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- The doctors who work in the ER at the County General Hospital in Chicago grapple with ups and downs in their personal and professional lives while trying to give apt medical care to their patients.
- Dr. Frasier Crane moves back to his hometown of Seattle, where he lives with his father and works as a radio psychiatrist.
- On a special inner city street, the inhabitants, human and muppet, teach preschool subjects with comedy, cartoons, games, and songs.
- The original rapid fire sketch comedy show.
- A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general.
- A struggling, middle-aged actress attempts to make a career for herself, all while surrounded by her hard-drinking best friend Maryann, her two former husbands, and her two daughters.
- Host Johnny Carson performs comedy routines and chats with various celebrities.
- Filmed and televised versions of theater productions, such as plays, musicals, operas, ballets, and concerts from around the world.
- Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
- A retired judge and his last defendant follow up on cases that were dismissed due to technicalities.
- Documentary series focusing on great American artists and personalities.
- They present the news and information source of the day's topics and journalism.
- A comedy-themed variety show, hosted by the popular comedian Red Skelton. It run with no interruption from 1951 to 1971. From 1956 to 1962, the show's head writer was Sherwood Schwartz, who had previous experience as a comedy writer for Bob Hope's radio show. During the 1960s, the show had its own regular cast of singers and dancers. Guests of the show included then-popular bands, such as the Beach Boys (in their network television debut), The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, and The Supremes. By the early 1970s, the program was thought to appeal primarily to older audiences and to residents of rural regions. It was canceled, as the network wanted something that would attract an urban audience.
- Dean Martin hosts, with several celebrities as guests. There are musical acts and comedy sketches that break down comedy, racial, and sexual barriers all at the same time.
- Comedian Rosie O'Donnell produces and hosts her first daytime talk show that focuses on interviews with celebrities about acting, writing, charity work, and family life.
- A series of mysterious crimes threatens the existence of a new radio network.
- The classic prime time variety show most famous for its vaudeville acts and rock music performances.
- A pinnacle of the Golden Age of Television, "Studio One" presented a wide range of memorable dramas and received eighteen Emmy nominations and five wins during its prestigious nine-year run on CBS.
- Merv Griffin invites a series of actors, actresses, writers, and directors to discuss the progressive work they have done and current culture, arts, and entertainment surrounding the numerous projects.
- An American-led team of International astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars, but the captain's religious beliefs may get in the way.
- The UK version of the popular US show. Eamonn Andrews (later Michael Aspel) surprises celebrities by presenting them with the Big Red Book before taking them into the studio to tell viewers the story of their life, featuring guest appearances by members of their family, friends and colleagues.
- This was a Colgate-sponsored comedy hour that featured many notable comedians and entertainers of the era as guest stars.
- A group of panelists try to guess a guest's secret.
- Powell served as host and, in early shows at least, occasional star in this dramatic anthology. It was his last television series and contained his last filmed acting (episode: 'The Court-Martial of Captain Wycliff').
- Mike Douglas, aided by a different celebrity co-host every week, interviews a variety of figures from the world of entertainment.
- Exactly what the name implied celebrities participate in a regulation game of bowling.
- Variety show hosted by Garry Moore with famous guests.
- The Texaco Star Theatre was one of the most popular shows in the history of television. In the first year, Milton Berle was not the permanent emcee, but once he replaced the rotation, the show soared to ratings dominance (Number One in 1950-51), NBC dominated Tuesday night, and Berle became the first great star of the new medium, "Mr. Television". The basic format was modeled after a vaudeville variety hour, spotlighting Berle's jokes, sight gags, and costumes.
- Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg.
- Two celebrity-contestant teams compete to guess words by giving one-word clues in this all-time classic game show.
- Live dramatic shows featuring Hollywood stars, adaptations of motion pictures, and a host accompanying. The host would introduce each act, and would conduct an interview with the stars at the end of the play.
- The residents of Peyton Place are not happy when its most famous resident, Alison Mackenzie, writes a "shocking" novel detailing the sinful secrets of the town.
- The Steve Allen Show was an American variety show hosted by Steve Allen.
- A comedy variety special that featured many famous comedians, in various skits.
- Various guest hosts present a musical variety show.
- Award of the American academy of cinematographic arts and sciences, from 1940th known as "Oscar", - American film award created in 1929 and traditionally handed to the figures of cinematographic art for their contribution to creation of movies.
- A long-running quiz show hosted by TV veteran Jack Barry, and later by Bill Cullen. In this show, contestants would have to answer questions on a wide variety of topics, with the prize money determined by a slot machine-style device. The winning contestant could then move on to a bonus round, where they would play a slot machine for a chance at even bigger prizes, but with the risk of losing everything.
- The Bob Hope Show hosted by Bob Hope.
