Season 3

Season 3 (1957)


Episodes: 40

Star Cast: Steve Allen ,



Episodes List

Ep.1 NBC Fall Preview

Air Date: 1957-09-22

Ep.2 Corinne Calvet, Jimmy Dean, Jerry Lester, Barbara Nichols, Sugar Ray Robinson & Carmen Basilio

Air Date: 1957-09-29

Ep.3 Anthony Perkins, Broderick Crawford, Joanne Dru, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane, Johnny Puleo & his Harmonica Gang, cameo by Killer Joe Piro

Air Date: 1957-10-06

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.

Ep.4 Dorothy Lamour & Jon Hall, Buddy Knox, Hank Aaron & Lew Burdette

Air Date: 1957-10-13

Ep.5 Ginger Rogers, Lou Costello, The Hi-Lo's, The Harlem Globetrotters

Air Date: 1957-10-20

Ep.6 Jerry Vale, William Bendix, Judy Canova, Shelley Berman, Janice Harper, Art Blakely, Candido, Sabu Martinez, Bob Rosengarden

Air Date: 1957-10-27

Ep.7 Jerry Lee Lewis, Dennis Day, Joanne Gilbert, cameo by Jerry Lewis

Air Date: 1957-11-03

Ep.8 Gloria Swanson, Charlie Ruggles, Tony Bennett, Jack E. Leonard, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane

Air Date: 1957-11-10

Ep.9 Marie McDonald, Walter Chiari, Edward Everett Horton, Ferlin Husky, The King Sisters

Air Date: 1957-11-17

Ep.10 Joan Caulfield, Sam Levenson, Audrey Meadows, Greta Thyssen, Steve Lawrence, Teal Joy, The Treniers

Air Date: 1957-11-24

Ep.11 Errol Flynn, Martha Raye, Jimmy Dean, Don Adams, Jennie Smith, the Army-Navy Football Stars

Air Date: 1957-12-01

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.

Ep.12 Sal Mineo, Rosemary Clooney, Shelley Berman, Dale Robertson, Peter Lawford, Guy Lombardo & Orchestra

Air Date: 1957-12-08

Ep.13 Ann Sothern, Jackie Cain & Roy Kral, Lou Costello, Steve Lawrence, Milt Kamen

Air Date: 1957-12-15

Ep.14 Anthony Perkins, Mahalia Jackson, Gertrude Berg, George London, the U.N. Singers

Air Date: 1957-12-22

Ep.15 Peter Ustinov, Margaret O'Brien, Jerry Vale, Mike Nichols & Elaine May, Martha Davis & Spouse

Air Date: 1957-12-29

Todays guests are Peter Ustinov, Margaret O'Brien, Jerry Vale, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, Martha Davis and Spouse.

Ep.16 Sam Cooke, Abbe Lane, Xavier Cugat, Johnny Haymer, Ward Bond, Robert Horton

Air Date: 1958-01-05

Ep.17 From the Riviera Hotel, Havana

Air Date: 1958-01-19

Ep.18 Martha Raye, Jimmy Dean, Erin O'Brien, Charles Laughton, Rubinoff & his violin

Air Date: 1958-01-26

Ep.19 Henry Fonda, Shelley Berman, Jennie Smith, The Treniers

Air Date: 1958-02-02

Ep.20 From Hollywood: The Photoplay Movie Awards

Air Date: 1958-02-09

Ep.21 Dale Robertson, Peggy King, Don Adams, The Hi-Lo's, Duke Hazlitt, cameo appearances from Jerry Lewis and Red Skelton

Air Date: 1958-02-16

Ep.22 The McGuire Sisters, Teddi King, The Playmates, Haller & Hayden, Jayne Meadows, Audrey Meadows

Air Date: 1958-02-23

Ep.23 Sam Cooke, Peter Ustinov, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane, Bobby Rivera, Jill Corey, Tommy Leonetti, Virginia Gibson, Alan Copeland

Air Date: 1958-03-02

Ep.24 Lou Costello, Jack Jones, Dolores Gray, Sabrina, Janik & Arnaut

Air Date: 1958-03-09

Ep.25 Lena Horne, Keenan Wynn, Jack E. Leonard, Mark Murphy, Carmen Basilio

Air Date: 1958-03-16

Ep.26 Anita Ekberg, Alan Young, Joni James, John Bubbles, Tommy Prisco

Air Date: 1958-03-23

Ep.27 Edgar Bergen, The Step Brothers, Marie McDonald, The All-American High School & College Basketball Teams

Air Date: 1958-03-30

In a comedy sketch with regulars Don Knotts, Joyce Jameson and Tom Poston, Marie McDonald portrays a celebrity approached by interviewers.

Ep.28 Orson Welles, Jane Powell, Senor Wences, Alan Dale, The Bay Bops

Air Date: 1958-04-06

Ep.29 Sammy Davis, Jr., Carmen McRae, Dody Goodman, Jayne Meadows, Audrey Meadows

Air Date: 1958-04-13

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.

Ep.30 Season 3, Episode 30

Air Date: 1958-04-20

Bob Hope, Patrice Munsel, Ray Anthony, Johnny Haymer, David Allen

Ep.31 Claudette Colbert, Toni Arden, Abe Burrows, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane

Air Date: 1958-04-27

Ep.32 Count Basie, Joe Bushkin, Teddy Wilson, Jane Powell, Phil Harris, Igor and H

Air Date: 1958-05-04

Ep.33 Lionel Hampton, Rosemary Clooney, Rory Calhoun

Air Date: 1958-05-11

Ep.34 Julie Newmar, Dick Clark, Lou Costello, Ronnie Deauville, Beverly Kenney, Carl Ballantine, Abigail Van Buren, Maurice Gosfield, Sid Gould, Franklin Pangborn

Air Date: 1958-05-18

Ep.35 Peter Ustinov, Louis Armstrong, Barbara McNair, Van Cliburn

Air Date: 1958-05-25

Ep.36 Henry Fonda, Shari Lewis, Mel Torme, Martha Raye, Terry Gibbs, Gus Bivona, Gary Peacock, Mundell Lowe

Air Date: 1958-06-01

Ep.37 Kirk Douglas, Joni James, Roy Hamilton, Jonathan Winters, The Hi-Lo's

Air Date: 1958-06-15

Ep.38 Jack Lemmon, Peter Ustinov, Jerry Vale, Jeri Southern

Air Date: 1958-06-22

Ep.39 Oscar Levant, Tony Bennett, Don Adams, Dorothy Collins, Sandra McCorkle

Air Date: 1958-06-29

Ep.40 Tribute to original 'Tonight' show with Steve Allen

Air Date: 1958-07-06