The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Ernest Borgnine, Laurence Harvey, Rose Marie, Phil Harris
TV Flash files “Ernest Borgnine, Laurence Harvey, Rose Marie, Phil Harris” as hour 110 of 1660 in the TV Flash guide — The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1992) on NBC, season 1964, episode 35, aired 1964-02-18, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S1964E35: listed hour 110 of 1660 in the The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson guide, hour 7 of 25 in season 1964. It aired 1964-02-18 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Feb 17, 1964” (S1964E34). Next is “Nick Adams, Rhonda Fleming, Joe and Eddie” (S1964E41). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Ernest Borgnine, Laurence Harvey, Rose Marie, Phil Harris sit in the The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson guide?
S1964E35 is listed hour 110 of 1660 — hour 7 of 25 in season 1964, season 1964 episode 35.
When did The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson S1964E35 air?
Ernest Borgnine, Laurence Harvey, Rose Marie, Phil Harris aired 1964-02-18 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where should I start?
Any surviving Burbank-era hour with a full monologue, desk chat, and a comic on the couch shows the furniture he locked in. The late-career years are the easiest on-ramp: the ritual is fully formed.
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Why this series still plays
Johnny Carson owned NBC's 11:30 for nearly thirty years: monologue, desk, couch, and a golf swing as host craft. Ed McMahon and Doc Severinsen made the furniture feel like a national after-party. Watch it to see why every later late-night host still inherits or rebels against Burbank — the template for who gets the couch.
October 1, 1962, is the drop date that still explains the furniture. Johnny Carson leased NBC's 11:30 for **thirty years** — through May 22, 1992 — 31 seasons and 1,660 hours of monologue, desk, couch, and the occasional animal segment that went feral. Rex will call it a national bedtime story. It was a window. Politicians, movie stars, and comics all needed the wave-on because the clock did not move.
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- Johnny Carson as Host
Johnny Carson owned NBC’s 11:30 for nearly thirty years — monologue, desk, couch, and a golf swing as host craft. Ed McMahon and Doc Severinsen made the furniture feel like a national after-party. Every later late-night host still…
- Ed McMahon as Announcer / Sidekick
Ed McMahon made The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson furniture feel like a national after-party — announcer, sidekick, and the laugh that told America the monologue had landed. Carson owned NBC's 11:30; McMahon owned the welcome. TV…
- Doc Severinsen as Bandleader
Doc Severinsen led The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as bandleader flash — monologue, desk, couch, golf swing as host craft, Ed McMahon as furniture, NBC’s 11:30 for nearly thirty years. A national after-party in a sequined jacket.…