Episodes
Andy Williams, Milt Kamen, Gogi Grant, The Will Mastin Trio (featuring Sammy Davis, Jr.), Marian Ann McKnight , The Baird Puppets
September 16, 1956
Billy Eckstine, Rin Tin Tin, Joni James, Professor Irwin Corey, Jose Molina, the Midwestern States Glee Club
September 23, 1956
Claudette Colbert, Mickey Rooney, Jerome Hines, Erin O'Brien, Joey Forman
September 30, 1956
Abbott & Costello, Kukla, Fran & Ollie, Peggy King, Lionel Hampton, Don Lamond, Louis Bellson Mrs. Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle
October 7, 1956
Todays guests are Abbott and Costello/Kukla, Fran and Ollie/Mickey Mantle/Lionel Hampton/Peggy King/Milt Kamen.
Tony Bennett, Doretta Morrow, Mel Torme, Frances Faye, Guy Madison, Kathryn & Arthur Murray
October 14, 1956
Peter Lawford, Frank Parker, The Harlem Globetrotters, Rocky Graziano, Olga James, Janik & Arnaut, cameo appearance by Julius LaRosa
October 21, 1956
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Alfred Drake, Erin O'Brien, T.C. Jones, Jim Henson & the Muppets, Rod Alexander Dancers, Les Brown & His Band of Renown
November 4, 1956
Jerry Lewis, Georgia Gibbs, Anita Ekberg, Anthony Steel, Buster Crabbe, cast members of "Jack and the Beanstalk"
November 11, 1956
Bob Hope, Duke Ellington & Orchestra, Gene Nelson, Betty Walker, Erin O'Brien, George Hamilton IV, Olsen & Johnson, World's Champion Women Boxers
November 18, 1956
Gene Autry, Jim Lowe, Betty Kean & Lew Parker, Floyd Patterson & Archie Moore, the Chicago Bears
November 25, 1956
Charlton Heston, Gypsy Rose Lee, Ethel Waters, Bobby Van, Don Newcombe, Floyd Patterson, Archie Moore, Vince Martin & The Tarriers
December 2, 1956
Anne Jeffreys & Robert Sterling, The Hi-Lo's, Bud Wilkinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, Betty Kean & Lew Parker
December 9, 1956
Martha Raye, Alan Young, the Collins Kids, Ricky Vera, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, the Vienna Boys Choir
December 23, 1956
Tony Bennett, Andy Griffith, the New York Rangers, live premiere of the motion picture "Around the World in 80 Days"
December 30, 1956
Errol Flynn, Polly Bergen, Guy Mitchell, Alan Young
January 6, 1957
Joe E. Brown, Julius La Rosa, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane, Rocky Graziano, Dorothy Miller ("Mrs. Miller", audience member)
January 13, 1957
New York Film Critics Awards
January 20, 1957
Most of the show concerns a filmed Steve presenting the Critic's award to several stars, including 'Ingrid Bergman' and 'Kirk Douglas', along with some small talk interviews. These were shot at Sardi's restaurant in New York, probably when it was closed, due to the utter quietness.
Season 2, Episode 18
January 27, 1957
Pearl Bailey, Lilli Palmer, Don Adams, The Collins Kids, Steve Lawrence, Charles Van Doren
Peter Lawford, Charles Van Doren, Lou Costello, Margaret Whiting, The Step Brothers
February 10, 1957
Frankie Laine, Alan Young, Martha Carson, Tab Hunter, Ken Rosewall, Pancho Gonzales, Jack Kramer, Pancho Segura
February 17, 1957
Yehudi Menuhin, Arlene Dahl, Aldo Ray, Robert Ryan, Brenda Lee, the Hilltoppers
February 24, 1957
Jerry Lewis, Martha Raye, Steve Lawrence, Diahann Carroll, Fernando Lamas
March 10, 1957
Greer Garson, Lou Costello, Dean Jones, Steve Peck, Janik & Arpaut, Howard McNear, Sandra Gould, Veola Vonn, The Lancers
March 24, 1957
Tennessee Ernie Ford, Peggy Lee, Johnny Mercer, Dinah Shore, Esther Williams, The Collins Kids
March 31, 1957
Salute to the All American Basketball Teams
April 7, 1957
Esther Williams, Eydie Gorme, Jackie Cooper, Stan Freberg, The Four Lads
April 14, 1957
Mickey Rooney, Eleanor Steber, Joey Forman, Betty Walker, Mickey & Sylvia, Jim Henson's Muppets
April 21, 1957
Brenda Lee, Don Adams, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane, Jack Carson, Peter Gennaro & Ellen Ray
April 28, 1957
Orson Welles, Jill Corey, Peggy Cass, The Will Mastin Trio featuring Sammy Davis Jr.
