23x1 - 23rd Season Premiere: Barbra Streisand / The Temptations

September 28, 1969

1969-70 season premiere (Ed Sullivan's 23nd season): --The Temptations - ""I Can't Get Next to You,"" ""September in the Rain"" & ""Autumn Leaves"" --Barbra Streisand (on tape from Las Vegas) - ""Hello, Dolly"" medley: ""Before the Parade Passes By,"" ""So Long, Dearie"" & ""Hello Dolly"" --Tony Bennett - ""What the World Needs Now Is Love,"" ""People"" & ""I Gotta Be Me."" --Red Skelton (comedian) - classic drunk routine; ""the bin salesman"" --The Osipov Balalaika Festival Orchestra - Russian folk dance and music. --Audience bows: Jerry Vale; Rodney Dangerfield

23x2 - Gladys Knight & the Pips / Clint Eastwood (on film)

October 5, 1969

--Gladys Knight & the Pips - medley (""Let Us Entertain You,"" ""Nitty Gritty,"" ""By the Time I Get to Phoenix"" & ""I Can't Get Used to Seeing You"") --Phyllis Diller (stand-up comedy) --Flip Wilson (stand-up comedy) --Sasha Distel - ""Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head,"" ""Louise"" & ""The Good Life"" --Fantasio (magician from Argentina) --The winners of 1969 Harvest Moon Ball --Ed interviews baseball players Gil Hodges, Cleon Jones, Tommy Agee, Jerry Koosman and Tom Seaver. --Audience bows: Stevie Wonder; Jim Stewart & Kurt Runzy (balloonists); Col. John Roosma and Bobby Thompson (were teamates in the early 1920's on the Passaic, NJ High School ""Wonderteam"" 159 game winning streak in basketball) --Audience bows: Karen Sepa, Chris Peterson, Janis Clover, George Wallace & Margaret Bartasak (4H Club reporters celebrating 4H Club Week) --Audience bow: Jimmy Dunn (Newspaper Boy of the Year) On film: Ed visits set of ""Paint Your Wagon"" in Oregon. Ed talks with Alan Jay Lerner and J

23x3 - Lee Marvin / Woody Allen / Oliver / Shirley Bassey

October 12, 1969

Guests: --Woody Allen --Lee Marvin (with the Yale Glee Club) - ""Wandering Star"" (from the movie ""Paint Your Wagon"") Lee Marvin making his singing debut, --Oliver (singer) - ""Jean"" & ""Where is Love?"" --Shirley Bassey - ""I'll Never Fall in Love Again"" & ""This is My Life"" --Jo Anne Worley (comedian) --The Yale Glee Club - Football medley --The Castro Brothers (singers-instrumentalists) - ""Say a Little Prayer for Me"" & ""Michelle"" --The Alcettys (plate spinners) --Topo Gigio (Italian mouse puppet) CBS repeated this show on August 23, 1970.

23x4 - Smith / Cyd Charisse / Joan Rivers / Lana Cantrell

October 19, 1969

Guests (on 30-minute PBS repeat): --Smith - ""Baby It's You"" --Cyd Charisse - dances to an instrumental version of ""MacArthur Park"" --Joan Rivers & Anthony Holland - bank robber sketch with Rivers as teller and Holland as robber. --Lana Cantrell (singer from Australia) - ""A Time for Us"" --Topo Gigio (Italian mouse puppet) - Topo talks to Ed about Halloween; Topo then sings with chickens as their eggs hatch. --The Don Ellis Band - ""Concerto for Trumpet"" Additional guests: --Raphael (scheduled to appear) --The New York Mets (with Tom Seaver) sang ""You Gotta Have Heart"" (Please see Note below).

23x5 - Santana / Liza Minnelli / Henry Mancini

October 26, 1969

Guests: --Santana - ""Persuasion"" & ""Jingo Jingo"" --Liza Minnelli - ""Come Saturday Morning"" --Mason Williams - ""Cowboy Buckaroo"" --Henry Mancini - ""Peter Gunn"" theme & ""Romeo and Juliet"" theme. --Judy Carne (from ""Laugh-In"") - ""American Moon"" (a.k.a. ""There's an American Flag on the Moon Tonight"") --George Kirby (stand-up comedian) --Charlie Manna (stand-up comedian) --David Hemmings (reads from ""Romeo & Juliet"") --Albert Almonzino - does hand shadow puppets --The Trio Hogados (aerialists) Audience bows: Barbara Eden, Jack Warner CBS repeated this show on September 6, 1970.

