The Ed Sullivan Show
Andy Griffith / Jean Simmons / Orson Bean
TV Flash files “Andy Griffith / Jean Simmons / Orson Bean” as hour 9 of 690 in the TV Flash guide — The Ed Sullivan Show (1948–1971) on CBS, season 9, episode 6, aired 1955-10-30, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S09E06: listed hour 9 of 690 in the The Ed Sullivan Show guide, hour 6 of 52 in season 9. It aired 1955-10-30 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “scheduled: Nat King Cole & wife Maria; Jack Palance; Rod Steiger” (S09E05). Next is “scheduled: Phil Silvers; Liberace; Rise Stevens” (S09E07). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Andy Griffith / Jean Simmons / Orson Bean sit in the The Ed Sullivan Show guide?
S09E06 is listed hour 9 of 690 — hour 6 of 52 in season 9, season 9 episode 6.
When did The Ed Sullivan Show S09E06 air?
Andy Griffith / Jean Simmons / Orson Bean aired 1955-10-30 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where should I start?
If you want heat, start with Elvis’s first 1956 booking, then the Beatles on February 9, 1964. If you want the machine itself, glance at the 1948 opener, then jump to the crime scenes.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Sunday as a rope line: Sullivan’s clipboard decided who got to be loud in the living room. Watch the bookings as foreign policy — Elvis cropped, Beatles admitted, lyrics policed — and the feuds that still read like a publicist calling a freeze-out a scheduling conflict.
Flash: it is Sunday, the set is a Sunday best, and a man who looks like your accountant is about to decide whether America gets to scream. The Ed Sullivan Show was not a variety hour. It was a rope line with a full orchestra. Booking was foreign policy. One slot could mint a legend; one freeze-out could send a comic back to the Catskills with a publicist already calling it a misunderstanding. The museum wants a civic story about shared culture. I want the clipboard. Who got the eight o’clock heat. Who got the…
Filed against
- Ed Sullivan as Host
Ed Sullivan ruled Sunday night variety as the stone-faced kingmaker who put the Beatles — and every comic who needed a break — in American living rooms. Booking wars and censorship dust-ups made him hero or villain depending on the week.…
- Ray Bloch as Orchestra leader
Ray Bloch led the orchestra on The Ed Sullivan Show — Sunday as a rope line with strings, a bandleader under twenty-three years of living-room gatekeeping. Booking was foreign policy; the downbeat was Bloch’s. TV Flash still hears the…
- Ralph Paul as Announcer
Ralph Paul announced The Ed Sullivan Show — the Sunday-night voice that told a nation who was about to be loud. Booking was foreign policy; the clipboard was Ed’s. Paul was the rope line’s spoken architecture. TV Flash still hears the…
Also in season 9
- S09E01 Robert Mitchum / Lillian Gish / Rocky Marciano
- S09E02 Nat King Cole / Fanny cast / Josh Logan
- S09E03 Johnny Carson / June Valli / on film: Frank Sinatra; Marlon Brando
- S09E04 scheduled: Edward R. Murrow; Dave Brubeck; Ed Begley; Tony Randall
- S09E05 scheduled: Nat King Cole & wife Maria; Jack Palance; Rod Steiger
- S09E07 scheduled: Phil Silvers; Liberace; Rise Stevens