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Season 3 (NBC) (1958-59)
Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Rina Fox. Tom Alger  [Updated Oct-2019]
references:
TV Guide / Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
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UCLA Film and Television Archive, NYT and Brooklyn Daily Eagle

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NBC Sundays 8:00-9:00pm Eastern - From New York
against The Ed Sullivan Show (season 11) (CBS) (1958-1959)
Hosted by Steve Allen

 3.01 [99] The Steve Allen Show
07Sep1958
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actor Andy Griffith
singers Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme
vocal trio The McGuire Sisters.
Highlights:
Andy Griffith monologue about wives and marriage counselors.
Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme sing "Things We Did Last Summer," "Darn It, Baby, That's Love"
and "Friendship" (with Steve).
The McGuire Sisters perform "Volare," "How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm,"
and "Deep in the Heart of Texas" (substituting in the new state of Alaska).
Also: Steve uses ancient photos to show the stars of this summer's TV series.
Poston hosts the rigged quiz show "Lotsa Luck" with contestant Knotts.
Steve introduces new acts from Europe: Knotts as a Spanish dancer, Nye as an Italian singer, and Poston as a French mime.
In the plug for next week's show, done as a movie trailer, Roberta Sherwood, Jayne and Audrey Meadows appear in cameos as themselves.

3.02 [100] The Steve Allen Show
14Sep1958
Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows' European Vacation
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actresses Audrey Meadows
and Jayne Meadows
singer Roberta Sherwood
Miss America, Mary Ann Mobley
Highlights:
Audrey Meadows in London hotel setting, Steve and Jayne wait for Audrey to arrive.
Roberta Sherwood sings "Up A Lazy River" (parody) and "You're Nobody Til Somebody Loves You".
Mary Ann Mobley (Miss America) - chats with Steve at close.
Also: Steve and Jayne sing "I Remember It Well." Jayne and Audrey sing about shopping in Paris.
In a restaurant in Italy, the couple tries to order with no help from a waiter (Harrington).
Back at U.S. Customs, Nye checks passports and the tosses contents of their luggage everywhere.
Steve, Audrey, Jayne and Roberta in finale of "Back in Your Own Backyard."

3.03 [101] The Steve Allen Show
21Sep1958
From Hollywood.
This episode features stars of NBC shows.
Host Steve Allen
Guests
Gene Barry (of Bat Masterson); Milton Berle (Kraft Music Hall); Ronnie Burns (son of George and Gracie);
Bob Cummings (The Bob Cummings Show); Buddy Ebsen & Keith Larsen (Northwest Passage);
Ralph Edwards (This Is Your Life); George Gobel (The George Gobel Show); Bob Hope; Robert Horton (Wagon Train);
Peter Lawford (The Thin Man); Lee Marvin (M Squad); Jeff Richards (Jefferson Drum); Groucho Marx (You Bet Your Life);
Patty McCormick (Billboard Girl); George Montgomery (Cimarron City); George Nader (The Further Adventures Of Ellery Queen);
Dinah Shore (The Dinah Shore Chevy Show); Craig Stevens (Peter Gunn); and Ed Wynn.
Also: Gobel does a monologue explaining TV programming. Dinah and Steve sing about the new season.
Bob Hope's monologue is aimed at Steve. Groucho is a grouchy audience member.
"The Allen Report to the Nation" looks at horror movies and westerns.

3.04 [102] The Steve Allen Show
28Sep1958
From Hollywood
Host Steve Allen
Guests
comedienne-actress Joan Davis
TV personality Art Linkletter
pop singer Jimmie Rodgers
and trumpeter Ray Anthony.
Highlights:
Joan Davis stars in take-off of Zorro (called Zelda) with props that don't work, joins Steve for song and dance "Who's Got the Pain".
Art Linkletter chats with Steve's three kids and gets comic responses.
Jimmie Rodgers sings "Are You Really Mine?" and a variation of "The Mockingbird Song".
Ray Anthony plays "That Old Black Magic".
Also: Steve and his guests play "Mad Libs." Nye is an officer over new recruits at boot camp.
Steve plays "Almost in Your Arms" from Houseboat with male vocalists.

