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 Season 7 (CBS Late Night)(1969-70)
Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by:Rina Fox
references:
TV Guide / Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (https://us.imdb.com)
UCLA Film and Television Archive / Writers Guild of America (wga)

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 CBS late-night Monday to Friday 11:30pm (1969-72)
Produced by Griffin Productions in association with the CBS Television Network
Produced by Bob Shanks; Directed by Kirk Alexander.
From Cort Theater in New York.
with Arthur Treacher and the Mort Lindsey Orchestra.

*Note: One of the interesting facts about the CBS years is that CBS destroyed/erased
all the Merv Griffin Shows that were taped.

 

 
7.01 [1188] Merv Griffin Show
18Aug1969 CBS [Debut on late-night]
Joining Merv each night are Arthur Treacher and orchestra leader Mort Lindsey.
Guests
comedian-playwright Woody Allen
actress Hedy Lamarr
actor Mickey Rooney
singer Leslie Uggams
comedienne Jackie 'Moms' Mabley
New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath
Kennedy associate Theodore Sorensen
and Mayor John V. Lindsay of New York.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6vkMgBfoxw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwlgNvyiMvE

*Note: Miss Miller in a crowded, junky room promotes her new favorite Merv Griffin whose talk show premieres in August 1969,
she is the woman from the Jack Paar audience.

THE MERV GRIFFIN SHOW (CBS, 11:30 p.m.1 a.m.). Host Merv Griffin,
long popular in a syndicated talk show, goes network five nights a week,
as CBS tries to buck the competition of NBC's Johnny Carson and ABC's Joey Bishop.

[Port Arthur News] August 24, 1969
Once known as the perfect butler in films, Arthur Treacher now serves at the side of Merv Griffin. He is the announcer-sidekick and sometime cataIyst on "The Merv Griffin Show,"
the five nights a week talk-variety series in color on the CBS television network.
The story of Treacher's transition from movie butler to television personality began some eight years ago when Griffin and his future aide-de-camp first met.
"I was filling in for Jack Paar on his late night show," recalls Griffin, "when one evening Arthur came on as a guest. I had never met him before, but our interview
was a howl, and the audience took to him immediately. "During a break for a commercial I leaned over to Arthur and said: 'If I ever get a show like this I want you
as my sidekick.' Arthur smiled back and replied, 'You're a dear man." That was the end of it for four years. One delightful chat, a casual comment and retort.
Griffin went his way, and Treacher his. "When I signed the deal for my syndicated talk-variety series," continues Griffin, "I immediately stated that I wanted Arthur
as the sidekick and announcer I absolutely insisted on it. When Arthur's agent called to tell him he had been offered a rather different sort of job, Treacher knew
before being told that it was for my show. And he accepted on the spot. No one was certain how Treacher would fit into such a program format but Treacher's candor
and dry humor quickly won audiences, and the onetime butler who made nearly 100 films and appeared prominently on Broadway said after six months at his newest job
that it is the most enjoyable work he has ever done.

7.02 [1189] Merv Griffin Show
19Aug1969 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
singer-actress Dinah Shore
actor James Mason
actress Hedy Lamarr
entertainer Tiny Tim
comedienne Phyllis Diller

and the singing duo Sonny and Cher perform "I Got You Babe".

 

7.03 [1190] Merv Griffin Show
20Aug1969 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
news anchor Walter Cronkite
former astronaut Walter Schirra
boxer Muhammad Ali
TV personality Art Linkletter
folksinger Joan Baez
and singer Wayne Cochran.

7.04 [1191] Merv Griffin Show
21Aug1969 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Ann-Margret
and her husband actor Roger Smith
comedian Redd Foxx
comic Lenny Schultz
singer-actress Della Reese
and folk singer Arlo Guthrie.

7.05 [1192] Merv Griffin Show
22Aug1969 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
singer Frank Sinatra Jr.
comedians Marty Allen
Rodney Dangerfield and Robert Klein
Penelope Ashe author of "Naked Came a Stranger";
singers Aliza Kashi and Ronnie Dyson.

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7.06 [1193] Merv Griffin Show
25Aug1969 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Danny Thomas
singer Eydie Gorme
actor Richard Benjamin
actress Paula Prentiss
actor Tony Randall
and singer Julie Budd.

7.07 [1194] Merv Griffin Show
26Aug1969 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
Tennis star Pancho Gonzales
writer Jack Douglas and his wife Reiko
Baseball player Jimmy Piersall
author Adela Rogers St. Johns
comedic duo Stiller and Meara
and composer-singer Mason Williams.

7.08 [1195] Merv Griffin Show
27Aug1969 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
commentator William F. Buckley Jr.
singer-actress Bernadette Peters
"Candid Camera" host Allen Funt
comedic duo Stiller and Meara
comedian Charlie Manna
and singer Dion.

7.09 [1196] Merv Griffin Show
28Aug1969 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comic actor Jerry Lewis
actor Sal Mineo
comedian Dick Shawn
Dr. Lendon Smith
Opera star Robert Merrill
singer Gilbert Price
and singer La Lupe, the Queen of Latin Soul.

7.10 [1197] Merv Griffin Show
29Aug1969 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Hugh O'Brian
actress Julie Newmar
raconteur George Jessel
stage actress Heather MacRae
comic Charlie Manna
anthropologist Dr. Margaret Meade
and The Cat Mother and the All-Night Newsboys.

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7.11 [1198] Merv Griffin Show
01Sep1969 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Hermione Gingold
singer-actor Bobby Sherman of "Here Come the Brides";
comedian George Carlin
Gwen Davis author of "The Pretenders";
singer Barbara Tai-Sing
and rock group The Free Design.

7.12 [1199] Merv Griffin Show
02Sep1969 [Boston Globe]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
TV host David Susskind
actor Hugh O'Brian
singer-actress Polly Bergen
comedienne Lily Tomlin
comedy team of Slappy White and Steve Rossi
Dr. Roger O. Egeberg, assistant secretary of HEW;
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Armstrong, parens of astronaut Neil Armstrong;
and singer Eloise Laws.

7.13 [1200] Merv Griffin Show
03Sep1969
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
Theodore H. White author of "The Making of the President"
comedic duo Phil Ford and Mimi Hines
actress Katie Drew-Wilkinson of the off Broadway production "Oh, Calcutta!"
TV personality Virginia Graham
comic Rip Taylor
and The Checkmates.

7.14 [1201] Merv Griffin Show
04Sep1969
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedians Soupy Sales
and Phil Leeds
psychiatrist Dr. James Brussels
singers Eddy Arnold
and Terry O'Meara
Merv's 9-year-old son Tony
and a Children's fashion show.

7.15 [1202] Merv Griffin Show
05Sep1969 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Zsa Zsa Gabor
singer-actress Madeline Kahn
comedian Robert Klein
former Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey
Senator Ford
cartoonist Harry Hershfield
and singer Oliver.

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7.16 [1203] Merv Griffin Show
08Sep1969 [The Record]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Chuck Connors
actress Betsy Palmer
comedy team of Patchett and Tarses
horticulturist Cleve Baxter
Jacques D'Amboise, lead dancer with the New York City ballet;
singer Wayne Cochran and C.C. Riders.

7.17 [1204] Merv Griffin Show
09Sep1969 [Democrat and Chronicle]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
Italian actress Virna Lisi
comics Myron Cohen
and Milt Kamen
Dr. Sam Sheppard, once convicted of the murder of his wife;
and singer-musician Jerry Lee Lewis.

7.18 [1205] Merv Griffin Show
10Sep1969 [Boston Globe]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
singer-actor Jimmy Dean
comedy writer Jack Douglas and Reiko
White House correspondent Merriman Smith
comedian Uncle Dirty
Cuban singer La Lupe
singer Wayne Cochran and the C.C. Riders.

7.19 [1206] Merv Griffin Show
11Sep1969 [Los Angeles Times]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
Senator Edmund Muskie (D-Maine)
comedian Pat Cooper
columnist Sheilah Graham
singer Steve Lawrence
pianist Erroll Garner
and rock group The Brooklyn Bridge.

7.20 [1207] Merv Griffin Show
12Sep1969 [Portsmouth Herald]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
poet Nipsey Russell
comedian Pat Henry
former boxing champ Rocky Graziano
Kermit Schafer collector of TV-radio bloopers
trombonist-comedienne Lillian Briggs
singer Eloise Laws
and pop duo Seals and Crofts.

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7.21 [1208] Merv Griffin Show
15Sep1969 [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
Newsmen Mike Wallace
and Harry Reasoner
actress-dancer Ann Miller (Broadway's "Mame");
comedienne Totie Fields
singer-songwriter Ray Stevens
and New York City Ballet dancer Jacques D'Amboise.

7.22 [1209] Merv Griffin Show
16Sep1969 [Naugatuck Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Mickey Rooney
actress Florence Henderson of "The Brady Bunch" (debut on Sep 26);
TV hostess Pamela Mason
comic Marty Brill
author Ayn Rand noted for her objectivist philosophy;
singer Julian Gallo
and musical duo Sandler & Young.

7.23 [1210] Merv Griffin Show
17Sep1969 [News Journal]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actresses Natalie Wood
and Dyan Cannon
actor Elliott Gould
humorist Sam Levenson
Jessica Mitford author of "The Trial of Dr. Spock";
Dr. William C. Shultz author of "Joy - Expanding Human Awareness";
sound effects performer Wes Harrison
and pop duo Seals and Croft.

7.24 [1211] Merv Griffin Show
18Sep1969 [Press-Gazette]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Zsa Zsa Gabor
actor Robert Culp
playwright Garson Kanin
comedian-actor Orson Bean
comedian David Steinberg
ventriloquist Willie Tyler and Lester
and singer-actress Eartha Kitt.

7.25 [1212] Merv Griffin Show
19Sep1969 [News Journal]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Dorothy Lamour
actress Diane Keaton
comedian Pat Cooper
author Kevin Phillips
singer Aliza Kashi
and pop group Sha Na Na.

