Guests: --Tommy Edwards - ""It's All In the Game"" --Mickey Rooney and Joey Forman - appear together in a ""Candid Camera"" parody. --Mickey Rooney - talks about the film ""The Last Mile"" in an interview with Ed. --Jacquelyn McKeever (musical-comedy star) sings ""I Feel Pretty"" (from ""West Side Story"") --Domenico Modugno (Italian vocalist) sings ""The Coffee Song"" and ""Drunken Donkey"" in Italian. (Note: Domenico Modugno was the composer of ""Volare."") --The Marilicks (correct spelling?) - plate juggling & spinning act --Audience bows: Jerome (Jerry) Robbins / Stuart Granger / Col. Greg Pappy Boyington (WWII hero, leader of the Baa Baa Black Sheep Squadron) --On stage intro: Major Johnson (commander of Grenadier Band, The Scotguard Pipers) --Joe E. Lewis (comedian) - does his famous drunk ""act"". --Pinky and Perky (a puppet act from Europe) - does a humorous version of ""Volare"" --Jaye P. Morgan (singer, scheduled to appear with her four brothers) Additional guests Air Date : 14th-Sep-1958  Read More

Scheduled guests: --Wayne & Shuster (comedy team) --Alan King (comedian) Also, these stars of CBS's programs for the upcoming season were scheduled: --Steve McQueen (""Wanted-Dead or Alive"") --Jackie Gleason (""Jackie Gleason Show"") --Art Carney (DuPont Show of the Month's ""Harvey"") Gleason and Carney appear together in a filmed sequence. --Raymond Burr (""Perry Mason"") --Edward R. Murrow (""Person to Person"" and ""Small World"") --Phil Silvers (""Phil Silvers Show"") --Red Skelton (""Red Skelton Show"") --Gale Storm (""Gale Storm Show"") --Ronald Reagan (""GE Theater"") --Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray and Lauren Chapin (from ""Father Knows Best""). --Arthur Godfrey (Arthur Godfrey Show,"" appearing on tape) --Dorothy Collins and Johnny Desmond (""Your Hit Parade"") --Spring Byington (""December Bride,"" appearing on tape) --Richard Boone (""Have Gun Will Travel"") --Warner Anderson (""The Lineup"") --Robert Culp (""Trackdown"") Air Date : 21st-Sep-1958  Read More

Guests: --Julie Wilson - ""It's Great To Be Alive."" --Bobby Van (dancer) And Robert Maxwell (harpist) --Shecky Greene (Las Vegas comedian) - jokes about boxers, intellectual comics, Danny Thomas. Shecky then sings ""Autumn Leaves"" and lampoons band singers. --Los Chavales with Trini Reyes (Flamenco-style Spanish dancing) --On film: ""Early Morning Mist."" - A sight-seeing movie of New York narrated by Ed (runs approx 2.5 minutes). --Wayne and Shuster (Canadian comedy team) - do a baseball parody sketch: The New York Yankees vs. The Liverpool Whitespats. --Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle appear with Ed. --Sacha Distel (French actor engaged to Brigitte Bardot - they never married) - following film of Ed interviewing Brigitte Bardot, Sacha Distel sings ""Please Don't Tell Bridget."" --Ballet Español (bullfighting ballet) --Julie Wilson - ""I Could Write A Book"" --Audience bows: Gregory Peck and wife. ""The Big Country"" is plugged. --Jim O'Toole is introduced (O Air Date : 28th-Sep-1958  Read More

Scheduled guests: --Danny Thomas --Frankie Laine (singer) --Patachou (French singer) --Tina Robin (singer) --Little Buck (dancer) --Bambi Linn and Rod Alexander (dancing team) Baseball segment: --Milwaukee Braves: Warren Spahn, Henry Aaron, Eddie Matthews, Red Schoendienst and Del Crandall. --Joe Garagiola (Sportscaster and former St. Louis Cardinals catcher) Air Date : 5th-Oct-1958  Read More

Scheduled guests: --Carol Channing (musical comedy star) --Genevieve (French singer) --Line Renaud (French singer) --The Talbot Brothers (vocal-insturmental trio from Bermuda) --George and Lydia (novelty ladder act from London, England) Air Date : 12th-Oct-1958  Read More

