Episodes

--Alan King (host) --Alan King and Browning Bryant - ""The Straight Life"" --Browning Bryant (teenage singer) - ""Shenandoah"" --Carol Lawrence - ""Wait till the Sun Shines, Nellie"" --Carol Lawrence and Alan King - medley: ""Summertime,"" ""Blue Skies"" and ""Up a Lazy River"" --Marian Mercer (actress, from Broadway's ""Promises, Promises"") --Carl Ballantine (comedian)

--Eddy Arnold (host) - ""That's How Much I Love You,"" ""I'll Hold You in My Heart"" & ""Make the World Go Away"" --Bobbie Gentry - ""Peaceful"" --Bernadette Peters --Phil Harris --Browning Bryant (teenage singer) - ""Patches"" --Phil Harris, Eddy Arnold and Bobbie Gentry - ""Muskrat Ramble"" --All guests - Country medley: ""By the Time I Get to Phoenix,"" ""Wichita Lineman,"" ""Jackson,"" ""Green Green Grass,"" ""Harper Valley PTA,"" ""Gentle on My Mind"" and ""Honey""

""The Friars Roast Milton Berle"" with Alan King as the ""Roastmaster"" Guests: --Jack Benny --Red Buttons --Don Drysdale (former Dodger's pitcher) --Steve Lawrence --Jan Murray --Bishop Fulton J. Sheen --Henny Youngman

--Wayne Newton (host) - ""Hello, My Baby,"" ""What Kind of Fool Am I?"" ""The Lord Must Be in New York City"" & ""Blowin' in the Wind"" --Michele Lee (singer-actress) - ""Runnin' Wild"" --Terry-Thomas (British comedian) - does a monologue on doors. --Hines, Hines & Dad (dancers) - ""Sweet Georgia Brown"" --Wayne Newton and Hines, Hines & Dad - ""Walkin' on New Grass"" Comedy sketches: --A reporter (Michele Lee) interviews a wacky fashion designer (Terry-Thomas). --A couple (Michele and Terry) is happily shipwrecked. --Terry plays a director describing his all-insect nudist movie.

Country Music Association Awards (broadcast from the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville) --hosted by Tennessee Ernie Ford Scheduled performers: --Glen Campbell - ""Galveston"" --Johnny Cash - ""A Boy Named Sue"" & ""Daddy Sang Bass"" --Charley Pride - ""All I Have to Offer You Is Me"" --Freddy Weller - ""Games People Play"" Other guests/presenters (scheduled): --Chet Atkins --Gene Autry --The Carter Family --Roy Clark --Floyd Cramer --Bobby Goldsboro --Merle Haggard --Phil Harris --Bill Monroe --Fess Parker --Jimmie Rodgers

""Alan King Stops the Press"" - a satrical look at newspapers Comedy: --Alan King (host) - does a monologue on editorials, horoscopes and cheesecake photos. --A husband (Alan King) gets a low score when his wife (Barbara Feldon) takes a ""rate your mate"" quiz. --Paul Lynde plays (1) a newspaper food critic (2) a sportswriter interviewing skinny rookie U.T. Thompson, played by Charlie Callas Music: --Alan King - ""Didn't We?"" --Barbara Feldon - ""Fugue for Tinhorns"" and ""Spinning Wheel""

--Eddy Arnold (host) - ""Morning of My Mind,"" ""Jean,"" ""Since December"" and medley (""Margie, Margie,"" ""Sweet Sue,"" ""Ida,"" ""My Name Is Sue"" and ""Molly Darlin'."") --The Lettermen - ""Shangri-La"" --Eddy Arnold and the Lettermen - medley: ""Smile (Though Your Heart Is Breaking),"" ""When I Fall In Love,"" ""A Summer Place,"" ""Love Is Blue,"" ""Our Day Will Come,"" ""Goin' Out of My Head,"" ""Can't Take My Eyes Off of You,"" ""Hurts So Bad"" and ""More"" --Browning Bryant - ""Moon River"" --Judy Carne - sings ""In My Life"" and does an Oliver medley. --Tom Seaver and the Lettermen - ""Nancy with the Laughing Face"" Comedy: --An advertising agent (Judy Carne) tries to sign Tom Seaver. --Blackouts with Tom Seaver pitching --In a sketch with Tom Seaver, Judy plays Tom's wife Nancy.

