2x1 - Andy Williams, Milt Kamen, Gogi Grant, The Will Mastin Trio (featuring Sammy Davis, Jr.), Marian Ann McKnight , The Baird Puppets

September 16, 1956

2x2 - Billy Eckstine, Rin Tin Tin, Joni James, Professor Irwin Corey, Jose Molina, the Midwestern States Glee Club

September 23, 1956

2x3 - Claudette Colbert, Mickey Rooney, Jerome Hines, Erin O'Brien, Joey Forman

September 30, 1956

2x4 - Abbott & Costello, Kukla, Fran & Ollie, Peggy King, Lionel Hampton, Don Lamond, Louis Bellson Mrs. Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle

October 7, 1956

Todays guests are Abbott and Costello/Kukla, Fran and Ollie/Mickey Mantle/Lionel Hampton/Peggy King/Milt Kamen.

2x5 - Tony Bennett, Doretta Morrow, Mel Torme, Frances Faye, Guy Madison, Kathryn & Arthur Murray

October 14, 1956

2x6 - Peter Lawford, Frank Parker, The Harlem Globetrotters, Rocky Graziano, Olga James, Janik & Arnaut, cameo appearance by Julius LaRosa

October 21, 1956

2x7 - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Alfred Drake, Erin O'Brien, T.C. Jones, Jim Henson & the Muppets, Rod Alexander Dancers, Les Brown & His Band of Renown

November 4, 1956

2x8 - Jerry Lewis, Georgia Gibbs, Anita Ekberg, Anthony Steel, Buster Crabbe, cast members of "Jack and the Beanstalk"

November 11, 1956

2x9 - Bob Hope, Duke Ellington & Orchestra, Gene Nelson, Betty Walker, Erin O'Brien, George Hamilton IV, Olsen & Johnson, World's Champion Women Boxers

November 18, 1956

2x10 - Gene Autry, Jim Lowe, Betty Kean & Lew Parker, Floyd Patterson & Archie Moore, the Chicago Bears

November 25, 1956

2x11 - Charlton Heston, Gypsy Rose Lee, Ethel Waters, Bobby Van, Don Newcombe, Floyd Patterson, Archie Moore, Vince Martin & The Tarriers

December 2, 1956

2x12 - Anne Jeffreys & Robert Sterling, The Hi-Lo's, Bud Wilkinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, Betty Kean & Lew Parker

December 9, 1956

2x13 - Martha Raye, Alan Young, the Collins Kids, Ricky Vera, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, the Vienna Boys Choir

December 23, 1956

2x14 - Tony Bennett, Andy Griffith, the New York Rangers, live premiere of the motion picture "Around the World in 80 Days"

December 30, 1956

2x15 - Errol Flynn, Polly Bergen, Guy Mitchell, Alan Young

January 6, 1957

2x16 - Joe E. Brown, Julius La Rosa, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane, Rocky Graziano, Dorothy Miller ("Mrs. Miller", audience member)

January 13, 1957

2x17 - New York Film Critics Awards

January 20, 1957

Most of the show concerns a filmed Steve presenting the Critic's award to several stars, including 'Ingrid Bergman' and 'Kirk Douglas', along with some small talk interviews. These were shot at Sardi's restaurant in New York, probably when it was closed, due to the utter quietness.

2x18 - Season 2, Episode 18

January 27, 1957

Pearl Bailey, Lilli Palmer, Don Adams, The Collins Kids, Steve Lawrence, Charles Van Doren

2x19 - Peter Lawford, Charles Van Doren, Lou Costello, Margaret Whiting, The Step Brothers

February 10, 1957

2x20 - Frankie Laine, Alan Young, Martha Carson, Tab Hunter, Ken Rosewall, Pancho Gonzales, Jack Kramer, Pancho Segura

February 17, 1957

2x21 - Yehudi Menuhin, Arlene Dahl, Aldo Ray, Robert Ryan, Brenda Lee, the Hilltoppers

February 24, 1957

2x22 - Jerry Lewis, Martha Raye, Steve Lawrence, Diahann Carroll, Fernando Lamas

March 10, 1957

2x24 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, Peggy Lee, Johnny Mercer, Dinah Shore, Esther Williams, The Collins Kids

March 31, 1957

2x25 - Salute to the All American Basketball Teams

April 7, 1957

2x26 - Esther Williams, Eydie Gorme, Jackie Cooper, Stan Freberg, The Four Lads

April 14, 1957

2x27 - Mickey Rooney, Eleanor Steber, Joey Forman, Betty Walker, Mickey & Sylvia, Jim Henson's Muppets

April 21, 1957

2x28 - Brenda Lee, Don Adams, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane, Jack Carson, Peter Gennaro & Ellen Ray

April 28, 1957

2x29 - Orson Welles, Jill Corey, Peggy Cass, The Will Mastin Trio featuring Sammy Davis Jr.