Guests: --Tony Martin (singer) - ""Gigi"" & ""Fire Down Below"" --Benny Fields, Blossom Seeley, Tony Martin - ""My Blushin' Rosie"" (Note: Benny Fields & Blossom Seeley were vaudevillians) --Xavier Cugat and his band with Abbe Lane - ""Dengoza I,"" ""Ain't Misbehavin'"" & ""Rockin' The Mambo"" --Roger Williams (pianist) - ""Tico Tico"" & interview with Ed (talks to Ed about honorary degree). Roger Williams (later in show) - ""Near to You"" --Jack E. Leonard (comedian) - does stand-up routine & sings ""When You're Smiling"" --Ben Bennett and Dick Patterson (comedy team doing a storytime sketch) --Marvin Roy (magician known as ""Mr. Electric"") - pops a string of lights out of his mouth --Leonard & Leonard (tap dancing duo) --Dolores Vargas and Jose Castellon Batista (Spanish dance team with guitar accompaniment) --On film: clip from ""Roots Of Heaven"" with Trevor Howard (elephant scene) --Audience bows: Miss By-Line; Mercury dealers (followed by Ed promoting the 1958 Mercury) -- Air Date : 19th-Oct-1958  Read More

Guests: --Esther Williams (guest host) --Lisa Kirk - ""Anything Goes"" --Bob Hammond's Birds --Johnny Mathis - ""The Lady Is A Tramp"" & ""Call Me"" --The Martin Brothers (South American juggling act) - Esther Williams assists the jugglers. --Imogene Coca (comedian) - performs a scene from ""The Girls In 509"" (where spinsters hold a man captive). --Janet Blair - ""Last Night When We Were Young"" --Shecky Greene (comedian) - jokes about Chinese restaurants; night clubs, etc. Greene plays ""Taps"" with Ray Block. --On film: Esther Williams swimming production number with a team of swimming ladies (reminiscent of Williams' MGM movies) Filmed the previous day at Queens College. --Lisa Kirk - ""Far Away Places"" & ""Riviera"" --Audience bow: Jacques Tati (French comedian-film maker) --Terry Hall & ""Lenny the Lion"" (British ventriloquist act) --Johnny Mathis - ""Sweet Lorraine"" (cover of a Nat King Cole song) Air Date : 26th-Oct-1958  Read More

Guests: --Itzhak Perlman (violinist, then a 13-year old child prodigy) - plays ""Polonaise Brilliante"" --Carol Lawrence (as Maria) and Larry Kert (as Tony) sing ""Tonight"" (the balcony scene from Broadway's ""West Side Story""). --Sam Levenson (stand-up comedian; performs a comedy routine about teachers) --Mormon Tabernacle Choir sing ""Hallelujah Chorus"" (from Handel's ""Messiah"") --Great Shadow Puppet Act --Coal mine disaster survivors are introduced Winners of the First Israeli Talent Contest (judged by Ed when he was in Israel) --On film: Ed Goes To Jerusalem (Note: The transcript doesn't mention which Israeli acts were on film and which ones performed live in New York.) --Itzhak Perlman (violinist, then a 13-year old child prodigy) - plays ""Polonaise Brilliante"" --Yona Cohen and Miriam Paskalsky (Israeli singers) perform operatic Jewish folk songs. --Suzanna Ruben (or Reuben, known as ""The Israeli Ethel Merman"") sings Ethel's ""Getting To Know You"" (in Hebrew) Air Date : 2nd-Nov-1958  Read More

