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The Worst Episodes of The Ed Sullivan Show

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S8E35 Eddie Fisher; filmed interviews with Hollywood stars
1.2118 votes
Best episode
S17E19 Beatles (1st appearance) / Oliver Broadway cast
9.279 votes
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Season 10
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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    The Ed Sullivan Show Season 8 Episode 35 - Eddie Fisher; filmed interviews with Hollywood stars
    1.2/10(118 votes)

    S8:E35

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  2. The Ed Sullivan Show Season 23 Episode 9 - The Rolling Stones / Ella Fitzgerald / Eddie Albert
    4.1/10(14 votes)

    S23:E9

    Guests: --The Rolling Stones - ""Gimme Shelter,"" ""Love in Vain"" & ""Honky Tonk Woman."" --Ella Fitzgerald - ""You Better Love Me"" & ""Open Your Window"" --Robert Klein (stand-up comedian, talks about his school days) --Ed Ames - ""A Thing Called Love"" & ""I Believe"" --Topo Gigio (Topo prepares for football game) --Peter Gennero (dance segment; Gennero and 2 women dance to ""Smiling Phases"") --Hawthorn Tigers (animal act; tiger riding on horseback alone & with trainer) --Eddie Albert (actor, delivers speech to God about religion's hypocrisy & reality)

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  3. The Ed Sullivan Show Season 18 Episode 31 - Rolling Stones / Dusty Springfield / Tom Jones
    5.3/10(22 votes)

    S18:E31

    --The Rolling Stones - ""The Last Time,"" Little Red Rooster"" and ""Someone to Love"" --Dusty Springfield - ""All Cried Out"" --Tom Jones - ""It's Not Unusual"" --Audience bow (cameo): Roy Orbison --Leslie Uggams - ""Melancholy Baby"" --Totie Fields (comedian) --Topo Gigio (puppet) --Morecambe & Wise (comedians) --The Half Brothers (juggling act) --Gitta Morrelly (balancing act)

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  4. The Ed Sullivan Show Season 19 Episode 21 - The Animals / Rosemary Clooney / Nancy Walker
    5.2/10(15 votes)

    S19:E21

    Guests: --The Animals - ""We Gotta Get Out of This Place"" & ""Inside Looking Out"" --Rosemary Clooney - ""Baby, The Ball Is Over"" & ""All Alone"" --Deli skit with Nancy Walker, Charles Nelson Reilly and Julia Meade (another source lists 'Joy Nichols' in the cast). --Alan King (comedian) - routine about his insurance company --Tony Lema (golf pro) - gives Ed some golf tips --Peter Gennaro - ""I Got Rhythm"" --Gino Tonetti (singer) - ""Al Di La"" --Pompoff Thedy and family (clowns, listed on transcript as 'Pompoff & Thedy') --Audience Bow: Jack Adams (Canada's Mr. Hockey, former? Detroit Red Wings coach) --On film: Ann Margret in a clip from ""Made In Paris"" with Louis Jordan

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  5. The Ed Sullivan Show Season 9 Episode 41 - John Huston salute: Gregory Peck; Orson Welles; Lauren Bacall; Edward G. Robinson
    6.0/10(36 votes)

    S9:E41

    A Salute to John Huston --On film: Ed interviews John Huston & Gregory Peck on the set of ""Moby Dick"" --Gregory Peck (live on stge) appears with Ed & introduces a scene from ""Moby Dick"" (with Orson Welles) --On film: clip from ""Moulon Rouge"" --Split screen: Ed interviews Jose Ferrer --Jose Ferrer (on film?) - applies make up & transforms himself into Toulouse Letrec --Mary Astor & Peter Lorre - talk about John Huston --On film: clip from ""The Maltese Falcon"" --On film: clip of John Huston & Walter Huston receiving Academy Awards. --On film: clip from ""Treasure of Sierra Madre"" --John Huston walks on stage and introduces a film clip from ""Battle of San Pietro"" --Sketch: Edward G. Robinson and Ed Sullivan do a gangster-style dialogue --On film: clip from ""Key Largo"" where Edward G. Robinson is cruel to a drunk woman. --Edward G. Robinson, John Huston, and Ed (on stage) introduce Lauren Bacall --Lauren Bacall talks about how Humphrey Bogart & John Hust

