NaN/100 votes#1 - Jefferson Airplane / Diana Ross & the Supremes / Red Skelton
Season 22 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1968
Guests include: --Jefferson Airplane - ""Crown of Creation,"" ""Won't You Try"" & ""Saturday Afternoon"" --Diana Ross & the Supremes - ""Funny Girl"" medley and ""Love Child"" --Red Skelton (comedy monologue) --Sergio Franchi & Virna Lisi (actors) - on film, Ed interviews the actors on location in Italy. (Franchi and Lisi were probably on the set of their film ""The Secret of Santa Vittoria"") --The Faraceenees (correct spelling?, acrobats)
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#2 - scheduled: Dionne Warwick; Tiny Tim; Tony Bennett
Season 22 Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/1968
Scheduled guests: --Dionne Warwick - ""Impossible Dream"" and ""Promises, Promises"" --Tony Bennett (performing with the Woody Herman Orchestra) --Woody Herman and orchestra --Tiny Tim - ""Hello, Hello,"" ""As Time Goes By"" and ""I Gave Her That"" --Flip Wilson --The Kessler Twins (dancing singers) - ""Lili Marlene"" --Goetchie (unicyclist) --The cast of ""You're A Good Man Charlie Brown"" perform two songs from the play - the title song and ""Happiness""
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#3 - The Beach Boys / Richard Pryor / Peter O'Toole
Season 22 Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/1968
--The Beach Boys - ""Do It Again"" & ""Good Vibrations"" --Start of show, opening titles --Ed talks with jockey Stanley Dancer, with million dollar racing horse Cardigan Bay. --Audience bows (cameos): Irving Rudd; Sugar Ray Robinson --Denny McLain Quartet (baseball player Denny, playing organ, with his combo) - ""Girl From Ipanema"" --Bob Gibson (baseball pitcher playing guitar) & the Denny McLain Quartet - instrumental song, unknown title --Audience bow: Mickey Lolich (1968 World Series pitching hero) --Richard Pryor (stand-up comedy) - re: ""being cool,"" personal grooming & hygene. --Jim Henson's Muppets - Muppets jump in & out of trash cans, scaring little girl. (At end of segment Jim Henson comes out and shakes hands with Ed.) --Sugar Ray Robinson - Ed asks Robinson on stage, asks Robinson his opinion about the greatest boxers. On film: ""Goodbye Mr. Chips"" film clip with Petula Clark & Peter O'Toole. Ed interviews Clark & O'Toole. Ed & O'Toole sing ""When Irish E
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#4 - The Fifth Dimension / Steve McQueen (on film) / Joan Rivers
Season 22 Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/1968
Guests: --The Fifth Dimension - ""Sweet Blindness"" --On film: Steve McQueen shown riding a motorcycle, short interview, clip from ""Bullet"" --David Frye (stand-up, impressions) --Joan Rivers (stand-up comedy) --Lana Cantrell (""Didn't We"") --The Piero Brothers (jugglers) --Sandler & Young (""Gonna Build A Mountain"") --A scene from ""Lovers & Other Strangers"" (with Richard Castelano, Ellen Verbit, and Bobby Alto). --Audience bows (cameos): Ed Ames, Grace Cahn, Martin Wolman, Ed King; Peter Yates, Carmine Santullo
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#5 - Mary Hopkin / Gary Lewis and the Playboys / George Carlin
Season 22 Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/1968
Guests: --Mary Hopkin - ""Morning of My Life"" & ""Those Were the Days"" --Gary Lewis and the Playboys - ""Main Street"" --George Carlin (comedian) --Helen Hayes (reads preface from her book) --Ed Ames (singer-actor) - sings a medley of love songs incl. ""Gentle On My Mind"" & ""The Look Of Love"" --The Doodletown Pipers --Kuban Cossacks (Cossack dancers) --Judge Dewey Markham & Pigmeat Markham (comedy sketch) --Audience bows: Don Rickles; Jerry Vale; Perle Mesta
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#6 - scheduled: Alan King, George Hamilton, Connie Francis, Stiller & Meara
Season 22 Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/1968
According to a November 1968 New York Times article, this episode was cancelled due to the AFTRA musicians' union strike. (With a re-run aired in its place.) However, a few Beatles websites mention that a clip from the Beatles' movie ""Yellow Submarine"" was shown on this date. The scheduled guests for this week were Connie Francis; Alan King; George Hamilton; Stiller & Meara; Peter Gennaro and The Antonettes (a teeterboard act).
