Episodes (48)
1. Andy Williams, Milt Kamen, Gogi Grant, The Will Mastin Trio (featuring Sammy Davis, Jr.), Marian Ann McKnight , The Baird Puppets
Aired 16 September 1956 • 60 min
2. Billy Eckstine, Rin Tin Tin, Joni James, Professor Irwin Corey, Jose Molina, the Midwestern States Glee Club
Aired 23 September 1956 • 60 min
3. Claudette Colbert, Mickey Rooney, Jerome Hines, Erin O'Brien, Joey Forman
Aired 30 September 1956 • 60 min
4. Abbott & Costello, Kukla, Fran & Ollie, Peggy King, Lionel Hampton, Don Lamond, Louis Bellson Mrs. Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle
Aired 7 October 1956 • 60 min
Todays guests are Abbott and Costello/Kukla, Fran and Ollie/Mickey Mantle/Lionel Hampton/Peggy King/Milt Kamen.
5. Tony Bennett, Doretta Morrow, Mel Torme, Frances Faye, Guy Madison, Kathryn & Arthur Murray
Aired 14 October 1956 • 60 min
6. Peter Lawford, Frank Parker, The Harlem Globetrotters, Rocky Graziano, Olga James, Janik & Arnaut, cameo appearance by Julius LaRosa
Aired 21 October 1956 • 60 min
7. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Alfred Drake, Erin O'Brien, T.C. Jones, Jim Henson & the Muppets, Rod Alexander Dancers, Les Brown & His Band of Renown
Aired 4 November 1956 • 60 min
8. Jerry Lewis, Georgia Gibbs, Anita Ekberg, Anthony Steel, Buster Crabbe, cast members of "Jack and the Beanstalk"
Aired 11 November 1956 • 60 min
9. Bob Hope, Duke Ellington & Orchestra, Gene Nelson, Betty Walker, Erin O'Brien, George Hamilton IV, Olsen & Johnson, World's Champion Women Boxers
Aired 18 November 1956 • 60 min
10. Gene Autry, Jim Lowe, Betty Kean & Lew Parker, Floyd Patterson & Archie Moore, the Chicago Bears
Aired 25 November 1956 • 60 min
11. Charlton Heston, Gypsy Rose Lee, Ethel Waters, Bobby Van, Don Newcombe, Floyd Patterson, Archie Moore, Vince Martin & The Tarriers
Aired 2 December 1956 • 60 min
12. Anne Jeffreys & Robert Sterling, The Hi-Lo's, Bud Wilkinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, Betty Kean & Lew Parker
Aired 9 December 1956 • 60 min
13. Martha Raye, Alan Young, the Collins Kids, Ricky Vera, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, the Vienna Boys Choir
Aired 23 December 1956 • 60 min
14. Tony Bennett, Andy Griffith, the New York Rangers, live premiere of the motion picture "Around the World in 80 Days"
Aired 30 December 1956 • 60 min
15. Errol Flynn, Polly Bergen, Guy Mitchell, Alan Young
Aired 6 January 1957 • 60 min
16. Joe E. Brown, Julius La Rosa, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane, Rocky Graziano, Dorothy Miller ("Mrs. Miller", audience member)
Aired 13 January 1957 • 60 min
17. New York Film Critics Awards
Aired 20 January 1957 • 60 min
Most of the show concerns a filmed Steve presenting the Critic's award to several stars, including 'Ingrid Bergman' and 'Kirk Douglas', along with some small talk interviews. These were shot at Sardi's restaurant in New York, probably when it was closed, due to the utter quietness.
18. Season 2, Episode 18
Aired 27 January 1957 • 60 min
Pearl Bailey, Lilli Palmer, Don Adams, The Collins Kids, Steve Lawrence, Charles Van Doren
19. Peter Lawford, Charles Van Doren, Lou Costello, Margaret Whiting, The Step Brothers
Aired 10 February 1957 • 60 min
20. Frankie Laine, Alan Young, Martha Carson, Tab Hunter, Ken Rosewall, Pancho Gonzales, Jack Kramer, Pancho Segura
Aired 17 February 1957 • 60 min
21. Yehudi Menuhin, Arlene Dahl, Aldo Ray, Robert Ryan, Brenda Lee, the Hilltoppers
Aired 24 February 1957 • 60 min
22. Jerry Lewis, Martha Raye, Steve Lawrence, Diahann Carroll, Fernando Lamas
Aired 10 March 1957 • 60 min
23. Greer Garson, Lou Costello, Dean Jones, Steve Peck, Janik & Arpaut, Howard McNear, Sandra Gould, Veola Vonn, The Lancers
Aired 24 March 1957 • 60 min
24. Tennessee Ernie Ford, Peggy Lee, Johnny Mercer, Dinah Shore, Esther Williams, The Collins Kids
Aired 31 March 1957 • 60 min
25. Salute to the All American Basketball Teams
Aired 7 April 1957 • 60 min
26. Esther Williams, Eydie Gorme, Jackie Cooper, Stan Freberg, The Four Lads
Aired 14 April 1957 • 60 min
27. Mickey Rooney, Eleanor Steber, Joey Forman, Betty Walker, Mickey & Sylvia, Jim Henson's Muppets
Aired 21 April 1957 • 60 min
28. Brenda Lee, Don Adams, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane, Jack Carson, Peter Gennaro & Ellen Ray
Aired 28 April 1957 • 60 min
29. Orson Welles, Jill Corey, Peggy Cass, The Will Mastin Trio featuring Sammy Davis Jr.
Aired 5 May 1957 • 60 min
Steve Allen and Sammy Davis, Jr. perform a card trick with a little help from Orson Welles; Davis joins his uncle Will Mastin and his father Sammy Davis, Sr., for an athletic dance number; Davis performs singing impressions of Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett, Louis Armstrong, and others; and the "Allen Report to the Nation" deals with the tranquilizer pill, with Allen interviewing Louis Nye as the head of a pharmaceutical company, Tom Poston as chief of laboratory research, and Don Knotts as a jittery fill-in speaker at a medical convention. Additionally, singer Jill ...
