The Ed Sullivan Show Season 16
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 / NRThe Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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The Ed Sullivan Show Season 16 Full Episode Guide
Guests (taped show): --Joan Sutherland - ""Son vergin vezzosa"" (from Bellini's ""I Puritani"") --Della Reese - ""You Came a Long Way from St. Louis"" & ""Be My Love"" --Matt Monro (British singer) - ""Georgia on My Mind"" --Stan Kenton and his band - ""Maria"" & ""I Feel Pretty"" --Thelma Lee (comedian) --Norman & Dean (comedy team) --Bob Bramson (hoop act) --The Gimma Brothers (acrobatic tumblers)
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Guests, on tape (pre-recorded show): --Kate Smith - ""I Wish You Love,"" ""When Your Lover Has Gone"" & ""But Beautiful"" --Jackie Mason (comedian) --Morecombe and Wise (comedy team from Britain) --Joya Sherrill (jazz singer) - ""New York's My Home"" --Danny Costello (singer) - ""You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You"" & ""Falling in Love with Love"" --Pat Buttram (comedian) --The Antonio Ballet Espanol --Topo Gigio (Italian mouse puppet) - ""Volare""
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Guests, on tape (pre-recorded show): --Wayne & Shuster (comedy team) --Kay Stevens (musical-comedy performer) - ""Make Someone Happy"" & ""I Ain't Down Yet"" --Marion Marlowe (singer) - ""Night and Day"" --Bill Dana (in character as Jose Jimenez) - ""My Funny Valentine"" --The Kane Triplets (singer) - ""Dear Mr. Kennedy"" & ""When We Grow Up"" --Harry Rose (vaudevillian) - Al Jolson medley --Linon (clown) --Dennis Spicer (comedy ventriloquist) --Conrad Buckner (tap dancer)
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Guests: --Al Hirt (trumpet player with combo) - ""Down by the Riverside"" and, later in show, ""Carnival in Venice"" & ""Row Row Row"" --Geula Gill (Israeli singer, with 2 backup singers & band) - ""Tzena Tzena"" & ""Malaguena Salerosa"" --Tommy Cooper (magician-juggler) --Alberto Rochi (tenor) - ""Al Di La"" (in Italian) --Totie Fields (stand-up comedian) - tells jokes about her career, the Sullivan Show, her weight, etc. --Wallace Brothers (tap dancers-entertainers) - tap dance and tell jokes --Jack Carter (stand-up comedian) - jokes about his work with Ed, Las Vegas, air travel, married life, gambling, etc. & sings ""Bye Bye Blackbird. --Bobby Ramsen (stand-up comedian)
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15th Anniversary Show with clips from past shows (special 90-minute episode): --1949: Charles Laughton - soliloquy from Henry V (TV debut) --1951: Gertrude Lawrence, Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein - excerpt of ""Whistle A Happy Tune"" --1951: Helen Hayes - talks about ""Victoria Regina"" --1952: Jackie Gleason & Art Carney - Bakery Scene --1952: Cole Porter - talks about early flop --1953: Walt Disney & Ed Sullivan at Disney Studios: Walt Shows Ed how animation is done. --1954: Jack Benny gets advice from Ed Sullivan. --1955: Scenes from three movies reenacted live on stage: (1) James Cagney, Henry Fonda, Jack Lemmon perform scene from Mr. Roberts; (2) Gary Cooper, Rod Steiger do scene from ""The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell""; (3) Robert Mitchum & Shelly Winters do scene from ""Night of The Hunter."" --1956: Phil Silvers & Bing Crosby - comedy mixup sketch --1956: Elvis Presley - ""Hound Dog"" --1956: Clark Gable, Ed Sullivan & Raoul Walsh - Ed goes to New Mexico t
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Scheduled guests: --Eartha Kitt --Jackie Mason (comedian) --Wayne and Shuster (comedy team) --Kaye Ballard (comedian) Regulars: --Series regulars: The Hugh Lambert dancers The Ray Bloch orchestra