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7.26 [1213] Merv Griffin Show
22Sep1969 [Los Angeles Times]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Joan Crawford
N.J. First Lady Betty Hughes (wife of NJ Governor Richard Hughes);
comedienne Dorothy Loudon
comedian Rodney Dangerfield
and singer Jerry Butler.

7.27 [1214] Merv Griffin Show
23Sep1969 [Montreal Star]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Alejandro Rey of "The Flying Nun";
journalist David Schoenbrun
comedian Jackie Mason
comedienne Fannie Flagg
pschologist Dr. Joyce Brothers
and Opera star Beverly Sills.

7.28 [1215] Merv Griffin Show
24Sep1969 [Daily Gazette]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
raconteur Henry Morgan
actress Phyllis Newman
comedy writer Selma Diamond
horticulturist Thalassa Cruso
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Armstrong, parents of astronaut Neil Armstrong,
trumpet player Al Hirt
and singer Vivian Reed.

7.29 [1216] Merv Griffin Show
25Sep1969 [Evening Tribune]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
TV host Ed Sullivan
actresses Phyllis Newman
and Pamela Mason
former football player Roosevelt Grier
comedienne Joan Rivers
Dr. Laurence J. Peter author of "The Peter Principle";
singer Stevie Wonder
and pop group Country Joe and the Fish.

7.30 [1217] Merv Griffin Show
26Sep1969 [Montreal Star]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedian Jack E. Leonard
singer-songwriter Paul Anka
comic Brother Theodore
magazine editor Helen Gurley Brown
skiing star Jean Claude Killey
entertainer Monti Rock III
Cuban singer La Lupe
and singer Ronnie Dyson.

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7.31 [1218] Merv Griffin Show
29Sep1969 [Los Angeles Times]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Brian Aherne
actress Ina Balin
comedian Jack Carter
comic Rip Taylor
author-student James Simon-Kunen
and singer Della Reese.

7.32 [1219] Merv Griffin Show
30Sep1969 [Montreal Star]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
Senator Edmund Muskie
raconteur George Jessel
actress Phyllis Newman
New York's Consumer Affairs Bess Myerson Grant
comedian Roger Ray
author Adela Rogers St. John
comedy team Fiore and Eldridge
and pianist Lorin Hollander.

7.33 [1220] Merv Griffin Show
01Oct1969 [The Record]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
Mrs. Coretta King
actor Robert Shaw
comedian Robert Klein
songstress Jane Morgan
singers Anthony Newley
and Ronnie Dyson.

7.34 [1221] Merv Griffin Show
02Oct1969 [Montreal Star]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
journalist I.F. Stone
comedians Jackie Vernon
and Ron Carey
comedienne Marcia Wallace
dog trainer Charles Eisenman
singer-songwriter John Denver
singer Emily Yancy
and jazz violinist John Blair.

7.35 [1222] Merv Griffin Show
03Oct1969 [Naugatuck Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Mamie Van Doren
comedians Morey Amsterdam
and Jack E. Leonard
comic Adam Keefe
designer Mr. John
singer Aliza Kashi
singer-songwriter Bert Sommer
and The Ishange African Dancers.

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7.36 [1223] Merv Griffin Show
06Oct1969 [Boston Globe]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Eli Wallach
and his wife actress Anne Jackson
"Candid Camera's" Allen Funt
comedian Wes Harrison
Joe McGinness author of "The Selling of the President";
and singer Kaye Hart.

7.37 [1224] Merv Griffin Show
07Oct1969 [Evening Sun]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
Senator Charles Goodell (R-NY)
producer-host David Susskind
actress Anjelica Huston (daughter of director John Huston)
Assaf "Assi" Dayan (son of Israeli defense minister Moshe Dayan) "Walk With Love and Death".
comedian Adam Keefe
singers Anthony Newley
and Jimmy Helms.

7.38 [1225] Merv Griffin Show
08Oct1969 [Port Arthur News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedian Orson Bean
actor Michael Meyers
actress Madeline Kahn
Dr. Christian Barnard
Group Captain Peter Townsend
singer Tony Martin
Sly and the Family Stone.

7.39 [1226] Merv Griffin Show
09Oct1969 [Morning Call]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Gloria DeHaven
dancers Arthur and Kathryn Murray
boxer Muhammad Ali
wrestler Ray Ramierez (Lucha Libre)
comic Milt Kamen
comedy team Patchett and Tarses
and The Canned Heat.

7.40 [1227] Merv Griffin Show
10Oct1969 [Montreal Star]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor-singer-dancer Danny Kaye
comedienne Peggy Cass
comic Marty Brill
entertainer Monti Rock III
former Major League Baseball pitcher Dizzy Dean
Morton Hunt author of "The Affair";
and singer Dorothy Morrison (was the original lead vocalist on the 1960's song "Oh Happy Day").

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7.41 [1228] Merv Griffin Show
13Oct1969 [San Francisco Examiner]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedienne Phyllis Diller
and husband Warde Donovan
former Dallas police chief Jesse Curry
comedian Louis Nye
singer Eloise Law
and songstress Jennifer.

7.42 [1229] Merv Griffin Show
14Oct1969 [News Journal]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
entertainer Jerry Lewis
actor Clint Eastwood
comic Robert King
Dr. Claire Weekes, author of "Hope and Health for Your Nerves"
singers Sacha Distel
Aliza Kashi and Ronnie Dyson.

7.43 [1230] Merv Griffin Show
15Oct1969 [The Times]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
TV personality Dave Garroway
actress Diane Keaton
TV hostess Virginia Graham
comedian Robert Klein
comedy team Steve Rossi and Slappy White
and singer Julie Budd.

7.44 [1231] Merv Griffin Show
16Oct1969 [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Ann-Margret
raconteur Henry Morgan
comedian Jackie Vernon
singer Tony Martin
entertainer Rolf Harris
Miss Angie Brooks of Liberia, president of the U.N. General Assembly;
and The Enchanted Forest, an all-girl rock group.

7.45 [1232] Merv Griffin Show
17Oct1969 [Corpus Christi Caller]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
raconteur George Jessel
actress Katharine Houghton
actor Michael Myers
comedienne Phyllis Diller
baseball star Ted Williams
comedy team Edmunds and Curley
Dr. John Kenneth Haviland, last surviving member of
an American unit that fought with the R.A.F. during the Battle of Britain;
and singer Eloise Laws.

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7.46 [1233] Merv Griffin Show
20Oct1969 [Tucson Daily Citizen]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Janet Leigh
comedian Soupy Sales
comic Jerry Collins
Morton Hunt author of "The Affair"
singer Mary Lou Collins
and soul singer Laura Greene.

7.47 [1234] Merv Griffin Show
21Oct1969 [Sacramento Bee]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
singer Shirley Bassey
actor John Forsythe of "To Rome With Love";
TV personality Virginia Graham
actor Michael Meyers
and the cast of the off-Broadway rock music hit "Salvation".

7.48 [1235] Merv Griffin Show
22Oct1969 [San Francisco Excaminer]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
Harrison Salisbury, news correspondent for the NY Times;
comedian Jackie Mason
comic Lenny Schultz
tenor Enzo Stuarti
singer Julie Budd
and X-rated actress Isabel Sarli ("Fuego"),
former model and former Miss Argentina.

Note: From this appearance, Jack O'Brian of the Daily News commented.
Jackie Mason managed to truck up the network TV air the other midnight with precisely
the sort of reckless misinformation and witless clowning we've watched escalate over the last few months . . .
On "The Merv Griffin Show", this leaden pantaloon inveighed against the Vietnam war, which could be anyone's
prerogative who brings a proper portfolio and some recognizable facts to the people's air. Performing like a
Ralph Nader immersed in a dose of sabotaged research, Mason cited, all manner of impossibly incorrect statistics,
figures and foolishness in his TV performance which might be defended as Comedian's License except that it wasn't
very funny, nor merry, nor even an incisive suggestion of a perceptive mind attacking the mysteries of geopolitics,
military psychology, cyclamates, you name it, and Mason missed each point with truculent, hard - hitting performing
ignorance. His splendid grasp of the vulgar obvious extended even to Griffin's segment with the star of the latest Bdwy.
42nd St. pornographic picture "Fuego," a zoftik Argentinian named Isabel Sarli whose English was expectantly insufficient,
although unlike Mason, Miss Sarli had an excuse . . . Our latest definition of "chutzpah" was Mason ridiculing Miss Sarli's
verbal problems . . . "She talks worse den me," he decided, not too convincingly.

7.49 [1236] Merv Griffin Show
23Oct1969 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
news journalist Eric Sevareid
actress Betsy Palmer hostess of "Girl Talk"
comedian Dick Capri
Opera star Robert Merrill
and singer James Brown.

7.50 [1237] Merv Griffin Show
24Oct1969 [News Journal]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Keir Dullea
actress Blythe Danner
comedienne Hermione Gingold
comedy writer Jack Douglas and Reiko
comedian Stanley Myron Handelman
industrialist William Lear
and singer Eloise Laws.

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[--] Merv Griffin Show
27Oct1969 [Press-Telegram]
pre-empted by Football

News item:
The Merv Griffin Show.
Merv and his show are on the West Coast in Los Angeles for a week beginning tonight.
First of five shows from Hollywood, followed by 5 from Las Vegas. Fans, take note that the timing
of the football game broadcast on the network may delay Griffin's Hollywood opening until 12:30 p.m.

7.51 [1238] Merv Griffin Show
28Oct1969 [Daily News]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedienne Carol Burnett
comedian George Burns
actress Eva Gabor
humorist Mort Sahl
impressionist David Frye
and singer-comedienne Vicki Lawrence.

7.52 [1239] Merv Griffin Show
29Oct1969
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedic legend Groucho Marx
comedian Jack Carter
comedienne Joanne Worley
Harold Robbins author of "The Survivors";
and folk singer Casey Anderson.

7.53 [1240] Merv Griffin Show
30Oct1969
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actors Dick Van Dyke
and Richard Dawson of "Hogan's Heroes";
actress Miyoshi Umeki
comedian Tim Conway
and singer Leslie Uggams with her "Sugar Hill" comedy team.

