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Season 4 (NBC) (1959-60)
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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  The Steve Allen Plymouth Show
NBC Mondays 8pm Series now based in Hollywood.

Hosted by Steve Allen
Plus regulars Louis Nye, Don Knotts, Bill Dana, Pat Harrington Jr. and Gabe Dell.
with Les Brown and His Band of Renown

4.01 [135] The Steve Allen Show
28Sep1959 NBC Mon
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actor Tab Hunter
and The Nikolais Dancers.
Highlights:
Tab Hunter sings "After You've Gone" and "Long Ago And Far Away".
Also: In the big opening, Steve drives up to NBC Burbank with dancers on the roof and the regulars to greet him.
A spoof of Khrushchev's (Nye) visit to the U.S. has Knotts as Sinatra, Dayton Allen as a farmer, and Harrington as Dean Martin.
A look at summer TV has Mr. Clean leaving dirty footprints on a floor, and a Miss America pageant contestant who stars a striptease.
"Who's Who in TV" parodies David Susskind (Steve), Edward R. Murrow (Knotts) and Dayton Allen as an Olivier-type who's secretly Groucho Marx.
Big band number from Les Brown and his Band of Renown.

4.02 [136] The Steve Allen Show
05Oct1959
Host Steve Allen
Guests
singer Teresa Brewer
comedian Buddy Hackett
Jaime Laredo (violinist from Bolivia, won the 1959 Queen Elizabeth of Belgium International Music Competition)
and The Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
Highlights:
Steve and his band of regulars poke fun at beatniks in a coffehouse sketch,
and do a take-off on the Denny Band who specialize in jungle calls and noises.
Teresa Brewer singing "All by Mvself" and "When You 're Alone."

4.03 [137] The Steve Allen Show
12Oct1959
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actor Lee Marvin
The King Sisters
singer Crystal Joy.
Highlights:
The King Sisters sing "Early Autumn" with male dancers.
Crystal Joy sings "What Is A Woman" (with Les Brown & His Band).
Also: Sportscaster "Bill" Allen looks at (ridiculous) football players. Blackouts about bottles feature nervous Knotts trying to build a ship in one, a noisy morning milkman, and a bottle that won't open despite the efforts of everyone at the party. Steve appears as "The Answer Man" (bit later used by Johnny Carson as "Carnac"). A traditional Western gun fight scene with Marvin is re-staged with beatniks using hipster lingo and groovy music, and as a vampire movie with Dell doing a Bela Lugosi dialect.

4.04 [138] The Steve Allen Show
19Oct1959
Host Steve Allen
Guests
singer-actress Lola Albright
singer Tony Bennett
and the Nikolais Dancers.
Highlights:
Lola Albright sings "Glad To Be Unhappy", demonstrates why singers lip sync on shows:
love scene with Nye making crazy romantic sounds during her song, out of breath during a dance number,
and with Steve when they get confused and "sing" the other person's lines
Tony Bennett sings "That Old Black Magic," "April In Paris," "Just In Time," and "With Plenty of Money and You".
Also: The channel is changed during Steve's monologue to a Bat Masterson parody, a Mexican hat dance show,
and the "Foot Brothers" dancers. Steve chats with a couple in the audience and gives them a salami.

[--] The Steve Allen Show
26Oct1959
pre-empted Hall of Fame "Winterset" with Don Murray, Piper Laurie, George C. Scott and Charles Bickford.

4.05 [139] The Steve Allen Show
02Nov1959
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actor Rock Hudson
comedian Johnny Carson
singer-actress Jayne Meadows
and singer Jane Harvey.
Highlights:
Rock Hudson appears in a bit about stars being interviewed at movie premieres
Johnny Carson with a monologue.
Jayne Meadows sings "Flattery" with Steve.
Jane Harvey sings.

4.06 [140] The Steve Allen Show
09Nov1959
Host Steve Allen
Guests
singer Peggy Lee
actor Chuck Connors
toastmaster George Jessel
and singer Billy Eckstine.
Highlights:
Peggy Lee sings "How Can You Replace a Dream", "It's Alright" and "Smack Dab in the Middle".
Billy Eckstine sings "Stella by Starlight".
Tall Connors causes trouble on a Western movie set designed for its short star.
George Jessel with a comedy monologue.
Also: Steve chats and dances with himself as vaudeville performer "Mr. Show Business."
In the news magazine, Nye is a snobby food critic and Knotts tests the "invisible shield" talked about in many commercials.

