# List of works by Steve Allen

This is a list of works by American television personality, musician, composer, actor, comedian, and writer Steve Allen.

## Films

* Down Memory Lane (1949)
* The Benny Goodman Story (1956)
* The Big Circus (1959)
* College Confidential (1960)
* Warning Shot (1967)
* Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968)
* The Comic (1969)
* Rich Man, Poor Man (1976)
* Alice in Wonderland (1985)
* The St. Tammany Miracle (1994)

## Shows

* Songs for Sale (1950–1952)
* What's My Line? (regular panelist, 1953–1954; frequent guest panelist 1954–1967)
* Jukebox Jury (1953)
* Talent Patrol (1953–1955)
* The Steve Allen Show (1956–61)
* The Tonight Show (1954–1957, NBC)
* The Steve Allen Westinghouse Show (1962–1968)
* I've Got a Secret (1964–1967, 1972–1973)
* The Steve Allen Show (Filmways production, 1968–1969)
* Steve Allen Show (September 29, 1970 – October 21, 1971) KTLA
* The Allen Show (1971-72)
* Match Game (panelist, 1974)
* Tattletales (panelist, mid-1970s)
* Meeting of Minds (1977–1981, PBS)
* Steve Allen Comedy Hour (1980–1981)
* The Start of Something Big (1985–1986)
* Amen (1991, Lights, Camera, Deacon Season 5 episode 9)
* The Simpsons (1992, "Separate Vocations", 1995, "'Round Springfield")
* Space Ghost Coast to Coast (1997, one episode, Guest)
* Homicide: Life on the Street (1998): Steve and Jayne appeared as guests (January 16, 1998).
* Sabrina the Teenage Witch (April 3, 1998, Season 2 Episode 21 "Fear Strikes Up a Conversation", Guest)
* Diagnosis Murder (1999, Season 7 Episode 1 The Roast, Ray Masters)

## Songs

* "Cool Yule"
* "The Gravy Waltz"
* "Impossible"
* "Let's Go to Church (Next Sunday Morning)"
* "Theme from Picnic"
* "Playing the Field"
* "Pretend You Don't See Her, My Heart"
* "The Saturday Evening Post"
* "This Could Be the Start of Something Big"

## Comedic discography

* Man in the Street (1963) (Signature 1004)
* Funny Fone Calls (1963) (Dot 3472, re-issued as Casablanca 811-366-1-ML)
* More Funny Fone Calls (1963) (Dot 3517, re-issued as Casablanca 811-367-1-ML)

## Musical discography

* Steve Allen's All Star Jazz Concert Vol. 1 with Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band, Billy Butterfield Jazz Band (Decca, 1954)
* Steve Allen's All Star Jazz Concert Vol. 2 with Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band, Billy Butterfield Jazz Band (Decca, 1954)
* Music for Tonight (Coral, 1955)
* Jazz for Tonight (Coral, 1955)
* Steve Sings (Coral, 1955)
* The Steve Allen Show (Coral, 1955)
* Allen Plays Allen (Coral, 1956)
* The James Dean Story with Bill Randle (Coral, 1956)
* Steve Allen Plays Benny Goodman (Coral, 1956)
* Romantic Rendezvous with Neal Hefti (Coral, 1957)
* Venetian Serenade (Coral, 1957)
* Terry Gibbs, Captain with Terry Gibbs (Mercury, 1958)
* Steve Allen Plays Hi-Fi Music for Influentials (Coral, 1958)
* The Poetry of Love (Coral, 1958)
* What Is Subud with John Bennett (Hanover, 1958)
* Steve Allen Plays Neal Hefti (Coral, 1958)
* Anthony Plays Allen with Ray Anthony (Capitol, 1958)
* Man On the Street with Tom Poston, Don Knotts, Louis Nye (Signature, 1959)
* The Discovery of Buck Hammer (Hanover, 1959)
* Steve Allen Presents Carole Simpson: Singin' and Swingin' (Tops, 1959)
* Steve Allen Presents Sandy Warner: Fair & Warner (Tops, 1959)
* Poetry for the Beat Generation with Jack Kerouac (Hanover, 1959)
* Steve Allen at the Roundtable (Roulette, 1959)
* Swingin' & Dancin' with Gus Bivona (Mercury, 1959)
* Steve Allen Plays (Dot, 1959)
* Around the World (Dot, 1959)
* Monday Nights (Signature, 1960)
* Steve Allen Presents Terry Gibbs at the Piano (Signature, 1960)
* Steve Allen Presents 12 Golden Hits (Dot, 1962)
* Steve Allen Plays Bossa Nova Jazz (Dot, 1963)
* Plays the Piano Greats (Dot, 1963)
* Gravy Waltz and 11 Current Hits! (Dot, 1963)
* Steve Allen Sings (Dot, 1963)
* More (Theme from "Mondo Cane") (Dot, 1963)
* Steve Allen's Funny Fone-Calls (Dot, 1963)
* Some of My Favorites (Hamilton 1964)
* Songs from the Steve Allen TV Show (Dot, 1964)
* Poetry in Piano (Coral, 1964)
* I Play for You (Dot, 1965)
* His Piano & Orchestra (Dot, 1965)
* Cool, Quiet Bossa Nova (Dot, 1967)
* Do the Love with Bob Thiele (ABC, 1967)
* Soulful Brass with Oliver Nelson (Impulse!, 1968)
* A Man Called Dagger (Music from the Original Soundtrack) (MGM 1968)
* Soulful Brass #2 (Flying Dutchman, 1969)
* Soulful Brass #3 (Flying Dutchman, 1971)
* Steve Allen Presents Linda Guymon (Dobre 1978)
* Funny Fone Calls (Casablanca, 1983)
* Steve Allen's More Funny Fone Calls (Casablanca, 1983)
* Alice in Wonderland Original Cast Voice Track Recording (1985)
* Steve Allen Plays Jazz Tonight (Concord Jazz, 1993)

