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- A documentary on Broadway legend Carol Channing.
- Struggling artist fakes his own death so his works will increase in value.
- A group of motorists witnesses a car crash in the California desert, and after the driver's dying words indicate the location of a hidden stash of loot, they turn against each in a race across the state to get to it.
- After the crew becomes sick with food poisoning, a neurotic ex-fighter pilot must safely land a commercial airplane full of passengers.
- The romantic and comic tales of the passengers and crew of the cruise ship, Pacific Princess.
- The Caped Crusader and his young ward battle evildoers in Gotham City.
- Television show featuring skits by Carol Burnett and her comedy troupe.
- The five-day-a-week syndicated successor to the popular CBS game show, where two could compete to match fill-in-the-blank phrases with those of the celebrities.
- Kermit the Frog and his fellow Muppets put on a vaudeville show at their theatre, bringing in a famous celebrity to help out for each episode.
- An aspiring actress moves from her hometown of Brewster, New York, to try to make it big in New York City, having to take several offbeat "temp" jobs to support herself in between her various auditions and bit parts.
- Televised comedy/variety show with a country bent.
- Host Johnny Carson performs comedy routines and chats with various celebrities.
- The wacky misadventures of a forever-scheming woman, her reluctant best friend, and her cantankerous boss.
- Tarzan (Lord Greystoke), already well educated and fed up with civilization, returns to the jungle and, more or less assisted by chimpanzee Cheetah and orphan boy Jai, wages war against poachers and other bad guys.
- 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.
- The classic prime time variety show most famous for its vaudeville acts and rock music performances.
- Contestants guess the correctness of celebrities' answers in order to win spaces in a tic-tac-toe game.
- They present the news and information source of the day's topics and journalism.
- Mike Douglas, aided by a different celebrity co-host every week, interviews a variety of figures from the world of entertainment.
- 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.
- A comedy variety show featuring the retro rock and roll group.
- Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.
- An American anthology series, with a new episode and different actors and actresses each week. Hosted by Ronald Reagan, the series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
- 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.
- 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.
- Various guest hosts present a musical variety show.
- "Dakota" Smith (William Terry), a young soldier on a pass in New York City, visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of the theatre and movies appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. Dakota meets a pretty young hostess, Eileen Burke (Cheryl Walker), and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance.
- A group of panelists try to guess a guest's secret.
- Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy.
- This send-up of ragtime song and dance begins in 1915 San Francisco when society boy Roger Grant decides to pursue popular rather than serious music.
- During another twister, Dorothy is hit on the head by a gate and once again whisked away to the Land of Oz. But this time, on her way to the Emerald City, she discovers the witch Mombi's terrible plot to conquer Oz with an army of monster green elephants that's she's brewing up. She escapes with the help of Mombi's slave Pumpkinhead, and they try to warn King Scarecrow and her other friends that Mombi is coming, but she finds that they haven't quite changed as much as she thought. So it's up to her, Pumpkinhead, and the living carousel horse Woodenhead to find a way to stop Mombi's green elephants.
- Kraft Suspense Theater was an anthology series which featured a new cast and stories each week.
- This was a Colgate-sponsored comedy hour that featured many notable comedians and entertainers of the era as guest stars.
- This particular series combines several "The Dick Cavett Show" on ABC: ABC This Morning/The Dick Cavett Show ABC Daytime March 1968 - January 1969 The Dick Cavett Show ABC Primetime May 1969 - September 1969 The Dick Cavett Show ABC Late Night December 1969 - January 1975 The Dick Cavett Show ABC Late Night September - December 1986
- This is The 1st Edition of the program. Composed of 2 Teams of 3 Members (2 In-Studio team members and 1 Star Team Captain) are writing answers to an question {e.g.: Name a part of a chicken} that'll/this'll read(ing) by the host/star (Gene Rayburn) and one(1) member of the team wrote/writes the answer {e.g.: Leg}. The 1st and 2nd Members of the team has/having the same answer is/are matched and that'll/this'll be worth 25 points (10 points-early in the run from December 31, 1962 to February 8, 1963) and the star team captain matched the same answer and that'll/this'll be worth 50 points (20 points). The 1st Team score 100 points wins the game and collect $100 and played "The Studio Audience Match." In "The Studio Audience Match", That/This has 3 Secret Survey Questions which it This/That all occurs the date this/that held/holds the 3 Questions prior to the broadcast of "The MATCH GamE". Each 1 of the 3 secret survey questions that/this has/having the all-time popular answer will be match by the same 3 members of the winning team called "THE BEST ANSWER." Each matching answer that'll/this'll determine what he or she thinking up that/this answer of their judgment is valued at in the following - 1 Person Matched worth $50, 2 People Match worth $100 and All 3 People Match includes A Star Team Captain worth $150 and the possible total of the 3 questions is worth $450 and that/this can be added to $100 and can be the perfect total of $550. The Game Continues before time's up with the sound of whistle blow and the 2 members of the team has the highest cash amount became today's winners. On the weekday of February 27-March 3, 1967 Before the show is over...There's "The Telephone Match" becomes a feature to the program. The Host reads the question {i.e.: _____ Soup} to the home viewer via telephone call and picks 1 member of the studio audience (by a number from 1 to 100+) will match the answer {i.e.: Vegetable Soup} as well the member wrote the answer and that's a match wins the share of jackpot started at $500. $100 will be added when it's a mismatch {i.e.: Alphabet Soup}.
