Richard M. Nixon.
#5921: BALLAD OF LOUIE LOUSE
Order1959-10-17, WCBS, 54 min.
Phil Silvers stars in the title role of the book show dealing with the antics of a Broadway loan shark. Nat Hiken directed and wrote the book and lyrics for this one hour musical comedy.#7021: CELEBRITY TALENT SCOUTS
Order1960-08-01, CBS, 30 min.
A summer replacement series hosted by Sam Levenson in 1960, August 1- September 26, Jim Backus in 1962, February 3, - September 11, Merv Griffin in 1963, July 2, - September 17, Art Linkletter in 1965, (ONE HOUR series) June 22, - September 7. Art Linkletter later hosted the program as a mid-season replacement for the Steve Lawrence Show, again in a one-hour format, titled Art Linkletter's Hollywood Talent Scouts from December 20, 1965 - September 5, 1966. On this Premiere telecast, Phil Silvers introduces Mickey Freeman (Private Zimmerman) from Silver's iconic 1950's series, The Phil Silvers Show.
#7352: "JUST POLLY AND ME."
Order1960-10-08, CBS, 00 min.
Phil Silvers only guest is Polly Bergen. Phil and Polly perform a variety of sketches, songs and dances together.
#47: CANDID CAMERA
Order1960-10-09, WCBS, 78 min.
Arthur Godfrey and Allen Funt host. In these four consecutive shows (October 9, 16, 23, 30, 1960), guests include Jonathan Winters, Martha Raye, Audrey Meadows and Phil Silvers.1961-04-16, CBS, 53 min.
- Phil Silvers
- Mary Martin
- Robert Goulet
- Carol Channing
- Henry Fonda
- Paul Newman
- Gig Young
- Joan Fontaine
- Anne Bancroft
- Sidney Poitier
- Patricia Neal
- Eleanor Steber
- Geraldine Page
- Art Hannes
- Frednic March
- Anna Maria Alberghetti
The 15th annual Tony Award presentations for distinguished contributions to the theater is broadcast. Phil Silvers is host. Announcer is Art Hannes.
1961-09-17, WNBC, 53 min.
- Jack Benny
- Jimmy Durante
- Robert Russell Bennett
- Richard Hanser
- Donald B. Hyatt
- Fred Allen
- Phil Silvers
- Bob Hope
- Eddie Cantor
- Burns & Allen
- Laurel and Hardy
- W.C. Fields
- Groucho Marx
- George Burns
- Rod Reed
- Stan Laurel
- Buster Keaton
- Oliver Hardy
Samples of American humor from the beginnings till now are examined. A host of stars participate including Phil Silvers, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Eddie Cantor, Burns and Allen, Buster Keaton, Fred Allen, Laurel and Hardy, W.C. Fields, Groucho Marx and Jack Benney. This premiere show for the series was produced by Donald B. Hyatt and his Project 20 staff. Written by Richard Hanser and Rod Reed. Original musical score by Robert Russell Bennett. Duplicate of #131.
1961-09-17, WNBC, 53 min.
- Jack Benny
- Jimmy Durante
- Robert Russell Bennett
- Richard Hanser
- Donald B. Hyatt
- Fred Allen
- Phil Silvers
- Bob Hope
- Eddie Cantor
- Burns & Allen
- Laurel and Hardy
- W.C. Fields
- Groucho Marx
- George Burns
- Rod Reed
- Stan Laurel
- Buster Keaton
- Oliver Hardy
Samples of American humor from the beginnings till now are examined. A host of stars participate including Phil Silvers, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Eddie Cantor, Burns and Allen, Buster Keaton, Fred Allen, Laurel and Hardy, W.C. Fields, Groucho Marx and Jack Benney. This premiere show for the series was produced by Donald B. Hyatt and his Project 20 staff. Written by Richard Hanser and Rod Reed. Original musical score by Robert Russell Bennett.
#13590: PHIL SILVERS SHOW, THE
Order1962-01-30, CBS, min.
September 20th, 1955- September 11th, 1959 (CBS) One of the most popular comedy shows of the 1950s, Phil Silvers starred as Sgt. Bilko. The show was originally titled "You'll Never Get Rich," but was changed to the Phil Silvers show. It was shown in reruns as "Sgt Bilko." Re-run Tuesday nights from 7:00-7:30pm on WNBC New York. Bilko finally comes up with a system for breaking the bank at Monte Carlo.
1962-06-24, WCBS, 24 min.
- Jack Benny
- Steve Allen
- Phil Silvers
- Ed Sullivan
- Johnny Carson
- Jack Carter
- Kathyrn Murray
- Kate Smith
- Ray Bloch
- Lucille Ball
Steve Allen, Kathyrn Murray, Jack Carter, Phil Silvers, Jack Benny, Kate Smith, Johnny Carson, and Lucille Ball honor "Mr. Stoneface," Ed Sullivan. Orchestra leader Ray Bloch joins in the tribute.#7201: JACK BENNY PROGRAM
Order1962-10-09, CBS, 00 min.
