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Season 2 (NBC) (1957-58)
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)
Internet Movie Database (https://us.imdb.com)
UCLA Film and Television Archive, NYT and Brooklyn Daily Eagle

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   NBC Sundays 8:00-9:00pm Eastern
against The Ed Sullivan Show (season 10) (CBS) (1957-1958) 

Hosted by Steve Allen

2.01 [59] The Steve Allen Show
22Sep1957
From Hollywood. This episode features stars of NBC shows:
Bob Cummings (The Bob Cummings Show); Dinah Shore (The Dinah Shore Chevy Show); Ralph Edwards (This Is Your Life);
Tennessee Ernie Ford (The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show); Gisele MacKenzie (The GiseleMacKenzie Show); Dennis O'Keefe (Suspicion);
George Gobel (The George Gobel Show); Eddie Fisher (The Eddie Fisher Show); Hy Averback; John Payne (The Restless Gun);
Ward Bond and Robert Horton (Wagon Train); Peter Lawford (The Thin Man); and Rosemary Clooney (The Lux Show With Rosemary Clooney).
Also: The "Man on the Street" asks Knotts, Nye, and O'Keefe if they've ever met a movie star. Dinah sings "I'm Following You" with Steve.
"The Allen Report to the Nation" on entertainment includes chats with the Wolfman (Nye), the very visible Invisible Man (Knotts),
and a cowboy (Payne) being fitted by a tailor. Steve and Tennessee Ernie do "Fascination" with kazoos. Lawford and Allen are explorers in the arctic

2.02 [60] The Steve Allen Show
29Sep1957
Host Steve Allen
Guests
French actress Corinne Calvet
singer Jimmy Dean
comedian Jerry Lester
singer Barbara Nichols
and boxers Sugar Ray Robinson and Carmen Basilio.
Highlights:
Corinne Calvet sings "Runnin' Wild" and "Autumn Leaves".
Jerry Lester plays a pith-helmeted African explorer in a stand-up routine.
Barbara Nichols sings "(Lookie, Lookie, Lookie) Here Comes Cookie" (with Nye, Poston and Knotts in top hats and tails), then introduces the guys as a breathy blond starlet
Sugar Ray Robinson and Carmen Basilio talk to Steve about their recent bout.
Jimmy Dean sings "Frankie and Johnny" and "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone".
Also: In a take-off of 1930's orchestra broadcasts, Steve plays the announcer who makes up ridiculous announcements.
The orchestra plays "Anything Goes", Lester sings "Vagabond Lover" and Nichols does "These Foolish Things Remind Me Of You".

2.03 [61] The Steve Allen Show
06Oct1957
Host Steve Allen
Guests
singer-actor Anthony Perkins
actor Broderick Crawford
actress Joanne Dru
bandleader Xavier Cugat and singer Abbe Lane
and Johnny Puleo and his Harmonica Gang.
Cameo by Killer Joe Piro
Highlights:
Anthony Perkins sings "First Romance" and "Moonlight Swim," demonstrates to Steve the various types of autograph hounds
Broderick Crawford as a tough guy in the "Man on the Street" bit with Nye, Poston, Knotts commenting on the new satellite
Joanne Dru with Knotts in a sketch trying to make it to the theater on time and everyone they meet is an obstacle
Xavier Cugat and Abbe Lane do "In A Little Spanish Town" with dancers including Killer Joe Piro, they tell Steve about their recent trip to Italy.
Also: Most of the cast appears in a Western parody called Buck Tooth: Man of Action.

2.04 [62] The Steve Allen Show
13Oct1957
Host Steve Allen
Hawaiian-themed show with lagoon on stage.
Guests
actress Dorothy Lamour
actor Jon Hall
singer Buddy Knox
and baseball players Hank Aaron and Dew Burdette.
Highlights:
Dorothy Lamour medley of her favorites: "The Moon Of Manakoora," "Moonlight And Shadows," and "I Wanna Go Back to My Little Grass Shack".
Jon Hall joins Steve in a sketch as castaways. Steve gets in a rubber raft to find help while Jon stays behind and makes out with an island girl.
Buddy Knox sings "Hula Love".
Hank Aaron and Dew Burdette talk with Steve and join the show-closing luau
Also: "Steve Pineapple and His Hawaiian Gang" has Allen, Poston, Nye, and Knotts as a parody of Hawaiian musical groups.
Lamour plays ukulele and sings, Knotts does a hula, and Steve pulls off Poston's wig.
Steve plays piano in water while women do synchronized swimming ballet.

