The Ed Sullivan Show
Bill Haley & the Comets / Lena Horne / Tony Perkins
TV Flash files “Bill Haley & the Comets / Lena Horne / Tony Perkins” as hour 86 of 690 in the TV Flash guide — The Ed Sullivan Show (1948–1971) on CBS, season 10, episode 31, aired 1957-04-28, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S10E31: listed hour 86 of 690 in the The Ed Sullivan Show guide, hour 31 of 51 in season 10. It aired 1957-04-28 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “scheduled: Buster Keaton; Donald O'Connor; Chester Gould” (S10E30). Next is “Johnnie Ray / Walter Pidgeon / Sugar Ray Robinson” (S10E32). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Bill Haley & the Comets / Lena Horne / Tony Perkins sit in the The Ed Sullivan Show guide?
S10E31 is listed hour 86 of 690 — hour 31 of 51 in season 10, season 10 episode 31.
When did The Ed Sullivan Show S10E31 air?
Bill Haley & the Comets / Lena Horne / Tony Perkins aired 1957-04-28 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 10
- S10E01 scheduled: Edward G. Robinson; Edith Piaf; Helen Traubel; Jean Carroll
- S10E02 Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz / Yogi Berra / Gisele MacKenzie / Joyce Grenfell
- S10E03 scheduled: Eartha Kitt; Kate Smith; Joe E. Lewis; Ricky Layne;Richardi
- S10E04 Dedication of the Henry & Edsel Ford Auditorium / Johnny Carson
- S10E05 scheduled: Jack Paar / On film: Robert Mitchum; Rita Hayworth; Jack Lemmon
- S10E06 Elvis Presley (2nd appearance) / Senior Wences / Joyce Grenfell