The Steve Allen Show (1956)
The Steve Allen Show is an American variety show hosted by Steve Allen from June 1956 to June 1960 on NBC, from September 1961 to December 1961 on ABC, and in first-run syndication from 1962 to 1964. The first three seasons aired on Sunday nights at 8:00pm Eastern Time, then on Mondays at 10:00pm Eastern in the 1959-60 season. After a season's absence, the series briefly returned on Wednesdays at 7:30pm Eastern. The syndicated version aired mostly in late nights. The program, between September 1957 and June 1960 became one of the first programs to be telecast in "compatible color" Kinescopes of the NBC version were later rerun on Comedy Central in the early 1990s, with new introductions by Allen.
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Episode 3 - Claudette Colbert, Mickey Rooney, Jerome Hines, Erin O'Brien, Joey Forman
Release Date: 1956-09-30 -
Episode 4 - Abbott & Costello, Kukla, Fran & Ollie, Peggy King, Lionel Hampton, Don Lamond, Louis Bellson Mrs. Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle
Release Date: 1956-10-07Todays guests are Abbott and Costello/Kukla, Fran and Ollie/Mickey Mantle/Lionel Hampton/Peggy King/Milt Kamen.
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Episode 15 - Errol Flynn, Polly Bergen, Guy Mitchell, Alan Young
Release Date: 1957-01-06 -
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Episode 17 - New York Film Critics Awards
Release Date: 1957-01-20Most of the show concerns a filmed Steve presenting the Critic's award to several stars, including 'Ingrid Bergman' and 'Kirk Douglas', along with some small talk interviews. These were shot at Sardi's restaurant in New York, probably when it was closed, due to the utter quietness.
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Episode 18 - Season 2, Episode 18
Release Date: 1957-01-27Pearl Bailey, Lilli Palmer, Don Adams, The Collins Kids, Steve Lawrence, Charles Van Doren
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Episode 19 - Peter Lawford, Charles Van Doren, Lou Costello, Margaret Whiting, The Step Brothers
Release Date: 1957-02-10 -
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Episode 21 - Yehudi Menuhin, Arlene Dahl, Aldo Ray, Robert Ryan, Brenda Lee, the Hilltoppers
Release Date: 1957-02-24 -
Episode 22 - Jerry Lewis, Martha Raye, Steve Lawrence, Diahann Carroll, Fernando Lamas
Release Date: 1957-03-10 -
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Episode 25 - Salute to the All American Basketball Teams
Release Date: 1957-04-07 -
Episode 26 - Esther Williams, Eydie Gorme, Jackie Cooper, Stan Freberg, The Four Lads
Release Date: 1957-04-14 -
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Episode 28 - Brenda Lee, Don Adams, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane, Jack Carson, Peter Gennaro & Ellen Ray
Release Date: 1957-04-28 -
Episode 29 - Orson Welles, Jill Corey, Peggy Cass, The Will Mastin Trio featuring Sammy Davis Jr.
Release Date: 1957-05-05Steve Allen and Sammy Davis, Jr. perform a card trick with a little help from Orson Welles; Davis joins his uncle Will Mastin and his father Sammy Davis, Sr., for an athletic dance number; Davis performs singing impressions of Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett, Louis Armstrong, and others; and the "Allen Report to the Nation" deals with the tranquilizer pill, with Allen interviewing Louis Nye as the head of a pharmaceutical company, Tom Poston as chief of laboratory research, and Don Knotts as a jittery fill-in speaker at a medical convention. Additionally, singer Jill ...
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Episode 30 - Tallulah Bankhead, Milton Berle, Pearl Bailey, Dean Jones, Reverend Billy Graham
Release Date: 1957-05-12 -
Episode 31 - Ann Sothern, Bert Lahr, Brenda Lee
Release Date: 1957-05-19 -
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Episode 33 - Xavier Cugat, Abbe Lane, Pat Carroll, The Four Diamonds, Erin O'Brien, Jerry Lewis
Release Date: 1957-06-02Steve's guests are The Diamonds (singing "Little Darlin'"), Xavier Cugat & his Orchestra with singer Abbe Lane doing "All Of You" and "Babalu," comedian Pat Carroll as a wife whose husband (Allen) tries to prove to her that a joke he told is funny, Erin O'Brien singing "Where's A Happy Ending?" Jerry Lewis plays Gordon Hathaway and a dopey boxer in the "Man on the Street" segment, Steve gives passionate readings of real "Letters to the Editor," delivers a silly speech to graduating seniors, and shows works of art used in magazine ads.
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Episode 35 - Steve Lawrence, Mamie Van Doren, The Hi-Lo's, Walter Chiari
Release Date: 1957-06-16 -
Episode 36 - Lou Costello, Pat Boone, Jonathan Winters, Abbey Lincoln, Fay DeWitt, Dulcie Cooper, The Ames Brothers
Release Date: 1957-06-23Lou Costello in a restaurant skit where Gabe Dell takes the part of the bullying, Bud Abbott-type companion.
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Episode 37 - Bob Hope, George Jessel, Alexis Smith, Vera Miles, Dean Martin, the Rod Alexander Dancers, The Axidentals
Release Date: 1957-06-30In a salute to Hope's new film, "Beau James", skits, dance numbers and film clips devoted to onetime crooked prohibition-era New York mayor Jimmy Walker.
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Episode 38 - Benny Goodman, Yvonne De Carlo, Peter Lawford, Professor Irwin Corey
Release Date: 1957-07-07Goodman's in top form, and Steve does a duet with him. Yvonne and Steve in a baby-naming skit, Lawford and Steve play bored life guards. A "Night Beat" parody includes Knotts as his classic nervous nerd, and a bellicose Nye cracks Steve up.
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Episode 39 - Debra Paget, Buddy Rich, Frankie Laine, Cornelia Otis Skinner
Release Date: 1957-07-14 -
Episode 40 - Tony Bennett, George Nader, Joanne Gilbert, Hal Le Roy, Floyd Patterson & Joe Louis
Release Date: 1957-07-21Tony Bennett sings "One For My Baby". Floyd Patterson and Joe Louis talk to Steve about boxing and Floyd's title defense against Tommy "Hurricane" Jackson. Joanne Gilbert sings "Hello Bluebird". Show regulars, appear in a comedy satire on television quiz-masters. Steve plays a piano version of "Do You Ever Think of Me?" For the finale, the entire cast and guest list join in with a bevy of hula dancers for a production entitled "In the Middle of an Island".
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Episode 41 - Jerry Lee Lewis, Shelley Winters, Anthony Franciosa, The Four Coins, Jodie Sands, Shai K. Ophir, Leona Gage
Release Date: 1957-07-28Steve and Shelley Winters in a skit about teaching her to drive by using household objects, Jerry Lee Lewis gives a bravura piano-attacking performance.
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Episode 42 - Marie MacDonald, The Four Diamonds, Jack E. Leonard, Don Rondo, Brenda Lee
Release Date: 1957-08-04 -
Episode 43 - Jane Russell, Ferlin Husky, Larry Storch, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Rod Alexander Dancers
Release Date: 1957-08-11 -
Episode 44 - Lou Costello, Liberace, Andy Williams, Abbey Lincoln, Jean Fenn
Release Date: 1957-08-18 -
Episode 45 - Hedy Lamar, Joe E. Brown, The Coasters, Irish McCalla, Pat Kirby
Release Date: 1957-08-25 -
Episode 46 - Pearl Bailey, Joan Collins, Jeff Chandler, Shaike Ophir, Pete Rademacher
Release Date: 1957-09-01 -
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