Who could have ever imagined we'd have the first Tonight Show at our fingertips? It's really incredible.
@freddyfurrah3789 Жыл бұрын
Remarkable
@September2004 Жыл бұрын
Not only that… that we also *don’t* have Carson’s first Tonight Show.
@chesterproudfoot594 Жыл бұрын
@@September2004 Part of it exists and is on YT
@JustForSneaksEnt9 ай бұрын
@@chesterproudfoot594Only the audio of it exist. The actual master recording footage is no longer around.
@tomault30639 ай бұрын
It is awesome to see this. However, given the way tech has evolved, it seems almost like a foregone conclusion at this point. Took a lot of people who could imagine the unimaginable to get us here.
@13thwho Жыл бұрын
At 2:41, Steve’s words were prophetic: “This program is going to go on forever”.
@zoperxplex10 ай бұрын
I think he was referring to the time the show was scheduled to end at 1:00 AM. A network show had never before been scheduled to end so late. He also made a joke about having 800 beds.
@tomault306310 ай бұрын
@@zoperxplex you must be fun at parties
@MegaJustGeorge9 ай бұрын
@@zoperxplex That's true, my friend, Steve said that the Hudson Theater was selected as the venue for "Tonight" because it sleeps about eight hundred people.
@MCO182 ай бұрын
70 years strong!
@hepphepps83562 ай бұрын
Steve Allen was the true America! Inventive, musical, intelligent, well spoken, science minded, tolerant, liberal and lots of fun! I miss those people in
@kathleenking4716 күн бұрын
Classic liberal
@snailer063 жыл бұрын
The first live shot of his glasses, and then the whole picture out of focus until he puts on the glasses... was an inventive visual gag, complete with expert camera focussing that preceded a million late night TV innovations. Steve Allen was a genius.
@marylouleeman3 жыл бұрын
Ernie Kovacs right behind him on that score.
@MelancoliaI Жыл бұрын
First and the best!
@sagelawrence97856 жыл бұрын
I saw this first run. I was four years old. Seattle. My father worked graveyard at Boeing, and my mother waited up for him. So did I. I sneaked out and hid behind the sofa and watched with them. (I'm sure they knew I was there, but let me stay.) I loved Steve Allen. And his later show. Learned my sense of humor from him.
@marcelojaviertwt5 жыл бұрын
*HI MY DEAR! I LOVE YOUR WORDS AND I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M "TALKING" WITH A PERSON THAT SAW THOSE THINGS!!!* _IT'S AN HONOR FOR ME TO TALK WITH YOU! REALLY!_ *THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR EXPERIENCES!* _BIG HUG!!!_
@Izeba5 жыл бұрын
Sage Lawrence wow thank you for sharing ! True history God bless !
@essessessesq4 жыл бұрын
Shmock, shmock ! But, all seriousness aside, I hope your fern is not dessicated, because if you've ever had your fern dessicated, you know how painful THAT can be ! Shmock, shmock!----Needless to say, i believe Steverino was the greatest!
@toneman84784 жыл бұрын
Yes the innocence of TV back then.. It was just good family entertainment.. Now it's sex, violence, and cursing.. Horrible
@iVenge4 жыл бұрын
What a great story. I’m a little younger, so I remember the first Saturday Night Live.
@michaelklein52422 жыл бұрын
The Father of all late night talk shows! Thanks for resurrecting this historic broadcast. I'd rather forgotten what a good pianist Steve was!
@Juliaflo2 ай бұрын
He was a genius among geniuses--he also wrote songs.
@michaelklein52422 ай бұрын
He's always been one of my idols and to this day, I enjoy plays on words like he did so well.
@troyesguerra3 жыл бұрын
KZfaq is the closest thing we have for a time machine
@angelbulldog49343 ай бұрын
Not according to Tesla.
@jamesnicol38319 ай бұрын
Will never be another complete personality like Steve Allen
@malcb55774 жыл бұрын
Steve Allen could actually do it all. The man had so many talents.
@bill185110 ай бұрын
One of TVs Best! 📺 😊
@georgelustrea291210 ай бұрын
He was the best...
@AdamIthink9 ай бұрын
@georgelustrea2912 Nope. Johnny Carson is the king of late night television.
@Nansense10233 ай бұрын
@@georgelustrea2912he certainly was. He was funny , musical and very intelligent.
@itsdahomiek3nny3 ай бұрын
Absolutely one of the best.
@MrTommyg0246 жыл бұрын
2:39 "This program is gonna go on forever." Well, he wasn't wrong about that!
