NaN/100 votes#1 - Young Rascals / Petula Clark / Red Skelton
Season 21 Episode 1 - Aired 9/10/1967
Guests: --The Young Rascals - ""Groovin',"" ""A Girl Like You"" & ""How Can I Be Sure?"" --Petula Clark - ""I'll be Loving You Eternally"" & medley: ""Who Am I?"" ""Don't Sleep in the Subway"" & ""Cat in the Window"" --Red Skelton (stand-up routine) --Eddie Fisher - ""Mame"" & ""That Face"" (Buddy Hackett cameo on 2nd song) --Buddy Hackett (comedian) - does a Chinese waiter routine --The Great Carazini (comedian) Audience bows: Walter Winchell; Jerry Vale
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#2 - The Doors / Yul Brynner / Rodney Dangerfield
Season 21 Episode 2 - Aired 9/17/1967
Guests: --The Doors - ""People are Strange"" & ""Light My Fire"" --Yul Brynner (actor, appearing with a musician) - perform ""Two Guitars"" (from Brynner's album) --Flip Wilson (stand-up comedian) --Rodney Dangerfield (stand-up comedy) --Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme - ""That's Love,"" ""Come Back to Me"" & medley: ""Anything Goes,"" ""Love For Sale,"" ""I Get A Kick Out Of You,"" ""You Do Something To Me,"" ""I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair,"" ""Getting To Know You,"" ""Happy Talk"" & ""I've Got You Under My Skin"" --Eydie Gorme - ""Mame"" --Steve Lawrence - ""Too Fast, Too Soon"" --The Kessler Sisters (twins Alice & Ellen Kessler) - medley of Maurice Chevalier songs: ""Thank Heaven For Little Girls"" and ""Louise"" (A salute To Maurice Chevalier on his 79th birthday) --The Skating Bredos (from Sweeden) - man & woman speed skate in 6 ft. circle CBS repeated this show on 07-Jul-68.
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#3 - Mamas & the Papas / Florence Henderson / John Byner
Season 21 Episode 3 - Aired 9/24/1967
--The Mamas and the Papas - ""Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon)"" --The Mamas and the Papas (later in show) - medley: ""Monday, Monday,"" ""I Call Your Name"" & ""California Dreamin'."" --Florence Henderson (actress-singer) - medley from ""Sound of Music"": ""My Favorite Things,"" ""Climb Every Mountain,"" ""Do-Re-Mi"" & ""The Sound of Music"" --Ed Ames (actor-singer) - sings ""My Cup Runneth Over"" & ""When The Snow Is On the Roses"" --John Byner (comedian) --Jorgen and Conny (balancers, acrobats from Sweeden) --Topo Gigio (Italian mouse puppet) --Jack Carter (stand-up comedian) --Jean Claude (balancing act) --Audience bows: Ralph Pearl & Charlie McAddams (reporter & publisher of Las Vegas Sun) --Audience bows: Roberto Rossellini; Duane Hackney Please see ""Recap"" for more details.
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#4 - Nancy Sinatra / Peggy Lee / George Carlin
Season 21 Episode 4 - Aired 10/1/1967
Nancy Sinatra - ""Until It's Time for You to Go"" --Nancy Sinatra, Peggy Lee, & Sergio Franchi - medley including ""Just One of Those Days,"" ""Why Don't You Do Right,"" ""These Boots are Made for Walkin',"" ""Falling Leaves"" & ""M'Lord"" --Peggy Lee - ""I Feel It"" & ""The More I See You"" --Sergio Franchi - ""By Myself"" & ""Time Will Tell"" (in English & Italian) Other guests: --George Carlin (stand-up comedy: going to the movies, coming attractions) --Winners Of The 33rd Harvest Moon Ball --Gimma Brothers (comic acrobats, do tumbling wearing suits) --London Lee (stand-up comedian, tells jokes about show business) --Richiardi (magician) Audience bows: Ladies Auxiliary of the Polish Legion of Pine Island
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#5 - Jimmy Dean / Wayne & Shuster / Joan Rivers
Season 21 Episode 5 - Aired 10/8/1967