4.07 [141] The Steve Allen Show
16Nov1959
Host Steve Allen
Guests
poet Jack Kerouac
actor William Bendix
singer Frankie Laine
and female vocalist Pam Garner.
Highlights:
Jack Kerouac ("beat generation" poet) reads from "Visions Of Cody" (with Steve accompanying on piano).
Frankie Laine sings "Marie" and "Lover Come Back To Me".
William Bendix plays same family-at-breakfast sketch in various : wacky sitcom with canned laughter, full of violence, etc.
Pam Garner sings "The Girl With The Long Black Hair".
Also: "Crazy Shots", a series of quick sight gags, opens the show. "The Allen Report to Nation" investigates
the common cold with Nye, Knotts, and Dayton Allen. Steve plays "The Answer Man" with beatnik lingo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGGXhmJoNaE&list=PL8HRX5j7hNmfI63emNdPKM73-TfUETwsg&index=3&t=0s

4.08 [142] The Steve Allen Show
23Nov1959
Host Steve Allen
Guests
comic actor Mickey Rooney
singer Mel Torme
Jazz singer June Christy
and novelty music act The Nutty Squirrels.
Highlights:
Mickey Rooney as the understudy performing all the roles in a murder mystery play.
Mel Torme sings "Blue Moon", sings medley with Steve and June.
June Christy sings "Midnight Sun".
The Nutty Squirrels in squirrel costumes, singing like The Chipmunks, do their novelty hit "Uh! Oh!"
Also: The Nutley/Hinkley/Butley/Winkley Report with Dana (Jose Jimenez) teaching Santa school, Rooney writing Christmas songs,
and Knotts as a bell ringer. Nervous Knotts is a speaker at a medical convention who takes tranquilizers during his speech and dozes off.

4.09 [143] The Steve Allen Show
30Nov1959
Host Steve Allen
Guests
comic actor Tony Randall
comedian Buddy Hackett
singer Miriam Makeba
and singer Jo Stafford.
Highlights:
Tony Randall in a horror musical, enters a castle full of vampires and is turned into one,
with hunchback Boris (Knotts) and a vampire killer (Harrington).
Buddy Hackett with a stand-up about married life.
Miriam Makeba sings "Intoyam" and "Lovely Eyes".
Jo Stafford sings "Speak Low", medley with Steve about pianos.
Also: Steve plays Mad Libs with the guest stars. Harrington talks live with world leaders
including Knotts as a puppet ruler (who's literally a puppet) and the president of a Latin American
country who's replaced every few minutes. A discussion of how beds effect our everyday lives.

[--] The Steve Allen Show
07Dec1959
pre-empted by "The Philadelphia Story Special" with Diana Lynn, Gig Young, Christopher Plummer, Mary Astor, Don DeFore and Ruth Roman.

4.10 [144] The Steve Allen Show
14Dec1959
Host Steve Allen
Guests
singer Vic Damone
pianist Andre Previn
singer Sandra 'Sandy' Warner
and actress-singer Jayne Meadows.
Highlights:
Vic Damone sings "Me And My Shadow" and "Falling In Love With Love".
Andre Previn does a duet on "Whats New?" with Steve as both play pianos and guests dance.
Sandra Warner sings "All I Want For Christmas Is Your Love".
Also: "The Man on the Street" asked about the president's goodwill tour include Harrington,
Dana (Jose Jimenez), and Nye (Gordon Hathaway). Steve gives bar patron Don lousy marital advice,
leading to the Allen family at home (with Jayne and their kids Steve Jr., Brian, and David).

4.11 [145] The Steve Allen Show
21Dec1959
Host Steve Allen
Guests
cowboy actor/singer Gene Autry
singer Patti Page
comedian/impressionist Frank Gorshin.
Highlights:
Gene Autry performs Christmas songs on his guitar.
Patti Page sings songs from The Sound of Music.
Also: On "Where are They Now?, Steve interviews a lion tamer, a champion skier, and a silent movie star.