""The Friar's Club"" roasts Ed Sullivan Guests: --Joe E. Lewis - roasts Ed --Jack Carter (host / master of ceremonies, appears throughout the show) --Walter Cronkite (newsman) - tries to give Ed's history but is interrupted by Maury Amsterdam and Jack Carter. --F. M. Flynn (Ed's publisher at N.Y. Daily News) --Wayne & Shuster (comedy team, make jokes about their exclusive contract with Sullivan) --cameo: Sylvia Sullivan (Ed's wife, waves) --Joey Bishop (comedian) - gives a short speech --Rocky Graziano (prizefighter, is heckled by comedians) --Abbe Lane (wife of Xavier Cugat) - presents Ed with a painting of Steve Allen --Jacob Javits (New York Republican Senator) - politician making a serious speech --Jack E. Leonard (comedian, roasting Ed) --Phil Silvers - gives speech & presents Ed with a Golden Friar Award Air Date : 9th-Nov-1958  Read More

Scheduled guests: --William Shatner and France Nuyen (from the Broadway musical ""The World of Suzie Wong"") - appear in scenes from ""...Suzie Wong"" --William Shatner and France Nuyen, and members of the show's cast - perform a song written by Josh Logan, based on the Rodgers and Hart song ""How Can You Forget?"" --Lou Costello (comedian, formerly of Abbott and Costello) --Wayne and Shuster (comedy team) --Roberta Peters (soprano) --Dody Goodman (comedian) --Arnold Stang (comic actor) --Dody Goodman, Arnold Stang, and Ed Sullivan do a comedy sketch about TV ratings--The Impero Brothers (balancing act) --Joe Noble Trio (dancing and fire-eating act) --Baby Opal (elephant act) Air Date : 16th-Nov-1958  Read More

Guests: --Beryozka Dance Company (Russian folk dancers in peasant costumes) --The Four Coins (vocal group) - ""World Outside"" --Pat Stanley & Russell Nype - ""All for Love for a Lady Like Me"" (song from Leroy Anderson's Broadway musical ""Goldilocks"") Staged by Agnes De Mille. --Teddy Randazzo (teen idol playing the accordion) - ""Lumana"" --Marco (sword-balancing act) - from a ladder balances tray of glasses on a sword --Herb Shriner (stand-up comedian) --Kathryn Grayson (Hollywood actress) - sings ""Sempre Libre"" --Beryozka Dance Company --Shelley Berman (stand-up comedian) - jokes about airline safety --Audience bow: Leonard Bernstein --The Impero Brothers (acrobatic trio, brothers) Air Date : 23rd-Nov-1958  Read More

Scheduled guests: --Teresa Brewer (singer) --Jean Carroll (comedian) --Hal March (comedian) --Monique Van Vooren (singer) - ""Thank Heaven"" --Rickie Layne (ventriloquist ) --The Keigo Imperial Japanese Dancers --Eddie Seifert and Company (balancing act) Air Date : 30th-Nov-1958  Read More

Show filmed in Alaska (when Ed was in Alaska a few weeks earlier): Guests: --Dody Goodman (comedian) --Jill Corey (singer) - ""Sitting on Top of the World"" --Dick ""Lord"" Buckley (nightclub comedian) - ""Shooting Dan McGrew"" --Little Buck (dancer) --George Bruno (aerialist) --Piet Von Brechts (comedy contortionist) --Jinx the monkey Alaskan features / performers: --Ceremonial dances --A ""blanket-toss"" by Eskimos of the town of Kotzebue --The Anchorage Community Chorus - sings ""Alaska's Flag"" --A salute to the U.S. Alaska command Air Date : 7th-Dec-1958  Read More

Scheduled guests: --Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II (appear to promote their new musical ""Flower Drum Song""). --The entire cast of ""Flower Drum Song"" perform scenes from the play. --Xavier Cugat and his orchestra with Abbe Lane --Mario Del Monaco (Metropolitan Opera tenor) --John Gilpin (dancer from the Anton ballet company) --Holger and Dolores (dance team from Europe) Air Date : 14th-Dec-1958  Read More

Scheduled guests: --Jose Ferrer and Lois Smith - in scenes from their Broadway play ""Edwin Booth"" --Rise Stevens (operatic soprano) --Wayne and Shuster (comedy team) --David Seville (singer) --Dick Button (champion ice skater) - performs on the Rockefeller Plaza Ice Rink --Bob Considine (journalist) --Betty Johnson (singer) --Luis Mariano (singer) --Vic Julian and his French Poodles Air Date : 21st-Dec-1958  Read More

