Guests: --The Rolling Stones - ""Satisfaction,"" ""As Tears Go By,"" & ""19th Nervous Breakdown"" --Wayne Newton - ""April Showers"" --Ethel Merman - ""Annie Get Your Gun"" medley & ""No Business Like Show Business"" --Hal Holbrook (playing Abraham Lincoln, reciting 2nd Inaugural Speech, anti slave speech) --Sandy Baron (comedian) --Eddie Schaeffer (comedian) --Romanian (Rumanian?) Folk ballet --Audience Bow: Allen & Rossi CBS repeated this show on July 10, 1966. Air Date : 13th-Feb-1966

--The Beatles (on tape, recorded 14-Aug-65) I Feel Fine, I'm Down, Help!, Yesterday, Act Naturally and Ticket to Ride --Cilla Black - Goin' Out of My Head & September In The Rain ------------------------------------ Guests: --Soupy Sales - talks about Ed's summer vacation. --Cilla Black - September In The Rain --Fantasio (illusionist/ magician) - slight-of-hand artist --The Beatles I Feel Fine, I'm Down and Act Naturally --Steve Rossi - sings Try to Remember --Marty Allen and Steve Rossi (comedy team) - Allen demonstrates different sports that he's tried. Ends with Rossi singing We Love You. --Cilla Black - Goin' Out of My Head --Soupy Sales - The Mouse --The Beatles Ticket to Ride, Yesterday and Help! --Ed Sullivan closing comments, next week's guests, closing titles. Air Date : 12th-Sep-1965  Read More

Guests (from Hollywood): --Dino, Desi & Billy - ""I'm A Fool"" and ""Not the Loving Kind"" --Red Skelton (stand-up comedy) --Eddie Fisher - medley: ""My Favorite Things,"" ""A Wonderful Day Like Today,"" ""Sunrise Sunset"" --Polly Bergen - ""What The World Needs Now Is Love"" --Sadler & Young (singers) - medley of French & American songs --Sandler & Young with Polly Bergen - ""Mr. Boom Boom"" & ""Dominique"" --Las Vegas Sahara Dancers --Kimris Duo (aerial act performed in CBS parking lot) Air Date : 19th-Sep-1965  Read More

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Guests (from Hollywood): --Judy Garland - ""Come Rain or Shine,"" ""Rock-A-Bye Your Baby"" & ""By Myself"" --Peter Sellers (on film, plays a Felliniesque director interviewed by Sullivan) --Tom Jones - ""With These Hands"" --Sophie Tucker (medley: ""When My Baby Smiles At Me,"" ""My Man,"" ""Give My Regards To Broadway,"" ""Louise,"" ""If You Knew Susie (Like I Know Susie)"" & ""Some Of These Days"") --Jackie Vernon (stand-up comedian) --The Swingin' Lads (barbershop quartet) --Topo Gigio Air Date : 3rd-Oct-1965  Read More

Guests (from Hollywood): --Petula Clark - ""Round Every Corner"" and ""A Foggy Day in London Town"" --Diana Ross & the Supremes - ""You're Nobody"" (probably ""You're Nobody 'til Somebody Loves You"") --Woody Allen (stand-up comedy) --Wayne Newton - ""Remember When"" & medley: ""Alabamy Bound,"" ""Mammy,"" ""Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye,"" ""Shuffle Along"" & ""Waiting For The Robert E. Lee"" --Kate Smith - ""More"" and ""The Lord's Prayer"" --The Step Brothers (acrobatic dancers) --Lilly Yokoi (Japanese acrobat) --Topo Gigio Air Date : 10th-Oct-1965  Read More

--Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs - ""Ring Dang Doo"" --The Animals - ""The Work Song"" Complete show: --The McGuire Sisters - ""Sing Something Simple"" --Totie Fields (comedian) - tells jokes about various topics and sings ""There Are Smiles"" --Sid Caesar and Joyce Jameson in an operetta sketch. Joyce sings ""Shadow Waltz"" --Audience bow: Lou Johnson (baseball star from the Dodgers) --The Gimma Brothers (tumblers, from the Stardust in Las Vegas) --Pat Boone - sings ""Night and Day"" and ""I Love You So Much It Hurts Me"" (correct song title?) and ""You'll Never Walk Alone"" --Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs - ""Ring Dang Doo"" --The McGuire Sisters - ""How Come You Do Me Like You Do"" --The Animals - ""The Work Song"" --Guy Marks (comedian) - demonstrates different operatic styles --The Fiji Military Band (correct name of band?) - marching band from Eastern Australia perform ""The Marching Song"" Note: Sean Connery was scheduled to appear on this show but is not mentioned Air Date : 17th-Oct-1965  Read More

