1970-09-21, WNBC, 27 min.
September 14, 1970-August 29, 1971. After a seventeen year run on CBS, Red Skelton returned to the NBC network where he began, in 1951, with a half-hour taped program. The first four broadcasts included introductions by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, Dean Martin, Jack Benny, and Johnny Carson, who received his big break writing for Skelton in the early 1950's. This would be Skelton's final year hosting a variety series. Red Skelton holds the all-time record for hosting a television variety series for twenty consecutive years (1951-1971).
1970-09-28, WNBC, 27 min.
September 14, 1970-August 29, 1971. After a seventeen year run on CBS, Red Skelton returned to the NBC network where he began, in 1951, with a half-hour taped program. The first four broadcasts included introductions by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, Dean Martin, Jack Benny, and Johnny Carson, who received his big break writing for Skelton in the early 1950's. This would be Skelton's final year hosting a variety series. Red Skelton holds the all-time record for hosting a television variety series for twenty consecutive years (1951-1971).
1970-10-05, WNBC, 27 min.
September 14, 1970-August 29, 1971. After a seventeen year run on CBS, Red Skelton returned to the NBC network where he began, in 1951, with a half-hour taped program. The first four broadcasts included introductions by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, Dean Martin, Jack Benny, and Johnny Carson, who received his big break writing for Skelton in the early 1950's. This would be Skelton's final year hosting a variety series. Red Skelton holds the all-time record for hosting a television variety series for twenty consecutive years (1951-1971).
1970-11-16, WNBC, 52 min.
A comedy-variety special "Jack Benny Hour" broadcast, with guest stars.
1970-11-16, WNBC, 52 min.
Many celebrities appear in old TV film
clips highlighting this 20th TV Anniversary salute to Jack Benny. His contemporary guests include Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra and Dinah Shore with cameos by Lucille Ball, Dean Martin, Red Skelton, Mary Livingston, Eddie
"Rochester" Anderson, Mel Blanc, Benny Rubin, Dennis Day and Don Wilson.
1970-11-29, NBC, 90 min.
John Wayne and an all-star cast tell the story of America.
Host: John Wayne.
Duplicate of 9357.
John Wayne's first TV special is a journey through American history with music, comedy, and more than two-dozen guest stars.
John's guests include Jack Benny as a citizen asking George Washington (Lorne Greene) about that dollar he supposedly threw across the Potomac, Bob Hope and Ann-Margret entertaining the troops at Valley Forge, printer Red Skelton discussing dissent with apprentice Tom Smothers, Lucille Ball as Miss Liberty, and Bing Crosby as Mark Twain, philosophizing with freed slave Frederick Douglass (Roscoe Lee Browne).
Also: Michael Landon as Peter Minuit, buying Manhattan Island from Indian Dan Blocker, Dean Martin as inventor Eli Whitney, Celeste Holm and Dennis Weaver as the parents of young Abe Lincoln, brothers Rick and David Nelson fighting on opposite sides in the Civil War, Phyllis Diller as a 19th-century presidential candidate, Dan Rowan and Dick Martin as the Wright Brothers.
Songs: Johnny Cash: "Ribbon Of Steel," Glen Campbell: "This Is A Great Country," Roy Clark: "Oh Suzanna," Leslie Uggams: "Clementine," Doddletown Pipers: "The Declaration." All: "God Bless America."
1970-11-29, NBC, 90 min.
John Wayne and an all-star cast tell the story of America.
Host: John Wayne.
1975-07-11, NBC, 50 min.
October 1, 1962-May 22, 1992. Johnny Carson, host of NBC's network late-night "Tonight Show" reigned for 30 unprecedented years...five times the combined tenure of Steve Allen, and Jack Paar. Carson was impervious to competition, including efforts to dethrone him by Les Crane, Joey Bishop, Merv Griffin, Dick Cavett, Jack Paar, Pat Sajak, Joan Rivers, and Arsenio Hall. Sadly, very few complete "Tonight Show" broadcasts survive during Johnny Carson's first ten years of broadcasting. Around 1965, through the early 1970's, oldest tapes were first erased systematically by orders from myopic NBC executives, to be recycled for purposes of saving money. Ironically, in many cases, these older master tapes were too brittle, and portended probable drop-outs for re-use after being erased. Subsequently blank after being erased, these older questionable master 2" Quad tapes were either sparingly used or never used again for recording new programming and eventually were discarded. Saving thousands of dollars at the time (wiping master tapes for potential re-use) resulted in losing millions of dollars by NBC in today's marketplace, and more importantly wiping thousands of historic TONIGHT SHOW broadcasts, which contain precious personal anecdotes from political, show business, and sports icons of the past.
Johnny Carson's guest is Red Skelton.
This program is a fifty-minute excerpt.
1975-10-30, WNEW, 00 min.
October 1, 1962-March 29, 1963 (NBC); 1965-1969 (Syndicated); August 18, 1969-February 11, 1972 (CBS); 1972-1986 (Syndicated).
Merv's only guest is Red Skelton.
1975-11-20, SYN, 90 min.
October 1, 1962-March 29, 1963 (NBC); 1965-1969 (Syndicated); August 18, 1969-February 11, 1972 (CBS); 1972-1986 (Syndicated).
Red Skelton is Merv's only guest.
1976-11-28, CBS, 100 min.
A bevy of stars gathers to participate in this television salute to Lucille Ball on her 25th anniversary with CBS.
