NaN/100 votes#1 - Jimmy Durante / Frank Sinatra Jr. / Pied Pipers
Season 17 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1963
Tommy Dorsey Band - ""Marie"" Jimmy Durante - ""A Piano Is A Delicate Thing"" & "" September Song"" Helen Forrest - ""Just One Of Those Things"" & ""Craziest Dream (with the Tommy Dorsey Band) Pied Pipers - ""Chicago"" Pied Pipers & Frank Sinatra, Jr. - ""I'll Never Smile Again"" Frank Sinatra, Jr. & Tommy Dorsey Band - ""Night & Day"" The Harvest Moon Ball winners (categories: Waltz, Tango, Polka, Rhumba, Jitterbug & all around champs). Topo Gigio Audience bows (cameos): Paul Newman; New York Yankees: Whitey Ford, Mickey Mantle, Al Downing, Roger Maris, Elston Howard & manager Ralph Hauk.
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#2 - Dick Dale / The Angels / Totie Fields
Season 17 Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/1963
Guests: --Dick Dale - ""Swingin' & Surfin'"" (with some ""Miserlou"") --Totie Fields (comedian) - boasts about her diet, sings, and then flirts with men in the audience. --Sonny Liston (heavyweight champion of the world) - skips rope to ""Night Train"" recording. --The Page Seven (featuring Page Cavanaugh at the piano) - ""Preacher"" (instrumental song) --The Three Stooges (Larry, Moe and Curly Joe) - sketch with Curly Joe as the Rajah --Audience bow: Eileen Brennan --The Clark Brothers (tap dancers) --Kate Smith - medley of WWII songs: ""Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree,"" ""The White Cliffs of Dover,"" ""On a Wing and a Prayer"" and ""God Bless America."" --Alan Gale (comedian) - jokes about politics, sports, modern conviences, supermarkets, banks --Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara (comedy team) - a couple starts arguing following their dinner party. --The Angels - ""My Boyfriend's Back""
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#3 - Lesley Gore / Tony Bennett / Frank Gorshin
Season 17 Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/1963
Guests (confirmed): --Lesley Gore - ""It's My Party""/""She's A Fool"" medley --Szony & Claire (dancers) --The Baranton Sisters (foot jugglers) --Mr. Pastry (comedian Richard Hearn) - Ed participates in a sketch about various dances. --Tony Bennett - ""The Moment Of Truth"" & ""Don't Wait Too Long "" --Frank Gorshin (impressionist) - does his classic ""Actors in Heaven"" routine Additional guests (scheduled to appear): --Bob & Ray (comedy team) - doing a collection of satiric sketches titled ""What's Going on Here?"" --Jonathan Miller & Peter Cook (from the Broadway play ""Beyond the Fringe."") --Danny Meehan (singer-dancer) --John Bird (from the off-Broadway play ""The Establishment"") --Pat Henry (comedian) --Peter Duchin (pianist) --Mac Ronay (pantomimist) ""What's Going On Here?"" - Some of the comedians on this show were to appear in a satire of current news titled ""What's Going On Here?""
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#4 - Scheduled: Cliff Richard; Eydie Gorme
Season 17 Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/1963
Scheduled guests: --Cliff Richard (singer) - ""Stranger In Town"" & ""Some of These Days"" --Eydie Gorme (singer) --the Kessler Twins (singing & dancing team) --Dave Madden (comedian) --Shirley Verrett (opera singer) --Topo Gigio (Italian mouse puppet) --Vic Grecco & Fred Willard (comedy team) --The Four Saints (comedy-instrumental group) - ""Tonight""
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#5 - Moscow State Circus
Season 17 Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/1963
The Moscow State Circus are a group of Animals, Acrobats, Jugglers, Clowns, Daredevils, High Wire Act, Dog Act, Trapeze Act & The Cannonball.