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  6. The Ed Sullivan Show Season 20 Episode 19 - Rolling Stones / Petula Clark / Allan Sherman
    6.0/10(22 votes)

    S20:E19

    --The Rolling Stones - ""Ruby Tuesday"" & ""Let's Spend Some Time Together"" (censored version of ""Let's Spend the Night Together""). --Petula Clark - ""Elusive Butterfly"" & ""Color My World"" --Allan Sherman (stand-up comedian) --The Muppets (Kermit plays the piano & sings) - Following the sketch, Jim Henson comes out to greet Ed --Allan King (stand-up comedian) - routine about family members --Sisters of St. Benedict (Nuns from Erie, Pennsylvania; a.k.a. Sisters '67) - sing a show tune medley: ""It's A Lovely Day,"" ""Consider Yourself"" & ""Kumbaya"" --The Michael Bennett Dancers (clog dancers) --The Monroes (balancing act from Madrid, Spain) --On film: Footage of a 14-year-old waterskiier, Ricky McCormick, doing stunts at Cypress Gardens, Fla. --Audience bow (cameo): Miriam Colon (Puerto Rican star)

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  7. The Ed Sullivan Show Season 8 Episode 22 - The Columbia Pictures Story with Kim Novak; Eddie Fisher; Maureen O'Hara
    6.5/10(48 votes)

    S8:E22

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  8. The Ed Sullivan Show Season 20 Episode 20 - Lovin' Spoonful / Johnny Mathis / Ginger Rogers
    6.2/10(15 votes)

    S20:E20

    Guests: --The Lovin' Spoonful - ""Nashville Cats"" & ""Darlin' Be Home Soon"" --Johnny Mathis - medley of hits: ""It's Not For Me To Say,"" ""Twelfth Of Never,"" ""Wild Is The Wind,"" ""Chances Are,"" ""Wonderful Wonderful!"" --Johnny Mathis and Our Young Generation - ""I'm Ready For Love"" --Ginger Rogers - ""Before The Parade Passes By"" (production number from ""Hello Dolly"") --Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara (comedy team) --Abbe Lane (singer) - Spanish medley including ""Call Me,"" ""Spanish Flea,"" ""La Bamba"" --Bob King (stand-up comedian) --Topo Gigio (puppet) --Bergergs Chimps (might be Berosini Chimps) - trained animal act --The Three Kims (acrobats / tumblers) Audience bows: Ruby Keeler; Billy Reed CBS repeated this show on 16-Jul-67.

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  9. The Ed Sullivan Show Season 20 Episode 40 - Mamas and the Papas / Richard Pryor / Alan King
    6.2/10(13 votes)

    S20:E40

    --Opening of show, Ed's intro --Topo Gigio (mouse) - talks about being sick from eating too much candy. --Topo Trio (Topo Gigio and two other mouse puppets) - sing ""Pop,"" a song in Italian. --Audience bow: Jennifer Reinke (spelling bee champion) Commmercial: Dutch Masters cigars --Kane Triplets (singers) - ""When Your Eyes Meet Mine,"" ""Pow! Pow! Pow!"" and ""Mutual Admiration Society. They also talk (or sing) about ""What It's Like To Be Triplets"" --Richard Pryor (stand-up comedy, re: being in the army, military pep talks, submarine warfare) Commercial: Anacin Pain Reliever --Rouvaun (opera singer) - ""Vesti La Giubba"" (dressed in clown suit) --Audience bows: Rod Laver & Ken Rosewald (tennis players); Bill Collins (Australian broadcaster) --Rouvaun - ""On A Clear Day"" --Rob Murray (juggler) Commercials: Geritol; Sominex --The Mamas and the Papas - ""Dedicated to the One I Love."" Mama Cass thanks Ed for putting pop groups on his show. --The Mamas and the Papas -

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  10. The Ed Sullivan Show Season 21 Episode 32 - Tom Jones / Patty Duke / Totie Fields / The Muppets
    6.2/10(11 votes)

    S21:E32

    Guests: --Tom Jones - ""It's Not Unusual,"" ""Danny Boy"" & ""Delilah"" --Patty Duke - ""Dona, Dona"" (with dancers) & ""And We Were Strangers"" --The Muppets - female frog (Kermit wearing a wig) sings ""I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face"" --Your Fathers Moustache (Dixieland band) --Totie Fields (comedian) - sings ""I'm Perfect"" and pokes fun at audience members. --Richard Hearne (English comedian, a.k.a. ""Mr. Pastry"") - demonstrates ""The Passing Out Ceremony"" (a drinking & dancing ritual using two chairs). Ed appears on camera for entire skit, telling Mr. Pastry which drink is in which glass --Pavel (magic act) --Audience bows: Capain Geoff Mitchell & other Captains; Major General William J. Sutton; Kevin Robinson

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  11. The Ed Sullivan Show Season 20 Episode 1 - Rolling Stones / Louis Armstrong / Robert Goulet
    6.5/10(20 votes)

    S20:E1

    --The Rolling Stones - ""Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In the Shadow?"" ""Paint It Black"" & ""Lady Jane"" --Louis Armstrong - ""Cabaret"" --Joan Rivers --Robert Goulet - ""Once I Had A Heart"" --""Holiday on Ice"" segment from Madison Square Garden with skater Ronnie Robertson --Red Skelton (scheduled guest)

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  12. The Ed Sullivan Show Season 23 Episode 30 - Richie Havens / Lesley Gore / John Gary
    6.2/10(8 votes)

    S23:E30

    Guests: --Richie Havens - ""The Minstrel from Gault"" --Lesley Gore - ""Cry Me A River"" & ""Hey Jude"" --John Gary - medley: ""The Straight Life,"" ""Then She's a Lover"" & ""Little Green Apples""--Moms Mabley (stand-up comedian, sings ""Deed I Do"") --Stiller & Meara (comedy team) --Robert Klein (stand-up comedy) --Jane Morgan - ""A Girl Named Johnny Cash"" & ""My Way"" --Victor Julian (dog act) --The Rolan Boys (balancing act) Audience bows (cameos): Pete Hamilton; Master Sergeant Leon Donnely; Dr. Howard Rusk; Irving Gyse; Miss USA CBS repeated this show on July 19, 1970.

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  13. The Ed Sullivan Show Season 21 Episode 29 - Spanky & Our Gang / Supremes / Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood
    6.4/10(11 votes)

    S21:E29

    Guests: --Spanky & Our Gang - ""I'd Like to Get to Know You"" --Diana Ross and the Supremes - ""Forever Came Today"" & Fats Waller medley (""Honeysuckle Rose,"" ""Ain't Misbehavin'"" & ""Keepin' Out of Mischief Now"") --Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood - ""Story Book Children"" --Nancy Sinatra - ""100 Years"" --Jimmy Dean - ""Little Thing Called Love"" & ""Sleeping Beauty"" --George Carlin (stand-up comedian) --Louis & Christy (comedy duo) --Charlie & Cairoli (comedy team, both play clarinets) --Dominique (illusionist) Audience bow: Franco Corelli, Del Insco, Jean Drapeau

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  14. The Ed Sullivan Show Season 20 Episode 6 - Four Tops / Eddie Albert / Carroll Baker / Allan Sherman
    6.4/10(10 votes)

    S20:E6

    Guests: --The Four Tops - ""Reach Out, I'll Be There "" --Eddie Albert - ""Ballad of William Sycamore"" --Carroll Baker - medley from ""Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"" --Allan Sherman (comedian) --Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara (comedy team) - sketch about the last two people on earth meeting each other --Pat Cooper (comedian) --Sergio Franchi (singer) - ""Core 'N Grato"" --Sergio Franchi and the Kessler Twins - ""Shadow of Your Smile"" --The Kessler Twins - ""When In Rome I Do Like The Romans Do "" --The Suzuki Violins (9 children from Japan playing violins) - ""Invitation To The Dance"" --Dick Albers (trampoline act) CBS repeated this show on August 13, 1967.

