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13 records found for Phil Foster
1955-05-01, CBS, min.
June 20, 1948 - May 30, 1971 ED SULLIVAN SHOW, THE, (TOAST OF THE TOWN) Television's longest running variety series. Originally, titled, TOAST OF THE TOWN, the name of the series changed on September 18, 1955 to THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW. Most remembered for introducing many stand-up comedians, and musical acts, including The Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, The Beatles. Most of the 1,087 broadcasts, encompassing 10,000 performers, have been archived. The major exceptions are the first half year of shows circa 1948 of which a few kinescope excerpts survive. The ED SULLIVAN SHOW was a spectacular show-case that for twenty-three years entertained the American family. In its prime, more than thirty million viewers, young and old, tuned in at the same time to view popular culture. Guests: Lionel Hampton, Phil Foster.
1962-01-19, NBC, min.
July 29, 1957- March 30,1962. "BEST OF PAAR" Originally broadcast October 11, 1961. Jack's guest, Selma Diamond and Phil Foster.
1962-01-19, NBC, min.
July 29, 1957- March 30,1962. For four years and eight months Jack Paar reigned supreme as host of the Tonight Show with a crew of regulars, but only two stayed with him for the entire run; announcer Hugh Downs and band leader Jose Melies, a former army buddy. Familiar faces who appeared many times with Jack included Dody Goodman, Betty Johnson, Elsa Maxwell, Alexander King, Genevieve, Jack Douglas; and wife Reiko, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hans Conried, Peggy Cass, Cliff (Charley Weaver) Arquette, and Johnathan Winters. Hugh Downs substituted for Jack Paar 79 times, more than any other substitute host there were 20 different performers over the period of the series run. Joey Bishop substituted for Paar 31 times. Arlene Francis, 30 times, Jonathan Winters, 26 times, Orson Bean, 21 times, and Johnny Carson 15 times. Altogether there were 243 broadcasts that had substitute hosts filling in for Paar during Jack Paar's TONIGHT SHOW tenure. The title of the late-night broadcast changed to THE JACK PAAR SHOW which took effect on February 3, 1958. The first videotaped broadcast aired on January 5, 1959. "Best of Paar " Re-runs began on July 10, 1959. The first color broadcast aired on September 19, 1960. The guests are Selma Diamond and Phil Foster.
1962-07-04, WNBC, 91 min.
Jerry Lewis hosts on three successive nights...July 4, 1962 with guest Chuck McCann, July 5, 1962, with guest Phil Foster, and July 6, 1962, with guests, Rick Norman (Rick Saphire), Milt Kamen, The Vagabonds and Henry Gibson. These segments are combined within this audio air check.
1962-12-02, WCBS, 29 min.
Guest performers are Phil Foster, Bill Dana, Pearl Bailey, Al Hirt, and Pat Henry.#458: KINER'S KORNER
Order1963-04-30, WOR, 12 min.
April 19, 1962 - 1995 KINER'S KORNER Premiered with the first televised New York Mets home game (April 19, 1962) broadcast on WOR TV Channel 9 in New York. This 15 minute program aired prior to and after each NEW YORK METS home baseball game. The show usually consisted of an interview with the star of the game from the winning team, along with game highlights and scores of other games from that day. Sometimes two or more players were featured. The show's theme music was Flag of Victory Polka, written by Alvino Rey under the name Ira Ironstrings. The show's name came from the close-in left field seats in Forbes Field where Kiner deposited many home runs during his Hall of Fame career as a Pirate home-run hitter. NOTE: The very first televised coverage of a New York Mets pre-season exhibition game on WOR TV Channel 9 was broadcast on March 31, 1962. The New York Mets vs The St. Louis Cardinals. The game was played at Al Lang Field in St. Petersburg, Florida. In this Mets Baseball post-game show, Ralph Kiner welcomes guests Buddy Hackett and Phil Foster. NOTE: This is the earliest known surviving broadcast (audio or video) of a KINER'S KORNER broadcast. Audio recorded by Phil Gries founder and owner of Archival Television Audio, Inc. Most extant KINER KORNER archived broadcasts are circa 1980's and 1990's and only a few dozen of those broadcasts are known to exist. Sadly, many hundreds of other shows were never recorded or if recorded on video tape erased over (wiped) using the 2" Quad to record a next broadcast, saving money or not viewing the saving of these programs of any value once aired. (1962-1980).
1964-07-31, WNBC, 6 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 host Groucho Marx welcomes guest Phil Foster.1964-09-22, WPIX, 5 min.
New York Mets post game show with Phil Foster. Guest Woody Allen drops by and kids Foster about his own baseball prowess.#11767: JOEY BISHOP SHOW, THE
Order1967-07-27, ABC, 13 min.
April 17, 1967 - December 26, 1969 Joey Bishop is the host of this week-night-talk show originating live from Hollywood. The announcer and sidekick is Regis Philbin. Johnny Mann conducts the orchestra. The ABC Late Night chair had previously been occupied by Les Crane when the show was called THE LES CRANE SHOW, and later by a succession of guest hosts (when it was called NIGHTLIFE). Bishop gave it a two & half year run but he was never able to beat Johnny Carson in the ratings, and in late November 1969 Joey was fired by ABC. Bishop had one more month to fulfill with the show but decided to walk out, a similar deja vu moment on TV when Jack Paar walked off his TONIGHT SHOW 13 years before. Dick Cavett then took over the ABC late-night seat after the final JOEY BISHOP SHOW which aired December 26, 1969, closing out the decade of the '60s. Guests: Frances Faye, Phil Foster. Thirteen-minute excerpt. Incomplete.
1973-00-00, , 110 min.
- George Jessel
- Howard Cosell
- Milton Berle
- Phil Foster
- Pat Henry
- Henny Youngman
- Gene Baylos
- Jackie Kahane
- Roone Arledge
- Dick Capri
- Joseph Morro
- Joey Russell
- Jerry Shayne
The Friar's Club roast Howard Cosell from New York City. Host: Milton Berle.
#8890: MIKE DOUGLAS SHOW, THE
Order1977-10-12, SYN, 79 min.
- Phil Foster
- Mike Douglas
- Telly Savalas
- Penny Marshall
- Cindy Williams
- Michael McKean
- Lynda Carter
- David L. Lander
- Alan Rafkin
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 From Hollywood, on location at Paramount Studios, Mike visits with Cindy Williams, Penny Marshall, David L. Lander, Michael McKean, Phil Foster and director Alan Rafkin on the set of "Laverne and Shirley." The entire ensemble reenact a script reading rehearsal. Also, Mike visits with Telly Savalas and Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman").
1980-02-14, WNBC, 52 min.
- Louis Nye
- Steve Allen
- Phil Foster
- Carl Reiner
- Richard Deacon
- Joan Collins
- Marty Allen
- Steve Martin
- Peter Graves
- Joyce DeWitt
- Meredith McRae
- Dick Schaap
Steve Martin's second comedy special.1980-08-02, WABC, 22 min.
Host Joel Siegal gives tribute to Duke Snider and the Brooklyn Dodgers on the eve before Snider is to be inducted into Baseball's Hall of Fame. Reflections are heard from Robert Klein, Phil Foster, and from ex-Brooklyn Dodger teammates, Pee Wee Reese, Sandy Koufax, Roy Campanella, Don Newcombe and from Duke Snider himself.