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Guests: --Barbra Streisand - ""When the Sun Comes Out"" --Stiller & Meara (comedy team; do parodies of popular TV commercials) --The McGuire Sisters - ""Old Devil Moon,"" ""Cordially Invited"" & ""Daddy"" --Guy Marks (stand-up comedy & sings ""Red Scarf"" & ""Loving You Has Made Me Bananas"") -- Sue Carson (stand-up comedy and song & dance routine) --The Steiner Brothers (tap dancing team) --Alan Gale (stand-up comedian, topics: marriage, London travels) -- Bob Bramson (juggler, juggles hula hoops) --John (balancer, balances balls, spins hoops, acrobatics) Audience bows: Johnny Unitas & Harry Richman; Neil Sedaka; Dallas Texas Students; Navy Men
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Scheduled guests: --Sammy Davis, Jr. --Janet Blair --Rowan and Martin (comedy team) --The Kim Sisters --Jesse Pearson (singer) --Sue Carson (comedian)
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Scheduled guests: --Cab Calloway --Eydie Gorme --Frank Fontaine (backed by the Arbors vocal group) --Sergio Franchi (Italian singer) --Pat Buttram (comedian) --Bill Dana (comedian, in character as ""Jose Jimenez"") --Topo Gigio (the Italian mouse)
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Guests: --Ann-Margret - ""Bye, Bye, Birdie"" and ""Baby, Won't You Please Come Home"" --Steve Lawrence - ""The Sweetest Sounds,"" ""Misty"" and ""Lazy River"" --Kate Smith - ""Who Cares"" & ""As Long As He Needs Me"" --Totie Fields (comedian) --Frank Fontaine --Vaughn Meader (comedian, doing a JFK sketch) --Topo Gigio (puppet) --Lucho Navarro (vocal impressionist / sound imitator) --The cast of the Café Society's night-club revue ""New York Coloring Book.""
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Scheduled guests: --Vivien Leigh (actress, singing ""Wilkes-Barre, Pa."" from her Broadway show ""Tovarich"") --Brenda Lee - ""Losing You"" --Myron Cohen --Al Hirt --Ann-Margret --Richiardi (illusionist) --Rip Taylor
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Guests: --Ella Fitzgerald - ""Start Of Something Big,"" ""No Moon At All,"" ""Bill Bailey,"" ""I'm Old Fashioned"" & ""Stompin' At The Savoy"" (Roy Elridge on horn). --Bob Hope and Lucille Ball talk about their movie ""Critic's Choice"" --Jackie Mason (stand-up, jokes about visiting London; the government) --Kaye Stevens (comedian) - sings ""Today I Love Everybody"" --Four West (comedy troupe) - skit on office personnel --Dick Contino (accordion player) - ""Malaquena"" & ""Granada"" --Grant Johannsen (concert pianist) - ""Prokofiev Precipitado"" --Bob De Voye Trio (might be Bob De Boye Trio) - two men & a woman do a dance number --Kalani & the Kids from Tahiti (ethnic Tahitian dance and costumes) Audience bows: Brenda Lee; Vic Ghezzi (golfer); and the jockey who won the Kentucky Derby.
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Broadcast from Toronto, Canada: --Connie Francis - ""Days of Wine and Roses,"" ""Exodus,"" ""If My Pillow Could Talk"" & ""Hava Nagila"" --Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane - Latin medley: ""Perfidia,"" ""Besame Mucho"" and ""Blame It On the Bossa Nova"" --Jan Peerce - ""Maria"" (song from ""West Side Story""), ""The Sweetest Sounds"" & ""Flower Song"" (from ""Carmen"") --Wayne and Shuster (comedy team) - sketch with reporter having a difficult time interviewing hep-cat jazz musician --Jack Carter (comedian) --Les Jerolas (two French speaking Canadians singing ""Little Darlin'"" and doing impressions) --The 48th Highlanders of Canada (bagpipe band) Audience bows: Tim Horton, Carl Brewer, Bob Fulford, Bob Nevin, Allen Stanley & Harold Ballard (all of the Toronto Maple Leaf team).
