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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 NEW STEVE ALLEN SHOW (1961)
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ABC
Directors David Brown, Leonard Stern
Writers Stan Burns, Bill Dana, Sam Denoff, Buck Henry,
Mike Marmer, Bill Persky, Arne Sultan, Marvin Worth.
US Music/Comedy/Variety Show Fall 1961 14 episodes x 60 min
Hosted by Steve Allen
Regulars:
Louis Nye, Tom Poston, Bill Dana, Joey Forman, Dayton Allen, Dave Ketchum
Don Penny, Tim Conway and Buck Henry.
Announcer Johnny Jacobs
Les Brown and His Band of Renown
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ABC Wednesdays 7:30-8:30 (27-Sep-1961 to 27-Dec-1961)
[01] The Steve Allen Show [Premiere]
27Sep1961
Host Steve Allen
Guests
clarinetist Pete Fountain
and singer Sandy Stewart.
Highlights:
"The Allen Investigating Committee" spoofing a government agency's inquiry into
TV programming.
Allen as Chairman, Joey Forman assisting, the committee will focus its guns on
Louis Nye as a video producer,
Dayton Allen, known to the kiddies as "Captain Animal" and Buck Henry as the
verbose Mr. Unkind.
Allen as the "Musical Question Man" and an Ernie Pintoff animated cartoon
interview with a musician in a Jazz cellar.
[02] The Steve Allen Show
04Oct1961
Host Steve Allen
Guests
comics Pepper Davis and Tony Reese
singers Pat Kirby
and Frank Gari
and Belle Montrose (Steve's mum).
Highlights:
Davis and Reese try to record a song in a tiny nightclub while the singer gets
swacked.
Steve's mother appears briefly as Zuchine the human cannonball.
Dayton Allen pretends to be Groucho Marx in an airline movie bit.
[03] The Steve Allen Show
11Oct1961
Host Steve Allen
Guests
The Smothers Brothers
dancers Ruth and Jane Earle
comic Len Weinrib
and nightclub singer Philly Duke.
Highlights:
Allen as narrator, has some trouble with his tongue, which helps Jose Jimenez
(Bill Dana) describe a peculiar kind of fashion show.
Tom and Dick Smothers make a batch of sound effects in a folk song.
The nimble Earle twins dance and Philly Duke sings.
Sketch about the history of thinking.
[04] The Steve Allen Show
18Oct1961
Host Steve Allen
Guests
comedians Carl Reiner
and Mel Brooks
singer Barbara McNair
and the Newsboy Jazz Band.
Highlights:
Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks do a 2,000 year old man sketch.
Barbara McNair sings "Hallelujah, I Just Love That Man".
Allen does "The Song Is You".
The Newboys perform "Cherry Point."
Dave Ketchum and Don Penny as the "You-Name-It-Brothers"
[05] The Steve Allen Show
25Oct1961
Host Steve Allen
Guests
singers Jack Jones
and Jennie Smith
and the singing comic group The Characters.
Highlights:
Prizefighter sketch.
Jennie Smith sings "I Have to Pass Your House"
Jack Jones sings "They Didn't Believe Me".
Dave Ketchum and Don Penny as the "You-Name-It-Brothers"
[06] The Steve Allen Show
01Nov1961
Host Steve Allen
Guests
singer Irene Kral
jazzman Les McCann
and comic Charlie Manna.
Highlights:
Steve Allen reads modern pop lyrics as poetry.
A takeoff on Garry Moore's "That Wonderful Year" segment, "That Nifty Year".
Irene Kral sings "Deed I Do".
Les McCann performs "The Shout."
[07] The Steve Allen Show
08Nov1961
Host Steve Allen
Guests
singer Carol Sloane
and vocal group the Town Pipers.
Highlights:
A "Sing Along With Mitch" parody features Louis Nye singing "Thmiles" and Jose
Jimenez (Dana)
singing "Jappy in Lob".
[08] The Steve Allen Show
15Nov1961
Host Steve Allen
Guests
comic actor Marty Ingels
[09] The Steve Allen Show
22Nov1961
From San Francisco
Host Steve Allen
Guests
singer Joanie Sommers
Highlights:
Joanie sings "I Like the Likes of You" and "Blues in the Night".
[10] The Steve Allen Show
29Nov1961
Host Steve Allen
Guests
Sophia Loren
and comics Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks.
Highlights:
Reiner and Brooks do a 2,000 year-old-man sketch.
Allen performs "Sophia".
Also a bank sketch.
[11] The Steve Allen Show
06Dec1961
Host Steve Allen
Guests
singer Marilyn Maye
the Hi-Lo's
Carl Reiner
and comic actor Sid Gould.
Highlights:
Marilyn Maye sings "But Not For Me".
Smothers Brothers do "The Boatman".
The Hi-Lo's perform "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby".
Sketch with Reiner as a foppish fashion designer.
Sketch: Men at the Unemployment Counter and The Critic's Corner.
[12] The Steve Allen Show
13Dec1961
From Pacific Ocean Park
Host Steve Allen
Guests
The Smothers Brothers
Highlights:
The Smothers Brothers do "Streets of Laredo".
[13] The Steve Allen Show
20Dec1961
Host Steve Allen
Guests
singer Barbara Russell
and Steve's sons Steve Jr., David, Bill and Brian.
Highlights:
Barbara sings "This Could Be the Start of Something Big".
[14] The Steve Allen Show
27Dec1961
From the UCLA Campus
Host Steve Allen
Guests
actors Robert Ryan
and Arnold Moss
singer Connie Francis
and singer-actor Frankie Avalon.
Cameo by Jim Nabors.
Highlights:
Ryan and Moss read selections from Shakespeare
under the direction of Jose Jimenez.
UCLA acapella choir, Bill Barnes, Rager Johnson, C.K. Yang and Chancellor
Franklin D. Murphy.
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