@WSenator15 жыл бұрын
Well, Steve Allen was always a smart man.
@ChadQuick270W5 жыл бұрын
Barry Thomas of course it’s a joke today compared to what it once was. Just my opinion of course.
@UncleEbenezer775 жыл бұрын
@@ChadQuick270W I share your opinion. Tho I believe it started to tank under Jay Leno's watch. I think things would've turned out much differently and TTS would still be prestigious had Letterman taken over for Carson rather than Leno. I think Steve Allen and Jack Parr would've agreed w that. I know Johnny definitely would've agreed. #dancingitos
@estebangrijalva24435 жыл бұрын
He was right, although it would end up in Jimmy Fallon’s stupid hands
@UncleEbenezer775 жыл бұрын
Esteban Grijalva Considering Fallon hasn’t beaten Colbert [ratings-wise] in over a year, NBC may take it from him :/
@Tracy8125810 ай бұрын
David Letterman’s first few years were just him doing Steve Allen’s show. The Alka Seltzer suit, the Velcro suit…he should have given Steve Allen a writer’s credit for nearly his entire career.
@essessessesq8 ай бұрын
and Dave has always admitted he idolized and copied Steverino
@elfowl68735 жыл бұрын
I was 8 years old when this aired, I'm 73 now, great memories of those day's!!!!!!
@justclancy11515 жыл бұрын
Elf Owl wish I had been born back then they sound like fun times
@terry24533 жыл бұрын
Elf, I recall getting our first black and white TV about this time and how exciting that was. It was another 10 years before we got a color TV. Look how far technology has come in our life time, amazing !
@gwesco2 жыл бұрын
As was I. My mom and I used to sit up late and watch this on the old Silvertone B&W set. His "Smock-smock" actually became a favorite expression when I was in high school. When I look back now and see everyone nose deep in their cell phones, it reminds me that we actually had a good time back then and all the neighborhood kids used to play together.
@CoreDreamStudios Жыл бұрын
I started seeing The Tonight Show around 1998, and it's so good to see how it all started. Shame there's no archive of all the episodes/shows from the beginning, I'd pay to watch them. :)
@kristykanen93153 ай бұрын
I adored STEVE ALLEN ! I cried after his demise.The hospital failed him. 😢
@timerunner34925 жыл бұрын
Steve Allen as host of the Tonight Show was a bit before my time but, from watching all the videos I can find of him, it's apparent, to me at least, he created the formula the others followed and stands head and shoulders above all those who followed him. The relaxed, self-deprecating humor, making fun of the show itself, the man in the street interviews, the crazy stunts. The man was a genius.
@davidmende44388 ай бұрын
Unfortunately for some of us, It was not before our time.
@FreihEitner4 жыл бұрын
Now this is a genuine moment of history. Wow! Great that this was recorded at the time and has been digitized now.
@givemepizzaorgivemedeath39834 жыл бұрын
Steve Allen does a flawless David Letterman impression! No but seriously folks, props to Steve Allen for inventing late night!
@essessessesq8 ай бұрын
good one!
@larkenfield1795 жыл бұрын
Steve was only 31 at the time. Loved him. Had the funniest laugh in the world and he was a genuinely gifted musician and songwriter. RIP.
@KD400_4 жыл бұрын
He was 33 born in 1921
@chrishaines16774 жыл бұрын
He wrote the music for a broadway musical but unfortunately it bombed.
@douglasgreen4373 жыл бұрын
He looked 55..
@hankkingsley29763 жыл бұрын
@@douglasgreen437 everybody looked 55 in 1955
@garyhanover78763 жыл бұрын
I was born in 51. I grew up with this guy. He was the funniest of all late night hosts & the most talented.
@raylarkin50043 жыл бұрын
Steve allen was an adroit talent in a time when media needed one. And his circle of talented friends like wally Cox. Louis Nye, jayne meadow, impgene Coca and sid ceaser and others were the greatest support ensemble to bring us tv talk and variety. It truly was the golden age of television and i still enjoy Steve Allen when ever on.👍🏼🤗
@nonenoneonenonenone2 жыл бұрын
In those days, through the 1970s, you could be a fascinating personality and have a career on television, on talk shows and game shows. Now, there's no room for that, and it's our loss.
@doodeen10 ай бұрын
Greetings from UK.Thanks so much for posting this.Pure Class.When USA ruled the TV airwaves!.Steve Allen superb!!!!.
