# The Joan Rivers Show

The Joan Rivers Show is an American first-run syndicated talk show that was hosted by Joan Rivers. The show ran for four seasons, from September 5, 1989, to December 26, 1993.

## History

The show aired for five seasons and ended in December 1993. The show was nominated for numerous Emmy Awards, with Rivers winning the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host in 1990. The series was produced by PGHM Productions, Joan Rivers's production company, in association with Tribune Entertainment, and distributed by Paramount Domestic Television for its first season and Tribune Entertainment for its final three seasons.
In the mid-1990s the show was repeated on E! for several months. Repeats aired on the Decades TV network from January to August 2019, and as of January 2021, 128 episodes were available for free streaming on the Vidmark app, and the Roku Channel on the Roku store.
Rivers had previously hosted a late-night talk show entitled The Late Show with Joan Rivers, which dropped her as the host in May 1987.

## Episodes

While over 900 episodes exist, here is a list of the episodes available on Roku:
* Sept. 8, 1989: Kim Novak, Marvin Hamlisch
* Sept. 12, 1989: Donna Mills, Rain Pryor
* Sept. 22, 1989: Bob Hope, Candida Royalle
* Sept. 26, 1989: Boy George, Joy Behar
* Sept. 27, 1989: Leslie Uggams, Roxanne Pulitzer, Paul Linke
* Oct. 3, 1989: Geraldo Rivera
* Oct. 16, 1989: Malcolm Forbes
* Oct. 17, 1989: John Travolta, Sugar Ray Leonard, Richard Simmons
* Oct. 18, 1989: Pamela Des Barres, Barbara Gardner Proctor, Adrien Arpel (aka. Adrienne Arpel)
* Oct. 23, 1989: Roddy McDowall
* Oct. 26, 1989: Anthony Quinn, Renée Taylor, Joseph Bologna
* Nov. 1, 1989: Elizabeth Ashley, Virginia Graham, Paul Peterson, Angela Cartwright, Stanley Livingston
* Nov. 2, 1989: Whoopi Goldberg
* Nov. 6, 1989: Joan Van Ark, Howie Mandel
* Nov. 8, 1989: Pee Wee Herman, Larry Hagman, John Davidson, Shadoe Stevens
* Nov. 9, 1989: Jackée Harry, Peter Horton, Timothy Busfield, Melanie Mayron, Polly Draper, Marshall Herskovitz, Wolfgang Puck, Barbara Lazaroff
* Nov. 10, 1989: Little Richard, Jackie Collins, Mariette Hartley
* Nov. 13, 1989: Zsa Zsa Gabor, Faith Ford
* Nov. 15, 1989: Louie Anderson
* Nov. 16, 1989: Patti D'Arbanville
* Nov. 21, 1989: Malcolm-Jamal Warner, a prostitute, a lesbian nun, an obese woman, a female-impersonator
* Nov. 22, 1989: The Chippendales strippers, Robin Byrd, Ruth Westheimer (Dr. Ruth)
* Nov. 29, 1989: Debbie Reynolds, Martina Navratilova, Randy Crawford
* Dec. 4, 1989: Robert Klein, Linda Dano
* Dec. 6, 1989: Robin Leach
* Dec. 8, 1989: Ed Begley, Jr., Gloria Steinem
* Dec. 19, 1989: George Burns
* Dec. 20, 1989: David Hasselhoff, Diane Ladd
* Jan. 5, 1990: Brooke Shields, Herve Villechaize
* Jan. 10, 1990: Gary Coleman, Melissa Manchester
* Jan. 11, 1990: Mary Frann, Byron Allen
* Jan. 16, 1990: Betty White, porn stars Jerry Butler, Rebecca Steele, Charisma Arquette
* Jan. 17, 1990: Nancy Reagan, Steve Garvey and his wife Candace
* Jan. 30, 1990: Rita Moreno
* Feb. 6, 1990: George Foreman, The Disappearance of Johnny Gosch
* Feb. 7, 1990: Robert Wuhl, Ana-Alicia
* Feb. 8, 1990: James Earl Jones, Women who underwent weight-loss procedures that failed
* Feb. 14, 1990: Nell Carter, unusual dating services for the handicapped, obese, and by astrology
* Feb. 15, 1990: John Lithgow, Stella Stevens, Dorothy Hamill, Clint Holmes
* Feb. 20, 1990: Marla Gibbs, David Brenner
* Feb. 21, 1990: Wayne Newton
* Feb. 23, 1990: Jessica Tandy, Sam Kinison
* Feb. 26, 1990: Rutger Hauer, Jan Hooks, Nora Dunn, Victoria Jackson
* March 6, 1990: Linda Gray
* March 8, 1990: Susan Saint James
* March 20, 1990: Jaclyn Smith
