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The Dick Cavett Show Episode Ratings Heatmap

1968 · 10 Seasons · 465 Episodes · Overall Score: 10.0/10 (1 rated)

Highest Rated Episode

10.0/10

S4E44: John Cassavetes, Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara (1 votes)

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Best Season

10.00/10

Season 4 holds the highest collective average score across the series.

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Key Ratings Insights

Best season by average: Season 4 averaged 10.00/10 across 1 rated episodes.

Complete Episode Rating Matrix

Interactive score chart by season and episode number. Darker green indicates higher ratings; amber and red denote lower reception.

8.5+ (Outstanding) 7.5 – 8.4 (Great) 6.0 – 7.4 (Average) < 6.0 (Underwhelming) Few votes

Season 11 (6 episodes) Avg: –

Ep 1: Doris Dörrie, Sidney Lumet, Sydney Pollack, Alan J. Pakula, Ivan Reitman –

Ep 2: Richard Gere, Rae Dawn Chong, Dr. Charlie Clements –

Ep 3: Muhammad Ali, Olympic Serenaders –

Ep 4: Olympians, Kurt Thomas –

Ep 5: Baseball Hall Of Fame, Tommy John –

Ep 20: Art Garfunkel –

Season 10 (8 episodes) Avg: –

Ep 1: Alan King, Jack Douglas, Reiko Douglas, Kamarr –

Ep 2: Nancy Friday, Zamfir, Anthony Burgess –

Ep 3: Baseball Hall of Fame - Bob Feller –

Ep 4: Baseball Hall of Fame - Joe Garagiola –

Ep 5: Unknown –

Ep 6: Unknown –

Ep 7: Baseball Hall of Fame - Mickey Mantle, Hank Aaron –

Ep 8: Baseball Hall of Fame - Keith Hernandez –

Season 9 (3 episodes) Avg: –

Ep 1: Paul Simon, Anthony Burgess, Barbara Howar, Jerzy Kosinski –

Ep 7: David Bowie –

Ep 92: Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese –

Season 8 (2 episodes) Avg: –

Ep 6: Katharine Hepburn, Part 1 –

Ep 7: Katharine Hepburn, Part 2 –

Season 7 (4 episodes) Avg: –

Ep 7: Jack Benny, Bill Cosby, Joe Frazier, Phil Silvers –

Ep 77: Marlon Brando –

Ep 78: Ray Charles –

Ep 80: Ray Charles, John Lindsay, Dr. Samuel Rosen –

Season 6 (16 episodes) Avg: –

Ep 6: John Lennon & Yoko Ono –

Ep 8: Lillian Gish, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Julius Baker, Satchel Paige, Salvador Dali –

Ep 9: John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Robert Citron, Stan Freberg –

Ep 19: Fred Astaire –

Ep 21: Mort Sahl, B.B. King, Don Meredith, Veruschka von Lehndorff –

Ep 23: Woody Allen –

Ep 34: Don Rickles, Beverly Sills, Phyllis Kirk, Earl Wilson –

Ep 39: Bette Davis –

Ep 42: George Harrison, Mick Jones, Gary Wright & Wonderwheel, Ravi Shankar –

Ep 55: George Burns, author Adelle Davis and The Smothers Brothers –

Ep 56: Groucho Marx, Erin Fleming –

Ep 68: Sen. Edward Kennedy, Charlotte Curtis, Al Green –

Ep 79: Frank Capra, Mel Brooks, Robert Altman, Peter Bogdanovich –

Ep 100: John Huston –

Ep 170: John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Shirley MacLaine –

Ep 174: Alfred Hitchcock –

Season 5 (7 episodes) Avg: –

Ep 7: Sally Field, Maximilian Schell, Duke Ellington, Dr. Jack Oliver –

Ep 11: John Cassavetes, Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara –

Ep 153: Robert Mitchum –

Ep 171: Groucho Marx, Truman Capote, Jim Fowler –

Ep 219: Ingmar Bergman, Bibi Andersson –

Ep 248: John Lennon & Yoko Ono –

Ep 249: Ray Charles, Tony Randall, Margaret Mead –

Season 4 (357 episodes) Avg: 10.0

Ep 1: Woody Allen, Robert Shaw, Beverly Sills, Jacqueline Wexler –

Ep 2: Henry Fonda, Isaac Stern, Charlotte Curtis, Harold Krents –

Ep 3: Bette Davis, Buck Henry, Jonathan Miller, Pat McCormick –

Ep 4: F. Lee Bailey, Tony Curtis, Federico Fellini, Gerri Granger –

Ep 5: Peter Ustinov, Walter Carlos –

Ep 6: Helen Gurley Brown, Jim Brown, Little Richard, Scott Gourlay, Skeeter Vaughan –

Ep 7: Jerry Rubin, Billy Kidd, Phillip A. Luce, Gerri Granger, Dominic Assaro, John Crawford –

Ep 8: Jane Fonda, Peter Fonda, Henry Fonda, Dr. Michael Ramsey, Mort Sahl, Lanada Means –

Ep 9: Groucho Marx, Shelley Winters, Cast of Minnie's Boys –

Ep 10: Groucho Marx, Phyllis Newman, Joseph Goulden –

Ep 11: Hugh Hefner, Rollo May, Grace Slick and Jefferson Airplane, Sally Kempton, Susan Brownmiller –