Guests: --Jimmy Dean - country medley: ""Any Time,"" ""Born To Lose,"" ""Oh Lonesome Me,"" ""I Can't Stop Loving You"" and ""Jambalaya (On the Bayou)"" --Jimmy Dean & Rowlf - Jimmy jokes with Muppet Rowlf (dog puppet) --Joan Rivers (stand-up comedy: A pregnant Joan jokes about what her mother did & didn't tell her & finding & renovating housing in New York) --The Muppets (hairy monster eats technical talking machine) Jim Hensen cameo --Lana Cantrell - ""Stairway to Paradise"" & ""When You Wish Upon A Star"" --Jack E. Leonard (insult comedian: bashes Ed, insults Japanese pianist, dancers, etc.) -- Wayne & Shuster (comedy team) --Young Americans - ""Let In The Sunshine"" (filmed at playground) --Young Americans - medley of Meridith Wilson's best works: ""May The Good Lord Bless & Keep You,"" ""Pick A Little, Talk A Little,"" ""Gary Indiana,"" ""'til There Was You"" & ""Trouble In River City"" --Audience bows: Israeli Soccer team; Nobel Sisel & Harold Arlen
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#6 - Lovin' Spoonful / Ethel Merman / David Frye
Season 21 Episode 6 - Aired 10/15/1967
Lovin' Spoonful - ""She's Still a Mystery"" & ""Only Pretty"" Other guests: --Ethel Merman - ""Riding High"" & ""This Is All I Ask"" --Sandler & Young (duo sings medley: ""Cabaret,"" ""76 Trombones,"" ""And The Band Played On..."") --David Frye (comedian doing impressions & political humor) --Tommy Cooper (comedian doing a bumbling magician act) --Corbett Monica (stand-up comedian) --Lado Dance Group (Traditional Yugoslav dance troupe doing the ""Bachelor's Dance"") Audience bows: Mrs. Lanza & Gov. Paul Laxalt; Lucera Tena (Flamenco dancer) Cameos: On stage at beginning of show: Lew Brock, Bob Gibson and Carl Yastremski (World Series Cardinals & Red Sox baseball players)
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#7 - Lulu / Eddie Fisher / McGuire Sisters / Norm Crosby
Season 21 Episode 7 - Aired 10/22/1967
Guests: --Lulu - ""To Sir With Love"" --Eddie Fisher - ""Let Me Sing And I'll Be Happy"" & ""If She Walked Into My Life"" --Stiller And Meara (sketch: man tries to tell his mother he's getting married) --Mike Douglas --The McGuire Sisters - ""One Kiss"" and French medley: ""Under Paris Skies,"" ""Dites Moi,"" ""Summer In Bordeaux,"" ""What Now My Love"" & ""Lucky Me"" --The McGuire Sisters - ""When the World Was Young"" and ""Free Again"" --Norm Crosby (stand-up comedy, routine: conservative youths vs. hippies) --Tommy Cooper (British comedian pretends to be a fumbling magician) --Ballet America (10 Couples In farm garb, not actually ballet) --Baby Opal (trained Elephant Act) --Audience bows: Fran Tarkenton; Hugh Lipsey; Josh Logan; Eli Wallach; Prince Mike Romonoff
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#8 - The Cowsills / Polly Bergen / Don Ameche
Season 21 Episode 8 - Aired 10/29/1967
--The Cowsills - ""The Rain, the Park & Other Things"" & medley (""Monday, Monday,"" ""Sweet Taking Guy,"" ""Lonesome Me,"" ""Please Mr. Postman"" & ""Reach Out"") --Polly Bergen (""Once In A Lifetime"" & ""What The World Needs Now"") --Senor Wences (ventriloquist, various puppets) --Peter Nero (pianist with orchestra, ""Fiddler On The Roof"") --Myron Cohen (stand-up comedy) --Lou Alexander (stand-up routine: violence in fairy tales, contact lenses) --Noucha Doina (violinist with trio) --Peter Gennaro (dance segment, Halloween dance). --Scenes from ""Henry Sweet Henry"": Don Ameche playing a scene & Alice Playton singing ""Poor Little Person"" Audience Bows: Paul Ford (Broadway star); Camille Bonano (""Miss By-Line"")
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#9 - Shirley Bassey / Tony Bennett / Woody Herman Orchestra
Season 21 Episode 9 - Aired 11/5/1967
--Shirley Bassey - ""Don't Rain On My Parade"" & ""On A Clear Day"" --Tony Bennett - ""Broadway,"" ""Who Can I Turn To,"" ""Moment Of Truth"" and ""For Once In My Life"" --The Woody Herman Orchestra - ""Boogaloo"" Additional guests (scheduled): --Rodney Dangerfield --Totie Fields --Allen & Rossi
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#10 - The Turtles / Johnny Mathis / Joan Rivers
Season 21 Episode 10 - Aired 11/12/1967
