1966-01-02, , min.
New York City transit strike. Green Bay Packers defeat Cleveland Browns 23-12 to win NFL championship.
1966-01-03, WNBC, 52 min.
September 27, 1962-September 3, 1967 (NBC); September 20, 1969-July 17, 1971 (NBC); 1976 (Syndicated). In 1962, Williams was finally given a fall series on NBC; the hour show lasted five seasons and featured The New Christy Minstrels and the Osmond Brothers. His third NBC series, which premiered in 1969, featured comics Charlie Callas and Irwin Corey, along with Janos Prohaska; the hour show lasted another two seasons. In 1976, Williams hosted a syndicated series, entitled "Andy." The half-hour show featured puppeteer Wayland Flowers.
1966-01-03, NBC, 28 min.
January 14, 1952-Present. First early-morning network program and longest-running daytime series. Created by Sylvester "Pat" Weaver. Telecast Monday thru Friday, 7:00 AM to 9:00 AM, the broadcasts have maintained a format including a News Summary, segments related to Sports, Weather, Interviews, and Features. Throughout its long run, hosts of "The Today Show" have included Dave Garroway (1952-1961), John Chancellor (1961-1962), Hugh Downs (1962-1971), Frank McGee (1971-1974), Jim Hartz (1974-1976), Tom Brokaw (1976-1981), Jane Pauley, Bryant Gumbel, Chris Wallace, Katie Couric, and others.
News about the New York City transit strike.
1966-01-03, , 44 min.
A retrospective on the life of Malcolm X, covering the years 1960-1965.
Joined in progress.
A documentary on the life of Malcolm X from his first impact on Black Power and the Black Muslim movement (1960-1965).
Producer of this broadcast was Chris Koch.
1966-01-03, NBC, min.
A cancer label warning is put on cigarette packs, the movie "That Darn Cat" draws a six block-long line waiting for tickets to see it at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, an estimated 5,000 people. a report on deaths in 1965, President Johnson has gall bladder surgery, Ted Koppel on civil rights Selma to Montgomery.
1966-01-03, NBC, 28 min.
January 14, 1952-Present. First early-morning network program and longest-running daytime series. Created by Sylvester "Pat" Weaver. Telecast Monday thru Friday, 7:00 AM to 9:00 AM, the broadcasts have maintained a format including a News Summary, segments related to Sports, Weather, Interviews, and Features. Throughout its long run, hosts of "The Today Show" have included Dave Garroway (1952-1961), John Chancellor (1961-1962), Hugh Downs (1962-1971), Frank McGee (1971-1974), Jim Hartz (1974-1976), Tom Brokaw (1976-1981), Jane Pauley, Bryant Gumbel, Chris Wallace, Katie Couric, and others.
News about the New York City transit strike.
Duplicate of #15019W.
1966-01-05, WCBS, 52 min.
September 25, 1963-June 7, 1967. Danny Kaye hosted his own Wednesday-night variety hour for four seasons. Regulars included Harvey Korman, four-year-old Victoria Meyerink & youngster Laurie Ichino.
1966-01-06, 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).
1966-01-07, WNBC, min.
January 7, 1966-April 22, 1966. Variety show hosted by Sammy Davis Jr.
Guests: Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. Burton performs a scene from "Camelot."
Series Premiere.
1966-01-07, , 57 min.
Steve Allen and wife Jayne Meadows host The 13th Annual Debutante Ball, featuring Hollywood Debutante stars for 1966. Included among the debutants is 19-year-old Sally Field who is introduced by Jackie Cooper, Ryan O'Neal, and Roger Smith. Other highlights include both Tim Conway and Louis Nye doing skits with Steve Allen. 19-year-old Peggy Lipton also appears as a debutante for 1966, as well as 22-year-old Eydie Williams. Maurice Chevalier accepts an award for Walt Disney. Other celebrities appearing are Buddy Ebsen, introduced by Troy Donahue, Vera Miles, Robert Reed, Ray Walston, Ben Gazzara, Dean Jones, Jerry Van Dyke, and Nanette Fabray.
