Everett Dirksen criticizes Senator Ted Kennedy's stance on Vietnam war, while Mike Mansfield defends Kennedy's position, calling the war senseless.          

This radio special profiles the life of entertainer Judy Garland, one week after her death.           

July 7, 1969-July 14, 1972 (SYNDICATED). During the three-year run of his American talk show, David Frost taped the show (approximately 750 programs) each week, Monday through Thursdays. The series was syndicated by Westinghouse.   

An interview with Adam Clayton Powell,Jr.         

Introduction missing. Otherwise complete. 

Joined in progress.       

 N.E.T. FESTIVAL- December 6, 1967 - September 29, 1970  

A Public Broadcasting Series of American and Foreign produced programming devoted to the exploration of the arts. 


On May 19, 1969 Coleman Hawkins "The Hawk" died of bronchial pneumonia at age 64. This memorial tribute includes a  session taped at Chicago (WTTW-TV), shortly before Hawkins died. Performing with him are old rivals  Roy  Eldridge on  trumpet, Barry  Harris on piano, drummer Bob Cousins and Truck Partha on bass.

Some of Hawkins signatures are played: "Yesterdays," "I Can't Get Started," "Disorder at the Border," and "Like Someone in Love."

Hawkins' friends reassemble for this broadcast to play "Blue's for Hawk," 

Also appearing is jazz singer Eddie Jefferson, vocalizing in the style of Hawkins' immortal "Body and Soul" solo. Chicagoan Franz Jackson backs Jefferson on tenor sax.

Dan Morgenstern, editor-in-chief of Down Beat magazine, offers a biography of his longtime friend. 

  NOTE: Joined in progress, missing the opening.                                    

July 7, 1969-July 14, 1972 (SYNDICATED). During the three-year run of his American talk show, David Frost taped the show (approximately 750 programs) each week, Monday through Thursdays. The series was syndicated by Westinghouse.   

Guest: Stand-up comedian Jackie Kahane only.                     

July 7, 1969-July 14, 1972 (SYNDICATED). During the three-year run of his American talk show, David Frost taped the show (approximately 750 programs) each week, Monday through Thursdays. The series was syndicated by Westinghouse.   

Guests: Jack E. Leonard, mentalist Peter Hurkos

Discussion: Black Magic and precepts of the Devil.                              

July 7, 1969-July 14, 1972 (SYNDICATED). During the three-year run of his American talk show, David Frost taped the show (approximately 750 programs) each week, Monday through Thursdays. The series was syndicated by Westinghouse.   

Guest: Jack E. Leonard.                            

   ALLEN LUDDEN'S GALLERY was a 1969 syndicated short lived 12 week talk show, a departure from his hosting game shows. 

A rare personal portrait of screen legend Vivien Leigh. 
Radie Harris discusses Leigh's career.  

NOTE: ALLEN LUDDEN'S GALLERY was syndicated and available in either 60 or 90 minute versions. It was evenly divided into six or nine, ten-minute segments. These segments carried such headings as "First Portrait" (interviews of the famous).                                    

July 7, 1969-July 14, 1972 (SYNDICATED). During the three-year run of his American talk show, David Frost taped the show (approximately 750 programs) each week, Monday through Thursdays. The series was syndicated by Westinghouse.   

Guests: Dana Valery, Mary Hopkin, Primo Family, Gerri Granger, Tiny Tim.               

July 7, 1969-July 14, 1972 (SYNDICATED). During the three-year run of his American talk show, David Frost taped the show (approximately 750 programs) each week, Monday through Thursdays. The series was syndicated by Westinghouse.  

Guests include Muhammad Ali, Clint Eastwood, Harve Presnell, Joshua Logan, Frankie Laine, and Lulu.           

The story of Michael, a small boy who presents his special gift to the infant Jesus.           

Jack Benny is roasted by "roastmakers" Johnny Carson, George Burns, Ed Sullivan, Alan King, Milton Berle, Phil Harris, Dennis Day and Vice President Spiro Agnew.      

Duplicate of 796.                     

Jack Benny is roasted by "roastmakers" Johnny Carson, George Burns, Ed Sullivan, Alan King, Milton Berle, Phil Harris, Dennis Day and Vice President Spiro Agnew.   