2.05 [63] The Steve Allen Show
20Oct1957
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actress Ginger Rogers
comedian Lou Costello
vocal group The Hi-Lo's
and basketball team Harlem Globetrotters.
Highlights:
Ginger Rogers portrays the types of "girl singers" on TV: the opera star who sings pop, a sex kitten cooing "Oklahoma!",
a singer who smiles through "I'll Never Smile Again", a flat movie star whose voice is covered by the band.
Lou Costello pokes around a creepy castle with Don and Tom. Lou is terrified by a floating candle and the Frankenstein
monster which, of course, the others don't see.
Harlem Globetrotters play against Allen's All-Stars: Nye, Poston, Knotts, Costello, Skitch.
The Hi-Lo's perform "A Shine On Your Shoes" and "Laura".
Also: Steve asks "The Man on the Street" (Nye, Poston, Knotts) how he'd entertain the royal couple.
With much fanfare, Steve unveils a new car, the 1958 Blintz. Poston is the senile chairman of the company,
Knotts the nervous test driver.

2.06 [64] The Steve Allen Show
27Oct1957
Host Steve Allen
Guests
singer Jerry Vale
actor William Bendix
comedienne Judy Canova
comedian Shelley Berman
singer Janice Harper
and drummers Art Blakely, Candido, Sabu Martinez and Bob Rosengarden.
Highlights:
Jerry Vale sings "Pretend You Don't See Her" (song written by Steve).
William Bendix as a bench warmer with Steve at football game.
Judy Canova sings "Ma! He's Making Eyes At Me".
Shelley Berman with a phone call comedy routine.
Janice Harper sings "Bon Voyage".
Art Blakely, Candido, Sabu Martinez, Bob Rosengarden with a percussion jam session (with Steve playing piano).
Also: Steve pitches Finster Cruise Lines demonstrated by stock footage of soup lines, pirates, and fires.
Poston, Knotts and Nye are the experts in "The Allen Bureau of Standards" sketch end up in a fight
The drum finale of the episode features Art Blakey, Candido and Steve Allen.

2.07 [65] The Steve Allen Show
03Nov1957
Host Steve Allen
Guests
rock 'n roll singer Jerry Lee Lewis
singer-comic actor Dennis Day
singer Joanne Gilbert
and a cameo from Jerry Lewis.
Highlights:
Jerry Lee Lewis sings "Great Balls Of Fire".
Dennis Day sings "Around the World", joins Steve in rock 'n roll parody of "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"
Joanne Gilbert sings song about clowns
Jerry Lewis in a cameo as a "Man on the Street" as Steve asks opinions on the astronaut dog
Also: On film from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Steve interviews William Holden and Alec Guinness
on the set of The Bridge On The River Kwai, with scenes from the movie.
Nye and Poston then perform a parody of the interview.
Knotts does a bit about what happens in a candidate's headquarters on election night.

2.08 [66] The Steve Allen Show
10Nov1957
Executive producer Jules L. Green
Producer William O. Harbach
Associate producer Nick Vanoff
Production assistant James Elson
Director Dwight A. Hemion
Comedy production and writing supervision Leonard Stern
Writers Stan Burns, Herb Sargent, Bill Dana, Don Hinkley, Hal Goodman and Larry Klein.
Conductor Skitch Henderson
Choreographer Felisa Conde
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actress Gloria Swanson
singer Tony Bennett
comic actor Charles Ruggles
comedian Jack E. Leonard
bandleader Xavier Cugat and singer Abbe Lane.
Highlights:
Gloria Swanson plays Norma Desmond in a production number of "Those Wonderful People Out There in the Dark"
from her forthcoming musical version of "Sunset Boulevard", written by Dick Hughes and Richard Stapely
(Hughes portrays Desmond's chauffeur/director Max who helps the star imagine her first day back on the set in this excerpt).
Tony Bennett sings "Taking A Chance On Love" and "I Never Felt More Like Falling In Love".
Charles Ruggles answering questions as child-rearing expert Dr. Spook.
Charlie Ruggles talks about his autobiography, "I'll Laugh Tomorrow".
Abbe Lane and Xavier Cugat perform "Hernando's Hideaway".
Jack E. Leonard stand-up poking fun at Steve, Skitch, and the show in general.
Also: The "Man on the Street" segment asks about a labor dispute among TV technicians.

