The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson December 31st, 1965, with original commercials (full show)
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- (video taken from archive.org ) the special was broadcasted in color except in Times Square where there were black and white cameras as the new year's special goes Johnny Carson welcomes guests Gila Golan, Woody Allen, and William Walke with live Remote reports from Ben Grauer at Times Square (video quality of the special is mid probably cuz the reel tape was then recorded on a vhs tape and then digitalized but it's better than nothing.) (i own nothing of this video all copyright goes to nbc and the carson entertainment group)
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It cannot be overstated how important it is that not only do we have a color copy of this, but a FULL color copy of this. Thank you to the person who uploaded this, as well as whoever kept it for close to 60 years without being damaged or taped over.
here is where i got this some guy named wallwalker44 uploaded it archive.org/details/1969-06-13-dana-valery-stan-freberg-joan-rivers-jim-fowler-black-and-white/1965-12-31+New+Years+Eve+with+Times+Square+Remote+with+Gila+Golan%2C+Woody+Allen%2C+William+Walker%2C+Criswell%2C+The+Muppets%2C+and+Phil+Ford+and+Mimi+Hines.mp4
This is NOT colorized. It is the original NBC color transmission.
It's actual living color from back in the day. color was so much better back than. I enjoy showing this on my 1965. RCA. CTC 16 from the same year.. @jasonbeard4713
@@a1wireless1964 "Color was so much better then" -- What a stranger thing to say. Actually I get it and nice cathode ray toob you got there buddy!
I'm assuming we can thank the fact that this was a special for somehow keeping it apart from the tapes that all got wiped.
By the way, I'm proud to say I myself saved a few precious things from being wiped by their cheapskate producer. Notably a 30 minute Mel Blanc interview from 1979 which is now on RUclips labeled "lost for 35 years" (Warner's even used a clip from it on their Bugs Bunny 80th Birthday special and I got a hunnert bucks!)
Where did the recording come from? It is obviously a UMatic or VHS copy. Where is the original 2" Quadruplex recording?
The casual, party atmosphere is what made talk shows great.
I wasn't even a "twinkle in my Daddy's eye" when this Tonight Show aired! 😅 Thank you to the people who managed to preserve this for us to view now.
I can't say how grateful I am that you posted this invaluable time capsule. Thank you
Wow Skitch Henderson! Now we're going way back in Tonight Show history! Love it.
yes, he was there at the begining with Steve Allen as host and DOC was in the band
This is tremendous! My earliest recollection of New Year's Eve Tonight Show broadcasts are from 1970 on, when the folks 'allowed' me to stay up and watch TV. Remember Johnny and Ed in their tuxes well. But this early color show? Incredible!
know where i could find that show?
You could only stay up late on New Years Eve?
@@darwinblinksyep
However, starting school in early August, is a travesty🤨
This is amszing tv footage. The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson was EPIC!!!!!!
As the clock hit midnight, the NYC transit system went on strike. Lots of New Year revelers were caught short and had a very difficult time getting home. The strike lasted about 11 days.
Lucky that didn't result in mass looting.
@@Mark-bm5nk Weather has something to do with it. There was complete calm during the November 1965 blackout. Not so with the July 1977 blackout.
@@davemiller4721 I remember that in 77 well. It scared me even tho I live in British Columbia..I was just 11 but was shocked that people could act like that. It must have been pure hell for a lot of people there.
@@Mark-bm5nk NYC was a different place by 1977 than it had been in '65. I've seen it change over many years. Right now the thing to do is evade the subway and bus fare with virtually no consequence, while the MTA begs for more tax money to support its capital projects.
Indeed it did. Michael Quill, TW U leader, would tease the mayor as mayor Lindsley.
This is so old that Johnny's sidekick was known then as Ed _McBoy._
It’s no wonder The Tonite Show lasted as long as it did. Johnny was the master at keeping the audience entertained and engaged with his quick wit, humor and overall down to earth demeanor. He is still the undisputed King of Late night in my opinion. We will always love and miss you Johnny.
And, he did it without offering HIS political opinions, unlike the Bozos who inhabit late night TV today.
