Back in the early sixties, former heavyweight boxing champ Rocky Marciano had a syndicated interview show called Main Event. Each episode consisted of several conversations which drifted in and out of talking about boxing and show business. I believe the show was offered to stations in multiple formats: A half-hour version, an hour version and the option of using the interviews individually to fill holes in the schedule, say after a movie or during a baseball rain delay.
Marciano was a great fighter I suppose but he was not a champion interviewer. Still, he had on a lot of the kind of guests no one can make uninteresting. Here are chats with Jersey Joe Walcott, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Jackie Gleason. The Gleason is the main reason I'm posting this…