30. Tallulah Bankhead, Milton Berle, Pearl Bailey, Dean Jones, Reverend Billy Graham
Aired 12 May 1957 • 60 min
31. Ann Sothern, Bert Lahr, Brenda Lee
Aired 19 May 1957 • 60 min
32. Andy Griffith, Marty Robbins, Errol Garner, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Martha Raye, a cameo appearance from Dean Martin
Aired 26 May 1957 • 60 min
33. Xavier Cugat, Abbe Lane, Pat Carroll, The Four Diamonds, Erin O'Brien, Jerry Lewis
Aired 2 June 1957 • 60 min
Steve's guests are The Diamonds (singing "Little Darlin'"), Xavier Cugat & his Orchestra with singer Abbe Lane doing "All Of You" and "Babalu," comedian Pat Carroll as a wife whose husband (Allen) tries to prove to her that a joke he told is funny, Erin O'Brien singing "Where's A Happy Ending?" Jerry Lewis plays Gordon Hathaway and a dopey boxer in the "Man on the Street" segment, Steve gives passionate readings of real "Letters to the Editor," delivers a silly speech to graduating seniors, and shows works of art used in magazine ads.
34. Orson Welles, Wally Cox, Meg Myles, Jim Reeves, The Step Brothers, Reverend Billy Graham
Aired 9 June 1957 • 60 min
35. Steve Lawrence, Mamie Van Doren, The Hi-Lo's, Walter Chiari
Aired 16 June 1957 • 60 min
36. Lou Costello, Pat Boone, Jonathan Winters, Abbey Lincoln, Fay DeWitt, Dulcie Cooper, The Ames Brothers
Aired 23 June 1957 • 60 min
Lou Costello in a restaurant skit where Gabe Dell takes the part of the bullying, Bud Abbott-type companion.
37. Bob Hope, George Jessel, Alexis Smith, Vera Miles, Dean Martin, the Rod Alexander Dancers, The Axidentals
Aired 30 June 1957 • 60 min
In a salute to Hope's new film, "Beau James", skits, dance numbers and film clips devoted to onetime crooked prohibition-era New York mayor Jimmy Walker.
38. Benny Goodman, Yvonne De Carlo, Peter Lawford, Professor Irwin Corey
Aired 7 July 1957 • 60 min
Goodman's in top form, and Steve does a duet with him. Yvonne and Steve in a baby-naming skit, Lawford and Steve play bored life guards. A "Night Beat" parody includes Knotts as his classic nervous nerd, and a bellicose Nye cracks Steve up.
39. Debra Paget, Buddy Rich, Frankie Laine, Cornelia Otis Skinner
Aired 14 July 1957 • 60 min
40. Tony Bennett, George Nader, Joanne Gilbert, Hal Le Roy, Floyd Patterson & Joe Louis
Aired 21 July 1957 • 60 min
Tony Bennett sings "One For My Baby". Floyd Patterson and Joe Louis talk to Steve about boxing and Floyd's title defense against Tommy "Hurricane" Jackson. Joanne Gilbert sings "Hello Bluebird". Show regulars, appear in a comedy satire on television quiz-masters. Steve plays a piano version of "Do You Ever Think of Me?" For the finale, the entire cast and guest list join in with a bevy of hula dancers for a production entitled "In the Middle of an Island".
41. Jerry Lee Lewis, Shelley Winters, Anthony Franciosa, The Four Coins, Jodie Sands, Shai K. Ophir, Leona Gage
Aired 28 July 1957 • 60 min
Steve and Shelley Winters in a skit about teaching her to drive by using household objects, Jerry Lee Lewis gives a bravura piano-attacking performance.
42. Marie MacDonald, The Four Diamonds, Jack E. Leonard, Don Rondo, Brenda Lee
Aired 4 August 1957 • 60 min
43. Jane Russell, Ferlin Husky, Larry Storch, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Rod Alexander Dancers
Aired 11 August 1957 • 60 min
44. Lou Costello, Liberace, Andy Williams, Abbey Lincoln, Jean Fenn
Aired 18 August 1957 • 60 min
45. Hedy Lamar, Joe E. Brown, The Coasters, Irish McCalla, Pat Kirby
Aired 25 August 1957 • 60 min
46. Pearl Bailey, Joan Collins, Jeff Chandler, Shaike Ophir, Pete Rademacher
Aired 1 September 1957 • 60 min
47. Robert Young, Martha Raye, Marion Lorne, Milton Caniff, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme, Dave Garroway, Miss America of 1958
Aired 8 September 1957 • 60 min
48. Ed Wynn, Frankie Laine, Dorothy Collins, Don Adams, Audrey Meadows, Sugar Ray Robinson & Carmen Basilio
Aired 15 September 1957 • 60 min