@@leogrogan1923 You know what his last job was? Writing monologues for David Letterman, believe it or not!!!
Johnny Carson genuinely loved all people, another big reason why the Tonight Show lasted so long.
His producer, Peter Lasally, moved to New York to work on the Letterman show after Johnny stepped down. Johnny, with no outlet for his topical jokes, used to say, " what am I supposed to do with my jokes, tell them to the goldfish?" Peter told him to fax them to him; Johnny always liked it when one of his jokes found it's way into the Letterman monologue.
Those two haters (Kimmel/Colbert) afflicted TDS, that masquerade as hosts of late night tv, need to pay attention to how a host is supposed to carry themselves will guests of different political beliefs, and not let it consume the show and what type of guests they have on.
Its a shame that these historic shows werent saved by the NBC.
They were....
@helbitkelbit1790 I though that they used tape, and reused them taping over the prior recording?
@@seerstone8982 They once said that all the Green Hornet shows were destroyed . Every thing is sitting somewhere
@@helbitkelbit1790 Some things are totally lost and some things got burned up. But I am guessing that a lot of "lost" stuff is sitting around somewhere.
I watch the reruns practically every night. They were saved.
Its pretty impressive in 1965 they had color cameras and a live remote from Times Square... also Ed is the authority on three-way action LOL
Huh🤔
I wonder if it's double entendre
And they were pushing the envelope
Since ol hef, was big😞😵
An amazing find! I could only watch the Tonight Show on Friday nights because I was in high school. It used to start at 11:15PM. The first 15 minutes were Ed McMahon and Skitch Henderson, warming up the audience. At 11:30PM, Johnny came out and did his monologue.
3 years in there already
calling Johnny a Prince 📺👑
This is a real treat especially since I heard the first 10 years of the show were lost.
I was mesmerized by this. I was 14 years old when this aired. My true wish would be to see the first Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. These gems keep popping up from no where. Perhaps it’s out there somewhere.
Having the guy from "Plan 9 from Outer Space" is the perfect move for your first show.
Of course you are referring to -- "THE AMAZING CRISWELL" -- ace prognosticator for all of time !!
"See you at Bordner's . . ."
(His and his buds' favorite hangout in Hollywood. If you are there and mention The Master, I think they'll give you a free drink. Regularly, his many fans assemble on his birthday to give tribute to him.)
@GreenSneakersAndHam1 Yes! And very well-off! He made his dough in real estate.
Mae West ("he's ninety-percent correct") did very well by his advice.
This apparently is the ONLY existing (and now as seen complete) footage of The Master doing his thing!
I do believe that his New Years appearances were ritualistic, and so did many. He was the PERFECT foil for Johnny's humor. (Notice here how he pauses for Johnny to get his joking comment out?)
@@jamesmiller4184 Oh, that's great! And, thank you for the tip on the drink. 😀
@@trainsplanesmore 👍😅
Not the first Carson show.
Thank you so much for uploading this video without a watermark!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 This was my first New Year’s Eve, but I don’t remember much because the folks made me go to sleep early. I’m sure that they had fun! They might have even watched this show. Very, very, very cool!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for uploading this
Minus 6 years before I was born. Reading the rest of these comments, I feel like a kid! LOL
Sorry! Sometimes it's rough being young.
My first New Years. I was 6 months old. Such a treasure to see this as I thought all the early programs of the Tonight Show were gone. Such a laid back and easy going vibe on the whole set. A big plus to see the beautiful Gila there also. 😍
My parents and I are in that crowd somewhere. The only year we ever went. Pretty big moment for an 11 year old boy.
WOW! Now that's really something!
As a fellow of that young (but, not so much so that you would not remember), might you recall -- drum-roll/cue Elgar -- The Amazing Criswell -- ace prognosticator of EVERYTHING FUTURE?
As far as I am aware, Paulea, this is the only existing record of him doing his thing, predicting future events as no other ever did nor were to ever! (Pathetic would-be IMITATORS!)
I would suggest that you download this program for viewing far into the future, taking due note as they transpire of what he predicted, as each comes true.