* March 23, 1990: Anthony Quinn and 3 of his children, Russian models
* March 30, 1990: Meredith Vieira, Kim Zimmer, Faith Daniels
* April 2, 1990: Billy Dee Williams, college hazing
* April 3, 1990: Paula Zahn, Harry Smith
* April 5, 1990: Lea Thompson, Cheryl Ladd, Ricki Lake, Dave Coulier, Nancy Wilson
* April 26, 1990: Lily Tomlin
* April 27, 1990: Dudley Moore
* April 30, 1990: Phil Donahue
* May 1, 1990: Eva Marie Saint
* May 3, 1990: Lou Diamond Phillips, Jerry Seinfeld, the sons of Billy Tipton, who was revealed to be transgender after his death.
* May 4, 1990: Howard Stern, Angela Bowie
* May 7, 1990: Dom DeLuise
* May 8, 1990: Joan Chen, Russ Tamblyn, Dana Ashbrook, Jeff Bergman
* May 11, 1990: Roseanne Barr, Tom Arnold, Eddie Rabbit
* May 15, 1990: Eva Gabor, Todd Bridges, Danny Bonaduce, Paul Peterson
* May 18, 1990: Angie Dickinson
* May 21, 1990: Alex Rocco, Telma Hopkins, clips of Joan's final interview with Jill Ireland
* May 22, 1990: Alan Thicke, a police psychic, retired prostitutes
* May 24, 1990: Marla Maples, game show hosts Gene Rayburn, Peter Marshall, and Art Fleming
* June 4, 1990: Robby Benson and his wife Karla DeVito, Robert Picardo
* June 6, 1990: Jean LeClerc, Cree Summer, lyme disease, shoplifting, multiple sclerosis
* June 18, 1990: Janet Leigh
* July 17, 1990: Jane Pauley, a couple who stars in amateur porn videos
* July 19, 1990: Genie Francis, Elvis impersonators, cheating husbands
* July 23, 1990: Maury Povich, Alison Gertz discuses how she contracted AIDS
* Aug. 2, 1990: William Shatner, Rhonda Hansome, Dana Delaney, Louis Gossett Jr., coping with the death of a pet
* Sept. 11, 1990: Donna Mills, cousins who married each other
* Sept. 14, 1990: Bob Hope, Bobby Rivers, college campus murders
* Sept. 19, 1990: Florence Henderson, Robert Urich, Carol Kane, obese porn stars
* Sept. 20, 1990: Jane Seymour, Ashford & Simpson, near-death experiences, twins; when one is gay and the other is straight
* Sept. 24, 1990: Donald Trump
* Sept. 27, 1990: Valerie Harper
* Sept. 28, 1990: Raymond Burr, Rosa Parks, Placido Domingo, Rhonda Hansome
* Oct. 8, 1990: Judith Light, Jackie Collins, people who hired private investigators to stalk their loved ones
* Oct. 25, 1990: Randy Travis, Michael Feinstein, Dread Zeppelin, women terrorized over the phone
* Nov. 15, 1990: John Ritter, Richard Thomas, David Benoit performs with his jazz band
* Nov. 26, 1990: Bob Saget, George Carlin, Pat Robertson
* Jan. 31, 1991: Harry Smith and his wife Andrea Joyce, Florence Quivar
* Feb. 8, 1991: Debbie Gibson, Phoebe Legere, As the World Turns stars Andrew Kavovit, Michael David Morrison, and John Hensley
* Feb. 11, 1991: Jamie Lee Curtis, Holly Fulger
* Feb. 20, 1991: Richard Crenna, Deidre Hall, Brenda Lee
* March 6, 1991: Tom Eplin, Marc Summers, Richie Havens
* March 19, 1991: Joan Collins
* April 17, 1991: Tyne Daly, Shari Lewis, James Earl Jones
* April 24, 1991: gay men who date straight men
* Aug 8, 1991: Dorian Corey, Pepper Labieja, Willi Ninja and Freddie Pendavis
* Sept. 11, 1991: Gary Morton, Altovise Davis, Shirlee Fonda
* Phil Donahue, Donahue Childhood Friends, The Hollywood Kids, Who Can You Trust
* Joan Collins (1992)
* Kevin Dobson John James
* The Hollywood Kids, Robert Blake
* The Hollywood Kids, Tori Spelling, Brian Austin Green (1992)
* Classic sitcom stars Joyce DeWitt, Bob Denver, Robert Reed, Donna Douglas
* Tom Arnold, Roseanne Barr
* Jeffrey Lyons, Bobby Rydell, Martha Reeves, Tab Hunter
* I Love Lucy 40th Anniversary, John Michael Howson, Bart Andrews, Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf, Irma Kusely, Keith Thibodeaux, Desi Arnaz Jr.
* Jesse Nash, Della Reese, KaHo Foxx, LaWanda Page, Jackée
* Susan Lucci (1993)
* Julie Andrews, Ben Kingsley, Peabo Bryson