Seasons & episodes

Guests: --The Lovin' Spoonful - ""Bald Headed Lena"" (and 2 more songs at end of show) --Johnny Rivers - ""Baby I Need Your Lovin'"" --Alan Drake (stand-up comedian) - talks about an Italian neighborhood & sings. --Cab Calloway - ""Minnie the Moocher"" (with special lyrics to introduce his daughter Chris) --Chris Calloway - ""I'm Not At All In Love"" --Cab and Chris Calloway - ""Side by Side"" --Audience bow: Carol Channing --The Trio Hoganas (balancing act from Europe) - acrobats balance on tightrope --George Carlin (comedian) - talks about daytime TV --Jane Powell (singer) - operatic medley from ""Porgy and Bess"" --Jerry Stiller and Anne Mara (comedy team) - portray a couple at a high school reunion. --The Lovin' Spoonful - ""Do You Believe in Magic?"" (background keeps changing) and ""Daydream"" Other guests (scheduled to appear): --Jackie Kahane (comedian) --Dave Allen (comedian)

--Dave Clark Five - ""I've Got To Have A Reason"" & ""You Got What It Takes"" Other guests (scheduled): --Eddie Albert --Pat Buttram --Muppets --London Lee (stand-up comedy) --Sergio Franchi --Anna Moffo

Scheduled guests: --Sonny & Cher --Alan King --Henny Youngman --Wayne & Shuster --Robert Merrill --Gospel Jazz Singers

Scheduled guests: --Richard Pryor --Ed Ames --Lana Cantrell --Davis & Reese --Peter Gennaro --Shirley Verrett --Douglas & Haig

Guests: --Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - ""Summer Wine"" --Nancy Sinatra - ""Love Eyes"" --Tony Bennett and the Count Basie Orchestra - ""Sunny Side Of The Street,"" ""I Left My Heart In San Francisco,"" ""Don't Get Around Much Any More"" & ""The Lady's In Love With You"" --Count Basie Orchestra - ""Edward Great Saxophone"" --Totie Fields (stand-up comedian) - talks about having no flaws then sings ""I'm Perfect"" --Peter Gennaro (dancer-choreographer with other dancers) - ""Alouette"" (Totie Fields makes a cameo) --Hendra & Ullet (comedy team) - A Mets fan tries to explain baseball to an Englishman. (The duo performed the same sketch on 7-Aug-66) --Alan Kogosowski (13 or 14-year-old pianist) - plays Chopin's Polonaise --Los Indio Tabajaras - South American Indians play guitars --The Mercners (acrobats) - girl does mid-air somersaults on pole held by 2 men --Audience bow: Dolores Credsler? (star of "" Cherie"") - Ed says, ""Now in our audience tonight is one of the fine singing stars o

Scheduled guests: --Bobby Vinton --Bert Lahr --Jackie Mason --Joan Rivers --The McGuire Sisters --George Kirby

Guests: --Paul Revere and the Raiders - ""Good Thing,"" ""Ups and Downs,"" ""Him or Me - What's It Gonna Be"" & ""Kicks"" --Rich Little (comedian-impressionist) - imitates Fred MacMurray, Jack Lemmon, John Wayne, Walter Brennan, etc. --Melina Mercouri (Broadway star) - performs ""Illya Darling,"" ""Never on Sunday"" and ""Piraeus, My Love"" in scenes from the Broadway play ""Illya Darling."" --Jim Henson's Muppets - sing ""I Feel Pretty"" in a ""How to be Ugly"" skit. --Gilbert Price (singer) - ""Old Man River"" --Jack Benny (comedian doing a stand-up act) --Edward Villella and Patricia McBride (ballet dancers, from the New York City Ballet) - dance a pas de deux CBS repeated this show on July 2, 1967.

Broadcast from Montreal's Expo '67 --The Supremes - ""The Happening"" --The Supremes - medley: ""Thoroughly Modern Millie,"" ""Second Hand Rose"" and ""Mame."" (Supremes are wearing flapper costumes.) Other guests: --Xavier Cugat with Charo - Latin medley --Roberta Peters - ""Bell Song"" --Frank Ifield - ""You Came Out Of Nowhere"" & ""She Taught Me How To Yodel"" --Clair & McMahon (comedy team, computer dating routine) --Corbet Monica (comedian) --The Alcettys (balancing act) Audience bows: Jean Drapeau (Montreal mayor); Bill Haughton (harness jockey); Bob Usury (Kentucky Derby winner); Leslie Uggams

