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The Ed Sullivan Show Season 1 Episodes

  • 1948-1971
  • 24 Seasons
  • CBS
  • Music, Talk & Interview
  • TV-G
  • Watchlist
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Ed Sullivan's show was straight out of old vaudeville; brief acts of every description, from slapstick comedy to operatic arias. At least once, he showed a film, the only known film of Anna Pavlova (doing her Swan Dance). The Muppets' first TV appearance was on Ed Sullivan. Stiff and expressionless, with a peculiar voice and a talent for mispronunciation, Sullivan was at least as recognizable as Cronkite to early 60's viewers.

Season 1 Episode Guide

Season 1

34 Episodes 1948 - 1949

Episode 1

Premiere Show with Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein, Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis

Sun, Jun 20, 194860 mins

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Episode 2

Irving Berlin, The Ink Spots, Peter Lind Hayes, Nan Wynn, Paul Winchell & Jerry Mahoney

Sun, Jun 27, 194860 mins

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Episode 3

Joe DiMaggio, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson

Sun, Jul 4, 194860 mins

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Episode 4

Lena Horne, Joey Adams, Joe Howard, Jr., Tony Canzoneri

Sun, Jul 11, 194860 mins

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Episode 5

Episode #1.5

Sun, Jul 18, 194860 mins

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Episode 6

Episode #1.6

Sun, Jul 25, 194860 mins

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Episode 7

Cab Calloway

Sun, Aug 1, 194860 mins

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Episode 8

Peggy Lee, Harry Hershfield, The Howard Brothers, The DeMarco Sisters

Sun, Aug 8, 194860 mins

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Episode 9

Irving Berlin, Nancy Donovan, Russ Morgan Orchestra, Vincent Lopez Orchestra

Sun, Aug 15, 194860 mins

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Episode 10

Jan August

Sun, Aug 22, 194860 mins

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Episode 11

Lon Chaney, Jr., Count Basie and His Orchestra

Sun, Aug 29, 194860 mins

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Episode 12

Patricia Bright, Noro Morales

Sun, Sep 5, 194860 mins

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Episode 13

Sarah Vaughan, Gali-Gali Luxor

Sun, Sep 12, 194860 mins

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Episode 14

Louis Jordan, Benny Rubin

Sun, Sep 19, 194860 mins

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Episode 15

Bob Hope, Al Bernie

Sun, Sep 26, 194860 mins

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Episode 16

Betty Reilly, George Prentiss, Dean Murphy, the Holloway Sisters, Les Compagnons de la Chanson

Sun, Oct 3, 194860 mins

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Episode 17

Joey Adams, Marc Platt, Tony Canzoneri, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson

Sun, Oct 10, 194860 mins

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Episode 18

Frances Faye, Don Marcus, Les Compagnons de la Chanson

Sun, Oct 17, 194860 mins

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Episode 19

Benny Goodman, The Ink Spots

Sun, Oct 24, 194860 mins

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Episode 20

Dorothy Sarnoff

Sun, Oct 31, 194860 mins

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Episode 21

Monica Lewis, The Three Dunhills, Richard Buckley, Rachel & Bebe

Sun, Nov 7, 194860 mins

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Episode 22

Paula Bane, Dewey Marchand, Elsa & Waldo

Sun, Nov 14, 194860 mins

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Episode 23

The Blackburn Twins, Pat C. Flick, Pat Henning, Betty Jane Watson, Dollinoff and the Reya Sisters

Sun, Nov 21, 194860 mins

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Episode 24

Ray Morgan, Margaret Phelan, Virginia Austin, The Temperton Family, the Baltimore Colts Majorettes

Sun, Nov 28, 194860 mins

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Episode 25

Al Bernie, Dave Barry, Irra Petina

Sun, Dec 5, 194860 mins

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Episode 26

Nanette Fabray, Ezzard Charles, Hope Emerson, Bunny Briggs, Dolonoff, The Reyes Sisters, The Temperton Family

Sun, Dec 12, 194860 mins

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Episode 27

John Garfield, Dorothy Sarnoff, Frank Fontaine, Pat C. Flick, Tommy Farrell

Sun, Dec 19, 194860 mins

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Episode 28

Episode #1.28

Sun, Dec 26, 194860 mins

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Episode 29

Rudy Vallee, George M. Cohan, Jr., Sidney Blackmer, Pat C. Flick, The Ravens

Sun, Jan 2, 194960 mins

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Episode 30

Luise Rainer

Sun, Jan 9, 194960 mins

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Episode 31

Rudy Vallee, Nanette Fabray, Wally Boag, Jean Carroll, Bob Evans, Pat C. Flick

Sun, Jan 16, 194960 mins

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Episode 32

Jule Stein & Sammy Cahn, The Holloway Sisters, Byron Palmer & Doretta Morrow, Al Kelly

Sun, Jan 23, 194960 mins

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Episode 33

Tony Martin, Carol Bruce

Sun, Jan 30, 194960 mins

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Episode 34

Jackie Gleason, Rudy Vallee, Luise Rainer, Johnny Coy, W.C. Handy, Pat Henning

Sun, Feb 6, 194960 mins

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