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  15. The Ed Sullivan Show Season 23 Episode 20 - Bobby Goldsboro / Richard Pryor / George Carlin
    6.6/10(12 votes)

    S23:E20

    Guests: --Bobby Goldsboro - ""Everybody's Talkin'"" & ""Can You Feel It?"" --Richard Pryor (stand-up comedy) --Connie Stevens - ""Yankee Doodle,"" ""Give My Regards To Broadway"" & ""If I Were A Rich Man"" --Boots Randolph - ""Nashville, Tennessee"" & ""Hey, Jude"" --Floyd Cramer - ""I'll Never Fall in Love Again"" --Chet Atkins, Floyd Cramer, and Boots Randolph - medley: ""I Can't Help It,"" ""Jambalaya,"" ""I Saw the Light"" --George Carlin (stand-up comedy) --David Frye (impressionist) --Mr. Jiggs (chimp act) --Sam & Sammy (acrobats) --Audience bows (cameos): Joe Frazier, Yankee Durham CBS repeated this show on June 21, 1970.

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  16. The Ed Sullivan Show Season 23 Episode 23 - Nancy Sinatra / Cast of Hair / Rodney Dangerfield / Bobby Vinton
    6.7/10(12 votes)

    S23:E23

    Guests: --Nancy Sinatra (with the Rutgers University Marching Band) - ""California Dreamin'"" & ""I Love Them All"" (might be ""The Boys in the Band"") --Bobby Vinton - ""Take Me In Your Arms"" & ""My Elusive Dream"" --Joan Sutherland & Marilyn Horne - ""Mira O Norma"" --Rodney Dangerfield (stand-up comedy) --Wayne and Shuster (comedy team doing a psychic skit) --Irwin C. Watson (stand-up comedian) --Trio Rennos (comic acrobats) Audience bow (cameo): Liberace --On film, a National Urban Coalition commerical promoting racial harmony. In the film, 100 figures in entertainment, business, government and sports are gathered together to sing ""Let the Sunshine In."" Appearing in this film: the cast of ""Hair,"" Henry Fonda, Leonard Nimoy, Ali MacGraw, Ed Sullivan, Ray Charles, Eli Wallach & Anne Jackson, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme, Flip Wilson, Merv Griffin, Leontyne Price, Ralph Bunche, Roy Wilkins, etc.

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  17. The Ed Sullivan Show Season 19 Episode 22 - Rolling Stones / Hal Holbrook / Ethel Merman / Wayne Newton
    6.7/10(11 votes)

    S19:E22

    Guests: --The Rolling Stones - ""Satisfaction,"" ""As Tears Go By,"" & ""19th Nervous Breakdown"" --Wayne Newton - ""April Showers"" --Ethel Merman - ""Annie Get Your Gun"" medley & ""No Business Like Show Business"" --Hal Holbrook (playing Abraham Lincoln, reciting 2nd Inaugural Speech, anti slave speech) --Sandy Baron (comedian) --Eddie Schaeffer (comedian) --Romanian (Rumanian?) Folk ballet --Audience Bow: Allen & Rossi CBS repeated this show on July 10, 1966.

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  18. The Ed Sullivan Show Season 21 Episode 35 - Gary Puckett and the Union Gap / Richard Pryor / Rodney Dangerfield
    6.7/10(11 votes)

    S21:E35

    --Gary Puckett and the Union Gap - ""Lady Willpower"" & ""Young Girl"" Other guests: --Richard Pryor (stand-up comedy) - imitates his mother and grandmother, talks about getting revenge on the neighborhood bully. --Rodney Dangerfield (stand-up, doing his ""No Respect"" routine) --Diahann Carroll - ""At The Crossroads"" & ""Elusive Butterfly"" --David Frye (comedy, impressions of William F. Buckley, Presidents Nixon, Johnson, RFK.) --Shani Wallis - ""Alfie"" & ""High"" --Jay Marshall (ventriloquist) --Young Americans - ""Happiness"" & medley (""A Spoonful of Sugar,"" ""Back In the Old Routine Minute Waltz,"" ""Green Sleeves,"" and ""Raindrops"") --Audience bows: Leonard Sillman, Imogene Coca, Capt. Robert F. Foley

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  19. The Ed Sullivan Show Season 24 Episode 22 - Everly Brothers / George Carlin / Shirley Bassey
    6.8/10(14 votes)

    S24:E22

    Guests: --Everly Brothers - ""Bowling Green,"" ""Mama Tried,"" ""All I Have to Do Is Dream"" and ""Bye Bye Love"" --Shirley Bassey - ""What About Today"" & ""Yesterday When I Was Young"" --George Carlin (comedian) - routine about eyes, hair & Muhammed Ali (upcoming fight with Joe Frazier plug) --Jerry Butler - ""Where Are You Going?"" --David Brenner --The Brockways (acrobatic/bicycle act) - man & woman do tricks on bicycles. --Tybee & Antonio (dancers) - couple dances to instrumental song. Jungle-themed exotic dance. Also: A French Restaurant skit with Ed Sullivan, Shirley Bassey & Sid Caesar.

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  20. The Ed Sullivan Show Season 17 Episode 31 - Dusty Springfield / Gerry & the Pacemakers / Itzhak Perlman
    6.8/10(10 votes)

    S17:E31

    Guests: --Dusty Springfield - ""Stay Awhile"" & ""I Only Want to Be with You"" --Gerry and the Pacemakers - ""I Like It"" & ""Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying"" --Bobby Rydell - ""World Without Love"" --Itzak Perlman (violinist) - Wieniawski's ""Second Concerto"" --Phyllis Diller (stand-up comedy) --Jackie Mason (makes jokes about folk songs) --The Brooks Sisters - ""When The Saints Go Marching In"" (instrumental) --Doug Hart (portrays a drunk who wants to do wire walking with a female. He gets on and does a good routine by himself) --Sid Gary (comedian) - imitates George Jessel's flat singing --Los Cinco Latinos - ""El Relicaro""

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  21. The Ed Sullivan Show Season 19 Episode 20 - Four Tops / José Feliciano / SSgt. Barry Sadler / Dinah Shore
    6.9/10(14 votes)

    S19:E20

    Guests: --The Four Tops - ""Nice and Easy"" --The Four Tops - medley: ""The Whole World Sings With You,"" ""It's the Same Old Song,"" ""Something About You"" & ""I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)"" --SSgt. Barry Sadler - ""Ballad of the Green Berets"" --Jose Feliciano - ""Flight of the Bumble Bee"" --Dinah Shore - ""Chim-Chim-Cheree,"" ""Something Wonderful"" & blues medley (including ""Bye Bye Blues"") --Dick Capri (stand-up comedy, makes faces as he wonders how a mask maker does his job) --Jackie Vernon (comedian) --Topo Gigio (plays violin) --Les Faux Follets (wooden clog dance) --Markworth & Mayana (precision archery) --Audience bow: Jean Drapeau (Montreal Mayor)

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  22. The Ed Sullivan Show Season 20 Episode 23 - Young Rascals / Joan Rivers / Lola Falana / Nancy Walker
    6.9/10(13 votes)