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Scheduled guests: --Liza Minnelli --Anthony Quinn (actor, scheduled to read poetry) --Della Reese (jazz singer) --Errol Garner (jazz pianist) --Mary Costa (opera singer) --Charlie Manna (comedian) --Pat Henning (comedian) --Ben Blue (comedian) --Arthur Tracy (billed as an old time ""Street Singer"") --Vinicio (juggler)
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Show taped in London: --Judy Garland - ""Smile (Though Your Heart Is Breaking)"" & ""I Could Go On Singing"" --Peter O'Toole - talks with Ed about ""Lawrence of Arabia"" & sings ""When Irish Eyes Are Smiling"" with Ed. (This was O'Toole's debut on Ed's show). --Cliff Richard (with the Shadows) - ""Bachelor Boy"" & ""Do You Wanna Dance?"" --Frank Infield (singer from Australia) - ""I Remember You"" --Margo Henderson (singer from Scotland) - ""What A Crazy World"" (plays piano & does vocal impressions) --Topo Gigio (Italian mouse puppet) - sings ""Tickety Tock"" --The Del Ray Brothers (juggling act, juggle flaming torches with their feet) --The Rastellis Clowns (men in blackface, one clown has a huge bullet through body, piano blows up) --Rupert's Bears (German family & bear act) --Mac Romay (comic magician from France) --The Pusztai Troupe (teeterboard act / seven man Hungarian acrobatic team) --The Schaller Brothers (comic trampoline act, performing stunts)
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Scheduled guests: --Frankie Avalon (singer) --Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller (comedy team) --Kaye Ballard (comedian) --The Lee Evans Jazz Trio --Bill Dana (comedian, in character as ""Jose Jimenez"") --Anita Gillette (musical comedy performer) --Johnny Puleo and his Harmonica Gang
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Guests: --Jackie Wilson - ""Baby Workout"" & ""Night"" --The McGuire Sisters - Biography medley --Lou Wills Jr. (tap dancer) --Tommy Cooper (comic magician, funny hats) --Rickie Layne And Velvel (ventriloquist dummy act) --Dave Barry (standup comedian, with income tax jokes) --Novelites (Alabama Jubilee Rube Hillbilly comedy act, bass player uses Ampeg Baby bass electric standup) --Ed Sullivan brings out medal of Honors Winners
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Guests: --Barbra Streisand - ""Cry Me a River"" --Chubby Checker - ""Peanut Vendor"" & limbo medley: ""Let's Limbo Some More"" and ""Limbo Rock"" (Chubby does the limbo on stage.) --Woody Herman & his band - ""Caledonia"" and, later in show, ""The Girl Upstairs"" (with the Hugh Lambert dancers) --Morecambe & Wise (British comedy team) - Judo self defense routine. --Totie Fields (stand-up comedian wearing tutu) --Dave Madden (stand-up comedian, tells jokes about going to the doctor & heath while smoking a cigarette throughout the routine). --Tommy Cooper (comedian, performing tricks) --Joy Kaye (clown act & pantomime) --Spencer Trio (acrobatic / balance act) --Saddri Dancers (comedy dance team) --Audience bows: Ann-Margret; Jesse Pearson
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--Morecambe and Wise (British comedy team) - appear twice in show. --The McGuire Sisters (vocal trio) - sing ""Danny Boy"" --Sid Caesar does a scene from the Broadway show ""Little Me"" with other cast members. --Paul Anka - ""Falling in Love with Love,"" ""Stardust"" and ""Remember Diana"" --Judge Pigmeat Markham and Shorty (comedy duo) - comedy routine about math. --Rico (magician) - trick with metal ball and silk scarf. --The Chad Mitchell Trio - ""Columbus Stockade Blues"" and ""Blowin' in the Wind""
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Guests: --Kaye Stevens (musical-comedy singer) - ""Somebody Is Keeping Score"" --Jan Murray (stand-up comedian) - tells jokes about TV shows & doctors --Guy Lombardo Orchestra - medley: ""Moon River,"" ""Third Man"" theme, ""Enjoy Yourself,"" ""Winter Wonderland"" & ""Boo Hoo"" --Wayne & Shuster (comedy team) - routine in which they compare flying first class to economy. --Leon Bibb (folksinger) - ""They Called The Wind Mariah"" --Izumi Yukimura (Japanese jazz singer) - ""Lullaby Of Birdland"" (spelling might be Isumi Yukimuara) --Jimmy Roma (trumpet player) - imitates, on his trumpet, the voices of Connie Francis & Al Jolson --The Half Brothers (juggling act) ---Pinky & Perky (puppets) - 2 pig marionettes & a goose sing ""Lets Twist Again""