1966-01-07, NBC, 23 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 1970s, 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.
Guest host: Bill Dana.
Joined in Progress.
1966-01-08, ABC, 60 min.
July 2, 1955-September 4, 1971; 1971-1982 (Syndicated). "The Lawrence Welk Show" presented middle-of-the-road music for almost three decades. Numbers were performed by the members of Welk's television family. That large group included the Lennon Sisters (Dianne, Peggy, Kathy and Janet), Alice Lon, Norma Zimmer, Tanya Falan, Arthur Duncan, Joe Feeney, Guy Hovis, Jim Roberts, Ralna English, Larry Hooper, Jerry Burke, and former Mouseketeer Bobby Burgess.
A salute to vaudeville is the theme of this broadcast.
1966-01-09, ABC, 25 min.
Voices in The Headlines was an American news program broadcast on ABC radio featuring the top news stories of the day. It was hosted by long-time radio and television announcer Fred Foy.
A review of the week's top news stories.
Narrator: Fred Foy.
NOTE: Fred Foy, best known for his voicing the opening of THE LONE RANGER on radio joined the ABC TV announcing staff in New York in 1961. For ABC RADIO he narrated the award-winning news documentary, VOICES IN THE HEADLINES a 25-minute weekly wrap up of salient news events of the week with sound bites representing the news as it was recorded.
1966-01-10, WNBC, 52 min.
September 27, 1962-September 3, 1967 (NBC); September 20, 1969-July 17, 1971 (NBC); 1976 (Syndicated). In 1962, Williams was finally given a fall series on NBC; the hour show lasted five seasons and featured The New Christy Minstrels and the Osmond Brothers. His third NBC series, which premiered in 1969, featured comics Charlie Callas and Irwin Corey, along with Janos Prohaska; the hour show lasted another two seasons. In 1976, Williams hosted a syndicated series, entitled "Andy." The half-hour show featured puppeteer Wayland Flowers.
1966-01-10, NBC, 29 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.
Guest: Woody Allen.
1966-01-12, WCBS, 52 min.
September 25, 1963-June 7, 1967. Danny Kaye hosted his own Wednesday-night variety hour for four seasons. Regulars included Harvey Korman, four-year-old Victoria Meyerink & youngster Laurie Ichino.
1966-01-12, ABC, 29 min.
January 12th, 1966-March 14th, 1968 (ABC)
Fictional Gotham City is the home of Bruce Wayne, an eccentric Millionaire, and his ward Dick Grayson. Together, the masked duo caped crusaders team up to fight various kinds of crime in Gotham City. By the fall of 1966, the show began to suffer from low ratings and was canceled in March of 1968. Many famous celebrities appeared as guest stars on the show including Art Carney, Burgess Meredith, Cesar Romero, Julie Newmar, Eartha Kitt, and Lee Meriwether. Madge Blake appeared as Dick Grayson's aunt. Alan Napier appeared as Alfred, Bruce Wayne's butler, and the only person aware of Batman and Robin's true identity. The first episode of the series aired on February 12th, 1966 with Frank Gorshin portraying The Riddler. The show is based on the cartoon crimefighter created by Bob Kane in 1939.
Series Premiere.
1966-01-12, NBC, 60 min.
President Lyndon Johnson gives his State Of The Union address before Congress for 1966.
David Brinkley and Ray Shearer report.
1966-01-13, 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).
1966-01-14, WABC, 52 min.
September 19, 1963-April 1, 1966. This show was taped in the Grand Ole Opera House. In 1963 Dean hosted a prime-time hour variety series on ABC, which lasted three seasons. Regulars included Karen Morrow, Molly Bee, Chuck McCann, the Chuck Cassey Singers and Rowlf the Muppet, the first of the puppet creations of Jim Henson to be featured on national TV.
1966-01-14, WNBC, 28 min.
January 7, 1966-April 22, 1966. Variety show hosted by Sammy Davis Jr.
Guests: Johnny Carson, Mickey Rooney, and Joan Rivers.
1966-01-14, ABC, 1 min.
