New Year's Day show with scheduled guests (a ""Stardust Parade"" of young and up-and-coming talent): --Roger Williams (pianist) --The Dreamweavers --Dick Duane (singer) --Joan Maize and the Chordsmen (singing-instrumental group) --Amru Sani (singer from India)

--Cook and Corey (comedy act) --Rickie Layne (ventriloquist) --Barry Blake (impressionist) --the Pickerts (10 jitterbugs on stilts) --Kodell (magician)

Scheduled guests: --Roger Williams (pianist) --Dick Duane (singer) --Jimmie Komack (comedian) --Amru Sani (singer from India) --Enzo Stuarti (singer) --Dorothy Hayden's champion Irish Steppers --Lynda-Lynch and her dance trio --Unus (balancer) --The Schaludis (bicycling acrobats) --the Marvellos (variety act) --Rickie Layne and Velvel (ventriloquist act)

Scheduled guests: --Dan Dailey (guest host for this week and next) --The Crew Cuts (vocal group) - ""My Blue Heaven"" --Roger Williams (pianist) --Toni Arden (singer) --Don Tannen (ventriloquist) Circus acts --Dan Dailey takes part in a trick-horse act --The Wallendas (high wire performers) --The Zacchinis (flying trapeze artists) --Victoria Zacchini (girl shot from cannon)

Guests: --Ed talks with Robert Wagner & Joan Collins. A clip from the movie ""Stop Over Tokyo"" is shown.

--Sarah Vaughan - ""Lucky In Love"" --Sarah Vaughan & Billy Eckstine - ""Passing Strangers"" --Billy Eckstine - does impressions of other singers (Sammy Davis Jr., Louis Armstrong) then plays trumpet solo. Later in show, Billy Eckstine sings ""If I Can Help Somebody"" --Roger Williams - Till"" and ""St. Louis Blues"" --Charlotte Rae (stand-up comedian, jokes about her diet routine) --Helen Woods - ""Love Is A Many Splendid Thing"" (Ziegfeld Follies girl dances & plays violin) --Katina Ranieri - ""Arrivaderchi Roma"" & ""Kanaya"" --Gaby, Fofo, & Miliki (musical/comedy routine) --Fernanda Montel - ""Melodie D'amour"" --June Taylor Dancers (from ""The Jackie Gleason Show"") dancing girls with hula-hoops.

--Inia Tewiata (singer from New Zealand) - ""Waiata Poi"" --Ed Introduces Seventeen Magazine Doll Making Contest Winners. Ginger Christensen, Fannee Fields, Sharon Rae Robinson

Scheduled guests: --Della Reese (singer) --Roger Williams (pianist) --Frankie Vaughan (singer from England) --Jane Morgan (singer) --Sam Levenson (comedian) --Georges Guetary (French singer) --Anton Dolin and his London Festival Ballet (with John Gilpin, Louis Godfrey, Michael Hogan and Andre Prokovsky) --George Shearing (pianist) --Dorothy Donegan (pianist) --O'Brady (novelty puppet act from Europe) --The Three Brazzazzis (European comedy act)

Guests include: --Gregory Peck (cameo, introduces Judy White, burn victim) --Teresa Brewer - ""Don't Bring Lulu"" and ""I Wouldn't Trade The Sliver"" --Roger Williams (pianist) - ""Near You"" --Domenico Modugno (Italian vocalist) - ""Volare"" --Carol Lawrence & Peter Gennaro - ""Shine On My Shoes"" --Shelly Berman (stand-up comedian doing jokes about life's most embarrassing moments) --Ted Williams (makes an appeal for the Jimmy Fund, for children with cancer) --Perez Prado - ""Patricia"" --Elsa & Waldo (comedy dance routine, woman in tutu) --Jackie Cannon (stand-up routine) --Marquis Chimps (trained monkey/chimp act) --Audience bows: Max Case, Harry Dekay, Emmy Wideman & Anthony Marsello, Dana Andrews, Jack Sterling

Guests: --Tony Martin (singer) - ""Gigi"" & ""Fire Down Below"" --Benny Fields, Blossom Seeley, Tony Martin - ""My Blushin' Rosie"" (Note: Benny Fields & Blossom Seeley were vaudevillians) --Xavier Cugat and his band with Abbe Lane - ""Dengoza I,"" ""Ain't Misbehavin'"" & ""Rockin' The Mambo"" --Roger Williams (pianist) - ""Tico Tico"" & interview with Ed (talks to Ed about honorary degree). Roger Williams (later in show) - ""Near to You"" --Jack E. Leonard (comedian) - does stand-up routine & sings ""When You're Smiling"" --Ben Bennett and Dick Patterson (comedy team doing a storytime sketch) --Marvin Roy (magician known as ""Mr. Electric"") - pops a string of lights out of his mouth

--Leonard & Leonard (tap dancing duo) --Dolores Vargas and Jose Castellon Batista (Spanish dance team with guitar accompaniment) --On film: clip from ""Roots Of Heaven"" with Trevor Howard (elephant scene) --Audience bows: Miss By-Line; Mercury dealers (followed by Ed promoting the 1958 Mercury) --

Scheduled guests: --Dennis Weaver (actor, played Chester on ""Gunsmoke"") --Roger Williams (pianist) --Roberta Peters (opera singer) --Arnold Stang (comic actor) --Teddy Randazzo (singer) --Pat Henning (comedian) --Little Buck (dancer) --Jackie Cannon (comedian) --The Ballet Florence and Frederic de Paris --The Happy Jesters (comedians) --Ugo Frediani (novelty act from Europe)