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Skits include unlikely endorsements putting Wally Cox in prison, Dane Clark in a bar fight and Vincent Price as a hit and run victim, and later, a gangster scene with Steve and Kim Novak with an educational bent. Jerry Lewis and Bob Hope make only cameos. Sammy Davis Jnr. does imitations and is seen with the Will Maston Trio.

Premier with guests Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis, Kim Novak, Vincent Price, Wally Cox, Sammy Davis, Jr.

Episode features include Elvis Presley, wearing a tuxedo and singing "Hound Dog" to a mournful basset hound; Andy Griffith explaining Shakespeare's Hamlet in a comedy monologue; Imogene Coca starring in a skit where she tries to tell her husband she's pregnant; Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme doing an opera spoof while wearing viking costumes and Imogene Coca, Andy Griffith and Elvis Presley doing a spoof of country music television programs.

Elvis Presley, Andy Griffith, Imogene Coca, Milton Berle, Steve Lawrence & Edye Gorme

Todays guests are Sammy Davis, Jr./Jack Palance/Don Adams/Margaret Truman.

Sammy Davis, Jr., Jack Palance, Vic Damone, Margaret Truman, Gogi Grant

Buddy Hackett, Count Basie & his Orchestra, The Four Lads

James Mason, Pamela Mason & Portland Mason, Rise Stevens & Jan Peerce, Roger Ray, Eddie Condon, Dayton Allen, Bambi Linn & Rod Alexander

Judy Holliday, Tony Bennett, Carmen Cavallaro, Louis Nye, Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five, The 321st National Military Drill Team

Frank Sinatra, Don Adams, Julius LaRosa, Mamie Van Doren, Eddie Lawrence, Augie & Margo

Buddy Hackett, Andy Williams, Jaye P. Morgan & the Morgan Brothers, Gregory Ratoff, The Ice Capades

Skits include Smith and Dale doing their "Still Alarm" routine, with Louis Nye,and Steve, Georgia Gibbs and Steve Lawrence do a takeoff on a 30's band remote.Fats Domino is presented a "Cashbox" magazine award.

Ann Sheridan, Fats Domino, Georgia Gibbs, Steve Lawrence, Smith & Dale

Andy Williams, Milt Kamen, Gogi Grant, The Will Mastin Trio (featuring Sammy Davis, Jr.), Marian Ann McKnight , The Baird Puppets

Billy Eckstine, Rin Tin Tin, Joni James, Professor Irwin Corey, Jose Molina, the Midwestern States Glee Club

Claudette Colbert, Mickey Rooney, Jerome Hines, Erin O'Brien, Joey Forman

Todays guests are Abbott and Costello/Kukla, Fran and Ollie/Mickey Mantle/Lionel Hampton/Peggy King/Milt Kamen.

Abbott & Costello, Kukla, Fran & Ollie, Peggy King, Lionel Hampton, Don Lamond, Louis Bellson Mrs. Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle

Tony Bennett, Doretta Morrow, Mel Torme, Frances Faye, Guy Madison, Kathryn & Arthur Murray

Peter Lawford, Frank Parker, The Harlem Globetrotters, Rocky Graziano, Olga James, Janik & Arnaut, cameo appearance by Julius LaRosa

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Alfred Drake, Erin O'Brien, T.C. Jones, Jim Henson & the Muppets, Rod Alexander Dancers, Les Brown & His Band of Renown

Jerry Lewis, Georgia Gibbs, Anita Ekberg, Anthony Steel, Buster Crabbe, cast members of "Jack and the Beanstalk"

Bob Hope, Duke Ellington & Orchestra, Gene Nelson, Betty Walker, Erin O'Brien, George Hamilton IV, Olsen & Johnson, World's Champion Women Boxers

Gene Autry, Jim Lowe, Betty Kean & Lew Parker, Floyd Patterson & Archie Moore, the Chicago Bears

Charlton Heston, Gypsy Rose Lee, Ethel Waters, Bobby Van, Don Newcombe, Floyd Patterson, Archie Moore, Vince Martin & The Tarriers

