The Ed Sullivan Show
Season 1
1 listed hours · 1948–1971 · CBS
From the desk
How this season is filed
Twenty-three years of living-room gatekeeping: Elvis from the waist up, the Beatles as a national scream, and a host who could mint a legend or ice a comic before Monday’s papers.
TV Flash files Season 1 of The Ed Sullivan Show (1948–1971) on CBS as the first listed season of 19 — 1 listed hour, 1948-06-20 opening on “Rodgers and Hammerstein, Monica Lewis, José Ferrer, Ruby Goldstein” (S01E01). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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