23x6 - Petula Clark, Les Faux Follets

October 2, 1969

23x7 - The Association / Nancy Wilson / Jack Jones

November 9, 1969

Guests: --The Association - ""Seven Man Band"" & ""Dubuque Blues"" --Nancy Wilson - ""What A Little Moonlight Can Do"" & ""Can't Take My Eyes Off of You"" --Nancy Wilson & Jack Jones - ""Beautiful Things"" --Jack Jones - ""Get Together"" & ""You Made Me Love You"" --Scoey Mitchell (stand-up comedy, topics: races, women) --Frank Gorshin - ""Jimmy"" (a production number from the show ""Jimmy"") --The Halassys (balancing act, family teeterboard act) --Norm Crosby (stand-up comedian, fractures the English language; Degenerate Gap) --Ed Sullivan Singers - medley of Israeli songs --Audience bows: veterans from Walter Reed Hospital In Washington D. C.; Jorge Velasquez (jockey). CBS repeated this show on July 12, 1970.

23x8 - Creedence Clearwater Revival / Jerry Lee Lewis

November 16, 1969

Guests: --Creedence Clearwater Revival - ""Fortunate Son"" & ""Down on the Corner"" --Jerry Lee Lewis - ""You Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye,"" ""Great Balls of Fire,"" ""Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On"" & ""What'd I Say?"" --Douglas Fairbanks Jr. - ""I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face"" (from ""My Fair Lady"") & ""Let a Woman in Your Life"" --Moms Mabley (stand-up comedy, topics: relationships with young men, old men) --Carol Lawrence - Chicago (changes from the Old West through the 1960's) --Jack Carter (Stand-up comedian, tells jokes about flying, Spiro Agnew, his mother) --Karen Wyman - ""Baby It's You"" & ""What's Out There?"" --Edward Villella & Patricia McBride - ballet dance to ""To Love Is Blue"" Audience bows: Carl Reiner; Julius Larosa; Bill Leary

23x9 - The Rolling Stones / Ella Fitzgerald / Eddie Albert

November 23, 1969

Guests: --The Rolling Stones - ""Gimme Shelter,"" ""Love in Vain"" & ""Honky Tonk Woman."" --Ella Fitzgerald - ""You Better Love Me"" & ""Open Your Window"" --Robert Klein (stand-up comedian, talks about his school days) --Ed Ames - ""A Thing Called Love"" & ""I Believe"" --Topo Gigio (Topo prepares for football game) --Peter Gennero (dance segment; Gennero and 2 women dance to ""Smiling Phases"") --Hawthorn Tigers (animal act; tiger riding on horseback alone & with trainer) --Eddie Albert (actor, delivers speech to God about religion's hypocrisy & reality)

23x10 - Neil Diamond / Julie Budd / Sergio Franchi

November 30, 1969

Guests: --Neil Diamond - ""Sweet Caroline"" & ""Holly Holy"" --The Muppets (2 singing cows & 1 hairy creature sing ""Ma-Na-Ma-Na"" song) --Sergio Franchi - ""Stay"" & "" Granada"" (both songs in English & Italian) Prior to this, Ed shows videotape footage of Sergio and him in an Italian village passing wine bottles to others in a long line. --Voices Of East Harlem (led by Bernice Cole) - medley including ""For What It's Worth"" (Gospel style singing) --Julie Budd (15 year old singer) - ""Skylark"" --Pat Henry (comedian, topics: New York / marriage / health) --Irwin C. Watson (stand-up comedian, topics: old sayings / the Moon / Indians) --Martin Brothers (jugglers from Argentina) Audience bows: Toots Shore & Bob Considine (and their wives); Wayne Zahn (bowling champ); Raymond A Gallagher (VFW Commander in Chief). On film: clip from ""A Boy Named Charlie Brown""; baseball sketch from Broadway play; Ed Sullivan in Italy, passing wine bottles with Italians.