7.54 [1241] Merv Griffin Show
31Oct1969 [Orlando Sentinel]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Danny Thomas
and Robert Cummings
actress Elke Sommer
comedian Sid Caesar
TV personality Art Linkletter
and singer Della Reese.

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7.55 [1242] Merv Griffin Show
03Nov1969
Last show from Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actors Ray Milland
Mike Connors of "Mannix"
and Mickey Rooney
actress Virna Lisi
comedienne Barbara Nichols
TV personality Art Linkletter
and The Kim Sisters.

7.56 [1243] Merv Griffin Show
04Nov1969
From Las Vegas (at the International Hotel)
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actors Walter Matthau
and David Janssen
actress Barbara Eden
comedian George Carlin
singers Eddie Fisher
and Wayne Cochran.

7.57 [1244] Merv Griffin Show
05Nov1969
From Las Vegas
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedian Jack Benny
actress Zsa Zsa Gabor
actors Chill Wills
and Cesar Romero
comedian Marty Allen
singer-actress Lainie Kazan
and a resort-wear fashion show.

7.58 [1245] Merv Griffin Show
06Nov1969
From Las Vegas
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Ann-Margret
actors Roger Smith
Richard Dawson
and Chill Wills
comedian Shecky Greene
singers Glen Campbell
and Dorothy Morrison.

7.59 [1246] Merv Griffin Show
07Nov1969
From Las Vegas
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
entertainer Danny Kaye
comedians Jack Carter
and B.S. Pully
musical duo Sandler and Young
and the Nicholas Brothers.

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7.60 [1247] Merv Griffin Show
10Nov1969 [Los Angeles Times]
Last show from Las Vegas
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comic actor Phil Harris
comedians Shelley Berman
and Redd Foxx
singers Don Ho and Charo.

*Note: Program returns to New York after two weeks origination from Hollywood and Las Vegas.

7.61 [1248] Merv Griffin Show
11Nov1969
Back in New York
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
Senator Eugene McCarthy (D-Minn)
actress Helen Hayes
model Twiggy
comic Milt Kamen
singer Kaye Hart
and tenor Enzo Stuarti.

7.62 [1249] Merv Griffin Show
12Nov1969 [Independent]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
Rose Kennedy makes a rare special guest appearance in a half-hour interview about her family and its tragedies;
humorist Sam Levenson
comedian Pat Cooper
songstress Jane Morgan
and singer Ronnie Dyson.

7.63 [1250] Merv Griffin Show
13Nov1969
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Shelley Winters
actor Beau Bridges
director Norman Jewison of "Gaily, Gaily";
journalist-author William L. Shirer
comedian Adam Keefe
singer Eydie Gorme sings "When I Think of You";
and singing duo Sonny and Cher.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAgu4Jjg20o

7.64 [1251] Merv Griffin Show
14Nov1969 [Chicago Tribune]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Alejandro Rey of "The Flying Nun";
actor-impressionist Frank Gorshin starring on Broadway's "Jimmy";
singer-actress Madeline Kahn
comedian Uncle Dirty
singer-actress Melba Moore star of Broadway's "Hair".

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7.65 [1252] Merv Griffin Show
17Nov1969 [News Journal]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
astronaut Walter Schirra
actress Judy Carne
comic Myron Cohen
comedienne Dorothy Louden
singers Dana Valery
and Mary Lou Collins.

7.66 [1253] Merv Griffin Show
18Nov1969
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
comedian Dick Gregory
comedy writer Carl Reiner
comics Edmonds and Curley
and singer Martha Velez.

7.67 [1254] Merv Griffin Show
19Nov1969 [Charlotte News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
Elia Kazan director of the upcoming film "The Arrangement" based on his book
and the film's star Kirk Douglas
journalist I.F. Stone
and Morris "Red" Rudensky, one-time cell mate of Al Capone.

7.68 [1255] Merv Griffin Show
20Nov1969 [Courier-Post]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Jim Backus
singer-songwriter John Denver
comic Lenny Schultz
HEW secretary Robert H. Finch
Averell Harriman former chief delegate to the Paris peace talks
R&B singer Maxine Brown
and singer Lou Rawls.

7.69 [1256] Merv Griffin Show
21Nov1969 [San Bernardino County Sun]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
David and Julie Eisenhower
comedian Jackie Vernon
actress Hermione Gingold
UPI's White House correspondent Merriman Smith
comedienne Dorothy Loudon
singer-songwriter John Denver
and funk group Jenny's Daughters.

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7.70 [1257] Merv Griffin Show
24Nov1969 [Los Angeles Times]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
New York Mayor John V. Lindsay
actor Eli Wallach
actress Anne Jackson
singer Engelbert Humperdinck
folksinger Buffy Sainte-Marie
and poet-composer Moondog.

7.71 [1258] Merv Griffin Show
25Nov1969 [The Times]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedienne Totie Fields
Swedish actress Babette Bardot
comedy team Steve Rossi & Slappy White
journalist and political critic David Schoenbrun
and Opera star Robert Merrill.

7.72 [1259] Merv Griffin Show
26Nov1969 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Hermione Gingold
Dr. Joyce Brothers
comedian Jackie Mason
singer-musician Ray Charles
and singer Karen Morrow.

7.73 [1260] Merv Griffin Show
27Nov1969 [Boston Globe]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Kirk Douglas
star of director Elia Kazan's new film "The Arrangement",
comic actor Bob Melvin
actress Pam Meyers of the stage production "Company"
and singer Eloise Laws.

7.74 [1261] Merv Griffin Show
28Nov1969 [Evening Star]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
TV personality Peggy Cass
comedian Rodney Dangerfield
James Rado and Gerome Ragni actors and co-authors of the musical "Hair";
Cuban singer La Lupe
and vocalist Dorothy Morrison.

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7.75 [1262] Merv Griffin Show
01Dec1969 [Press-Telegram]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
humorist Art Buchwald
actor Michael York
comedian Tom Patterson
comic Marty Brill
and Warhol actress Viva.

7.76 [1263] Merv Griffin Show
02Dec1969 [Los Angeles Times]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
comedy writer Jack Douglas & Reiko
comedian Tom Patterson
comic Marty Brill
and singer Kai Moore.

7.77 [1264] Merv Griffin Show
03Dec1969 [Newsday]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedian Robert Klein
actress Madeleine Kahn
raconteur Henry Morgan
boxer Muhammad Ali
playwright Leroi Jones
singer-composer John Hartford
and singer Laurie Rogers.

7.78 [1265] Merv Griffin Show
04Dec1969 [News Journal]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
raconteur George Jessel
composer Burt Bacharach
comedian George Carlin
and singer Ronnie Dyson.

7.79 [1266] Merv Griffin Show
05Dec1969 [Independent]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Henry Fonda
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell
actor-producer Roger Smith
comedian-actor Orson Bean
UPI's White House Correspondent Merriman Smith
and singer-actress Julie London.

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7.80 [1267] Merv Griffin Show
08Dec1969 [Naugatuck Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Simone Signoret
Betsy Palmer hostess of "Girl Talk"
TV personality Virginia Graham
comedy duo Stiller & Meara
Swedish model-actress Gunilla Knutson (TV commercial "take it off" girl);
classical pianist Lorin Hollander
singers Ronnie Dyson and Kaye Hart.

7.81 [1268] Merv Griffin Show
09Dec1969 [Chicago Tribune]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Diane Keaton
magician Dieter Tasso
comedienne Louisa Moritz
psychiatrist Dr. Albert Hoenig
singer-actress Barbara McNair
and singer James Brown.

7.82 [1269] Merv Griffin Show
10Dec1969 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
director Otto Preminger
actor Jim Backus and his wife Henny
Hollywood columnist Sheilah Graham
and Country-Western singer Skeeter Davis.

7.83 [1270] Merv Griffin Show
11Dec1969 [Los Angeles Times]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
dancer-actor Gene Kelly
actress Betty Hutton
impressionist David Frye
magazine editor-writer Wyatt Cooper
and singer Bobbie Martin.

7.84 [1271] Merv Griffin Show
12Dec1969 [Los Angeles Times]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actresses Molly Picon
and Ann Miller
actors George Raft
and Michael Crawford
singer-songwriter John Denver
and songstress Eloise Laws.

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7.85 [1272] Merv Griffin Show
15Dec1969 [News Journal]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Dan Dailey
TV personality Steve Allen
and his wife actress Jayne Meadows
comedians Shecky Greene
and Dom DeLuise
comedienne Joanne Worley
and singer O.C. Smith.

7.86 [1273] Merv Griffin Show
16Dec1969 [Los Angeles Times]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actors Jack Palance
David Janssen
and Andy Devine
actress Myoshi Umeki
comedians George Carlin
and Jerry Collins
and Art and Henry.

7.87 [1274] Merv Griffin Show
17Dec1969 [Independent]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Walter Matthau
comedic actors Don Adams
and Tim Conway
Country singer-actor Roy Rogers
and his wife actress Dale Evans.

7.88 [1275] Merv Griffin Show
18Dec1969 [Independent]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Mickey Rooney
singer-actress Polly Bergen
comedian Shelley Berman
Country singer Glen Campbell
and musician Duke Ellington.

7.89 [1276] Merv Griffin Show
19Dec1969 [Los Angeles Times]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Peter Graves
actresses Marlo Thomas
and Barbara Eden
comedian Roger Ray
and singer Della Reese.

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7.90 [1277] Merv Griffin Show
22Dec1969 [Independent]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
TV personality Steve Allen
and his wife actress Jayne Meadows
comedian Jack Carter
actress Mamie Van Doren
actor Forrest Tucker
San Diego charger Lance Alworth
pop group The Association
and Dom DeLuise presents a spoof of Tiny Tim's wedding.

7.91 [1278] Merv Griffin Show
23Dec1969 [Independent]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Bob Cummings
comedian Richard Pryor
comic actor Pat Buttram
Western actor Rodd Redwing
and singing group The Blossoms.

