Kraft Music Hall: Season 11
Season 11 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Kraft Music Hall Season 10.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
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The Kraft Premier Show
Sep 11, 1968 · 60 min
--Eddy Arnold (co-host) --Don Rickles (co-host) --Alan King (co-host) --Bobbie Gentry --Rocky Graziano --Joe Louis --Sugar Ray Robinson
Don Rickles' Brooklyn
Sep 18, 1968 · 60 min
""Don Rickles' Brooklyn"" --Don Rickles --Joan Rivers --Steve Lawrence --Robert Merrill --Roy Campanella
Kraft Presents Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
Oct 2, 1968 · 60 min
--Roy Rogers & Dale Evans --Sons of the Pioneers --Stiller & Meara --Kate Smith --Bobby Van
Alan King At The Movies
Oct 9, 1968 · 60 min
--Alan King --Janet Leigh --Paul Lynde --Will Jordan
Kraft Presents Eddy Arnold
Oct 16, 1968 · 60 min
--Eddy Arnold - ""This Land Is Your Land"" (with chorus and dancers) --Eddy Arnold - ""Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye"" and ""Up Above My Head"" --Eddy Arnold and Al Hirt - ""Bac
The Friars Club Roasts Johnny Carson
Oct 23, 1968 · 60 min
Friars Club roasts Johnny Carson --Alan King (as the ""Roastmaster"") Other guests: --Groucho Marx --Ed Sullivan --Steve Allen --Flip Wilson --Dick Cavett --Ed
Comedy 2001 - Give Or Take A Few Weeks
Nov 13, 1968 · 60 min
""Comedy 2001 - Give Or Take A Few Weeks"" --Steve Allen --Julie Harris --Shelley Berman --Bill Dana --Lynn Kellogg
2nd Annual Country Music Association Awards
Nov 20, 1968 · 60 min
Country Music Association Awards (taped at the Grand Ole Opry, Nashville, Tenn.): Performers: --Roy Rogers & Dale Evans (co-hosts) - medley --Glen Campbell - ""By the Time I
Alan King's Wonderful World of Aggravation
Dec 4, 1968 · 60 min
""Alan King's Wonderful World of Aggravation"" --Alan King (host) --Angie Dickinson --Paul Lynde --David Frye (impressionist, imitates leading politicians) --Gunilla
The Eddy Arnold Christmas Show
Dec 18, 1968 · 60 min
Christmas Show --Eddy Arnold --Burl Ives --Terry-Thomas --Lynn Kellogg --By George Singers
The Nancy Sinatra Show
Jan 8, 1969 · 60 min
--Nancy Sinatra --Don Ho --Rod McKuen --Sandler & Young --Pat Henry
Jack Jones / Debbie Reynolds / Johnny Cash
Jan 15, 1969 · 60 min
--Jack Jones --Debbie Reynolds --Johnny Cash --Godfrey Cambridge
The Sound of The Sixties
Jan 22, 1969 · 60 min
""Sound of the Sixties"" --Bobby Darin (host) - ""Let The Good Times Roll"" (opening song) --Bobby Darin also performs a medley that begins with ""Splish, Splash"" --Stevie W
Eddy Arnold Down Home
Jan 29, 1969 · 60 min
--Eddy Arnold --The Cowsills --Polly Bergen --Johnny Puleo and his Harmonica Gang --Browning Bryant
What It Was, Was Love
Feb 5, 1969 · 60 min
""What It Was, Was Love"" - Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme sing love songs written by Gordon Jenkins. Jenkins appears as conductor. Songs: ""Boys and Girls,"" ""What You Say,"" "
Don Adams and Don Rickles Are Alive and Well and Living In California
Feb 19, 1969 · 60 min
Show satirizing life in California --Don Adams and Don Rickles (co-hosts) --Kaye Ballard --Joseph Cotten - narrates a satirical documentary of Hollywood with Adams, Rickles a
Jimmy Durante and Don Knotts Do Their Thing....Also!
Feb 26, 1969 · 60 min
--Jimmy Durante (co-host) - sings ""This Is All I Ask"" --Don Knotts (co-host) --Jane Powell sings ""Cycles"" --Jimmy Durante plays the piano in a segment with Jane Powel
A Night Out With The Boys
Mar 5, 1969 · 60 min
""A Night Out With the Boys"" --Robert Goulet --Phil Silvers --The Lettermen --George Lindsey --Edward Villella
Wayne, Women, and Song
Mar 12, 1969 · 60 min
--Wayne Newton --Judy Carne --Lucie Arnaz --Browning Bryant --Going Thing
Broadway's Best - 1969
Mar 26, 1969 · 60 min
""Broadway's Best - 1969"" with songs from seven Broadway musicals --Henry Fonda (host) --Herschel Bernardi - ""If I Were a Rich Man"" (from ""Fiddler on the Roof"") --Joel
Ladies' Night
Apr 2, 1969 · 60 min
--Mike Douglas (host) - ""Try a Little Tenderness"" & ""The Most Beautiful Girl in the World"" --Lena Horne - ""Hello, Young Lovers"" & ""Softly, As I Leave You"" --Mike Doug
Johnny Cash...On The Road
Apr 16, 1969 · 60 min
Johnny Cash (host) - ""Folsom Prison Blues,"" ""Rock Island Line,"" ""Wreck of the Old 97"" ""I Still Miss Her So"" and ""Water Into Wine"" --The Statler Brothers - ""Flowers on t
