Seasons & episodes

Scheduled guests: --Roger Williams (pianist) --Dick Duane (singer) --Jimmie Komack (comedian) --Amru Sani (singer from India) --Enzo Stuarti (singer) --Dorothy Hayden's champion Irish Steppers --Lynda-Lynch and her dance trio --Unus (balancer) --The Schaludis (bicycling acrobats) --the Marvellos (variety act) --Rickie Layne and Velvel (ventriloquist act)

Scheduled guests: --Marcel Marceau --Eli Wallach (actor, performs a scene from the Broadway play ""Teahouse of the August Moon"") --Nat King Cole --Joe E. Lewis (entertainer) --Roberta Peters and Cesare Siepe (from the Metropolitan Opera) --The Charlivels (a novelty act)

Scheduled guests: --Nat King Cole --Jack Carter (comedian) --Helen Traubel (opera star) --Ande Segovia (guitarist) --Reese and Davis (comedy team) --Montes de Oca (circus act) --The Jackson Zouaves American Legion drill team (of Jackson, Michigan)

Scheduled: --Bob Crosby and his singing daughter Cathy --Lilli Palmer --Teresa Brewer --Gloria DeHaven and her father Carter DeHaven (song-and dance man) --Harry Secombe (British singer) --Mata and Hari (dance team) --The Georgetown University Glee Club --Alberto Zoppe's midget act

Scheduled guests: --Noel Coward --Mitzi Gaynor --Andre Kostelanetz and his orchestra --General Carlos Romulo (of the Philippines) --Erlinda Cortes (actress) --Richard Hearne (English comedian) --Yana (English actress-singer) --Roger Quaino (balancer) --Evy and Everetto (unicyclists)

Scheduled: --On film: Grace Kelly and Ralph Meeker do a song-and-dance number (possibly a clip from the October 18, 1953 ""Toast of the Town"" show). --Helen Traubel (opera star) --The U.S. Naval Academy Glee Club --Ed Gardner (comedian, ""Archie"" from ""Duffy's Tavern"") does a baseball comedy sketch --Former stars of the Philadelphia Athletics appear on the program in honor of the late Connie Mack --Rickie Layne (ventriloquist with his dummy ""Oiving"")

Scheduled guests: --The Ames Brothers (singing quartet) --Senor Wences (ventriloquist) --Marion Marlowe (singer) --Sam Levinson (comedian) --Enzo Stuarti (singer) --The Three Goetschis (unicyclists) --Alcetty (a European balancing act)

Scheduled guests: --Eve Arden (guest hosting, while Ed Sullivan is in Japan) --Kate Smith (singer, celebrating her 25th anniversary in show business) --Jean Carroll (comedian) --The Peters Sisters - ""Merci Beaucoup"" & ""Old Man River"" --Richard Hearne (British comedian known as ""Mr. Pastry"") --The Goofers (an instrumental-comedy group) --The Luvas

Scheduled guests: --Tony Martin (singer) --Nat King Cole --Edie Adams (singer) --The Lovers (singing group) --Will Jordan (comedian) --Ricky Layne (ventriloquist with his dummy Velvel) --The Linda Lynch Trio (dancers) --The Rich Township Choir (top high school singing group from Chicago) --Nino Nanni (listed as a ""keyboard jester"")

Mother of the Year Awards (the City of Hope Hospital awards to the outstanding Hollywood mothers of the year): --Robert Young presents Mother Of The Year Awards to June Allyson, Ann Blyth, Betty Grable, Deborah Kerr, Betty Hutton, Rosemary Clooney. Other guests: --The Barry Sisters (singing duo) - ""It's All Right With Me"" & ""Yiddish Mama"" --On film: Louis Calhoun is interviewed on the set of ""Tea House Of The August Moon"" --Carlos Ramirez (singer) - ""Granada"" --The Three Markeys (acrobats on parallel bars) --Ed talks with Don Farresse (of the Baltimore Orioles) --Gene Wesson & Gordon Polk (comic duo, sing ""You Gotta Have It"" & ""Sunny Side Of The Street"") --Ving Merlin & his Blonde Violins (girl violinists) - ""12th Street Rag"" --Jay Marshall (stand-up comedy routine: jokes with rabbit hand puppet. The puppet sings ""If I Had My Way"" & ""Just One Of Those Things"") --Jose Greco (Spanish dancer, with 3 other male dancers) --The Fredonia Family (acrobats, might be Th

