The Ed Sullivan Show
scheduled: Constance Bennett; Senor Wences; Cell Block 7; Patachou
TV Flash files “scheduled: Constance Bennett; Senor Wences; Cell Block 7; Patachou” as hour 45 of 690 in the TV Flash guide — The Ed Sullivan Show (1948–1971) on CBS, season 9, episode 42, aired 1956-07-08, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S09E42: listed hour 45 of 690 in the The Ed Sullivan Show guide, hour 42 of 52 in season 9. It aired 1956-07-08 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “John Huston salute: Gregory Peck; Orson Welles; Lauren Bacall; Edward G. Robinson” (S09E41). Next is “Julie Andrews / Louis Armstrong / Bing Crosby (on film)” (S09E43). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Viewer FAQ
Where does scheduled: Constance Bennett; Senor Wences; Cell Block 7; Patachou sit in the The Ed Sullivan Show guide?
S09E42 is listed hour 45 of 690 — hour 42 of 52 in season 9, season 9 episode 42.
When did The Ed Sullivan Show S09E42 air?
scheduled: Constance Bennett; Senor Wences; Cell Block 7; Patachou aired 1956-07-08 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
- S09E06 Andy Griffith / Jean Simmons / Orson Bean