October 12th, 1953-May 22nd, 1956

A variety show presented monthly on NBC.

This is a duplicate of number 14528. 

This special includes the 5th Annual TV Guide Awards. Among the winners were:
Favorite Series: Dr. Kildare
Favorite new series: The Fugitive 
Favorite Male Performer: David Janssen
Favorite Female Performer: Inger Stevens (The Farmer's Daughter)  

Duplicate of #14490.                                                                                                                

October 12th, 1953-May 22nd, 1956

A variety show presented monthly on NBC.

This is a duplicate of number 14528. 

This special includes the 5th Annual TV Guide Awards. Among the winners were:
Favorite Series: Dr. Kildare
Favorite new series: The Fugitive 
Favorite Male Performer: David Janssen
Favorite Female Performer: Inger Stevens (The Farmer's Daughter)                                                                                                     

October 12th, 1953-May 22nd, 1956

A variety show presented monthly on NBC.

This is a duplicate of number 14490. 


This special includes the 5th Annual TV Guide Awards. Among the winners were:
Favorite Series: Dr. Kildare 
Favorite new series: The Fugitive 
Favorite Male Performer: David Janssen
Favorite Female Performer: Inger Stevens (The Farmer's Daughter)                                                                                                                               

Hosts for the sixteenth annual Emmy Awards are Joey Bishop in Hollywood and E.G. Marshall in New York. Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore introduce this special telecast. Humorous excerpts from past Emmy Award telecasts are played. A galaxy of celebrities appear including Danny Kaye, Hugh Downs, Chet Huntley, Rod
Serling, Patty Duke, Jane Wyatt, Carl Reiner, David Janssen, Jerry Paris, James Franciscus, Dean Jagger, David Frost, John Daly, Don Defore, Shirley Booth, Tom Gries, James Drury, Roberta Shore, Polly Bergen, and Mel Brooks who with Reiner does a "2000 Year Old Man" skit. Other personalities appearing include Inger Stevens, Richard Deacon, Gene Barry, Ruth White, Zina Bethune, Shirl Conway, Garry Moore, Jack Klugman, Vince Edwards, Shelley Winters, Nat King Cole, Johnny Carson, Milton Berle, Lorne Greene. The cast from "That Was The Week That Was," Elliot Reid, Nancy Ames, Pat Englund, and David Frost satirize the 1963-64 television season. Jack Benny presents the Emmy Award for Program of the Year, "The Making of the President." Mel Stuart and David L. Wolper accept the award.             

Bing Crosby hosts this preview of ABC's 1964-65 TV season. He introduces all the stars who will brighten ABC's new television season in this block buster preview special of new and returning programs: Mickey Rooney, Sammy Jackson, Tony Franciosa, Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Patty Duke, David Janssen, Connie Stevens, Ernest Borgnine, Inger Stevens, Gene Barry, Edward Andrews, Kathleen Nolan, Jimmy Dean, Lawrence Welk, John Astin, George Burns, Ted Cassidy, Vince Edwards, Carolyn Jones, Elizabeth Montgomery, and Walter Brennan.             

The 8th Annual Emmy Awards are presented live from the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, California. 

Chet Huntley presents a special award to Edward R. Murrow
Outstanding Dramatic Series: The Fugitive
Best Variety Special: Bob Hope Christmas Special, Carol Baker accepting




Hosts: Danny Kaye and Bill Cosby.                                                                                           

October 1, 1962-March 29, 1963 (NBC); 1965-1969 (Syndicated); August 18, 1969-February 11, 1972 (CBS); 1972-1986 (Syndicated).

The 1967 Photoplay Awards are featured representing TV broadcasting excellence as voted by the public (1966/1967).
 Guests include David Janssen, Marty Allen, Ginger Rogers, Phyllis Diller and Barbara Stanwyck. 

Winners: David Janssen Favorite Male Star for "The Fugitive."
Ginger Rogers: Editor's award for "Hello Dolly" on Broadway.
Barbara Stanwyck: Most popular female star starring in "The Big Valley."
Phyllis Diller: Best Comedy Star. 

Host: Merv Griffin. 