September 19, 1963-April 1, 1966. In 1963 Dean hosted a prime-time hour variety series on ABC, which lasted three seasons. Regulars included Karen Morrow, Molly Bee, Chuck McCann, the Chuck Cassey Singers, and Rowlf the Muppet, the first of the puppet creations of Jim Henson to be featured on national TV.
Opening only.
1966-01-15, WABC, 26 min.
September 18, 1965-February 19, 1966 (Syndicated). Half-hour entertainment series featuring a different guest star each week, performing in a supper club setting.
1966-01-15, ABC, 19 min.
January 4, 1964-February 7, 1970. This broadcast is the complete version of program #1045 which is a 44-minute version. This hour-long variety series was a mid-season replacement for "The Jerry Lewis Show."
Host: Phil Harris. He is joined by wife Alice Faye and comedian Georgie Kaye.
1966-01-16, WNBC, 52 min.
January 12, 1959-April 26, 1968. This musical series ran semiregularly for almost ten seasons-sometimes weekly, sometimes biweekly, and sometimes as irregularly scheduled specials. All types of music were presented on the hour series; Donald Voorhees conducted the Bell Telephone Orchestra.
1966-01-16, ABC, min.
Voices in The Headlines was an American news program broadcast on ABC radio featuring the top news stories of the day. It was hosted by long-time radio and television announcer Fred Foy.
A review of the week's top news stories: LBJ on the deterioration of the Vietnam war, Mcnamara, Ford, and Dirksen all comment, peace mission by Dean Rusk, a report from Vietnam, Yale professors return from Vietnam, India's Shastri has died, Humphrey comments on Shastri, NYC transit strike is over, Julian Bond not allowed to take a seat in Georgia, Martin Luther King comments, civil rights protests in Alabama, Rhodesia comment by Wilson.
Narrator: Fred Foy.
NOTE: Fred Foy, best known for his voicing the opening of THE LONE RANGER on radio joined the ABC TV announcing staff in New York in 1961. For ABC RADIO he narrated the award-winning news documentary, VOICES IN THE HEADLINES a 25-minute weekly wrap up of salient news events of the week with sound bites representing the news as it was recorded.
1966-01-16, ABC, 18 min.
Voices in The Headlines was an American news program broadcast on ABC radio featuring the top news stories of the day. It was hosted by long-time radio and television announcer Fred Foy.
A review of the week's top news stories.
Narrator: Fred Foy.
NOTE: Fred Foy, best known for his voicing the opening of THE LONE RANGER on radio joined the ABC TV announcing staff in New York in 1961. For ABC RADIO he narrated the award-winning news documentary, VOICES IN THE HEADLINES a 25-minute weekly wrap up of salient news events of the week with sound bites representing the news as it was recorded.
1966-01-17, WNBC, 52 min.
September 27, 1962-September 3, 1967 (NBC); September 20, 1969-July 17, 1971 (NBC); 1976 (Syndicated). In 1962, Williams was finally given a fall series on NBC; the hour show lasted five seasons and featured The New Christy Minstrels and the Osmond Brothers. His third NBC series, which premiered in 1969, featured comics Charlie Callas and Irwin Corey, along with Janos Prohaska; the hour show lasted another two seasons. In 1976, Williams hosted a syndicated series, entitled "Andy." The half-hour show featured puppeteer Wayland Flowers.
1966-01-19, ABC, min.
January 12th, 1966-March 14th, 1968 (ABC)
Fictional Gotham City is the home of Bruce Wayne, an eccentric Millionaire, and his ward Dick Grayson. Together, the masked duo caped crusaders team up to fight various kinds of crime in Gotham City. By the fall of 1966, the show began to suffer from low ratings and was canceled in March of 1968. Many famous celebrities appeared as guest stars on the show including Art Carney, Burgess Meredith, Cesar Romero, Julie Newmar, Eartha Kitt, and Lee Meriwether. Madge Blake appeared as Dick Grayson's aunt. Alan Napier appeared as Alfred, Bruce Wayne's butler, and the only person aware of Batman and Robin's true identity. The first episode of the series aired on February 12th, 1966 with Frank Gorshin portraying The Riddler. The show is based on the cartoon crimefighter created by Bob Kane in 1939.
