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The Steve Allen Show: Season 2

48 episodes Premiered Sep 16, 1956

Previously on The Steve Allen Show

Season 2 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 The Steve Allen Show Season 1.
⚡ 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.

Season 2 Episodes

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Season 2: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes

Core (45): Character development & subplots

Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler

S2·E1 Mytharc

Andy Williams, Milt Kamen, Gogi Grant, The Will Mastin Trio (featuring Sammy Davis, Jr.), Marian Ann McKnight , The Baird Puppets

Sep 16, 1956

S2·E2 Core

Billy Eckstine, Rin Tin Tin, Joni James, Professor Irwin Corey, Jose Molina, the Midwestern States Glee Club

Sep 23, 1956

S2·E3 Core

Claudette Colbert, Mickey Rooney, Jerome Hines, Erin O'Brien, Joey Forman

Sep 30, 1956

S2·E4 Core

Abbott & Costello, Kukla, Fran & Ollie, Peggy King, Lionel Hampton, Don Lamond, Louis Bellson Mrs. Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle

Oct 7, 1956

Todays guests are Abbott and Costello/Kukla, Fran and Ollie/Mickey Mantle/Lionel Hampton/Peggy King/Milt Kamen.

S2·E5 Core

Tony Bennett, Doretta Morrow, Mel Torme, Frances Faye, Guy Madison, Kathryn & Arthur Murray

Oct 14, 1956

S2·E6 Core

Peter Lawford, Frank Parker, The Harlem Globetrotters, Rocky Graziano, Olga James, Janik & Arnaut, cameo appearance by Julius LaRosa

Oct 21, 1956

S2·E7 Core

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Alfred Drake, Erin O'Brien, T.C. Jones, Jim Henson & the Muppets, Rod Alexander Dancers, Les Brown & His Band of Renown

Nov 4, 1956

S2·E8 Core

Jerry Lewis, Georgia Gibbs, Anita Ekberg, Anthony Steel, Buster Crabbe, cast members of "Jack and the Beanstalk"

Nov 11, 1956

S2·E9 Core

Bob Hope, Duke Ellington & Orchestra, Gene Nelson, Betty Walker, Erin O'Brien, George Hamilton IV, Olsen & Johnson, World's Champion Women Boxers

Nov 18, 1956

S2·E10 Core

Gene Autry, Jim Lowe, Betty Kean & Lew Parker, Floyd Patterson & Archie Moore, the Chicago Bears

Nov 25, 1956

S2·E11 Core

Charlton Heston, Gypsy Rose Lee, Ethel Waters, Bobby Van, Don Newcombe, Floyd Patterson, Archie Moore, Vince Martin & The Tarriers

Dec 2, 1956

S2·E12 Core

Anne Jeffreys & Robert Sterling, The Hi-Lo's, Bud Wilkinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, Betty Kean & Lew Parker

Dec 9, 1956

S2·E13 Core

Martha Raye, Alan Young, the Collins Kids, Ricky Vera, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, the Vienna Boys Choir

Dec 23, 1956

S2·E14 Core

Tony Bennett, Andy Griffith, the New York Rangers, live premiere of the motion picture "Around the World in 80 Days"

Dec 30, 1956

S2·E15 Core

Errol Flynn, Polly Bergen, Guy Mitchell, Alan Young

Jan 6, 1957

S2·E16 Core

Joe E. Brown, Julius La Rosa, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane, Rocky Graziano, Dorothy Miller ("Mrs. Miller", audience member)

Jan 13, 1957

S2·E17 Core

New York Film Critics Awards

Jan 20, 1957

Most of the show concerns a filmed Steve presenting the Critic's award to several stars, including 'Ingrid Bergman' and 'Kirk Douglas', along with some small talk interviews. These

S2·E18 Core

Season 2, Episode 18

Jan 27, 1957

Pearl Bailey, Lilli Palmer, Don Adams, The Collins Kids, Steve Lawrence, Charles Van Doren

S2·E19 Core

Peter Lawford, Charles Van Doren, Lou Costello, Margaret Whiting, The Step Brothers

Feb 10, 1957

S2·E20 Core

Frankie Laine, Alan Young, Martha Carson, Tab Hunter, Ken Rosewall, Pancho Gonzales, Jack Kramer, Pancho Segura

Feb 17, 1957

S2·E21 Core

Yehudi Menuhin, Arlene Dahl, Aldo Ray, Robert Ryan, Brenda Lee, the Hilltoppers

Feb 24, 1957

S2·E22 Core

Jerry Lewis, Martha Raye, Steve Lawrence, Diahann Carroll, Fernando Lamas

Mar 10, 1957

S2·E23 Core

Greer Garson, Lou Costello, Dean Jones, Steve Peck, Janik & Arpaut, Howard McNear, Sandra Gould, Veola Vonn, The Lancers