2.09 [67] The Steve Allen Show
17Nov1957
Host Steve Allen
Guests
Country singer Ferlin Husky
actor Edward Everett Horton
singer-actress Marie McDonald
actor Walter Chiari
and The King Sisters.
Highlights:
Ferlin Husky sings "16 Tons" and "Don't Be Cruel" (in a demonstration of singing ), and "Stormy Weather".
Edward Everett Horton in a "People Watchers" bit where he observes different types having conversations at a cocktail party.
The King Sisters sing "Easy To Love" and "Imagination".
Marie McDonald sings "Love", and as a supermarket shopper who can't remember the products, just their commercial jingles.
Walter Chiari with Nye as Italians having an argument; Knotts tries to break it up.
Also: Steve on piano, with strings, plays "Pretend You Don't See Her".

2.10 [68] The Steve Allen Show
24Nov1957
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actress Joan Caulfield
comedian Sam Levenson
actresses Audrey Meadows and Greta Thyssen
singer Steve Lawrence
singer-dancer Teal Joy
and The Treniers.
Highlights:
Joan Caulfield asks to see Steve's new baby in the opening.
Audrey Meadows and Greta Thyssen sketch Audrey is Steve's jealous wife when he brings home his work and his sexy secretary.
She gives them not a minute's peace.
Sam Levenson stand-up on modern appliances vs. the bad old days.
Steve Lawrence sings "My Baby Just Cares For Me" and "I've Got You Under My Skin".
Teal Joy sings "Do I Love You?" (in English and Chinese).
The Treniers perform "Rock, Rock, Rock Everybody" and "There's Good Rockin' Tonight."
Also: The "Man on the Street" tell how they're celebrating Thanksgiving. Boxers Tigger Tyler (Poston)
and Rocky Maraschino (Nye) talk to Steve about their recent heavyweight match and show footage from the fight.

2.11 [69] The Steve Allen Show
01Dec1957
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actor Errol Flynn
comedienne Martha Raye
singer Jimmy Dean
comedian Don Adams
singer Jennie Smith
and the Army-Navy Football Stars.
Highlights:
Errol Flynn in the parody To Tell a Lie, panelists Adams and Raye have to pick the real Errol, with Knotts and Nye as impostors
Martha Raye sings "Come Rain Or Come Shine."
She sings "On The Sunny Side Of The Street" as a production number set in a hat shot, then again with things going wrong
Don Adams with a comedy monologue.
Jimmy Dean sings "Sandy Sleigh Foots".
Jennie Smith sings "Sometimes I'm Happy".
Army-Navy Football Stars - The captains and players from the 68th annual Army-Navy football game appear ans show footage of the game

2.12 [70] The Steve Allen Show
08Dec1957
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actor Sal Mineo
singer Rosemary Clooney
comedian Shelley Berman
actor Dale Robertson (from TV's Tales of Wells Fargo)
actor Peter Lawford (from TV's The Thin Man)
and Guy Lombardo and Orchestra.
Highlights:
Sal Mineo does a medley: "Say You'll Be My Marie," "Too Young," and "Baby Face"
Rosemary Clooney sings "A Foggy Day In London Town" and "Tonight" (from West Side Story)
Shelley Berman does a telephone monologue as a man with a hangover.
Peter Lawford plays Steve's son in a sketch set in the future: 1978.
Guy Lombardo and orchestra - the Lombardo Trio performs "Enjoy Yourself".
Also: The "Man on the Street" asks cowboys (Knotts, Nye, Poston) about TV westerns.
In the finale, Clooney, Mineo, Lawford and Allen sing "Dixieland" (backed up by Lombardo and his Orchestra).

2.13 [71] The Steve Allen Show
15Dec1957
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actress Ann Sothern
jazz vocal duo Jackie Cain and Roy Kral
comedian Lou Costello
singer Steve Lawrence
comedian Milt Kamin.
Highlights:
Ann Sothern sings "I Got Rhythm" with Steve on piano.
Appears in a "People Watchers" sketch showing different types of women with TV shows.
One refuses to wear her needed glasses; another laughs at everything the guest says, even the straight lines;
and another has dancers who hate and upstage her (Poston, Nye).
Jackie Cain and Roy Kral perform "Wish I Were In Love Again" and "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles".
Lou Costello does a "Shell Game" sketch with Louis Nye and Tom Poston.
Steve Lawrence sings "Keep Your Sunny Side Up" and "Up A Lazy River".
Milt Kamin stand-up about animals.
Also: Steve delivers a dramatic, poetic reading of the lyrics to Sam Cooke's "You Send Me."

2.14 [72] The Steve Allen Show
22Dec1957
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actor Anthony Perkins
Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson
comic actress Gertrude Berg
Opera singer George London
and the U.N. Singers.
Highlights:
Anthony Perkins sings "How About You?" and performs a western pantomime.
Mahalia Jackson sings "Silent Night".
Gertrude Berg as an excited fan who recognizes Steve Allen in a supermarket
George London and the U.N. Singers - in a live remote from the U.N. Building, they perform "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God"
Also: "Robert Youngson's Golden Age Of Comedy" - approx. 7 minutes of vintage silent movie clips including scenes of
Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and Carole Lombard. The "Man on the Street" asks Nye, Poston, and Sid Gould what they want for Christmas.

