The Steve Allen Show
8.5·1956 - 1960·1h 0m·5S·canceled
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5E1
1Skits include unlikely endorsements putting Wally Cox in prison, Dane Clark in a bar fight and Vincent Price as a hit and run victim, and later, a gangster scene with Steve and Kim Novak with an educa…
E2
2E2 · Elvis Presley, Andy Griffith, Imogene Coca, Milton Berle, Steve Lawrence & Edye Gorme
Jul 1, 1956·1h 0m
Episode features include Elvis Presley, wearing a tuxedo and singing "Hound Dog" to a mournful basset hound; Andy Griffith explaining Shakespeare's Hamlet in a comedy monologue; Imogene Coca starring …
Todays guests are Sammy Davis, Jr./Jack Palance/Don Adams/Margaret Truman.
E7
7E7 · Frank Sinatra, Don Adams, Julius LaRosa, Mamie Van Doren, Eddie Lawrence, Augie & Margo
Aug 19, 1956·1h 0m
E8
8Skits include Smith and Dale doing their "Still Alarm" routine, with Louis Nye,and Steve, Georgia Gibbs and Steve Lawrence do a takeoff on a 30's band remote.Fats Domino is presented a "Cashbox" magaz…
E4
4Todays guests are Abbott and Costello/Kukla, Fran and Ollie/Mickey Mantle/Lionel Hampton/Peggy King/Milt Kamen.
E5
5E5 · Tony Bennett, Doretta Morrow, Mel Torme, Frances Faye, Guy Madison, Kathryn & Arthur Murray
Oct 14, 1956·1h 0m
E10
10E10 · Gene Autry, Jim Lowe, Betty Kean & Lew Parker, Floyd Patterson & Archie Moore, the Chicago Bears
Nov 25, 1956·1h 0m
E12
12E13
13E14
14Most of the show concerns a filmed Steve presenting the Critic's award to several stars, including 'Ingrid Bergman' and 'Kirk Douglas', along with some small talk interviews. These were shot at Sardi'…
Pearl Bailey, Lilli Palmer, Don Adams, The Collins Kids, Steve Lawrence, Charles Van Doren
E19
19E19 · Peter Lawford, Charles Van Doren, Lou Costello, Margaret Whiting, The Step Brothers
Feb 10, 1957·1h 0m
E20
20E21
21E21 · Yehudi Menuhin, Arlene Dahl, Aldo Ray, Robert Ryan, Brenda Lee, the Hilltoppers
Feb 24, 1957·1h 0m
E22
22E22 · Jerry Lewis, Martha Raye, Steve Lawrence, Diahann Carroll, Fernando Lamas
Mar 10, 1957·1h 0m
E24
24E24 · Tennessee Ernie Ford, Peggy Lee, Johnny Mercer, Dinah Shore, Esther Williams, The Collins Kids
Mar 31, 1957·1h 0m
E26
26E26 · Esther Williams, Eydie Gorme, Jackie Cooper, Stan Freberg, The Four Lads
Apr 14, 1957·1h 0m
E27
27E27 · Mickey Rooney, Eleanor Steber, Joey Forman, Betty Walker, Mickey & Sylvia, Jim Henson's Muppets
Apr 21, 1957·1h 0m
E28
28E28 · Brenda Lee, Don Adams, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane, Jack Carson, Peter Gennaro & Ellen Ray
Apr 28, 1957·1h 0m
E29
29E29 · Orson Welles, Jill Corey, Peggy Cass, The Will Mastin Trio featuring Sammy Davis Jr.
May 5, 1957·1h 0m
Steve Allen and Sammy Davis, Jr. perform a card trick with a little help from Orson Welles; Davis joins his uncle Will Mastin and his father Sammy Davis, Sr., for an athletic dance number; Davis perfo…
E30
30E30 · Tallulah Bankhead, Milton Berle, Pearl Bailey, Dean Jones, Reverend Billy Graham
May 12, 1957·1h 0m
E32
32E33
33E33 · Xavier Cugat, Abbe Lane, Pat Carroll, The Four Diamonds, Erin O'Brien, Jerry Lewis
Jun 2, 1957·1h 0m
Steve's guests are The Diamonds (singing "Little Darlin'"), Xavier Cugat & his Orchestra with singer Abbe Lane doing "All Of You" and "Babalu," comedian Pat Carroll as a wife whose husband (Allen) tri…
E34
34E34 · Orson Welles, Wally Cox, Meg Myles, Jim Reeves, The Step Brothers, Reverend Billy Graham
Jun 9, 1957·1h 0m
E36
36Lou Costello in a restaurant skit where Gabe Dell takes the part of the bullying, Bud Abbott-type companion.