Mar 24, 1957

S2·E24 Core

Tennessee Ernie Ford, Peggy Lee, Johnny Mercer, Dinah Shore, Esther Williams, The Collins Kids

Mar 31, 1957

S2·E25 Core

Salute to the All American Basketball Teams

Apr 7, 1957

S2·E26 Core

Esther Williams, Eydie Gorme, Jackie Cooper, Stan Freberg, The Four Lads

Apr 14, 1957

S2·E27 Core

Mickey Rooney, Eleanor Steber, Joey Forman, Betty Walker, Mickey & Sylvia, Jim Henson's Muppets

Apr 21, 1957

S2·E28 Core

Brenda Lee, Don Adams, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane, Jack Carson, Peter Gennaro & Ellen Ray

Apr 28, 1957

S2·E29 Core

Orson Welles, Jill Corey, Peggy Cass, The Will Mastin Trio featuring Sammy Davis Jr.

May 5, 1957

Steve Allen and Sammy Davis, Jr. perform a card trick with a little help from Orson Welles; Davis joins his uncle Will Mastin and his father Sammy Davis, Sr., for an athletic dance

S2·E30 Core

Tallulah Bankhead, Milton Berle, Pearl Bailey, Dean Jones, Reverend Billy Graham

May 12, 1957

S2·E31 Core

Ann Sothern, Bert Lahr, Brenda Lee

May 19, 1957

S2·E32 Core

Andy Griffith, Marty Robbins, Errol Garner, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Martha Raye, a cameo appearance from Dean Martin

May 26, 1957

S2·E33 Core

Xavier Cugat, Abbe Lane, Pat Carroll, The Four Diamonds, Erin O'Brien, Jerry Lewis

Jun 2, 1957

Steve's guests are The Diamonds (singing "Little Darlin'"), Xavier Cugat & his Orchestra with singer Abbe Lane doing "All Of You" and "Babalu," comedian Pat Carroll as a wife whose

S2·E34 Core

Orson Welles, Wally Cox, Meg Myles, Jim Reeves, The Step Brothers, Reverend Billy Graham

Jun 9, 1957

S2·E35 Core

Steve Lawrence, Mamie Van Doren, The Hi-Lo's, Walter Chiari

Jun 16, 1957

S2·E36 Core

Lou Costello, Pat Boone, Jonathan Winters, Abbey Lincoln, Fay DeWitt, Dulcie Cooper, The Ames Brothers

Jun 23, 1957

Lou Costello in a restaurant skit where Gabe Dell takes the part of the bullying, Bud Abbott-type companion.

S2·E37 Core

Bob Hope, George Jessel, Alexis Smith, Vera Miles, Dean Martin, the Rod Alexander Dancers, The Axidentals

Jun 30, 1957

In a salute to Hope's new film, "Beau James", skits, dance numbers and film clips devoted to onetime crooked prohibition-era New York mayor Jimmy Walker.

S2·E38 Core

Benny Goodman, Yvonne De Carlo, Peter Lawford, Professor Irwin Corey

Jul 7, 1957

Goodman's in top form, and Steve does a duet with him. Yvonne and Steve in a baby-naming skit, Lawford and Steve play bored life guards. A "Night Beat" parody includes Knotts as hi

S2·E39 Core

Debra Paget, Buddy Rich, Frankie Laine, Cornelia Otis Skinner

Jul 14, 1957

S2·E40 Core

Tony Bennett, George Nader, Joanne Gilbert, Hal Le Roy, Floyd Patterson & Joe Louis

Jul 21, 1957

Tony Bennett sings "One For My Baby". Floyd Patterson and Joe Louis talk to Steve about boxing and Floyd's title defense against Tommy "Hurricane" Jackson. Joanne Gilbert sings "He

S2·E41 Core

Jerry Lee Lewis, Shelley Winters, Anthony Franciosa, The Four Coins, Jodie Sands, Shai K. Ophir, Leona Gage

Jul 28, 1957

Steve and Shelley Winters in a skit about teaching her to drive by using household objects, Jerry Lee Lewis gives a bravura piano-attacking performance.

S2·E42 Core

Robert Young, Martha Raye, Marion Lorne, Milton Caniff, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme, Dave Garroway, Miss America of 1958

Sep 8, 1957

S2·E48 Mytharc

Ed Wynn, Frankie Laine, Dorothy Collins, Don Adams, Audrey Meadows, Sugar Ray Robinson & Carmen Basilio

Sep 15, 1957