Congratulations for having BEEN THERE!
"See you at Bordner's"
This is incredibly early. Might be the earliest I have ever seen
66 , great year for garage rock!🎸
Criswell was off by 3 years with the Moon Landing and about 60 years with the nose rings.
If one considers REsearch: Modern Primitives as the work that unleashed a fad of tattoos and piercings in The West (many do) he was off by just less than 30 years or one fashion cycle.
HEY you two: RESPECT for the master, please?
What's a little time give-or-take?
The point is that he was ". . . ninety percent correct . . ." eventually -- Mae West and me.
(See you at Bordner's.)
@@jamesmiller4184 "I had the gift. I lost it when I started taking money for it." - Jerry Criswell King ca. 1963
@@stanwbaker Tongue-in-cheek, I meant my comment as -- i.e. jocularly.
Some others too say that Cris did have the gift but, was more about somethings other than that mostly.
He entertained very many for a long while and in varying ways, all-the-while scoring dough with his real-estate pursuits, ending well-off. I watched his show entranced in the Fifties.
I just can't help but love the guy!
Jeffery Jones playing him in "ED WOOD" the movie, nailed 'im!
"See you at Bordner's"
Always loved Johnny and his show...really miss the tv ads back then...tv ads at present are ridiculously stupid..
full episode of the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson from December 3rd, 1963, in black and white uploaded on my 2nd channel ruclips.net/video/gVVCtEctI7Y/видео.html
WOW!
We're headed for there.
The man behind Ed is Don Ashworth, who was with Carson from day one. Tommy Newsom was there from the beginning as well.
Doc was much better conductor than Skip
@@MrMike-fm8bp Yes, and more entertaining.
1:07:18 WOW!! 😮 I just realized that the music played here was composed less than 30 years before this Tonight Show broadcast. Makes me feel ancient since the earliest Beatles recordings are now over 60 years old... 😥
Gila Golan was always gorgeous. Loved her in Our Man Flint and The Valley of Gwangi.
She was excellent in the movie Ship of Fools.
Most places does The Tonight Show aired did not have this pre-show bit just between Ed and skitch. This is very rare
I was 7 months old when this aired. WOW
The leader of the band was named Skitch Henderson. If you look closely, you can see Doc Severinsen playing cornet on the back row, right side.
Is that a clean shaven Ed Shaugnessy?
Thank You for these!!❤❤❤❤
I suddenly am craving an L&M cigarette for no reason.
Planters dry roasted peanuts still are the best, looks like the same label too !
Wow! I can't believe I was 6 months old when this aired.
Me too ... I was born in June 😊
@@tejayschwartz7681 Me, too! We were born in a great year for TV and radio, and an interesting month for historical events.
Wherrrrrrrres Johnny!
skip 15 or 15 mins after the intro lol
Amazing how they played up the music so much in beginning here
The only live shows Johnny did were the New Year's shows from NY. On the 11 PM local channel 4 news before the "Live" show Johnny would usually surprise weatherman Frank Field on air.
NBC’s crack meteorologist
Some may wonder why there's that weird 15-minute prologue with Ed and Skitch. Historically, The Tonight Show started at 11:15 p.m., following the 15-minute late-night local news. But by the mid-1960s nearly all major markets had switched to half-hour nightly newscasts, which meant Johnny's monologue was not seen in those towns. Hence, Johnny said, in effect "Go ahead and start the show at 11:15. See ya at 11:30."
Yes, the classic “first 15 minutes“, almost never seen in New York City
I'm with Johnny on that one.
A treasure for all!
The last two guests were comedians Mimi Hines and Phil Ford.
Skitch Henderson! I was 6 years old & probably sound asleep when this originally aired.
You LOST but, here and now you WIN !!
References to Mike Quill and the first term for John Lindsay in the opening. Wow oh wow.
Amazing how we went from this to laugh in 3 years
Love it, love it, love it!!!!!❤
53:38 future Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn on a commercial
Congratulations--you beat me by 21 hours but the crowd by 2 months. Ten years later she a big Tony & Oscar winner.