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#7 - The Muppets
Season 22 Episode 7 - Aired 11/27/1968
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#8 - Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass / Engelbert Humperdinck / Tiny Tim
Season 22 Episode 8 - Aired 12/1/1968
Guests: --Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - ""My Favorite Things"" ""The Christmas Song"" --Tiny Tim - ""Great Balls of Fire,"" ""School Days,"" ""I'm Glad I'm A Boy"" and ""My Hero"" --Englebert Humperdinck - ""Les Bicyclettes De Belsize"" & ""Marry Me"" --Jack Carter (stand-up comedy) --Gloria Loring - ""Can't Take My Eyes Off You"" & ""I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"" --Peter Gennero (dancer) --Scoey Mitchell (comedian) --David Hemmings (actor) - recites a Dylan Thomas poem --Audience bows: Lou Brecker; Ann Margret; Gail Hunnicut
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#9 - Ray Charles / The Association / Richard Pryor
Season 22 Episode 9 - Aired 12/8/1968
Guests: --The Association - ""Never My Love"" & ""Along Comes Mary"" --Ray Charles - ""Marie,"" ""Eleanor Rigby"" (with Ray Block's Orchestra) & ""If It Weren't for Bad Luck"" --Liza Minnelli - ""Sweet Blindness"" & ""Simon"" --Richard Pryor (stand-up, jokes: childhood; school; God creating people; slaves; impersonates Richard Nixon) --Joan Sutherland --Jack E. Leonard (insult comedian) --The Veterans (Comic circus from Sweden; athletes try to vault) --Venezuelan Folk Ballet (colorfully costumed Venezuelans sing & dance) --Audience bow: Anna Maria Alberghetti
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#10 - Stevie Wonder / Brooklyn Bridge / Jane Morgan
Season 22 Episode 10 - Aired 12/15/1968
Guests: --Stevie Wonder - ""For Once in My Life,"" ""You Met Your Match"" & ""Alfie"" --Brooklyn Bridge - ""Worst That Could Happen"" --Norm Crosby (stand-up comedian) - tells jokes using fractured English --Rich Little (comedian-impressionist) - imitates George Burns, Jack Benny, Rochester, Ed Sullivan, etc. --Ed shows a 1951 film clip of Anna Maria Alberghetti --Anna Maria Alberghetti - ""Who Can I Turn To"" --Jane Morgan - ""It's Today"" (production number from ""Mame"") and ""We Need A Little Christmas"" (with ""Mame"" Broadway cast). --Edward Villella (ballet dancer) - pas de deux with Patricia McBride and solo dance. --Rossi & Ross (comedy team Steve Rossi & Joe E. Ross) - comedians doing impressions --Audience bows: Otto Preminger (movie producer), Jules Dassin (producer)
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#11 - The Vogues / Patti Page / Mike Douglas
Season 22 Episode 11 - Aired 12/22/1968
Guests: --The Vogues - medley (""Turn Around, Look At Me,"" ""You Are My Reason to Live"" & ""Till"") --The Muppets (reindeer discuss Christmas deliveries) --Flip Wilson (stand-up, jokes: Girl Scout cookies & Harold the Boy Scout routine) --Joe Namath & N. Y. Jets football players (celebrate win over Miami Dolphins, with film clips) --Bake Turner (of the New York Jets) - plays guitar & sings -- Stiller & Meara (stand-up routine: an interview with Mrs. Santa Claus) --Patti Page - ""Happy Birthday Little Jesus"" (poem read in child talk) --Mike Douglas & Patti Page - medley: ""It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas,"" ""My Cup Runneth Over"" & ""Little Green Apples"" --Mike Douglas - ""The Christmas Song"" --Lovelace Watkins - ""A Portrait Of My Love"" (operatic song) --Peter Gennaro (dancer) - ""Sleigh Ride"" --Marine Major David Althoff (highly decorated Marine)
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#12 - Eddie Albert / Sly and the Family Stone / Lainie Kazan
