Season 1985

From the desk

How this season is filed

Filed by Max Sterling · Streaming Confidential

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 1985 of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1992) on NBC as a mid listed season (1985; 24 of 31) — 9 listed hours, 1985-01-04–1985-10-31 from “Peter Fonda , Charles Nelson Reilly, A. Whitney Brown” (S1985E04) to “Oct 31, 1985” (S1985E218). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.