1976-12-10, WABC, 54 min.
Rudolph sets out to find Happy, the Baby New Year who has run away from father time because he is ashamed of his big ears. Contains commercials, no end credits. Red Skelton is the narrator.
1977-04-28, CBS, 118 min.
The history of television is examined.
Complete with original commercials.
Host: Charles Kuralt
The special is a retrospective of the social history of television programming, circa 1948-1960's. Host Charles Kuralt describes
live television and illustrates the kinescope process. Excerpts include coverage of the following topics and people: Burns and Allen; news programs with Edward P. Morgan and Douglas Edwards; newsreels and propaganda; Art Carney and Jackie Gleason; children's programs, including "Captain Video"; the growth of television; performers Milton Berle, Ernie Kovacs, Red Skelton, Alan Young, Dick Van Dyke and Lucille Ball; reporter Edward R. Murrow; the Korean War; blacklisting; Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy; Mary Martin and Noel Coward; the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings; Sid Caesar; President Harry S Truman's 1951 dismissal of General MacArthur; Bishop Fulton J. Sheen; a comedy and entertainment montage; quiz show scandals with comments by Frank Stanton of CBS and a look at how shows were rigged; Rex Harrison rehearsing for "My Fair Lady"; anthology drama with Charlton Heston, James Dean, and others; the 1952 Republican Convention; John F. Kennedy's 1956 bid for vice president; the 1960 presidential campaign; and Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series. Includes commercials.
1977-08-18, SYN, 90 min.
1963-1982 (SYNDICATED). Mike Douglas hosted one of television's longest-running talk shows (19 years). Each week Douglas was joined by a different co-host. In 1967, "The Mike Douglas Show" became the first syndicated talk show to win an Emmy Award.
Broadcast from 1963-1978 in Philadelphia
Broadcast from 1978-1982 in Los Angeles
Co-Hosts; Joan Bennett and Red Skelton.
1977-08-28, WCBS, 105 min.
A repeat of a broadcast which aired on April 7, 1977. George Burns and Bernadette Peters introduce performances by show business celebrities selected in a public opinion survey. Entertainers include Ace Trucking Company, George Benson, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, George Carlin, Carol Channing, The Doobie Brothers, Nancy Dussault, Redd Foxx, Robert Goulet, Loretta Lynn, Don Rickles, Beverly Sills, Red Skelton, Dionne Warwick, and Paul Williams.
1977-08-28, WCBS, 105 min.
A repeat of a broadcast which aired on April 7, 1977. George Burns and Bernadette Peters introduce performances by show business celebrities selected in a public opinion survey. Entertainers include Ace Trucking Company, George Benson, Edgar Bergen, and Charlie McCarthy, George Carlin, Carol Channing, The Doobie Brothers, Nancy Dussault, Redd Foxx, Robert Goulet, Loretta Lynn, Don Rickles, Beverly Sills, Red Skelton, Dionne Warwick, and Paul Williams.
Dupe of #5410.
1977-09-18, CBS, 00 min.
1977-09-18, WCBS, 158 min.
Walter Cronkite introduces segments with famous political, creative and entertainment personalities as well as news events from the past fifty years of broadcasting. Heard are: Bruce Dunning,
Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Richard M. Nixon, William S. Paley, Eric Sevareid, Orson Welles, Goodman Ace, Mel Allen, Eve Arden, Red Barber, Edgar Bergen, Bing Crosby, Joe DiMaggio, Douglas Edwards, Arthur Godfrey, Ted Husing, Agnes Moorehead, Charles Osgood, Andy Rooney, Red Skelton, Casey Stengel, Marie Wilson, The Andrews Sisters, Fred W. Friendly, Benny Goodman, Edward R. Murrow, Frank Sinatra and Robert Trout.
1978-04-07, CBS, 120 min.
Performers are honored as chosen by viewers.
Hosts: George Burns and Bernadette Peters.
1979-01-10, CBS, 90 min.
The 10th Annual Entertainer of the Year Awards, hosted by George Burns. Starring: David Copperfield, Wayland Flowers & Madame Mitzi Gaynor, Gilda Radner, Kenny Rogers, Doc Severinsen, Red Skelton, Suzanne Somers, Donna Summer, Rip Taylor, Gino Vannelli, The Village People, Dottie West, and Robin Williams.
1979-10-07, NBC, min.
Best of The Dean Martin Show variety special.
Guests: Some in archive footage: Louis Armstrong, Ann-Margret, Jack Benny, Shirley Booth, Victor Borge, Raymond Burr, Ruth Buzzi, Johnny Carson, Suzy Cadham, Dom DeLuise, Jimmy Durante, Dale Evans, Ella Fitzgerald, Greg Garrison, Goldie Hawn, Lena Horne, Gene Kelly, Ken Lane, Gordon MacRae, Ed McMahon, Kay Medford, Bob Newhart, Don Rickles, Frank Sinatra, Red Skelton, Orson Welles, James Stewart, Roy Rogers.
1980-01-03, NBC, 120 min.
A musical salute to the first 40 years in show business for Frank Sinatra and his music.
Filmed in December, 1979, this is an All-Star gala salute to Sinatra, celebrating forty years in show business. Sinatra also celebrates his 64th birthday and receives the first ASCAP Pied Piper award for service to lyricists, as well as a special Grammy Trustees Award. Taped at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada.