The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
The Ed Sullivan Show (Season 2)
Sarah Vaughan, Gali-Gali Luxor (Episode 1)
Air date: 1948-09-12
Runtime: 60 min
Louis Jordan, Benny Rubin (Episode 2)
Air date: 1948-09-19
Runtime: 60 min
Bob Hope, Al Bernie (Episode 3)
Air date: 1948-09-26
Runtime: 60 min
Betty Reilly, Les Compagnons de la Chanson (Episode 4)
Air date: 1948-10-03
Runtime: 60 min
Joey Adams, Marc Platt, Tony Canzoneri, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (Episode 5)
Air date: 1948-10-10
Runtime: 60 min
Frances Faye, Don Marcus, Les Compagnons de la Chanson (Episode 6)
Air date: 1948-10-17
Runtime: 60 min
Benny Goodman, The Ink Spots (Episode 7)
Air date: 1948-10-24
Runtime: 60 min
Dorothy Sarnoff (Episode 8)
Air date: 1948-10-31
Runtime: 60 min
Monica Lewis, The Three Dunhills, Richard Buckley, Rachel & Bebe (Episode 9)
Air date: 1948-11-07
Runtime: 60 min
Paula Bane, Dewey Marchand, Elsa & Waldo (Episode 10)
Air date: 1948-11-14
Runtime: 60 min
The Blackburn Twins, Pat C. Flick, Pat Henning, Betty Jane Watson, Dollinoff and the Reya Sisters (Episode 11)
Air date: 1948-11-21
Runtime: 60 min
Ray Morgan, Margaret Phelan, Virginia Austin, The Temperton Family, the Baltimore Colts Majorettes (Episode 12)
Air date: 1948-11-28
Runtime: 60 min
Al Bernie, Dave Barry, Irra Petina (Episode 13)
Air date: 1948-12-05
Runtime: 60 min
Nanette Fabray, Ezzard Charles, Hope Emerson, Bunny Briggs, Dolonoff, The Reyes Sisters, The Temperton Family (Episode 14)
Air date: 1948-12-12
Runtime: 60 min
John Garfield, Dorothy Sarnoff, Frank Fontaine, Pat C. Flick, Tommy Farrell (Episode 15)
Air date: 1948-12-19
Runtime: 60 min
Guests unknown (Episode 16)
Air date: 1948-12-26
Runtime: 60 min
Rudy Vallee, George M. Cohan, Jr., Sidney Blackmer, Pat C. Flick, The Ravens (Episode 17)
Air date: 1949-01-02
Runtime: 60 min
Luise Rainer (Episode 18)
Air date: 1949-01-09
Runtime: 60 min
Rudy Vallee, Nanette Fabray, Wally Boag, Jean Carroll, Bob Evans, Pat C. Flick (Episode 19)
Air date: 1949-01-16
Runtime: 60 min
Jule Stein & Sammy Cahn, The Holloway Sisters, Byron Palmer & Doretta Morrow, Al Kelly (Episode 20)
Air date: 1949-01-23
Runtime: 60 min
Tony Martin, Carol Bruce (Episode 21)
Air date: 1949-01-30
Runtime: 60 min
Jackie Gleason, Rudy Vallee, Luise Rainer, Johnny Coy, W.C. Handy, Pat Henning (Episode 22)
Air date: 1949-02-06
Runtime: 60 min
Rudy Vallee, Diana Barrymore (Episode 23)
Air date: 1949-02-13
Runtime: 60 min
Faye Emerson, Donald Richards (Episode 24)
Air date: 1949-02-20
Runtime: 60 min
Larry Storch, Patricia Morison, Don Cummings (Episode 25)
Air date: 1949-02-27
Runtime: 60 min
Charles Laughton (Episode 26)
Air date: 1949-03-06
Runtime: 60 min
Humphrey Bogart, Anne Jeffreys, Buddy Baer (Episode 27)
Air date: 1949-03-13
Runtime: 60 min
Connie Haines, Rolland Tap (Episode 28)
Air date: 1949-03-20
Runtime: 60 min
Nat King Cole Trio, Hal LeRoy, The DeMarco Sisters (Episode 29)
Air date: 1949-03-27
Runtime: 60 min
John Carridine, The Costello Twins (Episode 30)
Air date: 1949-04-03
Runtime: 60 min
Patricia Morison, Gali Gali (Episode 31)
Air date: 1949-04-10
Runtime: 60 min
Jack Leonard, Gali Gali, Notre Dame Singers (Episode 32)
Air date: 1949-04-17
Runtime: 60 min
Joey Adams, Pat Rooney, Yvonne Adair (Episode 33)
Air date: 1949-04-24
Runtime: 60 min
Harvey Stone, Al Schacht, Gill Dorian (Episode 34)
Air date: 1949-05-01
Runtime: 60 min
Charles Laughton (Episode 35)
Air date: 1949-05-08
Runtime: 60 min
Jamila Novotna, Sigmund Romberg (Episode 36)
Air date: 1949-05-15
Runtime: 60 min
Paul Winchell, Jane Kean, Ladd Lyon (Episode 37)
Air date: 1949-05-22
Runtime: 60 min
Zero Mostel, Kitty Kallen (Episode 38)
Air date: 1949-05-29
Runtime: 60 min
Harold Lloyd, Vincent Richards (Episode 39)
Air date: 1949-06-05
Runtime: 60 min
Toni Harper, Sam Levenson (Episode 40)
Air date: 1949-06-12
Runtime: 60 min
Richard Rodgers, Juanita Hall, Harvey Stone (Episode 41)
Air date: 1949-06-19
Runtime: 60 min
Sarah Vaughan, Elaine Street, Ken Carr (Episode 42)
Air date: 1949-06-26
Runtime: 60 min
Toni Harper, Tony Lavelli (Episode 43)
Air date: 1949-07-03
Runtime: 60 min
Joan Merrill, Bill Tabbert, Illinois Jacquet, Brooklyn Dodgers team members (Episode 44)
Air date: 1949-07-10
Runtime: 60 min
Cab Calloway, Jackie Robinson, Stan Musial (Episode 45)
Air date: 1949-07-17
Runtime: 60 min
Buddy Rogers, Duke Alden, Sunny Howard, The Accordion Aces (Episode 46)
Air date: 1949-07-24
Runtime: 60 min
Edward Everett Horton, David Powell, Marino Sisters, The Colstons (Episode 47)
Air date: 1949-07-31
Runtime: 60 min
Eddie Albert, George Connolly, the Margo, Paul and Paulette Trio (Episode 48)
Air date: 1949-08-07
Runtime: 60 min
Sonny Tufts, Hazel Scott (Episode 49)
Air date: 1949-08-14
Runtime: 60 min
Bill Tabbert, Phil Foster, Lee Marks, Marie Gambarelli (Episode 50)
Air date: 1949-08-21
Runtime: 60 min
Toni Arden, Sunny Skylar, Harold Lang, Billy Vine (Episode 51)
Air date: 1949-08-28
Runtime: 60 min
Jack Williams, Annabelle Hill, Jose Toledano, Sebastian Castros (Episode 52)
Air date: 1949-09-04
Runtime: 60 min
Buddy Lester, Alan Dale, Maggie Teyte (Episode 53)
Air date: 1949-09-11
Runtime: 60 min