Arthur Treacher opens the The Merv Griffin Show. Merv talks to audience promising tonight's show to be special. Editor of Photo
Play Awards, Fred Klein, discusses the history of the magazine which votes on best TV programming by the public. 
Awards are announced and introduced by Fred Klein.
Favorite Male Star David Janssen shares thoughts with Merv and confirms that the final episode of The Fugitive is already conceived. Ginger Rogers receives the 4th Special Editors Award. She thanks her fans. Phyllis Diller receives Best Comedy Star award and does a stand-up comedy routine. 
Fred Klein introduces Miss Barbara Stanwick who receives a Most Popular Female Star Award. She thanks her public and mentions how much such an award means to her. Stanwick' sit-down interview with Merv Griffin is brief but salient and one that is rare. This is only one of two formal sit-down interviews that Barbara Stanwick has been known to accept. The other was with Joey Bishop.
Merv Griffin states to Barbara Stanwick what a great thrill it is to have her grace  his stage. She states that this is the first time in many years that she has been on stage. She does remember and talks about starring in Burlesque Queen, and her first job as a chorus dancer, filling in one day with a dramatic part replacing another actor and remaining in the part. She states that when the show moved to Broadway, New York, director Willard Mack, who died at the age of 61 in 1934, suggested she change her name to Barbara Stanwick. She expands on the circumstances. 
                                                                                           

Bob Hope Special taped on the campus of UCLA. A special benefit salute to the USO. 

Dupe Of # 5091.             

April 17, 1967 - December 26, 1969. THE JOEY BISHOP SHOW was one of several attempts by ABC (previously Les Crane tried and failed to attain ratings) to establish a strong late-night talk show. Bishop held the record (177) substitute hosting appearances for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show, and had been quite successful. It was hoped Joey could lure away some of Carson's audience. Similar to Jack Paar, in 1960, Bishop surprised his audience on the night of November 26, 1969, and walked off the show while taping his opening monologue. The Joey Bishop late-night program lasted for one more month using guest hosts before it left the air. During three phone conversations I had with Bishop, in the early 2000s, he confirmed to me that almost ALL of his late-night shows had been erased by ABC.

Joey Bishop hosts the 46th Annual photoplay magazine Gold Medal Awards.  
Joey is the recipient of this award. 
Dean Jones accepts for Glenn Ford. William Shatner and Leonard Nemoy accept for Gene Roddenberry, and David Janssen accepts for Paul Newman. 

NOTE: The 57th Annual Photoplay Awards aired 11/21/78 ~ ABC-TV was one of only  two Special Photoplay Awards (this show aired as a one hour Special)  produced, with this one in 1978 being the last one ever.
Photoplay ceased publication in 1980, and it’s staff started a new magazine called “Us Magazine” which is still published today. Previous TV exposure for the Photoplay Award was broadcast on The Steve Allen Show in 1959, and The Merv Griffin Show in 1966 and 1967. 

NOTE: There a slight hum  is heard occasionally as originally broadcast.                                                                                      

The 47th Annual Photoplay awards are presented. See #8384 for full details.           

A mixture of news headlines, music and comedy is on tap in tonight's Special. 

Dupe of # 5097.             

September 16, 1965-May 24, 1974. This was the Christmas Show broadcast. 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). 

NOTE: An unusual ending as over thirty celebrities each state to children in a different orphanage in the USA that Santa is on his way.                                     

Lena Horne's First Network Special- with guests, David Janssen, with  and O.C. Smith.

 A mellow musical hour with guests David Janssen and O.C. Smith and an orchestra conducted by Lena's husband Lennie Hayton.
Lena sings with her guests, joins in a Claude Thompson dance number ("Cissy Strut") and performs material by a wide range of composers:
Billy Strayhorn ("A Flower is a Lovesome Thing"), Lennon-McCartney ("Rocky Raccoon," "Blackbird"), Rodgers-Hart ("Nobody's Heart Belongs to Me") and Billy Taylor ("I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to be Free").

Other Highlights include:

"Watch What Happens," "You've Made Me So Very Happy," "Good Morning Starshine," "Hello, Young Lovers," "With a Fringe on Top," Nobody's Heart Belongs to me Today, and  "Stormy Weather."

O.C. Smith sings "Friend, Lover, Woman, Wife," 
and "Didn't We?" 
David Janssen sings "I've Been to Town,"
and a duet with Lena, "I Remember it Well."                                      

Bing Crosby who hosted opening night at the palace on Jan. 4, 1964, brings down the curtain with a large sampling of highlights from the past six years. Celebrities include Nat King Cole, Ed Wynn, Eydie Gorme, Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass, Fred Astaire, Ethel Merman, Martha Raye, Ray Bolger, Jimmy Durante, Mrs. Miller, Sammy Davis Jr., Ella Fitzgerald, James Brown, Don Adams, Marty Allen, Jack Benny, Edgar Bergen, Milton Berle, Burns & Schreiber, Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Petula Clark, Perry Como, Tim Conway, Bette Davis, Joey Forman, David 
Janssen, Van Johnson, Buster Keaton, Bert Lahr, Peter Lawford, Liberace, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Buddy Rich, Don Rickles, Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, Kate Smith, Gloria Swanson and Tiny Tim.   

