September 27, 1954…’Tonight’ Debuts From The Hudson Theater
September 27, 1954…’Tonight’ Debuts From The Hudson Theater
Happy 60th Birthday To ‘Tonight’! May you have 60 more!
At the link are the opening minutes of the very first ‘Tonight’ show with Steve Allen. I’m not going to go into great detail on this as we have spotlighted this show’s history many times here, BUT…in the next post, I will give you something Ultra Rare!
As Steve jokes in the last few seconds on this debut video, “if ‘Tonight’ is successful, NBC will have a new show called Son Of Tonight”…actually, this show is the “son of” NBC’s local New York show which we will look at in today’s next post. The original name of that show was ‘The Knickerbocker Beer Show With Steve Allen’.
More on the way. Enjoy and Share! -Bobby Ellerbee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8AYUfBt1dE
Taken from the documentary series “Television”, this is a clip from the first episode of the Tonight show with Steve Allen.
Tonight: Steve Allen invented it, Jack Paar made it better, Johnny Carson perfected it.
I may have that show I’ll check in the basement tomorrow
TV Guide review of Tonight dated 11/27/54