--The Turtles - ""Happy Together"" & ""She's My Girl"" Complete show: --Lana Cantrell - ""Yes Sir, That's My Baby"" --Joan Rivers (stand-up comedian) - tells jokes about being pregnant. --NY Harkness Ballet Co. - Spanish theme ballet --Gustafsons (magic act) - man & woman do a magic act using candles and scarves, and make things disappear. --Victor Lundberg - recites "" An Open Letter to My Teenage Son"" (a message to America's youth regarding the war in Vietnam) --Johnny Mathis - ""Sleigh Ride"" & ""Up-Up, and Away"" --Richard Hearne (British comedian) - dances and does pantomime --Audience bows: Johnny Weissmuller & Buster Crabbe --The Turtles - ""Happy Together"" & ""She's My Girl"" --Lana Cantrell - ""Love Is Stronger Far Than We"" --Shelley Berman (comedian) - tells jokes about embarrassing moments
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#11 - The Supremes / The Temptations / Flip Wilson
Season 21 Episode 11 - Aired 11/19/1967
--The Supremes - ""In & Out of Love,"" ""Thou Swell"" & ""Greensleeves"" --The Temptations - ""Hello Young Lovers"" & ""Don't Look Back"" --The Temptations & the Supremes (medley of each other's hits: Supremes – ""Get Ready,"" Temptations – ""Stop in the Name of Love,"" The Supremes – ""My Girl"" & Temptations – ""Baby Love"") --The Supremes & the Temptations - ""I Know I'm Losing You"" Other guests: --Flip Wilson (stand-up) --Kessler Twins (dressed as dance hall girls) - ""The Band Played On"" & ""Covers of the Police Gazette"" --Fernando Pasqualone (trumpet player) --Lewis & Christy (stand-up comedians) --Ivan & Astor (dance team) - apache dancers throw each other around --Audience bows: George Hamilton; William E. Galbraith --On film: a clip from the movie ""Dr. Doolittle"" with Rex Harrison singing ""Talk to the Animals""
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#12 - The Beatles (on film) / Connie Francis / Al Hirt
Season 21 Episode 12 - Aired 11/26/1967
Guests: --The Beatles (on film) - ""Hello Goodbye"" promo --Connie Francis - ""Going Out Of My Head,"" ""Sunny"" & ""Impossible Dream"" --Al Hirt - ""Young Man with a Horn,"" ""The Happening"" & ""I Can't Get Started"" --Jane Morgan, Al Hirt, Doodletown Pipers - ""It Takes All Kinds Of Music,"" ""What'd I Say?"" & ""South Rampart Street Parade"" --John Byner (stand-up comedy) --Jane Morgan (singer) - ""Meditation"" & a medley of Edith Piaf songs --Doodletown Pipers (singers) - ""Rhythm of Life"" & a medley of rock 'n' roll songs --Morecambe & Wise (comedy team, trying to learn ventriloquism) Audience bows: Billy Rowe; Father Payton
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#13 - Ray Charles & Billy Preston / Bill Dana
Season 21 Episode 13 - Aired 12/3/1967
--Start of show --Ray Charles & Billy Preston - ""Double-O-Soul"" Commercials: Hai Karate; Pacquin Hand Cream --Ray Charles with Billy Preston (on organ) and the Raelettes - ""Yesterday"" & ""What'd I Say? Commercials: Lemon Pledge; Bravo Floor Wax --Jackie Kahane (comedian) - stand-up monologue (Re: NYC, bus & air travel) Commercial: Pepto Bismol --Frankie Fanelli (singer) - ""All I Ask"" --The Megners (balancing trio act from Poland) Commercial: Wind Song perfume; Ponds --Bill Dana (comedian) in character as Jose Jimenez, an Olympic athlete planning to participate in the '68 Olympics, interviewed by Ed. --The Blue Comets - ""Gagaku"" & ""Blue Chateau"" (Japanese Surf/psych band) --Audience bow: David Merrick --Carol Lawrence and Gordon MacRae (on film) - ""I Do! I Do!,"" ""I Love My Wife"" & ""My Cup Runneth Over"" (songs from the Broadway play ""I Do! I Do!"") Commercials: Nabisco Frozen Cookies; Nabisco Team Flakes Commercial --Grand Music Hall of Israel (musical
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#14 - 20th Anniversary Show: Gwen Verdon; Pearl Bailey; Robert Merrill
Season 21 Episode 14 - Aired 12/10/1967
Guests (20th Year Anniversary Show): --Pearl Bailey - ""Before The Parade Passes By"" with the ""Hello Dolly"" cast --Gwen Verdon - ""Nothing Can Stop Me Now"" --Alan King (stand-up comedian) --John V. Lindsay (NYC mayor) --Wayne & Shuster (comedy team) --Robert Merrill - ""Di Provenza"" --Los Ninos Contores De Murialdo (Cantores?) - ""Glory, Glory Hallelujah"" --The Emerald City pipe band of NYC's Police & Fire Dept. On this show, CBS renamed the theater ""The Ed Sullivan Theater."" NYC mayor John V. Lindsay officiated the unveiling of the theater's new marquee.
