The Steve Allen Show
Season 2
195648 episodes
Episode 1
Andy Williams, Milt Kamen, Gogi Grant, The Will Mastin Trio (featuring Sammy Davis, Jr.), Marian Ann McKnight , The Baird Puppets
Sep 16, 19561h
Episode 2
Billy Eckstine, Rin Tin Tin, Joni James, Professor Irwin Corey, Jose Molina, the Midwestern States Glee Club
Sep 23, 19561h
Episode 3
Claudette Colbert, Mickey Rooney, Jerome Hines, Erin O'Brien, Joey Forman
Sep 30, 19561h
Episode 4
Abbott & Costello, Kukla, Fran & Ollie, Peggy King, Lionel Hampton, Don Lamond, Louis Bellson Mrs. Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle
Oct 7, 19561h
Todays guests are Abbott and Costello/Kukla, Fran and Ollie/Mickey Mantle/Lionel Hampton/Peggy King/Milt Kamen.
Episode 5
Tony Bennett, Doretta Morrow, Mel Torme, Frances Faye, Guy Madison, Kathryn & Arthur Murray
Oct 14, 19561h
Episode 6
Peter Lawford, Frank Parker, The Harlem Globetrotters, Rocky Graziano, Olga James, Janik & Arnaut, cameo appearance by Julius LaRosa
Oct 21, 19561h
Episode 7
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Alfred Drake, Erin O'Brien, T.C. Jones, Jim Henson & the Muppets, Rod Alexander Dancers, Les Brown & His Band of Renown
Nov 4, 19561h
Episode 8
Jerry Lewis, Georgia Gibbs, Anita Ekberg, Anthony Steel, Buster Crabbe, cast members of "Jack and the Beanstalk"
Nov 11, 19561h
Episode 9
Bob Hope, Duke Ellington & Orchestra, Gene Nelson, Betty Walker, Erin O'Brien, George Hamilton IV, Olsen & Johnson, World's Champion Women Boxers
Nov 18, 19561h
Episode 10
Gene Autry, Jim Lowe, Betty Kean & Lew Parker, Floyd Patterson & Archie Moore, the Chicago Bears
Nov 25, 19561h
Episode 11
Charlton Heston, Gypsy Rose Lee, Ethel Waters, Bobby Van, Don Newcombe, Floyd Patterson, Archie Moore, Vince Martin & The Tarriers
Dec 2, 19561h
Episode 12
Anne Jeffreys & Robert Sterling, The Hi-Lo's, Bud Wilkinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, Betty Kean & Lew Parker
Dec 9, 19561h
Episode 13
Martha Raye, Alan Young, the Collins Kids, Ricky Vera, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, the Vienna Boys Choir
Dec 23, 19561h
Episode 14
Tony Bennett, Andy Griffith, the New York Rangers, live premiere of the motion picture "Around the World in 80 Days"
Dec 30, 19561h
Episode 15
Errol Flynn, Polly Bergen, Guy Mitchell, Alan Young
Jan 6, 19571h
Episode 16
Joe E. Brown, Julius La Rosa, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane, Rocky Graziano, Dorothy Miller ("Mrs. Miller", audience member)
Jan 13, 19571h
Episode 17
New York Film Critics Awards
Jan 20, 19571h
Most of the show concerns a filmed Steve presenting the Critic's award to several stars, including 'Ingrid Bergman' and 'Kirk Douglas', along with some small talk interviews. These were shot at Sardi's restaurant in New York, probably when it was closed, due to the utter quietness.
Episode 18
Season 2, Episode 18
Jan 27, 19571h
Pearl Bailey, Lilli Palmer, Don Adams, The Collins Kids, Steve Lawrence, Charles Van Doren
Episode 19
Peter Lawford, Charles Van Doren, Lou Costello, Margaret Whiting, The Step Brothers
Feb 10, 19571h
Episode 20
Frankie Laine, Alan Young, Martha Carson, Tab Hunter, Ken Rosewall, Pancho Gonzales, Jack Kramer, Pancho Segura
Feb 17, 19571h
Episode 21
Yehudi Menuhin, Arlene Dahl, Aldo Ray, Robert Ryan, Brenda Lee, the Hilltoppers
Feb 24, 19571h
Episode 22
Jerry Lewis, Martha Raye, Steve Lawrence, Diahann Carroll, Fernando Lamas
Mar 10, 19571h
Episode 23
Greer Garson, Lou Costello, Dean Jones, Steve Peck, Janik & Arpaut, Howard McNear, Sandra Gould, Veola Vonn, The Lancers
Mar 24, 19571h
Episode 24
Tennessee Ernie Ford, Peggy Lee, Johnny Mercer, Dinah Shore, Esther Williams, The Collins Kids
Mar 31, 19571h
Episode 25
Salute to the All American Basketball Teams
Apr 7, 19571h
Episode 26
Esther Williams, Eydie Gorme, Jackie Cooper, Stan Freberg, The Four Lads
Apr 14, 19571h
Episode 27
Mickey Rooney, Eleanor Steber, Joey Forman, Betty Walker, Mickey & Sylvia, Jim Henson's Muppets
Apr 21, 19571h
Episode 28
Brenda Lee, Don Adams, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane, Jack Carson, Peter Gennaro & Ellen Ray
Apr 28, 19571h
Episode 29
Orson Welles, Jill Corey, Peggy Cass, The Will Mastin Trio featuring Sammy Davis Jr.
