So glad to see this!

Johnny Olson announcing, great to hear him here!

52:12 - "Hello, This is Ed McMahon. Stay tuned, later on this evening, for another 90 minutes of The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson. With Johnny welcome his guests: Dom Deluise, Gabriel Kaplan, Thelma Houston, and Ron Leibman. Don't missed us all, right here on NBC."

OMG...I remember this show. It was the first show we ever watched on our new color television. The Follies had been on for several weeks, but my mom was glued to the set when this came on, because she always wanted to see the showgirls that open the show at (00:19) and their beautiful costumes in color.

PURE CLASSIC TV GOLD! Thank you so very much for uploading and sharing this "lost and VERY rarely seen anymore" gem of a series that premiered on Thursday, September 13, 1973 at 10p.m. on the NBC Network...Sadly, the show only lasted for 13 episodes, ending on December 27, 1973. This was the premiere episode!...I thoroughly enjoyed watching, and the audio and video quality is FIRST-RATE too! I sure would love to see some of the other episodes sometime! Let the good shows play on, and take care! Ms. Elizabeth 📺📼📽️📺📽️📼

I watched every week to see stars like Sammy, Lola Falana, Ray Charles and more! I remember it being called the NBC Follies, a good old school variety show.

Show biz is not like this anymore :(

DAMN DC YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL AND TALENTED.

Do you have the episode with Mary Costa?? I’ve been looking for it everywhere and even contacted people associated with different estates and no one has it. Please let me know if there’s any way I can find it. Thanks!

Awesome! Do you have any more episodes of this?

I don't remember this show at all, but I was only 6 at the time!

So this one doesn't have Andy Griffith?

NO SOUND. PLEASE FIX.. THANK YOU.

After learning about this series in a reference book, I have seen this one. Honestly, it is uneven. I could have done without that unfunny western bit. Sammy is always welcome; Jerry is not. Dick Smothers, decades after apologizing for performing the same type of pseudo Oriental characterization in a 1967 episode of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, does it AGAIN in this broadcast, however, brother Tom does have some great comebacks. Rooney, salvaging the tattered scraps of his career, magnificently flounders. Diahann Carroll, excellence among the zircons, is underused. The Be A Clown segment, seemingly pointless and overused, is nauseous. If each of the following episodes rose only to this level of tepid tedium, I'm surprised that the series lasted beyond the first closing credits. This presents the style, best and worst, of The Ed Sullivan Show, The Colgate Comedy Hour, The All Star Revue and The Hollywood Palace. A valiant effort, but hardly worth the tickets.