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Episode number: 1
Corinne Calvet, Jimmy Dean, Jerry Lester, Barbara Nichols, Sugar Ray Robinson & Carmen Basilio
Episode number: 2
Anthony Perkins, Broderick Crawford, Joanne Dru, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane, Johnny Puleo & his Harmonica Gang, cameo by Killer Joe Piro
Episode number: 3
Overview: Crawford takes part in the "Man in the street" skit, Tony Perkins and Steve do their impressions of autograph hounds, and Perkins, Abbe Lane and Cugat show some elements of an upcoming TV western.
Dorothy Lamour & Jon Hall, Buddy Knox, Hank Aaron & Lew Burdette
Episode number: 4
Ginger Rogers, Lou Costello, The Hi-Lo's, The Harlem Globetrotters
Episode number: 5
Jerry Vale, William Bendix, Judy Canova, Shelley Berman, Janice Harper, Art Blakely, Candido, Sabu Martinez, Bob Rosengarden
Episode number: 6
Jerry Lee Lewis, Dennis Day, Joanne Gilbert, cameo by Jerry Lewis
Episode number: 7
Gloria Swanson, Charlie Ruggles, Tony Bennett, Jack E. Leonard, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane
Episode number: 8
Marie McDonald, Walter Chiari, Edward Everett Horton, Ferlin Husky, The King Sisters
Episode number: 9
Joan Caulfield, Sam Levenson, Audrey Meadows, Greta Thyssen, Steve Lawrence, Teal Joy, The Treniers
Episode number: 10
Errol Flynn, Martha Raye, Jimmy Dean, Don Adams, Jennie Smith, the Army-Navy Football Stars
Episode number: 11
Overview: Martha does a song and dance number as planned, then again where all the props fail, Errol Flynn goes on a parody of "To Tell The Truth" where Knotts turns out to be him. Jimmy Dean sings an early Christmas number with Chroma-Key dancers.
Sal Mineo, Rosemary Clooney, Shelley Berman, Dale Robertson, Peter Lawford, Guy Lombardo & Orchestra
Episode number: 12
Ann Sothern, Jackie Cain & Roy Kral, Lou Costello, Steve Lawrence, Milt Kamen
Episode number: 13
Anthony Perkins, Mahalia Jackson, Gertrude Berg, George London, the U.N. Singers
Episode number: 14
Peter Ustinov, Margaret O'Brien, Jerry Vale, Mike Nichols & Elaine May, Martha Davis & Spouse
Episode number: 15
Overview: Todays guests are Peter Ustinov, Margaret O'Brien, Jerry Vale, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, Martha Davis and Spouse.
Sam Cooke, Abbe Lane, Xavier Cugat, Johnny Haymer, Ward Bond, Robert Horton
Episode number: 16
From the Riviera Hotel, Havana
Episode number: 17
Martha Raye, Jimmy Dean, Erin O'Brien, Charles Laughton, Rubinoff & his violin
Episode number: 18
Henry Fonda, Shelley Berman, Jennie Smith, The Treniers
Episode number: 19
From Hollywood: The Photoplay Movie Awards
Episode number: 20
Dale Robertson, Peggy King, Don Adams, The Hi-Lo's, Duke Hazlitt, cameo appearances from Jerry Lewis and Red Skelton
Episode number: 21
The McGuire Sisters, Teddi King, The Playmates, Haller & Hayden, Jayne Meadows, Audrey Meadows
Episode number: 22
Sam Cooke, Peter Ustinov, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane, Bobby Rivera, Jill Corey, Tommy Leonetti, Virginia Gibson, Alan Copeland
Episode number: 23
Lou Costello, Jack Jones, Dolores Gray, Sabrina, Janik & Arnaut
Episode number: 24
Lena Horne, Keenan Wynn, Jack E. Leonard, Mark Murphy, Carmen Basilio
Episode number: 25
Anita Ekberg, Alan Young, Joni James, John Bubbles, Tommy Prisco
Episode number: 26
Edgar Bergen, The Step Brothers, Marie McDonald, The All-American High School & College Basketball Teams
Episode number: 27
Overview: In a comedy sketch with regulars Don Knotts, Joyce Jameson and Tom Poston, Marie McDonald portrays a celebrity approached by interviewers.
Orson Welles, Jane Powell, Senor Wences, Alan Dale, The Bay Bops
Episode number: 28
Sammy Davis, Jr., Carmen McRae, Dody Goodman, Jayne Meadows, Audrey Meadows
Episode number: 29
Overview: Steve's wife and sister-in-law, Jayne and Audrey Meadows, join him in a skit purporting to be a look at a real incident in their lives when they had a baby nurse, "Miss Huston" (played by Audrey). Dody does her usual rambling on, this time about baseball, as she replaces the "Billboard Girl" that announces next week's guests. Sammy Davis sings a rather obviously lipsynched number at the opening. Steve does a "report to the nation" sketch on the recession. Dody returns with the Meadows girls for the finale, a number based on the extremes of current ladies' fashions.
Season 3, Episode 30
Episode number: 30
Overview: Bob Hope, Patrice Munsel, Ray Anthony, Johnny Haymer, David Allen
Claudette Colbert, Toni Arden, Abe Burrows, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane
Episode number: 31
Count Basie, Joe Bushkin, Teddy Wilson, Jane Powell, Phil Harris, Igor and H
Episode number: 32
Lionel Hampton, Rosemary Clooney, Rory Calhoun
Episode number: 33
Julie Newmar, Dick Clark, Lou Costello, Ronnie Deauville, Beverly Kenney, Carl Ballantine, Abigail Van Buren, Maurice Gosfield, Sid Gould, Franklin Pangborn
Episode number: 34
Peter Ustinov, Louis Armstrong, Barbara McNair, Van Cliburn
Episode number: 35
Henry Fonda, Shari Lewis, Mel Torme, Martha Raye, Terry Gibbs, Gus Bivona, Gary Peacock, Mundell Lowe
Episode number: 36
Kirk Douglas, Joni James, Roy Hamilton, Jonathan Winters, The Hi-Lo's
Episode number: 37
Jack Lemmon, Peter Ustinov, Jerry Vale, Jeri Southern
Episode number: 38
Oscar Levant, Tony Bennett, Don Adams, Dorothy Collins, Sandra McCorkle
Episode number: 39
Tribute to original 'Tonight' show with Steve Allen
Episode number: 40