As Ellen McRae, she appeared in several early TV shows. I remember seeing her in a "Perry Mason" episode opposite David Hedison. She changed to surname to Burstyn in 1964 following a marriage.
Do you have any more of these full episodes with Carson? Xx
The Plan 9 guy.
Of course Tony, you refer to The Master "The Amazing Criswell"!
He and Maila Nurmi (VAMPIRA) were buds.
Ed is an expert on three-way action. Oh dear. TMI.
Don't we just love the innuendo from Johnny on that couch lozenge in-house commercial? 😂
1:16:58 Frank Oz is standing next to Jim Henson, camera-right. On the other side is Jerry Juhl, who gave up puppeteering early in the life of the Muppets and became their principal writer for decades.
Wow is Frank Oz what, 18 there?
I was 7 when this came out and my older sister was playing The Beatles' latest album Rubber Soul and the Huntley/Brinkley news hour was posting some of the first casualty statistics from Vietnam.
Love the original commercials. I was just a teenager back then and lived with drunks and junkies. Whenever his show came on, I knew the drunken step-father would be coming through the door and the horrible fights would begin. But, even now, I don't think he is funny, but the commercials are epic. This was a great upload though, thank you. New sub.
I'm over ten minutes into this and all I can say is Wheeeeeere's Johnny?
The show began at like 11:15 in the days before a half hour local newscast and this would be the waning days of this. It would start at 11:15 for another year. Carson didn’t appear on the first 15 during these shows because many markets would preempt it in favor of their own news
Pure History..thanks
The muppets were around in 65?
Question: is it me or were the New York audiences more into the comedy than the Burbank audiences? I often hear nice, hearty, genuine laughs from these early shows….cut to the 70s and on when Johnny moved out west and theres a LOT of jokes he makes about the jokes not working
Who is the lady who did the coffee segment with Ed?
i dont know sadly
Johnny introduced her as Caroline O'Connor.
@@GregBeaulieu-c3t i cannot find any info about her i only found another person named that who was born in 1962
@@Tom-TV-vl4to I tried looking her up also and found nothing either. Odd.
Mrs. Olsen - "Oh! It's zee richest kind!!"
Rings in the nose. It did happen. They look disgusting, but it did happen, but not in 1966. Nope, man on the moon in 1969.
Assuming that this aired from 11:15 p.m. to 1:00 a.m., this should be a 105 minute (one hour plus 45 minutes) recording. Has anyone figured out where the ten minutes are missing in this recording? Perhaps this recording ended at 12:58 a.m., so two of the "missing" minutes" would be at the end. There likely is a missing minute or more around 13:39 in this recording. Can anyone figure out where the 11:30 p.m. mark is in this recording? Was it at the black screen at 13:40 or was it when the program title was shown at 13:46?
I assume that the missing time was occupied by the commercials aired by local stations.
This must have been one of Johnny's 15 minute flu episodes.
The show in that era started at 11:15 OR 11:30, depending on the preference of the local TV station (when local news ataffs weren’t as elaborate). The first 15 minutes didn’t feature Johnny. Actually this is the first time I had seen the “optional 15-minute” banter!
@@christopherdunne7848 Right on. Johnny was supposed to be on that first 15 minutes, but soon refused because that part of the broadcast was going to something like 1/3 of the affiliates. Ed McMahon later said in an interview that Johnny would get the 15-minute flu, because of his refusal to do that 15 minutes. After a period of time, the network dropped the 15 minutes.
The New York days, the show moved to LA in 1972
And they introduce Johnny with "Some Day My Prince Will Come."😂
Notice the promo for NBC's New Year's Day (1966) parade and bowl game coverage. In case you were wondering what happened at the games: Sugar Bowl -- #6 Missouri 20, Florida 18 (no surprise there); Rose Bowl -- #5 UCLA 14, #1 Mich State 12 (a big upset because the Spartans were undefeated at the time); Orange Bowl -- #4 Alabama 39, #3 Nebraska 28 (another upset; since #1 Mich State and #2 Arkansas (in the Cotton Bowl) had lost earlier in the day, this became the de facto national championship game).