The Turtles - ""Happy Together"" & ""She'd Rather Be with Me"" Other guests: -- Woody Allen (stand-up comedy routine) - includes jokes about Ed Sullivan & Ed's show. --Leslie Uggams - sings ""Being Good"" & "" Hallelujah, Baby!"" (both songs are from the play ""Hallelujah, Baby!"" in which Leslie played Georgina Franklin) --Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara (comedy team) - stand-up jokes about both mothers coming to dinner for Mother's Day. They sing ""Irish-Jewish Marriage."" --Aliza Kashfi - ""If I Were A Rich Man"" (song from ""Fiddler On the Roof,"" sung In English and Hebrew) --Enzo Stuarti - ""Exodus"" --Tanya Solnik (young girl sings in Hebrew) --The Keigo Imperial Dancers (dancers from Japan) --The Varadys (teeter board acrobats) --Audience Bows: Navy Vietnam Veterans

Broadcast from Montreal's Expo '67 Guests: --The Seekers - ""Georgy Girl"" --Petula Clark - medley: ""I Know A Place,"" ""Je Me Sens Bien,"" ""My Love"" and ""Downtown"" --Petula Clark - ""Don't Sleep in the Subway"" and ""This is My Song"" (sung partially in French) --Alan King (comedian) --Birgit Nilsson and the Montreal Symphony - ""In Questa Reggia"" (The Montreal Symphony under the direction of Wilfrid Pelletier.) --Ronald Turini (plays piano with the Montreal Symphony) --Claude Leveillee - ""Le Rendezvous"" (Actor discovered by Edith Piaf) --Peter Gennaro (choreographer) dances with female dancers at various pavilions. --Les Feux Follets (square dance & clog dancers in traditional costumes, dancing with brooms) Audience bows: Jean Drapeau (Montreal mayor) & Pierre Dupuy (Commissioner General of Expo '67)

Guests: --The Temptations - medley: ""(I Know) I'm Losing You,"" ""All I Need"" and ""My Girl"" --Robert Goulet - ""The Impossible Dream"", ""My Cup Runneth Over"", ""Walking Happy"" --The Roselles (South American Highwire act) - On tape, introduced by Ed from Expo 67 in Montreal. --The Jovers (balancing duo) --Tessie O' Shea - ""Two Ton Tessie"" --Peter Lawford (audience bow) --The Pickle Brothers (comedy trio, fast-paced vaudeville-style humor) - Dracula sketch --Audience Bow: Peter Wolfendon (New Zealand pacing driver who trained and developed trotter ""Cardigan Bale"") Ed mentions that he and Sylvia had purchased a few trotters (horses) recently. Other guests (scheduled to appear): --Jane Morgan --Topo Gigio --Doodletown Pipers --Lee Tully --Jack De Leon

--Nancy Ames - ""Blow Gabriel Blow"" (with Harry James playing trumpet) --Topo Gigio (Italian mouse puppet) - sketch: Topo dreams what it would be like with his mouse-wife Rosie and their baby mouse. (Topo only appears at the beginning and end of sketch.) --Roger Ray (stand-up comedian with xylophone) --The Young Rascals - ""A Girl Like You"" & ""Groovin'"" --Georgie Kaye (stand-up comedy, jokes: florists; N.Y. lottery, Expo 67', income tax forms) --Harry James Orchestra - ""Blues for Sale"" --Audience bow: Paul Anka --Nancy Ames - ""So What's New"" & ""Nice Work If You Can Get It"" -- Rodney Dangerfield (stand-up, jokes include shrink, car, brother, working in tough places, ""No Respect"" routine) --Chong & Mana (Chinese circus novelty act using bricks, flowers, knives, fire)

--Opening of show, Ed's intro --Topo Gigio (mouse) - talks about being sick from eating too much candy. --Topo Trio (Topo Gigio and two other mouse puppets) - sing ""Pop,"" a song in Italian. --Audience bow: Jennifer Reinke (spelling bee champion) Commmercial: Dutch Masters cigars --Kane Triplets (singers) - ""When Your Eyes Meet Mine,"" ""Pow! Pow! Pow!"" and ""Mutual Admiration Society. They also talk (or sing) about ""What It's Like To Be Triplets"" --Richard Pryor (stand-up comedy, re: being in the army, military pep talks, submarine warfare) Commercial: Anacin Pain Reliever --Rouvaun (opera singer) - ""Vesti La Giubba"" (dressed in clown suit) --Audience bows: Rod Laver & Ken Rosewald (tennis players); Bill Collins (Australian broadcaster) --Rouvaun - ""On A Clear Day"" --Rob Murray (juggler) Commercials: Geritol; Sominex --The Mamas and the Papas - ""Dedicated to the One I Love."" Mama Cass thanks Ed for putting pop groups on his show. --The Mamas and the Papas -

