Johnny Carson @ The Phil Donahue Show 1970 Pt 1 

Wishful thinking. Maybe someone bright and talented enough can convince people in charge to try it.

Very intresting

i realize I am kinda off topic but does anybody know of a good place to watch newly released tv shows online?

@Paxton Zachariah i watch on FlixZone. Just search on google for it =)

@Cash Will yup, I have been watching on flixzone for years myself =)

@Cash Will Thank you, signed up and it seems like a nice service =) I appreciate it!

@Paxton Zachariah Happy to help :)

i'm so glad you posted. i absolutely LOVED the show you folks did! Iconic american moments. Thank you.

I agree, there is something soothing about his voice.

Great voice

I like cavett for that reason.

He let the guest shine whereas today it's almost like the guest is only there to prop up the host.

They did a bad makeup job on him here. So white!

If I remember right, Phil had been out to visit Johnny on his cruiser (boat) sometime prior to this,it was reported in a tv talk magazine. They were both raised in the Midwest so, they got along well.

Have to agree! Both of their shows were GOLD!

Brooke Hanley I agree. If only I had been around back then.

I think we can only say that because the 60's shows are lost. The one episode, with Bob Hope, Dean Martin, Judy Carne, George Goebel, Carol Wayne and Robert Wagner (from 1969) is the greatest one, EVER! I would bet the 60's shows blow everything else out of the water, based on what little we have been able to see.

This was filmed at the WLWD(Dayton,Ohio) studios. Phil was a local personality.(this was before Marlow) In Sept or Oct of 1970 my(9th grade) high school science class had a week long outing at a local (Grant)outdoor life science center. The parents of the students were asked to volunteer to be chaperones for the kids at night. Phil Donahue's son Mike was in my class, and Phil stayed with us for one or 2 nights.(I also knew another son Mark). I experienced the dream of many liberal females,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, I vividly remember the moment when I felt a shaking and looking up out of blurry eyes and seeing ole Phil saying to me,,, "wake up, time to get up".

I was born in '72 so my memory of everything in this era is often hazy but I truly feel the 70s was one of the last best decades. The best cars, the best movies, the best music,the best clothes that are still often imitated. I love those thick eye glasses and shades they wore. We had both Elvis and Led Zeppelin existing in the same universe. And look at what Mr. Carson is wearing. I couldn't pull that off if I tried.I been re watching movies, documentaries and everything on the 70s just to catch up on what I missed or don't fully remember.

@@jeffreymcfadden9403 - I think they were using RCA TK-42 cameras at the time, or were they TK-43's? Anyway, the picture elicited was different from the Norelco PC-70's and GE PE-250/350 cameras.

They will meet again up in heaven.

+Stephen Skellington Both looked much more distinguished with the white hair!

@GENERAL DISARRAY'S BOSS 83 Some folk, especially men, look more distinguished with grey hair as long as they're clean-shaven or as long as grey hair doesn't get their mustache or beard. Then it is not flattering @ all. I saw Johnny Carson in a pic he took while visiting Africa and he hadn't shaved and he looked awful. Disheveled:-/

@@2dasimmons, thanks, God..What bible verse can I find that in? Is that in First Simmonians? Declared on high..gray or white in a beard, or a mustache/gotee is an ABOMINATION for a man..and just not flattering at all. Bleep that! Guess what I think of your blustering declaration? Guess what color my goatee and sometimes beard is? Now IN MY OPINION, what is really not flattering is someone rendering a statement without qualifying it "IN MY OPINION"=" WHITE/GRAY HAIR IS ONLY..." Got it, SPORTY?

@@robertsprouse9282 I've never read in Bible. Just a personal opinion. If one has silver hair it can be ok.

@@2dasimmons, lol, you are a nuke physicist, right? Do we have your ego's permission for our gray hair? LOL..

I know and he is so relaxed here. Great interview.

So rare❤

He did such a great interview with Johnny here. TOPS!

Phil was the absolute BEST ❤

Omg I just wrote the same thing! 😂 I thought it was just me.

He was 45 how young!!

If I remember correctly, this show aired regularly on WLWI-TV 13 in Indianapolis in the early 1970s. It was still an ABC affiliate at that time. Later in the 1970s, WLWI would switch their name to WTHR, and in 1978 switched to being an NBC affiliate. Mom always watched this show back in the 70s and 80s. It always remained on channel 13.

PatrioticPirate yeah it was taped in dayton ohio

Chad Quick, it’s a different day and a different generation. We had our late night celebrity. There was only one Johnny Carson. Probably like you, I have no interest in late night television or, for me, television in general.