[--] Merv Griffin Show
24Dec1969 [Oakland Tribune]
pre-empted for Christmas programming, "Sounds of Christmas".
"Let the Desert Be Joyful" a musical program with Alfred Drake
and the Tucson Boys Choir.

7.92 [1279] Merv Griffin Show
25Dec1969 [Chicago Tribune]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Danny Thomas
comedienne Carol Burnett
actors Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor of TV's "Green Acres";
singer-actress Eartha Kitt
singer Trini Lopez
and pianist Roger Williams.

7.93 [1280] Merv Griffin Show
26Dec1969 [The Times]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Angie Dickinson
actor Greg Morris
humorist Mort Sahl
comedian Albert Brooks
and singer Fran Jeffries.

==================================
7.94 [1281] Merv Griffin Show
29Dec1969 [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Charlton Heston
actress Elke Sommer
comedians Phil Silvers
and Richard Dawson
and rock group The Carnival.

7.95 [1282] Merv Griffin Show
30Dec1969 [Los Angeles Times]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Ernest Borgnine
actress Zsa Zsa Gabor
singer Della Reese
comedians Morey Amsterdam
and Marty Allen
magician Jay Carazini
dancer-singer Pamela Rodgers
and soul singers The Blossoms.

7.96 [1283] Merv Griffin Show
31Dec1969 [Los Angeles Times]
From New York
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Hermione Gingold
singer Eloise Laws
and entertainer Monti Rock III
and a cameras view of the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square.

7.97 [1284] Merv Griffin Show
01Jan1970 [San Francisco Examiner]
From New York
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Diane Keaton
actor Walter Slezak
comedian George Carlin
British director Jonathan Miller
and singer Melanie.

7.98 [1285] Merv Griffin Show
02Jan1970 [The Times]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedian Godfrey Cambridge
actress Madeline Kahn
comedy team of Edmonds and Curley
songwriters Lyn Duddy and Jerry Bresler
and singer Lori Rogers.

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7.99 [1286] Merv Griffin Show
05Jan1970 [Detroit Free Press]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Mamie Van Doren
columnist Earl Wilson
movie director Frank Perry
comedian Uncle Dirty
singer Jimmy Dean
and singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder.

7.100 [1287] Merv Griffin Show
06Jan1970 [Press-Telegram]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Vince Edwards
dancer-actress Gwen Verdon
Senator Jacob Javits of (R-NY)
humorist Sam Levenson
and singer Turley Richards.

7.101 [1288] Merv Griffin Show
07Jan1970 [Newsday]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (D-NY)
comic Milt Kamen
comedienne Louisa Moritz
anthropologist Margaret Mead
and singer Mary Lou Collins.

7.102 [1289] Merv Griffin Show
08Jan1970 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
"Cosmopolitan" editor Helen Gurley Brown
actress Pam Myers
comedian Jerry Collins
cartoonist Al Capp
and musical duo Sandler and Young.

7.103 [1290] Merv Griffin Show
09Jan1970 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Madeline Kahn
comedian Jackie Mason
and actor Harry Goz star of Broadway's "Fiddler on the Roof"
and singer Ronnie Dyson.

==================================
7.104 [1291] Merv Griffin Show
12Jan1970 [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedy writer Jack Douglas and his wife Reiko
political critic David Schoenbrun
comedienne Fay McKay
and singer Enzo Stuarti.

7.105 [1292] Merv Griffin Show
13Jan1970 [Press-Telegram]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
boxer Muhammad Ali
comedienne Moms Mabley
comedian Henny Youngman
comedienne Louisa Moritz
pickpocket Vic Perry
singer Jimmy Helms
and an excerpt from The Concept.

7.106 [1293] Merv Griffin Show
14Jan1970
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Maureen O'Sullivan
actress-singer Bernadette Peters
actor-singer Michael Crawford
Vine Deloria author of "Custer Died for Your Sins"
singers John Sebastian and Lesley Gore.

7.107 [1294] Merv Griffin Show
15Jan1970 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Maureen O'Sullivan
singer-actress Rita Moreno
comedienne Genevieve
and singer Dick Jensen.

7.108 [1295] Merv Griffin Show
16Jan1970 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Joan Crawford talks about her upcoming appearance on "The Virginian"
actor James Drury of "The Virginian"
"Hee Haw" comic Junior Samples
comedian London Lee
psychologist Dr. Cleo Dawson
and singer Julius LaRosa.

==================================
7.109 [1296] Merv Griffin Show
19Jan1970 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedienne Lucille Ball
actresses Claire Bloom
and Gale Dixon
comic Pat Cooper
theatre and film producer Hilly Elkins
Opera singer William Walker
and singer Eloise Laws.

7.110 [1297] Merv Griffin Show
20Jan1970 [The Times]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Rita Moreno
anthropologist Margaret Mead
comedy duo Stiller and Meara
and singer Browning Bryant.

7.111 [1298] Merv Griffin Show
21Jan1970 [Evening Star]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress June Allyson of Broadway's "Forty Carats";
syndicated financial columnist Sylvia Porter
Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano Grace Bumbry
and singer Dick Jensen.

7.112 [1299] Merv Griffin Show
22Jan1970 [Newsday]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
"Amateur Hour" host Ted Mack
baseball player Curt Flood
comedians Jack E. Leonard
and Soupy Sales
and singer-songwriter John Denver.

7.113 [1300] Merv Griffin Show
23Jan1970 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Hermione Gingold
singer-actor Gordon MacRae
comedy team of Patchett and Tarses
singers Charo and Lillian Briggs.

==================================
7.114 [1301] Merv Griffin Show
26Jan1970 [Los Angeles Times]
From Hollywood (Merv begins three weeks from Hollywood)
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
singer-actor Rudy Vallee
actress Jane Powell
and singing duo Sonny and Cher.

7.115 [1302] Merv Griffin Show
27Jan1970 [Boston Globe]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Ricardo Montalban
comic Jackie Vernon
comedian-musician Jack Sheldon
and singer-actress Madeline Kahn.

7.116 [1303] Merv Griffin Show
28Jan1970
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor George Hamilton
and Gary Puckett and the Union Gap.

7.117 [1304] Merv Griffin Show
29Jan1970
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Jane Wyman
comedian Dick Shawn
comic Albert Brooks
singers Fay McKay
and Lois Walden.

7.118 [1305] Merv Griffin Show
30Jan1970
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor George Raft
comedian George Burns
comic actor Tim Conway
and singer Robin Wilson.

==================================
7.119 [1306] Merv Griffin Show
02Feb1970
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Debbie Reynolds
actors Danny Thomas
and Richard Crenna
comedian Shecky Greene
and singer Sue Raney.

7.120 [1307] Merv Griffin Show
03Feb1970 [Press-Telegram]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedians Bill Cosby
and Dom DeLuise
comedy team of Steve Rossi and Slappy White
and blues singer Jimmy Witherspoon.

7.121 [1308] Merv Griffin Show
04Feb1970 [Press-Telegram]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actors Elliott Gould
and George Hamilton
actress Miyoshi Umeki
raconteur George Jessel
comic actor Pat Buttram
and comedian Stanley Myron Handelman.

7.122 [1309] Merv Griffin Show
05Feb1970 [Valley News]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Dan Dailey
and actress Julie Sommars of "J.J. and the Governor";
comedic actress Marlo Thomas of "That Girl";
socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor
comedian Marty Allen
singer Karen Morrow
and musical duo Boyce & Hart.

7.123 [1310] Merv Griffin Show
06Feb1970 [Daily News]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actors Robert Young
and Jack Palance
producer-writer Joe Hyams
actress-singer Madeline Kahn
comedian Marty Allen
and musician Jack Sheldon.

==================================
*Note: New timeslot for several CBS affiliates to move Merv's show to 4:30pm (afternoons).

7.124 [1311] Merv Griffin Show
09Feb1970 [rerun 08Sep70] [Press-Telegram]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actors Ernest Borgnine
and Eddie Albert
comedienne Totie Fields
comic actor Jerry Van Dyke
and singer-actor Robert Goulet.

7.125 [1312] Merv Griffin Show
10Feb1970 [Los Angeles Times]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Angie Dickinson
actor Bob Cummings
comedian George Carlin
comic Albert Brooks
film director Busby Berkeley
musician Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66.

7.126 [1313] Merv Griffin Show
11Feb1970 [Los Angeles Times]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Robert Wagner
actress Jane Wyman
comedian-actor Art Metrano
comedienne Pam Rodgers
singer-actress Lainie Kazan
and singer Della Reese.

7.127 [1314] Merv Griffin Show
12Feb1970 [Los Angeles Times]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Yvonne De Carlo
singer-actor Gene Autry
TV personality Art Linkletter
producer-writer Joe Hyams
comedian Richard Pryor
comedy writers Kenny Solms & Gail Parent
and singer-actress Eartha Kitt.

7.128 [1315] Merv Griffin Show
13Feb1970 [Los Angeles Times]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Betty Hutton
actor-producer Sheldon Leonard
comedians George Carlin
Jan Murray and Louis Nye
comedy team of Mantan Moreland and Roosevelt Livingood.

==================================
7.129 [1316] Merv Griffin Show
16Feb1970
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedian Phil Silvers
singer-actress Polly Bergen
actor Dick Gautier
feminist leader Ruth Dixon
TV hostess Pamela Mason
bandleader Freddy Martin and his Orchestra.

7.130 [1317] Merv Griffin Show
17Feb1970
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Desi Arnaz
singer-actress Shirley Jones
comedian Marty Ingels
B-movie actress Edy Williams
canine star Lassie
and The Bossa Rio musical group.

7.131 [1318] Merv Griffin Show
18Feb1970 [San Francisco Examiner]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actresses Eva Gabor
and Candice Bergen
actor Jim Brown
humorist Mort Sahl
Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty
and filmed interviews with the Indians occupying Alcatraz.

7.132 [1319] Merv Griffin Show
19Feb1970 [Daily News]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedian-actor Red Skelton
actresses Patty Duke
and Miyoshi Umeki
comedian George Carlin
restaurateur Mike Romanoff
and singing duo Sonny and Cher.