Ep 12: Mel Brooks, Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Dr. Aaron Stern, Rex Reed –

Ep 13: Paul Simon, Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Marcel Marceau, Ellen Peck –

Ep 14: Paul Newman, Dr. Christiaan Barnard –

Ep 15: Herb Klein, John Kerry –

Ep 16: Orson Welles, Jack Lemmon –

Ep 17: Rose Kennedy, Dizzy Dean, Bob Thomas, Dr. Harry Gordon, Kole and Param –

Ep 18: Sugar Ray Robinson, Dan Greenburg, Avery Corman, Dr. Thomas Szasz, Jane Forth –

Ep 19: Muhammad Ali, Norman Mailer, Dean Jones, Madeline Kahn –

Ep 20: Hugh Hefner, Dr. Mary Calderone, Diane Crothers, Holly T. Tanen –

Ep 21: Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Noël Coward, Tammy Grimes, Brian Bedford –

Ep 22: Charlton Heston, Sarah Vaughan, Jim Bouton, Michael Crichton –

Ep 23: Gen. James Gavin, Gen. Elizabeth Hoisington, Gen. Anna Mae Hays, Alice Playten –

Ep 24: Anthony Newley, Trini Lopez, Leonard Frey, Dr. Robert Franklin –

Ep 25: Janis Joplin, Raquel Welch, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Chet Huntley –

Ep 26: B.B. King, George Peppard, Ruby Dee, Bergen Evans –

Ep 27: Louis Nye, Dolly Read, Miss Universe contestants, Roger Grimsby –

Ep 28: Mike Wallace, Robert Klein, Joan Ganz Cooney, Nicholas Johnson –

Ep 29: Jane Fonda, Mark Lane, Otto Preminger, Dr. David Crane –

Ep 30: Alice Playten, Judith Crist, Dr. Edward Teller, Edward Gogel –

Ep 31: Debbie Reynolds, Sly & The Family Stone, Pancho Gonzales, Sen. Fred Harris –

Ep 32: Harry Belafonte, Alan Sues, Oscar Brown Jr., Jean Pace, Sivuca, Betty Seimes –

Ep 33: Orson Welles –

Ep 34: Louis Armstrong, William F. Buckley Jr., John Byner –

Ep 35: Janis Joplin, Gloria Swanson, Margot Kidder, Dave Meggyesy –

Ep 36: Mort Sahl, Alice Playten, John Simon, Rosalyn Drexler –

Ep 37: Lloyd M. Bucher, Al Capp, Denny McLain, Genya Ravan –

Ep 38: Stevie Wonder, Elsa Lanchester, Alain Delon, Tex Ritter –

Ep 39: Sally Kellerman, Turley Richards, David Frye, Melvin Belli –

Ep 40: Alice Playten, Pat McCormick, Terry Garrity, Dr. Carlton Ray –

Ep 41: John Mitchell, Robert Finch, Herb Klein, Leonard Garment, Maureen Finch –

Ep 42: Orson Welles –

Ep 43: Darryl F. Zanuck, Madeleine Le Roux, Herschel Bernardi, Anthony Perkins –

Ep 44: John Cassavetes, Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara 10.0

Ep 45: Gina Lollobrigida, Liza Minnelli, Paul Harvey, Johnny Sample –

Ep 46: Norman Mailer –

Ep 47: Lee Marvin, Jeanne Moreau, Truman Capote –

Ep 48: Shelley Winters, Tony Randall, Wally Cox, Dr. Vernon Mark, Dr. Frank Ervin –

Ep 49: Gig Young, Melvyn Douglas, Barbara Walters, Frank Reynolds –

Ep 50: Maurice Chevalier, Ann-Margret, Roger Smith, Joe Namath –

Ep 51: Wernher von Braun, Donald Sutherland, The Coasters, Mike Tigar –

Ep 52: Fred Astaire –

Ep 53: David Lean, Jack E. Leonard, Rex Reed, Linda Ronstadt –

Ep 54: Jeffrey MacDonald –

Ep 55: Billy Graham, Arthur Penn, Chief Dan George, R.V. Cassill, Mandy Rice-Davies –

Ep 56: Lester Maddox, Jim Brown, Truman Capote, Alice Gray, Eloise Laws –

Ep 57: Jason Robards, David Susskind, Viva, Modern Jazz Quartet, Sidney Sheldon –

Ep 58: Erich Segal, Little Richard, Rita Moreno, John Simon, Robert Kaufman –

Ep 59: Zero Mostel –

Ep 60: Dr. Joyce Brothers, Eileen Ford, Gwen Davis, Carolyn Kenmore, Charlotte Curtis –

Ep 61: Phyllis Newman, Tony Perkins, Natalia Makarova, Vladimir Rodzianko, Elia Kazan –

Ep 62: Hugh O'Brian, Viva, Professor Paul Weiss, Professor Telford Taylor, Robert Bowie Johnson –

Ep 63: Bennett Cerf, Loretta Lynn, Dick Shawn, Beverly Sills –

Ep 64: Danny Kaye, Julie Newmar, Dr. Michael DeBakey, Bill Monahan –

Ep 65: Sally Field, Maximilian Schell, Duke Ellington, Dr. Jack Oliver –

Ep 66: Lillian Gish, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Julius Baker, Satchel Paige, Salvador Dali –

