***The Mike Douglas Show*** was an American daytime television talk show. The host Mike Douglas. The show was broadcast in syndication from 1961 to 1982. Westinghouse Broadcasting distributed the show. Many of the programs were made in studios of two of the company's TV stations.

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The show featured the first television appearance of then 2 year old Tiger Woods who showed off his swing for Bob Hope and James Stewart. Others who appeared on the show over the years include Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr. Mother Teresa, Jerry Rubin, Angela Davis, Alfred Hitchcock, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Bette Davis, Gene Kelly, Gene Tierney, Lucille Ball, Vivian Vance, Mark Hamill, Ginger Rogers, Ricardo Montalbán, Howard Keel, Celeste Holm, Dorothy Lamour, Dana Andrews, Vincent Price, Natalie Wood, Joan Crawford, Cliff Robertson, Peter Lawford, Nanette Fabray, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Lee Marvin, Paul Newman, Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Carrie Fisher, Robert Wagner, Diahann Carroll, George Hamilton, Victor Buono, Peter Ustinov, Tammy Grimes, Valerie Harper, Richard Dreyfuss, John Travolta, Louis Armstrong, Rosemary Clooney, Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Sammy Davis, Jr. Harrison Ford, Eydie Gormé, Jack Jones, Harry Belafonte, Liza Minnelli, Paul Anka, Robert Goulet, Carol Lawrence, Edie Adams, Debbie Reynolds, Gwen Verdon, Connie Francis, Olivia Newton-John, Ben Vereen, Joey Heatherton, Ruth Dickson, Frankie Laine, Eartha Kitt, Sergio Mendes, Buddy Rich, Jerry Vale, Lola Falana, Frankie Valli, Pearl Bailey, Lou Rawls, Tina Turner, Tom Waits, Eddy Arnold, Johnny Cash, Roy Clark, Kenny Rogers, Ray Stevens, Janis Ian, Bernie Taupin, Ian Anderson, Marcel Marceau, Muhammad Ali, Howard Cosell, Joe Namath, Mason Reese, Ralph Nader, Rex Reed, Martha Mitchell, Victor Borge, Kreskin, Imogene Coca, Phyllis Diller, Fannie Flagg, Lily Tomlin, Joan Rivers, Elayne Boosler, Milton Berle, George Burns, Sid Caesar, Mel Brooks, Alan King, Bill Cosby, Henny Youngman, Jack Carter, Redd Foxx, Rodney Dangerfield, Jan Murray, Shecky Greene, Buddy Hacket, Joey Bishop, Red Skelton, Steve Allen, Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, Marty Allen, Robert Klein, George Carlin, Sandy Baron, Arte Johnson, Frank Gorshin, Soupy Sales, Jonathan Winters, Charlie Callas, Norm Crosby, Rip Taylor, Foster Brooks, Irwin Corey, Leonard Barr, Pat Cooper, Rich Little, Stan Kann, Steve Landesberg, Andy Kaufman, Jimmie Walker, Jay Leno, Moe Howard of The Three Stooges, Gloria Parker with her Musical Glasses, Jimmy Edmonson.

### Musical performers

* The Electric Light Orchestra
* The Beach Boys
* The Bee Gees
* Chuck Berry
* Brooklyn Dreams
* Ray Charles
* Cher
* Bo Diddley
* Minnie Riperton
* The Electric Prunes
* Every Mother's Son
* Aretha Franklin
* Liberace
* Virgil Fox
* Gary Lewis and the Playboys
* Genesis
* Herman's Hermits
* The Jacksons
* Jefferson Airplane
* Dick Jensen
* John Lennon
* KISS
* Little Anthony & the Imperials
* The Miracles
* Moby Grape
* The Rolling Stones
* Linda Ronstadt
* Sly & the Family Stone
* Barbra Streisand
* Donna Summer
* The Supremes
* The Turtles
* Frank Zappa
* Billy Joel
* The Raspberries
* Luiz Bonfá
* The Four Aces
* Jimi Hendrix

### Guest co-hosts

There was a different co-host every week on the show. Some of the co-hosts include: Cesar Romero, Jackie Gleason, Joan Fontaine, Anne Baxter, Jimmy Dean, Richard Thomas, Florence Henderson, Brooke Shields, Shelley Berman, Richard Pryor, Dyan Cannon, Suzanne Somers, Jerry Lewis, Don Rickles, Minnie Pearl, Shirley Bassey, Bobby Darin, Tony Randall, Kaye Ballard, Totie Fields, David Brenner, Ted Knight, Bernadette Peters, Kate Jackson, Harry Chapin, Rod McKuen, Cicely Tyson, Karen Valentine, Johnny Mathis, Joel Grey, Carol Channing, Anne Murray, Anthony Newley, Marvin Hamlisch, Patty Duke, Cher, Mel Tillis, Steve Lawrence, Martha Raye, Tony Bennett, Mel Tormé, Frankie Avalon, Charlton Heston, Gordon MacRae, Richard Harris, Red Buttons, Billy Crystal, David Steinberg, Hugh O'Brian, Burt Reynolds, William Shatner, John Lennon & Yoko Ono.Jimi Hendrix

Other websites
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* Official website Archived 2009-08-31 at the Wayback Machine, being licensing link for *Mike Douglas Show* clips from King World Productions, now part of CBS Television Distribution.