In this second week's episode, Burgess Meredith portrays The Penquin.
1966-01-19, NBC, 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.
1966-01-20, 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).
1966-01-21, WABC, 52 min.
September 19, 1963-April 1, 1966. In 1963 Dean hosted a prime-time hour variety series on ABC, which lasted three seasons. Regulars included Karen Morrow, Molly Bee, Chuck McCann, the Chuck Cassey Singers and Rowlf the Muppet, the first of the puppet creations of Jim Henson to be featured on national TV.
1966-01-21, WNBC, 104 min.
Third showing of the taped production first presented on December 8, 1960. The first television performance of the musical adaptation of Sir James M. Barrie's play was presented live on NBC on March 7, 1955 and again live on January 9, 1956. The taped production was presented on December 8, 1960, and repeated on February 9, 1963.
1966-01-21, ABC, min.
January 12th, 1966-March 14th, 1968 (ABC)
Fictional Gotham City is the home of Bruce Wayne, an eccentric Millionaire, and his ward Dick Grayson. Together, the masked duo caped crusaders team up to fight various kinds of crime in Gotham City. By the fall of 1966, the show began to suffer from low ratings and was canceled in March of 1968. Many famous celebrities appeared as guest stars on the show including Art Carney, Burgess Meredith, Cesar Romero, Julie Newmar, Eartha Kitt, and Lee Meriwether. Madge Blake appeared as Dick Grayson's aunt. Alan Napier appeared as Alfred, Bruce Wayne's butler, and the only person aware of Batman and Robin's true identity. The first episode of the series aired on February 12th, 1966 with Frank Gorshin portraying The Riddler. The show is based on the cartoon crimefighter created by Bob Kane in 1939.
In this second week's episode, Burgess Meredith portrays The Penquin.
1966-01-22, WABC, 26 min.
September 18, 1965-February 19, 1966 (Syndicated). Half-hour entertainment series featuring a different guest star each week, performing in a supper club setting.
1966-01-24, WNBC, 54 min.
September 12, 1955-June 12, 1963. In the fall of 1955 Perry Como returned to NBC where he hosted a weekly hour show. From 1955 to 1959 it was seen Saturday evenings and was titled "The Perry Como Show." From 1959 to 1963 it was seen Wednesday evenings and was titled "The Kraft Music Hall." Regulars included Frank Gallop and the Ray Charles Singers. After his final weekly June 12, 1963 broadcast Perry Como appeared in scores of specials, beginning October 3, 1963, airing on NBC, CBS & ABC, and concluding on December 6, 1986.
1966-01-27, 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).
1966-01-28, WABC, 52 min.
September 19, 1963-April 1, 1966. In 1963 Dean hosted a prime-time hour variety series on ABC, which lasted three seasons. Regulars included Karen Morrow, Molly Bee, Chuck McCann, the Chuck Cassey Singers and Rowlf the Muppet, the first of the puppet creations of Jim Henson to be featured on national TV.
1966-01-28, WMCA, 11 min.
Barry Gray was an American radio personality, often referred to as "the father of talk radio." His late-night New York City radio talk show was carried by WOR radio and then later by WMCA.
Barry Gray returned to WMCA in 1950, and stayed there for 39 years, refining the talk show format still utilized today. During the 1960s, he was in the odd position of having an 11 p.m.-1 a.m. late-night talk show on a station otherwise dominated by Top 40 music and the youth-targeted "Good Guys" disc jockey campaign. But for teenagers who kept their radios on into the night, Gray's show was a window into the high-brow New York culture of the 1940s and 1950s.
Barry Gray discusses right-wing groups in New Jersey.
1966-01-29, WABC, 26 min.
September 18, 1965-February 19, 1966 (Syndicated). Half-hour entertainment series featuring a different guest star each week, performing in a supper club setting.
1966-01-30, WNBC, 52 min.