[--] The Steve Allen Show
05Oct1958
pre-empted by "Shirley Temple Storybook" program "Hiawatha".

3.05 [103] The Steve Allen Show
12Oct1958
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actor Lloyd Bridges (of TV's "Sea Hunt")
comedienne-actress Nancy Walker
comedian Larry Daniels
singer Carole Simpson
and the Rocky Mario Trio.
Highlights:
Lloyd Bridges does bit with Steve as fish in an aquarium.
Nancy Walker as glamorous teacher in sketch about what educational TV will be like, with Poston
as game show-type emcee and Nye as a professor plugging his book.
Larry Daniels does a stand-up routine.
Carole Simpson sings "Look At Me Now" (with the Rocky Mario Trio) and "How Long Has This Been Going On".
Also: "Where Are They Not" bit with Nye as an old aviator, Harrington as boxer (now bartender),
and Poston as a one-time silent film star. In finale, Walker, Bridges and Allen are at a carnival in "Make Me Laugh" production.

3.06 [104] The Steve Allen Show
19Oct1958
Host Steve Allen
Guests
comic actress Gertrude Berg
singer Tony Bennett
actor Peter Lawford
singer Kathy Linden
and basketball team The Harlem Globetrotters.
Highlights:
Gertrude Berg hosts a splashy variety show a la Dinah Shore and attempts "Blues in the Night";
in Molly Hitchcock Presents, she parodies the director in a stand-up.
Tony Bennett sings "Old Man River" and "Firefly".
Kathy Linden sings "You'd Be Surprised" and "Bill".
Peter Lawford in game show parody The Price is Correct: Lawford on a throne is the grand prize.
The Harlem Globetrotters play against Allen's All-Stars (Nye, Lawford, Poston, Henderson, Bennett)
and coach Goldberg serves chicken soup from a bucket; Walter Kennedy does commentary.
Also: In "Teamwork USA", Nye, Poston, and Harrington are bumblers at a Weather Bureau office reporting on a hurricane.

3.07 [105] The Steve Allen Show
26Oct1958
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actor Peter Ustinov
Dave Brubeck Quartet
singer Laura Leslie
singer Dorothy Collins
dance duo Augie and Margo
and trombonist Warren Covington.
Highlights:
Peter Ustinov as different types of candidates going door-to-door.
Dave Brubeck Quartet perform "I'm In A Dancing Mood".
Laura Leslie sings "Lollipops To Lipstick".
Dorothy Collins (singer, from Your Hit Parade) does "Lover" and "But Not For Me".
Augie and Margo dance the "Tea for Two Cha Cha".
Warren Covington accompanies Augie and Margo.
Also: Ustinov interviews the beatnik jazz group The Unidentified Flying Objects: Steve on tuba,
Pat Harrington Jr. as Lawrence Welk on accordion, Nye on rocks, and Poston on conga drum.
"The Allen Report to the Nation" is on the moon rocket with scientist Poston and test pilot Harrington. Steve is "The Question Man."

3.08 [106] The Steve Allen Show
02Nov1958
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actress Jane Russell
comedy team Mike Nichols and Elaine May
singer Earl Grant
and George Melachrino and his orchestra.

3.09 [107] The Steve Allen Show
09Nov1958
Host Steve Allen
Guests
singer-actor Harry Belafonte and The Belafonte Singers
comedian Johnny Carson
and comedienne Martha Raye.
Highlights:
Harry Belafonte and The Belafonte Singers perform "Darlin' Cora" and "When The Saints Go Marching In" (as an old English madrigal),
"All My Trials " "Man Smart Woman Smarter" and "God Bless The Child."
Johnny Carson in monologue, combines the Sunday TV shows Ed Sullivan, Steve Allen, and Maverick playing poker.
Martha Raye sings "My Funny Valentine," appears in a sketch that demonstrates what goes wrong when actors take a play on the road.

