NaN/100 votes#1 - Alan King: A Funny Thing Happened on The Way to September
Season 12 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1969
--Alan King (host) --Alan King and Browning Bryant - ""The Straight Life"" --Browning Bryant (teenage singer) - ""Shenandoah"" --Carol Lawrence - ""Wait till the Sun Shines, Nellie"" --Carol Lawrence and Alan King - medley: ""Summertime,"" ""Blue Skies"" and ""Up a Lazy River"" --Marian Mercer (actress, from Broadway's ""Promises, Promises"") --Carl Ballantine (comedian)
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#2 - Kraft Presents Eddy Arnold
Season 12 Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/1969
--Eddy Arnold (host) - ""That's How Much I Love You,"" ""I'll Hold You in My Heart"" & ""Make the World Go Away"" --Bobbie Gentry - ""Peaceful"" --Bernadette Peters --Phil Harris --Browning Bryant (teenage singer) - ""Patches"" --Phil Harris, Eddy Arnold and Bobbie Gentry - ""Muskrat Ramble"" --All guests - Country medley: ""By the Time I Get to Phoenix,"" ""Wichita Lineman,"" ""Jackson,"" ""Green Green Grass,"" ""Harper Valley PTA,"" ""Gentle on My Mind"" and ""Honey""
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#3 - The Friars Roast Milton Berle
Season 12 Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1969
""The Friars Roast Milton Berle"" with Alan King as the ""Roastmaster"" Guests: --Jack Benny --Red Buttons --Don Drysdale (former Dodger's pitcher) --Steve Lawrence --Jan Murray --Bishop Fulton J. Sheen --Henny Youngman
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#4 - Kraft Presents Wayne Newton
Season 12 Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1969
--Wayne Newton (host) - ""Hello, My Baby,"" ""What Kind of Fool Am I?"" ""The Lord Must Be in New York City"" & ""Blowin' in the Wind"" --Michele Lee (singer-actress) - ""Runnin' Wild"" --Terry-Thomas (British comedian) - does a monologue on doors. --Hines, Hines & Dad (dancers) - ""Sweet Georgia Brown"" --Wayne Newton and Hines, Hines & Dad - ""Walkin' on New Grass"" Comedy sketches: --A reporter (Michele Lee) interviews a wacky fashion designer (Terry-Thomas). --A couple (Michele and Terry) is happily shipwrecked. --Terry plays a director describing his all-insect nudist movie.
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#5 - 3rd Annual Country Music Association Awards
Season 12 Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1969
Country Music Association Awards (broadcast from the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville) --hosted by Tennessee Ernie Ford Scheduled performers: --Glen Campbell - ""Galveston"" --Johnny Cash - ""A Boy Named Sue"" & ""Daddy Sang Bass"" --Charley Pride - ""All I Have to Offer You Is Me"" --Freddy Weller - ""Games People Play"" Other guests/presenters (scheduled): --Chet Atkins --Gene Autry --The Carter Family --Roy Clark --Floyd Cramer --Bobby Goldsboro --Merle Haggard --Phil Harris --Bill Monroe --Fess Parker --Jimmie Rodgers
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#6 - Alan King Stops The Press
Season 12 Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/1969
""Alan King Stops the Press"" - a satrical look at newspapers Comedy: --Alan King (host) - does a monologue on editorials, horoscopes and cheesecake photos. --A husband (Alan King) gets a low score when his wife (Barbara Feldon) takes a ""rate your mate"" quiz. --Paul Lynde plays (1) a newspaper food critic (2) a sportswriter interviewing skinny rookie U.T. Thompson, played by Charlie Callas Music: --Alan King - ""Didn't We?"" --Barbara Feldon - ""Fugue for Tinhorns"" and ""Spinning Wheel""
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#7 - Kraft Presents Eddy Arnold
Season 12 Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/1969
--Eddy Arnold (host) - ""Morning of My Mind,"" ""Jean,"" ""Since December"" and medley (""Margie, Margie,"" ""Sweet Sue,"" ""Ida,"" ""My Name Is Sue"" and ""Molly Darlin'."") --The Lettermen - ""Shangri-La"" --Eddy Arnold and the Lettermen - medley: ""Smile (Though Your Heart Is Breaking),"" ""When I Fall In Love,"" ""A Summer Place,"" ""Love Is Blue,"" ""Our Day Will Come,"" ""Goin' Out of My Head,"" ""Can't Take My Eyes Off of You,"" ""Hurts So Bad"" and ""More"" --Browning Bryant - ""Moon River"" --Judy Carne - sings ""In My Life"" and does an Oliver medley. --Tom Seaver and the Lettermen - ""Nancy with the Laughing Face"" Comedy: --An advertising agent (Judy Carne) tries to sign Tom Seaver. --Blackouts with Tom Seaver pitching --In a sketch with Tom Seaver, Judy plays Tom's wife Nancy.