Paul Bowers I was in high school when Johnny retired & Jay Leno took over. My mother and grandmother both cried. And Jay Leno helped me to remove all interest in those ridiculous shows as an adult.

And BOTH of these voices have guided my viewpoint the most heavily throughout life. Childhood has a stronger hold than anything rational. Weird.

@@bobablaw1298, with me its IMMANUEL KANT..he was on right after Steve Allen..

Conan is good

Uh...not really KJ. These guys were CCC, yes, but this show was aired just two months after the most turbulent decade of the 20th century had ended. The Vietnam War was still a major hot potato in the USA, with lots of other "sheet" going on, and only two years since the assassinations of MLK Jr, and RFK. It always looks better than it was in hindsight.

***** George Bush + sexy + funny + clever

+DutchrickES Nah. I do not see it. I grew up with him though.

I don't know...id have to hear him say "Recruitements" or "The internets."

Brooke Hanley Brooke, I kind of see it though. You don't?

i think Bush copied some of Johnny's speech patterns and mannerisms.

What was it like in 1992?? I watched Phil Donahue show from 1992 sounds like a great times

This was filmed at the WLWD TV channel 2(Dayton,Ohio) studios. Phil was a local personality.(this was before Marlow) In Sept or Oct of 1970 my(9th grade) high school science class had a week long outing at a local (Grant)outdoor life science center. The parents of the students were asked to volunteer to be chaperones for the kids at night. Phil Donahue's son Mike was in my class, and Phil stayed with us for one or 2 nights.(I also knew another son Mark). I experienced the dream of many liberal females,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, I vividly remember the moment when I felt a shaking and looking up out of blurry eyes and seeing ole Phil saying to me,,, "wake up, time to get up".

What a great story.

People still give credence to Astrology? What about Cancers? Cough, cough ….

@@josephcooper6692 Your point?

He was a drummer, astronomer, avid tennis player, loved to travel, learn languages, etc. You're right, off camera he was very shy and quiet.

Only when management doesn't censor public opinion!!

one of the GOOD things about the internet.

This was a terrific episode with Johnny Carson. He seemed very relaxed with Phil. Johnny was a very private person. seemed open and at ease here.

TV was so much simpler then, people were able to keep celebrity and show business in a proper perspective. Today what they present on TV seems crazy, totally unmoored from reality.

you think? geez...some people

This was filmed at the WLWD(Dayton,Ohio) studios. Phil was a local personality.(this was before Marlow) In Sept or Oct of 1970 my(9th grade) high school science class had a week long outing at a local (Grant)outdoor life science center. The parents of the students were asked to volunteer to be chaperones for the kids at night. Phil Donahue's son Mike was in my class, and Phil stayed with us for one or 2 nights.(I also knew another son Mark). I experienced the dream of many liberal females,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, I vividly remember the moment when I felt a shaking and looking up out of blurry eyes and seeing ole Phil saying to me,,, "wake up, time to get up".

He just passed

I thought I was the only one who noticed the similitarys

“ONLY” YOU RE AN IDIOT!!

Donahue was not completely nationally syndicated yet in Dayton in '70; right? That did not happen until he moved to Chicago, then NYC..later both NYC AND L.A.? I never was a fan of his lefty views..his self avowed socialist slanted blatherings.. Its interesting to see Carson interviewed by the pre-Oprah, King of daytime national Syndication, though.

Do you actually think Phil Donahue invented this?

Merv was good

Merv was not even close to being in Johnny's league. That's a ridiculous comment.

He was still in NY then at 6B where Jimmy Fallon does the current show, so I wonder if moving the show to California a couple years later made it more fun and relaxed.

He was still in NY then at 6B where Jimmy Fallon does the current show, so I wonder if moving the show to California a couple years later made it more fun and relaxed.

@@KalOrtPor STEVE ALLEN did the show in Studio 6B when he STARTED IT in 1954 !

@@essessessesq I'm aware of who Steve Allen was and that he hosted first, nowhere was that being discussed

@@KalOrtPor Studio 6B was being discussed here in the context of The Tonight Show and Carson and Fallon...Accordingly, it was perfectly logical in the context of a discussion of those 2 topics to toss in the very relevant fact that the show later hosted in 6B by Carson and Fallon is ALSO the very same NBC studio where "Tonight" had its beginning in 1954 as the creation of Steve Allen.

Died from emphysema.

In those days most people smoked cigarettes.

I thought I was the only one who noticed the similaritys