- A group of celebrities would be given a sentence with a missing word, which they would then have to fill in. The contestants would then give their own answer, and scored points according to how many celebrities gave the same answer.
- 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.
- A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner, he decides to follow and rescue her. However, he discovers that she is an English heiress who ran away from home and is now being returned to England. He also discovers that his boss is on the ship. To avoid discovery, he disguises himself as the gangster accomplice of a minister, who is actually a gangster on the run from the law.
- 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.
- In this live drama series, over two hundred live plays, covering all aspects of society, were shown.
- In 1924, Estie comes to Hollywood to become an actress but the dog that followed her becomes the star. Hollywood has its own rules of success.
- The life and love of a young couple is told through a series of monologues, sketches, and song-and-dance routines. Each episode followed how they met and fell in love, and then their subsequent married life. Numerous guest-stars helped round out the cast.
- 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.
- An intimate and candid look at the life and art of the legendary composer-lyricist.
- The Winterbolt is trying to make North Pole his evil wonderland, and it is up to Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and other icons to stop him.
- The Ford Motor Company sponsored this hour-long program which rotated between variety shows, dramatic productions, and musical comedies. One of the offerings was turned into a regular series, Sing Along with Mitch (1961).
- A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy (Eddie Cantor) who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but must go to Egypt to claim it.
- The Bob Hope Show hosted by Bob Hope.
- A nostalgic look back at the Great Depression with contemporary archival footage and film clips picturing James Cagney as an American Everyman.
- 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.
- A weekly variety program, presented by the comedian Jonathan Winters. It featured guest comedians and musicians, recurring sketches with regular characters, and a segment devoted to Winters performing impressions of various persons and animals.
- 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.
- Summer replacement show featuring pilot programs that had not been sold.
- Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
- Kermit the Frog and all his friends celebrate 30 years of master puppeteer and producer Jim Henson's extraordinary media franchise.
- Kermit the Frog throws a glamorous party at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub to celebrate the premiere of the Muppets' first feature film The Muppet Movie. Hosts Dick van Dyke and Rita Moreno interview the wide array of celebrities and Muppets.
- All-star variety special celebrating the centennial of the Actors' Fund of America.
- The outrageous story of 1970s porn icon Jack Wrangler, and how he rose to the top of the gay, and then straight, adult film industry.
- A variety of different concerts and specials
- The star performs with guests.
- Allan Carr built his bombastic reputation producing the hit movie GREASE and Broadway sensation LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, but it all came crashing down after he conceived the notorious 1989 Academy Awards.
- Interviews with figures from public life.
- A revival of the British variety show Tonight at the London Palladium, it ran from 28 October 1973 to 28 October 1974.
- Yacht owner is stranded on island with her socialite friends, a wacky husband and wife research team, and a singing sailor.
- A CBS variety show that ran monthly from 1954-1958, broadcast in color. Stars appearing included Betty Grable, Mario Lanza, Jack Benny, Basil Rathbone, Fredric March, Shirley MacLaine, and Ed Wynn. Lanza and Grable appeared in an amusing episode with Fred Clark, featuring Grable as the unlikely replacement for Lanza in a show.
- Spud Miller hopes to save his struggling radio station by winning a broadcast competition, with the help of the Radio Eye, an invention that can display live events from anywhere in the world.
- Minute-long "on this day in history" shorts, used a countdown to America's bicentennial.
- A series of nighttime specials that aired periodically from May 8th, 1978 to May 25th, 1984 on ABC. Each one hour show featured five members of a cast of a television series competing in a celebrity-team tournament for charity, answering questions to match popular survey responses.
- Ed Wynn, a waiter, tries to get hit employers daughter a start on the stage; Ginger Rogers replaces Ethel Merman when Merman is kidnapped.