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#15 - Spanky & Our Gang / Richard Pryor / Patti Page
Season 21 Episode 15 - Aired 12/17/1967
Guests: --Spanky and Our Gang - ""Lazy Day"" & ""Sunday Morning"" --Patti Page - sings ""Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You"" & recites ""Child's Christmas Prayer"" --Richard Pryor --Joel Grey (railroad song medley) --Stiller & Meara (comedy team) --Topo Gigio --David Frye (comedian) --The Kim Sisters - ""Thoroughly Modern Millie"" --The Berlin Mozart Choir (thirty singers perform)
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#16 - The Cowsills / Bobbie Gentry / George Carlin / Arthur Godfrey
Season 21 Episode 16 - Aired 12/24/1967
Guests: --The Cowsills - ""We Can Fly"" & Christmas song medley --Bobbie Gentry - ""Niki Hookey"" & ""I Wonder as I Wonder"" --George Carlin (stand-up comedy) --Arthur Godfrey & the Muppets - ""It's Christmas Tomorrow"" --Arthur Godfrey - ""The Secret Of Christmas"" --Peter Gennaro - ""What The World Needs Now"" --Gilbert Price - ""For Once In My Lifetime"" --The Little Angels Of Korea (play drums and dance with ribbons)
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- 7.0/1012 votes
#17 - Jay & the Techniques / Buddy Rich / Miriam Makeba
Season 21 Episode 17 - Aired 12/31/1967
--Jay and the Techniques - ""Keep the Ball Rolling"" --Miriam Makeba (singer from South Africa) - ""Pata Pata"" --Buddy Rich and his orchestra - ""Norwegian Wood"" (instrumental version of Beatles' song) --George Kirby (comedian) - celebrity impressions --Montego (sword balancer) - balances swords, juggles torches, tricycle tricks, etc. --Gianna D'Angelo - ""Una voce poca fa"" --Topo Gigio (Italian mouse puppet) Additional guests (scheduled to appear): --Rodney Dangerfield --Vikki Carr (singer) - ""It Must Be Him""
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#18 - Dionne Warwick / Norm Crosby / Morecambe & Wise
Season 21 Episode 18 - Aired 1/7/1968
Guests: --Dionne Warwick - ""I Say a Little Prayer"" & ""Battle Hymn of the Republic"" --The Young Americans - American medley (""Spoonful Of Sugar,"" ""Back In the Old Routine,"" ""Green Sleeves"" & ""Raindrops"") --Norm Crosby (stand-up comedy) --Julia Mead - ""Come Back To Me"" --Morecambe and Wise (British comedy team) --Sandler and Young - sing ""Boom Boom,"" ""Sunshine Days"" & ""Harmonize"" --Rasha And Tiby (dancers, Apache ballroom duo) --Ninon (Linon?) (clown, tightrope act). --Audience bows: Elsa Lanchester; Earl Wilson Jr.