May 5, 19571h
Steve Allen and Sammy Davis, Jr. perform a card trick with a little help from Orson Welles; Davis joins his uncle Will Mastin and his father Sammy Davis, Sr., for an athletic dance number; Davis performs singing impressions of Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett, Louis Armstrong, and others; and the "Allen Report to the Nation" deals with the tranquilizer pill, with Allen interviewing Louis Nye as the head of a pharmaceutical company, Tom Poston as chief of laboratory research, and Don Knotts as a jittery fill-in speaker at a medical convention. Additionally, singer Jill ...
Episode 30
Tallulah Bankhead, Milton Berle, Pearl Bailey, Dean Jones, Reverend Billy Graham
May 12, 19571h
Episode 31
Ann Sothern, Bert Lahr, Brenda Lee
May 19, 19571h
Episode 32
Andy Griffith, Marty Robbins, Errol Garner, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Martha Raye, a cameo appearance from Dean Martin
May 26, 19571h
Episode 33
Xavier Cugat, Abbe Lane, Pat Carroll, The Four Diamonds, Erin O'Brien, Jerry Lewis
Jun 2, 19571h
Steve's guests are The Diamonds (singing "Little Darlin'"), Xavier Cugat & his Orchestra with singer Abbe Lane doing "All Of You" and "Babalu," comedian Pat Carroll as a wife whose husband (Allen) tries to prove to her that a joke he told is funny, Erin O'Brien singing "Where's A Happy Ending?" Jerry Lewis plays Gordon Hathaway and a dopey boxer in the "Man on the Street" segment, Steve gives passionate readings of real "Letters to the Editor," delivers a silly speech to graduating seniors, and shows works of art used in magazine ads.
Episode 34
Orson Welles, Wally Cox, Meg Myles, Jim Reeves, The Step Brothers, Reverend Billy Graham
Jun 9, 19571h
Episode 35
Steve Lawrence, Mamie Van Doren, The Hi-Lo's, Walter Chiari
Jun 16, 19571h
Episode 36
Lou Costello, Pat Boone, Jonathan Winters, Abbey Lincoln, Fay DeWitt, Dulcie Cooper, The Ames Brothers
Jun 23, 19571h
Lou Costello in a restaurant skit where Gabe Dell takes the part of the bullying, Bud Abbott-type companion.
Episode 37
Bob Hope, George Jessel, Alexis Smith, Vera Miles, Dean Martin, the Rod Alexander Dancers, The Axidentals
Jun 30, 19571h
In a salute to Hope's new film, "Beau James", skits, dance numbers and film clips devoted to onetime crooked prohibition-era New York mayor Jimmy Walker.
Episode 38
Benny Goodman, Yvonne De Carlo, Peter Lawford, Professor Irwin Corey
Jul 7, 19571h
Goodman's in top form, and Steve does a duet with him. Yvonne and Steve in a baby-naming skit, Lawford and Steve play bored life guards. A "Night Beat" parody includes Knotts as his classic nervous nerd, and a bellicose Nye cracks Steve up.
Episode 39
Debra Paget, Buddy Rich, Frankie Laine, Cornelia Otis Skinner
Jul 14, 19571h
Episode 40
Tony Bennett, George Nader, Joanne Gilbert, Hal Le Roy, Floyd Patterson & Joe Louis
Jul 21, 19571h
Tony Bennett sings "One For My Baby". Floyd Patterson and Joe Louis talk to Steve about boxing and Floyd's title defense against Tommy "Hurricane" Jackson. Joanne Gilbert sings "Hello Bluebird". Show regulars, appear in a comedy satire on television quiz-masters. Steve plays a piano version of "Do You Ever Think of Me?" For the finale, the entire cast and guest list join in with a bevy of hula dancers for a production entitled "In the Middle of an Island".
Episode 41
Jerry Lee Lewis, Shelley Winters, Anthony Franciosa, The Four Coins, Jodie Sands, Shai K. Ophir, Leona Gage
Jul 28, 19571h
Steve and Shelley Winters in a skit about teaching her to drive by using household objects, Jerry Lee Lewis gives a bravura piano-attacking performance.
Episode 42
Marie MacDonald, The Four Diamonds, Jack E. Leonard, Don Rondo, Brenda Lee
Aug 4, 19571h
Episode 43
Jane Russell, Ferlin Husky, Larry Storch, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Rod Alexander Dancers
Aug 11, 19571h
Episode 44
Lou Costello, Liberace, Andy Williams, Abbey Lincoln, Jean Fenn
Aug 18, 19571h
Episode 45
Hedy Lamar, Joe E. Brown, The Coasters, Irish McCalla, Pat Kirby
Aug 25, 19571h
Episode 46
Pearl Bailey, Joan Collins, Jeff Chandler, Shaike Ophir, Pete Rademacher
Sep 1, 19571h
Episode 47
Robert Young, Martha Raye, Marion Lorne, Milton Caniff, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme, Dave Garroway, Miss America of 1958
Sep 8, 19571h
Episode 48
Ed Wynn, Frankie Laine, Dorothy Collins, Don Adams, Audrey Meadows, Sugar Ray Robinson & Carmen Basilio
Sep 15, 19571h