Andy Williams, Milt Kamen, Gogi Grant, The Will Mastin Trio (featuring Sammy Davis, Jr.), Marian Ann McKnight , The Baird Puppets

S02 E01 • Sunday, Sep 16, 1956 • Sep 16 • 1h

Billy Eckstine, Rin Tin Tin, Joni James, Professor Irwin Corey, Jose Molina, the Midwestern States Glee Club

S02 E02 • Sunday, Sep 23, 1956 • Sep 23 • 1h

Claudette Colbert, Mickey Rooney, Jerome Hines, Erin O'Brien, Joey Forman

S02 E03 • Sunday, Sep 30, 1956 • Sep 30 • 1h

Abbott & Costello, Kukla, Fran & Ollie, Peggy King, Lionel Hampton, Don Lamond, Louis Bellson Mrs. Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle

S02 E04 • Sunday, Oct 7, 1956 • Oct 7 • 1h

Todays guests are Abbott and Costello/Kukla, Fran and Ollie/Mickey Mantle/Lionel Hampton/Peggy King/Milt Kamen.

Tony Bennett, Doretta Morrow, Mel Torme, Frances Faye, Guy Madison, Kathryn & Arthur Murray

S02 E05 • Sunday, Oct 14, 1956 • Oct 14 • 1h

Peter Lawford, Frank Parker, The Harlem Globetrotters, Rocky Graziano, Olga James, Janik & Arnaut, cameo appearance by Julius LaRosa

S02 E06 • Sunday, Oct 21, 1956 • Oct 21 • 1h

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Alfred Drake, Erin O'Brien, T.C. Jones, Jim Henson & the Muppets, Rod Alexander Dancers, Les Brown & His Band of Renown

S02 E07 • Sunday, Nov 4, 1956 • Nov 4 • 1h

Jerry Lewis, Georgia Gibbs, Anita Ekberg, Anthony Steel, Buster Crabbe, cast members of "Jack and the Beanstalk"

S02 E08 • Sunday, Nov 11, 1956 • Nov 11 • 1h

Bob Hope, Duke Ellington & Orchestra, Gene Nelson, Betty Walker, Erin O'Brien, George Hamilton IV, Olsen & Johnson, World's Champion Women Boxers

S02 E09 • Sunday, Nov 18, 1956 • Nov 18 • 1h

Gene Autry, Jim Lowe, Betty Kean & Lew Parker, Floyd Patterson & Archie Moore, the Chicago Bears

S02 E10 • Sunday, Nov 25, 1956 • Nov 25 • 1h

Charlton Heston, Gypsy Rose Lee, Ethel Waters, Bobby Van, Don Newcombe, Floyd Patterson, Archie Moore, Vince Martin & The Tarriers

S02 E11 • Sunday, Dec 2, 1956 • Dec 2 • 1h

Anne Jeffreys & Robert Sterling, The Hi-Lo's, Bud Wilkinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, Betty Kean & Lew Parker

S02 E12 • Sunday, Dec 9, 1956 • Dec 9 • 1h

Martha Raye, Alan Young, the Collins Kids, Ricky Vera, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, the Vienna Boys Choir

S02 E13 • Sunday, Dec 23, 1956 • Dec 23 • 1h

Tony Bennett, Andy Griffith, the New York Rangers, live premiere of the motion picture "Around the World in 80 Days"

S02 E14 • Sunday, Dec 30, 1956 • Dec 30 • 1h

Errol Flynn, Polly Bergen, Guy Mitchell, Alan Young

S02 E15 • Sunday, Jan 6, 1957 • Jan 6 • 1h

Joe E. Brown, Julius La Rosa, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane, Rocky Graziano, Dorothy Miller ("Mrs. Miller", audience member)

S02 E16 • Sunday, Jan 13, 1957 • Jan 13 • 1h

New York Film Critics Awards

S02 E17 • Sunday, Jan 20, 1957 • Jan 20 • 1h

Most of the show concerns a filmed Steve presenting the Critic's award to several stars, including 'Ingrid Bergman' and 'Kirk Douglas', along with some small talk interviews. These were shot at Sardi's restaurant in New York, probably when it was closed, due to the utter quietness.