4.12 [146] The Steve Allen Show
28Dec1959
Host Steve Allen
Guests
singer David Allen
singer Irene Kral
The Nicolais Dancers
Also on this show:
The 10th Annual Magazine Awards (remote from New York City).
Former Steve Allen Show regular Tom Poston presents awards to Fred Astaire, Walter Cronkite, Garry Moore,
Red Skelton, Jane Wyatt and Robert Young.

4.13 [147] The Steve Allen Show
04Jan1960
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actor Keenan Wynn from the NBC TV series "Troubleshooters"
dancer-actress Sheree North
pianist Roger Williams
and Belle Montrose (vaudeville performer, Steve Allen's mother).
Highights:
Belle Montrose performs one of her old vaudeville routines with Steve.

4.14 [148] The Steve Allen Show
11Jan1960
Host Steve Allen
Guests
singer Tony Bennett
singer-actress Jayne Meadows
comedienne Caroline Richter
and Swedish singer Monica Zetterlund.
Highlights:
Jayne Meadows plays the bride in the musical Wife of Frankenstein with the mad doctor (Steve),
the monster (Louis) and Igor (Bill Dana) who also falls for her charms.
Caroline Richter with a monologue as a society woman talking to her ex-husband.
Tony Bennett sings "Taking a Chance on Love", "in My Solitude", "Sing You Sinners", "Wait for Me" with Steve.
Monica Zetterlund sings "I Can't Give You Anything But Love".
Also: In the audience Steve talks a chaplain, giggling tourists from Seattle, and a 16-year-old girl to whom he awards a giant salami.

4.15 [149] The Steve Allen Show
18Jan1960
Host Steve Allen
Guests
comedian Jimmy Durante
singer Peggy Lee
singer Bobby Di Neri

4.16 [150] The Steve Allen Show
25Jan1960
Host Steve Allen
Guests
comic actor Tony Randall
singer Jo Stafford
and Jean Wald and her Swingin' Mothers (jazz band consisting entirely of women over the age of 50).
Highlights:
Also: A bit on scene stealing in show business. "The Allen Report to the nation" is on presidential candidates.

4.17 [151] The Steve Allen Show
01Feb1960
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actress Jayne Meadows
singer Steve Lawrence
musician Carlos Montoya
Highlights:
Steve Lawrence sings "Night And Day," "After You've Gone," and "A Boy Around the House" with Steve and Jayne.
Carlos Montoya plays Spanish Flamenco guitar.
Also: In a take-off on theater and "method acting", Nye pretends to be a table and teacher Harrington eats off of him,
Jose Jimenez (Dana) performs Shakespeare, and a gangster ballet.

4.18 [152] The Steve Allen Show
08Feb1960
Host Steve Allen
Guests
singer Julie London
comedian Buddy Hackett
singer Julius LaRose
Highlights:
Buddy Hackett with a stand-up about family and kids.
Julie London sings "Cry Me River" and "It's A Blue World".
Julius LaRosa sings "'S Wonderful" and "There Will Never Be Another You".
Also: Steve introduces quick blackouts about newspapers. A Western star (Dell) holds auditions for a sidekick;
applicants include Hackett, Knotts and Nye. Steve plays "Mad Libs" with "Billboard Girl" Mittie Lawrence and audience.

4.19 [153] The Steve Allen Show
15Feb1960
From New York City's Colonial Theater.
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actor Henry Fonda
singer Tony Bennett
comedian Don Adams
singer Pat Kirby
and The Jazztet (experimental jazz group) .
Highlights:
Henry Fonda with Poston, confused by bizarre modern art at museum.
Tony Bennett sings "Anything Goes," "Come Rain Or Come Shine" and "Fascinating Rhythm" with Les Brown and orchestra.
Don Adams plays a courtroom attorney in a stand-up routine.
The Jazztet which includes Art Farmer, Benny Golson, and Curtis Fuller.
Pat Kirby sings "When My Ship Comes In".
Also: The show opens with a medley of songs about New York with Fonda, Bennett, Kirby, Dell, Nye, Poston,
and Steve and Dayton Allen, eventually running out of good songs. Steve promotes (phony) new books.
A mess hall banquet is held in honor of Elvis' discharge from the Army with regulars.

