The Garry Moore Show with guest Nat King Cole (1961)

An Evening with Nat King Cole (1963)

The Nat King Cole Show Special (1961)

The Nat King Cole Show (1957)

The Garry Moore Show with guest Nat King Cole (1961)

The Hollywood Palace with host Nat King Cole and guests Diahann Carroll, Paul Winchell, Dick Tufeld, Les Brown and Allen & Rossi (1964)

Some of Manie's Friends with guests Frank Sinatra, Sid Caesar, Perry Como, Dinah Shore, Bob Hope, Danny Thomas and Nat King Cole (1959)

Kraft Music Hall with host Perry Como and guests Nat King Cole and Rosemary Clooney (1959)

The Garry Moore Show with guests Nat King Cole and Carol Burnett (1961) - Footage Offline - 12/10/09

The Hollywood Palace with host Nat King Cole and guests Allen & Rossi (1964)

What's My Line - Mystery Guest Marathon - Part One

Most of these are from the early fifties.

Mr. Peepers and Marlon Brando's best friend, Wally Cox:

Fred Allen:

Roy Campanella:
Nat King Cole:

Billy Rose:

Ann Southern:

Ronald Reagan:


Johnny Olsen:

The Nat King Cole Show with guest Ella Fitzgerald (1957)

The first network variety program to star an African-American was the short-lived, but very popular, Nat King Cole Show. (Amos n' Andy and Belulah were the first TV shows to star African-American actors)To make up for its many airings of The Comic View, BET re-ran the show during its formative years. Wish they would show more early television featuring Black showbiz pioneers. Ella had just come out with the LP pictured above when she made this appearance. This show was cancelled when NBC buckled to pressure from racist advertisers appeasing their racist Southern clientele and their demands. After the cancellation, Nat King Cole remarked, "Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark."