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Tonight is a British current affairs television programme, presented by Cliff Michelmore, that was broadcast on BBC live on weekday evenings from 18 February 1957 to 18 June 1965. The producers were the future Controller of BBC1 Donald Baverstock and the future Director-General of the BBC Alasdair Milne .
The show is the first installment of The Tonight Show. Hosted by Steve Allen, it aired from September 27, 1954 to January 25, 1957, and was replaced by Tonight Starring Jack Paar. Allen's run as host of the show lasted for two and a half seasons, beginning in fall 1954 and ending with Allen's departure in January 1957.
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: 1962–1972 Only 33 1962–1972 episodes have survived erasure by NBC. Vic and Sade: 1949, 1957 One TV episode (from the 1957 run) exists, out of ten produced. Much of the preceding radio program is also missing. Young Talent Time: 1971–1988 Almost all early episodes were erased by the Ten Network.
Brooks & Marsh, The Complete Directory To Prime-Time Network TV Shows (3rd ed.), Ballantine, 1984; Castleman & Podrazik, The TV Schedule Book, McGraw-Hill Paperbacks, 1984; TV schedules, The New York Times, September 1956–September 1957 (microfilm)
During the summer of 1958, Opening Night and Club Oasis with Spike Jones alternated in the time slot, each show airing every other week. Turning Point was a dramatic anthology series consisting of two unsold pilots and reruns of episodes from other series. The Joseph Cotten Show consisted of reruns of the 1956–1957 series On Trial.
On Tonight! America After Dark, Jack Lescoulie is unsuccessful, so NBC hires Al "Jazzbo" Collins as master of ceremonies. Collins doesn't last long; NBC is already planning to replace him and restore the original format as The Tonight Show, in which Jack Paar becomes the permanent host, starting with the program's July 29 episode. September 7
January 6 – Elvis Presley makes his final appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. [1] January 25 – Steve Allen makes his final appearance as host of NBC's The Tonight Show. [2] He is replaced by Jack Lescoulie and the show is changed from a talk/variety show format to be more like the series Today, with the title Tonight! America After Dark. [3]
Tonight Starring Jack Paar (in later seasons The Jack Paar Tonight Show) is an American television talk show broadcast by NBC. The show is the second installment of The Tonight Show. Hosted by Jack Paar, it aired from July 29, 1957 to March 30, 1962, replacing Tonight Starring Steve Allen and was replaced by The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.