1960-06-27, KABC, 00 min.
You think this is a show just for teenagers? Just because the singing guests are Paul Anka, Annette Funicello, Frankie Avalon, Anita Bryant and Bobby Darin? And Edward Byrnes and Bob Denver (Dobie's friend Maynard) are around for the sketches?
Straighten out, viewer. The producers claim this is a full-blown variety show, with songs of every description. Pat Boone is host, the 60 minutes are taped and exactly one medley will be devoted to sampling these youngsters record hits.
Rest of the show divides up into four parts of the "Young World."
1961-02-07, WNBC, 51 min.
Bobby Darin presents his first variety
special with guests Joanie Sommers and Bob Hope.
1961-03-17, WCBS, 26 min.
Bobby Darin ad libs with Jackie Gleason. A March 10th, 1956 kinescope from the television series "Stage Show" is presented by Gleason. It is the very first professional engagement by Darin, who sings "The Rock Island Line." Bobby Darin also sings a heartfelt rendition of "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling."
1961-04-17, ABC, min.
Bob Hope is the host for the 33rd Annual Academy Award ceremonies telecast from the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. This was the first time that ABC television broadcasted the awards. "The Apartment" took the award for best picture, Elizabeth Taylor won the best actress award for her performance in "Butterfield 8", Best actor award went to Burt Lancaster for "Elmer Gantry," Billy Wilder won best director award for "The Apartment," and Shirley Jones took best supporting actress for "Elmer Gantry."
1961-04-17, ABC, 60 min.
Bob Hope is the host for the 33rd Annual Academy Award ceremonies telecast from the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California. This was the first time that ABC television broadcasted the awards. "The Apartment" took the award for best picture, Elizabeth Taylor won the best actress award for her performance in "Butterfield 8", Best actor award went to Burt Lancaster for "Elmer Gantry," Billy Wilder won best director award for "The Apartment," and Shirley Jones took best supporting actress for "Elmer Gantry."
Duplicate of 13544. Joined in progress.
1962-11-03, SYN, 29 min.
October 27, 1962 - January 19, 1963
THE JERRY LESTER SHOW premiere episode broadcast in Los Angeles California a week after its debut show aired in New York City.
This "lost" 60-minute weekly broadcast lasted for only 13 weeks. It aired in New York on WOR Channel 9, Saturday Night from 10pm to 11pm. Jerry Lester from "Broadway Open House" fame was the host and resident comedian. Guest performers included singers, comedians, dancers and actors. Regulars on the show included the Society Six (an instrumental group led by Richard Wess.
Announcer is Jerry Leighton.
Opening of the show is heard and opening monologue by Jerry Lester who introduces each member of the orchestra.
Guest Bobby Darin chats with Jerry Lester and mentions movies he has done ("If a Man Answers," "State Fair," and his current dramatic role in the film "Pressure Point."
Darin and Lester go into the audience where they interview a number of people including Miss Miller who became famous attending thousands of Jack Paar and Merv Griffin shows.
In a separate bit, Jerry Lester and Bobby Darin parody Richard Rodgers lyrics.
NOTE:
ALL OF THE 13 JERRY LESTER SHOW PROGRAMS ARE LONG GONE...ERASED, DESRTOYED, VANDALIZED. WHEREABOUTS UNKOWN with the exception of this sole surviving archived premiere show excerpt audio track.
1962-11-29, NBC, 00 min.
1962-12-09, SYND, 00 min.
Celebrity guests appeal for funds to fight Muscular Dystrophy. A letter from President John F. Kennedy is read. Jerry concludes the telethon with what would be his signature song, "You'll Never Walk Alone."
1963-04-14, NBC, 00 min.
October 5th, 1956-May 12th, 1963.
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show was an American Variety Series, hosted by Dinah Shore and broadcast on NBC from October 5th, 1956- May 12th, 1963.
Easter Show
1963-06-08, , min.
TV, Hollywood, and political news with John Griffin.
Today, an interview with Jill St. John. Bobby Darin barred by Ed Sullivan.
1963-06-08, WOR, 12 min.
A Radio News Program hosted/voiced by John D. Griffin, N.Y. Mirror journalist, who states the latest Hollywood, TV, Broadway gossip of the day. Also, interviews are heard recorded on location by Griffin and a celerity.
Introduction by Tony Marvin.
Ed Sullivan barring future appearances of Bobby Darin who did not comply with his wishes after last appearing on his show, and many other "flash" gossip column" stories of the day.
Current astronauts poorly paid averaging only $10,000 a year salary!
