Classic Television Showbiz's Late Late Show: Eegah! (1962)

26 Men (1957)

Dick Tracy - Pilot (1967)

Wow, whatta kick ass theme song!!! WHAT!? It's by The Ventures!? Internet, you humble my feeble knowledge so.

Dick Tracy - The Ventures

The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder with guest Alfred Hitchcock (1980)

A repeat of the 1973 episode of Tomorrow, airing after Alfred Hitchcock passed away.

Bob Hope's NBC Birthday Special with guest Don Rickles (1988)

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with guest Jack Paar (1986)

The Mike Douglas Show with guests The Supremes (1977)

ABC Evening News (1975)

The Huntley Brinkley Report (1970)

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with guest A Singing Bert Convy! (1978)

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (1971)

Password Plus with host Tom Kennedy (1980)

The $20,000 Pyramid (1978)

To Tell the Truth (1971)

KGO Morning News with Bob Dunn (1965)

What's My Line (1965)

The Donna Reed Show (1960)

The Phil Silvers Show (1956)

Miami Undercover starring Lee Bowman and Rocky Graziano (1961)

The Price is Right with celebrity panelist Pat Carroll (1964)

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with guest George Burns (1973)

Bonus: Dirty, Dirty Milton Berle

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with guest Johnny Mathis (1972)

Tattletales with celebrity contestants Orson Bean, Whitman Mayo and Wink Martindale (1973)

Botany 500

The Judy Garland Show (1964)

Counterpoint with special guest star Lee Marvin (1954)

The Texan starring Rory Calhoun (1958)

Classic Television Showbiz's Late Late Show: Irish Luck starring Frankie Darro and Mantan Moreland (1939)

Stagecoach West Sponsor Pitch Film (1961)

The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1951)

The Ed Sullivan Show with guests The Wagon Sisters (1958)

Please Hear My Plea...

I see that America-centric website Hulu has uploaded an obscure piece of drive-in trash I've wanted to see all my life, Gas Pump Girls (1979). Hulu and sites that link into it (AOL Video and in this case DailyMotion) do not allow viewers with IP codes outside the USA to watch any content. If anyone knows of anywhere else online where I can watch Gas Pump Girls I would be eternally grateful. Thanks.

Behind the Scenes of Late Night with David Letterman (1982)

Well, now that we've seen behind the scenes of David Letterman's personal life, let's go back to the first month of his late night tenure. A shoulder camera captures a behind the scenes look at Late Nite.

Oh heck, while we're at it let's get a bit trashy and take a look at one of the girls David was apparently hooking up with. Some regular visitors to the site might wanna skip the rest of this altogether. I understand. Anyway, This video features one of the women in question, Stephanie Birkitt. Stephanie was the roommate of the purported extorter Joe Halderman. Presumably that is how he had possession of some scandalous material. I thought Letterman's 10 minute explanation last night was fascinating and riveting. A real Jack Paar moment, one for the ages.

Sorry for venturing into near-tabloid fare this morning, but I find the whole Late Night Saga of 2009 rather fascinating and this just makes the year even crazier. This is the only thing I'll say/post on the matter, but if you wish to follow the story in a high-brow manner, getting your news but dodging the tabloid stuff, then follow Aaron Barnhart, the man who used to write the marvelous behind-the-late-nite-talkshow-scenes newsletter The Late Show News. His twitter feed is here.

The Mike Douglas Show with guests Kaye Ballard and Henry Morgan (1965)

The John F. Kennedy Inaugural Gala featuring Joey Bishop, Frank Sinatra, Ethel Merman and Ella Fitzgerald (1961) - Footage Offline - 09/10/10

The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder with guests Peter Schickele (PDQ Bach), Willa Shalet and The Brothers Hilbebrant (1979)

The Frank Rosenthal Show with guest Frank Sinatra (1977) - Footage Offline - 09/10/10

Those Two starring Pinky Lee and Vivian Blaine (1951)

ABC 23rd Annual NBA All-Star Game (1973)

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with guest Garry Shandling (1990)

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with guest George Burns (1991)

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with guest Buddy Hackett (1992)

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with guest Richard Harris (1992)

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with guest Mel Brooks (1992)

The !!!BEAT with guests The Radiants (1966)

I've Got a Secret (1972)

NBA Sem-Finals on ABC: Los Angeles Lakers vs. Chicago Bulls (1971)

3's a Crowd (1979)

The Mike Douglas Show with guests Dom DeLuise and The Jackson Five (1974)

The Phil Silvers Show with special guest star Ed Sullivan (1956)

17th Annual Miss Universe Pageant with host Bob Barker (1968)

Make Room For Daddy with special guest star Harvey Lembeck (1954) - Footage Offline - 10/12/10

Make Room For Daddy with special guest star Jay Novello (1958) - Footage Offline - 10/12/10

The Steve Allen Show with guests Chuck Connors, Peggy Lee, Billy Eckstine and George Jessel (1960)

Password with celebrity guests Carol Burnett and Peter Lawford (1967)

Generation Exploitation Podcast #74

New episode. Listen to it here.

