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The Ed Sullivan Show

Season 24

25 listed hours · 1948–1971 · CBS

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Filed by Vivian Cross · The Carpet Report

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 24 of The Ed Sullivan Show (1948–1971) on CBS as the last listed season of 19 — 25 listed hours, 1970-09-20–1971-03-28 from “The Georgie Awards: Barbra Streisand / Blood Sweat & Tears / Tom Jones” (S24E01) to “Melanie; David Frye; Sandler & Young” (S24E25). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

  1. S24E01 The Georgie Awards: Barbra Streisand / Blood Sweat & Tears / Tom Jones
  2. S24E02 Bobby Vinton / Rare Earth / Holiday on Ice
  3. S24E03 Melanie / Engelbert Humperdinck / Tiny Tim
  4. S24E04 scheduled: Arthur Godfrey; Loretta Lynn
  5. S24E05 Carpenters / B.B. King / Tony Bennett
  6. S24E06 U.N. 25th Anniversary: The New Seekers / Ravi Shankar
  7. S24E07 Bobbie Gentry / Melba Moore / Roy Clark
  8. S24E08 Four Tops / Carpenters / Freda Payne
  9. S24E09 Tommy Roe / Billy Joe Royal / Joe South
  10. S24E10 Richard Rogers Tribute: Shirley Jones; Cass Elliott
  11. S24E11 scheduled: Buck Owens; Joan Rivers; Norm Crosby
  12. S24E12 Grass Roots / Joey Heatherton / Pat Cooper
  13. S24E13 scheduled: Bobby Sherman; New Seekers; Robert Merrill
  14. S24E14 The Great Santa Claus Switch with Art Carney and the Muppets
  15. S24E15 scheduled: Bobbie Gentry; Friends of Distinction; Peter Nero
  16. S24E16 scheduled: Rodney Dangerfield; Lana Cantrell; O.C. Smith
  17. S24E17 scheduled: Gary Puckett; Tony Bennett; Judy Carne
  18. S24E18 B.J. Thomas / Rahsaan Roland Kirk / Nancy Ames
  19. S24E19 Temptations / Connie Stevens / Albert Brooks
  20. S24E20 Gladys Knight & the Pips / Sid Caesar & Carol Channing
  21. S24E21 Fifth Dimension / Tiny Tim & Miss Vickie / Connie Stevens
  22. S24E22 Everly Brothers / George Carlin / Shirley Bassey
  23. S24E23 Armed Forces Music Festival: Jeannie C. Riley; Teresa Graves
  24. S24E24 Bernadette Peters / George Hamilton / Oliver
  25. S24E25 Melanie; David Frye; Sandler & Young

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