## Books

| Year | Title | Notes | Identifiers |
| 1955 | Steve Allen's Bop Fables | illustrated by George Price | OCLC 1006762 |
| 1955 | Fourteen for Tonight | short stories | OCLC 1034835 |
| 1956 | The Funny Men | | OCLC 329974 |
| 1956 | Wry on the Rocks | poems | OCLC 1150685 |
| 1958 | The Girls on the 10th Floor and Other Stories | short stories | OCLC 1131890; ISBN 0-8369-3608-6 (1970 printing) |
| 1959 | The Question Man... | photographs by Gene Lester | OCLC 1150647 |
| 1960 | Mark It and Strike It: An Autobiography | | OCLC 25533614 |
| 1962 | Not All of Your Laughter, Not All of Your Tears | Steve's first novel | OCLC 1626391 |
| 1964 | Dialogues in Americanism | transcript of three debates: Allen vs. William F. Buckley, Jr.; Robert M. Hutchins vs. L. Brent Bozell, and James MacGregor Burns vs. Willmoore Kendall | OCLC 397431 |
| 1965 | Letter to a Conservative | | OCLC 1150594 |
| 1966 | The Ground is Our Table | photographs by Arthur Dubinsky | OCLC 358823 |
| 1967 | Bigger than a Breadbox | with commentary by Leonard Feather; illustrations by Rowland B. Wilson | OCLC 717481 |
| 1969 | A Flash of Swallows: New Poems | poems | ISBN 0-8375-6734-3; OCLC 5024 |
| 1972 | The Wake | | ISBN 0-385-07608-8 |
| 1973 | Princess Snip-Snip and the Puppy-Kittens | illustrated by David Gantz | |
| 1973 | Curses! or... How Never to Be Foiled Again | illustrated by Marvin Rubin | ISBN 0-87477-008-4 |
| 1974 | What To Say When It Rains | | ISBN 0-8431-0357-4 |
| 1975 | Schmock-Schmock! | | ISBN 0-385-09664-X |
| 1978 | Meeting of Minds | | ISBN 0-517-53383-9; 1989 printing: ISBN 0-87975-550-4 |
| 1978 | Chopped-Up Chinese | | |
| 1979 | Ripoff: A Look at Corruption in America | with Roslyn Bernstein and Donald H. Dunn | ISBN 0-8184-0249-0 |
| 1979 | Meeting of Minds, Second Series | | ISBN 0-517-53894-6; 1989 printing: ISBN 0-87975-565-2 |
| 1980 | Explaining China | | ISBN 0-517-54062-2 |
| 1981 | Funny People | | ISBN 0-8128-2764-3 |
| 1982 | Beloved Son: A Story of the Jesus Cults | | ISBN 0-672-52678-6 |
| 1982 | More Funny People | | ISBN 0-8128-2884-4 |
| 1986 | How to Make a Speech | | ISBN 0-07-001164-8 |
| 1987 | How to Be Funny: Discovering the Comic You | with Jane Wollman | ISBN 0-07-001199-0; 1992 printing: ISBN 0-87975-792-2; 1998 revised edition: ISBN 1-57392-206-4 |
| 1989 | The Passionate Nonsmoker's Bill of Rights: The First Guide to Enacting Nonsmoking Legislation | with Bill Adler, Jr. | ISBN 0-688-06295-4 |
| 1989 | "Dumbth": And 81 Ways to Make Americans Smarter | | ISBN 0-87975-539-3; 1998 revised edition: ISBN 1-57392-237-4 |
| 1989 | Meeting of Minds, Vol. III | | ISBN 0-87975-566-0 |
| 1989 | Meeting of Minds, Vol. IV | | ISBN 0-87975-567-9 |
| 1990 | The Public Hating: A Collection of Short Stories | | ISBN 0-942637-22-4 |
| 1990 | Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion & Morality | | ISBN 0-87975-638-1 |
| 1992 | Hi-Ho, Steverino: The Story of My Adventures in the Wonderful Wacky World of Television | | ISBN 0-942637-55-0; large-print edition: ISBN 1-56054-521-6 |
| 1993 | More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion & Morality | | ISBN 0-87975-736-1 |
| 1993 | Make 'em Laugh | | ISBN 0-87975-837-6 |
| 1994 | Reflections | | ISBN 0-87975-904-6 |
| 1995 | The Man Who Turned Back the Clock, and Other Short Stories | | ISBN 1-57392-002-9 |
| 1995 | The Bug and the Slug in the Rug | | ISBN 1-880851-17-2 |
| 1996 | But Seriously...: Steve Allen Speaks His Mind | | ISBN 1-57392-090-8 |
| 1999 | Steve Allen's Songs: 100 Lyrics with Commentary | | ISBN 0-7864-0736-0 |
| 2000 | Steve Allen's Private Joke File | | ISBN 0-609-80672-6 |
| 2001 | Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio – Raising the Standards of Popular Culture | | ISBN 1-57392-874-7 |
Allen was the credited author of a series of mystery novels "starring" himself and wife Jayne Meadows as amateur detectives. The first one (The Talk Show Murders) was ghostwritten by Walter J. Sheldon; later volumes were ghostwritten by Robert Westbrook.
* The Talk Show Murders (1982), ISBN 0-440-08471-7
* Murder on the Glitter Box (1989), ISBN 0-8217-2752-4
* Murder in Manhattan (1990), ISBN 0-8217-3033-9
* Murder in Vegas (1991), ISBN 0-8217-3462-8
* The Murder Game (1993), ISBN 0-8217-4115-2
* Murder on the Atlantic (1995), ISBN 0-8217-4647-2
* Wake Up to Murder (1996), ISBN 1-57566-090-3
* Die Laughing (1998), ISBN 1-57566-241-8
* Murder in Hawaii (1999), ISBN 1-57566-375-9