@essessessesq8 ай бұрын
greetings to the UK from Ohio !....my ancestors came here in the 1700s from Scotland and Wales [after that brief unpleasantness with Bonnie Prince Charlie ended badly....]
@doodeen8 ай бұрын
@@essessessesq Hi Ohio Thanks for your response.What an interesting family background you have.Scotland is a beautiful country despite the weather!.I'm from an Irish background.Wishing you a Happy Christmas and a great New Year.Cheers Jim
@essessessesq8 ай бұрын
thanks! Steve Allen was Irish, too!@@doodeen
@thomasmann91734 жыл бұрын
I remember watching Steve doing his man on the street commentaries and also the calls to businesses in which he would ask the most ridiculous questions to people that would try to give him a serious answer. His laugh was very infectious and he could play the piano like no one else at the time. What a talented man!
@spoly813911 ай бұрын
This sure brings back memories. Loved the Tonight show from the start even way before Jack and Johnny. Steve Allen was always entertaining!
@bencool37002 жыл бұрын
If only we could have all the Steve Allen tonight shows on DVD that would be great 📀
@ronaldpokatiloff57042 жыл бұрын
Wonder if his 60s show is available. It's like early tonight. Allen, Letterman, Leno, and Tom Snyder. Allen and Leno the best. Parr was boring.
@essessessesq8 ай бұрын
i think women liked Paar because he was so ''needy'' and emotional @@ronaldpokatiloff5704
@marc219403 жыл бұрын
I remember this show when it first aired. Steve was a very funny talented guy. Many years ago, I was standing in crowd waiting to board a plane in Maui. We traded glances and I think he wondered if I remembered him. Boy did I.
@allend2749 Жыл бұрын
I was there. I saw the two of you looking at each other. It was special.
@expantherdigital6 ай бұрын
Me too I was there i actually spoke to Allen afterwards about it.. he said he sure does hope people got inspired by his work if anything
@mickeyray37932 жыл бұрын
I loved Steverino when he had his morning show about 1955-56. He always had that zany quality....smaack amaack!! I was a little kid but I got it anyway! Then he went to late night and the Tonight Show was born.
@Fabsurf1014 жыл бұрын
Steve Allen was one of a kind pioneer TV personality.
@yankeedog3 жыл бұрын
I was always a Steve Allen fan since I discovered him in the early 60s as a kid. He was amazing at funny ad libbing and quick witted funny , all the while making it look relaxed and easy. He truly was great.
@chicagotransitauthority31617 ай бұрын
We cannot lose this ever
@unfortunatebeam4 жыл бұрын
This was actually very funny, Steve Allen is one of the funniest (and smartest) people ever
@bill185110 ай бұрын
Yes, he truly was!
@someguy213510 ай бұрын
Good musician too. An intelligent conversationalist. A man of many talents.
@davidnaquin69143 жыл бұрын
Appreciate his talent now.. actually putting together a format before our eyes, live!
@tamarasturner91073 жыл бұрын
I love Steve Allen! He was brilliant and talented in so many fields. It’s so nice to be able to watch some his shows.
@paulaharrisbaca48516 жыл бұрын
Steve Allen was one of the all time best comedian/hosts of the Tonight Show. He was very intellectual and silly, which is my favorite type of humorist. Silliness is essential. We have no silly humor anymore. It's all coarse and political and without imagination, for the most part.
@joemarshall42265 жыл бұрын
Amen to that. Bill Burr is good most of the time, though.
@computerkid14165 жыл бұрын
Fallon gets close with the games he plays with celebrities. He wasn't even that political until the writers made him (he started losing ratings to Colbert).
@kevinnelson663 жыл бұрын
Late Night TV died when Craig Ferguson and Letterman left CBS.
@charleskra3 жыл бұрын
Well said. You are right. If you get a chance, check out his book "Bigger than a Bread Box" if you can find it. I remember reading it many years ago and laughing out loud.
@raylarkin50043 жыл бұрын
He was naturally comfortable welcoming to watch👍🏼⚘
@benkleschinsky5 жыл бұрын
It's so amazing that we've saved the first Tonight Show, seeing that NBC "wiped" all the tapes from that era. Very happy to see this was one of the episodes that were saved by someone.
@rty195510 ай бұрын
Tape was not invented for another 2 years
@davidmende44388 ай бұрын
So how was this recorded and preserved? (Asking for a friend.)
@davidmende44388 ай бұрын
Didn't BASF invent recording tape during WWII? (Sorry)
@dj330363 ай бұрын
@@davidmende4438 Judging by the quality it appears to be a Kinescope. It was probably recorded at a later date.