3.10 [108] The Steve Allen Show
16Nov1958
Host Steve Allen
Guests
Count Basie and his Orchestra
singer Joe Williams (performing with Count Basie's band)
comic actor Alan Young
singer Anna Maria Alberghetti
and singer Don Cornell.
Highlights:
Also: Allen, Nye, Knotts and Poston do a "Where Are They Now?" sketch and a take-off on modern jazz.

3.11 [109] The Steve Allen Show
23Nov1958
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actress Claudette Colbert
actor Jackie Cooper
actress-singer Carol Hughes
comedian-musician Roger Ray
and vocal group Lambert, Hendricks & Ross.
Highlights:
Claudette Colbert portrays different types of party hostesses: the neat freak, the one who can't remember guests names,
and one who forces a guest to entertain.
Jackie Cooper sings "I Kissed Her Best of All" and "When My Sugar Walks Down The Street" (as a soft shoe with Allen, Poston, Knotts and Nye).
Carol Hughes sings "Breezin' Along With The Breeze".
Roger Ray plays the xylophone in his act.
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross sing instrumental songs "Avenue C" and "Everyday".
Also: Poston quizzes Steve in "The Answer Man."

3.12 [110] The Steve Allen Show
30Nov1958
Host Steve Allen
Guests
comedian Don Adams
singer Pat Boone
singer Hildegarde
and dance duo Augie and Margo.
Highlights:
Don Adams stand-up monologue on the nautilus, reads magazine articles and includes a joke mentioning Oscar Levant.
Hildegarde sings a medley: "The Last Time I Saw Paris," "All Of A Sudden My Heart Sings," "I Love You, Yes I Do" (in French) and "Mein Herzen" (in German).
Augie and Margo perform to music from Bell, Book and Candle.
Pat Boone sings "Stardust" and duet with Steve on "Loyalty".
Also: Steve does a take-off on the Charles Atlas ads hawking the Harry Hercules Heath Club with Knotts as "before" and a gorilla as "after".
A take-off on ballroom dance shows with Hildegarde and Nye as Sandra and Arthur Merry, featuring dancing by Knotts
as Frank Sinatra and Poston as silent star Francis X. Tishman.

3.13 [111] The Steve Allen Show
07Dec1958
Host Steve Allen
Guests
comedienne-actress Joan Davis
boxer Sugar Ray Robinson
comedian Leo DeLyon
pianist Andre Previn
and vocal group The Hi-Lo's.
Highlights:
Joan Davis joins Allen, Nye, Poston, Harrington and Knotts in The Life of Helen Burdett, a daytime soap opera where the teleprompter
goes berserk and gives the actors their lines all out of order.
Sugar Ray Robinson sings "Mr. Success" and "It's Oh So Nice To Come Home", duets with Steve on "The Lady's In Love With You".
Leo DeLyon routine includes whistling one song while humming another.
The Hi-Lo's perform "Dancing on the Ceiling" and "Clap Your Hands".
Andre Previn plays number with orchestra.
Also: The experts of "The Allen Bureau of Standards" (Nye, Knotts, Poston) test toys with goofy results.

3.14 [112] The Steve Allen Show
14Dec1958
Host Steve Allen
Guests
singer Tony Bennett
comedian Jonathan Winters
and Clara Ward and Her Gospel Singers.
Ingrid Bergman and Curt Jurgens appear on film.
Music:
Tony Bennett sings "Love, Look Away" and "By Myself."
Clara Ward and Her Gospel Singers sing a medley: "Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen," "Glory Hallelujah" and "Swing Low Sweet Chariot."
Finale: Tony Bennett sings "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas." Steve Allen and the series regulars sing "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"
Comedy:
Jonathan Winters interviews the "Unidentified Flying Objects," a (phony) beatnik band consisting of Allen, Knotts, Harrington, and Nye.
On film, Ingrid Bergman and Curt Jurgens are interviewed on the UK set of their movie The Inn of the Sixth Happiness.
From the studio, Steve replaces the original interview questions with new questions that make Bergman's and Jurgens' replies sound ridiculous.
Steve appears as "The Answer Man."
Harrington plays a barber who shaves Knotts with a straight razor to classical music.
Steve sings "A Yule That's Cool" with sexy female "reindeer."