Anne Jeffreys & Robert Sterling, The Hi-Lo's, Bud Wilkinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, Betty Kean & Lew Parker

Martha Raye, Alan Young, the Collins Kids, Ricky Vera, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, the Vienna Boys Choir

Tony Bennett, Andy Griffith, the New York Rangers, live premiere of the motion picture "Around the World in 80 Days"

Errol Flynn, Polly Bergen, Guy Mitchell, Alan Young

Joe E. Brown, Julius La Rosa, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane, Rocky Graziano, Dorothy Miller ("Mrs. Miller", audience member)

Most of the show concerns a filmed Steve presenting the Critic's award to several stars, including 'Ingrid Bergman' and 'Kirk Douglas', along with some small talk interviews. These were shot at Sardi's restaurant in New York, probably when it was closed, due to the utter quietness.

New York Film Critics Awards

Pearl Bailey, Lilli Palmer, Don Adams, The Collins Kids, Steve Lawrence, Charles Van Doren

Season 2, Episode 18

Peter Lawford, Charles Van Doren, Lou Costello, Margaret Whiting, The Step Brothers

Frankie Laine, Alan Young, Martha Carson, Tab Hunter, Ken Rosewall, Pancho Gonzales, Jack Kramer, Pancho Segura

Yehudi Menuhin, Arlene Dahl, Aldo Ray, Robert Ryan, Brenda Lee, the Hilltoppers

Jerry Lewis, Martha Raye, Steve Lawrence, Diahann Carroll, Fernando Lamas

Greer Garson, Lou Costello, Dean Jones, Steve Peck, Janik & Arpaut, Howard McNear, Sandra Gould, Veola Vonn, The Lancers

Tennessee Ernie Ford, Peggy Lee, Johnny Mercer, Dinah Shore, Esther Williams, The Collins Kids

Salute to the All American Basketball Teams

Esther Williams, Eydie Gorme, Jackie Cooper, Stan Freberg, The Four Lads

Mickey Rooney, Eleanor Steber, Joey Forman, Betty Walker, Mickey & Sylvia, Jim Henson's Muppets

Brenda Lee, Don Adams, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane, Jack Carson, Peter Gennaro & Ellen Ray

Steve Allen and Sammy Davis, Jr. perform a card trick with a little help from Orson Welles; Davis joins his uncle Will Mastin and his father Sammy Davis, Sr., for an athletic dance number; Davis performs singing impressions of Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett, Louis Armstrong, and others; and the "Allen Report to the Nation" deals with the tranquilizer pill, with Allen interviewing Louis Nye as the head of a pharmaceutical company, Tom Poston as chief of laboratory research, and Don Knotts as a jittery fill-in speaker at a medical convention. Additionally, singer Jill ...

Orson Welles, Jill Corey, Peggy Cass, The Will Mastin Trio featuring Sammy Davis Jr.

Tallulah Bankhead, Milton Berle, Pearl Bailey, Dean Jones, Reverend Billy Graham

Ann Sothern, Bert Lahr, Brenda Lee

Andy Griffith, Marty Robbins, Errol Garner, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Martha Raye, a cameo appearance from Dean Martin

Steve's guests are The Diamonds (singing "Little Darlin'"), Xavier Cugat & his Orchestra with singer Abbe Lane doing "All Of You" and "Babalu," comedian Pat Carroll as a wife whose husband (Allen) tries to prove to her that a joke he told is funny, Erin O'Brien singing "Where's A Happy Ending?" Jerry Lewis plays Gordon Hathaway and a dopey boxer in the "Man on the Street" segment, Steve gives passionate readings of real "Letters to the Editor," delivers a silly speech to graduating seniors, and shows works of art used in magazine ads.

Xavier Cugat, Abbe Lane, Pat Carroll, The Four Diamonds, Erin O'Brien, Jerry Lewis

Orson Welles, Wally Cox, Meg Myles, Jim Reeves, The Step Brothers, Reverend Billy Graham

Steve Lawrence, Mamie Van Doren, The Hi-Lo's, Walter Chiari

Lou Costello in a restaurant skit where Gabe Dell takes the part of the bullying, Bud Abbott-type companion.

