The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise. It ran from October 1, 1962 through May 22, 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show was based at Thirty Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, on May 1, 1972, the show was moved to Burbank, California.(Carson, however, brought the show back to Manhattan in November 1972, and again in May 1973). Peter Lassally served as the show's executive producer.

In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

Carson played some skits during his show, the most popular were Carnac the Magnificent, Floyd R. Turbo, and Ronald Reagan (during his term in office, Carson would impersonate him).

In the show, Ed McMahon would be Caron's sidekick throughout the entire series and Doc Severinsen would lead the orchestra and would sometimes be Carson's sidekick.

References

Other websites

Carson's official Tonight Show website

A profile of Carson in The New Yorker from 1978
Johnny Carson, late-night TV legend, dies at 79, a January 2005 CNN article
Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress
The Tonight Show  from the Museum of Broadcast Communications website

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