The Steve Allen Show (1956)

Directed by

Dwight Hemion

Genre

variety show

Country

United States

Length

5 seasons, 163 episodes

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Steve Allen hosts a variety show with comedy sketches, musical performances, and celebrity guests. It aired on different networks and in syndication from 1956 through 1964.

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What happens

The Steve Allen Show is an American variety show hosted by Steve Allen from June 1956 to June 1960 on NBC, from September 1961 to December 1961 on ABC, and in first-run syndication from 1962 to 1964. The first three seasons aired on Sunday nights at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time, directly opposite The Ed Sullivan Show. It moved to Mondays at 10:00 p.m. Eastern in the 1959–60 season under the name The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (sponsored by Plymouth automobile). After a season's absence, the series briefly returned on Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. Eastern. The syndicated version aired mostly in late nights. The program, between September 1957 and June 1960, became one of the first programs to be telecast in "compatible color". Kinescopes of the NBC version were later edited into 104 half-hour episodes and rerun on the "HA!" channel and Comedy Central in the early 1990s, with new introductions by Allen. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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