    S20:E23

    --The Young Rascals - ""Lonely Too Long"" and ""Come On Up"" instrumental (Young Rascals also perform ""Mickey's Monkey"" later in show.) --Peter Gennaro (dancer / choreographer) - dances to ""Baubles, Bangles, and Beads"" with women dancers. --Ravic and Babs (rollerskating couple, from England) --Sally Ann Howes - medley: ""Someone To Light Up My Life"" & ""If He Walked Into My Life"" --Joey Adams (stand-up comedian) - tells one liners & pokes fun at Ed Sullivan. --Los Indios Tabajaros (Indian guitar duo from South America) - instrumental song --Joan Rivers (stand-up comedy) - re: Las Vegas, her mother, parents, smoking, being an unpopular teenager, not being asked to the senior prom. --Lola Falana - ""On Broadway"" with dancers (including Tommy Tune?) --Audience Bow: ""KO"" Phil Kaplan (boxer) --Ed talks about Bert Lahr --Nancy Walker & Jack Gilford (comedians appearing in a sketch first done by Lahr) On film: --The Beatles - ""Strawberry Fields Forever"" & ""Penny Lane"" pr

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  23. The Ed Sullivan Show Season 20 Episode 36 - The Turtles / Woody Allen / Leslie Uggams
    7.0/10(15 votes)

    S20:E36

    The Turtles - ""Happy Together"" & ""She'd Rather Be with Me"" Other guests: -- Woody Allen (stand-up comedy routine) - includes jokes about Ed Sullivan & Ed's show. --Leslie Uggams - sings ""Being Good"" & "" Hallelujah, Baby!"" (both songs are from the play ""Hallelujah, Baby!"" in which Leslie played Georgina Franklin) --Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara (comedy team) - stand-up jokes about both mothers coming to dinner for Mother's Day. They sing ""Irish-Jewish Marriage."" --Aliza Kashfi - ""If I Were A Rich Man"" (song from ""Fiddler On the Roof,"" sung In English and Hebrew) --Enzo Stuarti - ""Exodus"" --Tanya Solnik (young girl sings in Hebrew) --The Keigo Imperial Dancers (dancers from Japan) --The Varadys (teeter board acrobats) --Audience Bows: Navy Vietnam Veterans

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  24. The Ed Sullivan Show Season 18 Episode 6 - Dave Clark Five / Rex Harrison / Alan King
    7.0/10(13 votes)

    S18:E6

    The Dave Clark Five - ""Anyway You Want It"" Other guests: --Rex Harrison (on film?) --Leon Bibb (folk singer) --Alan King (comedian) --Marilyn Michaels (singer-impressionist) --Dolores Gray (singer) --Richard Hearne (British comedian, a.k.a. ""Mr. Pastry"") --Rolando (a balancing artist)

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  25. The Ed Sullivan Show Season 17 Episode 23 - Dave Clark Five / A Salute to American Composers
    7.0/10(11 votes)

    S17:E23

    Dave Clark Five - ""Glad All Over"" ""A Salute to American Composers"" --Jerry Vale - ""Ah, Sweet Mystery"" & ""You Can't Take That Away from Me"" --Florence Henderson - ""I Get A Kick Out of You"" & ""Wonderful Guy"" --Ed Sullivan talks with Ira Gershwin. --Steve Lawrence - ""A Room Without Windows, A Room Without Doors"" & ""Gigi"" --Harry Ruby (piano medley) --Phil Silvers & Saul Chaplin - ""Old Man River"" sketch --Juliet Prowse (dancer) - dances to ""Black Bottom"" & ""The Peabody"" --Blossom Seeley - ""I Love A Medley"" Piano medley with five ASCAP composers: Jimmy McHugh (""Sunny Side of the Street""); Arthur Freed (""Singing in the Rain""); Grace Kahn & Donald Kahn (""It Had to be You"" & ""Ain't We Got Fun""); Sammy Fain (""Love Is A Many Splendored Thing"").

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Eddie Fisher; filmed interviews with Hollywood stars" is the worst rated episode of The Ed Sullivan Show. It scored 1.2/10 from 118 votes. Written and directed by Unknown, it aired on May 8, 1955. This episode scored 2.9 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Rolling Stones / Ella Fitzgerald / Eddie Albert".

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