Ed Sullivan's 20th Anniversary show: Guests: --Spanky & Our Gang - ""Sunday Will Never Be the Same"" & ""Coney Island Washboard"" --Diahann Carroll (singer-actress) - ""As Time Goes By"" & ""Running Wild"" --The Rubin Mitchell Trio - ""My Liza Jane"" --Peter Gennaro (dancer) - dance interpretation of ""On a Clear Day"" --Tanya The Elephant Other guests (scheduled to appear): --Norm Crosby (comedian) --Robert Merrill (Metropolitan Opera baritone) --Jack Carter (comedian)

Guests: --Connie Francis – ""Born Free,"" ""Winchester Cathedral"" and an Italian medley --Ronnie Dove and the Swingle Singers – ""Cry"" (Johnnie Ray imitation) --Swingle Singers (French octet use their voices as instruments) --Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara (comedy team) --Henny Youngman (stand-up comedian with violin) --Flip Wilson (stand-up comedian) --Los Robellos / Dorcan Robles Band (Mariachi band) - ""Ceilito Lindo (Ai Ai),"" ""Rancho Grande,"" ""La Cucaracha"" & ""Mexican Hat Dance"" --Los Tonitos (high wire act) --Augsburg Jungle Wonders (trained animal act with monkey and baboon) CBS repeated this show on June 16, 1968.

Guests: --The Young Rascals - ""Groovin',"" ""A Girl Like You"" & ""How Can I Be Sure?"" --Petula Clark - ""I'll be Loving You Eternally"" & medley: ""Who Am I?"" ""Don't Sleep in the Subway"" & ""Cat in the Window"" --Red Skelton (stand-up routine) --Eddie Fisher - ""Mame"" & ""That Face"" (Buddy Hackett cameo on 2nd song) --Buddy Hackett (comedian) - does a Chinese waiter routine --The Great Carazini (comedian) Audience bows: Walter Winchell; Jerry Vale

Guests: --The Doors - ""People are Strange"" & ""Light My Fire"" --Yul Brynner (actor, appearing with a musician) - perform ""Two Guitars"" (from Brynner's album) --Flip Wilson (stand-up comedian) --Rodney Dangerfield (stand-up comedy) --Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme - ""That's Love,"" ""Come Back to Me"" & medley: ""Anything Goes,"" ""Love For Sale,"" ""I Get A Kick Out Of You,"" ""You Do Something To Me,"" ""I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair,"" ""Getting To Know You,"" ""Happy Talk"" & ""I've Got You Under My Skin"" --Eydie Gorme - ""Mame"" --Steve Lawrence - ""Too Fast, Too Soon"" --The Kessler Sisters (twins Alice & Ellen Kessler) - medley of Maurice Chevalier songs: ""Thank Heaven For Little Girls"" and ""Louise"" (A salute To Maurice Chevalier on his 79th birthday) --The Skating Bredos (from Sweeden) - man & woman speed skate in 6 ft. circle CBS repeated this show on 07-Jul-68.

--The Mamas and the Papas - ""Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon)"" --The Mamas and the Papas (later in show) - medley: ""Monday, Monday,"" ""I Call Your Name"" & ""California Dreamin'."" --Florence Henderson (actress-singer) - medley from ""Sound of Music"": ""My Favorite Things,"" ""Climb Every Mountain,"" ""Do-Re-Mi"" & ""The Sound of Music"" --Ed Ames (actor-singer) - sings ""My Cup Runneth Over"" & ""When The Snow Is On the Roses"" --John Byner (comedian) --Jorgen and Conny (balancers, acrobats from Sweeden) --Topo Gigio (Italian mouse puppet) --Jack Carter (stand-up comedian) --Jean Claude (balancing act) --Audience bows: Ralph Pearl & Charlie McAddams (reporter & publisher of Las Vegas Sun) --Audience bows: Roberto Rossellini; Duane Hackney Please see ""Recap"" for more details.

