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STEVE ALLEN SHOW, THE

Air Date/Released Sunday, January 11, 1959
Station/Studio NBC
Host/Star Steve Allen
Featuring Moe, Larry and Curly Joe

Steve Allen's Sunday night variety show, although opposite Ed Sullivan's long-running CBS institution, earned an enduring reputation for comedy with an ensemble that included Don Knotts, Tom Poston, Gabe Dell, Louis Nye, Dayton Allen, Bill Dana, and bandleader Skitch Henderson.

Steve welcomes guests Diana Dors, Chuck McCann, Perez Prado & His Orchestra and The Three Stooges. Diana Dors sings "Give Me the Simple Life," the Prado Orchestra performs "Patricia Pop" and a medley of songs. In a spoof of talk shows, “The Arthur Birdseed Show” features Allen as the Arthur Godfrey-like ‘Birdseed’ with guest Jackie Gleason (Chuck McCann); “The Jack Staar Show” features Louis Nye as Oscar Levant. A spoof of dramatic anthology series with “Finster Theatre” featuring the regular cast in a story of a regular family amidst supernatural happenings and a looney parapsychologist (Louis Nye).

The Three Stooges appear in "The Doctor" sketch, with Moe as Larry's inept surgeon, and Curly Joe as an equally inept nurse in drag.


Cast: Steve Allen, Don Knotts, Tom Poston, Gabe Dell, Louis Nye, Gene Rayburn, Jane Dulo, Skitch Henderson and His Orchestra, Chuck McCann, Diana Dors, Perez Prado & His Orchestra, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe DeRita.

Crew: William O. Harbach (Producer), Dwight A. Hemion (Director), Stan Burns, Herb Sargent, Bill Dana, Don Hinkley, Arne Sultan, Marvin Worth (Writers)
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