Ep 67: Louis Armstrong, Kaye Ballard, Jack Barry, Nora Ephron –

Ep 68: Sammy Davis Jr., Anissa Jones, Garrick Ohlsson –

Ep 69: E.G. Marshall, David Susskind, Victor Palmieri, William Rusher, Howard Miller, Leonard Davies –

Ep 70: Joe Louis, Jimmy Breslin, Howard Cosell, Barbara Loden –

Ep 71: Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Lucie Arnaz, Dr. Ferdie Pacheco –

Ep 72: Bette Davis, Arte Johnson, Sen. Birch Bayh –

Ep 73: Veronica Lake, Anthony Grey, Leonard Maltin, William Saroyan –

Ep 74: Muhammad Ali, Sid Caesar, Norman Mailer –

Ep 75: Dana Andrews, Mary Travers, Richard Loo, Stephen Birmingham –

Ep 76: John Carradine, William Magruder, Kerry Melville, Billie Jean King –

Ep 77: Jane Fonda, Judy Collins, John Marchi, Anthony Burgess –

Ep 78: John Gielgud, David Frye, Buffalo Bob Smith, Ramsey Clark, Howdy Doody –

Ep 79: Jack Benny, Phil Silvers, Jane Asher, Fats Domino –

Ep 80: Jimmy Dean, Wally Cox, Anthony Burgess –

Ep 81: Ginger Rogers, Leonard Frey, Ruby Keeler, Stanley Kauffmann –

Ep 82: Brian Bedford, Capt. Robert Marasco –

Ep 83: Joseph Colombo, Anthony Colombo, Joyce Susskind, Barbara Howar, John Harris and Wolf, L. David Mech –

Ep 84: E.G. Marshall, Patsy Kelly, Jim McKay, Dee Brown –

Ep 85: Lady Bird Johnson, Harriet Van Horne, John Guare –

Ep 86: Dorothy Collins, Dee Brown, Luigi Barzini –

Ep 87: Woody Allen, Jim Fowler, Derek Nimmo, Dr. John G. Neihardt –

Ep 88: Dr. John G. Neihardt –

Ep 89: Lauren Bacall, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud, Richard Attenborough –

Ep 90: Robert Mitchum –

Ep 91: Ralph Richardson, Glenda Jackson, The Bee Gees, John Trevelyan –

Ep 92: Robert Morley, Dame Gladys Cooper –

Ep 93: Lynn Redgrave, Trevor Howard, Christopher Plummer, Patrick Campbell –

Ep 94: Jack Hawkins, Lord George Brown, Constable John Ellis, Kenneth Tynan –

Ep 95: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, A.J.P. Taylor –

Ep 96: Laurence Harvey, Nicol Williamson, Adrienne Corri, Eddie Chapman –

Ep 97: Richard Harris, Romy Schneider, Dame Sybil Thorndike, Luis Miguel Dominguez –

Ep 98: Jonathan Miller, Spike Milligan, Bernard Levin –

Ep 99: Roger Moore, Jonathan Miller, Enoch Powell –

Ep 100: British Kids –

Ep 101: Groucho Marx, Truman Capote, Jim Fowler –

Ep 102: Wally Cox, Dr. Bruno Bettelheim, Jesse Birnbaum, Phyllis Newman –

Ep 103: George Burns, Cliff Gorman, Sly and the Family Stone, Jim Bouton –

Ep 104: Dr. George Solomon, Robert Mueller, John O Neill, Michael Sharp, Michael Vaquera –

Ep 105: Michael Sharp, Michael Vaquera, Dr. George Solomon, Robert Mueller, John O Neill –

Ep 106: Carol Burnett, Jacques Cousteau, Dr. Carlton Ray –

Ep 107: Kirk Douglas –

Ep 108: John Kerry, John O'Neill –

Ep 109: Jim Fowler, Milos Forman, Jerome Kretchmer, Sharon Poole –

Ep 110: Barry Goldwater –

Ep 111: Hildegarde Knef, James Michener, Joe Raposo –

Ep 112: Daniel Ellsberg –

Ep 113: Shirley Booth, Mayor Carl Stokes, William Ruckelshaus, Al Hibbler –

Ep 114: Benny Goodman, Norman Mailer, Bruce Brown, Dr. Robert Jastrow –

Ep 115: Roger Moore, Chuck McCann, Big Mama Thornton, Saul Alinsky –

Ep 116: William F. Buckley, Henry Morgan, Delaney and Bonnie –

Ep 117: Ingmar Bergman, Bibi Andersson –

Ep 118: Alexis Smith, Bobby Fischer, Neil Chayet –

Ep 119: Charlton Heston, Meadowlark Lemon, Joseph Papp, Jonelle Allen, Alan Weeks, Jeff Goldblum –

Ep 120: Dizzy Gillespie, Evel Knievel, Averell Harriman –

Ep 121: Fran Tarkenton, Mort Sahl, Sen. Fred Harris, Dr. Julius Segal –

Ep 122: Vida Blue, Bob Feller, Milt Kamen, Robert Altman –

Ep 123: Faye Dunaway, Frank Perry, Eloise Laws, Raymond Buckland –

Ep 124: Brian Bedford, Charles Mingus, Harry Reasoner, Arlene Thomas –

Ep 125: Elke Sommer, Karl Wallenda, Seals and Crofts, Dr. Stancil Johnson –

Ep 126: Gloria Steinem, Roberta Flack, Kerry Ellard –

Ep 127: David Steinberg, Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks –

