The Ed Sullivan Show · SEASON 24

Carpenters / B.B. King / Tony Bennett

Episode 5 · 1970-10-18

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  • Comedy
  • Talk

Episode overview

Guests: --The Carpenters - ""Close to You"" & ""We've Only Just Begun"" --B.B. King - ""Just A Little Bit of Love"" and medley: ""How Blue Can You Get"" / ""The Thrill Is Gone"" --Tony Bennett - ""Something"" (Beatles song), ""Get Happy"" & ""I'll Begin Again"" (song from the movie ""Scrooge""). --George Burns (stand-up comedy) - comments on nudity in show business (current movies, night clubs) --Robert Klein (stand-up comedy) - comments on the World Series (interviews with athletes, school bands in half-time show) --New York City Stickball Team (comedy routine) --Albert Almoznino - makes shadow puppets on wall --1970 Harvest Moon Ball Dance Champions (winners from different categories: polka, rhumba, etc. )

60 minutes

Season 24 episodes

1. The Georgie Awards: Barbra Streisand / Blood Sweat & Tears / Tom Jones1970-09-20 2. Bobby Vinton / Rare Earth / Holiday on Ice1970-09-27 3. Melanie / Engelbert Humperdinck / Tiny Tim1970-10-04 4. scheduled: Arthur Godfrey; Loretta Lynn1970-10-11 5. Carpenters / B.B. King / Tony Bennett1970-10-18 6. U.N. 25th Anniversary: The New Seekers / Ravi Shankar1970-10-25 7. Bobbie Gentry / Melba Moore / Roy Clark1970-11-01 8. Four Tops / Carpenters / Freda Payne1970-11-08 9. Tommy Roe / Billy Joe Royal / Joe South1970-11-15 10. Richard Rogers Tribute: Shirley Jones; Cass Elliott1970-11-22 11. scheduled: Buck Owens; Joan Rivers; Norm Crosby1970-11-29 12. Grass Roots / Joey Heatherton / Pat Cooper1970-12-06 13. scheduled: Bobby Sherman; New Seekers; Robert Merrill1970-12-13 14. The Great Santa Claus Switch with Art Carney and the Muppets1970-12-20 15. scheduled: Bobbie Gentry; Friends of Distinction; Peter Nero1970-12-27 16. scheduled: Rodney Dangerfield; Lana Cantrell; O.C. Smith1971-01-03 17. Tony Bennett, The Muppets1971-01-10 18. B.J. Thomas / Rahsaan Roland Kirk / Nancy Ames1971-01-24 19. Temptations / Connie Stevens / Albert Brooks1971-01-31 20. Gladys Knight & the Pips / Sid Caesar & Carol Channing1971-02-07 21. Fifth Dimension / Tiny Tim & Miss Vickie / Connie Stevens1971-02-21 22. Everly Brothers / George Carlin / Shirley Bassey1971-02-28 23. Armed Forces Music Festival: Jeannie C. Riley; Teresa Graves1971-03-07 24. Bernadette Peters / George Hamilton / Oliver1971-03-21 25. Final Sullivan Show: Melanie; David Frye; Sandler & Young1971-03-28 26. Special Memorial Day Edition1971-05-30