[--] The Steve Allen Show
21Dec1958
pre-empted by "Shirley Temple's Storybook": "Mother Goose".

3.15 [113] The Steve Allen Show
28Dec1958
Host Steve Allen
Guests
The Four Lads
singer Pat Kirby
and figure skaters Hayes Alan Jenkins, Nancy Lee Parker, Nick Powers.
Highlights:
The Four Lads sing "Breezin' Along With The Breeze", and a production number to "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm" with all the cast.
Pat Kirby sings "Moonlight In Vermont".
Hayes Alan Jenkins, Nancy Lee Parker, Nick Powers and others from the 1959 Ice Follies.
Also: Nye, Poston and Knotts are the "Ice Cubes", an ice skating act that can't.
Steve asks the "Man on the Street" (Nye, Knotts, Poston) for their New Year resolutions.
Steve conducts intense interviews with a chicken plucker, and a guest as belligerent as the host. Poston hosts the rigged game show Lotsa Luck.

3.16 [114] The Steve Allen Show
04Jan1959
Host Steve Allen
Guests
Opera singer Patrice Munsel
singer Roy Hamilton
The King Sisters
and comedian Chuck McCann.
Highlights:
Roy Hamilton sings "Somewhere Along The Way".
The King Sisters sing "What's New?" and "Deep Purple".
Patrice Munsel performs "Clear Out Of This World" and selection from a Puccini opera.
Chuck McCann with Poston in a Laurel and Hardy routine as vacuum cleaner salesmen.
Also: Knotts plays a panicked TV weatherman who stalls for time when he can't get through to the weather bureau.
Steve plays "The Answer Man" (bit later used by Carson as Carnac). "The Nutley Hinkley Butley Winkly Report" looks at 1959 with all the regulars.

3.17 [115] The Steve Allen Show
11Jan1959
Host Steve Allen
Guests
British actress Diana Dors
Perez Prado & his Orchestra
The Three Stooges
and comedian Chuck McCann.
Highlights:
Diana Dors sings "Give Me The Simple Life", plays "Mad Libs" with Steve and audience.
Perez Prado & his Orchestra - perform "Patricia Pop" and a medley: "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" and "Mambo Jambo".
The Three Stooges with "Because of You", an operating room sketch.
Chuck McCann in a take-off on Arthur Godfrey (Steve as Arthur Birdseed), Nye as Oscar Levant, and McCann as Jackie Gleason.
Also: A parody of reality drama shows with a "real" family trying to play themselves in their haunted house (with Allen, Knotts, Nye, Poston, and Jane Dulo).
Steve makes up songs based on newspaper headlines.

3.18 [116] The Steve Allen Show
18Jan1959
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actress-swimmer Esther Williams
singer Vic Damone
singer Jennie Smith
and The Mary Dwight Swimmers.
Highlights:
Esther Williams as a 1920s bathing beauty, she has trouble with her pools chair and gets help from he-men Nye, Knotts, and Poston; the guys play servants at her Hollywood home.
Vic Damone sings "Almost Like Being In Love" and "Out Of Nowhere".
Jennie Smith sings "'S Wonderful".
The Mary Dwight Swimmers - perform a water ballet with Esther Williams.
Also: "The Allen Report to the Nation" on water includes Nye as the water commissioner, Knotts as a lousy dam builder, and Poston as a soggy Tarzan.
Allen, Williams, Damone and Smith in pool production of "Back In Your Own Backyard".
Steve is the pitchman for Barracuda Brothers pools, illustrated with wacky silent movie footage.