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- 8.7/1027 votes
#6 - Richard Burton / Morecombe & Wise / Arthur Worsley
Season 17 Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/1963
Guests: --Richard Burton - recites Dylan Thomas & does bar bit with drunken observations. --Arthur Worsley (British ventriloquist, his dummy does all the talking) --Dave Madden (comedian) --Morecombe And Wise (comedy team) --The Calicoats - ""Blues Away,"" ""Somebody Loves You,"" and ""Have A Happy Day"" --Topo Gigio --Cinco Brutos (comedy-singing group) - ""Little Darling"" & ""Addio"" --The Augsberg (Augspurg?) Jungle Wonders (monkey/baboon act with trainer doing a tea party bit)
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#7 - scheduled: The Jane Russell, Connie Haines and Beryl Davis trio; Allen & Rossi
Season 17 Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1963
Scheduled guests: --The Jane Russell, Connie Haines and Beryl Davis trio --Shelley Berman --Allen and Rossi (comedy team) --Dennis Spicer (British ventriloquist) --the West Point Cadet Glee Club --Dick Contino (accordian player) --Teri Throton (singer) --Baby Opal and Baby Kay (elephant act)
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- 7.2/1012 votes
#8 - scheduled: Tommy Sands & Nancy Sinatra; Robert Horton
Season 17 Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/1963
Scheduled guests: --Tommy Sands and Nancy Sinatra - ""Old Straw Hat"" & ""Hey Good Lookin'"" --Robert Horton --Kim Sisters & Kim Brothers --The New Sounds (vocal group) --Bob Lewis (comedian) --Nieman Brothers (acrobats) --Davis & Reese (comedy team)
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#9 - The Obratsov Russian Puppet Theatre
Season 17 Episode 9 - Aired 12/1/1963
The Obratsov Russian Puppet Theatre --Ed dedicated the entire hour show to the Obratsov Russian Puppet Theatre. The puppet act, led by Sergei Obratsov, specialized in satire. --The show was divided into different puppet acts: ""The Coloratura Soprano""; ""The Tango""; ""The Wunderkind,"" ""The Gypsies"" from the Forests of Transcaucsia; ""The Performing Animals""; ""The Illusionist""; ""The Tap Dancers"" and ""Jazz Singer and her Combo."" --This show was taped in November 1963 at the conclusion of the troupe's Broadway engagement, a part of the American-Soviet cultural exchange.
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#10 - Ginger Rogers / Burt Lanchester (on film)
Season 17 Episode 10 - Aired 12/8/1963
Guests: --Ginger Rogers - ""Something's Gotta Give"" & ""They Can't Take That Away from Me"" --Burt Lanchester (on film, interview & film clip from ""The Train"") --Sophie Tucker - ""So Much to Do"" --Buddy Greco - ""The Most Beautiful Girl in the World"" & ""In Other Words"" --Topo Gigio (mouse puppet) --Jan Murray (comedian) --Georgie Kaye (comedian) --Vic Greco & Fred Willard (comedy team) --Los Chevales de Espana (a.k.a. The Kids from Spain, singers & dancers)
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#11 - Burt Lancaster / Al Hirt / Milton Berle / Georgia Brown
Season 17 Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/1963
Guests: --Burt Lancaster (actor) --Al Hirt - ""Java"" & ""Man with a Horn"" --Milton Berle (comedian) - running gag: keeps interrupting Ed throughout show --Milton Berle - pays tribute to the ""unsung heroes who work in dept. stores all over the country, the shipping clerks "" --Georgia Brown - ""I've Got Plenty Of Nothing"" & ""I'll Walk Alone"" --The Amin Brothers (foot jugglers, Milton Berle gets into the act) --Audience bows: Joe Morrison; John Chandler; Y. A. Tittle; Herman Levin (producer of ""My Fair Lady"") Additional guests (scheduled to appear): --Walter Dare Wahl (comedian) --Emmett Oldfield (comedian)
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#12 - scheduled: Buster Keaton; Teresa Brewer; Tessie O'Shea
Season 17 Episode 12 - Aired 12/22/1963
Scheduled guests: --Buster Keaton --John Huston (director) --Teresa Brewer --George Kirby --Tessie O'Shea --Frank Ifield (British singer) --The Burke Family Singers --Paul Dooley and Dick Liberti (comedians) --Rene Lavand (one-armed magician) --Topo Gigio (Italian mouse puppet) --Hugh Forgie (ice skater)
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#13 - Hank Williams Jr. / Janet Blair / cast of Twice Over Nightly
Season 17 Episode 13 - Aired 12/29/1963
Guests: --Hank Williams, Jr. - ""On The Bayou,"" ""Your Cheatin Heart"" & ""Lonesome Blues"" (and possibly ""Cold, Cold, Heart"") --Janet Blair (singer) - ""Some People"" --Audience bow: Otto Preminger --Billy Reed (novelty act) - plays ""I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover"" on dinnerwear. He keeps playing as the china breaks apart. --The Maxwells (2-man pantomime & balancing act) - one man balances wicker boxes on his feet while the other climbs atop the boxes. --Jerry Vale - medley of Italian songs including ""O Solo Mio"" Other guests (scheduled to appear): --cast of ""Twice Over Nightly"" --The Kim Sisters