@timwoods31713 жыл бұрын
Wow, this is like a History of TV! Gene Rayburn without his iconic "Match Game" stickshift microphone, Andy Williams making his debut... Steve Allen was HOF terrific!
@edblues453 ай бұрын
I watched Steve and The Tonight Show until he left. He was my all time favorite. I loved seeing this first episode. I hope to watch more.
@michaelbill12310 ай бұрын
Imagine intellectual comedy. Back when cleverness, talent and humor all came together to take our attention OFF the political strife of the period.
@phillipecook32276 ай бұрын
Whenever I watch TV like this I can't help thinking about their historical context. It's sobering to think this was broadcast only 9 years after the end of WW2 and Joseph McCarthy was a force to be reckoned with.
@fosterch113 жыл бұрын
Steve Allen was a genius.
@roberttelarket4934 Жыл бұрын
Daniel M Clarke: Absolutely!!!!!
@kennethandrysiak41303 ай бұрын
Next to the word GENIUS in the dictionary is a picture of Steve.
@searchers4 жыл бұрын
Although I didn't watch TV the first 3 years of the 1950's, I saw the rest of the decade. We will never see such a cornucopia of entertainment in our lifetimes. There was everything, and most of it was live. We only had about 4 or 5 channels, but there was something interesting to watch every hour of every day. I miss those days.
@kathleenking4716 күн бұрын
It went downhill in the 90s
@tonydeleo36423 ай бұрын
What ever happened to this kind of TV entertainment, I really miss it! This broadcasting was worth staying up late for!
@kevins.butler34025 жыл бұрын
The first announcer for "Tonight"was Gene Rayburn.
@bemore11343 жыл бұрын
Very interesting seeing early Gene Rayburn. After doing the sports schtick w/Allen, I thought his quick news update was going to be some sort of parody as well. Very surprised it was, simply, a news update.
@hankkingsley29763 жыл бұрын
Big Bertha was so big she was blank
@dev-lx8lp3 жыл бұрын
did not know that, thank you!
@tomlovejoy153410 ай бұрын
70 years later.. I guess Steve was right, it still goes on forever! 👍
@michaelstacey83033 ай бұрын
Of course that is not what he meant
@KB4QAA3 жыл бұрын
I'll watch Steve Allen anytime!
@rondevous56859 ай бұрын
Steve was the greatest genus of early television. He was the perfect night time host at the opposite end of the day from the Today Show and the host there, Dave Garroway. I've watched the reruns all of my life. I also miss Tomorrow with Tom Snyder.
@scottarivett4963 жыл бұрын
I knew Steve Allen played piano but damn he was killing it
@daytripperhd3 жыл бұрын
I didn’t know until today. Wow
@daveshep3 жыл бұрын
Steve was a great pianist. His interview with Bill Evans about jazz and jazz piano is informed by his own skill and knowledge.
@akrenwinkle2 жыл бұрын
Steve co-wrote the haunting theme from "Picnic." BTW, Merv Griffin, although he rarely played on his show, was an excellent pianist.
@essessessesq8 ай бұрын
never knew that about Picnic there...thanks!@@akrenwinkle
@osocool1too3 жыл бұрын
This guy was genuinely funny with his voice, wit and actions. Although i live in Australia, we used to get the Steve Allen show on late night TV in the 1960s, and we loved his spontaneity and comic mannerisms.
@RayNDeere7 жыл бұрын
Glad that Steve's first Tonight show was preserved, but sadly footage of Johnny Carson's first Tonight Show was lost (save for an audio copy of the opening)
@brianherrington72267 жыл бұрын
Just as sad NBC didnt save hardly any of Paars Tonight Shows first or last just a tape exist of Paars final Tonight on 3-29-62. Audio that is.
@altfactor6 жыл бұрын
Supposedly, only the first half-hour exists.
@coololds856 жыл бұрын
RayNDeere there are episodes out there of some of Johnny Carson’s shows that have been erased. I still believe somewhere the first episode is out there. Would love to see it.
@andrewsward466 жыл бұрын
The most relaxed host of them all, and one of the great ad libbers. But it was Paar himself who destroyed his recordings out of a kind of backhanded hubris.
@pianopappy6 жыл бұрын
No video of the first Carson Tonight show is known to exist. However, a considerable portion of the audio of that program survives. I believe it is available from "Archival Television Audio, Inc." www.atvaudio.com/ Owner Phil Gries has collected thousands of hours of audio from long-lost live TV shows from 1946 to 1982. Check him out.