Season 22 Episode 12 - Aired 12/29/1968
Guests: --Lainie Kazan - ""The Trolley Song"" & ""How Can I Be Sure"" --George Kirby (stand-up comedy) --Earl Wilson Jr. - ""The Impossible Dream"" --Audience bow: Earl Wilson Sr. --The Jovers (balancing duo) --Your Father's Mustache - medley: ""Hello My Baby,"" ""Mame,"" and ""Take Me Out to the Ball Game"" --Audience bow: Lovelace Watkins --Eddie Albert - ""September Song"" --Sly and the Family Stone - medley: ""Everyday People,"" ""Dance to the Music,"" ""Ya Ya Ya,"" ""M'Lady"" & ""Hey Music Lover"" --Charlie Manna (stand-up comedian) - does comedy and sings ""Laura"" and ""Smile"" --Burger's Animals (trained animal act) - dogs box & jump rope. Dog and monkeys ride horses. Scheduled guests (scheduled to appear but not listed on transcript): --Judy Collins - ""Both Sides Now"" --Elias and Shaw (comedy team) --The Chung Trio
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#13 - Diana Ross & the Supremes / Johnny Mathis / Henry Mancini
Season 22 Episode 13 - Aired 1/5/1969
Guests: --Diana Ross & the Supremes - ""Love Child,"" ""I'm Living In Shame"" & ""I Get A Kick Out of You"" --Henry Mancini (with orchestra) - ""Conquest"" --Johnny Mathis - Latin medley and ""Moment to Moment"" --Johnny Mathis with Mancini's orchestra - Henry Mancini medley: ""Dear Heart,"" ""Days Of Wine & Roses"" & ""Moon River"" --Rodney Dangerfield (stand-up comedy) --Burns & Schreiber (stand-up comedians) - routine about machines. (Avery Schreiber acts like a machine complete with sound effects) --Peter Gennaro (dances to ""Strangers in the Night"") --Shani Wallis - ""I Can't Give You Anything But Love"" --Shani Wallis - ""As Long As He Needs Me"" (from "" Oliver"") --Rolan Brothers (balancing act) --Audience bows (cameos): Jack Lord; Jean Claude Killy (Olympic skier)
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#14 - The Chambers Brothers / Gina Lollobrigida / Don Rickles
Season 22 Episode 14 - Aired 1/12/1969
Live From Circus Circus in Las Vegas Guests: --The Chambers Brothers - medley: ""I Can't Turn You Loose,"" ""People Get Ready"" & ""Time Has Come Today"" --Gina Lollobrigida with dancers - ""Walking Happy"" (lyrics: ""The Kind Of Walk You Walk"") --Jerry Vale - ""Till"" & ""Those Were The Days"" --Don Rickles (stand-up comedian, running joke - Rickles keeps hassling Ed) --The Nitwits (comedy-instrumental group) --Joe Gerlac (high distance sponge diver) --Rudy Cardanez (juggler) --Ferazzini Chimps (animal act) --The Flying Alexanders (trapeze act & tightrope act) --The Cannastrellis (daredevil trampoline tumblers) --The Amazing Meckners (tumblers perform the double somersault) --Audience bows: Ella Fitzgerald; Harry James; Buddy Hackett; Abbe Lane; George Kirby; Jack Carter; Myron Cohen; Bill Miller; Jay Sarnow
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#15 - Gary Puckett & the Union Gap / Liza Minnelli / John Davidson
Season 22 Episode 15 - Aired 1/19/1969
Guests: --Gary Puckett & The Union Gap - ""Don't Make Promises"" & ""By The Time I Get To Phoenix"" --Liza Minnelli - ""Frank Mills"" --Victor The Bear - wrestles with a man and Ed in this segment. Ed gives the bear some ice cream and a drink out of a Coca Cola bottle after wrestling segment. Bear muzzled during wrestling segment --John Davidson - ""Didn't We"" & ""Somewhere"" --Shelly Berman (comedian) - plays a twanger --The Lennon Sisters - ""It's Today"" & "" Yesterday"" Other guests (scheduled to appear): --Wayne & Shuster --Scoey Mitchell
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#16 - Tommy James & the Shondells / George Hamilton / Shirley Bassey