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#8 - The Sound of Burt Bacharach
Season 12 Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/1969
""The Sound of Bacharach"" - features the music of Bacharach, plus a tribute to Harold Arlen. --Lena Horne, Tony Bennett and Burt Bacharach perform a medley of Bacharach tunes. --Edward Villella (New York City ballet star) with partner - dance to ""This Guy's in Love with You"" and ""Promises, Promises."" Tribute to Harold Arlen --Lena Horne - ""Stormy Weather"" (Harold Arlen song originally introduced by Lena at the Cotton Club ) --Lena, Tony, and Burt - medley of songs written by Harold Arlen (""I've Got the World on a String,"" ""Happiness is a Thing called Joe,"" ""Let's Fall in Love,"" ""Last Night When We were Young,"" ""Come Rain or Come Shine,"" ""Down with Love"" and ""Right as the Rain.""
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#9 - Alan King...Public Consumer Number One
Season 12 Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/1969
A Tribute to the ""Mistreated"" Consumer Music: --Alan King - sings ""I Can't Give You Anything but Love"" --Angie Dickinson - ""Daddy"" --Angie Dickinson and Alan King - ""Girl Talk"" --Paul Lynde (comedian) --Marian Mercer (from Broadway's ""Promises, Promises"") Comedy: --A couple, Alan and Angie, have problems (1) collecting fire insurance from a reluctant insurance man, (2) buying a toaster and (3) coping with a greedy maitre d'
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#10 - Johnny Cash - American Songbag
Season 12 Episode 10 - Aired 12/10/1969
""Johnny Cash - American Songbag"" with Special Guest Star - Miss Peggy Lee Songs of the American Heritage (woven around the writings of Carl Sandburg) --Johnny Cash - ""This Land Is Your Land,"" ""Going to Memphis,"" ""Rock Island Line"" and ""Delia's Gone"" --Peggy Lee - ""Is That All There Is?"" --Johnny Cash and Peggy Lee - ""Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"" and a love song medley --Carl Perkins - ""C.C. Rider"" --The Statler Brothers - ""Shenandoah"" --The Carter Family - ""Foggy Mountain Top"" --Johnny Cash and Browning Bryant - ""It Ain't Gonna Rain No More"" --Browning Bryant - ""Try to Remember"" --The Tennessee Three
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#11 - Kraft Presents Steve & Eydie
Season 12 Episode 11 - Aired 12/17/1969
--Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme (co-hosts) - ""Come Back to Me,"" ""Walk On By,"" ""You and I,"" ""The Honeymoon Is Over,"" ""Didn't We?"" and ""Hurry Home for Christmas"" --Sonny & Cher - ""I'm Gonna Hold You Tighter"" --Sonny & Cher, Steve & Eydie - ""The Look of Love,"" ""Go Away, Little Girl"" & ""What the World Needs Now"" --Sid Caesar (comedian) --The Carnival (Brazilian rock group) - ""Laia Ladaia"" --Eydie Gorme and the Carnival - ""Son of a Preacher Man"" Comedy sketches: --Sid Caesar plays an older husband who's trying to keep up with his young wife. --Sid Caesar, Steve & Eydie parody sex education
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#12 - Christmas with Wayne Newton
Season 12 Episode 12 - Aired 12/24/1969
1969 Christmas Show --Wayne Newton (host) - ""Christmas Journey"" --The Cowsills - ""Silver Bells"" and ""Jingle Bell Rock"" --Jack Wild - ""Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" --Julie Budd - ""My Favorite Things"" --Wayne Newton and Julie Budd - ""Winter Wonderland"" --Christopher Hewett (English actor, appearing as Charles Dickens) --The Singing Angels - ""Jingle Bells,"" ""Carol of the Bells"" and ""Silent Night"" --Wayne Newton and the Singing Angels - ""Do You Hear What I Hear?"" --""Oliver"" medley with Wayne Newton, Julie Budd, Jack Wild and the Cowsills: (1) ""Consider Yourself""; (2) ""Who Will Buy""; (3) ""I'd Do Anything"" (Jack Wild and Susan Cowsill); (4) ""Got To Pick a Pocket or Two"" (the Cowsills); (5) ""As Long as She Needs Me""