- "Desert, culture, counterculture." Worlds collide in this unconventional essay film, when filmmaker, film historian, and archivist Daniel Kremer seamlessly edits Michelangelo Antonioni's legendary but controversial counterculture art film Zabriskie Point (1970) into the same narrative universe as Stanley Kramer's madcap epic comedy extravaganza It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963). In creating these new sequences, Kremer comes to recognize that the exercise effortlessly draws cultural and historical parallels in twentieth-century American life that echo in present-day America. The editorial mashups weave a tangled web of social and cinematic history that root our notions of Americana in the mythology of the desert. As Kremer expounds in his narration on these often astonishing and sometimes shocking associations, his very personal ties to the subject matter become manifest. Highlights: University radical Mark Frechette flies his stolen aircraft right past the one piloted by Mickey Rooney and Buddy Hackett as they spin out of control. Daria Halprin ignores a hitchhiking Jonathan Winters. Milton Berle leaps right into a cascade of amorous sand-covered bodies. Spencer Tracy and Daria Halprin in a torrid extramarital affair. Beatnik surfer Dick Shawn phone-pranks capitalist pig Rod Taylor. It's all here.
- Years before "The Larry Sanders Show" came this Canadian-made sitcom taking place behind the scenes of the fictional "David Steinberg Show," starring real-life comic David Steinberg. Like the later Garry Shandling series, the show alternates between backstage antics and big-name guest stars on stage. The series is best remembered for co-starring many later comic powerhouses such as John Candy, Martin Short and Dave Thomas, years before they did "SCTV."
- The Best of Broadway is a 60-minute live television anthology series that aired on CBS Television on Wednesdays at 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time from September 15, 1954, to May 4, 1955, for a total of nine episodes. Each show was broadcast live in color from New York City, was an adaptation of a famous Broadway play, and included commercials for Westinghouse featuring Betty Furness. Using a "giant new studio", plays were presented in front of a studio audience, which contributed to a Broadway-like atmosphere.
- Singer Cilla Black at the height of popularity, was the grinder of this weekly entertainment series, frittering singing by Ms Black as well as her many guests.
- Frank Sinatra hosts a variety show.
- A summer replacement show hosted by pop singer Bobby Vinton that was a traditional mix of musical numbers and comedy skits. His guest stars were based on current popularity.
- 19911h 1m7.6 (67)TV MovieA star-studded documentary and tribute to the classic comedy, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
- 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
- Leslie Uggams is celebrating Christmas on Sesame Street. But since Oscar the Grouch is being a right old Scrooge, she decides to teach him a lesson by imploring Anne Murray, Imogene Coca and Dickie Smothers to pose as the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future.
- The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his fiancée.
- This was a variety show, hosted by Jack Paar, that had live and filmed interviews with famous people; comedy and musical acts; and home movies of trips Paar took with his wife Miriam and his teenage daughter Randy.
- Bandleader (Romero) and manager (Ameche) discover skater (Henie) in Norway. They become rivals after she returns with them to America.
- Anthology of excerpts from Marilyn Monroe's 20th Century-Fox output, narrated by Rock Hudson, and created as a cinematic eulogy to Monroe, who died the year before.
- Fozzie and Kermit have come across a priceless collection of great moments in the career of the Muppets. This collection features many Muppet TV segments, including episodes of "Pigs in Space," and "Veterinarian's Hospital."
- First of two programs about musical theatre hosted by writer-composer-lyricist Sylvia Fine.
- ABC 2000 was perhaps the most elaborate, complex and ambitious televison program produced. ABCNews placed correspondents and production teams on every continent, anchored by Peter Jennings for 24 hours non-stop. ABC celebrated the Millennium by showing viewers the world wide Coverage.
- The show was a live talk show hosted by actor Jerry Lewis. Each episode was 2-hours-long. The show was filmed in the renovated El Capitan Theatre, which had recently been purchased by ABC. The debut episode was plagued by the failure of the recently installed equipment. The show was never particularly popular. The original plan called for 40 episodes to be produced, but the 13th episode was its final one.
- Betty Boop, a nursemaid, meets a masher in the park; with the Bouncing Ball, Ethel Merman sings the title song.
- The Les Crane Show, was a late-night talk show up against Johnny Carson of The Tonight Show. Les Crane was known as the bad boy of late night, bringing together controversial guests with heated discussions. Airing Monday thru Friday there were also live videotaped remotes featuring top stars.
- Ballroom dancing, plus comedy, songs and dance contests on one of the few programs to air over all four major commercial networks. ABC premiered it on July 20, 1950 and it closed on NBC on September 6, 1960. It varied between a half-hour and one hour in length.
- Fred Astaire hosts this compilation film of highlights from some of 20th Century Fox's best musicals. Among the performers included are Barbra Streisand, Carmen Miranda, Maurice Chevalier, Frank Sinatra and the Ritz Brothers.