Season 22 Episode 16 - Aired 1/26/1969
Guests: --Tommy James and the Shondells - ""Crimson & Clover"" & ""Mony, Mony"" --Shirley Bassey - ""Goin' Out of My Head"" (and possibly ""You Go To My Head"" & ""Something's Coming"") --George Hamilton - ""Act Naturally"" & ""This Guys In Love With You"" --The Green Machine - ""Stand Up and Be Counted"" (pop band made up of U. S. Marines) --Joe Namath (on videotape, sit down interview) --John Byner (stand-up comedian, does celebrity impressions) --Irwin C. Watson (stand-up comedian) --John Byner & Irwin Watson (give suggestions to Ed on how to call guests over for a bow) --Ballet America (Hoedown style dance routine) --Marvyn Roy (magician) --Audience bows: Elston & Arlene Howard; Luciene Fontaine; Sterling Moss (racecar driver)
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#17 - Vanilla Fudge / Temptations / James Earl Jones
Season 22 Episode 17 - Aired 2/2/1969
Guests: --Vanilla Fudge - ""Shotgun"" --The Temptations - ""The Best Things in Life Are Free,"" ""Runaway Child"" and medley (""Cloud Nine"" & ""I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"") --Sergio Franci - medley: ""Hava Nagila,"" ""If I Were A Rich Man"" (in English & Italian) --James Earl Jones (Jones & cast do a scene from ""The Great White Hope"") --Stiller & Meara (comedy team) --Jacques d'Amboise & Allegra Kent (from the New York City ballet) - ""Meditation"" from ""Thais"" pas de deux --Audience bows (cameos): Tina Louise; Carol Lawrence; Roslyn Kind (Barbra Streisand's Sister)
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#18 - scheduled: Leslie Uggams; Joan Rivers, Barbara Eden
Season 22 Episode 18 - Aired 2/9/1969
Scheduled guests: --Barbara Eden - ""Do You Know the Way to San Jose?"" --Leslie Uggams --Roslyn Kind --Joan Rivers --Bill Dana --Peter Gennaro --Schaller Brothers
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#19 - Blood, Sweat & Tears / Caterina Valente / Arthur Godfrey
Season 22 Episode 19 - Aired 2/16/1969
Guests: --Blood, Sweat & Tears - ""Smiling Phases"" (and possibly ""Spinning Wheel"") --Caterina Valente - ""Malaguena,"" ""The Look of Love"" and ""That Old Black Magic"" --Arthur Godfrey and the Young Americans - ""A Tall Oak Tree"" --The Young Americans - ""Georgy Girl,"" ""Tammy"" and ""Thoroughly Modern Millie"" --Rodney Dangerfield (comedian) --Eric Brenn (juggler) --Fiore & Eldridge (comedy team) --The Rios Brothers (balancing act)
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#20 - 5th Dimension / Harold Prince tribute / Herschel Bernardi
Season 22 Episode 20 - Aired 2/23/1969
Tribute to Harold Prince (theatrical director and producer) Songs from his productions: --Harry Goz sings ""Sunrise Sunset"" (from ""Fiddler on the Roof"") --Anita Gillette, Martin Ross and the ""Cabaret"" Broadway cast - ""Wilkommen"" --Herschel Bernardi - sings ""Life Is"" and performs the ""Mime Dance"" (with the ""Zorba"" cast) Other guests: --Dickie Henderson (comedian) --Audience Bow: US Air Force Col. Joe M. Jackson --Michele Lee - sings ""Steady Steady"" --Audience bows: Buddy Rogers & Bob Thomas --Glenn Yarbrough - ""When the Honey Wind Blows"" & ""Baby, the Rain Must Fall"" --Myron Cohen (comedian) --The Fifth Dimension - medley: ""What the World Needs Now"" & ""All You Need Is Love"" --The Fifth Dimension - ""California Soul""
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#21 - scheduled: Paul Anka; Checkmates; Alan King
Season 22 Episode 21 - Aired 3/2/1969