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#13 - Alan King Rings In The New Year and Wrings Out The Old
Season 12 Episode 13 - Aired 1/7/1970
--Alan King --Michele Lee --Paul Lynde --David Frye --Gene Baylos
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#14 - The Friars Roast Jack Benny
Season 12 Episode 14 - Aired 1/21/1970
""The Friars Roast Jack Benny"" with Johnny Carson (as the Roastmaster) Guests: --Spiro Agnew (Vice-President) --Milton Berle --George Burns --Phil Harris --Dennis Day --Alan King --Ed Sullivan
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#15 - Kraft Presents Eddy Arnold
Season 12 Episode 15 - Aired 1/28/1970
--Eddy Arnold (host) - ""Raindrops,"" ""Soul Deep,"" ""A Man's Kind of Woman"" and ""The Tennessee Waltz"" --Florence Henderson - ""People Gotta Be Free"" --Sacha Distel (singer-guitarist from France) - ""Bon Soir, dame"" --Eddy Arnold and Sacha Distel - ""Melodie d'Amour"" --Eddy Arnold, Florance Henderson and Sacha Distel - Richard Rodgers medley Comedy: --Sid Caesar and Florence Henderson appear together in two sketches: (1) A butler tries, in vain, to work quietly while his employer, Mme. Davenport, sings an aria. (2) Leo the Lion encounters a lovely lioness.
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#16 - Kraft Presents Desi Arnaz
Season 12 Episode 16 - Aired 2/4/1970
--Desi Arnaz (host) - ""Cuban Pete,"" ""Turn Around"" and ""Babalu"" --Vivian Vance --Bernadette Peters - ""Chewi Chewi"" & ""I Didn't Know What Time It Was"" --Desi Arnaz, Desi Arnaz, Jr. and Lucie Arnaz - ""Straw Hat Song"" --Desi Arnaz Jr. and Lucie Arnaz - ""Under the Bamboo Tree"" Comedy sketches include: --Desi playing an overage band leader at a high school prom.
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#17 - Kraft Presents Petula Clark
Season 12 Episode 17 - Aired 2/18/1970
Music: --Petula Clark - ""I Couldn't Live without Your Love,"" ""Sign of the Times"" and ""A Natural Woman"" --Anthony Newley - performs a medley (of songs from his two big shows): ""The Joker,"" ""Look at That Face,"" ""Gonna Build a Mountain,"" ""What Kind of Fool am I"" & ""Just Once in a Lifetime"" --Lou Rawls - ""It Was A Very Good Year"" --Petula Clark and Lou Rawls - ""Three O'Clock in the Morning"" --Clark, Rawls and Newley - blues medley (""Mood Indigo,"" ""God Bless the Child"" & ""Kansas City"") Sketch: --Petula and Tony do a sketch about a pair of Cockney Vaudevillians whose act was called ""The Lovebirds.""
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#18 - Eddy Arnold - America in the 70's
Season 12 Episode 18 - Aired 2/25/1970
""America in the '70's"" - a salute to the new decade --Eddy Arnold - ""Soul Deep,"" ""Blowin' in the Wind"" and ""Tennessee Stud"" --Eddy Arnold and Anita Bryant - ""I'm Little But I'm Loud"" --Anita Bryant - ""New World Coming"" --Browning Bryant (teenage singer, not related to Anita) - ""Turn, Turn, Turn"" Comedy: --Arte Johnson appears in two sketches. He plays (1) an inventor presenting the world's first completely automated home; and (2) ""Mr. Crushed Velvet,"" the hottest young composer in the music industry.
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#19 - Alan King's Wonderful World of Aggravation, Part II
Season 12 Episode 19 - Aired 3/4/1970
""Alan King's Wonderful World of Aggravation, Part II"" Sketches: --Mr. and Mrs. Plotman (Alan King and Anne Meara) find a few surprises when they visit their child's college on parents' day. --Alan King as a hospital patient dealing with a rowdy roomate (Paul Lynde). --Alan, Anne, Paul and Michele play a ""marriage game"" which could result in divorce.