2.15 [73] The Steve Allen Show
29Dec1957
Host Steve Allen
Guests
comedy team Mike Nichols and Elaine May
actor Peter Ustinov
singer Jerry Vale
actress Margaret O'Brien
husband and wife piano duo Martha Davis and Calvin Ponder.

2.16 [74] The Steve Allen Show
05Jan1958
Host Steve Allen
Guests
singer Sam Cooke
singer Abbe Lane
bandleader Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra
pantomime comedian Johnny Haymer
actors Ward Bond and Robert Horton of TV's "Wagon Train".
Highlights:
Sam Cooke sings "You Send Me" and "For Sentimental Reasons".
Abbe Lane sings "They Can't Take That Away From Me".
Xavier Cugat and his Orchestra do "Ay Yi Yi" with vocalist Abbe Lane.
Ward Bond and Robert Horton appear in a take-off on Westerns with Lane and cowboys Knotts and Nye
Also: "Crazy Shots." Poston and Nye perform Jack Vaughn's vaudeville routine Joe the Bartender.

[--] The Steve Allen Show
12Jan1958
pre-empted by "Shirley Temple's Storybook", "Beauty and the Beast".

2.17 [75] The Steve Allen Show
19Jan1958
Broadcast from The Rivera Hotel in Havana, Cuba:
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actress Mamie Van Doren
ventriloquist Edgar Bergen
comedian Lou Costello
singer Steve Lawrence
dancers Augie and Margo
Cuban vocal quintet Facundo Rivero
and Tybee Afra, Billboard girl (dancer at the Rivera).
Highlights:
Steve Lawrence sings "Begin the Beguine" as a mobile production number moving through the casino out to the pool area.
Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy tells about boozing and carousing the night before.
Lou Costello in the casino, Lou performs his "dice game" sketch with Poston and Nye.
Mamie Van Doren sings "Sand in My Shoes" on a raft in the pool.
Augie and Margo perform outside.
Also: Steve asks what tourists love best about Havana in the "Man on the Street" segment with Nye, Knotts, Poston,
and Mortimer Snerd. Rayburn does the show's opening in Spanish and is costumed in flashy traditional Cuban attire.

2.18 [76] The Steve Allen Show
26Jan1958
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actor Charles Laughton
singer Jimmy Dean
comedienne Martha Raye
singer Erin O'Brien
and violinist Rubinoff.
Highlights:
Charles Laughton reads the stock market report and a beauty advice column as if they were dramatic poetry.
Jimmy Dean sings "John Henry".
Martha Raye sings "That Old Black Magic," and in a sketch with Laughton and the regulars trying repeatedly
to do a gangster movie scene correctly.
Erin O'Brien sings "My Romance".
Rubinoff performs "Dance of the Russian Peasants".
Also: The "Man on the Street" asks if a woman's place is in the home of Gordon Hathaway's mom (Nye)
and a woman who can't remember her name (Poston). Knotts as Clark Gable for Mutiny on the Bounty bit.

2.19 [77] The Steve Allen Show
02Feb1958
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actor Henry Fonda
comedian Shelley Berman
singer Jennie Smith
and vocal group The Treniers.
Highlights:
Henry Fonda and Steve in a sketch with their wives away, two husbands are bachelors for a few days. Without the girls, they're lonely and bored.
Shelley Berman calls his Aunt Goldie at her opera rehearsal.
Jennie Smith sings "It's Just The Gypsy In My Soul".
The Treniers perform "Rubbing Noses In The Midnight Sun" and "Rock Me All Night Long".
Also: In the "Man on the Street" segment, Steve talks to Nye, Knotts and Poston and their dogs.
"The Allen Report to the Nation" looks at ratings with the head of the A. C. Tishman ratings
company (Nye), spokesman for the TV Research Institute (Poston), and the average viewer (Knotts) who gets Steve canceled.