Thanks for the info!
Why was the live coffee commercial in black & white? 22:00. Apparently, they didn't have color cameras for the Times Square shots either.
When color started, it did not happen all at once.
Ellen Burstyn in a deodorant commercial.
And right after the ball dropped,. a transit strike lasting 10 days hit New York that led to the Taylor Law forbidding strikes by public employees in 1967.
anyone able to find any more tonight show new years eve shows like audio recordings or even video?
Hopefully some will issue-forth out of the woodwork.
THANKS A PILE for this complete view of The Amazing Criswell doing his thing!
Three cheers for @Tom-TV=vl4to !!
At 53:36 we see a young and beautiful Ellen Burstyn as a commercial model. She was a real doll.
Boy do they look young!!!!Oy!
I notice in the TV ad, the "Just for the taste of it" headline for L&M cigarettes was reused for Diet Coke in '83 or '84. Everything old is new again (write that down).
Does anyone know if these Carson shows were live at 11:30 PM ?
That’s Ellen Burstyn doing that commercial !
Who had color tv back then ??
Elvis did.
The rich. Color television was a big deal back in the 60s and color sets were quite expensive. Today of course color television is as common as owning a toothbrush.
He’s the only one ! We didn’t get color tv until 70-71
In America prices dropped in the mid-60s when all 3 Networks went color. My family had a color TV in 1966.
Nice big one too...27" but the best picture always came from Sony Trinitron which we never had. THOSE were the expensive ones
but clarity-wise they didn't even hold a candle to the cheapest LCD monitor you can buy today. Today's monitor clarity eclipses past efforts.
WOW !!!
Power of advertising: everytime L&M said "Just for the taste of it" I thought Diet Coke. Hope the episode with Henry Morgan survived. I imagine he was a great guest for Johnny.
I was a little over a month old when this was aired:
Hay Now!😺
McMahon with black hair and Skitch Henderson who was carried over from The Tonight Show starring Jack Parr. This comes from the days when The Tonight Show started at 11:15 p.m. EST. Johnny Carson with black hair didn't come on 'till 11:30 p.m. with Monologue.
Unfortunately, Skitch resigned over a false rumor about him. It wasn't true but this gentleman thought it best that he not bring condemnation to The Tonight Show.
The chick in the L&M ad smoked her cigarette seductively!
In Cleveland, Ohio, the WKYC Radio 11, an NBC O&O at the time, morning team of Charlie & Harrigan had an ostensible conductor named Skitch Ferguson.
Parr's band leader was Jose Melis.
@@mw7584, Followed by Skitch Henderson whom Carson inherited.
What a coincidence. Johnny Carson would later resign because of a false rumor that led to Jay Leno taking over as the host of The Tonight Show in 1992.
@@brucetrakas9033 I've never read of any orchestra leader for Parr other than Melis. Skitch was Steve Allens's guy but Parr replaced him. Perhaps Skitch was still in the band I do not know.
OK! Enough!
Subtly, WHAT was the basis of these false rumors.
That they were secretly gay? They're both long gone
so why the coyness guys?
Criswell was right out there with it (or maybe as with
Gorgeous George, he was secretly straight but hiding
it for show?)
Here, we've true mystery afoot . . .
So I finally get to sse the legendary Skitch Henderson!
Actress Ellen Burstyn in a commercial at 53:32 !
Wwwhhhheeeeerrrrrre sssss johnny????
Wow back when cigarettes were advertised as something glamorous. Glad they finally stopped glorifying smoking at a certain point. Its still hard to believe it was actually allowed on planes for many years
fu
The one night of the year where most people weren't tuned into Carson because Lombardo was still king.
the confederate flag,waving,in the commercial.
‘VERY old times!’
Doc is here. Doc isn't here.
Doc came on-board AFTER Skitch's Skandal forced him to leave.
@@jamesmiller4184 Never knew of Skitch or his scandal.
@@zefallafez Yeah, it was an IRS thing. He served a little time. Back then I guess it was a shameful kind of thing, and so he left Carson and that gig. Too bad. I always like the dude, his talent and presence.