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Scheduled guests: --Bob Newhart (comedian) --Kate Smith (singer) --Nancy Walker (comedian) --Charles Nelson Reilly (comedian) --Anita Bryant (singer) --Dennis Spicer (ventriloquist from Britain) --Mike Clifford (singer) --Los Flamencos (Spanish dance group) --John (hand-balancing act)
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Show broadcast from Las Vegas Guests (confirmed): --Jimmy Durante --Eddie Jackson and Sonny King (appear with Durante in an extended segment which runs over 20 minutes). Additional guests (scheduled to appear): --Carol Lawrence --Patt Buttram (comedian) --The Nitwits (comedy troupe from England) --Eric Brenn (plate spinner) --Eddie Siefert and Company (contortionists) --The Desert Inn Dancing Girls
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Guests (confirmed): --Patti Page (singer) - might have performed ""If I Were a Bell"" --Hal Holbrook (actor) - In a scene from his off-Broadway play ""Abe Lincoln in Illinois,"" Holbrook recites Lincoln's ""Against A House Divided"" speech. --The Three Stooges --Dave Madden (comedian) --Bill Dana (comedian, in character as ""Jose Jimenez"") Additional guests (scheduled to appear): --The Bob De Voye Trio (dancers) --Fred and Angela Roby (ventriloquist act)
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International performers (scheduled to appear): --Franco Corelli (Italian tenor) --Eve Boswell (English vocalist) --Hanna Ahroni (Israeli singer) --Sasha Tormas (Hungarian violinist) --Juan Valdez and his marionettes (from Spain) --Dolinoff and the Raya Sisters (French specialty act) --The Three Merkeys (German contortionists) --The Two Carmenas (German balancing act) --a performing Russian bear
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Guests: --Neil Sedaka (singer playing the piano) - medley: ""Happy Birthday Sweet 16,"" ""Calendar Girl"" & ""My Yiddish Mama"" --Wayne and Shuster (comedy team) - does a takeoff on ""Bonanza"" featuring ""The Cartwheels."" --Janet Blair - ""I Believe In You"" --Otto Harbach tribute. Ed Talks About Harbach's Death and shows a film clip from 1954 of Otto Harbach reciting the lyrics of ""Smoke Gets In Your Eyes."" --The Kim Sisters - Banjo Medley: ""Baby Face"" & ""Bye Bye Blue"" Later in show, medley: ""A Hundred Million Miracles,"" ""You Are Beautiful,"" ""I Enjoy Being A Girl,"" ""Fan Tan Fannie"" and ""Grand Avenue"" --Dave Astor (stand-up comedy) - topics: want ads, ugly babies and great leaders of the day. --Ballet De Espanol (Flamingo dancers) --Delage (magician with female assistant) --Amin Brothers (Egyptian acrobatic balancing act) --Audience bows: Ronnie Ferraro (jockey from Hileigh)
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Live from the Miami Beach Convention Hall. Guests include: --Brenda Lee - ""Just Because"" & ""Alone Am I"" --Jackie Mason (stand up routine about singing, cops, etc.) --Robert Goulet - ""The Moon Was Yellow"" and ""Gigi""/""Camelot"" medley --Sophie Tucker - sings a medley on her 75th birthday. --Con Conwally (balancing knife act) --The Flying Alexanders (trapeze act, performing outdoors) Also: A tribute to the Cuban Brigade 2506 (former prisoners held in Cuba). The Cuban Brigade 2506 Band - performs ""Day-O"" Audience bows: the mayors of Miami & Miami Beach
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Guests: --Sammy Davis Jr. - ""Something Gotta Give,"" ""Hey There,"" ""What Kind of Fool I am"" --Barry Sisters - ""All For You"" --Vaughn Meader (impressionist) --Pat Carroll & Fred Clark (comedians) --Ricky Layne & Vevel (ventriloquist act) --Fred Kapps (magician) --Ugo Garrido (juggler)