2.20 [78] The Steve Allen Show
09Feb1958
From Hollywood.
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actress Ann Sothern
comedian Henny Youngman
singer Steve Lawrence
singer Eydie Gorme
Frank Sinatra impersonator Duke Hazlitt
and Gus Bivona and his Orchestra.
Highlights:
Ann Sothern with Steve in a quiz show parody "Mr. And Mrs. I.Q."
Henny Youngman in a monologue about marriage, talks about Rita Hayworth's many husbands and his own marriage.
Steve Lawrence sings "Makin' Whoopee".
Eydie Gorme does a medley: "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" and "Bye, Bye Blackbird".
Gus Bivona and his Orchestra perform "Baby, But You Did".
Also: Steve presents trophies to winners of this year's Photoplay Movie Awards.
Appearing are Deborah Kerr, Rock Hudson, Dolores Hart, Robert Evans, Taina Elg, Julie London,
producer Jerry Wald and director Leo McCarey.
In the finale, Allen, Sothern, Lawrence, Gorme and Dinah Shore sing "This Could Be The Start Of Something Big".

2.21 [79] The Steve Allen Show
16Feb1958
From Hollywood.
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actor Dale Robertson
singer Peggy King
comedian Don Adams
vocal group The Hi-Lo's
Sinatra impersonator Duke Hazlitt
and cameo appearances from Jerry Lewis and Red Skelton.
Highlights:
Don Adams monologue about and his doctor and a book he's reading.
Dale Robertson shows Steve relics from the Old West.
Peggy King sings "You Took Advantage Of Me".
The Hi-Lo's perform "Tenderly," "Fascinating Rhythm" with King.
Duke Hazlitt performs "I Didn't Know What Time It Was".
Jerry Lewis and Red Skelton with cameo appearances in the "Man on the Street" segment discussing how to get ahead in Hollywood,
with Belle Montrose (Steve's mother) as a hip old lady.
Also: Steve gets reviews on the show from the elevator boy (Knotts), Sabrina (Joyce Jamison)
the coffee shop waitress, and his barber (Nye).

2.22 [80] The Steve Allen Show
23Feb1958
Host Steve Allen
Guests
The McGuire Sisters
jazz singer Teddi King
male vocal trio The Playmates
comedy team of Holler and Hayden
and actresses Jayne and Audrey Meadows.
Highlights:
The McGuire Sisters sing "Sugartime," "Don't Take Your Love From Me" and "Banana Split".
Teddi King sings "Impossible" and "Let's Face The Music And Dance".
The Playmates perform "Joanne".
Jayne and Audrey Meadows (comic actresses) - in a sketch, Steve and Jayne want to fire their baby's bossy nurse (Audrey Meadows).
Also: "The Allen Bureau of Standards" has an expert panel (Nye, Poston, Fred Gwynne) evaluate a vacuum cleaner;
the device attacks everyone. Steve gives a dramatic poetry reading to the goofy lyrics of The Silhouettes' "Get a Job."

2.23 [81] The Steve Allen Show
02Mar1958
From Hollywood
Host Steve Allen
Guests
singer Sam Cooke
actor Peter Ustinov
Xavier Cugat and his Orchestra
singers Abbe Lane and Bobby Rivera
and singers Jill Corey, Tommy Leonetti, Virginia Gibson and Alan Copeland.
Highlights:
Sam Cooke sings an updated "Old Man River".
Abbe Lane sings "Ain't Misbehavin'".
Bobby Rivera sings "Babalu" (with Xavier Cugat and his Orchestra).
Jill Corey, Tommy Leonetti, Virginia Gibson, Alan Copeland sing "I Got Rhythm."
Each does the song in a of a different decade: Corey, the 1920s; Leonetti, the 1930s; Gibson, the 1940s and Copeland, the 1950s.
Peter Ustinov demonstrates the sound of a distorted movie soundtrack in several languages. Plays customs officials from various countries
Also: The "Man on the Street" (Nye, Poston, Ustinov) explain why they grew beards.
Steve gets feedback on the show from the elevator man (Gwynne), a waitress (Jamison), and his Italian barber (Nye).

2.24 [82] The Steve Allen Show
09Mar1958
Host Steve Allen
Guests
comedian Lou Costello
singer Jack Jones
actress Dolores Gray
English Glamour girl Sabrina
and dance team Janik and Arnaut.
Highlights:
Lou Costello as Charlie Carwash, tries to take his own photo with the timer on his camera.
Jack Jones sings "What's The Use".
Dolores Gray sings "It's All Right With Me", and as Steve's mirror image in a dance number.
Sabrina attends cocktail party with Steve and encounters Gordon Hathaway (Nye), shy Mr. Morrison (Knotts),
and a doofus who doesn't know his name (Poston)
Janik and Arnaut perform.
Also: "The Allen Report to the Nation" is on subliminal TV advertising; interviews Nye (ad exec), Knotts (scientist),
and an actress (Joyce Jameson). Poston asks questions of "The Answer Man" (Allen).

