The Steve Allen Show - Season 1

1. Premier with guests Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis, Kim Novak, Vincent Price, Wally Cox, Sammy Davis, Jr.

Aired: 6/24/1956

Skits include unlikely endorsements putting Wally Cox in prison, Dane Clark in a bar fight and Vincent Price as a hit and run victim, and later, a gangster scene with Steve and Kim Novak with an educational bent. Jerry Lewis and Bob Hope make only cameos. Sammy Davis Jnr. does imitations and is seen with the Will Maston Trio.

2. Elvis Presley, Andy Griffith, Imogene Coca, Milton Berle, Steve Lawrence & Edye Gorme

Aired: 7/1/1956

Episode features include Elvis Presley, wearing a tuxedo and singing "Hound Dog" to a mournful basset hound; Andy Griffith explaining Shakespeare's Hamlet in a comedy monologue; Imogene Coca starring in a skit where she tries to tell her husband she's pregnant; Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme doing an opera spoof while wearing viking costumes and Imogene Coca, Andy Griffith and Elvis Presley doing a spoof of country music television programs.

3. Sammy Davis, Jr., Jack Palance, Vic Damone, Margaret Truman, Gogi Grant

Aired: 7/8/1956

Todays guests are Sammy Davis, Jr./Jack Palance/Don Adams/Margaret Truman.

4. Buddy Hackett, Count Basie & his Orchestra, The Four Lads

Aired: 7/22/1956

5. James Mason, Pamela Mason & Portland Mason, Rise Stevens & Jan Peerce, Roger Ray, Eddie Condon, Dayton Allen, Bambi Linn & Rod Alexander

Aired: 7/29/1956

6. Judy Holliday, Tony Bennett, Carmen Cavallaro, Louis Nye, Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five, The 321st National Military Drill Team

Aired: 8/5/1956

7. Frank Sinatra, Don Adams, Julius LaRosa, Mamie Van Doren, Eddie Lawrence, Augie & Margo

Aired: 8/19/1956

8. Buddy Hackett, Andy Williams, Jaye P. Morgan & the Morgan Brothers, Gregory Ratoff, The Ice Capades

Aired: 8/26/1956

9. Ann Sheridan, Fats Domino, Georgia Gibbs, Steve Lawrence, Smith & Dale

Aired: 9/2/1956

Skits include Smith and Dale doing their "Still Alarm" routine, with Louis Nye,and Steve, Georgia Gibbs and Steve Lawrence do a takeoff on a 30's band remote.Fats Domino is presented a "Cashbox" magazine award.