7.133 [1320] Merv Griffin Show
20Feb1970 [Press-Telegram]
From Hollywood (last Hollywood originated show)
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Jane Russell
singer-actress Lainie Kazan
raconteur George Jessel
comedian George Carlin
columnist Rona Barrett
and The Weir Brothers.

==================================
7.134 [1321] Merv Griffin Show
23Feb1970 [Boston Globe]
From Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Chuck Connors
comedian Jack E. Leonard
comic actor Jerry Van Dyke
comic Jerry Collins
singer Buddy Greco
entertainer Charo
and singer-dancer Joey Heatherton.
With special guest appearances by
Dean Martin and Milton Berle.

7.135 [1322] Merv Griffin Show
24Feb1970 [Press-Telegram]
From Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Rory Calhoun
actress Mamie Van Doren
comedian Jack Carter
Country singer Glen Campbell
singer-actor Jim Nabors
singer-songwriter Paul Anka
and dancer Baby Doll.

7.136 [1323] Merv Griffin Show
25Feb1970
From Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actors Gig Young
and Don Adams
comedienne Edie Adams
comedian Marty Allen
comedy team of Gaylord and Holiday
singer Jerry Vale and Sonny King.

7.137 [1324] Merv Griffin Show
26Feb1970
From Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedian Woody Allen
singer Abbe Lane
actor-singer Jimmy Dean
comic Stanley Myron Handelman
Motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel
dancer-singer Joey Heatherton
Dallas Cowboys star Lance Rentzel
and The Sunny Girls of Sweden.

7.138 [1325] Merv Griffin Show
27Feb1970 [Press-Telegram]
From Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Cesar Romero
comedian Jackie Vernon
actress Teresa Graves
comics Jack E. Leonard
and Leonard Barr
and singer Fats Domino.

==================================
7.139 [1326] Merv Griffin Show
02Mar1970 [Press-Telegram]
From Las Vegas
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedian-actor Don Adams
comedian Marty Allen
comic Sammy Shore
singer-actress Edie Adams
and singer Jerry Vale.

7.140 [1327] Merv Griffin Show
03Mar1970
From Las Vegas
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Connie Stevens
comedian Marty Allen
comedy team Davis and Reese
singer Don Cherry
and The Ritz Brothers.

7.141 [1328] Merv Griffin Show
04Mar1970
From Las Vegas
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
singer Pat Boone
actress Zsa Zsa Gabor
comedian Woody Allen
comedienne Ruth Buzzi
Jazz trombonist Turk Murphy
comic Albert Brooks
and The Establishment.

7.142 [1329] Merv Griffin Show
05Mar1970
From Las Vegas
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
singer Gordon MacRae
songstress Kay Starr
actress Zsa Zsa Gabor
comedians Redd Foxx
and Stanley Myron Handelman
circus performers The Goetschis
and Las Vegas pit boss Sherlock Feldman.

7.143 [1330] Merv Griffin Show
06Mar1970 [Chicago Tribune]
From Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Mickey Rooney
actresses Kathryn Grayson
and Sheila MacRae
humorist Jonathan Moore
singers Ella Fitzgerald
and Robin Wilson
and dancers The Nicholas Brothers.

==================================
7.144 [1331] Merv Griffin Show
09Mar1970 [News Journal]
From Las Vegas (last show from Vegas)
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
Governor Ronald Reagan
and daughter Maureen Reagan
actor Van Heflin
director George Seaton
humorist Mort Sahl
comics Irving Benson and Jack Mann
singer Lonnie Donegan
and Ike and Tina Turner.

7.145 [1332] Merv Griffin Show
10Mar1970
Back in New York
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
musician Louis Armstrong
comedienne Phyllis Diller
comedian-actor Godfrey Cambridge
Mrs. Ruth (Moshe) Dayan
and singer Oliver.

7.146 [1333] Merv Griffin Show
11Mar1970
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
entertainer Liberace
poet Nipsey Russell
comedians Don Rickles
and Pat Cooper
and singer Mary Lou Collins.

7.147 [1334] Merv Griffin Show
12Mar1970 [Chicago Tribune]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedian-actor Orson Bean
actress Madeline Kahn
comedian Jack Carter
TV personality Peggy Cass
CBS news correspondent Charles Collingwood
ventriloquist Willie Tyler and Lester
and singer-actress Tammy Grimes.

7.148 [1335] Merv Griffin Show
13Mar1970 [Chicago Tribune]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Shelley Winters
comedian Shelley Berman
singer-songwriter Paul Anka
singer-actress Lainie Kazan
and astrologer Maurice Woodruff.

==================================
7.149 [1336] Merv Griffin Show
16Mar1970 [Daily News]
A Salute to St. Patrick's Day.
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
actor Eddie Albert
Irish comic Jimmy Joyce
Irish folksinger Joe Hanley
singer Karen Morrow
and The Irish Rovers.

7.150 [1337] Merv Griffin Show
17Mar1970
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
singer-actress Florence Henderson
comedian Jackie Mason
comedy duo Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara
FCC comissioner Nicholas Johnson
and singer-songwriter John Denver.

7.151 [1338] Merv Griffin Show
18Mar1970 [Chicago Tribune]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
humorist Sam Levenson
comedian Rodney Dangerfield
Jacques Levy director of "Oh! Calcutta"
actors Mark Frechette and Daria Halperin
and singer Ronnie Dyson.

7.152 [1339] Merv Griffin Show
19Mar1970 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Jim Backus
comedians Tommy Smothers
and Leonard Barr
Allen Funt host of "Candid Camera";
singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder
and singer Eloise Laws.

7.153 [1340] Merv Griffin Show
20Mar1970 [Independent]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Joan Crawford
comedy writer Jack Douglas and his wife Reiko
comedian Jack Carter
comedy team Patchett and Tarses
and singer Gilbert Price.

==================================
7.154 [1341] Merv Griffin Show
23Mar1970 [News Journal]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedian Jack E. Leonard
model-actress Jane Birkin
comedienne Jackie 'Moms' Mabley
Dr. Joyce Brothers
pianist Peter Duchin
and singer Linda Bennett.

7.155 [1342] Merv Griffin Show
24Mar1970 [News Journal]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
singer-actor Harry Belafonte
actress Teresa Graves
broadcast journalist David Schoenbrun
comedy team of Lewis and Christy
basketball star Willis Reed
and singer Sergio Franchi.

7.156 [1343] Merv Griffin Show
25Mar1970 [News Journal]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Nicol Williamson
comedian Jackie Vernon
columnist Rona Barrett
comedy team of Edmonds and Curley
fashion designer Nina Zee
and singer Julie Budd.

7.157 [1344] Merv Griffin Show
26Mar1970 [Chicago Tribune]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Troy Donahue
actress Sylvia Miles
comedian Soupy Sales
etiquette authority Elizabeth Post
vocalist Kevin James
and Israeli singer Aliza Kashi.

7.158 [1345] Merv Griffin Show
27Mar1970 [Chicago Tribune]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
TV personality Virginia Graham
Mark Frechette and Daria Halprin stars of "Zabriskie Point
youth militant leader Abbie Hoffman
and Tony Dolan editor The National Review.

*Note: An angry discussion on "The Merv Griffin Show" on March 27, 1970 between Mark Frechette and Tony Dolan
a National Review editor ended up in a fight backstage.

*Note: Daily Report news item April 2, 1970
Virginia Graham discloses that Abbie Hoffman handed Arthur Treacher what was purported to be a marijuana cigarette after
the controversial Merv Griffin show. And that Arthur thunderously suggested how he should dispose of it .
Claiming Hoffman brought along a busful of sympathizers to boo, Virginia suggests opponents "should be granted equal bus."

*Note: CBS - TV network president Robert D. Wood revealed a little complication, however, when offering Hoffman on the Merv Griffin Show.
Hoffman committed a very photogenic piece of illegal desecration by wearing a shirt made from an American flag.
CBS let Hoffman do this, and taped the show. But the CBS Legal Department put a bug in Wood's ear. The lawyers told him state courts
had ruled such desecration a sauble crime, as if. in fact, CBS shouldn't have known that Hoffman himself was arrested in Washington in 1968
for this same act of wearing the shirt to a House Un - American Activities Committee session. Wood announced that Hoffman's shirt would
be electronically blanked out —but not Hoffman.

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7.159 [1346] Merv Griffin Show
30Mar1970 [News Journal]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedian Groucho Marx
actor Leonard Frey
columnist Sheilah Graham
comic Professor Irwin Corey
and singer Eloise Laws.

7.160 [1347] Merv Griffin Show
31Mar1970 [Press-Telegram]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
Mrs. Elliott (Patty) Roosevelt
raconteur George Jessel
actress Judy Carne
ventriloquist Willie Tyler and Lester
singers Buffy Sainte-Marie
and Ray Ramirez.

7.161 [1348] Merv Griffin Show
01Apr1970 [Press-Telegram]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
Today show host Hugh Downs
comedians Stanley Myron Handelman
and Leonard Barr
and singer Billie Joe Royal.

7.162 [1349] Merv Griffin Show
02Apr1970 [Press-Telegram]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
singer Lesley Gore
actress Betsy Palmer
poet Nipsey Russell
psychiatrist Dr. Rollo May
and "Planned Parenthood" spokesman Dr. Alan Guthmacher.

7.163 [1350] Merv Griffin Show
03Apr1970 [Press-Telegram]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedian Dick Smothers
actress Louisa Moritz
Walter Sullivan, science editor of the New York Times;
and singer Gilbert Price.

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7.164 [1351] Merv Griffin Show
06Apr1970 [Press-Telegram]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Hugh O'Brian
actress Diane Keaton
drama critic Clive Barnes
Hee Haw comic Junior Samples
comedian Rodney Dangerfield
and singer Eloise Laws.

7.165 [1352] Merv Griffin Show
07Apr1970 [Press-Telegram]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
singer-actress Sheila MacRae
cartoonist-playwright Jules Feiffer
and singer-songwriter John Denver.

