Tag: Jack Paar

• TROUBLE WITH NAMES

  June 19, 1973 Los Angeles – Like Jack Paar, Lucille Ball has trouble with names. At a party at her home, a lawn bash catered by Chasen’s and attended by more television editors than you’ll every see in one place, she was mentioning some of the stars who will appear in her show this year, among…

  Michael T. Mooney

  June 19, 2021

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  1973, Cabaret, Desi Arnaz Jr., Here’s Lucy, Jack Paar, Liza Minnelli, Lucie Arnaz, Lucille Ball, Mame, Merle Oberon

• RIP HUGH DOWNS

  1921-2020 Hugh Downs was born on February 14, 1921 in Akron, Ohio. A regular television presence from the mid-1940s through to the end of the 1990s, for several years he held the certified Guinness World Record for the most hours on commercial network television, before being surpassed by Regis Philbin. Downs served as announcer/sidekick for “Tonight…

  Michael T. Mooney

  July 3, 2020

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  1960, 1961, 20/20, Concentration, Hugh Downs, Jack Paar, Lucille Ball, Lucy, NBC, Today Show, Tonight Show, tv, Wildcat

• LUCY: 40 YEARS OF TELEVISION

  1973 Part One ~ JANUARY to JULY Pickles, Penguins, and Paar!  Season 5 of “Here’s Lucy” wraps up with appearances by Don Knotts, Bob Cummings, Elsa Lancester, and John Davidson.  “Lucy Is Really in a Pickle” (HL S5;E15) ~ January 1, 1973  Literally IN a pickle!  Their show business aspirations get Lucy and Kim cast in…

  Michael T. Mooney

  November 18, 2018

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  1973, CBS, don knotts, Elsa Lanchester, Here’s Lucy, Jack Paar, John Davidson, Lucie Arnaz, Lucille Ball, Mary Jane Croft, penguins, Robert Cummings, tv, Vanda Barra

• LUCY: 40 YEARS OF TELEVISION

  1961 In her first year since 1951 without a series on television, Lucille Ball moves to Broadway to star in WILDCAT.  While in New York City she makes a couple of appearances before returning to the West Coast.  “What’s My Line?” (S11; E545) ~ January 1, 1961 Mystery Guest Lucille Ball uses a low, hushed voice to…

  Michael T. Mooney

  October 25, 2018

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  1961, Broadway, Dave Garroway, Ed Sullivan Show, Floyd Patterson, Fred MacMurray, Gary Morton, I’ve Got A Secret, Jack Paar, Lucille Ball, Paula Stewart, Ralph Edwards, This Is Your Life, Today Show, Tonight Show, tv, Vivian Vance, What’s My Line, Wildcat, William Frawley

• LUCY ON THE DAIS – Part Two

  “All-Star Party for Carol Burnett” December 12, 1982 on CBS Directed by Dick McDonogh Produced and Written by Paul Keyes Music by Nelson Riddle THE PARTY-GOERS Carol Burnett (Honoree) got her first big break on “The Paul Winchell Show” in 1955. A years later she was a regular on “The Garry Moore Show.” In 1959…

  Michael T. Mooney

  September 16, 2018

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  1982, All-Star Party for Carol Burnett, Bette Davis, Beverly Sills, Burt Reynolds, Carol Burnett, Carrie Hamilton, CBS, Fred Astaire, Glenda Jackson, Jack Paar, Jayne Meadows, Jim Nabors, Jimmy Stewart, Joe Hamilton, Lucille Ball, Monty Hall, Nelson Riddle, Ronald Reagan, Sammy Cahn, Sammy Davis Jr., Steve Allen, Steve Lawrence, Tim Conway, Tom Selleck, tv, Variety Clubs, Vicki Lawrence

• LUCY on TONIGHT

  1960-1985 “The Tonight Show” is a late night talk show first broadcast by NBC in 1954 and still airing as of this writing. It is the world’s longest-running talk show, and the longest running, regularly scheduled entertainment program in the United States. It is the third-longest-running show on NBC, after the news-and-talk shows “Today” and…

  Michael T. Mooney

  June 14, 2018

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  Here’s Lucy, Interviews, Jack Paar, Joan Rivers, Johnny Carson, Late Night, Lucille Ball, Lucy, NBC, Steve Allen, Talk Show, The Lucy Show, The Tonight Show, Tonight, Tonight with Jack Paar, tv, Vivian Vance, Wildcat, Yours Mine and Ours