This version of "The Steve Allen Show" was a 6-episode 1952 summer show which alternated every other week with "The Al Pearce Show".

“The Tonight Show” was preceded in 1950-51 by “Broadway Open House,” hosted by Jerry Lester and featuring the hyper-statuesque Dagmar. The original 1953 “Tonight” with Steve Allen was ...

Steve Allen sits at a piano in a darkened studio, alone except for a few stagehands. “Saying goodbye to this show feels like graduating high school and going to college,” he begins.

Steve Allen, one of television's greatest innovators and the first host of NBC's "Tonight Show," is dead at 78. A cultural curmudgeon in his final years, Allen was one of TV's zaniest comics in ...

LOS ANGELES, California -- Steve Allen, comedian, author, composer and Emmy-award winning TV host, has died. Allen began his climb to stardom over 40 years ago as the first host of "The Tonight Show." ...

Steve Allen, the zany comedian and witty social commentator whose career zipped at warp speed from one occupation to the next—from hosting the original "Tonight" show to lecturing about morality ...

Steve Allen, the original host of "The Tonight Show" who is credited with writing 50 books and 3,000 songs, died of a heart attack Monday night in Encino, Calif., at the home of his youngest son ...