Guests (first half of show): --Maurice Gosfield (Private Doberman) and Joe E. Ross (Sgt. Ridzik) from ""The Phil Silvers Show"" (a.k.a. ""You'll Never Get Rich"" & ""Sergeant Bilko"") --Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward (actors) - in New York for the opening of their movie ""Rally Round the Flag Boys!"" (Joan Collins and director Leo McCarey were also scheduled to appear.) --Ed appears with Alan Ameche (football player of the Baltimore Colts) --Rickie Layne and Velvel (ventriloquist act) --The Great Norberti (novelty act) - Comic Acrobat --Jane Morgan (singer) - ""Fascination"" & ""The Day The Rain Comes Down"" --Marvin Roy (magician known as ""Mr. Electric"" with his light bulbs) Scheduled guests (second half of show): --Della Reese (singer) --Sam Levenson (humorist) --Dario Cassini (singer) --Harry Mimmo (comic pantomimist) --Tom Garey (novelty act) Air Date : 28th-Dec-1958  Read More

Guests: --Imogene Coca plays an opera singer in a comedy routine --Ivry Gitlis (Israeli violinist) --Trude Adams (singer) - ""He's Got the Whole World in His Hands"" & 1 other song. --Shelley Berman (stand-up comedian) --Phil Ford and Mimi Hines (night club entertainers) --Ray MacDonald (tap dancer) - dances to ""Blue Skies"" --Athlete Rafer Johnson (athlete) receives the 1958 ""Sportsman of the Year"" award from Sid James (managing editor of Sports Illustrated). --Dickie Henderson (comedian from England) --Pinky and Perky (British puppet act) - puppets sing ""Fever"" and ""Chantilly Lace"" Air Date : 4th-Jan-1959  Read More

--On film: Fidel Castro - 25 second clip at beginning of show. Later in show, a 6-minute film is shown: Ed introduces Castro, calls Castro and his soldiers ""Revolutionary Youngsters."" Film includes appearance by Che Guevara. Ed wishes Castro luck in his revolution. Other guests (live): --Jason Robards & George Grizzard - perform scene from the Broadway play ""The Disenchanted."" --Alan King (comedian, talks about house party directions) --Little Gaelic Singers (from Ireland) - ""The Faughan Side"" --Professor Backwards (comedian, talks about Texas, psychiatrists.) --Victor Julian (animal act) - man with two poodles. After the commercial break the dogs appear in clothing for a ""Poodle Fashion Show"" --Helen Halpin - does impressions of Della Reese, Sarah Vaughan, Judy Garland. --Francis Brunn (juggler) (listed on transcript as Francis Burn) --The Gutis (acrobatic-comedy act) - 4-man act (2 of them are wearing ape costumes) --Tina Louise (cameo, appears with Ed at end of s Air Date : 11th-Jan-1959  Read More

Guests: --Edith Piaf (French singer) - ""Carousel"" and ""Gypsy and the Lady"" --Celeste Holm (actress) - scene from ""Third Best Sport"" (Comical scene with salesman & customer) --Pat Suzuki (musical-comedy star) - ""I Enjoy Being A Girl"" (from ""Flower Drum Song"") --Antonietta Stella (operatic soprano) - ""Un Beldi"" (from ""Madame Butterfly"") --Betty Comden & Adolph Green - medley of classic show tunes: ""Just In Time,"" ""The Party's Over,"" ""It's Love,"" ""New York"" and ""The Inspiration."" Also: ""Captain Hook Waltz"" (from ""Peter Pan"") & ""The French Lesson"" (from ""Good News""). --Alan Drake (stand-up comedian) - monologue about marriage, kids, friendship, relatives, corruption, childhood, and sings ""Sunny Side Of The Street"" --Murray Hill & Chatter (monkey act with trainer) --Audience bows: Marie Torres; Nancy Rideout (with film clip of Rideout water skiing) Air Date : 18th-Jan-1959  Read More

Scheduled guests: --Charlton Heston (actor) --Eartha Kitt (actress-singer, star of the movie ""Anna Lucasta"") --Georgia Gibbs (singer) --Wayne and Shuster (comedy team) --Noelle Adam (French dancer) --Arthur Worsley (British ventriloquist) Air Date : 25th-Jan-1959  Read More