@mgman60009 ай бұрын
As a teenager I watched Steve in the early 60s and loved his show with all the skits and the man in the street segments Steve Allen invented the late night format
@adamchurvis13 ай бұрын
My father was friends with Steve and they also worked together. Steve visited him in the hospital while he was being treated for cancer. I still have the photos of them working together on set, and the book Steve gave him in the hospital.
@DavidDillon1013 ай бұрын
Few television personalities have possessed the wit, humility, and urbane charm of Steve Allen. Indeed, the first several minutes of this broadcast perfectly captures the many talents of this most distinctive - and sorely missed - entertainer.
@mrzoperxplex8 жыл бұрын
As you can see the "Tonight" show was not originally a talk show. It was a variety show.
@terrihenricks41606 жыл бұрын
I understand the desk, chair and sofa format originated during the Jack Paar era (1957-1962).
@DarrenGauthier6 жыл бұрын
Steve did have a desk with a mic. He talked with guests. This is just the first show so it was definitely a work in progress.
@whewfan6 жыл бұрын
Steve's focus was more on sketch comedy. He did interview guests but that wasn't the main part of the show. When Jack Paar took over, the monologue stayed, but beyond that Jack introduced a new format of just talking to celebs and sometimes controversial guests. These interviews could be quite funny but not always. When Johnny came on, he basically combined Steve and Jack, doing sketch comedy and interviewing guests, but with exception to some of his early shows in the 60s, he never had any controversial guests.Johnny hated confrontation and controversy, and he didn't want to imitate Paar. It's also easy to see that Johnny borrowed from Jack Benny. Jack had a portly announcer, so did Johnny. While Doc Severinson wasn't fond of the drink as Phil Harris reportedly was, you could argue that he was sort of a more flamboyant Dennis Day, but the drunk jokes went to Ed.
@joemarshall42265 жыл бұрын
Matthew Kaiser Johnny borrowed form the Great One as well. He had the highest praise for Jackie Gleason. Jackie pushed for years to get his own talk show, but it never happened.
@MarkSmith-hf5nh3 жыл бұрын
The original Tonight Show was 'Broadway Open House', where performers who were in NY would drop by and perform. Originally nobody who was in power thought anybody would watch TV late at night. It was almost a throwaway time slot.
@WSenator13 жыл бұрын
Steve Allen: The Father of the Tonight Show. He set up the matrix - couch, opening monologue, etc. - that all those who followed have used.
@AdamIthink9 ай бұрын
Not entirely true. Jack Paar introduced the desk, chair and sofa.
@essessessesq8 ай бұрын
steve had the desk, chairs and microphone...Paar did switch to a couch@@AdamIthink
@VicMartino4 жыл бұрын
Steve Allen a true pioneer of Television and an all around amazing talent!
@altfactor3 жыл бұрын
This show had been locally broadcast in New York for about fourteen months prior to going to the full NBC network.
@sammcbride21492 жыл бұрын
Best talk show host of all time. Mr. Steve Allen.
@AdamIthink9 ай бұрын
Nope. Johnny Carson is the king of late night television.
@GR_BackingTracks2 жыл бұрын
7:00 "I could turn this into a national beer if I get thirsty enough," haha... Boy, he knew the power that TV had, even back then!
@dennisdivine74482 жыл бұрын
Interestingly enough, Pat Weaver had envisioned the comedian Fred Allen as the host of a "Tonight Show" format. But by this time, Allen's health had declined enough that he was content just to be a weekly panelist on "What's My Line".
@hamburg130610 ай бұрын
The “beer” reference when Steve moves to the desk was for the origin show of the tonight show he hosted on the local nbc affiliate in New York and called the “Knickerbocker Beer Show”. Knickerbocker was the sponsor. Then beer was a local staple not national brands. In 1954 the show was expanded nationally and extended to 90 minutes as the Tonight Show. Steve was so right when he said this will last forever.
@haplessasshole96153 жыл бұрын
"This show is going to go on forever." Yep, ol' Steverino got that one right. Edit: A quick glance at the exhaustive (though occasionally wrong) Wikipedia reveals that Pat Weaver, the NBC executive mentioned at about 3:45, was probably pretty bright. He was Phi Beta Kappa at Dartmouth. He also had a brilliant, tall, willowy, gorgeous daughter named Sigourney.
@PhilMoskowitz2 жыл бұрын
I wish more people knew about Steve Allen. He was an impresario and renaissance man.