In a separate segment an on location interview with actress Jill St. John. She talks about a myriad of topics including working with Frank Sinatra on "Come Blow Your Horn," here fulture aspirations as an actress and going back to when she was five years old with remembrances.
1963-12-29, WCBS, 00 min.
Between September 24th, 1955 and March 19th, 1963, Judy Garland appeared in four television specials. This March 19th, 1963 program was her fourth before she would appear in her own network series, "The Judy Garland Show." (September 29th, 1963-March 29th, 1964).
September 29th, 1963-March 29th, 1964. Variety show hosted by Judy Garland.
1964-02-06, WABC, 27 min.
September 26, 1963-March 19, 1964. This half-hour variety series was hosted by singer-comedienne Edie Adams. Don Chastain was also featured on the show.
1964-02-17, WABC, 53 min.
Guests on this live telephone talk show are Jack E. Leonard and Bobby Darin. Merv Griffin phones in as well as viewers with questions for Les Crane's guests.
1965-06-21, 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.
1965-09-13, 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.
1965-09-21, WCBS, 52 min.
September 25, 1962-June 23, 1970. One of television's most inventive and popular comedians, Red Skelton hosted his own series for twenty years, seven of them in a one-hour format, "The Red Skelton Hour" on CBS. Skelton began his television career on NBC September 30, 1951 with a half-hour filmed variety series lasting until June 21, 1953. He then began his CBS affiliation, and began hosting "The Red Skelton Show," a half-hour variety show broadcast live until October 18, 1960, and subsequently on videotape. This series aired from October 13, 1953, continuing until June 26, 1962. From July 21, 1954 through September 8, 1954, "The Red Skelton Revue" was broadcast live on CBS in a one-hour format. Red Skelton returned to NBC in a half-hour taped format for his final series. "Red" as the show was known, premiered September 14, 1970. The first four broadcasts included introductions by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew (September 14, 1970), Dean Martin (September 21, 1970), Jack Benny (September 28, 1970), and Johnny Carson (October 5, 1970) who got his big break writing for Skelton in the early 1950's. Red Skelton's last first-run regularly scheduled television program aired on March 15, 1971.
1965-10-11, WCBS, 52 min.
September 13, 1965-December 13, 1965. Steve Lawrence's Monday-night variety hour lasted only thirteen weeks. Regulars included comics Charles Nelson Reilly and Betty Walker.
1965-10-11, WCBS, 52 min.
Steve Lawrence welcomes his guests Bobby Darin, Soupy Sales, Judy Rolin, and The Pussycats.
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.
1966-02-26, CBS, min.
September 20, 1952-June 22, 1957; October 3, 1958-January 2 1959; February 3 1961-March 24, 1961; September 1962-September 12, 1970
After the 1954-1955 season (one hour live broadcasts), Jackie Gleason produced a series of 39 filmed half-hour episodes of "The Honeymooners" which was syndicated (1955-1956). For the following 1956-1957 season, the Jackie Gleason Show returned to a live one-hour variety format with a Honeymooners sketch included in many of its broadcasts. After this season, The Honeymooners sketches would not be revived until the 1966-1967 season of The Jackie Gleason Show.
Jackie celebrates his 50th birthday. Joining him in the celebration are guests, Milton Berle, Bobby Darin, Arthur Godfrey, and regular Frank Fontaine.
1966-05-16, NBC, 180 min.
The 8th annual Grammy Awards, telecast live from New York City, Nashville, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Duke Ellington receives a Golden Achievement Award. Jerry Lewis is the Master Of Ceremonies.
1966-07-28, WNBC, 27 min.
April 21, 1966-September 1, 1966. Half-hour musical variety series co-hosted by Fred Finn and Mickie Finn. Fred led the band while Mickie played the banjo.
1966-10-09, NBC, 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.
1966-11-14, WNBC, 27 min.
September 12, 1966-December 26, 1966. Country and western singer Roger Miller hosted his own half-hour musical variety series.
1967-03-02, ABC, ?? min.
September 14, 1966 - May 11, 1967. A potpourri of assorted specials with no regular host. Included were variety, dramas, and occasional documentaries.
Petula Clark hosts this salute to Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart
1967-03-03, WABC, 52 min.
September 14, 1966-May 11, 1967. This was an umbrella title for a potpourri of assorted specials. This tribute to Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart includes some of the team's best songs for stage and screen. Performers: Petula Clark; Bobby Darin; Count Basie and his orchestra; the Supremes, the Mamas and the Papas, and the Doodletown Pipers, vocal groups.