2.25 [83] The Steve Allen Show
16Mar1958
Host Steve Allen
Guests
singer Lena Horne
actor Keenan Wynn
comedian Jack E. Leonard
singer Mark Murphy
and middleweight champion Carmen Basilio.
Highlights:
Lena Horne sings "Out Of This World" and "Push The Button" (with the cast of Jamaica)
Keenan Wynn plays various types of waiters.
Jack E. Leonard with a stand-up routine.
Mark Murphy sings "Two Ladies In De Shade Of De Banana Tree".
Carmen Basilio talks boxing with Steve.
Also: This episode contains Steve's laughing fit. As sportscaster Bill Allen, he gets a look at himself on the monitor and can't stop laughing.
Finally he talks with the coach of the New York Woodpeckers (Nye) at spring training.
The "Man on the Street" segment asks the opinion on the Basillo/Robinson fight of Knott, Nye, Poston, and Basillio.

2.26 [84] The Steve Allen Show
23Mar1958
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actress Anita Ekberg
comic actor Alan Young
song and dance man John Bubbles
singer Joni James
and singer Tommy Prisco.
Highlights:
Anita Ekberg plays Snow White in a parody of Person to Person. Poston, Knotts and Nye play the dwarves.
Alan Young plays the stage prompter (the man in the shell) during an opera performance
John Bubbles performs "Back Home Again In Indiana".
Joni James sings a medley of Italian songs.
Tommy Prisco sings "O Bella Mia".
Also: Steve is "The Answer Man." Steve emcees a ridiculous movie awards show with categories
like "Best Eating Scene" and "Best Angry Mob" with accompanying clips from silent films.

2.27 [85] The Steve Allen Show
30Mar1958
Host Steve Allen
Guests
ventriloquist Edgar Bergen
dancers The Step Brothers
actress Marie McDonald
and The All-American High School and College Basketball Teams.
Highlights:
Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy routine as George Washington and his father have a talk about the cherry tree.
The Step Brothers perform a routine with dubious assist from Nye, Knotts, Poston, and Allen.
Marie McDonald sings "I've Got You Under My Skin".
The All-American High School and College Basketball Teams.
Also: Steve plays Mad Libs with McDonald, Bergen/McCarthy, and Rayburn. He gets reviews of the show
from elevator boy Jules (Knotts), coffee shop waitress Sabrina (Jameson), and his barber (Nye).
Different types of interviewers include one who doesn't listen to his guest, a smiling host who hates her guest,
and a star-struck host (Knotts).

2.28 [86] The Steve Allen Show
06Apr1958
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actor-director Orson Welles
actress Jane Powell
ventriloquist Senor Wences
singer Alan Dale
and vocal group The Bay Bops.
Highlights:
Orson Welles performs the monologue from Shakespeare's MacBeth.
Jane Powell sings "St. Louis Blues" and "Ave Maria."
Senor Wences talks to his hand and has Steve's head in a box.
Alan Dale sings "The Valley Of The Moon".
The Bay Bops (dressed as babies) do "Joannie".
Also: Steve hosts a teen dance show in a take-off of American Bandstand with Poston in uniform
a la Elvis lip-synching to "Blue Suede Shoes." Steve talks with the "Man on the Street" at the Easter
parade with Knotts, Jameson and Powell.

2.29 [87] The Steve Allen Show
13Apr1958
Host Steve Allen
Guests
singer-dancer Sammy Davis Jr.
singer Carmen McRae
comic actress Dody Goodman
actresses Jayne Meadows and Audrey Meadows.
Highlights:
Sammy Davis Jr. sings "There's No Fool Like an Old Fool"
Carmen McRae sings "Passing Fancy" and "Yesterdays"
Dody Goodman as the "Billboard Girl" explaining baseball to Steve
Jayne Meadows and Audrey Meadows with Goodman sing a parody
of "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" about the latest hideous dress fashions
Also: "The Allen Report to the Nation" is on the recession, talking with a CPA (Nye),
an average American (Knotts) who thinks he's talking to Edward R. Murrow, and a tax expert (Poston).
In a sequel to a 2/23/1958 sketch, Audrey Meadows plays the new bossy
nurse taking care of Steve and Jayne's new baby. Poston poses answers to "The Question Man" (Steve).