- Dinah's show premiered 9 September 1974 and continued through to 4 September 1981. She started out the 70's with Dinah's Place which usually featured one guest and was more of a home oriented show about cooking, crafts and occasionally music. This format lasted until May of 1974. When the show came back in October of 1974 the format had changed drastically to a variety talk show which was called Dinah. and went on until 1981. This show was also known as "Dinah and Friends" during the summer of 1976.
- Hosted by Tennessee Ernie Ford, the likeable singer, comedian, entertainer received his own variety show sponsored by the Ford Motor Company which gave Ernie the venue to entertain millions with his informal friendly manner and talent. His music was a combination of gospel and country and western. His homespun catch phrase "Bless Their Little Pea Pickin' Hearts", endeared him to the nation.
- Perry Como was an American Singer, who got his start on NBC Radio. In 1948, Because of his popularity, The cameras were simply brought into the radio studio to televise the radio broadcast and named it The Supper Club. In 1950 Como and his Sponsors moved to CBS and named this The Perry Como Chesterfield Show.
- Featuring iconic performances by groundbreaking artists from music, comedy, novelty, politics, sports, Broadway, dance, and opera. The Ed Sullivan Show is TV's longest running variety show. It ran on Sunday nights for 23 years.
- This sitcom on NBC stars Al Franken as Al Freundlich, a vain reporter for the fictional news program "Lateline." Robert Foxworth stars as Pearce McKenzie, the anchor of "Lateline." Vic Karp is the show's executive producer. This spoof of "Nightline" showcases numerous real life politicians, and real Washington bigwigs.
- The Tomorrow Show was an American late-night television talk show hosted by Tom Snyder.
- A clumsy, full-of-himself chorus boy gets a chance at Broadway stardom when he's a stand-in for a leading actor threatened by an infamous killer.
- A revival of the British variety show Tonight at the London Palladium, it ran from 28 October 1973 to 28 October 1974.
- Originally airing during late-night, Tonight Starring Jack Paar was an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under the Tonight Show franchise from 1957 to 1962. After 1959, it was officially known as The Jack Paar Show.
- A man visits a frontier town seeking to avenge his brother's murder.
- American talk show that had its first broadcast on ABC on April 17, 1967. It was hosted by Joey Bishop and featured Regis Philbin in his first ongoing role with national television exposure, as Bishop's sidekick/announcer.
- An hour of live variety, in the classic sense of television's Golden Age.
- Dinah hosted this hour-long weekly for seven years. It featured Dinah and guest stars in a variety of songs, skits, production numbers. Also featured: her "See the USA in your Chevrolet" song and her warm kiss to all in conclusion.
- Country music star Jimmy Dean hosts a comedy-variety show with help from his puppet sidekick, Rowlf the Dog.
- The story of singer Rosemary Clooney's rise to fame, her marriage to Jose Ferrer, and her nervous breakdown.
- For Gobel's half-hour series, he used a successful comedy format of a monologue segment, followed by a story set up segment, then a musical interlude with the show's girl singer, then the main skit with the guest performers.
- After Pat's other show, "Wheel of Fortune" enjoyed a surge of popularity in the late 80's, he decided to try his hand at hosting a late-night talk show. The format was similar to "The Tonight Show", consisting of comedy monologues, celebrity guests and musical numbers. Although many well-known celebrities appeared on his show, in the end, Sajak was unable to compete with Johnny Carson and Arsenio Hall.
- A panel of notable personalities rate the latest pop records.
- Two teams of two players compete against each other to determine the name of a famous person. One member of the team, who knew the answer, would give clues to his or her teammate.
- Minute-long "on this day in history" shorts, used a countdown to America's bicentennial.
- This was a local Cincinnati, Ohio talk show hosted by Bob Braun, a Cincinnati personality. Bob Braun got his start as the sidekick for Ruth Lyons, another Cincinnati legend.
- CNBC/MSNBC talk show hosted by Charles Grodin.
- Documentary series profiling various Hollywood stars of yesteryear and more recent times.
- 75 Episodes of a 1-hour Talk/Variety Series hosted by Jim Nabors, the singer and star of "Gomer Pyle," with over 225 celebrity comedy and musical guests.
- Nostalgia based panel chat show.
- Interviews with figures from public life.
- The long-running television version of the long-running NBC radio series devoted to classical music as well as Broadway composers.
- A morning television talk show hosted by Gypsy Rose Lee
- CBS's morning news and talk show.
- The 27th Academy Awards, held on March 30th, 1955 to honor the best films of 1954. Hosted by Bob Hope at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood with Thelma Ritter hosting from the NBC Century Theatre in New York City.
- This The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950) spin-off found George Burns relocated to his downtown office working as a producer and trying to deal with an assortment of entertainers and oddball theatrical acts, as well as his previously established friends.