1967-10-04, WNBC, 52 min.
September 13, 1967-May 12, 1971. This was the "Give My Regards to Broadway" broadcast. The 1967 version of "The Kraft Music Hall" was an hour show, which lasted four seasons. It was hosted by a guest celebrity each week.
1967-10-04, NBC, 52 min.
September 13, 1967-May 12, 1971. This was the "Give My Regards to Broadway" broadcast. The 1967 version of "The Kraft Music Hall" was an hour show, which lasted four seasons. It was hosted by a guest celebrity each week.
Duplicate of #3554
1967-11-28, NBC, 58 min.
Vin Scully calls the play by play of this first annual (only time) televised softball game, pitting major league baseball players against celebrities. Jerry Lewis does the color commentary in the booth alongside Scully.
1967-11-28, NBC, 58 min.
Vin Scully calls the play by play of this first annual (only time) televised softball game, pitting major league baseball players against celebrities. Jerry Lewis does the color commentary in the booth along side of Scully.
Dupe of # 6971
1968-01-10, WNBC, 52 min.
September 13, 1967-May 12, 1971. This was the "Grand Night for Swinging" broadcast. The 1967 version of "The Kraft Music Hall" was an hour show, which lasted four seasons. It was hosted by a guest celebrity each week.
1968-01-10, WNBC, 52 min.
September 13, 1967-May 12, 1971. This was the "Grand Night for Swinging" broadcast. The 1967 version of "The Kraft Music Hall" was an hour show, which lasted four seasons. It was hosted by a guest celebrity each week.
Host Bobby Darin is joined by Bobby Van for a vaudeville routine. George Kirby does an impersonation of Robert Kennedy. Bobbie Gentry sings "Hurry Tuesday's Child." All the Bobbies perform "Nothing Can Stop Us Now." Also appearing is dancer Betsy Haug.
Announcer: Ed Herlihy
1968-03-07, NBC, 00 min.
Debbie Reynolds stars in her own hour of music and comedy.
1968-03-07, NBC, 52 min.
Debbie Reynolds stars in her own hour of music and comedy.
Duplicate of # 7047
At an Army base, Debbie is the leader of an all-girl orchestra who gets help from two soldiers Bob Hope and Jim Nabors. Frank Gorshin joins her for a double-edge tour de force: a spoof of the movie classic "Grand Hotel" and 11 famous actors. Bobby Darin and Debbie portray a hip Las Vegas couple. Donald O'Connor and Debbie sing and dance numbers from their movies, and scenes from the films provide the backdrop.
Nelson Riddle Orchestra.
Highlights:
"Happy Days Are Here Again" "I Like You."- Debbie
"Mame"- Jim Nabors
"Jackson," "Hold On,I'm A'Comin," "First There Is A Mountain," "Baby Don't Leave Me," "Always,"- Debbie, Bobby Darin.
"Singing In The Rain," "The Tender Trap," "Make 'Em Laugh," " Good Morning," "I Ain't Down Yet,"- Debbie, Donald O'Connor.
1969-01-22, WNBC, 52 min.
September 13, 1967-May 12, 1971. This was the "Sound of the Sixties" broadcast. The 1967 version of "The Kraft Music Hall" was an hour show, which lasted four seasons. It was hosted by a guest celebrity each week.
1969-01-22, NBC, 52 min.
September 13, 1967-May 12, 1971. This was the "Sound of the Sixties" broadcast. The 1967 version of "The Kraft Music Hall" was an hour show, which lasted four seasons. It was hosted by a guest celebrity each week. "The Sounds Of The '60s is the theme of the broadcast.
Host: Bobby Darin
Duplicate Of #3570.
1969-02-20, WNBC, 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).
Dupe of #1987 and 7966.
1969-02-20, 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).
1969-02-20, NBC, 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).
Dupe Of # 1987.
1969-10-02, WABC, 52 min.
February 7, 1969-January 15, 1971. Tom Jones hosted his own musical variety hour, which also featured Big Jim Sullivan and The Ace Trucking Company.
1969-12-31, WOR, 98 min.
Beginning in 1929, a New Year's Eve Tradition...Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians. Guy Lombardo was best known to TV audiences for his annual New Year's Eve telecasts, beginning on CBS TV December 31, 1956. His brothers Carmen (the band's musical director), Victor, & Lebert were all members of the orchestra. Guy, the eldest, was designated the leader.