""The Sound of Bacharach"" - features the music of Bacharach, plus a tribute to Harold Arlen. --Lena Horne, Tony Bennett and Burt Bacharach perform a medley of Bacharach tunes. --Edward Villella (New York City ballet star) with partner - dance to ""This Guy's in Love with You"" and ""Promises, Promises."" Tribute to Harold Arlen --Lena Horne - ""Stormy Weather"" (Harold Arlen song originally introduced by Lena at the Cotton Club ) --Lena, Tony, and Burt - medley of songs written by Harold Arlen (""I've Got the World on a String,"" ""Happiness is a Thing called Joe,"" ""Let's Fall in Love,"" ""Last Night When We were Young,"" ""Come Rain or Come Shine,"" ""Down with Love"" and ""Right as the Rain.""

A Tribute to the ""Mistreated"" Consumer Music: --Alan King - sings ""I Can't Give You Anything but Love"" --Angie Dickinson - ""Daddy"" --Angie Dickinson and Alan King - ""Girl Talk"" --Paul Lynde (comedian) --Marian Mercer (from Broadway's ""Promises, Promises"") Comedy: --A couple, Alan and Angie, have problems (1) collecting fire insurance from a reluctant insurance man, (2) buying a toaster and (3) coping with a greedy maitre d'

""Johnny Cash - American Songbag"" with Special Guest Star - Miss Peggy Lee Songs of the American Heritage (woven around the writings of Carl Sandburg) --Johnny Cash - ""This Land Is Your Land,"" ""Going to Memphis,"" ""Rock Island Line"" and ""Delia's Gone"" --Peggy Lee - ""Is That All There Is?"" --Johnny Cash and Peggy Lee - ""Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"" and a love song medley --Carl Perkins - ""C.C. Rider"" --The Statler Brothers - ""Shenandoah"" --The Carter Family - ""Foggy Mountain Top"" --Johnny Cash and Browning Bryant - ""It Ain't Gonna Rain No More"" --Browning Bryant - ""Try to Remember"" --The Tennessee Three

--Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme (co-hosts) - ""Come Back to Me,"" ""Walk On By,"" ""You and I,"" ""The Honeymoon Is Over,"" ""Didn't We?"" and ""Hurry Home for Christmas"" --Sonny & Cher - ""I'm Gonna Hold You Tighter"" --Sonny & Cher, Steve & Eydie - ""The Look of Love,"" ""Go Away, Little Girl"" & ""What the World Needs Now"" --Sid Caesar (comedian) --The Carnival (Brazilian rock group) - ""Laia Ladaia"" --Eydie Gorme and the Carnival - ""Son of a Preacher Man"" Comedy sketches: --Sid Caesar plays an older husband who's trying to keep up with his young wife. --Sid Caesar, Steve & Eydie parody sex education

1969 Christmas Show --Wayne Newton (host) - ""Christmas Journey"" --The Cowsills - ""Silver Bells"" and ""Jingle Bell Rock"" --Jack Wild - ""Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" --Julie Budd - ""My Favorite Things"" --Wayne Newton and Julie Budd - ""Winter Wonderland"" --Christopher Hewett (English actor, appearing as Charles Dickens) --The Singing Angels - ""Jingle Bells,"" ""Carol of the Bells"" and ""Silent Night"" --Wayne Newton and the Singing Angels - ""Do You Hear What I Hear?"" --""Oliver"" medley with Wayne Newton, Julie Budd, Jack Wild and the Cowsills: (1) ""Consider Yourself""; (2) ""Who Will Buy""; (3) ""I'd Do Anything"" (Jack Wild and Susan Cowsill); (4) ""Got To Pick a Pocket or Two"" (the Cowsills); (5) ""As Long as She Needs Me""