23x11 - Fifth Dimension / Imogene Coca / Ferrante & Teicher

December 7, 1969

Guests: --Fifth Dimension - ""Wedding Bell Blues"" & medley (""People Got to Be Free"" & a musical version of the Declaration of Independence) --The Fifth Dimension sing ""Happy Birthday"" to Rudolph Friml (the oldest member of ASCAP). --Ferrante & Teicher (two pianists) - theme from ""Midnight Cowboy"" --Imogene Coca (comedian) - does stand up routine about an aggressive sales woman who forces Coca into radical Hippie garb --Tony Sandler & Ralph Young - ""Put On A Happy Face"" & ""The 59th Street Bridge Song"" (""Feelin' Groovy"") --Richard Tucker (Metropolitan tenor wearing clown suit) - sings the aria from the opera ""Pagliacci"" --Ron Carey (stand-up comedian, topic: Catholic football team) --Burch Mann's Ballet America (twelve dancers) --Feller Brothers & Dodo (high wire act from West Berlin) --Audience bows: Irene Papas, Yves Montand, Irving Rudd & Mrs. Bob Gibson; and a group of wounded Vietnam veterans CBS repeated this show on August 2, 1970.

23x12 - Jackson Five / Lainie Kazan / John Davidson

December 14, 1969

Guests: --The Jackson 5 - ""Stand,"" ""I Wonder Who's Loving You Now"" & ""I Want You Back."" --Lainie Kazan - ""Have I Stayed Too Long At The Fair?"" --John Davidson - ""Something"" & medley (""Get Together"" & ""Games People Play"") --Wayne & Shuster (comedy team spoofing commercials) --The Muppets (Big Bird dances with 6 bird watchers) --Topo Gigio (puppet talks about his Christmas list) --Guy Marks (stand-up comedian) --El Conquistador Violinists (instrumental band, from Puerto Rico) --The Mecners (acrobatic act, top Polish circus act) Audience Bows (cameos): Diana Ross; Leroy Yarbrough (1969 Nascar Champ Driver); Etta Cortez (Editor Of Vegas Magazine); Gig Young

23x13 - The Swinging, Soulful Sixties - Diana Ross & the Supremes, etc.

December 21, 1969

""The Swinging, Soulful Sixties"" – Ed Sullivan reviews the decade in entertainment. Taped segments (many from Ed's shows): (1) Broadway/Theater songs: --Richard Burton - Soliloquy from Shakespeare's ""Hamlet"" --Robert Goulet - song from ""Camelot"" and ""Happy Face"" --Gwen Verdon - ""If My Friends Could See Me Now"" (from ""Sweet Charity"") (2) Beatlemania: --Beatles At Shea Stadium August 15, 1965 (3) British acts: --Petula Clark - ""Downtown"" (excerpt) & interview --Clips of Dave Clark Five, Animals, Herman's Hermits, Rolling Stones, Petula Clark (4) David Frost - looks at '60's headlines and movies (5) Diana Ross & the Supremes --Ed Sullivan talks to Diana Ross about trends of popular music in the 1960s. --The Supremes - medley (""Baby Love;"" ""Stop! In The Name Of Love;"" ""Come See About Me;"" ""My World Is Empty Without You,"" ""You Can't Hurry Love,"" ""The Happening,"" ""Keep Me Hangin' On,"" ""Reflections,"" ""Love Child"" and ""I Hear A Symphony"") --The Supremes - ""So

23x14 - scheduled: Charlie Manna; Your Father's Moustache

December 28, 1969

Scheduled guests: --Roberta Peters - sings ""Sempra Libera"" (from ""La Traviata"") --Robert Merrill - sings ""Di Provenza IL Mar"" (from ""La Traviata"") --Joan Rivers (comedian) --Jerry Vale (singer) --Dana Valery (singer) --Charlie Manna (comedian) --Your Father's Mustache (Dixieland band)

23x15 - scheduled: Temptations; Oliver; Roy Rogers & Dale Evans

January 4, 1970

--The Temptations - ""Psychedelic Shack"" Other guests (scheduled): --Oliver - ""Sunday Morning,"" ""Jean,"" ""Good Morning Starshine"" --Roy Rogers & Dale Evans --Rodney Dangerfield --Jacques d'Amboise