For most of his years in television, Guy Lombardo represented nostalgia representing the '30s and '40s. At midnight the traditional welcoming in of the New Year at Times Square is presented with Guy Lombardo doing a 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, countdown and proclaiming to all, "Happy New Year."
Dave Garroway begins this broadcast at 11:00pm (aired only locally on an independent station) in a rare guest role doing "color commentary" live from Times Square on New Year's Eve. He appears on New York local television station WOR TV Channel 9 bringing in the New Year beginning at 11pm describing the New Year's Eve Times Square crowd, reminiscing about the decade of the 60's, while also introducing music from the past decade (The Beatles, "All You Need is Love," " Bobby Darin "Mack the Knife," Frank Sinatra "Strangers in the Night," Barbra Streisand "People," Petula Clarke "Downtown," 5th Dimension "The Age of Aquarius").
At 11:30pm the broadcast switches to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in NYC with Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians as they play many instrumentals leading us into a New Year and a New Decade. Instrumentals and vocal arrangements include:
"Let's Do it Again," "Jean," "Aquarius," "Lara's Theme," Muddy Mississippi Line," Humoresque," "Give My Regards to Broadway," "Tea for Two," "Tiger Rag," "Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here," "You are my Sunshine," "Hello Dolly," "When the Saints Go Marching In," "You are my Sunshine," "Alley Cat," "The Tarantella," "Tomorrow," sung by Tony Poncho, "Powder Your Face with Sunshine," "Rampart Street on Parade," and "Auld Lang Syne."
OTHER HIGHLIGHTS:
After Midnight Helen O'Connell sings "My Way," "I'm All Smiles" medley: "Amapola," "Green Eyes," "Tangerine." "I Want to be Around," and "Who Cares."
Don Grilly and Lesley Stewart sing "Before the Parade Passes
By," "So Happy Together," "Goin' Out Of My Head," and "I Love You Baby."
Recorded with Pepsi Cola commercials omitted. Otherwise complete.
NOTE: Of all of the New Year's Eve television broadcasts Guy Lombardo performed this WOR TV program is the rarest. It was never video taped or kinescoped by WOR. And, this show was the only time that an entire two hour block of time was created
(1956-1976) for a Guy Lombardo New Year's Eve celebration TV Special.
1970-08-05, CBS, 00 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.
Co-Host: Bobby Darin.
1970-09-06, SYN, 540 min.
Jerry Lewis launches his ninth fund-raising telethon for Muscular Dystrophy with a huge array of stars. This was the first coast-to-coast telecast of the telethon. Nine hours of coverage recorded. 9 AM to 6 PM Eastern time. The complete broadcast spanned twenty hours and began at 10 PM Eastern time
September 5th, 1970.
1970-09-19, WNBC, 52 min.
September 27, 1962-September 3, 1967 (NBC); September 20, 1969-July 17, 1971 (NBC); 1976 (Syndicated). This was the first broadcast of the season. 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.
1970-09-24, WNBC, 52 min.
September 17, 1970-June 27, 1974. A successful variety hour hosted by Flip Wilson.
1970-11-26, WNBC, 52 min.
September 17, 1970-June 27, 1974. A successful variety hour hosted by Flip Wilson.
1970-12-17, WNBC, 52 min.
September 17, 1970-June 27, 1974. A successful variety hour hosted by Flip Wilson.
1971-01-21, WNBC, 56 min.
September 17, 1970-June 27, 1974. A successful variety hour hosted by Flip Wilson.
Guests: Bobby Darin, Muhammad Ali, Lily Tomlin.
Ali exchanges comedy lines with others, discusses upcoming fight with Joe Frazier with poetry. Lily Tomlin does a comedy routine about organic health, Bobby Darin sings a medley of songs with Flip, Lily Tomlin in a 1960s dance comedy routine, "knockout," an interview with Muhammad Ali who has never been knocked out- Ali discusses his philosophy of fighting and again creates poetry to describe Ali vs. Frazier upcoming heavyweight championship fight on March 8th. Ali makes fun at Howard Cosell. Flip Wilson comedy skit as a driver stopped with Bobby Darin. Other driver a police officer. Darin sings "If I Were A Carpenter" Flip as Geraldine, engages with Ali.
Includes commercials.
1971-09-19, WABC, 52 min.
The soul-rock music of the Jackson 5 is the main attraction in this prime time ABC special. Included: a lyrically bouncy basketball game pitting the Jackson 5 against basketball greats Elgin Baylor, Elvin Hayes, Bill Russell, pro-football players Ben Davidson and Rosey Grier.