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Italy's Podrecca's Piccoli Theater with puppet ""performers"" (all under 36 inches tall). Puppets: --Prof. Piccolowski (pianist) --Mme. Sinforosa Strangoloni (soprano) --Biscromio Scarmigliati (violinist) --Miss Legnetti (vocalist) --Anna Piccolova (ballerina) --Bil Bol Bul (acrobat) --Sibilio Pifferetti and his dachshund Saltarello
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From Guantanamo Naval Base, Cuba: --Connie Francis - ""Who's Sorry Now,"" ""Bye Bye Love,"" ""Your Cheating Heart"" and ""Someday You'll Want Me to Want You"" --Louis Armstrong and his band - ""Blueberry Hill,"" ""Mack the Knife,"" ""Indiana,"" ""Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen"" and ""Sleepy Time Gal"" --Carol Lawrence - ""Skaking the Blues Away"" and ""A Bushel and a Peck"" --Jack Carter (comedian) --Frank Fontaine (comedian) --George Carl (comedy pantomimist)
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Guests: --Barbra Streisand - ""My Coloring Book"" and ""Lover Come Back to Me"" --Liberace - ""Moon River"" and ""Mack the Knife"" --The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem (Irish folk-singing group) - ""Gypsy Rover"" & ""South Australia"" --Russ Lewis (ventriloquist, with dummy ""Clarence"") - Lewis tries to coach Clarence on how to tell a joke --Linon (Belgian clown, frets over having to walk a tightrope) --Audience bow: YA Tittle of the New York Giants Additional guests (not on PBS repeat, but scheduled to appear): --Xavier Cugat and Abbe Lane --Victor Julian's dog act --The Goans (trampoline act from Mexico)
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Guests (info taken from various sources): --The Four Seasons - ""Big Girls Don't Cry"" --Peggy Lee - ""The Best Is Yet to Come,"" ""Nice and Easy,"" ""Close Your Eyes,"" ""Like Someone in Love"" & ""I'm a Woman"" --Anthony Newley (musical-comedy star) --Jose Greco (dancer, appearing with his Spanish dance troupe) --Joey Forman (comedian) --George Matson (impressionist - record mimic) --Dominique (French pickpocket expert) --Alan Gale (comedian, scheduled guest)
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Guests (confirmed): --Pearl Bailey --Al Hirt and his combo --Phil Foster --Bill Dana (comedian) --Pat Henry (comedian) Additional guests (scheduled to appear): --Jerome Hines (bassist) --Maya Plisetskaya (prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet dances ""The Dying Swan"") --Rinat choir of Israel --TV Guide's All-American Football Team
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Guests: --Rosemary Clooney - ""Limehouse Blues"" and ""Sleepytime Gal"" --Tony Bennett - medley: ""Just In Time,"" ""I Left My Heart in San Francisco"" & ""Sing You Sinners"" --Jackie Mason (stand-up comedian) - Jackie shows Ed how he should do his show. He does a comedy monologue later in the show. --Jack Carter (stand-up comedian, tells stories) --Charlie Cairoli and company (comedy team) - One person (Charlie Cairoli?) is dressed like Charlie Chaplin while another man plays clarinets. --Zoni & Nancy Claire (ballet dancers) --Leonard Sues (trumpet player) - plays an assortment of classic songs by Henry Busey, Clyde Mccoy, Louis Armstrong. --Hugh Lambert Dancers - ""My Pretty Girl"" Roaring 20's production number. --Audience bows: Anthony Quinn; Milt Plum & Gale Cogdill (Detroit Lions football players); Mauro Nino (boxer from Peru) Scheduled to appear: --Bob Lewis
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Guests: --Van Johnson - ""Nice Work If You Can Get It"" --Kaye Stevens - ""Hey, Look Me Over"" and ""My Man"" --Kaye Stevens, Paul Lynde & Dick Contino - sing comedic song about ""Tune In And You'll See Our Shows On TV"" --Paul Lynde (comedy act, plays Carl Cankerin who has just come back from Africa bruised and broken up). --Barbados Police Band (performs medley) --Vern And Betty (limbo dancers) --Bob Lewis (stand-up routine, plays banjo & tells jokes) --Gabriella Tucci (opera singer) - ""Visi D'arte"" --Dick Contino - ""Exodus"" (on accordion) --Max And Sheri (acrobatic comedy team) On film: Royal Command performance for Women in International Show Business. Scenes of Queen Elizabeth & the Duke Arriving, passing along line of performers, Eartha Kitt, Bob Hope, Sophie Tucker, others. Audience bows: Sophie Tucker (later appears on stage); Alex Webster (from the New York Giants)