--Alan King --Michele Lee --Paul Lynde --David Frye --Gene Baylos

""The Friars Roast Jack Benny"" with Johnny Carson (as the Roastmaster) Guests: --Spiro Agnew (Vice-President) --Milton Berle --George Burns --Phil Harris --Dennis Day --Alan King --Ed Sullivan

--Eddy Arnold (host) - ""Raindrops,"" ""Soul Deep,"" ""A Man's Kind of Woman"" and ""The Tennessee Waltz"" --Florence Henderson - ""People Gotta Be Free"" --Sacha Distel (singer-guitarist from France) - ""Bon Soir, dame"" --Eddy Arnold and Sacha Distel - ""Melodie d'Amour"" --Eddy Arnold, Florance Henderson and Sacha Distel - Richard Rodgers medley Comedy: --Sid Caesar and Florence Henderson appear together in two sketches: (1) A butler tries, in vain, to work quietly while his employer, Mme. Davenport, sings an aria. (2) Leo the Lion encounters a lovely lioness.

--Desi Arnaz (host) - ""Cuban Pete,"" ""Turn Around"" and ""Babalu"" --Vivian Vance --Bernadette Peters - ""Chewi Chewi"" & ""I Didn't Know What Time It Was"" --Desi Arnaz, Desi Arnaz, Jr. and Lucie Arnaz - ""Straw Hat Song"" --Desi Arnaz Jr. and Lucie Arnaz - ""Under the Bamboo Tree"" Comedy sketches include: --Desi playing an overage band leader at a high school prom.

Music: --Petula Clark - ""I Couldn't Live without Your Love,"" ""Sign of the Times"" and ""A Natural Woman"" --Anthony Newley - performs a medley (of songs from his two big shows): ""The Joker,"" ""Look at That Face,"" ""Gonna Build a Mountain,"" ""What Kind of Fool am I"" & ""Just Once in a Lifetime"" --Lou Rawls - ""It Was A Very Good Year"" --Petula Clark and Lou Rawls - ""Three O'Clock in the Morning"" --Clark, Rawls and Newley - blues medley (""Mood Indigo,"" ""God Bless the Child"" & ""Kansas City"") Sketch: --Petula and Tony do a sketch about a pair of Cockney Vaudevillians whose act was called ""The Lovebirds.""

""America in the '70's"" - a salute to the new decade --Eddy Arnold - ""Soul Deep,"" ""Blowin' in the Wind"" and ""Tennessee Stud"" --Eddy Arnold and Anita Bryant - ""I'm Little But I'm Loud"" --Anita Bryant - ""New World Coming"" --Browning Bryant (teenage singer, not related to Anita) - ""Turn, Turn, Turn"" Comedy: --Arte Johnson appears in two sketches. He plays (1) an inventor presenting the world's first completely automated home; and (2) ""Mr. Crushed Velvet,"" the hottest young composer in the music industry.

""Alan King's Wonderful World of Aggravation, Part II"" Sketches: --Mr. and Mrs. Plotman (Alan King and Anne Meara) find a few surprises when they visit their child's college on parents' day. --Alan King as a hospital patient dealing with a rowdy roomate (Paul Lynde). --Alan, Anne, Paul and Michele play a ""marriage game"" which could result in divorce.

Music: --Steve Lawrence - ""Mama, a Rainbow"" --Eydie Gorme - ""Tonight I'll Say a Prayer"" --Peggy Lee - ""Me and My Shadow"" --Steve, Eydie and Peggy appear together in a concert segment. Comedy: --""It Was a Very Good Year"" - vignettes with Steve and Eydie at ages 17, 21, 35 and 64. --Shecky Green (1) plays an Italian film director, and (2) joins Steve and Eydie in a spoof of old ""B"" movies.

