The Ed Sullivan Show
The Great Santa Claus Switch with Art Carney and the Muppets
TV Flash files “The Great Santa Claus Switch with Art Carney and the Muppets” as hour 679 of 690 in the TV Flash guide — The Ed Sullivan Show (1948–1971) on CBS, season 24, episode 14, aired 1970-12-20, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S24E14: listed hour 679 of 690 in the The Ed Sullivan Show guide, hour 14 of 25 in season 24. It aired 1970-12-20 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “scheduled: Bobby Sherman; New Seekers; Robert Merrill” (S24E13). Next is “scheduled: Bobbie Gentry; Friends of Distinction; Peter Nero” (S24E15). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Great Santa Claus Switch with Art Carney and the Muppets sit in the The Ed Sullivan Show guide?
S24E14 is listed hour 679 of 690 — hour 14 of 25 in season 24, season 24 episode 14.
When did The Ed Sullivan Show S24E14 air?
The Great Santa Claus Switch with Art Carney and the Muppets aired 1970-12-20 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 24
- S24E01 The Georgie Awards: Barbra Streisand / Blood Sweat & Tears / Tom Jones
- S24E02 Bobby Vinton / Rare Earth / Holiday on Ice
- S24E03 Melanie / Engelbert Humperdinck / Tiny Tim
- S24E04 scheduled: Arthur Godfrey; Loretta Lynn
- S24E05 Carpenters / B.B. King / Tony Bennett
- S24E06 U.N. 25th Anniversary: The New Seekers / Ravi Shankar