2.30 [88] The Steve Allen Show
20Apr1958
Host Steve Allen
Guests
entertainer Bob Hope
singer Patrice Munsel
trumpeter Ray Anthony
comic actor Johnny Haymer
and singer David Allen.
Highlights:
Bob Hope on film, talks with Fred Haney (manager, Milwaukee Braves), Lew Burdette (Milwaukee Braves),
Duke Snider (L.A. Dodgers) and Willie Mays (San Francisco Giants).
Patrice Munsel sings "That Old Black Magic", duets with Steve on "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby".
Ray Anthony plays "I Can't Give You Anything But Love".
Johnny Haymer does stand-up monologue.
David Allen sings "Lovely to Look At".
Also: Steve plays "Mad Libs" with the guests. Chaos erupts as the experts (Poston, Nye, Knotts)
of "The Allen Bureau of Standards" test Pennypacker Paint.

2.31 [89] The Steve Allen Show
27Apr1958
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actress Claudette Colbert
singer Toni Arden
humorist Abe Burrows
bandleader Xavier Cugat and his wife singer Abbe Lane.
Highlights:
Claudette Colbert as star of an anthology series (think Loretta Young) hawking Glammo soap,
a variety show (Dinah Shore) with Knotts as Frank Sinatra, and a guest on a talk show (Jack Paar)
Toni Arden sings "Padre".
Abe Burrows does comedy monologue accompanied by Steve on piano
Abbe Lane sings "Lady in Red".
Xavier Cugat plays for Lane.
Also: Poston quizzes Steve as The Answer Man." Knotts is the contestant on
a low-budget game show where host Steve puts him in an isolation booth (phone booth) to ask a $1 question.

2.32 [90] The Steve Allen Show
04May1958
Host Steve Allen
Guests
bandleader Count Basie
musicians Joe Bushkin and Teddy Wilson
actress Jane Powell
singer Phil Harris
and Igor and 4 (comics Paul Mazursky and Herb Hartig).
Highlights:
Count Basie, Joe Bushkin and Teddy Wilson, in a live remote
from the "Round Table" jazz club on East 50th, each performs individually, then together on "One O'Clock Jump".
Igor and 4 stand-up routine
Jane Powell sings "Tenderly", conducts love scene with Steve via split screen.
Phil Harris sings "The Preacher & The Bear", joins Steve as jazz hipsters at wedding reception.
Also: The parody Were You There? features Knotts, Poston and Nye recreating the purchase of Manhattan Island.

2.33 [91] The Steve Allen Show
11May1958
Host Steve Allen
Guests
musician Lionel Hampton
singer Rosemary Clooney
actor Rory Calhoun
Highlights:
Lionel Hampton performs "Big Noise from Winnetka" and "Where or When," then playing piano with Steve Allen.
Rosemary Clooney sings "Who's Sorry Now?", "I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plans", and with Steve, a song about her hometown Maysville, KY.
Rory Calhoun barges in on a newscast, soap opera and boxing match to plug his supposed new movie Saddle Sores.
Also: "The Allen Report to the Nation" is on the current fashion rage, "The Sack Look". Steve interviews the designer (Poston),
a wholesaler (Nye), and a broke husband (Knotts).
Steve appears as "The Answer Man" (later used by Johnny Carson as Carnac the Magnificent).

2.34 [92] The Steve Allen Show
18May1958
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actress Julie Newmar
TV host Dick Clark
comedian Lou Costello
singers Ronnie Deauville
and Beverly Kenney
magician the Amazing Ballantine
advice columnist Abby Van Buren
comic actors Maurice Gosfield, Sid Gould and Franklin Pangborn.
Highlights:
Julie Newmar dances as part of the Ethical Neurotic Ballet Company, with Nye, Poston, and Knotts.
Dick Clark talks to Steve using teen slang (with subtitles), they sing "Sunny Side of the Street" with teen lingo
Lou Costello does a drill sergeant sketch.
Abby Van Buren chats with Steve about her new book.
Maurice Gosfield, Sid Gould and Franklin Pangborn in the "Man On The Street" sketch, they get lovelorn advice from Dear Abby
Ronnie Deauville sings "Someone To Watch Over Me."
Beverly Kenney sings "I Hate Rock & Roll" and "What Is There To Say?"

2.35 [93] The Steve Allen Show
25May1958
Host Steve Allen
Guests
musician Louis Armstrong
actor Peter Ustinov
pianist Van Cliburn
singer Barbara McNair
Highlights:
Louis Armstrong performs "Mack the Knife," "I'm Confessing (That I Love You)," and reads the poem "A Red Red Rose".
Peter Ustinov does a monologue as an old African missionary who'd been in the jungle too long, and plays the
odd characters Steve will run into on a cruise ship.
Van Cliburn plays the final movement from Tchaikovsky's piano concerto No. 1.
Barbara McNair sings "Too Late the Spring."
Also: A parody of Leonard Bernstein and his appearances on Omnibus, called "Bomnibus" with Steve,
as conductor Leonard Brainstorm, explains classical music composition with Peter, Louie, Don, and Louis Nye.

