Overview of 'The Steve Allen Show' Season 2

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.

Episode 18 - Season 2, Episode 18

Release Date: 1957-01-27

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

Episode 19 - Peter Lawford, Charles Van Doren, Lou Costello, Margaret Whiting, The Step Brothers

Release Date: 1957-02-10

Episode 20 - Frankie Laine, Alan Young, Martha Carson, Tab Hunter, Ken Rosewall, Pancho Gonzales, Jack Kramer, Pancho Segura

Release Date: 1957-02-17

Episode 21 - Yehudi Menuhin, Arlene Dahl, Aldo Ray, Robert Ryan, Brenda Lee, the Hilltoppers

Release Date: 1957-02-24

Episode 22 - Jerry Lewis, Martha Raye, Steve Lawrence, Diahann Carroll, Fernando Lamas

Release Date: 1957-03-10

Episode 23 - Greer Garson, Lou Costello, Dean Jones, Steve Peck, Janik & Arpaut, Howard McNear, Sandra Gould, Veola Vonn, The Lancers

Release Date: 1957-03-24

Episode 24 - Tennessee Ernie Ford, Peggy Lee, Johnny Mercer, Dinah Shore, Esther Williams, The Collins Kids

Release Date: 1957-03-31

Episode 25 - Salute to the All American Basketball Teams

Release Date: 1957-04-07

Episode 26 - Esther Williams, Eydie Gorme, Jackie Cooper, Stan Freberg, The Four Lads

Release Date: 1957-04-14

Episode 27 - Mickey Rooney, Eleanor Steber, Joey Forman, Betty Walker, Mickey & Sylvia, Jim Henson's Muppets

Release Date: 1957-04-21

Episode 28 - Brenda Lee, Don Adams, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane, Jack Carson, Peter Gennaro & Ellen Ray

Release Date: 1957-04-28

Episode 29 - Orson Welles, Jill Corey, Peggy Cass, The Will Mastin Trio featuring Sammy Davis Jr.

Release Date: 1957-05-05

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 ...

Episode 30 - Tallulah Bankhead, Milton Berle, Pearl Bailey, Dean Jones, Reverend Billy Graham

Release Date: 1957-05-12

Episode 31 - Ann Sothern, Bert Lahr, Brenda Lee

Release Date: 1957-05-19

Episode 32 - Andy Griffith, Marty Robbins, Errol Garner, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Martha Raye, a cameo appearance from Dean Martin

Release Date: 1957-05-26

Episode 33 - Xavier Cugat, Abbe Lane, Pat Carroll, The Four Diamonds, Erin O'Brien, Jerry Lewis

Release Date: 1957-06-02

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.

Episode 34 - Orson Welles, Wally Cox, Meg Myles, Jim Reeves, The Step Brothers, Reverend Billy Graham

Release Date: 1957-06-09

Episode 35 - Steve Lawrence, Mamie Van Doren, The Hi-Lo's, Walter Chiari

Release Date: 1957-06-16

Episode 36 - Lou Costello, Pat Boone, Jonathan Winters, Abbey Lincoln, Fay DeWitt, Dulcie Cooper, The Ames Brothers

Release Date: 1957-06-23

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

Episode 37 - Bob Hope, George Jessel, Alexis Smith, Vera Miles, Dean Martin, the Rod Alexander Dancers, The Axidentals

Release Date: 1957-06-30

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.

Episode 38 - Benny Goodman, Yvonne De Carlo, Peter Lawford, Professor Irwin Corey

Release Date: 1957-07-07

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.

Episode 39 - Debra Paget, Buddy Rich, Frankie Laine, Cornelia Otis Skinner

Release Date: 1957-07-14

Episode 40 - Tony Bennett, George Nader, Joanne Gilbert, Hal Le Roy, Floyd Patterson & Joe Louis

Release Date: 1957-07-21

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".

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

Episode 47 - Robert Young, Martha Raye, Marion Lorne, Milton Caniff, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme, Dave Garroway, Miss America of 1958

Release Date: 1957-09-08

Episode 48 - Ed Wynn, Frankie Laine, Dorothy Collins, Don Adams, Audrey Meadows, Sugar Ray Robinson & Carmen Basilio

Release Date: 1957-09-15