3.19 [117] The Steve Allen Show
25Jan1959
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actor Lee Marvin
comedian Johnny Carson
singer-actor James Darren
and musical-comedy star Dolores Gray.
Highlights:
Lee Marvin plays the same detective show sketch in various : underplayed, overplayed, with violence.
Johnny Carson stand-up as a TV kid's show host with a hangover.
James Darren sings "There's No Such Thing As The Next Best Thing To Love", talks with Steve about Gidget.
Dolores Gray sings "Speak Low" and "Fascinating Rhythm" as production numbers.
Also: The experts of "The Allen Bureau of Standards" (Nye, Poston, Knotts) examines paper napkins. In a split screen bit, Steve plays the pianist and singer.

3.20 [118] The Steve Allen Show
01Feb1959
Host Steve Allen
Guests
comedienne Martha Raye
comedian-magician Carl Ballantine
singer Danny Staton
Jazz musicians Rex Stuart, Pee Wee Russell, Eddie Condon, Al Clink, Hank Jones, Woody Herman
and the Gerry Mulligan Quartet.
and Arthur and Kathryn Murray with a cameo.
Highlights:
Martha Raye in a sketch Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is done as a comic musical with Poston and Raye; they turn into, among others,
Arthur and Kathryn Murray (cameos); sings "Pennies From Heaven".
Carl Ballantine as "The Amazing Mr. Ballantine, The World's Greatest Magician".
Danny Staton sings "Love And Affection".
Also: Steve hosts a news magazine with Nye, Knotts, Poston, and Dayton Allen.
In the finale, "Back Home Again in Indiana" is performed in various jazz styles: Rex Stuart (coronet), Pee Wee Russell (clarinet),
Eddie Condon perform a Dixieland version; Hank Jones (piano), Al Clink (sax), and Woody Herman as swing;
and the Gerry Mulligan Quartet (Art Farmer, Dave Bailey, Bill Crow) as modern jazz.

3.21 [119] The Steve Allen Show
08Feb1959
Host Steve Allen
Guests
pianist Liberace
singer Steve Lawrence
singer-actress Marie McDonald
and the U.S. Army Chorus.
Cameo by Phil Silvers.
Highlights:
Steve Lawrence sings "I Only Have Eyes For You".
U.S. Army Chorus perform "The Army Goes Rolling Along" and "You Never Walk Alone" with Lawrence.
Liberace plays "The Warsaw Concerto" and "There'll Be No New Tunes On This Old Piano".
Marie McDonald in a parody commercial as a wife doing laundry, sings "Old Devil Moon".
Also: "Where Are They Now?" with Poston as former opera star who sings like a skipping record, Knotts as an ex-track star with women's legs, and Nye as a mobster.
Knotts plays a man who's been awake for eight days. "The Sunday Night Lecture Series" features Dayton Allen in a monologue as a surgeon.
Phil Silvers (cameo) as Sgt. Bilko marches comic soldiers onstage.

3.22 [120] The Steve Allen Show
15Feb1959
From Hollywood.
Host Steve Allen
Guests
impressionist-actor Frank Gorshin
Ray Anthony and his Band
Jazz musician Terry Gibbs
and singer Diana Maxwell.
Highlights:
Frank Gorshin does celebrity impressions.
Ray Anthony and his band perform "Peter Gunn" theme and "Baby, What You Did to Me."
Also on this episode:
Steve Allen presents Hollywood Merit Awards to Edward Byrnes, Tony Curtis, Sandra Dee, David Ladd.

3.23 [121] The Steve Allen Show
22Feb1959
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actor-comedian Andy Griffith
actress Diana Dors
composer Otto Harbach
singer Jimmy Hurst
and The Three Stooges.
Highlights:
Andy Griffith tells the story of "Romeo and Juliet" in a comedy monologue.
Diana Dors sings "Thanks A Lot, But No Thanks" in a production number and "How About You?" with Steve.
Otto Harbach, after being presented with an award for writing "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," Harbach recites the song's lyrics.
The Three Stooges do a Western sketch about movie stuntmen in a saloon.
Jimmy Hurst sings "On The Street Where You Live".
Also: Dors and the Stooges join in a whacked-out newscast when "The Nutley (Allen), Hinkley (Poston), Butley, Winkley (Knotts) Report" profiles art.
Diana and Steve demonstrate the differences between an American film and a foreign film.