Guests: --Marcel Marceau (mime) - does ""Butterfly"" & ""David and Goliath"" routines. --Teresa Brewer - ""Sweet Old-Fashioned Girl"" & ""Take Me Away on a Phaeton"" --Jack Paar - stand-up comedy routine about live television bloopers. --David Whitfield (tenor) - sings ""The Rudder and the Rock"" --Maria Tallchief and Nicholas Magallanes (ballet dancers doing a pas de deux) --Smith and Dale (comedy team) - perform a comedy routine about tax collector. --Les Petits Chanteurs de Granby / Little Singers of Granby (32 member boys' choir from Canada) - ""Sur Le Pont D-Avignon"" & ""O Canada"" --The Alcettys (German acrobats) --John Landy (athlete) - film clip shown of race where Landy helps out another runner and still wins. --Rheingold Girls (includes Dianne Baker, Marie McNalley, Tammy Connor, Beverly Christianson, Susie Ruehl, Kathleen Wallace). --Audience bows: Gracie Fields; Melody Sacco (spelling bee winner)

Scheduled guests: --Kate Smith --Senor Wences (ventriloquist) --David Whitfield (tenor) --Marion Marlowe --Dick Shawn --The winners of the Harvest Moon Dance contest --The Haslevs (acrobats)

Scheduled guests: --Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis re-enact scenes from their movie ""Trapeze"" --Lily Pons (Metropolitan opera star) --Helen Wood (dancer) --Joey Clay (singer) - ""Only You"" --The Lovers (singing group) --Benny Fields (veteran ""minstrel man"" making his first Sullivan appearance) --Larry Griswold

Scheduled guests: --Nat King Cole --A filmed segment with Bob Hope --Edie Adams (singer) --Jack Carter (comedian) --Carol Haney (dancer) --Rickie Layne (ventriloquist with his dummy Velvel) --Joey Clay (rock ‘n' roll singer) --The Half Brothers (jugglers) --On film: ""A Short Vision"" - described as ""an animated fantasy which depicts abstractly the effects of the H-bomb.""

The Annual All-Army Talent Show Guests: --Charlie Applewhite, Richard Hayes and Gary Crosby - ""This Is The Army"" (All three singers were Army privates at the time). -- Ertel & Scott (piano duet) - ""The Man I Love"" --Field Artillery Gospel Singers - ""You Better Run"" --The Polka Dots (clarinet polka) - ""Chicken Polka"" --Pete Palmer - ""Granada"" --The Four Gleemen (vocal quartet) - ""Down On 33rd & 3rd"" --Trampoline Act (2 people leap through flaming hoops) --Roger Lehman (tap dancer) - ""I've Got Rhythm"" --Les Garcons De Paris - sing ""C'est Si Bon"" --Hip Cat Hillbillies - sing ""We're Getting Out"" --Tamtettes (5 man jazz combo, wearing shades & berets) - unknown song --Gen. John A. Klein introduces Secretary of the Army Brucker --William Brucker presents Army plaque to Ed. New army flag unveiled. Finale: Army Drill Team (at attention) - ""The Army Goes Rolling Along"" Audience bows (all news correspondents): Joe Wilkes; Hal Boyle; Larry Laseur; Walter

Guests (8th Anniversary show): --Ethel Merman, Shelley Winters, Ruth Gordon, Sam Levy - sing ""Sullivan for Me"" --Teresa Brewer (singer) - medley including ""Put Another Nickel in In the Nickelodeon,"" ""My Guiding Light,"" ""Richochet Romance"" & ""Sweet Old Fashioned Girl"" --Ronald Reagan, Natalie Wood, Robert Walker, Walt Disney, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz - sing ""Happy Anniversary"" in a tribute to Sullivan. --Kate Smith - medley: ""Live til I Die,"" ""I Hear a Rapsody"" and ""World on a String."" --Jack Paar (stand-up comedy routine) - mail order skit --Phil Silvers with Sgt. Bilko cast - sings a tribute to Ed. --Harry Belafonte - ""Jamaica Farewell,"" ""Hold ‘Em Joe"" & ""Lemme Go, Melda Marcy"" (Note: another source listed the songs as ""Take My Mother Home"" and ""Jamaica Farewell"") --Gregory Peck - previews next week's show --Louis Armstrong - surprises Ed and sings ""Happy Birthday"" --UCLA sports all-stars --The Klausen Bears (Klauson's Bears) - animal act, bear rides b

A Salute to John Huston --On film: Ed interviews John Huston & Gregory Peck on the set of ""Moby Dick"" --Gregory Peck (live on stge) appears with Ed & introduces a scene from ""Moby Dick"" (with Orson Welles) --On film: clip from ""Moulon Rouge"" --Split screen: Ed interviews Jose Ferrer --Jose Ferrer (on film?) - applies make up & transforms himself into Toulouse Letrec --Mary Astor & Peter Lorre - talk about John Huston --On film: clip from ""The Maltese Falcon"" --On film: clip of John Huston & Walter Huston receiving Academy Awards. --On film: clip from ""Treasure of Sierra Madre"" --John Huston walks on stage and introduces a film clip from ""Battle of San Pietro"" --Sketch: Edward G. Robinson and Ed Sullivan do a gangster-style dialogue --On film: clip from ""Key Largo"" where Edward G. Robinson is cruel to a drunk woman. --Edward G. Robinson, John Huston, and Ed (on stage) introduce Lauren Bacall --Lauren Bacall talks about how Humphrey Bogart & John Hust