Guests: --Phil Silvers and Paul Lynde (co-hosts) --Barbara Feldon --Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara - comedy routine: Jerry interviews Anne, a member of the Silent Majority. --Joe Frazier and the Knockabouts (boxer with his rock group) - ""In the Midnight Hour"" --Rocky Graziano (cameo) - appears in a sketch with Silvers and Frazier about 2 shady boxing managers looking for a heavyweight. --All (entire cast) - appears in a parody of the movie ""They Shoot Horses, Don't They?""

--Eddy Arnold - ""In the Middle of the Morning"" --Jackie DeShannon - ""You Keep Me Hangin' On"" & ""Hurt So Bad"" --John Davidson - ""Somewhere"" --Charlie Callas (comedian) - (1) does his own version of Marc Anthony's eulogy of Julius Caesar. (2) appears as a Mexican who possesses the secret of longevity. --Peter Matz orchestra

Guests (First of two Country Music shows): --Phil Harris - ""Mr. Bojangles"" --Bobbie Gentry - ""He Made a Woman Out of Me"" --Bernadette Peters and Bobbie Gentry - ""Save the Country"" --Charley Pride - ""Is Anybody Goin' to San Antone?"" --Charley Pride and Phil Harris - ""Cotton Fields Back Home"" --Bernadette Peters - ""Golden Slumbers"" --John Hartford - ""Meanwhile, You Sit by My Banjo""

Guests (second of a two-part Country Music show): --Phil Harris (co-host) --Bobbie Gentry (co-host) - ""Rainmaker"" --Bernadette Peters - ""California Dreamin'"" --Roy Clark - ""I Never Picked Cotton"" --John Hartford - ""Tear-Stained Monologue"" --Jackie Benington (1969 America's Junior Miss) --All guests - medley: ""Brother Love's Salvation Show,"" Walk a Mile in My Shoes,"" ""Let It Be,"" ""Bridge Over Troubled Water"" & ""Peace in the Valley"" Comedy: --Roy Clark pulls some comic cure-alls out of a medicine bag.

--Des O'Connor (Summer 1970 host) - ""No One but You,"" ""That's Why I Love Her,"" ""This Guy's in Love with You"" & ""Anytime"" --Robert Morse - ""Lonely Town"" --Liberace - ""San Francisco"" --Teresa Graves (from ""Laugh-In"") - ""I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"" --Elke Sommer - ""Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"" --Jack Douglas (comedy writer) --The MacGregor Brothers (comedians) --Des O'Connor and the MacGregor Brothers - ""You Always Hurt the One You Love""

Guests: --Des O'Connor (Summer 1970 host) - ""My Cup Runneth Over,"" ""Butterflies in the Rain"" & ""The Other Man's Grass"" --Dusty Springfield - ""Free Girl"" & ""How Can I Be Sure?"" --Dusty Springfield and Des O'Connor - ""Messing About on the River"" --Dyan Cannon - ""If You Go Away"" --Gene Barry - ""Clouds"" --Terry-Thomas --Jack Douglas --The MacGregor Brothers (comedians) --Jim Couton and his dog Rex

Music: --Des O'Connor (Summer 1970 host) - ""Something,"" ""This Guy's in Love with You,"" ""One of Those Songs"" & ""Anytime"" --Dan Blocker and Des O'Connor - ""I'll Learn Ya"" --Jo Anne Worley - ""Hungry"" --Mireille Mathieu - ""I Live for You"" & ""When You Return"" --Mireille Mathieu and Des O'Connor - ""Boom,"" ""My Heart Sings,"" The Last Waltz""

--Des O'Connor (Summer 1970 host) - ""With Pen in Hand,"" ""Sign of the Singing Symbol,"" ""Applause"" & ""Anytime"" --Carol Lawrence and Des O'Connor - ""I'll Never Forgive Myself"" --Carol Lawrence - ""What are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?"" --Bob Denver (actor-comdian) --Val Doonican - ""Agricultural Irish Girl"" --Val Doonican and Des O'Connor - medley: ""I Love Because,"" Welcome to My World"" & ""That's Why I Love Her""