E37
37In a salute to Hope's new film, "Beau James", skits, dance numbers and film clips devoted to onetime crooked prohibition-era New York mayor Jimmy Walker.
Goodman's in top form, and Steve does a duet with him. Yvonne and Steve in a baby-naming skit, Lawford and Steve play bored life guards. A "Night Beat" parody includes Knotts as his classic nervous ne…
E40
40E40 · Tony Bennett, George Nader, Joanne Gilbert, Hal Le Roy, Floyd Patterson & Joe Louis
Jul 21, 1957·1h 0m
Tony Bennett sings "One For My Baby". Floyd Patterson and Joe Louis talk to Steve about boxing and Floyd's title defense against Tommy "Hurricane" Jackson. Joanne Gilbert sings "Hello Bluebird". Show …
E41
41Steve and Shelley Winters in a skit about teaching her to drive by using household objects, Jerry Lee Lewis gives a bravura piano-attacking performance.
E42
42E42 · Marie MacDonald, The Four Diamonds, Jack E. Leonard, Don Rondo, Brenda Lee
Aug 4, 1957·1h 0m
E43
43E43 · Jane Russell, Ferlin Husky, Larry Storch, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Rod Alexander Dancers
Aug 11, 1957·1h 0m
E46
46E46 · Pearl Bailey, Joan Collins, Jeff Chandler, Shaike Ophir, Pete Rademacher
Sep 1, 1957·1h 0m
E48
48E2
2E3
3Crawford takes part in the "Man in the street" skit, Tony Perkins and Steve do their impressions of autograph hounds, and Perkins, Abbe Lane and Cugat show some elements of an upcoming TV western.
E8
8E8 · Gloria Swanson, Charlie Ruggles, Tony Bennett, Jack E. Leonard, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane
Nov 10, 1957·1h 0m
E9
9E9 · Marie McDonald, Walter Chiari, Edward Everett Horton, Ferlin Husky, The King Sisters
Nov 17, 1957·1h 0m
E10
10E11
11E11 · Errol Flynn, Martha Raye, Jimmy Dean, Don Adams, Jennie Smith, the Army-Navy Football Stars
Dec 1, 1957·1h 0m
Martha does a song and dance number as planned, then again where all the props fail, Errol Flynn goes on a parody of "To Tell The Truth" where Knotts turns out to be him. Jimmy Dean sings an early Chr…
E12
12E13
13E13 · Ann Sothern, Jackie Cain & Roy Kral, Lou Costello, Steve Lawrence, Milt Kamen
Dec 15, 1957·1h 0m
E14
14E14 · Anthony Perkins, Mahalia Jackson, Gertrude Berg, George London, the U.N. Singers
Dec 22, 1957·1h 0m
E15
15E15 · Peter Ustinov, Margaret O'Brien, Jerry Vale, Mike Nichols & Elaine May, Martha Davis & Spouse
Dec 29, 1957·1h 0m
Todays guests are Peter Ustinov, Margaret O'Brien, Jerry Vale, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, Martha Davis and Spouse.
E16
16E16 · Sam Cooke, Abbe Lane, Xavier Cugat, Johnny Haymer, Ward Bond, Robert Horton
Jan 5, 1958·1h 0m
E18
18E18 · Martha Raye, Jimmy Dean, Erin O'Brien, Charles Laughton, Rubinoff & his violin
Jan 26, 1958·1h 0m
E21
21E22
22E22 · The McGuire Sisters, Teddi King, The Playmates, Haller & Hayden, Jayne Meadows, Audrey Meadows
Feb 23, 1958·1h 0m
E27
27In a comedy sketch with regulars Don Knotts, Joyce Jameson and Tom Poston, Marie McDonald portrays a celebrity approached by interviewers.