Ep 128: Roger Caras –

Ep 129: Howard Cosell, Frank Gifford, Don Meredith, Paul Hornung, Jerry Kramer, James Wooten –

Ep 130: Ann Miller, Marty Brill, Betty Friedan, William Schutz –

Ep 131: George Burns, Modern Jazz Quartet, Louise Lasser, Dr. Albert Ellis –

Ep 132: Mildred Dunnock, Richard Kiley, David Brower –

Ep 133: F. Lee Bailey, Jacques Cousteau, Helmut Nickel –

Ep 134: John Lennon, Yoko Ono –

Ep 135: Marcel Marceau, Marya Mannes, Fanny, Dr. Sheldon Cherry –

Ep 136: Stan Freberg, Robert Citron, John Lennon, Yoko Ono –

Ep 137: William F. Buckley Jr., Hildegard Knef, Johnny Sample –

Ep 138: Col. Anthony Herbert, Robert Randolph, John McDonough –

Ep 139: Rick Barry, L. Brent Bozell, George Israel, Dr. M.T. Mehdi –

Ep 140: Mayor John Lindsay –

Ep 141: Walter Matthau, Norman Mailer, Jose Torres, James Gould –

Ep 142: Dinah Shore, Tuesday Weld, Milton Berle –

Ep 143: Anthony Quinn –

Ep 144: Fred Astaire –

Ep 145: Peter Ustinov –

Ep 146: Charlton Heston –

Ep 147: Jack Lemmon –

Ep 148: Woody Allen –

Ep 149: Keith Gordon, Renee Greene, Michael Ludwig, Teddie Mims, Debbie Epstein, Sylvia Platt –

Ep 150: Tony Randall, Susan B. Anthony, Clement Freud –

Ep 151: Candice Bergen, Peter Boyle, Dr. Han Suyin –

Ep 152: George Bush, Edmund Muskie, Gloria Swanson, Vincent Carey –

Ep 153: Sid Caesar, Robert Shaw, Jack Klugman, Florence Henderson –

Ep 154: Eddie Albert, Cybill Shepherd, The New Seekers, Alejandro Jodorowsky –

Ep 155: Bill Cosby –

Ep 156: Bette Davis –

Ep 157: Lt. Col. Anthony Herbert –

Ep 158: George Harrison, Mick Jones, Gary Wright & Wonderwheel, Ravi Shankar –

Ep 159: Danny Kaye –

Ep 160: The Muppets with Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Caroll Spinney –

Ep 161: Richard Harris, David Frye, David Susskind –

Ep 162: Shirley MacLaine –

Ep 163: Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, Janet Flanner –

Ep 164: Carol Burnett, Carroll O'Connor, Burt Reynolds –

Ep 165: Glen Campbell, James Coburn, Kathryn Kuhlman, Pat McCormick –

Ep 166: Ryan O'Neal, Sarah Vaughan, Dr. Thomas Noguchi, Hedgemon Lewis –

Ep 167: Julie Andrews, Blake Edwards –

Ep 168: Buddy Hackett, James Garner, Jacques Cousteau –

Ep 169: George Burns, Adelle Davis, The Smothers Brothers –

Ep 170: Groucho Marx, Erin Fleming, Debbie Reynolds, Dan Rowan –

Ep 171: Gov. Ronald Reagan, Bob Newhart, James Wong Howe –

Ep 172: Roman Polanski, Henry Morgan, Mary Lou Williams –

Ep 173: Keith Gordon, Renee Green, Michael Ludwig, Teddie Mims, Debbie Epstein –

Ep 174: Helen Hayes, Truman Capote, John Carradine –

Ep 175: Hal Holbrook, Jerry Lee Lewis, Brendan Gill, Marlene VerPlanck –

Ep 176: E.G. Marshall, Howard K. Smith, Maureen Stapleton, Al Hibbler –

Ep 177: Buck Henry, Pat McCormick, Leonard Frey, Hermione Gingold –

Ep 178: Sandy Duncan, Ralph Nader, Bobby Fischer –

Ep 179: Mort Sahl, Stanley Calkins, Alexis Smith, David Epstein –

Ep 180: Robert Wagner, Adelle Davis, Lola Redford, Ilene Goldman, Mimi Farina, Tom Jans –

Ep 181: Dave Garroway, Jack Anderson, Paul Newman, J. Daniel Mahoney –

Ep 182: Madeline Kahn, Anthony Burgess, Gov. R. Shafer, Dr. Tom Ungerleider –

Ep 183: Don McLean, Robert Shaw, Mary Ure, Yevgeny Yevtushenko –

Ep 184: Frank Capra, Mel Brooks, Robert Altman, Peter Bogdanovich –

Ep 185: Jackie Robinson, George Plimpton, Dr. Daniel Fader –

Ep 186: Paddy Chayefsky, Christopher Isherwood, Allen Ginsberg, Earl "Fatha" Hines –