Lou Costello, Pat Boone, Jonathan Winters, Abbey Lincoln, Fay DeWitt, Dulcie Cooper, The Ames Brothers

In a salute to Hope's new film, "Beau James", skits, dance numbers and film clips devoted to onetime crooked prohibition-era New York mayor Jimmy Walker.

Bob Hope, George Jessel, Alexis Smith, Vera Miles, Dean Martin, the Rod Alexander Dancers, The Axidentals

Goodman's in top form, and Steve does a duet with him. Yvonne and Steve in a baby-naming skit, Lawford and Steve play bored life guards. A "Night Beat" parody includes Knotts as his classic nervous nerd, and a bellicose Nye cracks Steve up.

Benny Goodman, Yvonne De Carlo, Peter Lawford, Professor Irwin Corey

Debra Paget, Buddy Rich, Frankie Laine, Cornelia Otis Skinner

Tony Bennett sings "One For My Baby". Floyd Patterson and Joe Louis talk to Steve about boxing and Floyd's title defense against Tommy "Hurricane" Jackson. Joanne Gilbert sings "Hello Bluebird". Show regulars, appear in a comedy satire on television quiz-masters. Steve plays a piano version of "Do You Ever Think of Me?" For the finale, the entire cast and guest list join in with a bevy of hula dancers for a production entitled "In the Middle of an Island".

Tony Bennett, George Nader, Joanne Gilbert, Hal Le Roy, Floyd Patterson & Joe Louis

Steve and Shelley Winters in a skit about teaching her to drive by using household objects, Jerry Lee Lewis gives a bravura piano-attacking performance.

Jerry Lee Lewis, Shelley Winters, Anthony Franciosa, The Four Coins, Jodie Sands, Shai K. Ophir, Leona Gage

Marie MacDonald, The Four Diamonds, Jack E. Leonard, Don Rondo, Brenda Lee

Jane Russell, Ferlin Husky, Larry Storch, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Rod Alexander Dancers

Lou Costello, Liberace, Andy Williams, Abbey Lincoln, Jean Fenn

Hedy Lamar, Joe E. Brown, The Coasters, Irish McCalla, Pat Kirby

Pearl Bailey, Joan Collins, Jeff Chandler, Shaike Ophir, Pete Rademacher

Robert Young, Martha Raye, Marion Lorne, Milton Caniff, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme, Dave Garroway, Miss America of 1958

Ed Wynn, Frankie Laine, Dorothy Collins, Don Adams, Audrey Meadows, Sugar Ray Robinson & Carmen Basilio

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Corinne Calvet, Jimmy Dean, Jerry Lester, Barbara Nichols, Sugar Ray Robinson & Carmen Basilio

Crawford takes part in the "Man in the street" skit, Tony Perkins and Steve do their impressions of autograph hounds, and Perkins, Abbe Lane and Cugat show some elements of an upcoming TV western.

Anthony Perkins, Broderick Crawford, Joanne Dru, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane, Johnny Puleo & his Harmonica Gang, cameo by Killer Joe Piro

Dorothy Lamour & Jon Hall, Buddy Knox, Hank Aaron & Lew Burdette

Ginger Rogers, Lou Costello, The Hi-Lo's, The Harlem Globetrotters

Jerry Vale, William Bendix, Judy Canova, Shelley Berman, Janice Harper, Art Blakely, Candido, Sabu Martinez, Bob Rosengarden

Jerry Lee Lewis, Dennis Day, Joanne Gilbert, cameo by Jerry Lewis

Gloria Swanson, Charlie Ruggles, Tony Bennett, Jack E. Leonard, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane

Marie McDonald, Walter Chiari, Edward Everett Horton, Ferlin Husky, The King Sisters

Joan Caulfield, Sam Levenson, Audrey Meadows, Greta Thyssen, Steve Lawrence, Teal Joy, The Treniers

Martha does a song and dance number as planned, then again where all the props fail, Errol Flynn goes on a parody of "To Tell The Truth" where Knotts turns out to be him. Jimmy Dean sings an early Christmas number with Chroma-Key dancers.