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#14 - Count Basie Orchestra / Keely Smith / Sister Sourie (Singing Nun)
Season 17 Episode 14 - Aired 1/5/1964
Guests: --The Singing Nun (Sister Sourire) - ""Hallelujah,"" ""Dominique,"" & ""Les Piedes des Missionaires"" (performance filmed in Waterloo, Belgium) --Count Basie Orchestra - ""One O'Clock Jump"" --Kelly Smith - ""Let Me Call You Sweetheart"" & ""Bill"" (with the Count Basie Orchestra) --Count Basie Orchestra & Keely Smith - ""Won't You Come Back, Count Basie"" --Jane Powell - song & dance number, and movie medley: ""Wonderful Day,"" ""Too Late Now"" & ""A Most Unusual Day."" --Johnny Hart (magician, does card tricks, silk tricks doves) --Dieter Tasso (juggler, balancing act) --Marcelo Spanish Ballet (Flamenco dance w/ male soloist)
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#15 - Connie Francis / Frank Sinatra, Jr. / Stiller & Meara
Season 17 Episode 15 - Aired 1/12/1964
Guests include: --Connie Francis - ""With A Song In My Heart,"" ""I Left My Heart In San Francisco,"" ""You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You"" & ""Al Di La"" --Frank Sinatra, Jr. - ""Second Time Around"" & ""Nancy"" (with the Dorsey Orchestra) --Tommy Dorsey Orchestra - ""Git It"" --Stiller & Meara (comedy team) --Helen Forrest - ""I've Heard That Song Before"" (with the Dorsey Orchestra) --The Pied Pipers - ""Look At Him Now"" (with the Dorsey Orchestra) --Con Conwally (sword balancing act)
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#16 - Bobby Vinton / Juliet Prowse / Pat Buttram
Season 17 Episode 16 - Aired 1/19/1964
--Bobby Vinton - medley: ""If You Knew Susie,"" ""When My Baby Smiles at Me"" and ""Yankee Doodle Dandy"" --Dick Alberts (or Albers - trampoline act) - does comic tumbling --Pat Buttram (comedian) - stand-up rural comedy --Juliet Prowse (dancer) - ""Lazy Afternoon with You,"" ""My Heart Belongs to Daddy"" and ""Tell All the World"" --Kate Smith - ""This Is All I Ask,"" ""Fine and Dandy"" and ""As Long As He Needs Me"" --Vic Grecco & Fred Willard (comedy team) - does a telephone act --Marvin Roy (magician act with female assistant) - pulls items out of hat & lightbulbs out of mouth.
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#17 - scheduled: Eddy Arnold; Van Heflin; Sidney Blackmer
Season 17 Episode 17 - Aired 1/26/1964
Scheduled guests: --Van Heflin and Sidney Blackmer (actors, scheduled to appear in a scene from their Broadway play ""A Case of Libel"" written by Henry Denker.) --Eddy Arnold (singer) --Carol Lawrence --Totie Fileds (comedian) --Shirley Verrett (soprano)
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#18 - Ella Fitzgerald / Sammy Davis Jr.
Season 17 Episode 18 - Aired 2/2/1964
Guests: --Ella Fitzgerald - ""Them There Eyes"" --Sammy Davis Jr. - ""Without A Song"" -- Sammy Davis Jr. & Ella Fitzgerald - ""S' Wonderful"" Other guests (scheduled to appear): --Modern Folk Quartet --Frank Gorshin (impressionist) --The Two Carmenas (balancing act)
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9.1/1074 votes#19 - Beatles (1st appearance) / Oliver Broadway cast
Season 17 Episode 19 - Aired 2/9/1964
Guests include: --The Beatles (first appearance): All My Lovin,'Til There Was You, She Loves You, I Saw Her Standing There and I Wanna Hold Your Hand. --Davy Jones (pre-Monkees, appearing with Georgia Brown & the Broadway cast of 'Oliver'): I'd Do Anything --Georgia Brown: As Long As He Needs Me (with 2 children from the Broadway cast of 'Oliver') --Frank Gorshin (comedian) --Tessie O'Shea (singer, from Broadway's 'The Girl Who Came To Supper') - medley of show tunes --Mitzi McCall & Charlie Brill (comedy team)
Director: Tim Kiley
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8.3/1035 votes#20 - Beatles (2nd appearance) / Mitzi Gaynor
Season 17 Episode 20 - Aired 2/16/1964
--The Beatles (2nd appearance): She Loves You, This Boy, All My Lovin', I Saw Her Standing There, From Me to You and I Want to Hold Your Hand --Audience bows: Sunny Liston & and Joe Louis (boxers) --Allen & Rossi (comedy team) - boxing sketch --Steve Rossi sings Strike Up the Band --Mitzi Gaynor (with 4 male dancers who also sing backup): Too Darn Hot, The More I See You and a blues medley: Birth of the Blues, St. James Infirmary,When the Saints Go Marching In, Shadrach, Mescach, Obendigo, Joshua Fit The Battle of Jericho & When the Saints Go Marching In (reprise). [Note: Shadrach, Mescach, Obendigo is missing from the DVD release.] --On tape: from Hialeah Race Track. Ed, with Seminole Indian family, introduces the Nerveless Nocks. --Nerveless Nocks (four male sway pole acrobats) - group performs outside (on tape at Hialeah Race Track) --Myron Cohen (stand-up comedian) --The Valanti's (comedic unicyclists) - not on DVD