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#20 - Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme / Peggy Lee
Season 12 Episode 20 - Aired 3/11/1970
Music: --Steve Lawrence - ""Mama, a Rainbow"" --Eydie Gorme - ""Tonight I'll Say a Prayer"" --Peggy Lee - ""Me and My Shadow"" --Steve, Eydie and Peggy appear together in a concert segment. Comedy: --""It Was a Very Good Year"" - vignettes with Steve and Eydie at ages 17, 21, 35 and 64. --Shecky Green (1) plays an Italian film director, and (2) joins Steve and Eydie in a spoof of old ""B"" movies.
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#21 - Kraft Presents Phil Silvers and Paul Lynde
Season 12 Episode 21 - Aired 3/25/1970
Guests: --Phil Silvers and Paul Lynde (co-hosts) --Barbara Feldon --Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara - comedy routine: Jerry interviews Anne, a member of the Silent Majority. --Joe Frazier and the Knockabouts (boxer with his rock group) - ""In the Midnight Hour"" --Rocky Graziano (cameo) - appears in a sketch with Silvers and Frazier about 2 shady boxing managers looking for a heavyweight. --All (entire cast) - appears in a parody of the movie ""They Shoot Horses, Don't They?""
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#22 - Kraft Presents Eddy Arnold
Season 12 Episode 22 - Aired 4/8/1970
--Eddy Arnold - ""In the Middle of the Morning"" --Jackie DeShannon - ""You Keep Me Hangin' On"" & ""Hurt So Bad"" --John Davidson - ""Somewhere"" --Charlie Callas (comedian) - (1) does his own version of Marc Anthony's eulogy of Julius Caesar. (2) appears as a Mexican who possesses the secret of longevity. --Peter Matz orchestra
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#23 - Phil Harris Presents Bobbie Gentry, Part 1
Season 12 Episode 23 - Aired 4/29/1970
Guests (First of two Country Music shows): --Phil Harris - ""Mr. Bojangles"" --Bobbie Gentry - ""He Made a Woman Out of Me"" --Bernadette Peters and Bobbie Gentry - ""Save the Country"" --Charley Pride - ""Is Anybody Goin' to San Antone?"" --Charley Pride and Phil Harris - ""Cotton Fields Back Home"" --Bernadette Peters - ""Golden Slumbers"" --John Hartford - ""Meanwhile, You Sit by My Banjo""
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#24 - Phil Harris Presents Bobbie Gentry, Part 2
Season 12 Episode 24 - Aired 5/6/1970
Guests (second of a two-part Country Music show): --Phil Harris (co-host) --Bobbie Gentry (co-host) - ""Rainmaker"" --Bernadette Peters - ""California Dreamin'"" --Roy Clark - ""I Never Picked Cotton"" --John Hartford - ""Tear-Stained Monologue"" --Jackie Benington (1969 America's Junior Miss) --All guests - medley: ""Brother Love's Salvation Show,"" Walk a Mile in My Shoes,"" ""Let It Be,"" ""Bridge Over Troubled Water"" & ""Peace in the Valley"" Comedy: --Roy Clark pulls some comic cure-alls out of a medicine bag.
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#25 - Robert Morse / Liberace / Teresa Graves / Elke Sommer
Season 12 Episode 25 - Aired 5/20/1970
--Des O'Connor (Summer 1970 host) - ""No One but You,"" ""That's Why I Love Her,"" ""This Guy's in Love with You"" & ""Anytime"" --Robert Morse - ""Lonely Town"" --Liberace - ""San Francisco"" --Teresa Graves (from ""Laugh-In"") - ""I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"" --Elke Sommer - ""Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"" --Jack Douglas (comedy writer) --The MacGregor Brothers (comedians) --Des O'Connor and the MacGregor Brothers - ""You Always Hurt the One You Love""
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The Best Episodes of Kraft Music Hall Season 12
Every episode of Kraft Music Hall Season 12 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Kraft Music Hall Season 12!
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Season 12 Ratings Summary
"Alan King: A Funny Thing Happened on The Way to September" is the best rated episode of "Kraft Music Hall" season 12. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/17/1969. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Kraft Presents Eddy Arnold".