The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Season 1979
21 listed hours · 1962–1992 · NBC
From the desk
How this season is filed
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.
TV Flash files Season 1979 of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1992) on NBC as a mid listed season (1979; 18 of 31) — 21 listed hours, 1979-01-26–1979-12-05 from “Jan 26, 1979” (S1979E17) to “Dec 5, 1979” (S1979E243). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Desk essentials in this season
- S1979E234 Nov 22, 1979
A late-decade Burbank night as ritual, not plot: the host craft fully formed after the New York years.
- S1979E17 Jan 26, 1979
- S1979E25 Feb 8, 1979
- S1979E30 Feb 15, 1979
- S1979E31 Feb 16, 1979
- S1979E58 Mar 21, 1979
- S1979E66 Apr 2, 1979
- S1979E82 Apr 24, 1979
- S1979E94 May 10, 1979
- S1979E129 Jun 28, 1979
- S1979E133 Jun 29, 1979
- S1979E137 Jul 10, 1979
- S1979E149 Jul 26, 1979
- S1979E153 Aug 1, 1979
- S1979E176 Sep 3, 1979
- S1979E190 Nov 5, 1979
- S1979E199 Oct 4, 1979
- S1979E203 Oct. 10, 1979
- S1979E213 Oct. 24, 1979
- S1979E219 Nov 1, 1979
- S1979E234 Nov 22, 1979
- S1979E243 Dec 5, 1979
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