2.36 [94] The Steve Allen Show
01Jun1958
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actor Henry Fonda
puppeteer Shari Lewis
singer Mel Torme
comedienne Martha Raye
and jazz musicians Terry Gibbs, Gus Bivona, Gary Peacock, and Mundell Lowe.
Highlights:
Henry Fonda with Steve plays nervous fathers-to-be in a hospital waiting room.
Shari Lewis with Lamb Chop and Charlie Horse.
Mel Torme sings "Cuckoo in the Clock" and "Don't You Worry About Me".
Martha Raye sings "Talking a Chance on Love."
Martha teams with Torme for a medley: "Mountain Greenery" (Torme), "It Aint Necesarily So" (Raye),
"Blue Moon" (Torme), "Can't We Sail Away" (Raye) and "Gone With the Wind" (Torme/Raye).
Terry Gibbs, Gus Bivona, Gary Peacock, and Mundell Lowe with Steve on piano,
back Henry Fonda badly croaking Cole Porter's "Night and Day" on trumpet. Later, the group backs the cast on "Bye Bye Blackbird."
Also: Raye does as scene as it would be played on Broadway, then as it would be in
summer stock with incompetent actors Poston, Knotts, Nye and a cow.

[--] The Steve Allen Show
08Jun1958
pre-empted by "Shirley Temple's Storybook" "The Sleeping Beauty".

2.37 [95] The Steve Allen Show
15Jun1958
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actor Kirk Douglas
comedian Jonathan Winters
singer Joni James
singer Roy Hamilton
and vocal group The Hi-Lo's.
Highlights:
Kirk Douglas in "People Watchers" sketch at a restaurant as a table hoppper, a check grabber, and the guy who forces people to dine with him.
Jonathan Winters stand-up about a talent contest.
Joni James sings "At The Junior Prom".
Roy Hamilton sings "Ebb Tide".
The Hi-Lo's with "Foolish Things" join Steve, Gene and Skitch for "Mad Libs", then sing the comic result.
The Hi-Lo's perform "Impossible" and "Camptown Races".
Also: Experts Knotts, Poston and Nye test glass on "The Allen Bureau of Standards" with hula girls. Poston quizzes Steve as "The Answer Man."

2.38 [96] The Steve Allen Show
22Jun1958
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actor Jack Lemmon
actor Peter Ustinov
singer Jerry Vale
and jazz pianist-singer Jeri Southern.
Highlights:
Jack Lemmon plays "With All My Love" and "I'm Biding My Time" on piano,
jokes with Steve about possible LPs from other actors.
Peter Ustinov giving directions to Steve as an English, Austrian, and French cop,
and as different characters at an opera.
Jerry Vale sings "With You".
Jeri Southern sings "Am I Blue".
Also: "The Allen Report to the Nation" looks at summer recreation with Poston
as a boozy tennis pro, Nye in the pool with a mermaid's tail, and golf pro
Pat Harrington, Jr. who's carried piggy-back by his caddy (Knotts).

2.39 [97] The Steve Allen Show
29Jun1958
Host Steve Allen
Guests
pianist Oscar Levant
singer Tony Bennett
comedian Don Adams
singer Dorothy Collins
and 7-year-old trumpet player Sandra McCorkle.
Highlights:
Oscar Levant has comical chat with Steve, plays Gershin piece on piano
Tony Bennett sings "Young and Warm and Wonderful" and "Pennies From Heaven"
performed with kids on the street outside the theater.
Don Adams does monologue about adventure movies set in India
Dorothy Collins sings "Lover Come Back To Me" and "Never Love A Stranger"
Sandra McCorkle plays duet with Steve.
Also: Steve plays Mad Libs with Levant, Collins, and Bennett.
Steve lets the audience in on a practical joke on Louis Nye.
In the next sketch, all the other actors will deliberately blow their lines
and props won't work to see how he handles the disaster.

2.40 [98] The Steve Allen Show
06Jul1958
Host Steve Allen
Guests
singers Steve Lawrence
and Eydie Gorme
singers Pat Kirby
and Erin O'Brien.
Highlights:
Pat Kirby sings "Every Time".
Erin O'Brien sings "Honey Boy".
Also: A tribute to the original "Tonight" show (1954-57) which was hosted by Steve Allen.

[--] STEVE ALLEN presents STEVE LAWRENCE and EDIE GORME
27Jul1958
with special guests
Tony Bennett
Pat Carroll
Eddie Bracken
Don Adams

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