Ep 187: Valerie Harper, Dr. Edward Teller, Dr. Paul Weiss –

Ep 188: Diahann Carroll, Zero Mostel, Dr. David Hubbard –

Ep 189: Michael Caine, Bill Russell, Philippe Cousteau –

Ep 190: Liza Minnelli, Robert Klein, Pete Seeger, Gale Sayers –

Ep 191: David Niven, Lynn Redgrave –

Ep 192: Bill Cosby, Greg Morris, Nina van Pallandt –

Ep 193: Mickey Spillane, Sen. Barry Goldwater, Oriana Fallaci –

Ep 194: John Huston –

Ep 195: Milton Berle, Phyllis Diller, Lawrence Welk –

Ep 196: Dave Brubeck, Gerry Mulligan, Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Gloria Foster, Dr. Neil Solomon –

Ep 197: Joseph Kennedy II, Carmen McRae, Milt Kamen, Dr. Delano Meriwether –

Ep 198: Mort Sahl, B.B. King, Don Meredith, Veruschka von Lehndorff –

Ep 199: Pierre Boulez, Leonard Frey, Sada Thompson, Chuck McCann –

Ep 200: Billy Graham, Pat Boone, America –

Ep 201: Roger Moore, Roberta Flack, Orson Bean, Pauline Tabor –

Ep 202: Rich Little, Bob and Ray, Lola Falana, John Houseman –

Ep 203: Dizzy Gillespie, Nicholas Johnson, Sir John Masterman, Vincent Viano –

Ep 204: Tom Ungerleider, Fletcher Knebel, Joe Otieri, Joe Moss –

Ep 205: George Carlin, Rod McKuen, George Higgins, Chaplin Film –

Ep 206: Lily Tomlin, Chad Everett, W.H. Auden, Bonnie Koloc –

Ep 207: Jacques Cousteau, Philippe Cousteau –

Ep 208: Phil Silvers, Nancy Wilson, Pauline Tabor, Joe Moss –

Ep 209: Tennessee Williams, Janet Suzman, Ann Farady –

Ep 210: Gore Vidal, Maureen Stapleton, Ron Leibman, Seymour Hersh –

Ep 211: Don Rickles, Beverly Sills, Phyllis Kirk, Earl Wilson –

Ep 212: Alexis Smith, Gloria Swanson, Elsa Lanchester, Jeannette Rankin –

Ep 213: Henry Fonda, Deborah Kerr, Sandy Duncan, Alexander Cohen –

Ep 214: Peter Ustinov, Lola Falana, Saul Goodman, Dr. Samuel Rosen –

Ep 215: Dr. John G. Neihardt –

Ep 216: Daniel Berrigan, J. Daniel Mahoney –

Ep 217: Ethel Waters, Gore Vidal, Robert Klein, Willie Mosconi –

Ep 218: Jean Stapleton, Joan Rivers, Carly Simon, Norman Lear –

Ep 219: Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier –

Ep 220: Eddie Cuevas, Sammy Carlos, Raul Esteves, Louis Lopez, Herbie Santana, Raul Guerrero –

Ep 221: David Niven, Joan Hackett, Billy Eckstine, John Marley –

Ep 222: Shirley Temple Black –

Ep 223: Arthur Godfrey –

Ep 224: Roger Kahn, Joe Black, Carl Erskine, Clem Labine, Pee Wee Reese –

Ep 225: Shirley MacLaine, John Lennon, Yoko Ono –

Ep 226: Bette Davis, Peggy Wood –

Ep 227: Jack Paar –

Ep 228: Robert Mitchum –

Ep 229: Woody Allen, Muhammad Ali, Cloris Leachman, Ann Welbourne –

Ep 230: Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, Joe Canutt, Yakima Canutt –

Ep 231: George Carlin, Buddy Rich, Robert Francoeur –

Ep 232: Mort Sahl, Lee Grant, Elaine Morgan –

Ep 233: Melba Moore, Don Knotts, Jackie Stewart –

Ep 234: Bob and Ray, Paula Prentiss, Ursula Andress, Benny Goodman –

Ep 235: Donald Barr, Dr. Haim Ginott, John Holt, Dr. Lee Salk –

Ep 236: Harry Chapin, Alan Arkin, John Simon, Dick Gregory –

Ep 237: Jack Douglas, John Harris, Joan Baez, Jackie Robinson –

Ep 238: Theodore Bikel, The Supremes, William F. Buckley Jr., Rabbi Meir Kahane –

Ep 239: Alfred Hitchcock –

Ep 240: Dr. John G. Neihardt –

Ep 241: Jack Paar –

Ep 242: William Holden, Sammy Davis Jr., Judith Crist –

Ep 243: Robert Mitchum –

Ep 244: Angela Lansbury, Billy Eckstine, Janet Flanner, Roy Jenkins –

Ep 245: Sen. Edward Kennedy, Charlotte Curtis, Al Green –

Ep 246: Dr. Daniel Callahan, Robert Francoeur, Dr. Marc Lappe, Robert Rimmer, Barbara Williamson –

Ep 247: Billy Graham, Victor Borge, F. Lee Bailey, Dr. Martin Guiness –

Ep 248: Art Carney, Alexis Smith, Clement Freud, Tommy Thompson –

Ep 249: Ray Charles, Tony Randall, Margaret Mead –

Ep 250: Alan King, Jacques Cousteau, Joan Hackett –

Ep 251: George Wein, Paul Desmond, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, June Christy, Joe Williams –