23x16 - Ike & Tina Turner Revue / Sonny James / Tiny Tim

January 11, 1970

Guests: --The Ike and Tina Turner Revue - ""Proud Mary"" & ""Bold Soul Sister"" --Tiny Tim with the Enchanted Forest (an all-girl band) - ""Earth Angel"" --Tiny Tim & Miss Vicki (Tiny Tim's wife) - Tiny Tim sings a medley of old fashioned love songs to Miss Vicki --Sonny James - ""Free Roamin' Mind"" & ""It's Just A Matter of Time"" --Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara (comedy team) --Flip Wilson (stand-up comedian) - talks about his preacher, Reverend Leroy, & the preacher's wife (who, after shopping, tells her husband, ""The Devil made me buy this dress"") --Karen Wyman (17-year-old singer from New York) - ""Time and Love"" --Vino Venito (sword balancer) --Carter & Lynn (Adagio dance duo, from Detroit, Michigan) --Audience bows (cameos): Miss Vicki's parents, Tiny Tim's parents; the Kessler Twins CBS repeated this episode on July 26, 1970.

23x17 - Muhammad Ali / June Allyson / Buddy Greco

January 18, 1970

Guests: --Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay) - gives speech & sings: ""Big Time Buck White"" & ""We Came In Chains"" --June Allyson (medley of show tunes) --Minnie Pearl (comedian) --Bill Dana (as Jose Jimenez) --Michael James Brody Jr. & his wife Rennie - ""You Ain't Goin' Nowhere"" --The Kessler Twins (Alice & Ellen Kessler, twin sisters from Germany) - ""This Girl's in Love with You"" --Buddy Greco - ""Aquarius,"" ""Spinning Wheel,"" ""Smiling Faces,"" and ""A Day in the Life of a Fool"" --Mac Ronay (magician)

23x18 - Little Anthony & the Imperials / B.J. Thomas / Robert Klein

January 25, 1970

Guests: --B.J. Thomas - ""That Old Black Magic"" & ""Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head"" --Patti Page - ""La La La,"" ""Winter World of Love"" & ""Something"" --Little Anthony & the Imperials - ""Goin' Out of My Head,"" ""Don't Get Close,"" ""Shimmy Shimmy Koko Bop,"" ""Tears on My Pillow"" & ""Hurt So Bad"" --Robert Klein (comedian) - re: working as a substitute teacher --Norm Crosby (comedian) --The Jovers (comic balancing act) --Klauser's Bears --Jacques d'Amboise (New York City Ballet dancer) Scheduled to appear (but not mentioned on repeat): --Sly and the Family Stone CBS repeated this show on August 9, 1970

23x19 - scheduled: Bob Newhart; Gwen Verdon; George Carlin

February 1, 1970

Scheduled guests: --Bob Newhart --Gwen Verdon --George Carlin --Sergio Franchi --Skiles & Henderson --Leo Samourai

23x20 - Bobby Goldsboro / Richard Pryor / George Carlin

February 8, 1970

Guests: --Bobby Goldsboro - ""Everybody's Talkin'"" & ""Can You Feel It?"" --Richard Pryor (stand-up comedy) --Connie Stevens - ""Yankee Doodle,"" ""Give My Regards To Broadway"" & ""If I Were A Rich Man"" --Boots Randolph - ""Nashville, Tennessee"" & ""Hey, Jude"" --Floyd Cramer - ""I'll Never Fall in Love Again"" --Chet Atkins, Floyd Cramer, and Boots Randolph - medley: ""I Can't Help It,"" ""Jambalaya,"" ""I Saw the Light"" --George Carlin (stand-up comedy) --David Frye (impressionist) --Mr. Jiggs (chimp act) --Sam & Sammy (acrobats) --Audience bows (cameos): Joe Frazier, Yankee Durham CBS repeated this show on June 21, 1970.