Dupe of #1087.          

Joe Namath is roasted by: Dean Martin, Don Meredith, Weeb Eubank, Paul "Bear" Bryant, Dick Butkus, Jim Plunkett, David Janssen, Angie Dickinson, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Foster Brooks, Charlie Callas, Joey Bishop, Rich Little and Slappy White.    

See # 2080 for details.  Duplicate.                     

 Cavalcade Of Champions Sports Awards are presented.  

 Bob Hope and Barbara Walters are the hosts for this show which honors pro and amateur athletes. Film clips of the nominees in action are shown. Events and nominees include Baseball: Lou Brock, Steve Garvey, Mike Marshall; Basketball: Julius Erving, John Havlicek, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; Football: Ken Anderson, Jim Hart, Ken Stabler; Golf: Jane Blalock, Joanne Carter, Sandra Haynie; and Johnny Miller, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player; Hockey Bobby Clarke, Bobby Orr, Bernie Parent. 

Precedes the 47th live Academy Awards presentations.                                                             

 Cavalcade Of Champions Sports Awards are presented.  

 Bob Hope and Barbara Walters are the hosts for this show which honors pro and amateur athletes. Film clips of the nominees in action are shown. Events and nominees include Baseball: Lou Brock, Steve Garvey, Mike Marshall; Basketball: Julius Erving, John Havlicek, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; Football: Ken Anderson, Jim Hart, Ken Stabler; Golf: Jane Blalock, Joanne Carter, Sandra Haynie; and Johnny Miller, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player; Hockey Bobby Clarke, Bobby Orr, Bernie Parent. 

Precedes the 47th live Academy Awards presentations. 

Duplicate of #8198.                                                            

Special: Elton John and Diana Ross are the hosts for this ceremony with music, telecast live from the Santa Monica (Cal.) Civic Auditorium.

In this first of three Rock Music Award annual television presentations (1975-1978), Elton John wins for Outstanding Rock Personality. 

Performances of rock, rhythm and blues, and pop  alternate with awards presentations in 16 categories. Winners have been selected by a nationwide panel composed of radio announcers, and music critics and reports.

At press time, the presenters included Ann-Margret, Cher, Alice Cooper, Roger Daltrey of The Who, Mike Douglas, Michael Douglas ("The Streets of San Francisco"), David Janssen, Olivia Newton-John, Tony Orlando and Dawn, Raquel Welch, and Edgar Winter, Valerie Perrine.

Announcer: Dick Tufeld.

COMPLETE with commercials. 
Disc 1- 56:00
Disc 2- 34:00
                                      

Special: Elton John and Diana Ross are the hosts for this ceremony with music, telecast live from the Santa Monica (Cal.) Civic Auditorium.

In this first of three Rock Music Award annual television presentations (1975-1978), Elton John wins for Outstanding Rock Personality. 

Performances of rock, rhythm and blues, and pop  alternate with awards presentations in 16 categories. Winners have been selected by a nationwide panel composed of radio announcers, and music critics and reports.

At press time, the presenters included Ann-Margret, Cher, Alice Cooper, Roger Daltrey of The Who, Mike Douglas, Michael Douglas ("The Streets of San Francisco"), David Janssen, Olivia Newton-John, Tony Orlando and Dawn, Raquel Welch, and Edgar Winter, Valerie Perrine.

Announcer: Dick Tufeld.

COMPLETE with commercials. 
Disc 1- 56:00
Disc 2- 34:00
                                                   

Bob Hope hires six TV detectives to solve a series of mysterious disappearances at his house in this comedy special.                                      

Bob Hope hires six TV detectives to solve a series of mysterious disappearances at his house in this comedy special.

Duplicate of # 7757.                                                    

Bob Hope hires six TV detectives to solve a series of mysterious disappearances at his house in this comedy special.   

Duplicate of #7757.                                                

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  

Guests: David Janssen, Bob Hope.

Mike and Bob sing "Making Whoopee." 

                                                                                                                                                                                                

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-Host: David Janssen                                                                                                           

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.




Host: Johnny Carson. Guests are Frank Sintra, Don Rickles, David Janssen, Olivia Newton-John, and ex-con Ray Johnson.                   

October 21st, 1974- 1980. 

Ninety-minute talk show in most markets hosted by Dinah Shore. The show was seen during the daytime in most cities. In 1979 the show was retitled "Dinah and Friends" and had a co-host.

No opening, otherwise complete.