May 5, 1957

Steve Allen and Sammy Davis, Jr. perform a card trick with a little help from Orson Welles; Davis joins his uncle Will Mastin and his father Sammy Davis, Sr., for an athletic dance number; Davis performs singing impressions of Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett, Louis Armstrong, and others; and the "Allen Report to the Nation" deals with the tranquilizer pill, with Allen interviewing Louis Nye as the head of a pharmaceutical company, Tom Poston as chief of laboratory research, and Don Knotts as a jittery fill-in speaker at a medical convention. Additionally, singer Jill ...

2x30 - Tallulah Bankhead, Milton Berle, Pearl Bailey, Dean Jones, Reverend Billy Graham

May 12, 1957

2x31 - Ann Sothern, Bert Lahr, Brenda Lee

May 19, 1957

2x32 - Andy Griffith, Marty Robbins, Errol Garner, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Martha Raye, a cameo appearance from Dean Martin

May 26, 1957

2x33 - Xavier Cugat, Abbe Lane, Pat Carroll, The Four Diamonds, Erin O'Brien, Jerry Lewis

June 2, 1957

Steve's guests are The Diamonds (singing "Little Darlin'"), Xavier Cugat & his Orchestra with singer Abbe Lane doing "All Of You" and "Babalu," comedian Pat Carroll as a wife whose husband (Allen) tries to prove to her that a joke he told is funny, Erin O'Brien singing "Where's A Happy Ending?" Jerry Lewis plays Gordon Hathaway and a dopey boxer in the "Man on the Street" segment, Steve gives passionate readings of real "Letters to the Editor," delivers a silly speech to graduating seniors, and shows works of art used in magazine ads.

2x34 - Orson Welles, Wally Cox, Meg Myles, Jim Reeves, The Step Brothers, Reverend Billy Graham

June 9, 1957

2x35 - Steve Lawrence, Mamie Van Doren, The Hi-Lo's, Walter Chiari

June 16, 1957

2x36 - Lou Costello, Pat Boone, Jonathan Winters, Abbey Lincoln, Fay DeWitt, Dulcie Cooper, The Ames Brothers

June 23, 1957

Lou Costello in a restaurant skit where Gabe Dell takes the part of the bullying, Bud Abbott-type companion.

2x37 - Bob Hope, George Jessel, Alexis Smith, Vera Miles, Dean Martin, the Rod Alexander Dancers, The Axidentals

June 30, 1957

In a salute to Hope's new film, "Beau James", skits, dance numbers and film clips devoted to onetime crooked prohibition-era New York mayor Jimmy Walker.

2x38 - Benny Goodman, Yvonne De Carlo, Peter Lawford, Professor Irwin Corey

July 7, 1957

Goodman's in top form, and Steve does a duet with him. Yvonne and Steve in a baby-naming skit, Lawford and Steve play bored life guards. A "Night Beat" parody includes Knotts as his classic nervous nerd, and a bellicose Nye cracks Steve up.

2x39 - Debra Paget, Buddy Rich, Frankie Laine, Cornelia Otis Skinner

July 14, 1957

2x40 - Tony Bennett, George Nader, Joanne Gilbert, Hal Le Roy, Floyd Patterson & Joe Louis

July 21, 1957

Tony Bennett sings "One For My Baby". Floyd Patterson and Joe Louis talk to Steve about boxing and Floyd's title defense against Tommy "Hurricane" Jackson. Joanne Gilbert sings "Hello Bluebird". Show regulars, appear in a comedy satire on television quiz-masters. Steve plays a piano version of "Do You Ever Think of Me?" For the finale, the entire cast and guest list join in with a bevy of hula dancers for a production entitled "In the Middle of an Island".

2x41 - Jerry Lee Lewis, Shelley Winters, Anthony Franciosa, The Four Coins, Jodie Sands, Shai K. Ophir, Leona Gage

July 28, 1957

Steve and Shelley Winters in a skit about teaching her to drive by using household objects, Jerry Lee Lewis gives a bravura piano-attacking performance.

2x42 - Marie MacDonald, The Four Diamonds, Jack E. Leonard, Don Rondo, Brenda Lee

August 4, 1957

2x43 - Jane Russell, Ferlin Husky, Larry Storch, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Rod Alexander Dancers

August 11, 1957

2x44 - Lou Costello, Liberace, Andy Williams, Abbey Lincoln, Jean Fenn

August 18, 1957

2x45 - Hedy Lamar, Joe E. Brown, The Coasters, Irish McCalla, Pat Kirby

August 25, 1957

2x46 - Pearl Bailey, Joan Collins, Jeff Chandler, Shaike Ophir, Pete Rademacher

September 1, 1957

2x47 - Robert Young, Martha Raye, Marion Lorne, Milton Caniff, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme, Dave Garroway, Miss America of 1958

September 8, 1957

2x48 - Ed Wynn, Frankie Laine, Dorothy Collins, Don Adams, Audrey Meadows, Sugar Ray Robinson & Carmen Basilio

September 15, 1957