23x21 - Supremes (without Diana Ross) / Joe Frazier / Robert Klein

February 15, 1970

Guests: --The ""New"" Supremes - ""Up the Ladder to the Roof"" & show tunes (Supremes with Cindy Birdsong, Jean Terrel & Mary Wilson - without Diana Ross) --Joe Frazier (wearing tuxedo, in a boxing ring set) - sings ""Knock on Wood"" --Robert Klein (stand-up comedian) --Arte Johnson (stand-up comedian) --Caterina Valente - ""Never Will I Marry"" & ""Anything Goes"" --Michael Parks - ""Mountain High"" & ""My Melancholy Baby"" --Hawthorn Tigers (animal act) --Ed Sullivan Singers - ""Mame"" --Santini Demon (a.k.a. The Amazing Fire Eating Santani Demon) - fire eater swallows lit torches, swords --Audience bows (cameos): Molly Pecan, Sam Levine; Ernie Terrel

23x22 - Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, Dionne Warwick

February 22, 1970

23x24 - Holiday on Ice Salute / Ed Ames / Lana Cantrell

March 15, 1970

Salute to ""Holiday on Ice"" (Silver Anniversary) Guests: --Ed Ames - ""Three Reasons"" --Lana Cantrell - ""Isn't This a Lovely Day?"" Ice skating segments: --Ronnie Robertson (solo skater) --Marei Langenbein (solo skater) --Alfredo Mendoza & Carol Johnson (ice ballet) --John Leech - skater in a sketch about an after-the-party hangover. --Werner and Denise Muller --The Cook Family (acrobats) --Kossmayer's Mules --The Holiday Chimps

23x25 - scheduled: Liza Minnelli, Rod McKuen, Liberace

March 22, 1970

Scheduled guests: --Liza Minnelli - possibly ""If I Were In Your Shoes"" --Rod McKuen (poet-composer) - ""London,"" ""Jean"" and ""Everybody's Rich But Us"" --Liberace --Phyllis Diller (comedian) --Bill Dana (comedian) --Bojangles (singer, from Liza's nightclub act) --The Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band (from Trinidad) Note: An edited version of this episode has appeared on PBS. Any details about the PBS repeat would be appreciated!!

23x26 - Gladys Knight & the Pips / Bobbie Gentry / Buck Owens

March 29, 1970

Special episode taped (probably filmed) at Army Hospitals. Sullivan and guests entertain soldiers who were wounded in Vietnam. Guests: --Gladys Knight and the Pips - ""Hey Jude"" & ""I Heard It Through the Grapevine"" --Bobbie Gentry - ""Papa"" & ""Ode to Billy Joe"" --Buck Owens - ""Act Naturally"" and ""Tall Dark Stranger"" --Nancy Ames - ""So Good To See Ya Babe"" & ""The Name Game"" --Marty Allen (stand-up comedian) --David Frye (comedian doing impressions of celebrities) --George Kirby (stand-up comedian)

23x27 - The Temptations / George Hamilton / Buddy Rich

April 5, 1970

Guests: --The Temptations - ""You Make Me So Very Happy"" & ""Psychedelic Shack"" --Roy Rogers & Dale Evans - medley of patriotic songs: ""This Is My Country"" & ""God Bless America"" --George Hamilton - medley of Hank Williams Sr. songs: ""Hey Good Lookin',"" ""I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You""),"" ""Cold Cold Heart,"" ""Jambalaya (On the Bayou),"" ""I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry,"" ""I Saw the Light"" & ""Your Cheatin' Heart"" --Buddy Rich & Orchestra - ""Oh Ruth"" --Marilyn Maye & Buddy Rich - ""Cabaret"" medley --John Byner (comedian) --Gene Baylos (comedian) --The Canestrellis (trampoline act)

23x28 - scheduled: Florence Henderson, Joan Rivers, Young Saints, Muppets

April 12, 1970

Scheduled guests: --Florence Henderson (sings a medley from her movie ""Song of Norway"") - including ""Song of Norway"" --Florence Henderson - ""What Do You Do When Love Dies"" --Joan Rivers --The Young Saints (rock group) - ""Your Love"" & ""Tenderly"" --Sergio Franchi --Myron Cohen --The Muppets

23x29 - Paul McCartney (on film) / Bill Medley (scheduled guest)

April 19, 1970

--Paul McCartney (on film) - ""Maybe I'm Amazed"" video Other guests (scheduled to appear): --Bill Medley - ""Peace Medley"" --Norm Crosby --Peter Nero --Jan Peerce --Gerri Granger --The Kessler Twins