Guests (from Hollywood): --Herman's Hermits - ""Just A Little Bit Better"" and ""Jezebel"" --Marvin Gaye - sings ""Take This Heart of Mine"" (live singing over pre-recorded music track) --Duke Ellington and his Orchestra - medley (""Cat Opener,"" ""Do Nothing till You Hear From Me,"" ""Don't Get Around Much Anymore,"" Caravan,"" ""Satin Doll."") and ""Take the 'A' Train"" --Helen Hayes (actress) - does a monologue in character as Harriet Beecher Stowe --Richard Pryor (stand-up comedy) - imitates the Ali vs. Liston fight, school plays, etc. --The Smothers Brothers - comedy routine: ""Lonesome Traveler,"" ""Church Bell Song,"" childhood memories.   --Myron Cohen (comedian) --The Manuela Vargas Ballet Troupe (Spanish dancers) --Audience bows: Samuel W. Gordon (Los Angeles Mayor), Dave Chasen Other guest (scheduled to appear): --Ginny Tiu (singer-pianist) Air Date : 24th-Oct-1965  Read More

--Barry McGuire with the Grass Roots - ""Child of Our Times"" (from this episode?) Scheduled guests/songs: --Barry McGuire - ""Eve of Destruction"" --Liza Minnelli --Allan Sherman (comedian) - sings ""Shine On, Harvey Bloom,"" ""Crazy Downtown"" and ""Drinking Man's Diet"" --The Harlem Globetrotters --London Lee (comedian) --Jarru Seacombe --Peter Gennaro and the Budapest Children's Choir Air Date : 31st-Oct-1965  Read More

Guests: --Righteous Brothers - ""Turn On Your Love Light"" and ""You'll Never Walk Alone"" --Righteous Brothers with Petty Lee - ""Yes, Indeed"" --Herb Albert & the Tijuana Brass - ""Taste of Honey"" & ""Zorba's Dance"" --Peggy Lee - ""It's A Grand Night for Singing"" --Peggy Lee - medley: ""Falling In Love"" & ""How Long Has This Been Going On?"" --Alan King (stand-up comedian) - He does his routine and introduces his wife and two sons, Bobby and Andy, in audience. --Anna Moffo - ""La Balletella"" --Les Doubles Faces (pantomime act with umbrellas) --Baby Opal (elephant act with trainers) Air Date : 7th-Nov-1965  Read More

Dave Clark Five - ""Over And Over"" & ""Catch Us If You Can"" Other guests (scheduled): --Woody Allen --Bert Lahr --Jerry Vale (singer) - possibly ""The Shadow of Your Smile"" --Barry Sisters (singers) --The Harvest Moon Ball dance contest winners Air Date : 14th-Nov-1965  Read More

Scheduled guests: --Johnny Mathis --Mort Sahl --Peter Nero --Jean Carroll (comedian) --Killer Joe Piro and his Discotheque Dancers --Ginny Tiu (singer-pianist appearing with her family) --The Monterey Singing Boys' Choir Air Date : 21st-Nov-1965  Read More

Guests: --Petula Clark - ""My Love"" & ""Mademoiselle de Paris"" --Glenn Yarbrough - ""Baby, the Rain Must Fall"" & ""900 Miles"" --Sammy Kaye (with orchestra) - ""The Hucklebuck,"" ""Harbor Lights"" (vocal trio with steel guitar), ""Baby Face,"" ""It Isn't Fair"" ""Hey Daddy"" --All-American Football team including Bob Griese and Bubba Smith. --Victor Borge (comedy routine) --The Little Angels of Korea (dancers) --Ed introduces Korean Ambassador --Rudi Schweitzer (juggler) --Sally Ann Howes - ""All of a Sudden My Heart Sings"" --Jackie Vernon (stand-up comedian) - jokes about his childhood, odd jobs Air Date : 28th-Nov-1965  Read More