Season 2, Episode 18

S02 E18 • Sunday, Jan 27, 1957 • Jan 27 • 1h

Pearl Bailey, Lilli Palmer, Don Adams, The Collins Kids, Steve Lawrence, Charles Van Doren

Peter Lawford, Charles Van Doren, Lou Costello, Margaret Whiting, The Step Brothers

S02 E19 • Sunday, Feb 10, 1957 • Feb 10 • 1h

Frankie Laine, Alan Young, Martha Carson, Tab Hunter, Ken Rosewall, Pancho Gonzales, Jack Kramer, Pancho Segura

S02 E20 • Sunday, Feb 17, 1957 • Feb 17 • 1h

Yehudi Menuhin, Arlene Dahl, Aldo Ray, Robert Ryan, Brenda Lee, the Hilltoppers

S02 E21 • Sunday, Feb 24, 1957 • Feb 24 • 1h

Jerry Lewis, Martha Raye, Steve Lawrence, Diahann Carroll, Fernando Lamas

S02 E22 • Sunday, Mar 10, 1957 • Mar 10 • 1h

Greer Garson, Lou Costello, Dean Jones, Steve Peck, Janik & Arpaut, Howard McNear, Sandra Gould, Veola Vonn, The Lancers

S02 E23 • Sunday, Mar 24, 1957 • Mar 24 • 1h

Tennessee Ernie Ford, Peggy Lee, Johnny Mercer, Dinah Shore, Esther Williams, The Collins Kids

S02 E24 • Sunday, Mar 31, 1957 • Mar 31 • 1h

Salute to the All American Basketball Teams

S02 E25 • Sunday, Apr 7, 1957 • Apr 7 • 1h

Esther Williams, Eydie Gorme, Jackie Cooper, Stan Freberg, The Four Lads

S02 E26 • Sunday, Apr 14, 1957 • Apr 14 • 1h

Mickey Rooney, Eleanor Steber, Joey Forman, Betty Walker, Mickey & Sylvia, Jim Henson's Muppets

S02 E27 • Sunday, Apr 21, 1957 • Apr 21 • 1h

Brenda Lee, Don Adams, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane, Jack Carson, Peter Gennaro & Ellen Ray

S02 E28 • Sunday, Apr 28, 1957 • Apr 28 • 1h

Orson Welles, Jill Corey, Peggy Cass, The Will Mastin Trio featuring Sammy Davis Jr.

S02 E29 • Sunday, May 5, 1957 • May 5 • 1h

Steve Allen and Sammy Davis, Jr. perform a card trick with a little help from Orson Welles; Davis joins his uncle Will Mastin and his father Sammy Davis, Sr., for an athletic dance number; Davis performs singing impressions of Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett, Louis Armstrong, and others; and the "Allen Report to the Nation" deals with the tranquilizer pill, with Allen interviewing Louis Nye as the head of a pharmaceutical company, Tom Poston as chief of laboratory research, and Don Knotts as a jittery fill-in speaker at a medical convention. Additionally, singer Jill ...

Tallulah Bankhead, Milton Berle, Pearl Bailey, Dean Jones, Reverend Billy Graham

S02 E30 • Sunday, May 12, 1957 • May 12 • 1h

Ann Sothern, Bert Lahr, Brenda Lee

S02 E31 • Sunday, May 19, 1957 • May 19 • 1h

Andy Griffith, Marty Robbins, Errol Garner, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Martha Raye, a cameo appearance from Dean Martin

S02 E32 • Sunday, May 26, 1957 • May 26 • 1h

Xavier Cugat, Abbe Lane, Pat Carroll, The Four Diamonds, Erin O'Brien, Jerry Lewis

S02 E33 • Sunday, Jun 2, 1957 • Jun 2 • 1h

Steve's guests are The Diamonds (singing "Little Darlin'"), Xavier Cugat & his Orchestra with singer Abbe Lane doing "All Of You" and "Babalu," comedian Pat Carroll as a wife whose husband (Allen) tries to prove to her that a joke he told is funny, Erin O'Brien singing "Where's A Happy Ending?" Jerry Lewis plays Gordon Hathaway and a dopey boxer in the "Man on the Street" segment, Steve gives passionate readings of real "Letters to the Editor," delivers a silly speech to graduating seniors, and shows works of art used in magazine ads.