4.20 [154] The Steve Allen Show
22Feb1960
From New York City.
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actor Maurice Evans
comedienne Martha Raye
singer Johnny Desmond
and former series regular comedian Tom Poston.
Highlights:
Maurice Evans plays a British general in an American Revolutionary War sketch.
Martha Raye sings "Pennies From Heaven", does multiple takes of a sleeping pill
commercial with Poston and the two get stoned on them
Johnny Desmond sings "Time On My Hands" and "Please".
Also: "The Allen Bureau of Standards" examines a shoe company with experts Nye, Poston and Dana.
Raye, Allen and Evans sing "You Gotta Give The People Hope."

[--] The Steve Allen Show
27Feb1960
pre-empted by "Eisenhower's Journey to Understanding".

4.21 [155] The Steve Allen Show
07Mar1960
Host Steve Allen
Guests
singer Nat King Cole
actor Cyril Ritchard
comedian Charles Manna
and singer Ann Richards.
Highlights:
Nat King Cole joins Steve Allen for a piano duet.
Cyril Ritchard appears in a musical parody of "The Invisible Man".

4.22 [156] The Steve Allen Show
14Mar1960
Host Steve Allen
Guests
comedian Mort Sahl
dancer Juliet Prowse
singer Tony Martin
Highlights:
Mort Sahl with a stand-up routine.
Juliet Prowse performs to "Lorelei" with male dancers as sailors.
Tony Martin sings "The Sound Of Music" and "Undecided".
Also: The show goes "bizarro" when Steve interviews Martin with questions
designed for Prowse, Sahl (badly) sings Martin's song, Knotts does Sahl's stand-up,
Sahl performs Steve's piano number (using a record player), and Nye necks with woman in audience.
At the movie premiere of Can-Can, (on film) Steve interviews celebrities including Fred MacMurray
and wife June Haver, Jayne Mansfield and husband Mickey Hargitay, Tony Randall and wife Florence Gibbs,
Buddy Adler and wife Anita Louise. Jose Jimenez does live commercial for Plymouth.

4.23 [157] The Steve Allen Show
21Mar1960
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actress Ann Blyth
actor Nick Adams
comedian Jan Murray
and the Alwin Nikolais Dancers.
Highlights:
Ann Blyth sings "Baubles, Bangles And Beads." With Steve, depicts the evolution of a singer from a nervous amateur to a confident diva.
Nick Adams (actor, from the TV'a The Rebel) sings "I Fell In Love With The Enemy".
Jan Murray monologue on his last series.
The Alwin Nikolais Dancers performs.
Also: Steve shows newspaper headlines which are accompanied by short sight gags. Knotts, as a pitcher at spring train, is seen in slow motion.
Steve quizzes patrons of a British pub (Nye, Dell, Dana as Jiminez) about the marriage of Princess Margaret. At an actors' union meeting has
Adams representing the character actors as a Civil War soldier, Nye as Marlon Brando for the tough guys, and Dell as a stuntman.

4.24 [158] The Steve Allen Show
28Mar1960
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actress-singer Diana Dors
composer Johnny Mercer
comedian Johnny Carson
and Belle Montrose, Steve's mother.
Highlights:
Johnny Carson does stand-up.
Diana Dors sings "Hooray For Love" in a production number.
Johnny Mercer duets with Steve singing songs about the weather, time, temperature and geography.
Belle Montrose as a wise-cracking elderly "Billboard Girl" for the older male viewers,
plus Nye as a sexy "Billboard Boy" for the women.
Also: Steve, in 1980, looks back at the 1970s with Dayton Allen as the man who cured the common cold,
Harrington as an astronaut who brings back a sexy blond Martian, and Nye in a TV show that combines education and entertainment (pies are thrown).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-mIsiKBRmU

[--] The Steve Allen Show
04Apr1960
pre-empted by the 32nd Academy Awards Presentation hosted by Bob Hope.

4.25 [159] The Steve Allen Show
11Apr1960
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actor Charlton Heston
Opera singer Rise Stevens
singer Jerry Vale
and comedian Jackie Mason.
Highlights:
Charlton Heston overacts scene from Ben Hur with Stevens, as different types of fans badgering a star (Steve) in a restaurant.
Rise Stevens sings number from Carmen, with Steve at the movies watching silent film stars (performed by cast).
Jerry Vale sings "Solitaire".
Jackie Mason with a stand-up routine.
Also: Steve channel surfs to a John Cameron Swayze (Nye) Timex commercial, Ed Sullivan (Mason), a surgeon who can't get
on his gloves (Harrington), a war movie (Knotts), Loretta Young (Nye), and more Ed Sullivan.