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore / Anne Bancroft / Mel Torme
Apr 30, 1969 · 60 min
From London: --Peter Cook & Dudley Moore (co-hosts) comedy team, appear in several sketches --Anne Bancroft - ""Limehouse Blues"" (with dancers) --Anne Bancroft with Dudley
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore / Donovan
May 7, 1969 · 60 min
From London: --Peter Cook & Dudley Moore (co-hosts) comedy team, appear in several sketches --Donovan - sings ""Land of the Reedy River"" and ""The Sun Is a Very Magic Fellow
Sandler & Young / Judy Carne / Lena Horne
May 14, 1969 · 60 min
From London: --Sandler & Young (Summer 1969 hosts) - ""Dominique,"" ""Malaguena"" & ""It's All Right with Me"" --Lena Horne - ""Cycles"" & ""People Gotta Be Free"" --Lena H
Sandler & Young / Nancy Ames / Norman Wisdom
May 21, 1969 · 60 min
Second show from London: --Sandler & Young (hosts for Summer 1969) - ""Dominique,"" ""Put on a Happy Face,"" ""The Yodeling Song,"" ""My Funny Valentine"" & ""Elegy"" --Nancy
Sandler & Young / Ella Fitzgerald / Norman Wisdom
Jun 4, 1969 · 60 min
Taped in London: --Sandler & Young (Summer 1969 hosts) - ""Smile"" & ""La Fiacre"" --Ella Fitzgerald - ""That Old Black Magic"" & ""This Girl's in Love with You"" --Judy C
Sandler & Young / Sid Caesar / Norman Wisdom
Jun 11, 1969 · 60 min
--Tony Sandler & Ralph Young (Summer 1969 hosts) - ""Dominique,"" ""Side by Side,"" ""One of Those Songs,"" ""Donegal,"" ""Danny Boy"" and ""Impossible Dream"" --Norman Wisdom -
Sandler & Young / Frank Gorshin / Judy Carne
Jun 18, 1969 · 60 min
Tony Sandler & Ralph Young (Summer 1969 co-hosts) --Sandler & Young - ""Together,"" ""Edelweiss,"" ""Down by the Old Mill Stream,"" ""The Whiffenpoff Song,"" ""I Believe"" & ""Av
Sandler & Young / Sid Caesar / Judy Carne
Jun 25, 1969 · 60 min
--Sandler & Young (Summer 1969 hosts) - ""Bye-Bye Blackbird,"" ""Pretty Things Come in Twos,"" ""Dick-a-Dum-Dum"" and ""Il Nostro Concerto"" --Judy Carne - ""My Old Desk"" --No
Don Ho / Carol Lawrence / Bill Dana
Jul 2, 1969 · 60 min
From Hawaii (first of 5 shows hosted by Don Ho): Music: --Don Ho - ""Welcome to My World"" and ""Born Free"" --Don Ho with native Hawaiian children - ""Feelin' Groovy"" and ""
Sandler & Young / Lena Horne / Kaye Ballard
Jul 9, 1969 · 60 min
--Sandler & Young (Summer 1969 hosts) --Lena Horne --Kaye Ballard --Norman Wisdom
Sandler & Young / Carol Lawrence / Kaye Ballard
Jul 16, 1969 · 60 min
--Sandler & Young (Summer 1969 hosts) - ""My Favorite Things,"" ""Trains and Boats and Things"" & ""If We Only Have Love"" --Carol Lawrence (with dancers) - ""Mad About the Boy,
Sandler & Young / Terry-Thomas / Kaye Ballard
Jul 23, 1969 · 60 min
--Tony Sandler & Ralph Young (Summer 1969 hosts) - Beatles medley (""Hey Jude,"" ""Eleanor Rigby,"" ""Michelle"" & ""And I Love Her"") --Sandler & Young - ""What the World Needs
Sandler & Young / Barbara Feldon / Judy Carne
Jul 30, 1969 · 60 min
--Sandler & Young (Summer 1969 hosts) - Italian-American medley: ""76 Trombones,"" ""Wagon Wheels,"" ""Ave Maria,"" ""Funiculi, Funicula,"" ""Arrivederci, Roma,"" ""Moonlight and R
Sandler & Young / Cyd Charisse / Dave King
Aug 6, 1969 · 60 min
--Sandler & Young (Summer 1969 hosts) - ""Scarborough Fair,"" ""Both Sides Now"" & ""Toot Toot Tootsie, Goodbye"" --Cyd Charisse (dancer) - ""Chicago"" --Cyd Charisse - ""Cha
Sandler & Young / Victor Borge / David Berglas
Aug 13, 1969 · 60 min
--Sandler & Young (co-hosts, hosting their last show of the Summer) - ""All I Need Is a Girl, ""Going Home,"" ""Mr. Boom-Boom"" --Sandler & Young - medley: ""Cotton Fields,"" ""
Don Ho / Bobby Goldsboro / Stiller & Meara
Aug 20, 1969 · 60 min
First of four shows from Hawaii: --Don Ho (host) - ""Tiny Bubbles,"" ""Gentle on My Mind"" and ""My Way"" --Stiller & Meara (comedy team) - do a Hawaiian version of ""Jonah a
Don Ho / Rod McKuen / Pat Cooper
Aug 27, 1969 · 60 min
--Don Ho (host) --Rod McKuen --Pat Cooper (comedian)
Don Ho / Peter Nero / Minnie Pearl
Sep 3, 1969 · 60 min
--Don Ho - ""Hawaiian Wedding Song,"" ""Didn't We?"" and ""Turn Around, Look at Me"" --Don Ho and Peter Nero - ""One Note Samba"" and ""Here's That Rainy Day"" --Peter Nero - "
Don Ho / Everly Brothers / Pat Henry
Sep 10, 1969 · 60 min
--Don Ho --The Everly Brothers --Pat Henry