PLAYLIST:

My Baby Specializes – Carla Thomas
Beat Girl – John Barry
He’s Got the Power – The Exciters
Tears of a Clown – Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
I Tell Myself – The Seeds
Liberation Conversation – Marlena Shaw
Fire – Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Let There Be Drums – Incredible Bongo Band
There Was a Time – James Brown
Make Me Yours – Phyllis Dillon
Along Comes Mary – Mike Melvoin
Shake Me, Wake Me – The Four Tops
I Want to Know – Sugar Simone
Outta Reach – She
My Cherie Amour – Dave Snell
Like to Get to Know You – Spanky & Our Gang
Mr. Tambourine Man – The Four Seasons

Plus Tard – Katy David
One-Two-Five – The Haunted
Incidental Samples from:
1955 Radio CJOC Acetate – Grand Opening Rose Appliances, Lethbridge, Alberta.

Shindig with guest Shirley Ellis (1965)

AKA - How to turn your crummy day into a great one. How to turn your bad mood into an indestructible good mood!

And here's The Clapping Song fer yer Ipod (Shhhhh - Don't Tell Nobody).

The Danny Kaye Show with Eve Arden and The Harry James Orchestra (1945)

Twelve episodes of a neglected OTR program.

Insight (1975)

It's Sunday. It's early. Insight is on TV.

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with guests Joanna Cameron and Bert Convy (1978)

The 27th Annual Miss Universe Pageant with host Bob Barker (1978)

All in the Family with special guest star Bill Quinn (1978)

Now You See It (1974)

Tattletales with celebrity contestants Betty White and Allen Ludden (1974)

Shenanigans starring Stubby Kaye (1965)

Generation Exploitation Podcast #73 - The SEXploitation Podcast!

It's a buncha filthy, dirty, filth this time round!

Listen to the latest episode here!
PLAYLIST:

Sexy Ida – Ike & Tina Turner
That Makes It! – Jayne Mansfield
Jungle Fever – The Chakachas
My Attitude Towards Sex – Xaviera Hollander
Please Please Me – Santo and Johnny
Sweet Peter Jeeter – Rudy Ray Moore
Benihana – Marilyn Chambers
I’m a Man – The Spencer Davis Group
Ice Man – Willie & Rising Dick
Theme From Deep Throat – Tony Bruno
Sex is Fun – Rusty Warren
Sex Machine – James Brown
The Hitmen – Dolemite Soundtrack
Teach Me Tiger – April Stevens
Music to Watch Girls By – The Billy May Orchestra
Music to Watch Girls By – Andy Williams
Music to Watch Girls By – Natascha Snitkine
Lay, Lady, Lay – Mike Melvoin
Easy to Be Hard – Three Dog Night
Let There Be Drums – Incredible Bongo Band
Girls – The Beastie Boys
Sexe – Line Renaud
It Ain’t the Meat – The Swallows

Incidental Samples From These LPs:
Teacher Talks to Teens – Barry Moore (1967)
Sex and Your Daughter – Dr. Sims (1972)
Sex Explained For Children (1970)
Medical & Social Aspects of Venereal Disease (1971)
Sex For Teens – Where It’s At (1970)
Sex Instruction For Your Children – Truth Records (1960)
Preach On, Sister, Preach On - LaWanda Page (1974)

The Ed Sullivan Show with guest Totie Fields (1965)

Truth or Consequences (1966)

Classic Television Showbiz's Late Late Show: Carnival Rock (1957)

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with guests Rodney Dangerfield and Della Reese (1971)

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson Commercial Break featuring Ed McMahon and Doc Severinson (1971)

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with surprise guest Redd Foxx - Poor Quality (1974)

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson with guest host Joey Bishop and guest Charo (1971)

What's My Line with interesting guest (1961)

Okay, watch this segment first. Then go here and maybe here. Crayzeeee.

Dumont Midget Wrestling (1949)

The Dayton Allen Show (1960)

This syndicated lecture short is from The Dayton Allen Show. The following interview excerpt came from here. I might try post his obscure comedy LP (naturally titled Why Not!) in a couple weeks.

DAYTON ALLEN: My book "Why Not!" did even better! I got an advance of $2500 and never saw another penny.

GEO: The book came out about the same time you created your own little syndicated TV program -- in 1960. It was a five-minute drop-in of you giving some sort of nonsensical lecture. How many of them did you make?

DAYTON ALLEN: 130. I had two partners: Stan Burns who was a writer on Steve Allen and another guy named Allen Sandler who had a film library. We'd lock ourselves in a hotel room and write a bunch of them and then go shoot them over at KCOP, the public broadcasting studio in Hollywood.

GEO: It seems odd that you were working so much in LA, but you continued to live in New York.

DAYTON ALLEN: Yeah it was something about my head, I couldn't do anything about it. It was just pure stupidity that just festered and grew until it became enlarged stupidness.

GEO: How many stations picked up the Dayton Allen Show?

DAYTON ALLEN: We were in 26 markets in the US and it was a big hit on the Armed Forces television.