That's a photo from The Merv Griffin Show, a very long-running talk show that few talk about today…though many have told me that this boxed set is an incredible array of great guests and great conversation. Today on Stu's Show, Merv's career will be among the topics as we do the second part of a long, long overview of TV talk shows. In the first part, we made it as far as half past Johnny Carson. Today, we pick up with talk of Carson's later shows, of Merv and Joey Bishop and Dick Cavett and I suppose David Frost and some short-lived entries. I dunno how far we'll get but I believe we'll be starting out with an out-of-sequence discussion of how Stephen Colbert's doing. [SPOILER ALERT: I think he's doing just great.]
I say "we" because I'll be participating in the discussion along with your genial host Stu Shostak and his two resident TV critic/experts, Wesley Hyatt and Steve Beverly, and we'll also be answering e-mails from viewers and I don't know what else. All I can promise you is talk about talk shows.
Stu's Show can be heard live (almost) every Wednesday at the Stu's Show website and you can listen for free there. Webcasts start at 4 PM Pacific Time, 7 PM Eastern and other times in other climes. They run a minimum of two hours and sometimes go to three or beyond. Shortly after a show ends, it's available for downloading from the Archives on that site. Downloads are a paltry 99 cents each and you can get four for the price of three. See if johnnycarson.com will give you that kind of a bargain.