7.166 [1353] Merv Griffin Show
08Apr1970 [News Journal]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
Governor Francis W. Sargent of Massachusetts;
actor Victor Buono
comic actor Bill Dana
golfer-singer Don Cherry
and talent agent Harvey Orkin.

7.167 [1354] Merv Griffin Show
09Apr1970 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Phyllis Newman
comedienne Totie Fields
comic Pat Cooper
singer Guy Rotondo
exercise expert Toni Beck
and The Brothers James singing group.

7.168 [1355] Merv Griffin Show
10Apr1970 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
sportswriter Joe Garagiola
psychologist Dr. Cleo Dawson
comedy team of Patchett and Tarses
singer Lillian Briggs
and The Mills Brothers.

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7.169 [1356] Merv Griffin Show
13Apr1970 [Press-Telegram]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Ingrid Bergman
comedian-actor Shelley Berman
"Hee Haw" comic Junior Samples
Robert Greene fashion editor of Playboy magazine
and singer Eloise Laws.

7.170 [1357] Merv Griffin Show
14Apr1970 [Press-Telegram]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor David Canary
TV personality Peggy Cass
NY Mets pitcher Tom Seaver
outfielder Cleon Jones
and Mrs. Diane Pike widow of Bishop James Pike.

7.171 [1358] Merv Griffin Show
15Apr1970 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedian Jackie Vernon
actress Louisa Moritz
singer Jimmy Helms
and The Supremes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-QOOWY2D7g

7.172 [1359] Merv Griffin Show
16Apr1970 [Press-Telegram]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actresses Maureen Stapleton
and Yvonne Constant
humorist H. Allen Smith author of "Rude Jokes";
and the impact of Brass Musical Group.

7.173 [1360] Merv Griffin Show
17Apr1970 [Press-Telegram]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
humorist Jonathan Moore
comedian-actor Orson Bean
TV personality Virginia Graham
guitarist-composer Mason Williams
and singer Jimmy Helms.

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7.174 [1361] Merv Griffin Show
20Apr1970 [Press-Telegram]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
Michael Wadleigh producer of the film "Woodstock".
comedienne Jackie 'Moms' Mabley
comedy team of Patchett and Tarses
Country singer Glen Campbell
and singer Linda Bennett.

7.175 [1362] Merv Griffin Show
21Apr1970 [Press-Telegram]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Eli Wallach
and his wife actress Anne Jackson
comic Stanley Myron Handelman
comedienne Carol Hannan
author Larry Colin Pogrebin
and singer Roberta Flack.

7.176 [1363] Merv Griffin Show
22Apr1970 [Detroit Free Press]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Hans Conreid
comic duo Phil Ford and Mimi Hines
comedian Morey Amsterdam
author Erich Segal
singers Evie Sands
and Bette Midler.

7.177 [1364] Merv Griffin Show
23Apr1970 [Press-Telegram]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
boxer Joe Frazier
talent agent Harvey Orkin
and singer Enzo Stuarti.

7.178 [1365] Merv Griffin Show
24Apr1970 [Press-Telegram]
Garry Moore is the guest host (Merv has laryngitis and is expected to return Tuesday)
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Zsa Zsa Gabor
actors Forrest Tucker
and Paul Ford
race driver Al Unser
comedian Stanley Myron Handelman
Dr. David Reuben
singer Mara Lyn Brown
and the winner of the 1970 Miss Nude America contest.

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7.179 [1366] Merv Griffin Show
27Apr1970 [Press-Telegram]
Garry Moore is the guest host
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
Opera star Robert Merrill
singer-dancer Gwen Verdon
comedian Dick Shawn
vaudeville comedy magician Roy Benson
author Harry Golden
and singer Linda Bennett.

7.180 [1367] Merv Griffin Show
28Apr1970 [Evening Review]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedians Milton Berle
and Jackie Vernon
exotic dancer Babette Bardot
Nicholas Johnson of the FCC
and singer-songwriter John Denver.

7.181 [1368] Merv Griffin Show
29Apr1970 [Press-Telegram]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Joan Crawford
actress Meredith MacRae
comedian Jackie Vernon
youth expert Dr. Charlie Shedd
and singer John Davidson.

7.182 [1369] Merv Griffin Show
30Apr1970 [News Journal]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Eve Arden
comics Shecky Greene
and Prof. Irwin Corey
"Cosmopolitan" editor Helen Gurley Brown
football star Gale Sayers
and comic duo Davis and Reese.

7.183 [1370] Merv Griffin Show
01May1970 [Newsday]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedian Jackie Mason
actress Yvonne Constant
humorist-author Harry Golden
comedienne Louisa Moritz
and singer Enzo Stuarti.

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7.184 [1371] Merv Griffin Show
04May1970 [Press-Telegram]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
composer Burt Bacharach
singer Dionne Warwick
actress Polly Bergen
film critic Clive Barnes
comic actor Orson Bean
humorist Jonathan Moore
and singer Little Richard.

7.185 [1372] Merv Griffin Show
05May1970 [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
New York Mayor John V. Lindsay
actress Julie Newmar
comedian Louis Nye
magazine publisher Huntington Hartford
singers Bette Midler
Jimmie Rodgers
and Eloise Laws.

7.186 [1373] Merv Griffin Show
06May1970 [Press-Telegram]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Peter Ustinov
actress Diane Keaton
Broadway actress Elaine Stritch
theatre director Jacques Levy ("Oh! Calcutta!")
cartoonist Al Capp
singer-songwrtier John Denver
singer Emily Yancy.

7.187 [1374] Merv Griffin Show
07May1970 [Charlotte Observer]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Shelley Winters
actress Bonnie Franklin of the Broadway musical "Applesauce".
theatre director Jacques Levy ("Oh! Calcutta!")
comedian Jack E. Leonard
fitness expert Debbie Drake
singer Jane Morgan and Sonny King.

7.188 [1375] Merv Griffin Show
08May1970 [Press-Telegram]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedienne Imogene Coca of Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirits";
writer Jack Douglas and his wife Reiko
comedienne Marcia Wallace
comic Jerry Collins
poet Brother Theodore
advertising executive Jacqueline Branwynne
and singer Kaye Hart.

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7.189 [1376] Merv Griffin Show
11May1970 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedian Milton Berle
actor Leonard Frey of "Boys in the Band"
Dorothy Andrews Elston, Treasurer of the United States
singers Sarah Vaughan
and Aliza Kashi.

7.190 [1377] Merv Griffin Show
12May1970 [Los Angeles Times]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedienne Totie Fields
poet Brother Theodore
comic Dick Capri
author Julius Fast
Andrew A. Smith
and singer Ronnie Dyson.

7.191 [1378] Merv Griffin
13May1970 [Los Angeles Times]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedy writer Selma Diamond
comedian Jackie Vernon
comedy duo Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara
Knicks basketball player Walt Frazier
Senator Robert Packwood (R-Ore)
and singer Kevin James.

7.192 [1379] Merv Griffin Show
14May1970 [Los Angeles Times]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
dancer-actress Gwen Verdon
comedian Godfrey Cambridge
writer Gore Vidal
George Ready, former press secretary to Lyndon B. Johnson;
and singer-songwriter Paul Anka.

7.193 [1380] Merv Griffin
15May1970 [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Jacqueline Bisset
poet Allen Ginsberg
humorist Sam Levenson
musician Earl Grant
and singer-composer John Denver.

==================================
7.194 [1381] Merv Griffin Show
18May1970 [Independent]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Kristoffer Tabori
actress Yvonne Constant
comics Professor Irwin Corey
and Jerry Collins
"official" witch of L.A. Louise Heubner
and musical duo Sandler and Young.

7.195 [1382] Merv Griffin Show
19May1970 [Independent]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedian Soupy Sales
actress Julie Newmar
comic George Carlin
journalist Sarah McClendon
singer Browning Bryant
and The Nashville Brass.

7.196 [1383] Merv Griffin Show
20May1970
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Pat O'Brien
comedian Morey Amsterdam
boxer Joe Frazier
newsman Herbert G. Klein
author Morris West
singer-songwriter Paul Anka
and singer Eloise Laws.

7.197 [1384] Merv Griffin Show
21May1970 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
raconteur Henry Morgan
actor-comedian Stu Gilliam
author Lyn Tornabene
and singer Frank Sinatra Jr.

7.198 [1385] Merv Griffin
22May1970 [Independent]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedian Jackie Mason
comedy writer Selma Diamond
feminist leader Karen DeCrow
and singer Frank D'Rone.

==================================
7.199 [1386] Merv Griffin
25May1970 [Independent]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actresses Laraine Day
and Marki Bey
comedy writer Selma Diamond
comic Jackie Vernon
author Studs Terkel "Hard Times"
ventriloquist Willie Tyler and Lester
Debbie Shelton, Miss USA 1970
and a scene from Broadway's "Room Service" is presented.

7.200 [1387] Merv Griffin Show
26May1970 [Independent]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Dean Jones
comedic actress Maxine Greene
comedienne Jackie 'Moms' Mabley
consumer advocate Ralph Nader
advertising executives Martin Solow and Henry Wolf
and singer Don Cooper.

7.201 [1388] Merv Griffin Show
27May1970 [Independent]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
entertainer Jerry Lewis
actress Anne Baxter
comedian Rodney Dangerfield
baseball star Mickey Mantle
football star Joe Namath
"Hee Haw" comic Junior Samples
and singer Eloise Laws.

7.202 [1389] Merv Griffin
28May1970 [Independent]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Betsy Palmer
comedian Dick Shawn
author Lyn Tornabene
singer Kevin James
and singing duo Sonny and Cher.

7.203 [1390] Merv Griffin Show
29May1970 [Independent]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
TV personality Peggy Cass
comedian Jackie Mason
actress Pamela Myers
journalist-author Jess Stearn
John Chambers
singers Anna Moffo
and Jimmy Helms.

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7.204 [1391] Merv Griffin Show
01Jun1970 [Independent]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Hedy Lamarr
comedian Soupy Sales
comic Pat Cooper
Washington D.C. columnist Barbara Hower
musician singer Earl Grant
and Israeli singer Aliza Kashi.

