> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I remember Steve Allen gave up The Tonight Show for a prime time show.
>> Was that at 10?

Jon Delfin wrote...
> My memory says Sunday at 8 or 9, opposite Ed Sullivan or Bonanza. Much
> too tired to actually look it up, though.

PGage writes...
The wikis say it was on at 10:00 in the 1959 season, following three
prior seasons at 8:00.

Pgage  wrote...
> Jimmy Durante presents the Lennon Sisters Hour (ABC) [Wow - this is
> the kind of think my grandparents must have watched, but I don't
> remember it. I assume there was "comedy" in it]

Jon Delfin wrote...
Depends on if you think Jimmy Durante was funny. I did, and I'm not
even as old as your grandparents.

PGage writes...
Well, I was primarily thinking of the Lennon Sisters as comedy
buzz-kill. I had limited exposure to Durante as a kid (probably mostly
through my grandfather). Unlike some other old time entertainers my
grandfather exposed me to (e.g. Jack Benny, Groucho Marx, Jackie
Gleason, George Burns), I never really developed a taste for Durante,
though had no particular dislike for him either.

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