January 12, 1959-April 26, 1968. This musical series ran semiregularly for almost ten seasons-sometimes weekly, sometimes biweekly, and sometimes as irregularly scheduled specials. All types of music were presented on the hour series; Donald Voorhees conducted the Bell Telephone Orchestra.
1966-01-30, ABC, min.
November 27, 1960-November 8, 1981. Newsmakers were interviewed by journalists on this public affairs program, ABC's counterpart of CBS's "Face The Nation" and NBC's "Meet The Press." In its earliest weeks, the series was entitled "ABC Press Conference."
Guest: Richard Nixon.
Howard K. Smith is the host.
This program includes commercials.
1966-01-30, WPIX, min.
October 14, 1958 - August 13, 1961
OPEN-END with David Susskind: (WNTA Channel 13 Television)
September 10, 1961-May 5, 1963
OPEN-END with David Susskind (WNEW Channel 5 Television)
June 9, 1963, last show of the season broadcast on WPIX TV.
October 13, 1963-September 18, 1966
OPEN-END with David Susskind (WPIX Channel 11 Television)
October 2, 1966-September, 1986
DAVID SUSSKIND SHOW (SYNDICATED, PBS, and COMMERCIAL STATIONS, including WNEW, New York).
Open End with David Susskind was a breakthrough talk show which literally had no time limit. The show ended when host, moderator David Susskind, felt all conversation points were discussed. Some of these marathon telecasts lasted over four hours! Jean Kennedy was the producer during the 28 year run of the series.
The series premiered and aired on WNTA Channel 13 in New York for three years, an independent broadcast station before it would become a Public Broadcast Station in 1962. A myriad of talk show guests, famous, infamous and unknown, found a forum on OPEN END. Subjects varied focusing on usually one topic...show business, politics, the economy, sex, education, crime, etc. Typically, many guests would discuss a subject sitting around a large table with David Susskind moderating, leading his guests with baited questions. On occasion, a solo guest would highlight the show.
For the first three years, of its 28-year existence as a regular series, WNTA TV was home to OPEN END which originally began its broadcasts on Tuesday nights, switching on January 18, 1959, to Sunday nights...a future Sunday evening time slot of the week where it would remain until 1986, for the rest of its run.
After broadcasting with a two hour truncated format on WNEW form September 10, 1961, to May 5, 1963, a falling out and rift occurred between Susskind and WNEW management centered on WNEW's reluctance to air discussions regarding race relations in America. WPIX reacted with interest in bringing OPEN END to their flagship New York channel. For the last OPEN END show of the 1962-1963 season, WPIX TOOK LAST MINUTE EMERGENCY MEASURES TO CLEAR TWO HOURS ON SUNDAY NIGHT June 9, 1963, featuring solo guest Dr. Martin Luther KIng, pre-empting regularly scheduled programming (6:30-8:30 pm).
Open End was later cut by WPIX to a one-hour time slot. David Susskind not satisfied with the shortened format reconnected with WNEW where he returned to a two-hour format with a changed program name.
THE DAVID SUSSKIND SHOW had its return premiere on WNEW TV on October 2, 1966.
The David Susskind Show also found syndication across the country and each market would run the program at different times at their own discretion.
Most all of the telecasts were recorded on videotape, 2" quadruplex. Most shows were kept for a year or two like THE MOVIE MAKERS broadcast which was re-run on August 6, 1961, almost a year after it was the first telecast on October 2, 1960. By this time the show was no longer without a time limit. It ran for a finite three hours long. Thus the re-run of the MOVIE MAKERS had some footage deleted from its original run which aired for over three and half hours, including commercials.
The re-run of "THE MOVIE MAKERS" was the next to last broadcast telecast on WNTA channel 13. On September 10, 1961, the show moved to WNEW Channel 5 METROMEDIA in New York.
Sadly, most all of OPEN END broadcasts (1958-1966), later retitled THE DAVID SUSSKIND SHOW (1966-1986), were wiped erased, destroyed, discarded...whereabouts unknown, representing most shows produced and telecast during the late 1950s, 1960's and early 1970s. Only a handful of OPEN END / DAVID SUSSKIND shows are known to survive from 1958 thru 1969. Hundreds of programs survive representing the middle 1970's thru 1986.
