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The Best Episodes of The Johnny Carson Show Season 1

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The Best Episodes of The Johnny Carson Show Season 1

While working as a staff writer on The Red Skelton Show, local Los Angeles television comedian Carson filled in as host when Skelton was injured...
  1. 7.2/10(11 votes)

    #1 - James Arness

    S1:E11

    James Arness visits the show to promote his new series, Gunsmoke, Jack Albertson appears in a grocery store sketch and Johnny plays Colonel John J. Carson in a military sketch.

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    #2 - Dillinger, The Mental Wizard

    S1:E10

    Johnny plays Dillinger, The Mental Wizard, in a parody of Joseph Dunniger, the famous mind reader (This sketch is the early inspiration for Carson's most famous character from his Tonight Show years, Carnac The Magnificent). Another sketch finds Johnny playing tourist in Paris; we also get an idea of what might happen to your television reception near an airport.

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    #3 - Catch Up With the News

    S1:E1

    In the series premiere, Johnny imitates Edward R. Murrow in a spoof of Murrow's Person to Person program featuring Johnny's first wife Jody and their three children. In Catch Up With the News, Johnny plays a roving reporter.

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    #4 - Goldilocks and the Three Bears

    S1:E4

    Johnny imitates Walter Cronkite, takes a look at the pitfalls of marriage, and parodies Goldilocks And The Three Bears and You Are There.

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    #5 - Life in the 80's

    S1:E9

    Sketches include a spoof of the Russian ballet, Catch Up With The News and a 1950s-style look at the future, as Johnny imagines what life will be like in 1980.

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    #6 - Jack Albertson

    S1:E16

    Johnny takes care of unfinished business; Jack Albertson appears in sketches about Johnny's fan club and bachelor life. Then Johnny plays violinist Yasha Carson.

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    #7 - Dimitri Tiomkin

    S1:E19

    Legendary movie composer Dimitri Tiomkin appears in the Johnny's Record Collection sketch. Then Johnny salutes old time Vaudeville, and stars in an epic Greek-Trojan war sketch.

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    #8 - Ed Sullivan Impersonation

    S1:E20

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    #9 - Stay-at-Home Husband

    S1:E25

    Johnny plays a stay-at-home husband whose wife has a very unusual job. Other sketches include the Giveaway Pet Parade, a precursor to the numerous segments Johnny would do with animals later in his career, and a look at what the detective show Dragnet might have been like during the time of Alexander the Great.

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"James Arness" is the best rated episode of "The Johnny Carson Show" season 1. It scored 7.2/10 based on 11 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/8/1955. This episode is rated 1.0 points higher than the second-best, "Dillinger, The Mental Wizard".