We love old, lost TV clips, especially when they've been lovingly restored. Here are a few minutes from The Tonight Show with Mr. Carson from August of 1964, when he'd been doing it for a little less than two years.
His bandleader then was Skitch Henderson (Doc Severinsen was probably in the band) and his announcer was, for his entire run, Ed McMahon but Ed was off this night. The monologue wasn't that long and wasn't that funny but that would change…