The Ed Sullivan Show
Steppenwolf / Nancy Ames / Stiller & Meara
TV Flash files “Steppenwolf / Nancy Ames / Stiller & Meara” as hour 628 of 690 in the TV Flash guide — The Ed Sullivan Show (1948–1971) on CBS, season 22, episode 39, aired 1969-08-17, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S22E39: listed hour 628 of 690 in the The Ed Sullivan Show guide, hour 39 of 40 in season 22. It aired 1969-08-17 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “scheduled: Vikki Carr; Henny Youngman; Clara Ward Gospel Singers” (S22E38). Next is “Sam & Dave / Roslyn Kind / Jackie Mason” (S22E40). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Steppenwolf / Nancy Ames / Stiller & Meara sit in the The Ed Sullivan Show guide?
S22E39 is listed hour 628 of 690 — hour 39 of 40 in season 22, season 22 episode 39.
When did The Ed Sullivan Show S22E39 air?
Steppenwolf / Nancy Ames / Stiller & Meara aired 1969-08-17 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 22
- S22E01 Jefferson Airplane / Diana Ross & the Supremes / Red Skelton
- S22E02 scheduled: Dionne Warwick; Tiny Tim; Tony Bennett
- S22E03 The Beach Boys / Richard Pryor / Peter O'Toole
- S22E04 The Fifth Dimension / Steve McQueen (on film) / Joan Rivers
- S22E05 Mary Hopkin / Gary Lewis and the Playboys / George Carlin
- S22E06 scheduled: Alan King, George Hamilton, Connie Francis, Stiller & Meara