October 28th, 1950- September 15th, 1964 (CBS) September 25th,1964-September 10th, 1965 (NBC) Jack Benny's half-hour show mixed variety and situation comedy with a company of regulars: Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, announcer Don Wilson, Dennis Day, Mel Blanc, and Mary Livingston. Guest: Phil Silvers1963-03-19, WCBS, 52 min.
Judy Garland belts out many songs in this special and welcomes her guests Robert Goulet and Phil Silvers.#7226: JUDY GARLAND SHOW, THE
Order1963-03-19, 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). Record number 7226 is a dupe of number 926.
1963-06-23, CBS, min.
- Jack Benny
- Jimmy Durante
- James Cagney
- Red Skelton
- Jackie Gleason
- Art Carney
- Charles Laughton
- Louis Armstrong
- Phil Silvers
- Richard Rodgers
- Gary Cooper
- Ed Sullivan
- Sophie Tucker
- Clark Gable
- Sonny King
- Robert Goulet
- Maurice Chevalier
- Jack Lemmon
- Henry Fonda
- Rod Steiger
- Burt Lancaster
- Fred Astaire
- Elvis Presley
- Robert Mitchum
- Helen Hayes
- Shelley Winters
- Walt Disney
- Bing Crosby
- Gertrude Lawrence
- Richard Burton
- Cole Porter
- Julie Andrews
- Raoul Walsh
- Ethel Waters
- Johnny Wayne
- Frank Shuster
- Topo Gigio
- Oscar Hammerstein 11
- Gina Lollabridgida
- Maya Plisetskaya
- Moiseyev Dancers
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 celebrates 15 years on CBS with film clip segments of previous shows featuring guests Julie Andrews, Louis Armstrong, Jack Benny, Fred Astaire, Richard Burton, James Cagney, Art Carney, Maurice Chevalier, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Walt Disney, Jimmy Durante, Henry Fonda, Clark Gable, Jackie Gleason, Robert Goulet, Topo Gigio, Oscar Hammerstein 11, Helen Hayes, Sonny King, Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Johnny Wayne, Charles Laughton, Jack Lemmon, Gertrude Lawrence, Ethel Waters, Raoul Walsh, Sophie Tucker, Rod Steiger, Red Skelton, Phil Silvers, Richard Rodgers, Frank Shuster, Elvis Presley, Cole Porter, Gina Lollabridgida, Robert Mitchum, Maya Plisetskaya, Moiseyev Dancers.#930: OPENING NIGHT
Order1963-09-23, 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.#14365A: JERRY LEWIS SHOW, THE
Order1963-11-02, ABC, 58 min.
September 21, 1963 - December 21, 1963. Jerry Lewis hosted an unprecedented two-hour live variety - talk show, signing a five-year deal for 35 million dollars in 1963 with ABC Television. A two-hour live variety show proved to be more than even Jerry Lewis could handle. The series proved to be an enormous failure. In three months the show was off the air. Jerry's guests are Ethel Merman, Jonathan Winters, Phil Silvers, Sid Caesar who does a comic routine, and Peter Falk, a few of the cast members of Stanley Kramer's blockbuster comedy motion picture, "Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, World" which premieres in two weeks at the new Cinerama theater in Hollywood. There are many reminisces and anecdotes expressed about Jerry related to prior relationships with him when he was starting out in show business, and about his father Danny Lewis. A brylcreem hair commercials is included.
1964-03-08, WCBS, 17 min.
Phil Silvers gives a classic rendition of "Old Man River" in this Tin Pan Alley salute.#7890: DAMN YANKEES
Order1967-04-08, NBC, 100 min.
- Jim Backus
- Joe Garagiola
- Phil Silvers
- Bob Dishy
- Fran Allison
- Linda Lavin
- Lee Remick
- Jerry Lanning
- Ray Middleton
- Wallace Rooney
- John Gerstad
- Lee Goodman
- Eugene Troobnick
- Walter Klavun
TV musical play about a deal made between Joe Hardy and Mr. Applegate to allow the Senators to win the American League Pennant. Phil Silvers portrays Mr. Applegate.
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.#1930: DEAN MARTIN SHOW, THE
Order1967-10-05, WNBC, 52 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).#7934: DEAN MARTIN SHOW, THE
Order1967-10-05, 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). Dupe Of # 1930. This is a partial broadccast.
#5092: BOB HOPE SPECIAL, THE
Order1967-12-14, WNBC, 52 min.
Bob and his guests take a satiric look at Christmas present.#15453A: BOB HOPE SHOW, THE
Order1967-12-14, WNBC, 21 min.
Bob welcomes guests Phil Silvers, Ernest Borgnine, and Wally Cox.
#1939: DEAN MARTIN SHOW, THE
Order1968-01-04, WNBC, 52 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).#3047: HOLLYWOOD PALACE, THE
Order1968-02-03, WABC, 52 min.
January 4, 1964-February 7, 1970. This hour-long variety series was a midseason replacement for "The Jerry Lewis Show."#4794: THAT'S LIFE
Order1968-12-10, WABC, 52 min.
