Firing Line with guest Groucho Marx (1967)

Firing Line (1966)

Firing Line with guests Ed Sanders and Jack Kerouac (1968)

This is almost too much to handle.  

ABC News - William F. Buckley versus Gore Vidal (1968)

Firing Line (1968)

Firing Line with guest Otto Preminger (1967)

Firing Line with guests Theodore Bikel and Floyd McKissick (1966)

Firing Line with guest Dore Schary (1967)

Firing Line with guest Steve Allen (1967)

You can hear Jayne Meadows and her inhaling laugh in the audience at the thirty-seven second mark and once you hear it, you will recognize it throughout. Let me say that I am a big Steve Allen fan. However, teamed with Buckley, this is truly a meeting of pretentious minds. I loved the Funny Men, Funny People and More Funny People series of books Allen wrote. I first read them at the age of 19. Re-reading them today, I find Allen terribly weak as an intellectual. Regardless he was, of course, one of television's great wits.

There have been some great Steve Allen rarities appearing on the site of late. His appearance on Hy Gardner Calling, some very rare Tonight Show footage and an all-color episode of the 1960 Steve Allen Show. Since we're watching him on Firing Line, maybe you should also go here and watch his appearance on The Mike Wallace interview! Great stuff!

Firing Line with guest David Susskind (1966)

Firing Line with guest Muhammad Ali (1968)

ABC News with guests Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley (1968)

The Firing Line with host William F. Buckley and guest Norman Mailer (1968)

The theme song is pretty much the only part I can sit through. That and the closing credits.

Firing Line with William F. Buckley and guest Hugh Hefner (1966)