4.26 [160] The Steve Allen Show
18Apr1960
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actor Charles Laughton
comedienne Martha Raye
singer Mark Murphy
Highlights:
Charles Laughton plays a customer at nightclub who has to constantly tip for everything and is called onstage to be a magician's assistant.
Martha Raye sings "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm",
Mark Murphy sings "Two Ladies in de Shade of de Banana Tree"
Also: The cast breaks up frequently in a sketch with Raye performing at lousy nightclub; she falls through stage, is hit with boom mike,
and bandleader is Fats Banana (Knotts).

4.27 [161] The Steve Allen Show
25Apr1960
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actress Rhonda Fleming
actor George Sanders
Highlights:
Rhonda Fleming sings and dances.
George Sanders talks about his witty autobiography "Memoirs of a Professional Cad".

[--] The Steve Allen Show
02May1960
pre-empted by "Hall of Fame" George Bernard Shaw's "Captain Brassbound's Conversion" with Christopher Plummer and Greer Garson.

[--] The Steve Allen Show
09May1960
pre-empted by "An Evening With Fred Astaire".

4.28 [162] The Steve Allen Show
16May1960
Host Steve Allen
Guests
dancer-actress Ginger Rogers
singer Tony Bennett
pianist Erroll Garner
comedian Henny Youngman
and the Ralph Sharon Quartet.
Highlights:
Ginger Rogers sings and dances "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries".
Tony Bennett sings with the Ralph Sharon Quartet performs "Mam'selle", "Lullaby of Broadway", and "This Could Be the Start of Something Big" with Steve and Ginger.
Erroll Garner performs with his jazz group.
Henny Youngman does a stand-up routine. Also, he tells Steve women comics need to be more feminine, leading to a bit with slinky blonde (Rogers)
sashaying around her boudoir telling jokes in her nightie.
As head of new programs at "Screen Bombs" studio, Steve discusses their hit shows including,
new for fall, "The Wonderful World of Violence" where the host and announcer beat each other senseless.
Jose Jiminez (Dana) talks to Steve as an officer of the submarine Triton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OUrtUpuPLY&list=PL8HRX5j7hNmfI63emNdPKM73-TfUETwsg&index=3

[--] The Steve Allen Show
23May1960
pre-empted for Dow Hour of Great Mysteries "The Woman in White" with Walter Slezak.

4.29 [163] The Steve Allen Show
30May1960
Host Steve Allen
Guests
Opera singer Patrice Munsel
comedian Jonathan Winters
singer Phil Harris
The Buddy Cole Quintet
The North American Air Defense (Norad) Command Band.
Highlights:
Jonathan Winters acts out a prison movie
Patrice Munsel performs
Phil Harris sings "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette" backed by the Buddy Cole Quintet.
In a sketch, he auditions musicians for his band in a small town. The choices include a beatnik drummer, and a lousy singer/piano team (Nye, Allen).
For the show, Phil has them lip-sync to a record that keeps skipping.
The North American Air Defense (Norad) Command Band - a medley of patriotic songs
Also: Steve introduces the night's guests with the song "That's What I Like About the Show".
Steve asks about an impending theater actors strike at a Broadway bar. He speaks with hammy actor Sir Cedric Clive Olivier (Nye),
the bartender (Harrington), and playwright Jose Jimenez (Dana).

4.30 [164] The Steve Allen Show
06Jun1960 [Series Finale][Elyria Chronicle Telegram]
Host Steve Allen
Guests
singer-actress Diana Dors
pianist Andre Previn
comedian Mort Sahl
and singer-actress Jayne Meadows.
Highlights:
Mort Sahl with a monologue.
A "Nutley-Binkley-Butley-Winkley Report" on "What are people doing with their summer vacations".
His friends and regulars, Louis Nye, Don Knotts, Bill Dana, Pat Harrington Jr., Gabe Dell and Dayton Allen close out the show.

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