Ep 252: Paul Simon, Germaine Greer, David Susskind –

Ep 253: Bette Davis, Mort Sahl, Michael Parkinson, Jonathan Miller, Jackie Stewart –

Ep 254: Gloria Swanson, Clement Freud, Marjoe Gortner, Moe Aberman –

Ep 255: Rod Serling, Arthur C. Clarke, Cassie Mackin –

Ep 256: Allen Funt –

Ep 257: Raquel Welch, James Earl Jones, Lester Maddox –

Ep 258: Sen. Thomas Eagleton, Noel Harrison, Austin Pendleton –

Ep 259: Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones, Bobby Fischer, Sandy Duncan –

Ep 260: Bette Davis –

Ep 261: Charlton Heston, Jim Brown, Bob and Ray, Ramsey Clark –

Ep 262: John Lindsay, Cliff Robertson, Catherine Mackin, Fanny Gardiner Collins –

Ep 263: Art Carney, Barbara Barrie, Clement Freud, Seals and Crofts –

Ep 264: Jane Fonda, Mel Torme, Dr. Wardell Pomeroy –

Ep 265: Barry Goldwater, Carmen McRae, John Fire Lame Deer, William E. Miller, Richard Erdoes –

Ep 266: Peter O'Toole –

Ep 267: Ray Charles –

Ep 268: Muhammad Ali, Cleo Laine, Richard Kleindienst –

Ep 269: Marjorie Margolies, Jim Croce, David Linsley, John Wallach –

Ep 270: Clifford Irving –

Ep 271: Jim McKay, Cathy Rigby, Dan Gable, Jim Ryun, Sugar Ray Seales, Dave Wottle –

Ep 272: Helen Hayes, Anita Loos, Orson Bean, Dr. Walter Langer –

Ep 273: Norman Mailer, Valerie Harper, Midge Decter –

Ep 274: Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson, Lana Cantrell, Jill Ireland –

Ep 275: Bob Hope –

Ep 276: Anthony Quinn, Sally Struthers, Ike & Tina Turner –

Ep 277: Tony Randall, Anthony Burgess, Han Suyin –

Ep 278: Shirley Temple Black, Rod Gilbert, Mabel Mercer, Robert Theobald –

Ep 279: Benny Goodman, Celeste Holm, Clement Freud, Rudy Behlmer –

Ep 280: Warren Beatty –

Ep 281: William Rusher, Evan Sanerjian, Michael Dukakis, Dr. Jennifer James, Gina McDowell, Dan McGowan –

Ep 282: Dr. Nathan Kline, R.D. Laing, Dr. Rollo May –

Ep 283: Robert Shaw, Melba Moore, Dr. Raymond McNally, Dr. Radu Florescu –

Ep 284: Rod McKuen, Lotte Lenya, Adelle Davis, Margery Cohen –

Ep 285: George McGovern, Walter Matthau, Joseph Mankiewicz –

Ep 286: Susannah York, Ralph Nader, Cesar Chavez –

Ep 287: Alan King, Glynis Johns, George Cukor, Mary Wells –

Ep 288: Robert Klein, Buddy Rich, Truman Capote –

Ep 289: Bobby Fischer, Tony Randall, Prof. Julius Sumner Miller –

Ep 290: Martha Raye, Anthony Burgess –

Ep 291: Howard Cosell, Dr. Frederick Dockstader, Ilene Goldman, Indian Fashion Show –

Ep 292: Michael Caine, Neil Simon, Joseph Mankiewicz –

Ep 293: Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, John Foreman, Oriana Fallaci –

Ep 294: Sir Laurence Olivier –

Ep 295: Orson Welles –

Ep 296: Ethel Merman, Harlem Globetrotters, Agnes Moorehead, Robert Citron –

Ep 297: Loud Family, Craig Gilbert –

Ep 298: Jack Benny, Bill Cosby, Joe Frazier, Phil Silvers –

Ep 299: Robert Morley –

Ep 300: Jerry Lewis –

Ep 301: George C. Wallace –

Ep 302: Frank Fools Crow, Frank Kills Enemy, Matthew King, Meredith Quinn, Vernon Bellecourt, Robert Burnette –

Ep 303: Edwin Newman, Brit Hume, Pat Buchanan, Victor Gold, Ben Bradlee –

Ep 304: Sandy Duncan, Sarah Vaughn, Peter Tauber, Colin Turnbull –

Ep 305: Muhammad Ali, Jean Stapleton, Elliott Roosevelt, James Brough –

Ep 306: Major Joseph S. Abbott, Captain Michael L. Brazelton, Captain James V. DiBernardo, Commander John H. Fellowes, Sergeant Donald Rander –

Ep 307: Captain James Baxter, Dr. Morris Chafetz, Reverend H. Gordon McDonald, James MacTavish, Thomas Swafford, Nell Wing, Part 1 –

Ep 308: Captain James Baxter, Dr. Morris Chafetz, Reverend H. Gordon McDonald, James MacTavish, Thomas Swafford, Nell Wing, Part 2 –

Ep 309: Anthony Quinn, Sally Struthers, Ike & Tina Turner –

Ep 310: Carroll O'Connor –

Ep 311: Pearl Bailey, Bob and Ray, Dr. Cornelia Wilbur, Flora Rheta Schreiber –

Ep 312: Arthur Rubinstein, Lilit Gampel –

Ep 313: Marlon Brando, Sam Cagey, Dr. Wallace Heath, Dennis Limberhand, Mervin Wright –