Nancy Sinatra - ""Until It's Time for You to Go"" --Nancy Sinatra, Peggy Lee, & Sergio Franchi - medley including ""Just One of Those Days,"" ""Why Don't You Do Right,"" ""These Boots are Made for Walkin',"" ""Falling Leaves"" & ""M'Lord"" --Peggy Lee - ""I Feel It"" & ""The More I See You"" --Sergio Franchi - ""By Myself"" & ""Time Will Tell"" (in English & Italian) Other guests: --George Carlin (stand-up comedy: going to the movies, coming attractions) --Winners Of The 33rd Harvest Moon Ball --Gimma Brothers (comic acrobats, do tumbling wearing suits) --London Lee (stand-up comedian, tells jokes about show business) --Richiardi (magician) Audience bows: Ladies Auxiliary of the Polish Legion of Pine Island

Guests: --Jimmy Dean - country medley: ""Any Time,"" ""Born To Lose,"" ""Oh Lonesome Me,"" ""I Can't Stop Loving You"" and ""Jambalaya (On the Bayou)"" --Jimmy Dean & Rowlf - Jimmy jokes with Muppet Rowlf (dog puppet) --Joan Rivers (stand-up comedy: A pregnant Joan jokes about what her mother did & didn't tell her & finding & renovating housing in New York) --The Muppets (hairy monster eats technical talking machine) Jim Hensen cameo --Lana Cantrell - ""Stairway to Paradise"" & ""When You Wish Upon A Star"" --Jack E. Leonard (insult comedian: bashes Ed, insults Japanese pianist, dancers, etc.) -- Wayne & Shuster (comedy team) --Young Americans - ""Let In The Sunshine"" (filmed at playground) --Young Americans - medley of Meridith Wilson's best works: ""May The Good Lord Bless & Keep You,"" ""Pick A Little, Talk A Little,"" ""Gary Indiana,"" ""'til There Was You"" & ""Trouble In River City"" --Audience bows: Israeli Soccer team; Nobel Sisel & Harold Arlen

Lovin' Spoonful - ""She's Still a Mystery"" & ""Only Pretty"" Other guests: --Ethel Merman - ""Riding High"" & ""This Is All I Ask"" --Sandler & Young (duo sings medley: ""Cabaret,"" ""76 Trombones,"" ""And The Band Played On..."") --David Frye (comedian doing impressions & political humor) --Tommy Cooper (comedian doing a bumbling magician act) --Corbett Monica (stand-up comedian) --Lado Dance Group (Traditional Yugoslav dance troupe doing the ""Bachelor's Dance"") Audience bows: Mrs. Lanza & Gov. Paul Laxalt; Lucera Tena (Flamenco dancer) Cameos: On stage at beginning of show: Lew Brock, Bob Gibson and Carl Yastremski (World Series Cardinals & Red Sox baseball players)

Guests: --Lulu - ""To Sir With Love"" --Eddie Fisher - ""Let Me Sing And I'll Be Happy"" & ""If She Walked Into My Life"" --Stiller And Meara (sketch: man tries to tell his mother he's getting married) --Mike Douglas --The McGuire Sisters - ""One Kiss"" and French medley: ""Under Paris Skies,"" ""Dites Moi,"" ""Summer In Bordeaux,"" ""What Now My Love"" & ""Lucky Me"" --The McGuire Sisters - ""When the World Was Young"" and ""Free Again"" --Norm Crosby (stand-up comedy, routine: conservative youths vs. hippies) --Tommy Cooper (British comedian pretends to be a fumbling magician) --Ballet America (10 Couples In farm garb, not actually ballet) --Baby Opal (trained Elephant Act) --Audience bows: Fran Tarkenton; Hugh Lipsey; Josh Logan; Eli Wallach; Prince Mike Romonoff

--The Cowsills - ""The Rain, the Park & Other Things"" & medley (""Monday, Monday,"" ""Sweet Taking Guy,"" ""Lonesome Me,"" ""Please Mr. Postman"" & ""Reach Out"") --Polly Bergen (""Once In A Lifetime"" & ""What The World Needs Now"") --Senor Wences (ventriloquist, various puppets) --Peter Nero (pianist with orchestra, ""Fiddler On The Roof"") --Myron Cohen (stand-up comedy) --Lou Alexander (stand-up routine: violence in fairy tales, contact lenses) --Noucha Doina (violinist with trio) --Peter Gennaro (dance segment, Halloween dance). --Scenes from ""Henry Sweet Henry"": Don Ameche playing a scene & Alice Playton singing ""Poor Little Person"" Audience Bows: Paul Ford (Broadway star); Camille Bonano (""Miss By-Line"")

--Shirley Bassey - ""Don't Rain On My Parade"" & ""On A Clear Day"" --Tony Bennett - ""Broadway,"" ""Who Can I Turn To,"" ""Moment Of Truth"" and ""For Once In My Life"" --The Woody Herman Orchestra - ""Boogaloo"" Additional guests (scheduled): --Rodney Dangerfield --Totie Fields --Allen & Rossi