An Evening with Burt Bacharach --Burt Bacarach and Dionne Warwick - ""Make it Easy on Yourself"" & ""Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets"" --Dionne Warwick - ""What the World Needs Now is Love"" --Burt Bacarach and Joel Grey - ""What's New Pussycat?"" --Joel Grey - ""Anyone Who Had a Heart,"" ""This Guy's In Love With You"" & ""Bridge Over Troubled Water"" --Sacha Distel (French singer-guitarist) - ""The Good Life"" --Sacha Distel and Burt Bacarach - ""Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head""

Music: --Des O'Connor (Summer 1970 host) - ""Something,"" ""That Old Feeling,"" ""Anytime"" and ""UFOing"" --Martha Raye - ""Watch the Birdie"" --Martha Raye and Phil Harris - ""You Say the Nicest Things"" --Phil Harris - ""Gentle on My Mind"" --Phil Harris and Des O'Connor - ""Chesapeake Bay"" --Sandie Shaw - ""Wight is Wight"" (actual title, not a typo) Comedy: --Haunted house sketch with Martha Raye, Phil Harris and Des O'Connor. --A spoof of crime films with Des O'Connor and series regular Jack Douglas.

--Des O'Connor (Summer 1970 host) - ""Mona Lisa,"" ""Didn't We?"" ""Call Me"" ""The Impossible Dream,"" ""Me and My Shadow"" & ""Portrait of My Love"" --Julie London - ""Softly, As I Leave You"" & ""Daddy"" --Terry-Thomas - medley: ""Thank Heaven for Little Girls,"" ""Under the Bridges of Paris,"" ""Wand'rin' Star"" & ""Tip-Toe Through the Tulips"" --Jo Anne Worley (comedian, from ""Laugh-In"") - ""I Want a Lot of Everything"" Series regulars (Summer 1970): --Jack Douglas --The MacGregor Brothers --Jim Couton --Rex

Show taped in London: --Des O'Connor (Summer 1970 host) - ""It Had to Be You,"" ""It's Raining in My Heart"" & ""You Are My Lucky Star"" --Sid Caesar (comedian, appears in two sketches) --Edie Adams - ""One Step"" --Edie Adams & Des O'Connor - medley: ""I Feel a Song Coming On,"" ""Without a Song,"" ""Alfie,"" ""These Foolish Things"" & ""I'm in Love with You"" --Matt Monro - ""For Once in My Life"" --Matt Monro & Des O'Connor - ""That Old Black Magic""

Music: --Des O'Connor (Summer 1970 host) - ""When Joanna Loved Me"" ""Didn't We?"" & ""Deed I Do"" --Vikki Carr - ""Singing My Song"" --Vikki Carr and Des O'Connor - ""I'll Never Fall in Love Again"" --Vikki Carr and George Gobel - ""Something to Remember You By"" --George Gobel - ""Indian Summer"" --Mrs. Mills (British comedian) and Des O'Connor - ""You're My Everything"" --Roy Hudd (British comedian) - ""Give Me That Old Shoe"" and ""Today I Loved Everybody"" Comedy: --Vikki Carr plays amateur psychologist who tries to analyze husband Des --Roy Hudd and Des O'Connor do a mock adagio dance --George Gobel and Des O'Connor try to unload a sizzling bomb

Music: --Des O'Connor (Summer 1970 host) - ""Getting to Know You,"" ""Rainy Day,"" ""Can't Take My Eyes Off of You"" & ""Green, Green Grass of Home"" --Clodagh Rogers - ""Wolf"" --Clodagh Rogers & Des O'Connor - ""The Bird Walk"" --Des O'Connor, Arte Johnson, George Kirby & Jim Cauton - sing ""There'll Be Some Changes Made"" --Raphael (from Spain) - ""Bueno Amigo"" Comedy: --Arte Johnson (comedian) - Arte rapidly ages while singing ""Too Young"" --George Kirby (comedian) - does impressions of Ed Sullivan, Pearl Bailey and John Wayne.