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8.3/1033 votes#21 - Beatles (3rd appearance) / Cab Calloway
Season 17 Episode 21 - Aired 2/23/1964
--The Beatles (3rd appearance): Twist and Shout, Please Please Me and I Want to Hold Your Hand (Pre-recorded Beatles segments, taped 9 Feb 1964, inserted into a live show.) --Gloria Bleezarde - sings Safety in Numbers --Pinky & Perky (marionettes) --Morecambe & Wise (comedy team) - routine about genuine Louis XIV brandy glasses --Acker Bilk (clarinet player): Acker's Lacquer --Gordon & Sheila MacRae (musical-comedy entertainers) - in a parody of The Gary Moore Show, the duo do celebrity impressions. --Dave Barry (comedian) - comedy monologue about children; sings a parody of Sonny Boy. --Cab Calloway - St. James Infirmary & Old Man River --Morty Gunty (comedian) - comedy monologue
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#22 - George Raft / Jack Carter / John Byner
Season 17 Episode 22 - Aired 3/1/1964
Guests: --George Raft (Hollywood star) - scheduled to appear in a tango sequence with the Hugh Lambert dancers --Jack Carter (comedian) - routine includes jokes about the Beatles --John Byner (comedian making his first TV appearance) Additional guests (scheduled to appear): --Anita Bryant (singer) --Rickie Layne and Velvel (ventriloquist act) --Julius Monk's ""Baker's Dozen"" (revue troupe, scheduled to appear in 2 comedy sketches)
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- 7.2/1013 votes
#23 - Dave Clark Five / A Salute to American Composers
Season 17 Episode 23 - Aired 3/8/1964
Dave Clark Five - ""Glad All Over"" ""A Salute to American Composers"" --Jerry Vale - ""Ah, Sweet Mystery"" & ""You Can't Take That Away from Me"" --Florence Henderson - ""I Get A Kick Out of You"" & ""Wonderful Guy"" --Ed Sullivan talks with Ira Gershwin. --Steve Lawrence - ""A Room Without Windows, A Room Without Doors"" & ""Gigi"" --Harry Ruby (piano medley) --Phil Silvers & Saul Chaplin - ""Old Man River"" sketch --Juliet Prowse (dancer) - dances to ""Black Bottom"" & ""The Peabody"" --Blossom Seeley - ""I Love A Medley"" Piano medley with five ASCAP composers: Jimmy McHugh (""Sunny Side of the Street""); Arthur Freed (""Singing in the Rain""); Grace Kahn & Donald Kahn (""It Had to be You"" & ""Ain't We Got Fun""); Sammy Fain (""Love Is A Many Splendored Thing"").
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#24 - Dave Clark Five / Peter O'Toole / Jack Jones
Season 17 Episode 24 - Aired 3/15/1964
--Dave Clark Five - ""Do You Love Me,"" ""Bits and Pieces"" and ""Glad All Over"" Other guests: --Peter O'Toole (actor) - interview, sings ""When Irish Eyes Are Smiling"" with Ed Sullivan. --Jack Jones (singer) - ""Rosalie"" & ""Call Me Irresponsible"" --Topo Gigio (Italian mouse puppet) --Pat O'Brian (comedian) --Jackie Vernon (comedian) --Carmel Quinn (medley Of Irish songs) --The Volantes (unicycle balancing act) - rides a unicycle in theatre aisle and plays an accordian while on unicycle on table --The Augsberg Jungle Wonders (trained monkey act)
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#25 - Bobby Vinton / Van Johnson / The Ladybugs
Season 17 Episode 25 - Aired 3/22/1964
Guests: --Van Johnson - ""Just One of Those Things"" & ""I'm A Ham"" --Bobby Vinton - ""My Heart Belongs to Only You"" --The Ladybugs - ""I Saw Him Standing There."" The Ladybugs were Jeannine Riley, Pat Woodell and Linda Kaye Henning (from ""Petticoat Junction"") & Sheila James (formerly of ""Dobie Gillis""). --Totie Fields (comedian) --George Kirby (comedian-impressionist) --Brooks Sisters - ""Brooks' Boogie"" --The South African dancers (from the Alan Paton-Krishna Shaw play ""Sponono"") --Topo Gigio (Italian mouse puppet) - ""Topo's Birthday"" CBS repeated this show on Aug. 9, 1964.
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The Best Episodes of The Ed Sullivan Show Season 17
Every episode of The Ed Sullivan Show Season 17 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Ed Sullivan Show Season 17!
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971,...
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Season 17 Ratings Summary
"Jimmy Durante / Frank Sinatra Jr. / Pied Pipers" is the best rated episode of "The Ed Sullivan Show" season 17. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/29/1963. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Dick Dale / The Angels / Totie Fields".