Johnny Carson as Himself

Episodes 12

Catch Up With the News

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June 30, 195530m
1x1

In the series premiere, Johnny imitates Edward R. Murrow in a spoof of Murrow's Person to Person program featuring Johnny's first wife Jody and their three children. In Catch Up With the News, Johnny plays a roving reporter.

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Goldilocks and the Three Bears

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July 21, 195530m
1x4

Johnny imitates Walter Cronkite, takes a look at the pitfalls of marriage, and parodies Goldilocks And The Three Bears and You Are There.

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Life in the 80's

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August 25, 195530m
1x9

Sketches include a spoof of the Russian ballet, Catch Up With The News and a 1950s-style look at the future, as Johnny imagines what life will be like in 1980.

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Dillinger, The Mental Wizard

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September 1, 195530m
1x10

Johnny plays Dillinger, The Mental Wizard, in a parody of Joseph Dunniger, the famous mind reader (This sketch is the early inspiration for Carson's most famous character from his Tonight Show years, Carnac The Magnificent). Another sketch finds Johnny playing tourist in Paris; we also get an idea of what might happen to your television reception near an airport.

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James Arness

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September 8, 195530m
1x11

James Arness visits the show to promote his new series, Gunsmoke, Jack Albertson appears in a grocery store sketch and Johnny plays Colonel John J. Carson in a military sketch.

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Jack Albertson

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October 13, 195530m
1x16

Johnny takes care of unfinished business; Jack Albertson appears in sketches about Johnny's fan club and bachelor life. Then Johnny plays violinist Yasha Carson.

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Dimitri Tiomkin

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November 3, 195530m
1x19

Legendary movie composer Dimitri Tiomkin appears in the Johnny's Record Collection sketch. Then Johnny salutes old time Vaudeville, and stars in an epic Greek-Trojan war sketch.

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Ed Sullivan Impersonation

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November 10, 195530m
1x20

We don't have an overview translated in English. Help us expand our database by adding one.

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Stay-at-Home Husband

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Season Finale
December 15, 195530m
1x25

Johnny plays a stay-at-home husband whose wife has a very unusual job. Other sketches include the Giveaway Pet Parade, a precursor to the numerous segments Johnny would do with animals later in his career, and a look at what the detective show Dragnet might have been like during the time of Alexander the Great.

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The One Musketeer

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January 19, 195630m
2x1

Johnny's Navy buddy disrupts the monologue from the audience, a young Jamie Farr appears with the musical group The Double Daters, and Johnny and Eva Gabor star in The One Musketeer.

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Rudy Valle

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February 2, 195630m
2x3

We don't have an overview translated in English. Help us expand our database by adding one.

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"The Park Avenue Hillbilly"

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Season Finale
February 16, 195630m
2x4

Dr. Samuel Hoffman, podiatrist, was catapulted to fame when he played the Theremin on the soundtrack to Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound. He demonstrates the unusual instrument for Johnny and singer Dorothy Shay, known as "the Park Avenue Hillbilly" co-stars with Johnny in a sketch telling her life story.

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