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#19 - Vanilla Fudge / scheduled: Duke Ellington; Flip Wilson
Season 21 Episode 19 - Aired 1/14/1968
Vanilla Fudge - ""You Keep Me Hangin' On"" Other guests (scheduled): --Duke Ellington --Tammy Grimes --Buddy Greco --Flip Wilson --Davis & Reese
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#20 - Johnny Mathis / Melvyn Douglas / Pert Kelton
Season 21 Episode 20 - Aired 1/21/1968
Guests: --Johnny Mathis - ""Get Out of Town"" & ""At the Crossroads"" --Melvyn Douglas and Pert Kelton (actors) - appear in a comic scene from the Broadway play ""Spofford."" --John Byner (comedian) --Lana Cantrell - ""On the Good Ship Lollipop"" & ""Shadows of Our Love"" --Jack E. Leonard (comedian) --The Pickle Brothers (comedians) --Edward Villella and Patricia McBride (of the New York City Ballet) - perform a pas de deux from Asafieff's ""Flames of Paris"" Scheduled guests: --The Buckinghams - ""Susan"" & ""What Is Love"" (please see Notes below.) CBS repeated this episode on 01-Sep-1968. The Buckinghams were not listed on the repeat.
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#21 - scheduled: Fifth Dimension; Al Martino; Nancy Ames
Season 21 Episode 21 - Aired 1/28/1968
Scheduled guests: --The 5th Dimension - ""Up Up and Away,"" ""Carpet Man"" & ""Shake Your Tambourine"" --Al Martino --Nancy Ames - ""Can't Buy Me Love"" & ""What the World Needs Now Is Love"" --Carol Lawrence - ""What Is a Woman?"" & ""Stairway to Paradise"" --Wayne and Shuster (comedy team) --Corbett Monica (comedian) --Bob Bramson (hoop juggler) --The Trio Rennos (pole balancing act)
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#22 - scheduled: Michele Lee; Stiller & Meara; Morecombe & Wise; Stu Gilliam
Season 21 Episode 22 - Aired 2/4/1968
Scheduled guests: --Michele Lee (singer-actress) --Stiller & Meara (comedy team) --Jackie Vernon (comedian) --Sergio Franchi (opera singer) --Regina Resnik (opera singer) --Morecombe & Wise (comedy team) --Stu Gilliam (comedian) --Peter Gennaro (dancer) --Gil and Freddie Lavedo (acrobats)
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#23 - Vincent Price / Eddie Albert / Lennon Sisters
Season 21 Episode 23 - Aired 2/11/1968
Guests: --Vincent Price --Eddie Albert (actor, performs a dramatic reading about Abraham Lincoln) --Morey Amsterdam --Totie Fields --Patricia Routledge (actress) - sings ""Not On Your Nellie"" --Roberta Peters (soprano) - ""Shadow Song"" (from Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera ""Dinorah"") --The Lennon Sisters - ""California Dreamin'"" & ""Where Are the Words?"" --Hendra & Ullett (comedy team) --Jimmy Nelson (ventriloquist) --Vaughn Bullivant (water-skier, on film?) --Les Dollies (unicycle act)
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#24 - scheduled: Bobbie Gentry; George Chakiris; Jane Powell; Paul Mauriat
Season 21 Episode 24 - Aired 2/18/1968
Scheduled guests: --Jane Powell --Bobbie Gentry --George Chakiris - ""West Side Story"" medley --Rodney Dangerfield --Paul Mauriat (pianist) - ""Love Is Blue"" --Will Jordan (comedian) --Franco Corelli (singer) --Jim Henson's Muppets
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#25 - Gladys Knight & the Pips / Jackie Mason / Dinah Shore
Season 21 Episode 25 - Aired 2/25/1968
--Gladys Knight & the Pips - medley (""The End of Our Road,"" ""And So Is Love"" and ""I Heard It Through the Grapevine"") --Dinah Shore - ""Oh, Lonesome Me,"" ""It's Over,"" ""Trains, Boats And Planes,"" and ""Oh, Lonesome Me"" (reprise). --Ed Ames - ""I Want To Be Free"" & ""Who Will Answer"" --Ed Ames and Dinah Shore - ""Sunrise, Sunset"" --Jackie Mason (stand-up comedy) --Ballet America (dancers perform to ""Mule Train"") --Andy Stewart (Scottish comedian wearing kilt - sings and does impression of Dean Martin) --The Bruskis (balancing act from Poland) Audience bows: Governor Stan Hathaway; Jane Morgan; Tony Bennett; Sheila Davis
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The Best Episodes of The Ed Sullivan Show Season 21
Every episode of The Ed Sullivan Show Season 21 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Ed Sullivan Show Season 21!
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 21 Ratings Summary
"Young Rascals / Petula Clark / Red Skelton" is the best rated episode of "The Ed Sullivan Show" season 21. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/10/1967. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "The Doors / Yul Brynner / Rodney Dangerfield".