3.24 [122] The Steve Allen Show
01Mar1959
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actress Jayne Mansfield
singer Eydie Gorme
singer Tommy Leonetti.
Highlights:
Jayne Mansfield in "The Allen Report to the Nation" examines a day in her life, plays violin in comic bit with Steve.
Eydie Gorme sings "Love Is The Season" and "When The Sun Comes Out".
Tommy Leonetti sings "Moonlight Serenade".
Also: Steve plays "The Peanut Vendor" on piano as couples dance.
World leaders hawk products in commercials: Khrushchev (Nye) pitches toothpaste, Castro (Knotts) sells exploding shaving cream,
Charles de Gaulle (Poston) for headache pills.
The regulars play senators and gangsters in a parody of Senate hearings on the mob's control of the jukebox industry.

3.25 [123] The Steve Allen Show
08Mar1959
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actress Zsa Zsa Gabor
comedian Johnny Carson
Jazz pianist Earl "Fatha" Hines
singer Vic Damone
and singer Jane Harvey.
Highlights:
Johnny Carson stand-up as Jack Benny reading a bedtime story.
Zsa Zsa Gabor at her front door with a salesman (Dayton Allen) and a nervous date (Knotts).
Earl "Fatha" Hines plays "St. Louis Blues".
Vic Damone sings "I've Got You Under My Skin", "Pretend You Don't See Her".
Jane Harvey sings "Misty", "Everyday's A Holiday" (with Damone).
Also: A news magazine parody with Knotts as a nervous entertainment reporter, Nye reviewing a Chinese restaurant, and Poston at a bar.
Allen and Nye are Tin Pan Alley songwriters Rise & Shine with Poston singing about a mother's advice to her Army son ("Don't Mix In")
and Knotts as Sinatra crooning the alphabet.

3.26 [124] The Steve Allen Show
15Mar1959 (90-minute episode)
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actors Charlton Heston
and Peter Lawford
comedian Jonathan Winters
actresses Jayne Meadows
and Debra Paget.
Highlights:
Jonathan Winters monologue about a family picnic.
Peter Lawford with Steve as astronauts going to the moon.
Charlton Heston as handsome but lousy Western movie actor who infuriates director Poston with his mistakes.
Jayne Meadows sings "The Gazebo" and "Hunger".
Debra Paget dances production number to "Tequila".
Also: "The Allen Report to the Nation" is on babies with Knotts as average father and Nye as a small town doctor.
Discussing Hawaiian statehood in "Man on the Street" are Nye (Gordon Hathaway), Winters (Maude Frickert, Elwood Suggins),
regular guys Heston and Lawford, and Meadows. Lawford, Heston and Allen in Foreign legion number.

3.27 [125] The Steve Allen Show
22Mar1959 (90-minute episode)
Host Steve Allen
Guests
entertainer Sammy Davis Jr.
actor-impersonator Frank Gorshin
actress Joanne Gilbert
guitarist Carlos Montoya
Silent film star Sessue Hayakawa
Jazz group The U.F.O.'s
and dance troupe Nikolais Dancers.
Highlights:
Sammy Davis, Jr. sings "Let's Face The Music And Dance", a medley including "Birth of the Blues", and "Fascinating Rhythm" with Steve.
Frank Gorshin impressions of Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Alfred Hitchcock, Rod Steiger and others.
Joanne Gilbert sings "It Ain't Necessarily So" (with dancers) and "Hello Bluebird"
Carlos Montoya plays Spanish/Latin songs.
Sessue Hayakawa joins in silent commercial parody; clip of Hayakawa's 1914 silent film The Typhoon.
Nikolais Dancers perform.
Also: "The Nutley/Hinkley/Butley/Winkley Report" looks at spring activities including mountain climbing and fashion.
Poston quizzes "The Question Man." Steve gives dramatic readings to livid "Letters to the Editor." "Crazy Shots."
The jazz group The U.F.O.'s performs with Steve (steel drum), Nye (scraping a block of ice), Knotts (guitar) and Harrington (violin).