Scheduled guests: --Constance Bennett --Senor Wences --Cell Block Seven (instrumental group) --Patachou (French chanteuse) --Myron Cohen (comedian) --Reese and Davis (comedy team) --Scipini's chimps (animal act) --Miss Universe beauty pageant contestants

Guests: --Bing Crosby - filmed interview with Ed + clip from ""High Society."" --Julie Andrews - ""I Could Have Danced All Night"" & ""Show Me"" (both songs from ""My Fair Lady"") --Louis Armstrong - ""Muskrat Ramble,"" Faithful Hussar,"" ""Stompin' at the Savoy"" and ""Basin Street Blues"" --Harold Long and Joan Holloway (dancers) - ""Talking with Feet"" (with the Toastettes) --Shirley Yamaguchi (Japanese singer wearing kimono) - ""Cha Cha, Cio Cio San"" & ""We Kiss in Shadow"" --Wesson and Polk (comedy team) - collegiate humor --The Iowa Highlanders (Scottish Highlanders with bagpipes, from Iowa State University)

Guests: --Jack Paar (guest host) - At end of show, does a routine about phobias. --Ames Brothers - ""Autumn Leaves,"" ""Dry Bones"" and ""It Only Hurts For A Little While"" --Ted Lewis and chorus - Chorus sings ""Me & My Shadow"" (as Lewis and his ""shadow"" dance) --Ted Lewis - ""Memories"" --Professor Backwards (comedian) - Southern storyteller wearing graduation cap & gown, tells jokes, plays with words by writing letters on classroom chalkboard. --Larry Daniels (stand-up comedian, does an Edward Morrow imitation & routine about airplane travel) --Elaine Malbin (operatic soprano) - ""This Is My Beloved"" --T. C. Jones (female impersonator) - does singing impressions of an American singer in Paris: ""Two Loves Have I"" (in French & English). At end of routine, reveals himself as a man in drag. --The Moscow Bears - starts with film clip of a performance in Russia. Bears ride a merry-go-round, bikes. --The Fredonias (acrobatic team) --Audience bows: a group of circus performe

Top acts of the Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus Scheduled circus performers: --Emmett Kelly (clown) Also: Tito (acrobat); Cordons (whip act); Reberte Trio (knockabouts); Miss Mara (trapeze act); Two Marilex (plate spinners); Pinito de Oro (aerialists); Burtons (hand-balancing act); Al De Gong (chimpanzees); Dschapur and Rutha (jump act); Tonito (wire artist); Adnos (jugglers)

U.S. Air Force talent show (broadcast from McGuire Air Force Base at Wrightstown, N.J.). Scheduled to appear: --The Air Force fencing team --The Air Force judo team. Also: the Strolling Strings, Singing Sergeants, Keesler Chorus, the Westerners and airmen Dick Miller, Alfred King, Sherry Simms, Donald G. Baduria, Donna Byers, Ronnie Evans, Donald Pyburn, and William Dupree.

Much of this show is a tribute to The Yankees (baseball team) and their wives. Guests: --Phil Silvers (guest host, filling in for Ed who had just had his auto accident) --Phil updates the viewers on Ed Sullivan's condition --Phil introduces no one from the audience, then introduces Maurice Gosfield who plays Private Doberman on Phil's show --Phil introduces the wives of the New York Yankees baseball team --Teresa Brewer, Dick Shawn, Charlotte Rae - ""You Gotta Have Heart"" (with unknown male lead singer) --Charlotte Rae - comedy monologe - dieting --Julia Meade reads a letter from Ed Sullivan then shows video of Ed's trip to Paris which is also a Lincoln commercial. --Teresa Brewer - ""When I Leave The World Behind"" & ""I Love Mickey"" which she says she is going to record ""tommorrow!"" The voice of Mickey is coming from off stage and we're not sure if it's Mickey or not. Following this Mickey Mantle comes out and talkes to Phil. --Phil Silvers speaks to Mickey Mantle

Scheduled guests: --Frank Sinatra (guest host) --Jeannie Carson (singer-comedian) --Don Cornell (singer) --Kovac and Rabovsky (dance team) --Pinto Del Oro (aerialist) --""Little Mo"" (performing elephant) --On film: several Japanese acts that Sullivan filmed during his recent trip to Asia.