Dupe of #796.           

December 29, 1969-September 25, 1970. Art Linkletter and son Jack co-hosted this series which included interviews, unusual people and happenings.



Guest Clinton Duffy discusses prison reform... prisoners' rights to have conjugal visits.             

A tribute to bandleader Glenn Miller, presented by the British Broadcasting Corporation.        

Special Coverage of today's HONOR AMERICA DAY ceremonies held in Washington, D.C. 

PBS hosts: Lincoln Trevor, with correspondents Peter Jenson and Vic Murky. 

Taped highlights of this morning's National Memorial service, honoring the nation on its 194th birthday. Highlights of original live coverage of an entertainment gala celebrating Honor America Day. Bob Hope and Billy Graham co-host: Guests include Jack Benny, Glen Campbell, Dinah Shore, Richard Nixon, The Young Americans, Red Skelton, Connie Stevens, Fred Waring orchestra, Kate Smith, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, Jeannie C. Riley, and Sugar Ray Robinson.                                                    

 Joan Rivers substitute hosts for Johnny Carson. She gives her monologue and mentions her daughter who is two and half years old who stated that her Ken and Barbie dolll have to get married..      

             Joe Franklin's guest is Ben Gross, who remembers listening to his first radio commercial on WEAF. 
Joe plays a 1942 record recording by Gen Aurtry, "Private Buckaroo."             

July 7, 1969-July 14, 1972 (SYNDICATED). During the three-year run of his American talk show, David Frost taped the show (approximately 750 programs) each week, Monday through Thursdays. The series was syndicated by Westinghouse.   

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew is the guest.            

June 20, 1948-June 6, 1971.

 This was the "Richard Rodgers Tribute" broadcast. 
From the Hollywood Bowl a tribute to composer Richard Rodgers who was a guest on the very first Ed Sullivan Show (Toast of the Town, June 20, 1948).

Television's longest-running variety show ran on Sunday nights for twenty-three years. Its host, Ed Sullivan.                          

This is your life host Ralph Edward's is honored.            

Jerry Lewis is "roasted" by the Friars
Club. Roast Master Johnny Carson is joined by Milton Berle, Alan King, Jack Carter, Don Rickles, Rex Reed, and Charlie Callas, who show their affection in the traditional manner- a shower of insults.  

Duplicate of # 1101.           

Jerry Lewis is "roasted" by the Friars
Club. Roast Master Johnny Carson is joined by Milton Berle, Alan King, Jack Carter, Don Rickles, Rex Reed, and Charlie Callas, who show their affection in the traditional manner- a shower of insults.   

Dupe of #1101.           

October 12, 1968 - March 1, 1969
Saturdays 4:30 - 5:00pm    
Repeated series run: 
April 25, 1971 - September 5, 1971
Sundays 7:00 - 7:30pm

Leon Bibb hosts this color video taped half hour broadcast.

This rare opening is the only known surviving broadcast video or audio of this short lived variety half-hour series, introducing different musical, dance and creative arts.

Brief opening with mime, Robert Molnar. 
Leon Bibb sings, "The Little Bird."  

NOTE:
Barry Manilow and Jeanne (Barry Manilow Duo) appeared on the November 2, 1968 broadcast.        

A special live radio tribute to Louis Armstrong, five days after his death.                        

A live radio tribute to Louis Armstrong, five days after his death.
     
Host Rick Safara retrospect on the life of Louis Armstrong. 

He reminisces with Barney Bigard who shares anecdotes about Armstrong. He began playing with Armstrong in 1947.

Many records are heard including, I'll Cry For You," and "Shine,"
"Blueberry Hill," "Bill Street Blues," "When It's Sleepy Time Down South," "Hello Dolly."

Topics:

-The art of "Scatting."
-Armstrong's love of food."
-Always had time to shake someone's hand.
-Origin of the tag "Satchmo."

LOUIS ARMSTRONG THE FIRST TRUE JAZZ ARTIST. 

NOTE: On two CD's. 
 

Twenty days after the death of Louis Armstrong (July 6, 1971) A special live KPFK (Los Angeles) radio tribute to Louis Armstrong with host Bill Struther and guests reminiscing Joe Darensbourg who played clarinet with Armstrong's band for three years, Barney Bigard who played clarinet with Armstrong's band for sixteen years and Floyd Levin Jazz researcher and lover of this kind of music.   after his recent death.  