E29
29E29 · Sammy Davis, Jr., Carmen McRae, Dody Goodman, Jayne Meadows, Audrey Meadows
Apr 13, 1958·1h 0m
Steve's wife and sister-in-law, Jayne and Audrey Meadows, join him in a skit purporting to be a look at a real incident in their lives when they had a baby nurse, "Miss Huston" (played by Audrey). Dod…
Bob Hope, Patrice Munsel, Ray Anthony, Johnny Haymer, David Allen
E32
32E32 · Count Basie, Joe Bushkin, Teddy Wilson, Jane Powell, Phil Harris, Igor and H
May 4, 1958·1h 0m
E36
36E39
39E39 · Oscar Levant, Tony Bennett, Don Adams, Dorothy Collins, Sandra McCorkle
Jun 29, 1958·1h 0m
E5
5E5 · Lloyd Bridges, Nancy Walker, Larry Daniels, Carole Simpson, the Rocky Mario Trio
Oct 12, 1958·1h 0m
E6
6E6 · Gertrude Berg, Tony Bennett, Peter Lawford, Kathy Linden, The Harlem Globetrotters
Oct 19, 1958·1h 0m
E7
7E8
8E8 · Jane Russell, Mike Nichols & Elaine May, Earl Grant, George Melachrino & his orchestra
Nov 2, 1958·1h 0m
E10
10E10 · Count Basie & his Orchestra, Joe Williams, Alan Young, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Don Cornell
Nov 16, 1958·1h 0m
E11
11E11 · Claudette Colbert, Jackie Cooper, Carol Hughes, Roger Ray, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
Nov 23, 1958·1h 0m
E14
14E14 · Tony Bennett, Jonathan Winters, Clara Ward & Her Gospel Singers, Ingrid Bergman and Curt Jurgens
Dec 14, 1958·1h 0m
E17
17E17 · Diana Dors, Perez Prado & his Orchestra, The Three Stooges, Chuck McCann
Jan 11, 1959·1h 0m
Carson does a skit showing a children's show M.C. with a hangover, Marvin does different cop show approaches to the same scene.
E21
21E21 · Liberace, Steve Lawrence, Marie McDonald, the U.S. Army Chorus, Cameo by Phil Silvers
Feb 8, 1959·1h 0m
E22
22E23
23E23 · Andy Griffith, Diana Dors, Otto Harbach, Jimmy Hurst, The Three Stooges
Feb 22, 1959·1h 0m
E25
25E25 · Zsa Zsa Gabor, Johnny Carson, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Vic Damone, Jane Harvey
Mar 8, 1959·1h 0m
E26
26E26 · Charlton Heston, Peter Lawford, Jayne Meadows, Debra Paget, Jonathan Winters
Mar 15, 1959·1h 0m
E27
27The Stooges do their well-worn "Knife Throwing Maharaja" bit without improvisations, Bruce does a monologue about junkies, then moves on to a maudlin song story about loneliness, and Poston and Nye jo…
E29
29E29 · Diana Dors, George Jessel, Mark Murphy, Don Elliott, cameo by Richard Dawson
Apr 12, 1959·1h 0m
E31
31E31 · Tony Bennett, Jean Shepherd, Jimmie Rodgers, Betty Walker, The Modernaires
Apr 26, 1959·1h 0m
E33
33E34
34E34 · Cyril Ritchard, Irene Kral, The Axidentals, Eli Mintz, the Ruth Walton Dancers
May 24, 1959·1h 0m
William Bendix plays the father in a sitcom scene set in three different ways, once without canned laughs, then with, and then played extra violently. "The Allen Report to the Nation" topic is the com…
Todays guests are Nat 'King' Cole, Cyril Ritchard, Ann Richards, Charlie Manna.
Carson does a monologue about his kids,Steve and Mercer sing a medley competition, Steve's mom Belle Montrose as a hip old lady billboard girl, Diana sings a number and does a skit with Knotts.
E28
28E28 · Ginger Rogers, Tony Bennett, Erroll Garner, Henny Youngman, the Ralph Sharon Quartet
May 16, 1960·1h 0m
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