The Steve Allen Show: Season 4
Season 4 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 3.
- 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 4 Progress Shield
Lloyd Bridges, Nancy Walker, Larry Daniels, Carole Simpson, the Rocky Mario Trio
Oct 12, 1958
Gertrude Berg, Tony Bennett, Peter Lawford, Kathy Linden, The Harlem Globetrotters
Oct 19, 1958
Jane Russell, Mike Nichols & Elaine May, Earl Grant, George Melachrino & his orchestra
Nov 2, 1958
Count Basie & his Orchestra, Joe Williams, Alan Young, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Don Cornell
Nov 16, 1958
Claudette Colbert, Jackie Cooper, Carol Hughes, Roger Ray, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
Nov 23, 1958
Tony Bennett, Jonathan Winters, Clara Ward & Her Gospel Singers, Ingrid Bergman and Curt Jurgens
Dec 14, 1958
Lee Marvin, Johnny Carson, James Darren, Dolores Gray
Jan 25, 1959
Carson does a skit showing a children's show M.C. with a hangover, Marvin does different cop show approaches to the same scene.
Liberace, Steve Lawrence, Marie McDonald, the U.S. Army Chorus, Cameo by Phil Silvers
Feb 8, 1959
Charlton Heston, Peter Lawford, Jayne Meadows, Debra Paget, Jonathan Winters
Mar 15, 1959
The Three Stooges, Connie Russell, David Allen, Lenny Bruce
Apr 5, 1959
The Stooges do their well-worn "Knife Throwing Maharaja" bit without improvisations, Bruce does a monologue about junkies, then moves on to a maudlin song story about loneliness, a
Diana Dors, George Jessel, Mark Murphy, Don Elliott, cameo by Richard Dawson
Apr 12, 1959
Cyril Ritchard, Irene Kral, The Axidentals, Eli Mintz, the Ruth Walton Dancers
May 24, 1959