| The Steve Allen Show | |
|---|---|
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| Genre | Variety |
| Presented by | Steve Allen |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 167 |
| Production | |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 47–51 minutes |
| Production companies | Bellmeadow Enterprises (1956-1961) NBC Television Network (1956–1960) Westinghouse Broadcasting Company (1962–1964) |
| Original release | |
| Network | NBC (1956–1960) ABC (1961) Syndication (1962–1964) |
| Release | June 24, 1956 – July 6, 1964[citation needed] |
| Related | |
| Tonight Starring Steve Allen | |
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The Steve Allen Show was an American variety show hosted by Steve Allen from June 1956 to June 1960 on NBC, from September 1961 to December 1961 on ABC,[1] and in first-run syndication from 1962 to 1964.
The first three seasons aired on Sunday nights at 8:00pm Eastern Time, directly opposite The Ed Sullivan Show. It moved to Mondays at 10:00pm Eastern in the 1959–60 season under the name The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (sponsored by Plymouth automobile). After a season's absence, the series briefly returned on Wednesdays at 7:30pm Eastern.
The syndicated version aired mostly in late nights. The program, between September 1957 and June 1960, became one of the first programs to be telecast in "compatible color". Kinescopes of the NBC version were later edited into 104 half-hour episodes and rerun on the "HA!" channel and Comedy Central in the early 1990s, with new introductions by Allen.[2]
- ^ The Steve Allen Show from the Museum of Broadcast Communications
- ^ McKerrow, Steve (1991-12-02). "Comedy Central offers dusty laughs". The Baltimore Sun. Archived from the original on 2019-06-20. Retrieved 2024-02-02.