- The show had two venues. In December 1948 to March 1949, Morey Amsterdam was the emcee at a small fictional nightclub in New York City's Times Square. Charlie the Doorman (later Newton the Waiter) and Lola the cigarette girl were also employed at the club. Between April 1949 and October 1950, the show shifted to a different network and the scene shifted to the Silver Swan Cafe with Newton and Lola still employed.
- Coming back to television after taking a year off, Andy Williams hosted this musical/comedy variety show. While his earlier programs had stuck with more traditional music, this new show embraced rock, flower power, and psychadelia whole-heartedly. Each broadcast usually included a few of Andy's classics, along with some regular comedy routines like Cookie Bear, Big Bird, and the humor songs of Ray Stevens.
- Entertainment Tonight co-host John Tesh was a daytime talk program interview show with celebrities. Reporter Beth Polson provided entertainment news while John Tesh interviewed celebs.
- Matt Lauer's in depth biography of world leaders in Politics, Entertainment and Business.
- Interim version of the talk show that aired between the departure of Jack Paar and the arrival of Johnny Carson.
- Daytime Music/Talk Show on NBC, Monday to Friday, 11-11:30 am, from1966-67 for 183 episodes, starring Pat Boone and featuring the Paul Smith Orchestra,
- Fifteen-year-old Katri Walenska jumps a Polish ship, swims ashore and enters New York illegally. The United States Immigration officials are alerted and the search is on. Katri's only possessions are a ten-dollar bill and a letter to her parents' old friend, Jan Poldi, a former Metropolitan Opera star. She finds him in a shabby Greenwich Village apartment. His neighbors in the apartment house are three Broadway hopefuls; pop singer Terry Brennan, hoofer Buddy Fraser and Homer Tirdell and his talented dog Red Dust. (Pardon me, make that four Broadway hopefuls counting the dog.) When Terry hears Katri's magnificent singing voice, she scurries around New York to get her an audition and succeeds in getting her a spot on Don Wilson's televised amateur hour. She wins the contest but unwittingly reveals her true identity as an illegal alien, which causes the arrest of Poldi, Wilson and Dave, Terry's lawyer boyfriend. Katri faces deportation.
- A talk show with news, interviews, and entertainment aimed at the older viewer.
- A 1950s variety show sponsored by Anheuser-Busch. The host was Ken Murray, who had previously hosted variety theatrical shows and variety radio programs. The show had a large regular cast of singers and female dancers, but also featured guests. Former child actress Darla Hood was part of the regular cast from 1950 to 1951. The show was canceled when its sponsor withdrew its funding.
- Singer Rosemary Clooney and vocal group The Hi-Los were the regulars in this presentation of popular music.
- Recording artists of the 1950s reunite and perform; they include The McGuire Sisters, Debbie Reynolds and Rosemary Clooney.
- The history of Christmas and the traditions that make the holidays the most wonderful time of the year.
- The films, affairs and struggles of the iconic star of The Blue Angel as told by Rosemary Clooney, Roger Corman, Deanna Durbin and many more.
- Syndicated special that salutes Hollywood's contribution to popular music from the 1920s to the 1980s. Each of the seven hosts introduces a different decade.
- The 25th Academy Awards and the first time the ceremony is broadcast on television. Held on March 19th, 1953 at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, it is hosted by Bob Hope and honors the films of 1952.
- A catholic nun tries hard to protect and integrate in society a number of young women with a past in reform schools or even prisons. Lack of funds, troublemakers in the group, outside incomprehension for her aim make her task hard, but eventually she achieves due to her faith in God, and the human person.
- A look at how Hollywood has treated Christmas, featuring the Hollywood Christmas parade, clips from movies about Santa Claus and Christmas, Christmas carols sung by movie stars and more.
- Screen Actors Guild Award - American award, awarded by Guild of movie actors of the USA from 1995 for movies and television serials.
- Bob Hope takes a look back at the beautiful and funny women he has worked with over the years. More than 60 of Bob's co-stars are here in television and film excerpts.
- Two celebrity teams with contestants try to guess as many songs in 45 seconds.
- Daytime talk/variety show airing Monday to Friday. Hosted by Pat Boone he had weekly co-hosts to assist him with this 90 minute program. A Cooga Mooga Inc. presentation.
- Ttelevision variety program, hosted by Ezio Pinza, which for a time alternated with The RCA Victor Show Starring Dennis Day, later named The Dennis Day Show.
- Bob Monkhouse hosts his own chat show dedicated entirely to comedy. Mixing performance and interviews, guests come from both sides of the Atlantic, and include Tommy Cooper, Jim Carrey, Spike Milligan and Bob Hope.