## Skeptic magazine

As Allen was a supporter of the scientific skepticism movement, he worked to promote critical thinking, contributing many pieces to the American magazine Skeptic, which is published by the California-based Skeptics Society.
* Skeptic Vol. 1, No. 1, "A Tribute to Isaac Asimov" (with Harlan Ellison and Martin Gardner)
* Skeptic Vol. 1, No. 2
* Skeptic Vol. 1, No. 3
* Skeptic Vol. 1, No. 4
* Skeptic Vol. 2, No. 1, "Genius" (with James Randi, Paul MacCready, Marilyn vos Savant, Elie Shneour, and David Alexander)
* Skeptic Vol. 2, No. 2, "The Jesus Cults"
* Skeptic Vol. 2, No. 3
* Skeptic Vol. 2, No. 4
* Skeptic Vol. 3, No. 1
* Skeptic Vol. 3, No. 2
* Skeptic Vol. 3, No. 3
* Skeptic Vol. 3, No. 4
* Skeptic Vol. 4, No. 1
* Skeptic Vol. 4, No. 2
* Skeptic Vol. 4, No. 3
* Skeptic Vol. 4, No. 4
* Skeptic Vol. 5, No. 1
** "An Open Letter from Steve Allen to Heber Jentzsch, President, Church of Scientology"
** "But Seriously … Steve Allen Speaks His Mind"
* Skeptic Vol. 5, No. 2
* Skeptic Vol. 5, No. 3, "Scientology Reply to Steve Allen"
* Skeptic Vol. 5, No. 4