May 5, 1957
Steve Allen and Sammy Davis, Jr. perform a card trick with a little help from Orson Welles; Davis joins his uncle Will Mastin and his father Sammy Davis, Sr., for an athletic dance number; Davis performs singing impressions of Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett, Louis Armstrong, and others; and the "Allen Report to the Nation" deals with the tranquilizer pill, with Allen interviewing Louis Nye as the head of a pharmaceutical company, Tom Poston as chief of laboratory research, and Don Knotts as a jittery fill-in speaker at a medical convention. Additionally, singer Jill ...
Tallulah Bankhead, Milton Berle, Pearl Bailey, Dean Jones, Reverend Billy Graham
May 12, 1957
Ann Sothern, Bert Lahr, Brenda Lee
May 19, 1957
Andy Griffith, Marty Robbins, Errol Garner, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Martha Raye, a cameo appearance from Dean Martin
May 26, 1957
Xavier Cugat, Abbe Lane, Pat Carroll, The Four Diamonds, Erin O'Brien, Jerry Lewis
June 2, 1957
Steve's guests are The Diamonds (singing "Little Darlin'"), Xavier Cugat & his Orchestra with singer Abbe Lane doing "All Of You" and "Babalu," comedian Pat Carroll as a wife whose husband (Allen) tries to prove to her that a joke he told is funny, Erin O'Brien singing "Where's A Happy Ending?" Jerry Lewis plays Gordon Hathaway and a dopey boxer in the "Man on the Street" segment, Steve gives passionate readings of real "Letters to the Editor," delivers a silly speech to graduating seniors, and shows works of art used in magazine ads.
Orson Welles, Wally Cox, Meg Myles, Jim Reeves, The Step Brothers, Reverend Billy Graham
June 9, 1957
Steve Lawrence, Mamie Van Doren, The Hi-Lo's, Walter Chiari
June 16, 1957
Lou Costello, Pat Boone, Jonathan Winters, Abbey Lincoln, Fay DeWitt, Dulcie Cooper, The Ames Brothers
June 23, 1957
Lou Costello in a restaurant skit where Gabe Dell takes the part of the bullying, Bud Abbott-type companion.
Bob Hope, George Jessel, Alexis Smith, Vera Miles, Dean Martin, the Rod Alexander Dancers, The Axidentals
June 30, 1957
In a salute to Hope's new film, "Beau James", skits, dance numbers and film clips devoted to onetime crooked prohibition-era New York mayor Jimmy Walker.
Benny Goodman, Yvonne De Carlo, Peter Lawford, Professor Irwin Corey
July 7, 1957
Goodman's in top form, and Steve does a duet with him. Yvonne and Steve in a baby-naming skit, Lawford and Steve play bored life guards. A "Night Beat" parody includes Knotts as his classic nervous nerd, and a bellicose Nye cracks Steve up.
Debra Paget, Buddy Rich, Frankie Laine, Cornelia Otis Skinner
July 14, 1957
Tony Bennett, George Nader, Joanne Gilbert, Hal Le Roy, Floyd Patterson & Joe Louis
July 21, 1957
Tony Bennett sings "One For My Baby". Floyd Patterson and Joe Louis talk to Steve about boxing and Floyd's title defense against Tommy "Hurricane" Jackson. Joanne Gilbert sings "Hello Bluebird". Show regulars, appear in a comedy satire on television quiz-masters. Steve plays a piano version of "Do You Ever Think of Me?" For the finale, the entire cast and guest list join in with a bevy of hula dancers for a production entitled "In the Middle of an Island".
Jerry Lee Lewis, Shelley Winters, Anthony Franciosa, The Four Coins, Jodie Sands, Shai K. Ophir, Leona Gage
July 28, 1957
Steve and Shelley Winters in a skit about teaching her to drive by using household objects, Jerry Lee Lewis gives a bravura piano-attacking performance.
Marie MacDonald, The Four Diamonds, Jack E. Leonard, Don Rondo, Brenda Lee
August 4, 1957
Jane Russell, Ferlin Husky, Larry Storch, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Rod Alexander Dancers
August 11, 1957
Lou Costello, Liberace, Andy Williams, Abbey Lincoln, Jean Fenn
August 18, 1957
Hedy Lamar, Joe E. Brown, The Coasters, Irish McCalla, Pat Kirby
August 25, 1957
Pearl Bailey, Joan Collins, Jeff Chandler, Shaike Ophir, Pete Rademacher
September 1, 1957
Robert Young, Martha Raye, Marion Lorne, Milton Caniff, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme, Dave Garroway, Miss America of 1958
September 8, 1957
Ed Wynn, Frankie Laine, Dorothy Collins, Don Adams, Audrey Meadows, Sugar Ray Robinson & Carmen Basilio
September 15, 1957