7.205 [1392] Merv Griffin Show
02Jun1970 [Independent]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Richard Harris
comedian Jack E. Leonard
comedienne-actress Louisa Moritz
comic Leonard Barr
and Dr. Joyce Brothers.

7.206 [1393] Merv Griffin Show
03Jun1970 [Los Angeles Times]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actors Charlton Heston
and Richard Kiley
actressses Marki Bey
and Marcia Rodd
comic actor Bob Melvin
and consumer advocate Ralph Nader.

7.207 [1394] Merv Griffin Show
04Jun1970 [Nashua Telegraph]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Eli Wallach
and his wife actress Anne Jackson
baseball great Satchell Paige
talent agent Harvey Orkin
and singer Karen Morrow.

7.208 [1395] Merv Griffin Show
05Jun1970 [Independent]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Tony Randall
singer-actor Rudy Vallee
folksinger Joan Baez
columnist Dr. Charlie Shedd
singers Julius LaRosa
and Lillian Briggs
and Tommy James and the Shondells.

==================================
7.209 [1396] Merv Griffin Show
08Jun1970 [Baltimore Sun]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Claude Dauphin
singer Julius LaRosa
K.C. Chiefs football star Mike Garrett
circus aerialist Karl Wallenda
and songstress Julie Budd.
*Note: Variety reported that last week Dick Cavett passed Merv Griffin in the Nielsen ratings for the first time.

7.210 [1397] Merv Griffin Show
09Jun1970 [Independent]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
entertainer Sammy Davis Jr.
actor Peter Lawford
entertainer Desi Arnaz
comedian Jan Murray
and singer Trini Lopez.

7.211 [1398] Merv Griffin Show
10Jun1970 [Newsday] [rerun 09Sep70]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor George Hamilton
actress Miyoshi Umeki
comedians Shecky Greene
and Norm Crosby
singer Sonny King
singer-actress Lainie Kazan
and singer-dancer Lola Falana.

7.212 [1399] Merv Griffin Show
11Jun1970 [Newsday]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Jim Brown
actress Jacqueline Bissett
comedian Dom DeLuise
comic actor Albert Brooks
columnist Rona Barrett
and singer-actress Della Reese.

7.213 [1400] Merv Griffin Show
12Jun1970 [Los Angeles Times]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Dyan Cannon
comedian George Burns
comedian Jack Carter
TV hostess Pamela Mason
and entertainer Billy Eckstine.

==================================
7.214 [1401] Merv Griffin Show
15Jun1970 [rerun 07Sep70]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
entertainer Jerry Lewis
actors Mickey Rooney
and Robert Cummings
B-movie starlet Edy Williams
actress Carol Worthington
and singer Mel Torme.

7.215 [1402] Merv Griffin Show
16Jun1970 [Daily News]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Lorne Greene and his wife Nancy
singer-actor Robert Goulet
actor Clint Eastwood
impressionist-actor Frank Gorshin
and singer-actress Liza Minnelli.

7.216 [1403] Merv Griffin Show
17Jun1970
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedian Milton Berle
comic actor Bill Dana
actress Miyoshi Umeki
comic Stanley Myron Handelman
singers Nancy Wilson
and Grant Griffin.

7.217 [1404] Merv Griffin Show
18Jun1970 [Boston Globe]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
raconteur George Jessel
TV personality Steve Allen
and his wife actress Jayne Meadows
actor Ricardo Montalban
comedian Tim Conway
and singer-songwriter Jose Feliciano.

7.218 [1405] Merv Griffin Show
19Jun1970 [Arizona Republic]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
acting couple Ozzie & Harriet Nelson
singer-actress Ann-Margret
and her husband producer-actor Roger Smith
actor Richard Boone
comedian Marty Allen
and actress Teresa Graves.

==================================
7.219 [1406] Merv Griffin Show
22Jun1970 [Daily News]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
singer-actress Doris Day
actor Chuck Connors
comedian Dom DeLuise
Country singer Roger Miller
and R&B singer Lou Rawls.

7.220 [1407] Merv Griffin Show
23Jun1970 [Daily News]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actresses Jacqueline Bisset
and Arlene Dahl
director Otto Preminger
actor Beau Bridges
comedian Marty Allen
and the Edwin Hawkins Singers.

7.221 [1408] Merv Griffin Show
24Jun1970 [Los Angeles Times]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Red Buttons
comedians Phil Silvers
and Shecky Greene
comic actor Stu Gilliam
and singer-dancer Charo.

7.222 [1409] Merv Griffin Show
25Jun1970 [San Francisco Examiner]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Debbie Reynolds
actor Michael Landon
comic actor Pat Buttram
comedian Morey Amsterdam
singer-actor Tony Martin
and singing group Sunday's Child.

7.223 [1410] Merv Griffin Show
26Jun1970 [Daily News]
From Hollywood
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Cesar Romero
actresses Ursula Andress
and Joan Blondell
singers Sonny King
and Nancy Wilson.

==================================
7.224 [1411] Merv Griffin Show
29Jun1970 [Los Angeles Times]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actors Gig Young
and Tony Randall
actress Angie Dickinson
game show host Monty Hall
comedian George Carlin
singer-actress Della Reese
and singer Robin Wilson.

7.225 [1412] Merv Griffin Show
30Jun1970 [Los Angeles Times]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Peter Lawford
comedienne Joanne Worley
actress Teresa Graves
psychic Kenny Kingston
singer Sonny King
and singer-actress Teda Bracci.

7.226 [1413] Merv Griffin Show
01Jul1970 [Naugatuck Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Jack Albertson
comic actor Herbie Faye
actress-comedienne Carol Worthington
comedian Richard Pryor
comic Jerry Collins
ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his wife Frances;
and singer-actor Tony Martin.

7.227 [1414] Merv Griffin Show
02Jul1970 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
singer-actress Polly Bergen
raconteur George Jessel
actress Karen Valentine
comedian Jan Murray
pop singer Mark Lindsay
musician-singer-actor Jimmy Boyd
and The Little Steps.

7.228 [1415] Merv Griffin Show
03Jul1970 [Los Angeles Times]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Rachel Roberts
actor Richard Boone
comedian Jack Carter
comediennes Judy Canova
and Jackie 'Moms' Mabley
comedy duo Solari and Carr
impersonator Jim Bailey
psychic Kenny Kingston
and singer Johnny Mathis.

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7.229 [1416] Merv Griffin Show
06Jul1970 [Los Angeles Times]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Patty Duke
comedian Dom DeLuise
poet Nipsey Russell
comic actor Albert Brooks
and George Carlin
Jess Stearn author of "The Seekers"
and singer Frankie Randall.

7.230 [1417] Merv Griffin Show
07Jul1970 [News Journal]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
singer-actor Harry Belafonte
TV personality Virginia Graham
comedians Pat Cooper
and Joe E. Lewis
columnist Doris Lilly
and singer Tony Martin.

7.231 [1418] Merv Griffin Show
08Jul1970 [Independent]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
TV personality Henry Morgan
comedians Godfrey Cambridge
and Stanley Myron Handelman
Dr. Joyce Brothers
singers Eloise Laws and Lillian Briggs.

7.232 [1419] Merv Griffin Show
09Jul1970 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Forrest Tucker
raconteur George Jessel
comedian Louis Nye
"Cosmopolitan" editor Helen Gurley Brown
singers Julie Budd
and Aliza Kashi.

7.233 [1420] Merv Griffin Show
10Jul1970 [Philadelphia Inquirer]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comic actor Dick Shawn
comedy writer Jack Douglas and his wife Reiko
comedian Rodney Dangerfield
comedienne Minnie Pearl
singers Jerry Vale
and Denny Hall.

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7.234 [1421] Merv Griffin Show
13Jul1970 [News Journal]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Lou Jacobi
actress Diane Keaton
former boxing champ Rocky Graziano
comedian Professor Irwin Corey
psychologist Dr. Cleo Dawson
and singer Oliver.

7.235 [1422] Merv Griffin Show
14Jul1970 [Philadelphia Inquirer]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedian Milton Berle
actress Kathryn Grayson
TV hostess Pamela Mason
comedian Jonathan Moore
singer-actress Lainie Kazan
and entertainer Little Richard.

7.236 [1423] Merv Griffin Show
15Jul1970
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actresses Debbie Reynolds
and Sandy Duncan
actor Raf Vallone
comedian Robert Klein
journalist-author Peter Lisagor
and tenor Enzo Stuarti.

7.237 [1424] Merv Griffin Show
16Jul1970
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Sandy Duncan
comedians Henny Youngman
and Jackie Mason
baseball pitcher Jim Bouton
entertainer Morganna Roberts aka "The Kissing Bandit"
and singer Lesley Gore.

7.238 [1425] Merv Griffin Show
17Jul1970
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Betsy Palmer
comedian Jack E. Leonard
comic actor Bill Fiore
Miss Universe 1970, Marisol Malaret of Puerto Rico
ventriloquist Willie Tyler and Lester
singer Julie Budd
and The Rich Brothers.

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7.239 [1426] Merv Griffin Show
20Jul1970
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Zsa Zsa Gabor
cartoonist Al Capp
Andrew Alexander Smith
transsexual Christine Jorgensen
and singer Ronnie Dyson.

7.240 [1427] Merv Griffin Show
21Jul1970 [San Francisco Examiner]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor-comedian Guy Marks
cartoonist Al Capp
singer Eddy Arnold
songstress Freda Payne
guitarist Tony Love
and songwriter-composer Antonio Carlos Jobim.

7.241 [1428] Merv Griffin Show
22Jul1970 [News Journal]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
journalist William F. Buckley
TV personality Henry Morgan
actress Sheila MacRae
former boxer Rocky Graziano
singers Lesley Gore
and Dana Valery.

7.242 [1429] Merv Griffin Show
23Jul1970 [Sacramento Bee]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Forrest Tucker
actress Diane Keaton
comedian Phil Flowers
comedienne Marcia Wallace
actor-comedian Guy Marks
and musician Louis Armstrong.