--Burt Bacharach (with singers and orchestra) - ""Always Something There to Remind Me,"" ""Alfie,"" and a medley of Bacharach's hits. --Burt Bacharach and Dusty Springfield - ""A House is Not a Home"" --Dusty Springfield - ""Knowing When to Leave"" --Juliet Prowse - ""Do You Know the Way to San Jose?"" --Mireille Mathieu (French singer) - ""I'm Coming Home"" --All performers - Beatles medley --Plus, a film clip from ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"" featuring Burt Bacharach's Oscar winning song ""Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head.""

Music: --Des O'Connor (Summer 1970 host) - ""The Nearness of You"" & ""Quiet Night of Quiet Stars"" --Bobby Vinton - ""No Arms Can Ever Hold You"" --Harry Secombe (British actor-comedian) - ""Catari"" --Sacha Distel (French singer-guitarist) - ""It Can Happen to You"" Comedy sketches: --Britt Ekland and Des O'Connor play lovers who keep getting interrupted. --A puppet show sketch with Britt Ekland, Harry Secombe and Des O'Connor. --Harry Secombe plays Des O'Connor's stuffy singing teacher

Music: --Des O'Connor (Summer 1970 host) - ""Anytime"" & ""When You're Smiling"" --Jimmie Rodgers - ""Child of Clay"" --Jimmie Rodgers, Connie Stevens and Jimmy Edwards - ""By Myself"" --Connie Stevens - ""Save the Country"" --Des O'Connor and Jimmy Edwards - ""Those Were the Days"" Comedy: --Des O'Connor, Jimmie Rodgers and Connie Stevens perform a ""wacky"" medley of Western tunes --A spoof of ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe?""

--Des O'Connor (Summer 1970 host) --Al Martino - ""My Way"" --Al Martino & Des O'Connor - ""Careless Hands"" --Des O'Connor - ""For Once in My Life"" & ""With These Hands"" --Phyllis Diller (comedian, appears in a sketch with Des O'Connor) --Lonnie Donegan and Des O'Connor - ""After Taxes"" --Mireille Mathieu - ""Can Butterflies Cry?"" --Mireille Marhieu & Des O'Connor - ""Loneliness""

Music: --Des O'Connor (Summer 1970 host) - ""Thinking of You,"" ""World of Dreams"" & ""Honey"" --Kaye Stevens - ""Eli's Coming"" --Phil Silvers, Kaye Stevens and Johnny Vyvyan - ""If I Were Not in TV"" --Phil Silvers, Kaye Stevens and Des O'Connor - ""Everybody Ought to Have a Maid"" --Des O'Connor and New Faces - ""Danny Boy"" --New Faces - ""Summertime"" Comedy: --Phil Silvers plays a derelict trying to mooch a meal --Des' parents (Phil Silvers and Kaye Stevens) catch him kissing the maid --Blackouts on driving instructors, life rafts and the guillotine.

Music: --Des O'Connor (Summer 1970 host) - ""It Had to Be You,"" ""The Impossible Dream,"" ""Possibilities,"" ""One of Those Songs"" and ""Anytime"" --Kaye Ballard, Des O'Connor & Dana Valery - ""It Had to Be Me,"" ""I Am My Sunshine"" and ""I'm the Cream in My Coffee"" --Dana Valery - ""I've Never Been This Close to Love Before"" --Val Doonican (British singer) - ""Love of a Gentle Woman"" --Roy Castle (singer-comedian), Val Doonican and Des O'Connor - ""What Is an Englishman?"" Comedy: --""The Now Man"" - Kaye Ballard with a musical spoof of men's fashions. --Kaye Ballard, Des O'Connor, and Dana Valery do song parodies about egomania.