Open End with David Susskind was a unique breakthrough talk with no time limit, rare during any time in television broadcast history, and never to be replicated in the future of television broadcasting after 1960.
On occasion, only one guest would be profiled. Most shows were comprised of many individuals discussing one topic which included race relations, the draft, organized crime, the Hollywood scene, the politics of the times, sex-change operations, divorce, clairvoyants, psychoanalysis, and prostitutes.
The oldest surviving archived remnant is a December 23, 1958 kinescope 20-minute segment of a broadcast titled "Method or Madness?" The topic, "method acting" with guests Michael Benthal, Ben Gazzara, Adolph Green, Betty Comden, Lawrence Harvey, Jule Styne, and Patricia Neal.
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Host: David Susskind.
David Susskind and others discuss Robert Kennedy and The White House.
1966-01-30, ABC, 7 min.
November 27, 1960-November 8, 1981. Newsmakers were interviewed by journalists on this public affairs program, ABC's counterpart of CBS's "Face The Nation" and NBC's "Meet The Press." In its earliest weeks, the series was entitled "ABC Press Conference."
Guest: Richard Nixon.
Howard K. Smith is the host.
Duplicate of # 15019H.
Joined in progress
This program includes commercials.
1966-01-30, WPIX, 34 min.
1958-1987
Theatrical and television producer David Susskind hosted this talk program consisting of a wide variety of topics. Each show centered around one topic consisting of four to seven guests.
Tonight's topic: "Is There a White House in Robert Kennedy's Future?"
Four experts discuss the political roles of Senators Robert and Edward Kennedy in the Democratic party and speculate about the 1972 presidential election. The panelists are author Gore Vidal, syndicated Washington columnist Max Freedman, and reporters Ben Bradlee9The Washington Post) and Robert Novak (New York Herald Tribune).
Moderator: David Susskind.
Seen on WPIX-TV Channel 11 in New York City.
1966-02-03, 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).
1966-02-05, WABC, 26 min.
September 18, 1965-February 19, 1966 (Syndicated). Half-hour entertainment series featuring a different guest star each week, performing in a supper club setting.
1966-02-05, ABC, min.
November 11th, 1964-January 27th, 1968 (ABC)
A news analysis program hosted by Howard K. Smith. The series focused mainly on the war in Vietnam.
Highlights: Progress report on US moon project. A week's review of Vietnam war problems with Robert McNamara.
Howard K. Smith reports
1966-02-05, ABC, 37 min.
November 11th, 1964-January 27th, 1968 (ABC)
A news analysis program hosted by Howard K. Smith. The series focused mainly on the war in Vietnam.
The latest news on Vietnam. The first of ABC Scopes Vietnam reports. Progress of the war and its effects on the American people.
Howard K. Smith reports
1966-02-06, ABC, min.
Voices in The Headlines was an American news program broadcast on ABC radio featuring the top news stories of the day. It was hosted by long-time radio and television announcer Fred Foy.
A review of the week's top news stories: The Russians land moon probe, it sends contact to earth, comments by James Lovell, others, the US resumes bombing in North Vietnam, reactions from Wayne Morse, Russell Long, Ramsey Clark, Robert Kennedy, George McGovern, Averill Harriman, Britain, General Curtis LeMay, Arthur Goldberg, Robert McNamara
Russia's Denis Fedorenko at the UN, Dean Rusk says peace channels have failed, President Johnson to go to Hawaii to meet with South Vietnamese leader, General Ky and General William Westmoreland, report on search and destroy mission in Vietnam, death claims Buster Keaton and Hedda Hopper.
Narrator: Fred Foy.
NOTE: Fred Foy, best known for his voicing the opening of THE LONE RANGER on radio joined the ABC TV announcing staff in New York in 1961. For ABC RADIO he narrated the award-winning news documentary, VOICES IN THE HEADLINES a 25-minute weekly wrap up of salient news events of the week with sound bites representing the news as it was recorded.