@oldprankster76063 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised that any footage has survived from the original "Tonight Show". There is a book called "Inventing Late Night" that states that the network kinescopes were deliberately destroyed in order to make room for additional network footage at the NBC storage warehouse in NJ. Where has this been hiding? Steve Allen created the late night gig. All those who followed in his footsteps, including Carson, owe their careers to him.
@ronaldpokatiloff57042 жыл бұрын
Maybe it's in with the porn stuff, HA
@HalfBakedLunatic3 жыл бұрын
If this was broadcast "live" then it was shot on video, not on film. But this was produced a few years before the Video Tape Recorder was invented, so the only way to record this was to use a Kinescope - in essence, a film camera was pointed at a TV monitor!
@kenhenderson17622 жыл бұрын
"This program is going to go on forever". Steve was referring to the length of the show (90 minutes). But the Tonight Show HAS gone on forever - 68 years (as of 2022). BTW the announcer on the first few years was Gene Rayburn.
@davidlarson912510 ай бұрын
At 2:39sec "This show is gonna go on forever...." He was more correct than he could possibly imagine.
@WSenator14 жыл бұрын
I would have LOVED to see Willie Mays on this first show!
@loveanarchy84883 жыл бұрын
It didn't go on forever. It ended when Carson retired.
@adf3comcast13 жыл бұрын
How True
@jpwjr11993 жыл бұрын
I honestly believe that NBC never wanted to see what happened with Tonight with Carson happen ever again, where the artist/performer annexed complete control of the show - from rights, creative, royalties, merch, etc. NBC always had the highest ratings, but probably felt like their bottom line took a bit of a bath those last 10 years, as Carson really successfully had syphoned the money away from them. Oligarchs whether it be Jack Welch or internationals like Comcast don't much like that. Therefore, hire underwhelming performers who can't build up that cachet, and problem's solved.
@adf3comcast13 жыл бұрын
@@jpwjr1199 How true
@hankkingsley29763 жыл бұрын
@@jpwjr1199 do you mean cachet?
@jpwjr11993 жыл бұрын
@@hankkingsley2976 why, yes! Thank you - typing fast on cell phone. What the hell, I'll correct it.
@m.e.d.79975 жыл бұрын
What a brilliant man!
@ronaldpokatiloff57042 жыл бұрын
Reading that fan letter was brilliant!
@johnking51747 жыл бұрын
In England in 1954 television was a VERY different thing. Unlike the US where television would be on the air from 7.00am each day and then conclude with this example of the late night talk show, BBC and later ITV would be limited to 5/6 hours a day. On this day for example, the one television station in England - the BBC had the following schedule for the whole day, just to give the US viewer an example of the different television culture between our two countries below: Monday September 27th 1954 - BBC Television Service: 3.00pm - Film, Danger on the Air (1938). Film concluded at 4.10pm and television signed off until 5.00pm. 5.00pm - Children's Television - an hour of programming for the younger viewer which concluded at 6.00pm. 7.25pm - The Weather and BBC News and Newsreel - news read in sound only with no in-vision newscaster 7.45pm - The Driving Club - a motoring show 8.30pm - This Is Showbusiness - a variety show 9.30pm - Musicians to Moscow - British musicians visit to Moscow 10.20pm - Fashion Spotlight - fashion programme 10.35pm - The News, read in sound only with no in-vision newscaster. 10.45pm - Sign Off (or closedown as it was known in England). There, around 5 and a half hours of television on this day in England that the Tonight Show launched in America.
@travellingshoes52417 жыл бұрын
How do you know this stuff?
@johnking51747 жыл бұрын
Something called research, the BBC have complete listings, nearly complete from 1923-2009 on their archive site.
@travellingshoes52417 жыл бұрын
Ok. No need to be dickhead about it John boy.
@johnking51747 жыл бұрын
Sorry if I cam across like that, but if you want the website I will give it to you?
@lcs19567 жыл бұрын
Could you post it again, I fell asleep the first time through.
@ejseabury Жыл бұрын
Wally Cox! I recently watched him on an episode of “I Spy”. A very good actor, and from what I hear, a great comedian.
@kevinconners22835 жыл бұрын
Who knew that 20 years later, Gene Rayburn would be hosting Match Game!
@DarrenGauthier4 жыл бұрын
Actually it was eight years, as the original Match Game debuted on NBC on New Year’s Eve 1962. Gene would do that version from NYC through September of 1969, with the new version starting again four years later. Gene was really in his element on that show.
@heinolandov72464 жыл бұрын
Steve was the king of ad libbers
@WSenator15 жыл бұрын
Steve Allen. . .the Father of the Tonight Show
@waldolydecker8118 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, just think what we would have missed if the father paid for the network to get an abortion?
