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He was the creator and host of the television variety program Toast of the Town, which in 1955 was renamed The Ed Sullivan Show. Broadcast from 1948 to 1971, it set a record as the longest-running variety show in U.S. broadcast history. [3] "It was, by almost any measure, the last great American TV show", said television critic David Hinckley.
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American television variety show that ran on CBS from June 20, 1948, to March 28, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. [1] It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie. [2] In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked No. 15 on TV Guide ' s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All ...
The Ed Sullivan Show [23] Variety show CBS June 20, 1948 June 6, 1971 1,068 24 Concentration: Game show NBC August 25, 1958 March 20, 1973 3,770 (1958–1973) 975 (1973–1978) 1,020 (1987–1991) Syndication September 10, 1973 September 8, 1978 NBC May 4, 1987 August 30, 1991 23 Crossfire: Talk/news program CNN: 1982 June 3, 2005 September 9, 2013
The Morey Amsterdam Show: December 17, 1948 October 12, 1950 CBS The Alan Dale Show: 1948 1951 Dumont Amanda: 1948 1949 Dumont Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts: 1948 January 1, 1958 CBS The Bigelow Show: 1948 1949 Break the Bank: 1948 1957 ABC Cartoon Teletales: 1948 1950 ABC Celebrity Time: 1948 September 1952 CBS Child's World: 1948 1949 Club ...
The longest-running American sketch comedy show, and the second longest-running American variety show. 48 years 48 Day of Discovery: Syndicated May 5, 1968 February 6, 2016 48 years 34 Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom: NBC January 6, 1963 April 11, 1971 Wild Kingdom was on hiatus 1988-2002 and ultimately was cancelled in 2011.
This is a list of the longest-running U.S. broadcast network television series, ordered by the number of broadcast seasons.. To qualify for this list, the programming must originate in North America, be shown on a United States national (not regional) television network, and be first-run (as opposed to a repackaging of previously aired material or material released in other media).
A sitcom set in a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp, “Hogan’s Heroes” ran for six seasons on CBS, from 1965 to 1971, with Crane’s portrayal of the wise-cracking American Colonel Robert E. Hogan ...
Variety shows that had been around since the late 1940s and early 1950s, such as The Jackie Gleason Show and The Ed Sullivan Show, were canceled in 1970 and 1971, respectively; likewise, The Original Amateur Hour (a stalwart of network television since its debut, and before that on radio since 1934) ended on its own accord in 1970 due to the ...