Guests: --Martha and the Vandellas - ""Dancin' in the Streets"" --Tom Jones - ""Thunderball"" --Robert Goulet and Jane Powell - medley including ""I Remember It Well"" (from ""Gigi""), ""How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Love You When You Know I've Been a Liar All My Life? (from ""Royal Wedding"") and ""When I'm Calling You."" --Wayne Newton - ""Swanee"" (performance might be from another episode). --Shelley Berman (stand-up comedian) - a very troubled man phones his therapist but keeps forgetting who he's taking to. --Bobby Ramsen (stand-up comedian) - tells jokes about the (then) current TV programs. --Chong & Mana (plate spinners, man jumps through flaming hoop; etc.) Other guests (scheduled to appear): --The Idla Girls (Swedish gymnasts) Air Date : 5th-Dec-1965  Read More

Guests: --The Byrds - ""Mr. Tambourine Man"" & ""Turn, Turn, Turn"" --Al Hirt (trumpeter) - appears twice during show --Alan King (stand-up comedian) --Barbara McNair - ""Just in Time"" and ""For Once In My Life"" --Tony and Nick (British comedy team) --Wayne Newton - ""Swanee"" --The Bratislova slovakian Folkloric Company (Czech dance troupe) Air Date : 12th-Dec-1965  Read More

Stars of the Circus World (from Munich, Germany) Russian Cossacks (stunt trick horseback riding act featuring an 8 year-old girl); Ruppert's Bears (3 bears perform handstands and ride bicycles); Katarina (high wire act); Sembach Elephants (7 elephants form pyramid, line up on hind legs); Kroplins Chimps (trained animal act); Sam And Sammy (man foot juggles his son then spins and flips him with his feet); Rogana (female acrobat); the Schickler Sisters (3 Equestriennes); the Gaonas (4 aerialists from Mexico). CBS repeated this show on Aug. 28, 1966. Air Date : 19th-Dec-1965  Read More

Guests: --The Remains - ""Let Me Through"" --Stiller & Meara --Sergio Franchi - ""The Lord's Prayer"" & medley: ""Mimi,"" ""Maria"" ""Everything"" --Peter Gennaro --Topo Gigio (Christmas sketch with Ed) --Jack Carter (comedian) --Leontyne Price (opera singer) - ""Vissi d'Arte"" --George Carl --Komarzuru Tsukushi (top spinner from Japan) Air Date : 26th-Dec-1965  Read More

Guests: --Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - ""Let's Hang On"" and ""Don't Think Twice"" --Brigitte Bardot (on film?) - talks with Ed about her impressions of the U.S. and her film ""Viva Maria."" Ed shows a film clip of Bardot's first Sullivan appearance from 1958. --Wayne & Shuster (comedy team) - portray two inept bank robbers --Leslie Uggams - ""What the World Needs Now,"" ""Yesterdays"" and ""Yesterday"" --Alan King (stand-up monologue) --Jimmy Roselli - ""Give My Regards to Broadway"" and ""Torna"" --The King Family - ""When the Saints Go Marching In,"" ""It's a Grand Night for Singing"" and a George M. Cohan medley. --Bel Caron Trio (adagio dancers) CBS repeated this show on July 31, 1966. Air Date : 2nd-Jan-1966  Read More

--Mike Douglas - ""The Men in My Little Girl's Life"" --Mimi Hines - ""Who Are You Now?"" (from ""Funny Girl"") Scheduled guests: --Stiller & Meara --The Lettermen --Barbara McNair --Frank Gorshin (comedian) --Phil Ford & Mimi Hines Air Date : 16th-Jan-1966  Read More

Guests: --Rick Nelson - ""Your Kind of Lovin'"" & ""Fire Breathin' Dragon"" --Duke Ellington - medley of hits --Maria Cole (widow of Nat King Cole) with the Duke Ellington Orchestra - ""There'll Never Be Another You"" (Note: Maria was a singer with the Duke Ellington Orchestra before marrying Nat King Cole in 1948.) --Eydie Gorme - ""I Feel So Spanish"" and ""What Did I Have."" --Eydie Gorme and the Trio Los Contos - perform a Spanish song (unknown title). --""The Mad Show"" (skits from the stage show, cast includes Jo Anne Worley) --George Kirby (comedian, does impressions of celebrities) --Robert Bob King (comedian) --The Hungarian National Ballet (men in military uniforms, women in peasant dresses) Air Date : 23rd-Jan-1966  Read More

