My earliest memories of watching late night TV when I was young was staying up to 11:30 at night in the summer to watch the Steve Allen Show. I would laugh my butt off at his escapades in the downstairs family room as my folks slept upstairs. Steve Allen was my hero. Looking at these old kinescopes now, I am overwhelmed with memories at just how good he was and the intelligence he brought to all of his TV work. It stands the test of time. I know it is just the reconnection, but I miss my friend Steve Allen a lot, 67 years later. He is clearly an under-appreciated genius of our times. Thank you, Steve, for all the joy you gave to me in my earlies years. I love you and cherish what you gave to me.

Steve was the best of them all. Boy, do I miss this period of US history. I'm 84.

I'm 74 and as a kid I remember watching Steve Allen on TV late night with my parents. We all laughed our butts off 😂 ! The supporting cast is legendary 😂😅 !

The best of all-time..Steve Allen.

Before my time, but I knew about Allen through Carson. Allen was the guy that started it all. I never knew they did a show from a hotel setting up chairs around the pool. Crazy

Thank you so much for this. Those Miami remotes are legendary!

Steve was the biggest influence for David Letterman! Dave admitted.

Steve Allen was always my favorite late night talk host and when he when on his own show for Westinghouse I

Thanks for posting.

Thanks Anthony A fascinating look at a Steve Allen version Tonight Show. I doubt too many of these were even kinescoped, so nice to have the opportunity to see such a long portion

@jcjohnsong8570

Жыл бұрын

@Robert I did an interview with Steve Allen for an article I was writing a year before he died. They were recorded ... The reason hardly any survived is when NBC moved from New York to California ... So as to take less with them in the move, someone young given the decision of what to take and what to destroy, decided not to take all the Tonight Shows taped before the move, even the first couple years of Johnny Carson didn't make it in the move to Calif ... One of the reasons Carson had the tapes become his property (so NBC couldn't do the same thing in the future) The ones thay remain today may have been borrowed by industry people from the NBC vaults before the move and LUCKILY were NOT RETURNED BEFORE the move. Steve said if they would have contacted him before they destroyed the programs he would have paid to have them all moved to a storage facility and kept them all at his own expense from that point forward ... But no one let him know beforehand.

The month - almost the week - my parents got married, a few hours north in Georgia.

I like when he did Man on the Street interviews, in Hollywood.

This was cool how most of this episode was filmed around a hotel pool.

Edie was Great!!!❤❤❤❤❤

When America was the greatest nation on earth: Today in 2023, America is not even worthy of Steve Allen

@biancatellington85

7 ай бұрын

The truth. Steve Allen was an incredible performer. So smart, so talented in so many ways. People have been dumbed down to the point that they think Jimmy Fallon has talent.

@RonGerstein

5 ай бұрын

You are a MAGA bastard and should move to Russia.

@RoxysWorld2324

5 ай бұрын

@@biancatellington85 he has more talent than you. Which is sad because like you said, he’s not talented.

@jonathanhandsome6985

Ай бұрын

They were yanking on a turle by its eye sockets like a cavemen to try to get its mouth to open and you think this is a better time 😂?? What genius. You're just sad segregation ended you old looser. Great job ruining everything though then complaining about it like a true baby boomer cry baby 👶 😂

@jonathanhandsome6985

Ай бұрын

​@@RoxysWorld2324 you keep talking to people like that I'll have to teach you a hard lesson

watching Andy Williams attempt a Jamaican accent is priceless

@44032

10 ай бұрын

He was better than the other guys.

54:45 This is of little consequence, but I think that's Scott Vincent of WABC-TV fame reading that copy. It's been previously stated that his only work for NBC was a 1962 episode of the Bell Telephone Hour, so I'd be surprised if it is indeed him.

Now I know where David Letterman got his style from…

6:57 Nobody's gonna mention the fact the old man is trying to pick up the turtle by STICKING HIS FINGERS IN IT'S FREAKIN' EYES?!! 10:30 then she's dragging the ray by it's gills, wtf.

@fonso1030

2 жыл бұрын

Nah. It was the fifties. The animals will be fine, and if not, like Steve said, straight into the soup at the Noshery at the Saxony hotel.

@amygeyer1166

Жыл бұрын

I’m sure they loved being in a swimming pool. Did they use chlorine back then?

@jonathanhandsome6985

Ай бұрын

​​@@fonso1030always some wuss trying to act hard for thinking it's okay to not know how to handel animals. You definitely have soft hands. Then again you're probably dead by now so they might not be so soft.

I believe that sometime that same week, Steve Allen and his producers had the U.S. Marines stage a mock landing on Miami Beach, which panicked some guests in nearby homes and motels, who thought that Florida was being invaded!

Yes, bring me a ray. 😂

I only have time right now to watch about the first 5 minutes of this but it's so amazing to me that so much of this seems completely unrehearsed. I think that says a lot about Steve Allen and that producers trusted that he would keep the show moving even though they may not even know what the hell is going to happen 🤣

January 11, 1956 broadcast

@mooncrab

11 ай бұрын

My sister was 4 days old

thanks

STEVE ALLEN ,GREAT SHOW.

Great to see Eydie Gorme singing at 27 years young. She's great at any age.

I've never seen this. Thank you very much, Steve was great.

The first podcaster

@katpottz476

Жыл бұрын

he really is quite entertaining even in purely audio format

@randallreed9048

9 ай бұрын

Steve Allen was top-drawer prime time genius. He was the top of it all. "Podcaster" be damned.

What hotel did the say??

Where was Steve Lawrence?

Where's Andy Williams?

#KZTandingan #Morissette

When Jack Paar took over the show the format completely changed.

@zoperxplex

4 жыл бұрын

Jack Paar made the "Tonight" show what it is today-a talk show. Although it is not accurate to say that the "Tonight" show was a continuation of that earlier show. For most of his years as host the show was called "The Jack Paar Show".

@LaptopLarry330

4 жыл бұрын

@@zoperxplex It got the name of "The Jack Paar Show" in 1959. He left the show in 1962, but returned with his own weekly NBC prime-time talk show, "The Jack Paar Program". Paar left that show in 1965.

@GH-oi2jf

11 ай бұрын

Every host changed it to suit himself.

@randallreed9048

9 ай бұрын

@@zoperxplex Steve Allen is WIDELY credited with inventing the late night talk show format that is STILL used today.

@allenjones3130

8 ай бұрын

Steve Allen was one of TV's great innovators. Hi-ho, Steverino!

Pathetic how poorly they handled the animals on this show. Makes you thankful for people like Jim Fowler and Joan Embry.

3:55 reminds me of Conan's octopus Samuel

Mitch McConnell in 1956 ?

Crikey!

My mother would be pregnant with me in February 1956.

Animal abuse on the Steve Allen show.

Skitch Henderson didn't really like doing comedy.

@randallreed9048

9 ай бұрын

He was a superb arranger and band leader. A giant in is time. He was a huge professional success for years, into the Johnny Carson era. He is legend.

Good thing he had no competition.

@jonathanhandsome6985

Ай бұрын

Dude shut up whay are you complaining about the steve allen show in 2024 get a life old man.