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 1 - Andy Griffith, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme, The McGuire Sisters
Release Date: 1958-09-07 -
Episode 2 - Audrey Meadows, Jayne Meadows, Roberta Sherwood, Mary Ann Mobley
Release Date: 1958-09-14 -
Episode 3 - NBC Fall Preview
Release Date: 1958-09-21 -
Episode 4 - Joan Davis, Art Linkletter, Jimmie Rodgers, Ray Anthony
Release Date: 1958-09-28 -
Episode 5 - Lloyd Bridges, Nancy Walker, Larry Daniels, Carole Simpson, the Rocky Mario Trio
Release Date: 1958-10-12 -
Episode 6 - Gertrude Berg, Tony Bennett, Peter Lawford, Kathy Linden, The Harlem Globetrotters
Release Date: 1958-10-19 -
Episode 8 - Jane Russell, Mike Nichols & Elaine May, Earl Grant, George Melachrino & his orchestra
Release Date: 1958-11-02 -
Episode 9 - Harry Belafonte & The Belafonte Singers, Johnny Carson, Martha Raye
Release Date: 1958-11-09 -
Episode 11 - Claudette Colbert, Jackie Cooper, Carol Hughes, Roger Ray, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
Release Date: 1958-11-23 -
Episode 12 - Don Adams, Pat Boone, the Incomparable Hildegarde, Augie & Margo
Release Date: 1958-11-30 -
Episode 13 - Joan Davis, Sugar Ray Robinson, Leo DeLyon, Andre Previn, The Hi-Lo's
Release Date: 1958-12-07 -
Episode 15 - The Ice Capades, Pat Kirby, The Four Lads
Release Date: 1958-12-28 -
Episode 16 - Patrice Munsel, The King Sisters, Roy Hamilton, Chuck McCann
Release Date: 1959-01-04 -
Episode 17 - Diana Dors, Perez Prado & his Orchestra, The Three Stooges, Chuck McCann
Release Date: 1959-01-11 -
Episode 18 - Esther Williams, Vic Damone, Jennie Smith, The Mary Dwight Swimmers
Release Date: 1959-01-18 -
Episode 19 - Lee Marvin, Johnny Carson, James Darren, Dolores Gray
Release Date: 1959-01-25Carson does a skit showing a children's show M.C. with a hangover, Marvin does different cop show approaches to the same scene.
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Episode 21 - Liberace, Steve Lawrence, Marie McDonald, the U.S. Army Chorus, Cameo by Phil Silvers
Release Date: 1959-02-08 -
Episode 23 - Andy Griffith, Diana Dors, Otto Harbach, Jimmy Hurst, The Three Stooges
Release Date: 1959-02-22 -
Episode 24 - Jayne Mansfield, Eydie Gorme, Tommy Leonetti
Release Date: 1959-03-01 -
Episode 25 - Zsa Zsa Gabor, Johnny Carson, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Vic Damone, Jane Harvey
Release Date: 1959-03-08 -
Episode 26 - Charlton Heston, Peter Lawford, Jayne Meadows, Debra Paget, Jonathan Winters
Release Date: 1959-03-15 -
Episode 28 - The Three Stooges, Connie Russell, David Allen, Lenny Bruce
Release Date: 1959-04-05The Stooges do their well-worn "Knife Throwing Maharaja" bit without improvisations, Bruce does a monologue about junkies, then moves on to a maudlin song story about loneliness, and Poston and Nye join Steve in a skit about two washed up song writers guesting on Perry Como.
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Episode 29 - Diana Dors, George Jessel, Mark Murphy, Don Elliott, cameo by Richard Dawson
Release Date: 1959-04-12 -
Episode 30 - Richard Kiley, Georgia Gibbs, Jack E. Leonard, Carole Costello
Release Date: 1959-04-19 -
Episode 31 - Tony Bennett, Jean Shepherd, Jimmie Rodgers, Betty Walker, The Modernaires
Release Date: 1959-04-26 -
Episode 32 - Lenny Bruce, Sarah Vaughan, Anita Ekberg, Tommy Prisco, Georgie Taps
Release Date: 1959-05-10 -
Episode 34 - Cyril Ritchard, Irene Kral, The Axidentals, Eli Mintz, the Ruth Walton Dancers
Release Date: 1959-05-24 -
Episode 35 - Ginger Rogers, Ingemar Johansson, Steve Lawrence
Release Date: 1959-06-07