It Happened One Christmas starring Orson Welles, Marlo Thomas, Cloris Leachman and Barney Martin (1977)

BBC Monitor with guests Peter O'Toole and Orson Welles (1963)

I've Got A Secret with guest Orson Welles (1956)

AFI Tribute to Orson Welles featuring Johnny Carson and Igrid Bergman (1975)

Dean Martin Celebrity Roast of Michael Landon featuring Slappy White, Vic Tayback, Norm Crosby, Dick Shawn, Orson Welles & Don Rickles (1984)

Man alive, everybody looks SO OLD.

Studio One: The Night America Trembled (1957)

Edward R. Murrow revisits the bedlam that ensued the evening The Mercury Theater's War of the Worlds aired. See if you can spot the youthful but familiar faces of Ed Asner, Warren Beatty, Warren Oates and John Astin.

The Mercury Theatre: Dracula starring Orson Welles (1938)

Radio stations around the world tonight will be re-running the perennial classic War of the Worlds, but we prefer to break with the tradition and play an episode of the same program that is probably even more appropriate for Halloween.

The Dick Cavett Show with guest Orson Welles (1970)

ABC Wide World of Entertainment: What's My Line at 25 (1975)

The Wide World of Entertainment was a weekly series on ABC that featured a different format each week, often showcasing things that no longer had a regular position on the network. Dick Cavett's nightly talk show had been cancelled earlier due to political and corporate pressure. Cavett was demoted to a monthly edition of his show that aired as part of The Wide World of Entertainment and their Wide World Specials. Here is a particularly impressive special, celebrating a quarter century of our favorite panel show here on Classic Television Showbiz, What's My Line, in nine YouTube parts.

The Fountain of Youth with guest star Nancy Kulp (1958) - Footage Offline 10/12/09

Did you know Nancy Kulp worked with Orson Welles? Welles made this half-hour drama for Desilu that aired as a brief summer replacement in 1958. It was his attempt to prove to himself, and perhaps the networks, that he could be just as innovative in television as he had been in film. However, it didn't lead to much. If the studios had trouble with Orson, just imagine what it would have been like seeing Welles deal with advertisers who dictated content. Apparently this is one of only two surviving episodes.

The Merv Griffin Show with guests Jimmy Grippo and Orson Welles (1981)

The Herb Shriner Show wth guest Orson Welles (1956)

The Dick Cavett Show with guest Orson Welles (1970)

Paul Masson Wine Commercials with Orson Welles

First, here is how these commercials with Orson Welles are supposed to go.


And now ... how they are not!


Ah... never gets old.