@ezHiker356 жыл бұрын
David Letterman always called out Johnny Carson as his mentor and idol, but after you watch this you'll quickly realize his show was 98% Steve Allen.
@husainhaider6 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same thing when I was watching it. Even their voices are nearly identical! I also think their affinity for dry humour is similar.
@624radicalham6 жыл бұрын
Reza Haider Who's voice is identical to who's ... Allen's to Carson's? Allen's to Letterman? I'm just not seeing it.
@Mibbitmaker6 жыл бұрын
Dave's also been up front about being influenced by Steve Allen as well. Especially one if his 1960s shows.
@joemarshall42265 жыл бұрын
Mibbitmaker I have seen Dave (way back when doing his first show) praise Steve in the highest manner, calling him his idol and a genius. I never saw him praise Johnny particularly, but I don't follow things like I used to......He probably learned a lot about interviewing skills from Johnny....that's where JOhnny was at his best.....
@dannyarena53575 жыл бұрын
Yes. It's very evident.
@stephenspencer467210 ай бұрын
It is absolutely amazing to see this. I was only two years old at the time so my parents didn't let stay to watch. By the time I was old enough Steve Allen had long since turned the reigns of the show over to his successors. I only wish he had saved all of his shows. It would have been a real historic treasure.😊❤
@daleschneider76894 жыл бұрын
I was only a year old when this premiered . I’ve always liked Steve growing up.
@InfamousGUNN3 жыл бұрын
Steve Allen was one of a kind thank you for posting this I’ve always had a great fascination with the Tonight Show😎
@CorkyStanton3 жыл бұрын
Notice he wasn’t bad mouthing presidents or talking politics? Very refreshing.
@raylarkin50043 жыл бұрын
He had a way with subtlety and inuendo that made it unnecessary to mantion names, we all knew and understood he was not an attack dog. He was a genuine mind in line withhis audience
@victorbasta23493 жыл бұрын
Times were different...presidents weren’t bad mouthing ordinary Americans either
@ClothesFree3 жыл бұрын
@@victorbasta2349 You’re trying to make it not refreshing here.
@victorbasta23493 жыл бұрын
To make it clear, I agree that those were the days. We’ll never see the likes of these great men again
@mrbob4243 жыл бұрын
because nasty libs werent a thing back then. they even knew which bathroom to use unlike today LOL
@jupiterlegrand48175 жыл бұрын
Steve Allen, Jack Paar, Johnny Carson. It ended there.
@valerieehrlich4285 жыл бұрын
Jay leno I forgot the current host name
@valerieehrlich4285 жыл бұрын
If NBC ever decided to do a show about how long the tonight show has been on it would take four nights or more to air at a total of thirty two hours four hours a night
@Ptpop3 жыл бұрын
Truth!
@ronniecozzi83853 жыл бұрын
I quit after Carson.
@pinedelgado47433 жыл бұрын
NO. It ended with Leno.
@angelwings79308 ай бұрын
Back in the day Steve was so disturbed by the growing lack of morals on TV, I remember he created and paid for his own commercial against filth on TV. I’ll never forget it. I was likely a preteen or barely into my teens at the time, so maybe early 70’s. Or earlier. He had character. And he was right.
@kevincruz40452 жыл бұрын
Didn't know Steve Allen played piano so well. 😃
@davidbaise513710 ай бұрын
Wow. “Fine and Dandy” was old even back then!
@yt1239411 ай бұрын
Steve Allen was very smart and very funny, qualities sorely lacking today
@dev-lx8lp3 жыл бұрын
It lasted for some time up through Jay Leno and when he retired the sled turned down hill and raced full bore into the abyss! Allen was great, Paar had his moments, Carson was an icon and I recall as a mere boy sneaking out to the living room to watch until late at night! Got to see the Leno version with THE GREATEST AND ONLY TRUSTED NEWSMAN IN THE WORLD, Walter Cronkite. What an incredible treat that was! Thank to Mr. DiFlorio for this incredible memory!
@ronaldpokatiloff57042 жыл бұрын
Leno was the best, after Steve. Letterman was overrated but OK
@AdamIthink9 ай бұрын
@@ronaldpokatiloff5704 Leno was absolutely the worst host in the history of the show. Johnny Carson was and is the king of late night television.