We not only hear dozens of personal anecdotes by guests but hear a number of Louis Armstrong records, including "West Ends Blues," "Memphis Blues," "Beale Street Blues," "Ole Miss" & "Hesitating Blues."

We also listen in segments to Floyd Levin's personal audio cassette tape he recorded attending Louis Armstrong's funeral.

Stories related and anecdotes include:

-The public Louis vs the private Louis
-Loved to tell jokes...great philosophy...very methodical way of living...complete dedication to his art...would consume vitamins by the handful...audience once with Pope John...Hello Louis 1970 concert...love of hamburgers...planned bronze statue to Louis which he never got to see...Louis Lomax story when appearing together on The Mike Douglas Show...lending money to people he didn't even know...the horn and not money was what Louis Armstrong lived for...never signed a contract...phone call to Louis on his 71st birthday (two days before his death)...incident at the Blue Note Club when Armstrong could not play a note out of his trumpet...big scar on on his lip from playing...disliked taking vacations...anecdote about Louis Armstrong's wife, Lucille and mutual devotion of both...


       

  Louis Nye substitutes for Merv Griffin who is on vacation. 
Guest Eva Gabor gets kidded by Nye who intimates some sexual innuendoes innocently not understood by Eva.             

Muhammad Ali, Red Buttons, Henny Youngman, Alan King, Jack Carter, Sammy Davis Jr, George Kirby, Bill Russell, Carroll O'Connor, Peter Lawford

Carroll O'Connor is host for this roasting of Sammy Davis, Jr                    

A star-studded salute to a great lyricist-Oscar Hammerstein 11 (1895-1960). Taped in April 1971 at the University of Southern California.    

Highlights and performers:

"A Cockeyed Optimist "       Dinah Shore
"All The Things You Are"     Helen Hayes
"I Am Going To Like It Here" Miyoshi Umeki
"Why Do I Love You?"         Leslie Uggams 
"Carefully Taught"           Burt Lancaster
"If I Loved You"             John Raitt
Medley:"I Whistle A Happy Tune" "The Folks Who Live On The Hill"
"Shall We Dance?" "I Won't Dance" "Stouthearted Men" "Getting To Know You" "Do Re Mi" ...Raitt, Uggams, Johnny Mercer, Janet Blair
"I Can't Say No" Celeste Holm
"The Surrey With The Fringe On Top" Harve Presnell
"The Desert Song" "Rose Marie" "Wanting You" Jean Fenn, Harve Presnell. 
"It Might As Well Be Spring" Janet Blair
"There Is Nothing Like A Dame" 
Desi Arnaz Jr, Milton Berle, Larry Hagman, Yaphet Kotto, Ryan O'Neal, Robert Stack, Ray Walston, 
"A Puzzlement" Ricardo Montalban 
"Climb Every Mountain" Jean Fenn 
                                                  

A tribute to Louis Armstrong. Includes highlights from his last command performance in London.

Dupe of 5039.                          

25 years of television memories as 26 top stars, in person, celebrate a treasure of TV nostalgia. Performing and accepting awards for their roles in TV's success story are Judith Anderson, Russell Arms, James Arness, Lucille Ball, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, George Chakiris, Maria Cole, Jimmy Durante, Dave Garroway, Lorne Greene, Bob Hope, George C. Scott, Rod Serling, Dinah Shore, the Smothers Brothers, Ed Sullivan, John Wayne, Robert Young, and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. There are 5 commercials including an opening commercial. 
Film clips from more than 400 shows (from Boston Blackie to Sonny and Cher) were culled for this tribute, which also includes elaborate production numbers, and a host of celebrities scheduled to accept awards in TV's success story. 

Songs and Performers: "September Song" - Jimmy Durante 
Fifties medley: "Shrimp Boats," "Shanghai," "Love Is Sweeping The Country," "Doggie In The Window," "This Old House," by Hit Paraders, Gisele Mackenzie, Snooky Lanson, Russell Arms, and Eileen Wilson. 
"How Sweet It Was," Florence Henderson 
"They Went Thataway," George Chakiris. 