Guests: --The Four Tops - ""Nice and Easy"" --The Four Tops - medley: ""The Whole World Sings With You,"" ""It's the Same Old Song,"" ""Something About You"" & ""I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)"" --SSgt. Barry Sadler - ""Ballad of the Green Berets"" --Jose Feliciano - ""Flight of the Bumble Bee"" --Dinah Shore - ""Chim-Chim-Cheree,"" ""Something Wonderful"" & blues medley (including ""Bye Bye Blues"") --Dick Capri (stand-up comedy, makes faces as he wonders how a mask maker does his job) --Jackie Vernon (comedian) --Topo Gigio (plays violin) --Les Faux Follets (wooden clog dance) --Markworth & Mayana (precision archery) --Audience bow: Jean Drapeau (Montreal Mayor) Air Date : 30th-Jan-1966  Read More

Guests: --The Animals - ""We Gotta Get Out of This Place"" & ""Inside Looking Out"" --Rosemary Clooney - ""Baby, The Ball Is Over"" & ""All Alone"" --Deli skit with Nancy Walker, Charles Nelson Reilly and Julia Meade (another source lists 'Joy Nichols' in the cast). --Alan King (comedian) - routine about his insurance company --Tony Lema (golf pro) - gives Ed some golf tips --Peter Gennaro - ""I Got Rhythm"" --Gino Tonetti (singer) - ""Al Di La"" --Pompoff Thedy and family (clowns, listed on transcript as 'Pompoff & Thedy') --Audience Bow: Jack Adams (Canada's Mr. Hockey, former? Detroit Red Wings coach) --On film: Ann Margret in a clip from ""Made In Paris"" with Louis Jordan Air Date : 6th-Feb-1966  Read More

Guests: --The Rolling Stones - ""Satisfaction,"" ""As Tears Go By,"" & ""19th Nervous Breakdown"" --Wayne Newton - ""April Showers"" --Ethel Merman - ""Annie Get Your Gun"" medley & ""No Business Like Show Business"" --Hal Holbrook (playing Abraham Lincoln, reciting 2nd Inaugural Speech, anti slave speech) --Sandy Baron (comedian) --Eddie Schaeffer (comedian) --Romanian (Rumanian?) Folk ballet --Audience Bow: Allen & Rossi CBS repeated this show on July 10, 1966. Air Date : 13th-Feb-1966  Read More

Guests: --Dave Clark Five - ""Over and Over"" & ""At the Scene"" --Diana Ross and the Supremes - ""My World is Empty Without You"" & ""Somewhere"" --Joan Diener - ""What Do You Want of Me?"" (from ""Man of La Mancha) --Richard Kiley - ""Impossible Dream"" (from ""Man of La Mancha) --Allan Sherman (comedian-satirist) --Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara (comedy team) --Menasha Skulnik (actor-comedian) --Ken Venturi (golf pro) --Ugo Garrido (juggler) Air Date : 20th-Feb-1966  Read More

Guests: --Nancy Sinatra - ""These Boots are Made for Walkin'"" --Gary Lewis and the Playboys - ""She's Just My Style"" & ""Sure Gonna Miss Her"" --Petula Clark - ""A Sign of the Times,"" ""My Love"" and ""I Want to Hold Your Hand"" --Richard Pryor (comedian) - talks about a school bully, Leroy --Alan King (comedian) - routine about when he got married --Blossom Seely - ""San Francisco"" & ""My Kind Of Town"" --Blossom Seely - ""Shine On, Harvest Moon"" --The Tokyo Happy Coats (5 member female band, vocal-instrumental group) - ""Bye Bye, Blues"" & ""Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?"" --The Trio Rennos (aerialists) --The Berosini Chimps --Audience Bows: NY Knickerbocker coach Dick Maguire and Marquette University coach Al Maguire (brothers) Other guest (scheduled to appear): --Jerry Vale Air Date : 27th-Feb-1966  Read More

