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A Broadway institution and one of the longest-running talk shows (at 40 years) on the East Coast, it finally got national exposure when it ran on New York's cable superstation WOR. Barbra Streisand, Bill Cosby and Woody Allen are among those who made their first appearances on the show, and Billy Crystal paid tribute to Franklin with dead-on impersonations on `Saturday Night Live.'
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Premiered: 1950, on Syndicated
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Premise: A Broadway institution and one of the longest-running talk shows (at 40 years) on the East Coast, it finally got national exposure when it ran on New York's cable superstation WOR. Barbra Streisand, Bill Cosby and Woody Allen are among those who made their first appearances on the show, and Billy Crystal paid tribute to Franklin with dead-on impersonations on `Saturday Night Live.'

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