Duplicate of #1118.

25 years of television memories as 26 top stars, in person, celebrate a treasure of TV nostalgia. Performing and accepting awards for their roles in TV's success story are Judith Anderson, Russell Arms, James Arness, Lucille Ball, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, George Chakiris, Maria Cole, Jimmy Durante, Dave Garroway, Lorne Greene, Bob Hope, George C. Scott, Rod Serling, Dinah Shore, the Smothers Brothers, Ed Sullivan, John Wayne, Robert Young, and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. There are 5 commercials including an opening commercial.  

Duplicate of # 1118.             

  A Special Report about Jackie Robinson by Howard Cosell on the day of Robinson's funeral (October 27, 1972).

Admiration of Brooklyn Dodger baseball player (1947-1956), on and off the field, by the people who knew him and admired him. This ABC TV Special is joined in progress. There are reminiscences by Ralph Branca, and  Bobby Bragan, teammates of Robinson in 1947...challenges for Jackie during his rookie year when he first played for the Brooklyn Dodgers. 
Other reflections are espoused by Buzzie Bavasi, Bill Veeck, Hank Aaron, Martin Stone, who was Jackie Robinson's attorney, Marian Logan, who worked with Jackie Robinson, basketball great Bill Russell, and eldest son of Jackie Robinson, David Robinson. 
 
At the funeral of Robinson, Jesse Jackson talks to Howard Cosell about the eulogy he just delivered.

Another segment included is an interview Howard Cosell had with Jackie Robinson as both were leaving the funeral of Gil Hodges (April 1972). Jackie looks back at his past and reflects on his life and career, including the tragic recent loss of his son Jackie Robinson Jr. 

NOTE: This SPECIAL Jackie Robinson tribute report produced by Howard Cosell is not only lost to history as a television broadcast, in any form, it is little known/remembered to even archivists that it ever was broadcast.                                                     

Jack Brickhouse hosts a tribute to former Brooklyn Dodger player Jackie Robinson who was buried yesterday following his death on October 24th. His in-studio guests are former teammate Andy Pafko who played against Robinson in his rookie year of 1947. Pafko relates many anecdotes as well as Glenda Smith who, as a Pittsburgh sports writer in the 1940s, befriended Jackie and remained friends for life.
Also broadcast on this program is a rerun of a 1963 "Biography" of Jackie Robinson narrated by Mike Wallace.                   

CBS report on the death of former president Harry S. Truman.

Charles Kuralt narrator. 
             

    January 8, 1973 - November 16, 1973

Premiere Show.

Jack Paar returned to the late-night scene with a one-week-a-month stint. "Expect the unexpected," says producer Bob Carmen. Peggy Cass is Jack's sidekick. Charles Randolph Grean leads the orchestra.        

Tonight's news includes:

Super Bowl report, Howard K. Smith commentary on the Super Bowl between the Miami Dolphins and the Washington Redskins, Garo Yepremian profile, first rule change in 69 years for the American League. Designated hitter for a pitcher to go into effect for the 1973 baseball season.

 Bill Jorgensen anchors the 10pm news following the The Merv Griffin Show.   

    Honoring Broadway's best at the 27th Tony Awards with hosts Rex Harrison, Celeste Holm, Jerry Orbach and Sandy Duncan.                      

The American Film Institute premieres this annual event by honoring Mr. John Ford. President Richard M. Nixon is among the notables paying tribute along with Charlton Heston, Jack Lemmon, Maureen O'Hara, Gregory Peck, Frank Sinatra, James Stewart and John Wayne. Danny Kaye is host.   

President Nixon expected to be one of the notables paying tribute to director John Ford, veteran of a 58-year movie career. Other press time guests: Charleton Heston, Jack Lemmon, Maureen O'Hara, 
Gregory Peck, Frank Sinatra, James Stewart and John Wayne. Danny Kaye is host for this testimonial dinner, highlighted by clips from Ford's famous films. The six-time Oscar winner is the first recipient of AFI's Award for life achievement in filmmaking. 

Duplicate of #822                                   

A journey through 16 centuries of Papal splendor-St.Peter's Basilica in Rome.

Narrator: Sir Ralph Richardson.