The Steve Allen Show: Season 3
Season 3 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 2.
- 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
Season 3 Progress Shield
Corinne Calvet, Jimmy Dean, Jerry Lester, Barbara Nichols, Sugar Ray Robinson & Carmen Basilio
Sep 29, 1957
Anthony Perkins, Broderick Crawford, Joanne Dru, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane, Johnny Puleo & his Harmonica Gang, cameo by Killer Joe Piro
Oct 6, 1957
Crawford takes part in the "Man in the street" skit, Tony Perkins and Steve do their impressions of autograph hounds, and Perkins, Abbe Lane and Cugat show some elements of an upco
Gloria Swanson, Charlie Ruggles, Tony Bennett, Jack E. Leonard, Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane
Nov 10, 1957
Marie McDonald, Walter Chiari, Edward Everett Horton, Ferlin Husky, The King Sisters
Nov 17, 1957
Joan Caulfield, Sam Levenson, Audrey Meadows, Greta Thyssen, Steve Lawrence, Teal Joy, The Treniers
Nov 24, 1957
Errol Flynn, Martha Raye, Jimmy Dean, Don Adams, Jennie Smith, the Army-Navy Football Stars
Dec 1, 1957
Martha does a song and dance number as planned, then again where all the props fail, Errol Flynn goes on a parody of "To Tell The Truth" where Knotts turns out to be him. Jimmy Dea
Ann Sothern, Jackie Cain & Roy Kral, Lou Costello, Steve Lawrence, Milt Kamen
Dec 15, 1957
Anthony Perkins, Mahalia Jackson, Gertrude Berg, George London, the U.N. Singers
Dec 22, 1957
Peter Ustinov, Margaret O'Brien, Jerry Vale, Mike Nichols & Elaine May, Martha Davis & Spouse
Dec 29, 1957
Todays guests are Peter Ustinov, Margaret O'Brien, Jerry Vale, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, Martha Davis and Spouse.
Martha Raye, Jimmy Dean, Erin O'Brien, Charles Laughton, Rubinoff & his violin
Jan 26, 1958
The McGuire Sisters, Teddi King, The Playmates, Haller & Hayden, Jayne Meadows, Audrey Meadows
Feb 23, 1958
Edgar Bergen, The Step Brothers, Marie McDonald, The All-American High School & College Basketball Teams
Mar 30, 1958
In a comedy sketch with regulars Don Knotts, Joyce Jameson and Tom Poston, Marie McDonald portrays a celebrity approached by interviewers.
Sammy Davis, Jr., Carmen McRae, Dody Goodman, Jayne Meadows, Audrey Meadows
Apr 13, 1958
Steve's wife and sister-in-law, Jayne and Audrey Meadows, join him in a skit purporting to be a look at a real incident in their lives when they had a baby nurse, "Miss Huston" (pl
Season 3, Episode 30
Apr 20, 1958
Bob Hope, Patrice Munsel, Ray Anthony, Johnny Haymer, David Allen
Count Basie, Joe Bushkin, Teddy Wilson, Jane Powell, Phil Harris, Igor and H
May 4, 1958