The Mike Douglas Show with guests The Chambers Brothers

Valentine's Day, 1972. Columbia Records recording artists The Chambers Brothers were not as popular as they had been a couple years earlier when they had their huge smash Time Has Come Today (not to mention great songs like Going Uptown to Harlem) but they still knew how to rock. Their days with Columbia were numbered, however, and soon they would be recording for the small time Embassy label. This appearance came shortly before their final Columbia recording was released

The Mike Douglas Show with guests Johnny Cash, June Carter, and Don Rickles (1981)

The Mike Douglas Show with guests the Happy Days cast

The Mike Douglas Show with guest Donna Summer (and Gabe Kaplan)

I always prefer finding clips of music acts on old talk shows being interviewed rather than just seeing them perform. Here we have disco diva Donna Summer on The Mike Douglas Show in 1977. The panel includes Gabe Kaplan nodding in silence with the rest of the Welcome Back, Kotter cast.

The Mike Douglas Show with guest Moe Howard - Footage Offline - 10/20/07

This is one of Moe Howard's final appearances on television as he died not too long after. Seventies icon Ted Knight is here as Mike's week long co-host and we also see an appearance from Soupy Sales! From June 8, 1973 and September 11, 1973.

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The Mike Douglas Show with guest Patrick Duffy

Most know him from Dallas, younger folk may remember him from a sitcom he co-starred in with Suzanne Sommers called Step By Step. This is long before any of that. Of all The Mike Douglas Show footage sitting out there in the netherworlds, why is this one of the only things we can come up with? Jesus.

If you really care to continue with Duffy, then follow these links where you can watch part two, part three, and part four.

The Mike Douglas Show with guests Moby Grape

The Mike Douglas Show from 1971. Forgotten actress Lois Hunt is sitting on panel before the set by psych-rockers Moby Grape. Douglas introduces them as The Moby Grapes and also accidentaly cuts them off prematurely. The group featured the Jefferson Airplane's original drummer Skip Spence, who we see here good and blurry. The band broke up not long after this appearance.

The Colgate Comedy Hour with guest Buddy Rich - The Jerry Lewis Telethon with guest KISS

Drumming legend Buddy Rich and Jerry Lewis battle it out in 1955 on this episode of Martin & Lewis' Colgate Comedy Hour.

Looking at this site you might guess that I'm some kind of crazed KISS fantatic. Nothing could be further from the truth. There just happens to be a lot of footage on the internet of KISS in classic showbiz environs. Here is KISS making a brief plea on the 1979 Jerry Lewis Telethon for Muscular Dystrophy!