Guests: --Johnny Cash - ""Don't Take Your Guns to Town"" --Miyoshi Umeki (star of Broadway's ""Flower Drum Song"") - ""Hundred Million Miracles"" and ""In My Own Little Corner"" --Frankie Laine - ""You Can Depend On Me,"" ""Then I Should Fall In Love,"" ""Last Night,"" ""That Old Feeling"" and ""The Rose"" --Frankie Laine - ""The Gettysburg Address"" (Civil War pictures shown) --Jan Murray - sings ""Love Is A Treasure Hunt,"" then banters with Frankie Laine & sings ""Jamaica"" (Lena Horne song). --Richard Boone and Nancy Kelly (actors) - perform scenes from the Broadway play ""The Rivalry"" --The Jamaica Dancers (Broadway dancers) - perform ""Jamaica"" --Trude Adams - ""Smoke Gets In Your Eyes"" & ""Josuha"" --Wally Griffin (comedy routine) Air Date : 8th-Feb-1959  Read More

Scheduled guests: --Itzhak Perlman (18-year-old violinist from Israel) --Dody Goodman (comedian) --Jack Carter (comedian) --Wayne and Shuster (comedy team) --Jane Morgan (singer) --Luise Rainer (actress) --Flaviano Labo (Metropolitan opera tenor) --Hubert Castle (wire-walker) --Latonia, Graham and Chadel (novelty act from Europe) Air Date : 15th-Feb-1959  Read More

Scheduled guests: --Dennis Weaver (actor, played Chester on ""Gunsmoke"") --Roger Williams (pianist) --Roberta Peters (opera singer) --Arnold Stang (comic actor) --Teddy Randazzo (singer) --Pat Henning (comedian) --Little Buck (dancer) --Jackie Cannon (comedian) --The Ballet Florence and Frederic de Paris --The Happy Jesters (comedians) --Ugo Frediani (novelty act from Europe) Air Date : 22nd-Feb-1959  Read More

The Platters - ""Sound & The Fury"" and ""Smoke Gets In Your Eyes"" Scheduled: --Abbe Lane with Xavier Cugat and his orchestra --Carol Lawrence --Pat Suzuki (musical-comedy star) --Shelley Berman (comedian) --Ford and Hines (comedy team) Air Date : 1st-Mar-1959  Read More

--Chris Barber's Jazz Band - ""Petit Fleur"" (played while Ed announces guests) and ""Diga, Diga Do"" --Schaller Brothers (comedy trampoline act) --Joe Howard (vaudevillian) and his son Joe Howard Jr. - medley of Vaudeville songs --Fred MacMurray (actor) - appears on stage with dog from ""The Shaggy Dog."" Plus, a clip from the movie. --Dewey ""Pigmeat"" Markham and Shorty (comedy team) --On film: Samuel Goldwyn and Ed Sullivan present awards to Rajaram Vankudre (Indian filmmaker); Buddy Adler; Maurice Chevalier and David Niven. --Jane Russell and her brother Kevin - sing Gospel medley. --The Martin Brothers (acrobats with flaming clubs) --Jan Murray (comedian) --David Seville and the Chipmunks (Chipmunks played by puppets) - probably ""Alvin's Harmonica"" --Shecky Greene (comedian) --Audience bows include Claire Ruth (wife of Babe Ruth); Edith Head and Van Heflin. Air Date : 8th-Mar-1959  Read More