--Paul Anka - ""Goodnight My Love"" & ""It Only Takes A Moment"" --Checkmates Ltd. --Flip Wilson Other guests (scheduled): --Gwen Verdon --Alan King --Nancy Walker --Nancy Ames
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#22 - Creedence Clearwater Revival / The Association / Jeannie C. Riley
Season 22 Episode 22 - Aired 3/9/1969
Guests: --Creedence Clearwater Revival - ""Proud Mary"" & ""Good Golly Miss Molly"" --Jeannie C. Riley - medley: ""Harper Valley PTA"" & ""There Never Was a Time"" --The Association - ""Goodbye Columbus"" --Mickey Mantle (Ed interviews Mantle, who talks about his plans to retire from baseball) --Norm Crosby (comedian) --Greg Morris (actor, from ""Mission Impossible"") - sings/speaks ""For Once In My Life"" --Carol Lawrence - ""Startime"" --Will Jordan (comedian, does celebrity impressions) --Valente & Valente (juggling team) --The American Legion Drill Team from Chicago Audience bows (cameos): Pierre Gallent (author); John Gary
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#23 - Janis Joplin / Chet Atkins / Floyd Cramer & Boots Randolph
Season 22 Episode 23 - Aired 3/16/1969
Guests: --Janis Joplin - ""Raise Your Hand"" & ""Maybe, Maybe, Maybe"" --Boots Randolph (saxophonist) - ""Yakety Sax"" --Floyd Cramer (pianist) - ""On the Rebound"" --Chet Atkins (guitarist) - ""Autumn Leaves"" --Chet Atkins, Floyd Cramer and Boots Randolph - ""Rock a Bye Your Baby (with a Dixie Melody)"" --Ed Ames - ""If I Had A Hammer"" & ""Changing, Changing"" (possible 3rd song: ""Love"") --Honey Ltd. (four female singers) - ""At Long Last Love"" & ""R-E-S-P-E-C-T"" --Scoey Mitchell (stand-up comedian) --The United States Air Force Marching Band --The Carals (juggling-balancing act from Germany) - man with female assistant --Norm Neilson (magic act) --Barbara Joe Rubin (female jockey interviewed by Ed) --Audience bows: Buddy Hackett & his wife Sherry; Jerry Vale; Benny Friedman (University of Michigan 1925 All American star)
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#24 - Sly and the Family Stone / Dionne Warwick / George Burns
Season 22 Episode 24 - Aired 3/23/1969
Guests: --Sly and the Family Stone - ""Love City"" (and possibly ""Stand"") --Dionne Warwick - ""This Girl's in Love with You"" --Mason Williams - ""Classical Gas"" --Lana Cantrell - ""Don't Tell Mama"" (Broadway production number) & ""My Way"" --George Burns (stand-up comedy) --Jack Carter (stand-up comedian) --Phillip Waruinge (boxer from Kenya) --Pompoff & Thedy (comedy skit with bumbling classical musicians) --Joyce Cuoco (child ballet dancer) Audience bows: James Garner; Bill Gargan
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#25 - Cast of Hair / Peter Nero / Steve & Eydie
Season 22 Episode 25 - Aired 3/30/1969
Guests: --The cast of ""Hair"" - ""Aquarius""/""Let the Sun Shine In"" --Peter Nero - ""Mrs. Robinson"" (instrumental) --Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme --The Lennon Sisters - ""On A Clear Day"" --The Muppets --Charlie Callas (stand-up comedian) --Dickie Henderson (stand-up comedian) - does a Frank Sinatra imitation
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The Best Episodes of The Ed Sullivan Show Season 22
Every episode of The Ed Sullivan Show Season 22 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Ed Sullivan Show Season 22!
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 22 Ratings Summary
"Jefferson Airplane / Diana Ross & the Supremes / Red Skelton" is the best rated episode of "The Ed Sullivan Show" season 22. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/29/1968. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "scheduled: Dionne Warwick; Tiny Tim; Tony Bennett".