The Johnny Carson Show

Total Seasons :2Total Episodes : 12

While working as a staff writer on The Red Skelton Show, local Los Angeles television comedian Carson filled in as host when Skelton was injured during a show rehearsal. As a result of Carson’s performance, CBS created the primetime variety program: The Johnny Carson Show, a traditional potpourri of comedy, music, dance, skits and monologues. The short-lived 1955-56 series served as a precursor ...

Episodes(9)

Catch Up With the News

1. Catch Up With the News

In the series premiere, Johnny imitates Edward R. Murrow in a spoof of Murrow's Person to Person program featuring Johnny's first wife Jody and their three children. In Catch Up With the News, Johnny plays a roving reporter.

Air Date : 1955-06-30

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

4. Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Johnny imitates Walter Cronkite, takes a look at the pitfalls of marriage, and parodies Goldilocks And The Three Bears and You Are There.

Air Date : 1955-07-21

Life in the 80's

9. Life in the 80's

Sketches include a spoof of the Russian ballet, Catch Up With The News and a 1950s-style look at the future, as Johnny imagines what life will be like in 1980.

Air Date : 1955-08-25

Dillinger, The Mental Wizard

10. Dillinger, The Mental Wizard

Johnny plays Dillinger, The Mental Wizard, in a parody of Joseph Dunniger, the famous mind reader (This sketch is the early inspiration for Carson's most famous character from his Tonight Show years, Carnac The Magnificent). Another sketch finds Johnny playing tourist in Paris; we also get an idea of what might happen to your television reception near an airport.

Air Date : 1955-09-01

James Arness

11. James Arness

James Arness visits the show to promote his new series, Gunsmoke, Jack Albertson appears in a grocery store sketch and Johnny plays Colonel John J. Carson in a military sketch.

Air Date : 1955-09-08

Jack Albertson

16. Jack Albertson

Johnny takes care of unfinished business; Jack Albertson appears in sketches about Johnny's fan club and bachelor life. Then Johnny plays violinist Yasha Carson.

Air Date : 1955-10-13

Dimitri Tiomkin

19. Dimitri Tiomkin

Legendary movie composer Dimitri Tiomkin appears in the Johnny's Record Collection sketch. Then Johnny salutes old time Vaudeville, and stars in an epic Greek-Trojan war sketch.

Air Date : 1955-11-03

Ed Sullivan Impersonation

20. Ed Sullivan Impersonation

Air Date : 1955-11-10

Stay-at-Home Husband

25. Stay-at-Home Husband

Johnny plays a stay-at-home husband whose wife has a very unusual job. Other sketches include the Giveaway Pet Parade, a precursor to the numerous segments Johnny would do with animals later in his career, and a look at what the detective show Dragnet might have been like during the time of Alexander the Great.

Air Date : 1955-12-15

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