[--] The Steve Allen Show
29Mar1959
pre-empted by "Music with Mary Martin: Childhood, Hollywood, Broadway".

3.28 [126] The Steve Allen Show
05Apr1959
Host Steve Allen
Guests
comedian Lenny Bruce
The Three Stooges
singer Connie Russell
singer David Allen.
Highlights:
Lenny Bruce does monologue about his infamy.
The Three Stooges with their famous "Maharaja" skit. Steve slaps all three Stooges with one swing.
Connie Russell sings "Caravan" and "You've Changed".
David Allen sings "Get Out Of Town" and duet with Russell on novelty tune "The Cigarette Song".
Also: A sketch on the different types of American millionaires: the playboy (Poston), the self-made (Nye),
and the Hollywood star (Knotts as Frankie Success).
Poston interviews songwriters Rise & Shine (Allen, Nye). Nye sings "Mimi" like Chevalier.
Stooges do "Putting Our Heads Together". Steve and cast sing "The Van Cliburn Cha-Cha-Cha."
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3.29 [127] The Steve Allen Show
12Apr1959
Host Steve Allen
Guests
British actress Diana Dors
toastmaster George Jessel
singer Mark Murphy
and Jazz musician Don Elliott.
Cameo by Richard Dawson.
Highlights:
Diana Dors sings "Love" (production number with male dancers), plays the femme fatale in a film noir parody Sam Allen, Private Eye,
Dors' fiance Richard Dawson makes a cameo.
George Jessel does a comedy monologue.
Mark Murphy sings "This Could Be The Start Of Something Big".
Don Elliott plays "The Boys" (xylophone number with Steve).
Also: "Where Are they Now?" with Dell as a former horror movie star, Dayton Allen as an ex-trapeze artist, and Harrington as ex-jockey.
A talk show take-off includes Knotts as Elia Kazan, Nye as Brando, and Poston as silent movie star Francis X. Tishman.

3.30 [128] The Steve Allen Show
19Apr1959
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actor Richard Kily
singer Georgia Gibbs
comedian Jack E. Leonard
and Lou Costello's daughter Carole Costello.
Highlights:
Richard Kiley performs "Mack The Knife" (with dancers).
Georgia Gibbs sings "Today I Love Everybody" and "Up A Lazy River".
Jack E. Leonard with a stand-up routine.
Carole Costello sings "My Melancholy Baby".
Also: A tribute to Lou Costello (died 3/3/1959) with Steve introducing a clip (from 5/18/1959) with Lou and regulars playing clumsy soldiers.
Steve interviews himself as El Chicken, the bullfighter. "The Allen Bureau of Standards" looks at insecticides with scientist Knotts,
delivery man Dell, and Poston with a fly swatter. Steve plays "How High the Moon" with singers and orchestra.

3.31 [129] The Steve Allen Show
26Apr1959
Host Steve Allen
Guests
singer Tony Bennett
author-comedian Jean Shepherd
singer Jimmie Rodgers
comedienne Betty Walker
and vocal group The Modernaires.
Highlights:
Tony Bennett sings "Strike Up The Band," "The Man That Got Away," and "Anything Goes".
Jimmie Rodgers sings "I'm Just A Country Boy".
The Modernaires sing "April In Paris" and "Laura".
Jean Shepherd with a monologue about baseball and the Chicago White Sox.
Betty Walker does a telephone monologue.
Also: Poston quizzes Steve as "The Answer Man." The news magazine sketch features Knotts as a fashion reporter, travel reporter Poston playing golf in a kilt,
and Nye reviewing a Mexican restaurant.

[--] The Steve Allen Show
03May1959
pre-empted by "The Dean Martin Show" with Bob Hope, Mae West.