Orson Welles, Wally Cox, Meg Myles, Jim Reeves, The Step Brothers, Reverend Billy Graham

S02 E34 • Sunday, Jun 9, 1957 • Jun 9 • 1h

Steve Lawrence, Mamie Van Doren, The Hi-Lo's, Walter Chiari

S02 E35 • Sunday, Jun 16, 1957 • Jun 16 • 1h

Lou Costello, Pat Boone, Jonathan Winters, Abbey Lincoln, Fay DeWitt, Dulcie Cooper, The Ames Brothers

S02 E36 • Sunday, Jun 23, 1957 • Jun 23 • 1h

Lou Costello in a restaurant skit where Gabe Dell takes the part of the bullying, Bud Abbott-type companion.

Bob Hope, George Jessel, Alexis Smith, Vera Miles, Dean Martin, the Rod Alexander Dancers, The Axidentals

S02 E37 • Sunday, Jun 30, 1957 • Jun 30 • 1h

In a salute to Hope's new film, "Beau James", skits, dance numbers and film clips devoted to onetime crooked prohibition-era New York mayor Jimmy Walker.

Benny Goodman, Yvonne De Carlo, Peter Lawford, Professor Irwin Corey

S02 E38 • Sunday, Jul 7, 1957 • Jul 7 • 1h

Goodman's in top form, and Steve does a duet with him. Yvonne and Steve in a baby-naming skit, Lawford and Steve play bored life guards. A "Night Beat" parody includes Knotts as his classic nervous nerd, and a bellicose Nye cracks Steve up.

Debra Paget, Buddy Rich, Frankie Laine, Cornelia Otis Skinner

S02 E39 • Sunday, Jul 14, 1957 • Jul 14 • 1h

Tony Bennett, George Nader, Joanne Gilbert, Hal Le Roy, Floyd Patterson & Joe Louis

S02 E40 • Sunday, Jul 21, 1957 • Jul 21 • 1h

Tony Bennett sings "One For My Baby". Floyd Patterson and Joe Louis talk to Steve about boxing and Floyd's title defense against Tommy "Hurricane" Jackson. Joanne Gilbert sings "Hello Bluebird". Show regulars, appear in a comedy satire on television quiz-masters. Steve plays a piano version of "Do You Ever Think of Me?" For the finale, the entire cast and guest list join in with a bevy of hula dancers for a production entitled "In the Middle of an Island".

Jerry Lee Lewis, Shelley Winters, Anthony Franciosa, The Four Coins, Jodie Sands, Shai K. Ophir, Leona Gage

S02 E41 • Sunday, Jul 28, 1957 • Jul 28 • 1h

Steve and Shelley Winters in a skit about teaching her to drive by using household objects, Jerry Lee Lewis gives a bravura piano-attacking performance.

Marie MacDonald, The Four Diamonds, Jack E. Leonard, Don Rondo, Brenda Lee

S02 E42 • Sunday, Aug 4, 1957 • Aug 4 • 1h

Jane Russell, Ferlin Husky, Larry Storch, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Rod Alexander Dancers

S02 E43 • Sunday, Aug 11, 1957 • Aug 11 • 1h

Lou Costello, Liberace, Andy Williams, Abbey Lincoln, Jean Fenn

S02 E44 • Sunday, Aug 18, 1957 • Aug 18 • 1h

Hedy Lamar, Joe E. Brown, The Coasters, Irish McCalla, Pat Kirby

S02 E45 • Sunday, Aug 25, 1957 • Aug 25 • 1h

Pearl Bailey, Joan Collins, Jeff Chandler, Shaike Ophir, Pete Rademacher

S02 E46 • Sunday, Sep 1, 1957 • Sep 1 • 1h

Robert Young, Martha Raye, Marion Lorne, Milton Caniff, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme, Dave Garroway, Miss America of 1958

S02 E47 • Sunday, Sep 8, 1957 • Sep 8 • 1h

Ed Wynn, Frankie Laine, Dorothy Collins, Don Adams, Audrey Meadows, Sugar Ray Robinson & Carmen Basilio

S02 E48 • Sunday, Sep 15, 1957 • Sep 15 • 1h