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Scheduled guests: --Robert Goulet - ""You Stepped Out of a Dream"" & ""Don't Be Afraid of Romance"" --Phyllis McGuire (of the McGuire Sisters) and Robert Goulet - ""Darn It, Baby, That's Love"" --Rowan & Martin (comedy team) --Senor Wences (ventriloquist) --Jerry Shane (comedian) --Charlie Cairoli and Paul (Paul Freedman?) - comedy duo --The Five Olanders (tumblers)
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Tribute to Richard Rodgers (broadcast from Carnegie Hall): Rodgers & Hart songs: --Peggy Lee - ""Mountain Greenery"" (with 50 piece orchestra) --Peggy Lee & Steve Lawrence - ""Manhattan"" --Steve Lawrence - ""With a Song in My Heart"" --Diahann Carroll - ""Little Girl Blue"" --Roberta Peters - ""Falling in Love with Love"" --Cesare Siepi - ""Where or When?"" --Peter Nero (piano player) - ""Slaughter on Tenth Avenue"" Songs from Rogers and Hammerstein shows: --Peggy Lee - ""It Might as Well be Spring"" (from ""State Fair"") & ""Younger Than Springtime"" (""South Pacific"") Note: Another source listed Steve Lawrence as singing ""Younger Than Springtime."" --Gordon MacRae - ""If I Loved You"" (from ""Carrousel""), ""Oklahoma,"" ""Surrey with the Fringe on Top"" & ""Beautiful Morning"" (all from ""Oklahoma"") --Gordon MacRae & Roberta Peters - ""Shall We Dance"" (from ""King and I"") --Steve Lawrence, Cesari Siepi & Gordon Macrae - There's Nothing Like A Dame --Roberta Peters - ""Wonderful Guy"" (f
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Guests: --Louis Prima, Gia Maione & Sam Butera - ""Oh Marie"" & ""I Want You To Be My Baby"" --Gia Maione - ""How High The Moon"" Other guests: --Helen Shapiro - ""I Don't Care"" & ""After You've Gone"" --Steve Allen - comedy sketch: ""You Bet Your Bird"" take off on game shows and, later in show, Steve teaches Ed to how to play the piano. --Acker Bilk (with the Hugh Lambert Dancers) - ""Acker's Lacquer"" --Jackie Mason (comedy monologue about luxury apartments, the incinerator) --Norman And Dean (comedians, lip-synch to Allen Sherman's song ""Sarah Jackman"") --Sergio Franchi - ""Funiculi, Funicula"" & ""What Kind Of Fool Am I"" --Lucho Navvaro (sound impressionist, imitates Cape Canaveral, Indianapolis 500, the World Series, Queen Of England) Audience bows: Joe Kern; Y. A. Tittle; Norm Snead; Byron Gentry
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Guests (confirmed): --Kate Smith --Rip Taylor (comedian) Additional guests (scheduled to appear): --Cliff Richard (British singer) --Wayne & Schuster (comedy team) --Dave Barry (comedian) --Chan Canasta (magician) --Captain Danion and his sea lions
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Scheduled guests: --Connie Francis --Louis Prima (with Sam Butera & the Witnesses) --Jerry Van Dyke (comedian) --Sergio Franchi (tenor) --Lee Allen (pantomimist) --The Kuban Cossacks (dance group) --Maryse Begary (aerialist)
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Scheduled guests: --Paul Anka - ""The Longest Day"" & ""Eso Beso"" --Dennis Spicer (ventriloquist) --Yolanda White (singer) --Peter Duchin (pianist) --Maury Wills (shortstop) and Walter Alston (manager) - both from the Los Angeles Dodgers --Denny Willis and his comedy quarter (comedy troupe?) --Dick Albers (trampoline artist)
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Guests (15th Season Opener): --Eddie Fisher --Al Hirt and his combo --Mickey Mantle and Whitney Ford (of the New York Yankees) - give tips for young baseball players --Bill Dana (comedian, in character as ""Jose Jimenez"") --Jack Carter --Sonny Liston Additional guests (scheduled to appear): --Joya Sherrill (singer) --Leo Bassi (juggler) --The winners of the Harvest Moon Ball dance contest
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