Some commenters here have expressed confusion between Skitch (Henderson) and Mitch (Miller) because they looked somewhat alike -- Skitch and Mitch!!
Life was moving on.
President John F. Kennedy had been gone for two years and the Vietnam War was about to escalate.
"Take your hands off of her, Guy de!"
Is tht Mitch Miller leading the band??
Close guess appearance-wise but actually it was Skitch Henderson.
@@jamesmiller4184thnx bud!
@@woody95124 👍
L&M cigarette commercial. And Doc was "in" the band not the leader yet.
Skitch Henderson the Pete Best of the Tonight Show band
This is before Skitch probably got pissed and bolted
Skitch was there until 1967.
@@christopherdunne7848 Yep. I always wondered what the story was behind that. He was a fantastic musician and great band leader. In addition, he appeared to have a decent sense of humor. Although he also seemed more reserved than Ed and Mr Carson.
Skitch was a fine musician. (With serious creds in classical
music training in piano and composition.)
He left because convicted and did time for income tax evasion.
See his Wikipedia page for the low-down.
The advertising was shamelessly woven into the show
Johnny was one of those guys who couldn't drink. When he got too drunk he would want to fight somebody. The Rat Pack wouldnt hang out with him if drinking was going to be involved because Johnny would inevitably want to try and fight somebody.
Ever know somebody like that? I have. It's the strangest thing to see happen. It's like all reason and logic leaves them. We'd be sitting in a bar and he would suddenly start talking about some random customer. I'd be like, "Dude, that guy doesn't even know you're here. Why do you want to punch his lights out?"
Gees!
When I got soused, I got NICER and was liked!
Times were notoriously turbulent then, so it's hard to fault Ben Grauer for this eerie, Debbie Downer-ish take at 43:38 before his temporary sign-off: "Why the young people - mostly young people - gather here in this triangle made by 7th Avenue and Broadway we don't know. But they do it, year after year they'll continue to do it, until there is no more radio, TV, or any communication."
I knew the duck joke was old, but I didn't know it was an antique! 😂
I was ten years old when this aired. I wasn't allowed to stay up long enough to see The Tonight Show except for a special occasion such as New Year's Eve. I have been hoping that someone at Comcast would discover a vault in New Jersey filled with Ampex videotapes for the first ten years of The Tonight Show. They deserve to be preserved.
There was a vault like that. NBC erased everything in it. 🤦
This was when you knew that you were a "big kid", when your parents let you stay up to watch it.😊
For me, being a “big kid “ was staying up for Disney’s Wonderfull World of Color
@@MarkFriedman-qi4cz WWOD broadcast at 7 EST/ 6 CST. That wasn't that late.
I would be 10 in one month, this the first I've ever seen of a full 60's Tonight Show.
This must have been when Johnny was suffering from "15 minute viruses." Almost every NBC station had a 30 minute newscast but the network still insisted on starting the Tonight Show at 11:15. So he basically hid in the dressing room for those 15 minutes until NBC caved.
Thank you for explaining why Carson was fifteen minutes late for his own show and why they ran the opening twice. I knew it had to be something weird like that.
Cool, thanks! I'd totally forgotten about that standoff.
Carson and McMahon had no idea they would be on for the next 27 years!
They certainly went in the right direction by putting Doc in charge of the band both from the music side and personality.
I’m with you on that. That German polka at the beginning is horrible!😣
@@jeremycrandall2899if I’m not mistaken, only the small markets would have seen the first 15 minutes as the larger markets used the first 15 minutes to continue their local news
I liked that polka 😂
Who is the guy who is conducting the band?
@@adrianlyord5300 Skitch Henderson
Those were the days. If only I could travel back 60 years to that wonderful time.
❤ Very well said.
You just did.
(Oh, these horrible times we live in where we have all the technology of the present allowing us to relive a zillion hours of recorded memories of the past. We can actually watch 10 times more classic TV now than we could then!)
@baronvonnembles Just boosting for the present. Go, Now! (As the Moody Blues used to say...)
@@KenLieckwhen it was more scarce it was more special, and your memories of it more cherished