Ep 314: Alexis Smith, Mort Sahl, Byron Janis, Joe Williams –

Ep 315: Bob Hope, Simon Wiesenthal –

Ep 316: David Carradine, Barbara Seagull, Bernie Krause, La Lupe –

Ep 317: Ray Charles, John Lindsay, Dr. Samuel Rosen –

Ep 318: Alexander Bickel, Richard Kuh, Truman Capote, Anthony Perkins, Bishop Paul Moore, Dr. Natalie Shainess, Part 1 –

Ep 319: Alexander Bickel, Richard Kuh, Truman Capote, Anthony Perkins, Bishop Paul Moore, Dr. Natalie Shainess, Part 2 –

Ep 320: George Carlin, Sally Quinn, Modern Jazz Quartet, Jerzy Kosinski –

Ep 321: Sen. Howard Baker, Sen. Daniel Inouye, Sen. Herman Talmadge, Sen. Lowell Weicker –

Ep 322: Norman Mailer –

Ep 323: Muhammad Ali, Laurence Harvey, Jerzy Kosinski –

Ep 324: Gina Lollobrigida, Samuel Dash, Mason Reese –

Ep 325: Katharine Hepburn –

Ep 326: Katharine Hepburn, Part 1 –

Ep 327: Katharine Hepburn, Part 2 –

Ep 328: Kirk Douglas, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore –

Ep 329: Alexander Bickel, Peter Lisagor, William Ruckelshaus, Hugh Sidey, Sen. John Tower –

Ep 330: James Hoffa, Melvin Belli, Charles Ashman –

Ep 331: Rudolf Nureyev, Gore Vidal, Father John McLaughlin –

Ep 332: Jacques Cousteau, Lillian Hellman, Dr. Frederick Dockstader –

Ep 333: Ralph Nader, Rogers Morton, Barry Commoner, Thornton F. Bradshaw –

Ep 334: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Robert Shaw, George Gilder –

Ep 335: George Wallace –

Ep 336: Gerald Ford, Betty Ford –

Ep 337: Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Eddie Jones, Felix Parnes, Walter Youngblood, Larry Holmes –

Ep 338: Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier –

Ep 339: Carol Burnett –

Ep 340: Lucille Ball –

Ep 341: Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, Jeffrey St. John, Fran Griffin –

Ep 342: Sen. Sam Ervin –

Ep 343: Jan Morris –

Ep 344: Steven Weed, Reginald Murphy, Burke Elbrick, Brian Jenkins, Eugene Paul Getty –

Ep 345: Jeb Stuart Magruder –

Ep 346: Stewart Alsop –

Ep 347: Rudolf Nureyev –

Ep 348: Tennessee Williams, Carrie Nye –

Ep 349: Paul Simon, Dixon Singers, Barbara Howar, Jerzy Kosinski, Anthony Burgess –

Ep 350: Bette Davis, Whitney Stine, Barry Manilow –

Ep 351: Doug Henning, Derrick Dingle, Dai Vernon –

Ep 352: Walter Cronkite –

Ep 353: Dick Van Dyke –

Ep 354: David Bowie, Roy Dotrice –

Ep 355: Gore Vidal, Rabbi Baruch Korff, Jean Marsh –

Ep 356: George Meany, John Kenneth Galbraith, Pierre Rinfret –

Ep 357: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Lotte Lenya –

Season 3 (23 episodes) Avg: –

Ep 1: Woody Allen, Anthony Quinn, Peter Ustinov, Cast of Hair, James Baldwin, Paul Weiss –

Ep 2: Groucho Marx –

Ep 3: Beverly Sills, Drew Pearson, Natalie Wood, Pat McCormick –

Ep 4: Cleveland Amory, Ann Miller, Otto Preminger, Tiny Tim –

Ep 5: Woody Allen, Joe Frazier, John Hartford, Julie Harris, Tom Wicker –

Ep 6: Robert Downey Sr., Garson Kanin, Gwen Verdon, Jimi Hendrix –

Ep 7: David Frye, Rex Reed, Dee Dee Warwick, Dionne Warwick, I. F. Stone –

Ep 8: Redd Foxx, Richard Attenborough, Patty Duke, James J. Kilpatrick –

Ep 9: Janis Joplin, The Committee, Michael Thomas –

Ep 10: Burt Lancaster, Ada Louise Huxtable, Tim Hardin –

Ep 11: Duke Ellington, Mary McCarthy –

Ep 12: Woody Allen, Carmen McRae, W. Averell Harriman –

Ep 13: Nicol Williamson, Arlo Guthrie –

Ep 14: Jack Benny –

Ep 15: Beverly Sills, Shirley Chisholm –

Ep 16: Jefferson Airplane, Joni Mitchell, Crosby & Stills, Grace Slick –

Ep 17: Judy Collins, Wayne Morse –

Ep 18: Stanley Kramer, Dr. Paul Weiss, Voices of East Harlem –

Ep 19: Groucho Marx –

Ep 20: Eartha Kitt, Rex Stout, William Holden –

Ep 21: Robert Young, Ralph Nader, Jimi Hendrix –

Ep 22: Joe Namath, Joan Rivers, Adam Clayton Powell Jr. –

Ep 23: Woody Allen, Ruth Gordon, Gina Lollobrigida –

Season 1 (39 episodes) Avg: –

Ep 1: Robert Vaughn, Roy Wilkins, David Schoenbrun, F. Lee Bailey, Lauren Bacall –