Errol Flynn, Martha Raye, Jimmy Dean, Don Adams, Jennie Smith, the Army-Navy Football Stars

Sal Mineo, Rosemary Clooney, Shelley Berman, Dale Robertson, Peter Lawford, Guy Lombardo & Orchestra

Ann Sothern, Jackie Cain & Roy Kral, Lou Costello, Steve Lawrence, Milt Kamen

Anthony Perkins, Mahalia Jackson, Gertrude Berg, George London, the U.N. Singers

Todays guests are Peter Ustinov, Margaret O'Brien, Jerry Vale, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, Martha Davis and Spouse.

Peter Ustinov, Margaret O'Brien, Jerry Vale, Mike Nichols & Elaine May, Martha Davis & Spouse

Sam Cooke, Abbe Lane, Xavier Cugat, Johnny Haymer, Ward Bond, Robert Horton

From the Riviera Hotel, Havana

Martha Raye, Jimmy Dean, Erin O'Brien, Charles Laughton, Rubinoff & his violin

Henry Fonda, Shelley Berman, Jennie Smith, The Treniers

From Hollywood: The Photoplay Movie Awards

Dale Robertson, Peggy King, Don Adams, The Hi-Lo's, Duke Hazlitt, cameo appearances from Jerry Lewis and Red Skelton

The McGuire Sisters, Teddi King, The Playmates, Haller & Hayden, Jayne Meadows, Audrey Meadows

Sam Cooke, Peter Ustinov, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane, Bobby Rivera, Jill Corey, Tommy Leonetti, Virginia Gibson, Alan Copeland

Lou Costello, Jack Jones, Dolores Gray, Sabrina, Janik & Arnaut

Lena Horne, Keenan Wynn, Jack E. Leonard, Mark Murphy, Carmen Basilio

Anita Ekberg, Alan Young, Joni James, John Bubbles, Tommy Prisco

In a comedy sketch with regulars Don Knotts, Joyce Jameson and Tom Poston, Marie McDonald portrays a celebrity approached by interviewers.

Edgar Bergen, The Step Brothers, Marie McDonald, The All-American High School & College Basketball Teams

Orson Welles, Jane Powell, Senor Wences, Alan Dale, The Bay Bops

Steve's wife and sister-in-law, Jayne and Audrey Meadows, join him in a skit purporting to be a look at a real incident in their lives when they had a baby nurse, "Miss Huston" (played by Audrey). Dody does her usual rambling on, this time about baseball, as she replaces the "Billboard Girl" that announces next week's guests. Sammy Davis sings a rather obviously lipsynched number at the opening. Steve does a "report to the nation" sketch on the recession. Dody returns with the Meadows girls for the finale, a number based on the extremes of current ladies' fashions.

Sammy Davis, Jr., Carmen McRae, Dody Goodman, Jayne Meadows, Audrey Meadows

Bob Hope, Patrice Munsel, Ray Anthony, Johnny Haymer, David Allen

Season 3, Episode 30

Claudette Colbert, Toni Arden, Abe Burrows, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane

Count Basie, Joe Bushkin, Teddy Wilson, Jane Powell, Phil Harris, Igor and H

Lionel Hampton, Rosemary Clooney, Rory Calhoun

Julie Newmar, Dick Clark, Lou Costello, Ronnie Deauville, Beverly Kenney, Carl Ballantine, Abigail Van Buren, Maurice Gosfield, Sid Gould, Franklin Pangborn

Peter Ustinov, Louis Armstrong, Barbara McNair, Van Cliburn

Henry Fonda, Shari Lewis, Mel Torme, Martha Raye, Terry Gibbs, Gus Bivona, Gary Peacock, Mundell Lowe

The Best Seasons of The Steve Allen Show

The Best Seasons of The Steve Allen Show

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