The first show in which Steve Allen asked the 'breadbox' question that will come to be associated with both him and the series.
John Daly announced that Dorothy Kilgallen was leaving for Washington, D.C. the morning after the program to cover the Dwight Eisenhower inauguration.
Steve Allen for the very first time used his famous comparison, ''Is it bigger than a breadbox?'' The exact quote for his first-time usage of the comparison that would become part of the American lexicon was: ''Is it a large product if you accept as the norm something the size of a breadbox, let's say?'' For younger IMDb readers, a breadbox was an empty box roughly the size of a microwave oven. Made of wood or metal, and in later years, plastic, with a tight-fitting lid or a drop-down door, it was a receptacle for storing bread loaves and baked goods. Before the era of pre-sliced bread, a breadbox with a drop-down door had a wooden cutting board inside of the door for slicing bread.