Ep 2: Groucho Marx, Woody Allen, Bob Hope, Debbie Reynolds, Pat McCormick –

Ep 3: James Baldwin, Phyllis Newman, Jonathan Weiss, Paul Weiss, Elly Stone –

Ep 4: Jerry Orbach, Marta Curro, Sally Trench, Della Reese, Truman Capote –

Ep 5: Billy Vera, Barbara Walters, Jack Doroshow, Senator Charles Percy –

Ep 6: Daughter of Eugene McCarthy, Vidal Sassoon, David Steinberg, 1910 Fruit Gum Company, Ashley Montagu –

Ep 7: Gladys Knight and the Pips, Barbara Cook, David Schoenbrun, Ed Dunn, Irwin Corey –

Ep 8: Mary Pangalos, Rodney Dangerfield, Peter, Paul and Mary, Senator Joseph Tydings –

Ep 9: Sheila MacRae, James Wechsler, Cashman, Pistilli & West, Jeremy Slate –

Ep 10: The Box Tops, Maharana of Udaipur, Mayor John Lindsay, Glynis Johns, Elliott Arnold –

Ep 11: Jo Anne Worley, Robert Humphrey, William Accorsi, Jonathan Kozol –

Ep 12: Lainie Kazan, Alan Alda, Cousin Brucie, Fred Papert –

Ep 13: Henry Morgan, Roz Kelly, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Hazel Scott, Stephen Birmingham –

Ep 14: Kenneth DeMilt, Julie Gregg, Caroline Bird, Hubert Humphrey –

Ep 15: Ramsey Clark, Joel Grey, James M. Gavin –

Ep 16: John Davidson, Ice Cream Lady, Frank Mankiewicz, Harold Glassen –

Ep 17: Heywood Hale Broun, Henry Pinkwater, Mitch Ryder, Jean Shrimpton, Dr. William Grier –

Ep 18: Jerry Jeff Walker, Jack Burns, Mina Kolb, Edward Epstein –

Ep 19: Big Brother and the Holding Company, Janis Joplin, Frank Converse, Mary Switzer, William Safire –

Ep 20: Bob and Ray, Dana Valery, William Redfield, Jill Shipstad, Jack E. Leonard –

Ep 21: Bob and Ray, Alan Burke, Anne Scheer, Victor Borge, Freda Payne –

Ep 22: Bob and Ray, The Hello People, William Sloane Coffin, Carol Mann –

Ep 23: Bob and Ray, The Bee Gees, Peter Lawford, Ted Mack, Sondra Locke –

Ep 24: Bob and Ray, Robert Goulet, Roger Vadim, Senator Gerald Ford –

Ep 25: Howard Morris, Gloria Steinem, Ravi Shankar, William Price Fox, Paul Walter –

Ep 26: The Beach Boys, Pat McCormick, Charlotte Curtis, Senator George McGovern –

Ep 27: Friend and Lover, Brother Theodore, Eliot Janeway, Rona Jaffe –

Ep 28: Fannie Flagg, Peter Finch, Joni Mitchell, Bob and Ray, George Plimpton –

Ep 29: Jimmy Breslin, Amanda Ambrose, Don Rickles, Hayes Jones –

Ep 30: Dana Valery, Mort Sahl, Skitch Henderson, Joseph Heller –

Ep 31: Chris and Peter Allen, Dwight Macdonald, Claire Bloom, Norman Mailer –

Ep 32: Danny Meehan, Joanna Pettet, S. N. Behrman, Joseph Wiseman –

Ep 33: Ralph Schoenstein, Harry Nilsson, Joyce Susskind, Tom Wolfe –

Ep 34: Mort Sahl, Richard Schickel, Anne Heywood, Willie Mae Hickman –

Ep 35: Sol Linowitz, Marlena Shaw, Minerva Pious, Hugh Hefner –

Ep 36: Lowell Thomas, John Hartford, Henry Borovik –

Ep 37: Norman Mailer, Tyrone Guthrie, Paul Weiss –

Ep 38: Woody Allen, Anthony Quinn, Peter Ustinov, Cast of Hair, James Baldwin, Paul Weiss –

Ep 39: Cavett Remembers Ray –

Ratings Analysis & Trajectory

Across 10 seasons and 465 episodes, The Dick Cavett Show has earned an overall series rating of 10.0 out of 10. The series displays remarkable consistency across its narrative arc, maintaining reliable ratings from premiere to conclusion.

The single highest-rated hour of television in the series is Season 4, Episode 44 ("John Cassavetes, Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara"), rated at an extraordinary 10.0/10 with 1 ratings. Conversely, the lowest-rated installment is Season 4, Episode 44 ("John Cassavetes, Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara"), landing at 10.0/10.

Top 10 Highest Rated Episodes of The Dick Cavett Show

Rank	Episode	Title	Score	Votes	Air Date
#1	Season 4, Ep 44	John Cassavetes, Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara	10.0	1	Sep 21, 1970

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