23x30 - Richie Havens / Lesley Gore / John Gary

April 26, 1970

Guests: --Richie Havens - ""The Minstrel from Gault"" --Lesley Gore - ""Cry Me A River"" & ""Hey Jude"" --John Gary - medley: ""The Straight Life,"" ""Then She's a Lover"" & ""Little Green Apples""--Moms Mabley (stand-up comedian, sings ""Deed I Do"") --Stiller & Meara (comedy team) --Robert Klein (stand-up comedy) --Jane Morgan - ""A Girl Named Johnny Cash"" & ""My Way"" --Victor Julian (dog act) --The Rolan Boys (balancing act) Audience bows (cameos): Pete Hamilton; Master Sergeant Leon Donnely; Dr. Howard Rusk; Irving Gyse; Miss USA CBS repeated this show on July 19, 1970.

23x31 - Jackson Five / Clint Eastwood (on film) / Don Rickles

May 10, 1970

Guests: --The Jackson Five - ""The Love You Save"" and medley (""I Want You Back"" & ""ABC"") --Sonny James - ""My Love"" & ""Waterloo"" --Don Rickles (comedian) --George Carlin (comedian) - In a comedy routine, Carlin appears as a ""vacation expert."" Ed joins in and asks George some questions. --Roger Williams (piano player) - ""Mas Que Nada"" & a medley of Irving Berlin songs --Peter Gennaro (dancer) --Marilyn Michaels (celebrity impressions) --Gino Tonetti - ""This Is My Life"" Film clip: Don Rickles joins Clint Eastwood on the movie set of ""Kelly's Heroes"".

23x32 - scheduled: Phyllis Newman; Rodney Dangerfield; Pat Cooper

May 17, 1970

On film: Ringo Starr - ""Sentimental Journey"" promotional film Scheduled guests: --Phyllis Newman --Rodney Dangerfield --Pat Cooper --Stu Gilliam --the Lettermen (vocal group) --West Point Glee Club --Lovelace Watkins

23x33 - scheduled: Barbara McNair; Sergio Franchi: Karen Wyman

May 24, 1970

Scheduled guests: --Barbara McNair --Sergio Franchi --Karen Wyman --Stanley Myron Handelman --Georgie Kaye --Cadet Corps Steel Band --Rudi Schweitzer (juggler)

23x34 - scheduled: Al Martino; Rich Little; Bob Lewis; Voices of East Harlem

May 31, 1970

Scheduled guests: --Al Martino --D. Valeny --Julie Budd --Rich Little --Bob Lewis --Voices of East Harlem --The Muppets

23x35 - Connie Francis / Roslyn Kind / Morey Amsterdam

June 7, 1970

Guests: --Connie Francis (medley of Judy Garland songs): ""The Trolley Song,"" ""You Made Me Love You,"" ""Swanie,"" ""The Man Who Got Away"" & ""Over The Rainbow"" --Roslyn Kind (Barbra Streisand's sister) - ""Purlie"" --Dick Jenson - medley: ""Try A Little Tenderness,"" ""Expressway to Your Heart,"" ""Heard It Through The Grapevine"" & ""Yesterday"" --Morey Amsterdam (stand-up comedy) --Scoey Mitchell (stand-up comedian) --Zonie And Agnes (ballet) --George Kirby (stand-up comedian) --The Ed Sullivan Singers - ""Moon River"" --Tel Smit (magician)

23x36 - Tommy James & the Shondells / Stiller & Meara / Moms Mabley

June 14, 1970

Guests: --Tommy James & the Shondells - ""Ball of Fire"" & ""I'm Alive"" --Moms Mabley (stand-up comedian) - sings ""Abraham, Martin & John"" --Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara (comedy team, parents of Ben Stiller) --Margaret Whiting - ""Moonlight In Vermont"" & ""Gentle On My Mind"" (Richard Whiting's Daughter) --Sergio Franchi - ""Didn't We"" & ""With A Little Help From My Friends"" (also appears in a comedy sketch with Stiller & Meara). --Eugene List (with concert pianists from the Eastman School Of Rochester) --The Carals (balancing & juggling act)