@WSenator13 жыл бұрын
I was too young to see the Steve Allen Tonight Shows, but after seeing his later shows, it's obvious that NBC picked the right person to start the franchise. If you wanted to laugh, Steve was a great comedian. If you wanted to hear music, Steve was a knockout piano player (and could sing well enough to not be booed off the stage!) You wanted serious talk, Steve could conduct interviews worth listening to. And even though he didn't deliver trend-setting monologues like Johnny Carson later did, Steve could get the show up and running with his.
@ronaldpokatiloff57042 жыл бұрын
Carson's jokes were mostly about how bad they were. Karnak sucks! Leno kicks ass and he was very inventive.
@tomgeauvreau70992 жыл бұрын
A multitalented original from early TV. Always loved his wacky humor. He started a lot of people's careers too. Hey Gene Rayburn!
@monaczaplewsli1572 жыл бұрын
Why does 'How's your fern?' enter my mind whenever I think of Steve Allen.? Does anyone out there remember this often commentary that Allen invented and often used? As a kid sneaking out to the tv on the screen porch to watch his shows every night in summer it still sticks with me today.🌿
@essessessesq8 ай бұрын
yes, that was one of his catch phrase...and "SHMOCK! SHMOCK!" and lines like "Oops, i just left a dangling participle...and if you've every left YOUR participle dangling someplace, then you know jhow VERY embarrassing that can be!"
@jonathanclarke2813 жыл бұрын
Life is good and people generally get along and are optimistic after major wars. The problem is humanity won't survive another one!
@klopidquill9 ай бұрын
Just looked it up--- it was only 2 days after this appearance that Willie Mays would make The Catch.
@BassGirlSusan19618 ай бұрын
As a non American, I'm loving this!
@cats01827 жыл бұрын
"This program will go on forever". "If it's as popular as ("Today" and "Home) the other Weaver shows, they'll have a program called "Son Of Today". Boy, was he on target.
@Discrimination_is_not_a_right6 жыл бұрын
Sure seems like it has.
@MattSapienzaComedy6 жыл бұрын
That "son of tonight" is now the Late Night franchise
@coffeehigh4206 жыл бұрын
you mean girl ;)
@GH-oi2jf4 жыл бұрын
Cats01 - He would have been on target had he predicted a program called “Tomorrow.”
@sherrillsturm724010 ай бұрын
Allen was a musical genius with an equally wonderful sense of humor.
@steveseifer67845 жыл бұрын
Hi Ho Stevereno. You were the best. I loved the Steve Allen Show at 8.00 PM EST every Sunday night opposite Ed Sullivan on CBS who must have lost much of his audience when Steve showed on NBC.
@ACcountryFan3 жыл бұрын
In Ed's defense, though, his variety show continued until it's cancellation in 1971 so he didn't lose that much of an audience...but yes, for awhile, the two went head to head in the ratings.
@bluebear19858 ай бұрын
14:39 Nice to see that Gene Rayburn was the first sidekick in this longtime late night franchise. He would be on the show for about as long as Allen. His last episode would air on January 25, 1957.
@wi547254 жыл бұрын
I loved the Steve Allen and Jack Paar Tonight Show's better than any that followed. Although not considered part of the Tonight Show, Ernie Kovacs did a show in that time slot for several weeks while the Tonight Show was transitioning after Allen left, and that was actually the best thing NBC ever had in that time slot.
@oranges83024 жыл бұрын
I was too young to see Steve Allen’s Tonight Show, but I remember watching The Steve Allen Show and Jack Parr on the Tonight Show. You are right. They are definitely better than anything that followed.
@essessessesq8 ай бұрын
Kovaks had a daytime network show for some years on Saturdays i think....it was HILARIOUS and totally offbeat in a wacky way
@jackp91223 жыл бұрын
This is great! I was 3 years old when this was on, but was never allowed to watch, even later when Carson was on. Yes, I can see some of Letterman’s stuff in this.
@carolfrost20979 ай бұрын
Steve was the best host of The Tonight Show. He has talent,humor and never a hint of scandal
@oldcop183 жыл бұрын
I really loved the Steve Allan Show. He was an absolute riot!
@Glen-qh5xq3 ай бұрын
And here we are 70 years later and it's still going.
@bessied.56943 ай бұрын
It's going to hell in a handbasket. When Carson and crew left, they took the show with them.
@steveallen10553 жыл бұрын
I grew up hearing a lot about Steve Allen. I watched his syndicated show all the time.
@amitaryal5438 ай бұрын
Amazing to see so little has changed.
@user-fg4fr2bz5y10 ай бұрын
I was 9 years old when this aired. I remember this! When late night was creative!