Guests: --Tom Jones - ""More"" --Frankie Avalon & Annette Funicello - medley (""This Land Is Your Land,"" ""I Left My Heart In San Francisco,"" ""I'll Take Manhattan,"" ""Big D,"" ""Meet Me In St. Louis"" and ""Chicago"") --Frankie Avalon - medley (""After You're Gone,"" ""You're Nobody Until Somebody Loves You"" & ""Baby Won't You Please Come On Home"") --Annette Funicello - ""Nowhere To Go But Up"" (with dancers) --Ray Milland, Melville Cooper, Geoffrey Lumsden, Anthony Kemble Cooper (actors doing scenes from the Broadway play ""Hostile Witness"") --Mireille Mathieu (French singer) - ""Hymn to Love"" --John Byner (comedian) - imitates Ed Sullivan, imitates foreign dubbing of American actors' voices, then does a routine about one member of an acrobatic team having to work alone. --Los Vegas 5 (singing-instrumental group) - ""Guadalajara"" & ""Granada"" --Topo Gigio (Italian mouse puppet) - Topo talks about his visit to Italy and visiting with his family. --Arthur Haynes - sings ""So Air Date : 6th-Mar-1966  Read More

St. Patrick's Day salute with scheduled guests: --Pearl Bailey --Wayne & Shuster (comedy team) --Clancy Brothers (Irish folk singers) --Tommy Makem (Irish singer) --Jackie Vernon (comedian) --Johnny Hart (magician) --Topo Gigio --Three Kims (Sweedish acrobats) --The Emerald Society Pilive Pipe Band (of the New York City Police Department) --The McNiff Dancers Air Date : 13th-Mar-1966  Read More

Guests: --Young Rascals - ""Good Lovin'"" --Brenda Lee - ""Time and Time Again"" --Walter Cronkite --Abbe Lane (medley of songs from Brazil) --Senor Wences (ventriloquist) --Peter Gennaro (dances to ""King Of The Road"") --The cast from ""Wait A Minim"" (South African dancers) --Jean Carrol (stand-up comedian) --Des O'Connor (stand up comedian) --Des O'Connor & Jack Douglas (British comedians) --The Magid Triplets (tap dancers) --The Olympiades (body builders painted gold) --Audience bow (cameo): Mayor Barr Air Date : 20th-Mar-1966  Read More

Guests: --Debbie Reynolds - ""It's a Miracle"" (from ""The Singing Nun"" soundtrack) --Cilla Black - ""Love's Just A Broken Heart"" --Ed Ames - ""They Call the Wind Mariah"" Additional guests (scheduled to appear): --Kirk Douglas --Woody Herman --Totie Fields Air Date : 27th-Mar-1966  Read More

Scheduled guests: --Eydie Gorme --Count Basie --Stiller & Meara --Robert Horton --Arthur Haynes --Sandy Baron --Dick Contino --The cast of ""Peanuts"" (might be ""You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown."") Air Date : 3rd-Apr-1966  Read More

Guests (from PBS repeat): --Count Basie and his band - ""007-The Incredible World of James Bond"" --Diahann Carroll - ""What the World Needs Now Is Love"" and ""Yesterday"" --Alan King (stand-up comedy) - talks about breaking his leg --Anden's Poodles (trained animal act) Additional guests (scheduled to appear): --Eddie Albert (actor) - reads ""The Creation"" by James Weldon Johnson --Richard Pryor (comedian) --Brusini (magician) Air Date : 10th-Apr-1966  Read More

Guests: --The Animals - ""Shake"" & ""Don't Bring Me Down"" --Petula Clark - ""A Sign of the Times"" & ""Just Say Good Bye"" --Jimmy Durante & Sonny King - ""We're Going Home"" (and ""Don't Talk"") --Jimmy Durante (playing piano) - ""The Piano Player"" (""Piano Player Always Gets the Girls""), ""When The Saints Go Marching In"" (with Sonny King) & ""Inka-Dinka-Doo"" --Jimmy Durante - ""It's One of Those Songs"" (or ""It Was One of Those Songs"") --Myron Cohen (stand-up comedian) --Dorothy Kirsten & Franco Corelli - duet from Act One of Puccini's ""La Boheme"" --Lawrence and Carroll (dance team) --Gitta Morelly (contortionist) --Jose Cole ( balances himself on two bottle necks joined on top of each other. Then he balances himself on a cane with one arm twirling 5 rings) Air Date : 17th-Apr-1966  Read More