7.243 [1430] Merv Griffin Show
24Jul1970 [News Journal]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor-comedian Dick Shawn
boxer Rocky Graziano
Vickie Chesser, Miss South Carolina and first runner-up in the Miss USA pageant;
singer Jane Morgan
Opera star Robert Merrill
and John Akar, ambassador from Sierra Leone to the United States;

==================================
7.244 [1431] Merv Griffin Show
27Jul1970 [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Eva Gabor
TV personality Peggy Cass
baseball player Joe Pepitone
mentalist the Amazing Kreskin
singers Julius LaRosa
and Paul Dooley.

7.245 [1432] Merv Griffin Show
28Jul1970
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Maureen O'Sullivan
comedians Dick Shawn
and Jackie Mason
noise pollution expert Robert Baron
singer-actor Gordon MacRae
and songstress Sarah Vaughan.

7.246 [1433] Merv Griffin Show
29Jul1970 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedians Jackie Vernon
and Henny Youngman
"Cosmopolitan" editor Helen Gurley Brown
actress-singer Pam Myers
singers Don Cooper
and Aliza Kashi.

7.247 [1434] Merv Griffin Show
30Jul1970 [Post Standard]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Lou Jacobi
comedian Milt Kamen
comic London Lee
golfer Frank Beard
Marty Kuiper, Miss Nude America 1970
singer Linda Bennett
and musical duo Sandler and Young.

7.248 [1435] Merv Griffin Show
31Jul1970 [Independent]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
singer-actor Rudy Vallee
TV producer-commentator David Susskind
actor Frank Campanella
comic actor Bill Fiore
and singer Karen Morrow.

==================================
7.249 [1436] Merv Griffin Show
03Aug1970 [Philadelphia Inquirer]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actresses Mamie Van Doren
Sandy Duncan and Hedy Lamarr
author Jacqueline Susann
singer Jimmy Martinez
and musical duo Sandler and Young.

7.250 [1437] Merv Griffin Show
04Aug1970 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actor Pat O'Brien
comedian Stu Gilliam
comic duo Stiller and Meara
and singer-actress Teresa Graves.

*Note: News Item: CBS is remodeling "The Merv Griffin Show".
Griffin will lose his announcer - sidekick, 76-year-old Arthur Treacher in mid-August.
He already has a new producer. Bob Shanks, Griffin's producer since the days of his afternoon NBC series has left.
The new producer will be Walter Kempley, a veteran comedy writer who recently left David Frost.

7.251 [1438] Merv Griffin Show
05Aug1970 Pittsburgh Press]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
raconteur George Jessel
comedian Jerry Collins
restaurateur Jerry Della Femina
singer-actress Lois Walden
and German singer Ivan Rebroff.

7.252 [1439] Merv Griffin Show
06Aug1970 [Daily Reporter]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedian Soupy Sales
comedy writer Jack Douglas and Reiko
comic Dayton Allen
comedy team Stanley Dean and and Jay Harvey
musician Duke Ellington
and singer Julie Budd.

7.253 [1440] Merv Griffin Show
07Aug1970 [Los Angeles Times]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actors Cliff Robertson
and Cyril Ritchard
comedienne Dagmar
"Hee Haw" stars Archie Campbell and Grandpa Jones
Dr. Herbert Axelrod
singers Eloise Laws and Lillian Briggs.

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7.254 [1441] Merv Griffin Show
10Aug1970 [Philadelphia Inquirer]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Zsa Zsa Gabor
actress Bonnie Franklin of Broadway's "Applause";
comedian Professor Irwin Corey
hat designer Mr. John
folk comedy act Belland and Somerville
and Ambassador John Akar from Sierra Leone.

7.255 [1442] Merv Griffin Show
11Aug1970 [Los Angeles Times]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
comedian Marty Allen
White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger
fitness expert Toni Beck
1970 Miss Universe Marisol Malaret
singer Little Dion
and entertainer Monti Rock III.

7.256 [1443] Merv Griffin Show
12Aug1970 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Janis Paige
comedians Morey Amsterdam
and Charlie Manna
"Hee Haw" stars Lisa Todd and Junior Samples
Cuban singer La Lupe
and entertainer Billy Eckstine.

7.257 [1444] Merv Griffin Show
13Aug1970 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
actress Zsa Zsa Gabor
comedienne Imogene Coca
actor-comedian Paul Dooley
baseball catcher Jose Molina
and singer Jerry Vale.

7.258 [1445] Merv Griffin Show
14Aug1970 [News Journal]
"A Farewell to Arthur Treacher".
Host Merv Griffin
with Arthur Treacher
Guests
singers Ethel Merman
and Abbe Lane
comedian Jackie Vernon
and psychic Criswell.
*Note: Final appearance for veteran sidekick Arthur Treacher.


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7.259 [1446] Merv Griffin Show
17Aug1970 [San Francisco Examiner]
Host Merv Griffin
Guests
actress Elaine Stritch from Broadway's "Company"
actor-comedian Paul Dooley
British comic Frankie Howerd
and singer Gary Puckett.

7.260 [1447] Merv Griffin Show
18Aug1970 [Tucson Daily Citizen]
A special show celebrating Merv's first year with CBS Anniversary Show.
Guests
actress Anne Jackson
TV commercial star Bill Fiore
comedy team Steve Rossi and Slappy White
and psychologist Dr. Cleo Dawson.

7.261 [1448] Merv Griffin Show
19Aug1970 [Boston Globe]
Host Merv Griffin
Guests
actresses Diane Keaton
and Elaine Stritch
White House reporter Sarah McClendon
Orlando Panthers first husband and wife football kicker and holder Steve and Pat Palinkas
singer D'Aldo Romano
and Les Ballets Africains.

7.262 [1449] Merv Griffin Show
20Aug1970 [San Francisco Examiner]
Host Merv Griffin
Guests
TV host Hugh Downs
actress Yvonne Constant
comedian Prof. Irwin Corey
Sesame Street's David, actor Northern Calloway
"Cosmopolitan" editor Helen Gurley Brown
LHJ's editor John Mack Carter
and musician Count Basie.

7.263 [1450] Merv Griffin Show
21Aug1970 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
Guests
actress Monique Van Vooren
comedian Soupy Sales
sportscaster Bob Uecker
author Jess Stern
voice actress Lynne Lipton
and singer Edwin Starr.

==================================
7.264 [1451] Merv Griffin Show
24Aug1970 [News Journal]
Host Merv Griffin
Guests
actress Penny Fuller
actor Richard S. Castellano
comic Stanley Gripp
daredevil Evel Knievel
hat designer Mr. John
and Country duo Homer and Jethro

7.265 [1452] Merv Griffin Show
25Aug1970 [Daily News]
Host Merv Griffin
Guests
actress Julie Newmar
comedienne-actress Edie Adams
comedians Marty Allen
and Pat Cooper
cartoonist Al Capp
illustrator Allan Kass
and singer Mel Torme.

7.266 [1453] Merv Griffin Show
26Aug1970 [Newsday]
Host Merv Griffin
Guests
comedian Dick Shawn
actress Zsa Zsa Gabor
bank robber Willie Sutton
entertainer Charo
singer Little Richard
Italian singer Rita Pavone
and Maty.

7.267 [1454] Merv Griffin Show
27Aug1970 [Los Angeles Times]
Host Merv Griffin
Guests
comedian Dick Gregory
actor Chuck McCann
comic duo Phil Ford and Mimi Hines
journalist Charles Kuralt
Sierra Leone Ambassador John Akar
ad tenor Enzo Stuarti.

7.268 [1455] Merv Griffin Show
28Aug1970 [Press-Telegram]
Host Merv Griffin
Guests
actress Jane Alice Brandon
comedic duo Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara
comic Ron Carey
journalist Sarah McClendon
director Yarden Karmin
and singer Brook Benton.

==================================
7.269 [1456] Merv Griffin Show
31Aug1970 [Boston Globe]
Host Merv Griffin
Guests
actor-singer-dancer Larry Kert
comedy writer Selma Diamond
comic Dayton Allen
selective service director Curtis W. Tarr
flamenco dancer Jose Molina
entertainer Charo
and singing duo Jan and Dean.

7.270 [1457] Merv Griffin Show
01Sep1970 [Philadelphia Inquirer]
Host Merv Griffin
Guests
comedian Dick Shawn
comic actor Pat Buttram of "Green Acres";
comic Sidney Miller
B-film bombshell Babette Bardot
"Hee Haw" comic Grandpa Jones
and singer O.C. Smith.

7.271 [1458] Merv Griffin Show
02Sep1970 [Boston Globe]
Host Merv Griffin
Guests
comedienne Marcia Wallace
comic actor Jamie Farr
Wes Harrison aka Mr. Sound Effects
journalist Charles Kuralt
former boxer Rocky Graziano
and singer-actor Frankie Avalon.

7.272 [1459] Merv Griffin Show
03Sep1970 [Times-Picayune]
Host Merv Griffin
Guests
singer-actor Tony Martin
actress Jane Alice Brandon
comedian-actor Jimmy Martinez
tennis pro Arthur Ashe
pickpocket Vic Perry.
and musician Shelly Rusik.

7.273 [1460] Merv Griffin Show
04Sep1970 [Chicago Tribune]
Host Merv Griffin
Guests
actor Victor Buono
writer Mickey Spillane
Carroll Carroll
Mrs. Miller
entertainer Charo
and singer Dana Valery.

==================================
[--] Merv Griffin Show
07Sep1970 [repeat from 15Jun70]
From Hollywood (r)
Jerry Lewis, Mickey Rooney, Mel Torme, Bob Cummings, Edy Williams

[--] Merv Griffin Show
08Sep1970 [repeat from 09Feb70]
From Hollywood (r)
Robert Goulet, Ernest Borgnine, Totie Fields, Eddie Albert, Jerry Van Dyke

[--] Merv Griffin Show
09Sep1970 [repeat from 10Jun70]
From Hollywood (r)
George Hamilton, Shecky Greene, Miyoshi Umeki, Norm Crosby, Lola Falana, Lainie Kazan

 

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