Guests (St. Patrick's Day show filmed in Ireland): --Liam DeVally - ""The Gentle Maiden"" (a traditional Irish folk ballad) --Cork Choir (a.k.a. The Corkish Glee Club) - ""Bells of Shandon"" --Maureen Potter (comedian) - stand-up comic baby routine --The Harmonichords - ""Danny Boy"" (3-man harmonica playing band) --Joe Lynch - ""Cockles and Mussels"" --Robert Briscoe (former Lord Mayor of Dublin) - interviewed at the ""Taxi Cab Shrine"" in Ireland --Irish Prime Minister Eamon De Valera - talks with Ed Sullivan. --Three Harpists - ""Castle of Dromore"" --Edward Mulhare segment: (1) interview; (2) Ed shares tea with Mrs. Mulhare; (3) Ed Mulhare sings ""I've Grown Accustomed to Your Face"" & ""Let A Woman In Your Life"" --Paul O'Keefe (seven-year-old singer from ""The Music Man"") - sings ""Dear Old Donnegal"" --Ed kisses the Blarney Stone at Blarney Castle --Irish Steppers (possibly the Comerford Dancers) - do traditional Irish jigs --Also: Scenes from the new James Cagney movi Air Date : 15th-Mar-1959  Read More

Guests (show filmed in Portugal): --Maurice Chevalier - ""This Is My Lucky Day"" & ""Quai de Bercy"" --The Ames Brothers (vocal group) - ""Petticoats of Portugal"" --Jacquelyn McKeever (singer) - ""April in Portugal"" --Richard Hearne (British comedian ""Mr. Pastry"") --La Chunga (Flamenco dancer from Spain) --John Gilpin and Marilyn Burr (British ballet dancers) CBS repeated this show on July 23, 1961. Air Date : 22nd-Mar-1959  Read More

Scheduled guests: --Shelley Winters (actress) --Connie Francis (singer) --Luise Rainer (actress) --Richard Boone (from the TV series ""Paladin"") --Wayne and Shuster (comedy team) --Jaye P. Morgan (singer with her four brothers) --Mischa Elman (violinist) --Carol Heiss (champion ice skater) --The Bizzaro Brothers (bell-ringing musicians) --On film: A visit to the ""Anatomy of a Murder"" movie set on the first day of shooting. The movie stars James Stewart, Lee Remick and attorney Joseph N. Welch. Air Date : 29th-Mar-1959  Read More

Guests: --The Billy Williams Quartet - ""Goodnight Irene"" --Helene and Howard (comic dancers) --Jean Carroll (comedian) - domestic life humor. --Domenico Modugno (Italian crooner) - ""Piove"" --Flying DePauls (female acrobats) --Myron Cohen (stand-up comedian) --Wayne and Shuster (comedians) - ""Mark of Zero"" sketch --Life Magazine film on ""Zero Gravity"" --The Fleetwoods - ""Come Softly to Me"" --Paul Levee (introduced as ""the man who discovered Brigitte Bardot"") Other guest (scheduled to appear): --Dick Button (Olympic ice skating champion) Air Date : 5th-Apr-1959  Read More

Guests: --Brook Benton - ""It's Just A Matter Of Time"" --Johnnie Ray - ""All Right, OK, You Win"" and ""Here & Now"" --Teresa Brewer - ""Daughter Of Rosie O'Grady"" & ""Heavenly Lover"" --Gertrude Berg, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Michael Tolan - perform a scene from their Broadway comedy ""A Majority of One"" (ship deck scene) --Patachou (Singer from France) - ""Les Innocents"" --Smith & Dale (comedy duo) - tax consultant routine --Shelly Berman (stand-up comedy) - tells jokes about Gertrude Stein & plays a man with hangover making a phone call (routine about what happened the night before) --Phil Foster (stand-up comedian doing a monologue about dogs) --Don McNeil (of Chicago's WBBM-TV ""Breakfast Club"") - introduces Jinny Teal. --Jinny Teal (5-year old girl piano prodigy) - plays ""The Bridge over the River Kwai"" theme on piano. On-stage bows (at beginning of show): Moose Skowron (N. Y. Yankee) & Rod Steiger Air Date : 12th-Apr-1959  Read More

Scheduled guests: --Tallulah Bankhead --Della Reese (singer) --Jack Carter (comedian) --Betty Comden and Adolph Green (musical-comedy team) --Rickie Layne (ventriloquist) --Toni Arden (singer) --Martha Ann Bentley (dancer) --Maggie Sarragne (singer) --Augie and Margo (dance team) --The Shellys (listed as a ""variety act"") Air Date : 19th-Apr-1959  Read More