3.32 [130] The Steve Allen Show
10May1959
Host Steve Allen
Guests
comedian Lenny Bruce
singer Sarah Vaughan
actress Anita Ekberg
singer Tommy Prisco
and dancer Georgie Taps.
Highlights:
Lenny Bruce stand-up routine on reviews in newspapers, and does bit with Steve about a DJ interviewing a rock singer
Sarah Vaughan sings "Just One Of Those Things" and "Misty".
Anita Ekberg in a detectives take-off featuring Steve as a private eye, she sings "It Had To Be You" as she poisons his drink
Tommy Prisco sings "Only Once".
Georgie Tapps tap dance production number with other dancers.
Also: Steve is the emcee in an awards show parody. "The Allen Report to the Nation" looks at teenagers with Poston
hosting a TV dance show a la Dick Clark, and Nye in his teen daughter's room. Steve salutes Tom Poston's recent Emmy Award
win for his supporting work on this series.

3.33 [131] The Steve Allen Show
17May1959
Host Steve Allen
Guests
singer-actress Diahann Carroll
comedian George Gobel
singer Vaughn Monroe
comic actor Marty Ingels
The Nikolais Dancers (experimental dance group)
and The Naval Aviation Cadet Choir.
Highlights:
Diahann Carroll sings "I Got Plenty Of Nuttin'" and "Porgy, I'm Your Woman Now."
George Gobel with a medley of moldy old jokes.
Marty Ingels does a stand-up routine.
Vaughn Monroe sings a medley of 'Moon' songs: "Blue Moon," "Moon Over Miami," "It's Only A Paper Moon," "Carolina Moon"
and "Racing With The Moon" (with Steve Allen on piano).
The Naval Aviation Cadet Choir (a.k.a. The Pensacola Naval Air Training Center Cadet Choir) - "There Is Nothin' Like A Dame" and "Anchors Aweigh"
Also: "The Nutley Kinkley Butley Winkley Report" looks at vacations with Gabe Dell in a grass hut, Poston in Japan, Knotts in an Irish castle,
Steve in the desert etc. Desilu Studios are parodied in a take-off on Cuban TV shows. Steve and Knotts in a look at sportscasters.

3.34 [132] The Steve Allen Show
24May1959
Host Steve Allen
Guests
musical-comedy star Cyril Ritchard
singer Irene Kral
vocal group The Axidentals
comedian-actor Eli Mintz
and the Ruth Walton Dancers.
Highlights:
Cyril Ritchard sings "Baby Face" as the mad doctor in a Frankenstein musical,
with Nye as the Monster (singing "Oh, My Papa") and Dell as Igor.
Irene Kral sings "Memphis In June".
The Axidentals sing "June Is Busting Out All Over" and "Day In Day Out".
Eli Mintz does a comedy monologue
Ruth Walton Dancers perform during Dayton Allen's novelty tune "Why Not?"
Also: Various characters have troubles at a front door.
Steve interviews himself playing a swami who walks on hot coals.

3.35 [133] The Steve Allen Show
31May1959
Host Steve Allen
Guests
comedienne Martha Raye
actor-impressionist Frank Gorshin
singer Buddy Greco
and The Nikolais Dancers.
Highlights:
Martha Raye sings "The Lady Is a Tramp".
Frank Gorshin does impersonations.
Buddy Greco sings "Playing the Field".
The Nikolais Dancers perform.
Also: "The Allen Report to the Nation" investigates crime.

3.36 [134] The Steve Allen Show
07Jun1959
Host Steve Allen
Guests
dancer-actress Ginger Rogers
singer Steve Lawrence
and boxer Ingemar Johansson.
Highlights:
Ginger Rogers sings "It's So Nice to Have a Man Around the House." Rogers also joins the series regulars in a sketch about flight attendants.
Steve Lawrence sings "There’ll Be Some Changes Made".
Ingemar Johansson (boxer from Sweden) talks to Steve Allen about his one-round knockout of Eddie Machen.
Finale: The entire cast sings "This Could Be the Start of Something Big".

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