September 24, 1968-May 20, 1969. This was the "Bobby's Pink Slip" broadcast. Television's only musical-comedy series. "That's Life" starred Robert Morse and E.J. Peaker. Also featured were Shelley Berman and Kay Medford.
#7965: DEAN MARTIN SHOW, THE
Order1969-02-13, NBC, 52 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). Dupe Of # 1986.
1969-03-05, NBC, 52 min.
September 13, 1967-May 12, 1971. This was the "A Nite Out with the Boys" broadcast. The 1967 version of "The Kraft Music Hall" was an hour show, which lasted four seasons. It was hosted by a guest celebrity each week. This is the "A Night Out With The Boys" broadcast. Host: Robert Goulet. Duplicate Of #3605.
#3605: KRAFT MUSIC HALL, THE
Order1969-03-05, WNBC, 52 min.
September 13, 1967-May 12, 1971. This was the "A Nite Out with the Boys" broadcast. The 1967 version of "The Kraft Music Hall" was an hour show, which lasted four seasons. It was hosted by a guest celebrity each week.#5103: BOB HOPE SPECIAL, THE
Order1969-09-22, WNBC, 52 min.
- Steve Allen
- Jack E. Leonard
- Danny Thomas
- Bill Dana
- Phil Silvers
- Bob Hope
- Sid Caesar
- Johnny Carson
- Jack Carter
- Jerry Colonna
- Red Buttons
- Shelley Berman
- Buddy Hackett
- Wally Cox
- Nipsey Russell
- Richard Deacon
- Shecky Greene
- Tom Smothers
- Dick Smothers
- Soupy Sales
- Marty Allen
- George Gobel
- Pat Paulsen
Some of Bob's fellow comedians join him for an hour of comedy.#5348: MERV GRIFFIN SHOW, THE
Order1970-02-16, WCBS, 78 min.
August 18, 1969-February 11, 1972. CBS signed Merv Griffin to a ninety-minute late night talk show in 1969. On hand were announcer Arthur Treacher and the Mort Lindsay Orchestra, both of whom had been with Griffin on his Westinghouse show. In September 1970 the show moved from New York to Los Angeles but to no avail, playing second best to "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson." Most of these shows were erased by CBS and did not survive.1970-02-18, WABC, 52 min.
January 21, 1970-September 19, 1970. An hour-long variety series taped in London and hosted by British pop star Engelbert Humperdinck.#5009A: KRAFT MUSIC HALL, THE
Order1970-03-25, WNBC, 50 min.
September 13, 1967-May 12, 1971. The 1967-1971 series version of "The Kraft Music Hall" was an hour variety show, which lasted four seasons. It was hosted by a guest celebrity each week. Host this week, Phil Silvers. *Some audio track variations at the beginning of the broadcast. JIP (no opening recorded).
1970-08-26, WNBC, 52 min.
May 20, 1970-September 2, 1970; June 2, 1971-September 1, 1971. A summer variety series taped in London, starring singer Des O'Connor. Other regulars included Jack Douglas, the MacGregor Brothers (1970), and Connie Stevens (1971).1970-10-28, NBC, 52 min.
If "Uncle Miltie," "Your Show Of Shows," and "Bilko" mean something special to you, then this hour will too. For 60 minutes at least, the golden age of TV comedy comes alive. Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, and Phil Silvers recreate classic routines from television series of the 1950s...Berle keeps getting it smack in the face as"The Movie Stand-In"; Caesar takes center stage (with Berle and Silvers as straightmen) for one of those great silent film spoofs; Silvers major segment is scheduled to involve reminiscences of the wheeling-dealing Bilko. Also: a salute to Ernie Kovacs, with the three stars pantomiming the nutty Nairobi Trio, and an old-time vaudeville routine (with song, dance, and bad jokes).
1971-06-06, WCBS, 52 min.
January 29, 1969-June 13, 1972. In 1969 Glen Campbell returned to TV as host of "The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour"; his regulars included Pat Paulsen, Jack Burns, John Hartford, Jerry Reed and Larry McNeeley.#3372: STAND UP AND CHEER
Order1971-09-20, WCBS, 27 min.
1971 (Syndicated). On this half-hour musical series host Johnny Mann, together with the Johnny Mann Singers and assorted guests, sang the praises of the good old U.S.A.#5193: CITY VERSUS COUNTRY
Order1971-12-21, WABC, 52 min.
- Joey Bishop
- Danny Thomas
- Tennessee Ernie Ford
- Howard Cosell
- Milton Berle
- Phil Silvers
- Sid Melton
- Florence Henderson
- Sammy Davis Jr.
- Anne Murray
- George Lindsay
A survey in songs and comedy sketches of the advantages and disadvantages of city versus country living.#2600: FLIP WILSON SHOW, THE
Order1972-02-02, WNBC, 52 min.
September 17, 1970-June 27, 1974. A successful variety hour hosted by Flip Wilson.#2057: DEAN MARTIN SHOW, THE
Order1972-03-08, WNBC, 52 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).