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Tonight Starring Jack Paar

Premiered: Jul 29, 1957 | 6 seasons | 195 episodes

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Tonight Starring Jack Paar is an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under The Tonight Show franchise from 1957 to 1962. It originally aired during late-night. During most of its run it was broadcast from Studio 6B inside the RCA Building. The same studio would also host early episodes of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Its theme song was an instrumental version of "Everything's Coming Up Roses", and the closing theme was "So Until I See You" by Al Lerner.
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Name Character Episodes
Jack Paar Host 272
Hugh Downs Self - Announcer 217
Hermione Gingold Self 68
Cliff Arquette Self / Charley Weaver 27
Dody Goodman Self 23
Orson Bean Self - Guest Host 22
Hans Conried Self 20
Art Linkletter Self - Guest Host 20
Pat Carroll Self 19
Orson Bean Self 14
Dick Smothers Self 11
Tom Smothers Self 11
Jonathan Winters Self - Guest Host 10
Renée Taylor Self 8
Jim Backus Self 8
Don Adams Self 8
Eva Gabor Self 7
Jonathan Winters Self 7
Billy De Wolfe Self 7
Walter Slezak Self 7
Shelley Berman Self 7
Bob Newhart Self 6
Claude Stroud Self 6
Sylvia Syms Self 6
Peggy Cass Self 6
Denise Darcel Self 6
Hugh Downs Self - Guest Host 6
Arlene Dahl Self 5
Merv Griffin Self - Guest Host 5
Arthur Treacher Self 5
Arlene Francis Self - Guest Host 5
Franklin Pangborn Self - Announcer 5
Bil Baird Self 5
Steve Lawrence Self - Guest Host 5
George Kirgo Self 5
Eli Wallach Self 4
Bob Hope Self 4
Stanley Holloway Self 4
Art Carney Self 4
Zsa Zsa Gabor Self 4
Phyllis Diller Self 4
Henry Morgan Self 4
George Jessel Self 4
Jack E. Leonard Self 4
Jackie Mason Self 4
Anne Bancroft Self 3
George Burns Self 3
Florence Henderson Self 3
Pat Harrington, Jr. Self 3
Edie Adams Self 3
Peter Lind Hayes Self - Guest Host 3
Larry Storch Self 3
Joe E. Brown Self 3
Milt Kamen Self 3
Pat Buttram Self 3
Jan Murray Self - Guest Host 3
Kaye Ballard Self 3
Chester Morris Self 3
Art Linkletter Self 3
Henny Backus Self 3
Mary Healy Self - Guest Co-Hostess 3
Dick Van Dyke Self 2
Albert Dekker Self 2
Phil Foster Self 2
Barbra Streisand Self 2
Diahann Carroll Self 2
Sammy Davis Jr. Self 2
Eddie Albert Self 2
Carol Burnett Self 2
Glynis Johns Self 2
Buddy Hackett Self 2
Alan Mowbray Self 2
Frankie Avalon Self 2
France Nuyen Self 2
George Maharis Self 2
Merv Griffin Self 2
Danny Thomas Self 2
Jack Jones Self 2
George Cukor Self 2
Henny Youngman Self 2
James Mason Self 2
Betty White Self 2
Stubby Kaye Self 2
Gore Vidal Self 2
Laurence Harvey Self 2
Della Reese Self 2
Martin Gabel Self 2
Anne Jackson Self 2
Johnny Carson Self - Guest Host 2
Lon Satton Self 2
Mort Sahl Self 2
Selma Diamond Self 2
Bob Elliott Self 2
Soupy Sales Self - Guest Host 2
Roy Atwell Self 2
Kaye Stevens Self 2
Cyril Ritchard Self 2
Ray Goulding Self 2
Kay Thompson Self 2
Nita Naldi Self 2
Pamela Mason Self 2
Leona Anderson Self 2
Portland Mason Self 2
Elliott Reid Self 2
Tony Bennett Self 2
Gloria Swanson Self 2
Nancy Walker Self 2
Ronny Graham Self 2
Leslie Uggams Self 1
Richard Chamberlain Self 1
John Wayne Self 1
Dick Van Dyke Self - Guest Host 1
Ernest Borgnine Self 1
Michael Landon Self 1
Jack Lemmon Self 1
Mickey Rooney Self 1
Desi Arnaz Jr. Self 1
Woody Allen Self 1
Malachy McCourt Self 1
Oscar Levant Self 1
Mitzi McCall Self 1
Cliff Norton Self 1
Walter Pidgeon Self 1
Kirk Douglas Self 1
Hal Holbrook Self 1
Elsa Lanchester Self 1
Eve Arden Eve Arden 1
Ida Lupino Self 1
Carolyn Jones Self 1
Eddie Albert Self - Guest Host 1
Ruta Lee Self 1
Andy Griffith Self 1
Carl Reiner Self 1
Rod Steiger Self 1
Van Johnson Self 1
Burt Lancaster Self 1
Eartha Kitt Self 1
Lucie Arnaz Self 1
Sal Mineo Self 1
Alan Young Self 1
Jane Russell Self 1
Arthur Penn Self 1
Dean Jones Self 1
John Huston Self 1
Don Ameche Self 1
Richard Boone Self 1
Claire Bloom Self 1
Dick Powell Self 1
Groucho Marx Self 1
John Gielgud Self 1
Wally Cox Self 1
June Foray Self 1
Robert Cummings Self 1
Joel Grey Self 1
Robert Morley Self 1
Sylvia Sidney Self 1
Milton Berle Self 1
Jonathan Winters 1
Trevor Howard Self 1
Peter Lawford Self 1
Farley Granger Self 1
Pat Harrington, Jr. Self / Guido Panzini 1
Kipp Hamilton Self 1
Richard Egan Self 1
Sheldon Leonard Self 1
Sydney Chaplin Self 1
Frank Lovejoy Self 1
Edith Head Self 1
Jimmy Dean Self - Guest Host 1
Alice Pearce Self 1
Joe E. Ross Self 1
James Darren Self 1
Jane Fonda Self 1
Robert Fuller Self 1
Lucille Ball Self 1
Peter Ustinov Self 1
Betty White Self - Guest Host 1
Sterling Holloway Self 1
Jerry Lewis Self 1
Jerry Lewis Self - Guest Host 1
Andrew Prine Self 1
Margo Self - Guest Host 1
Jack Webb Self 1
Red Buttons Self 1
Cedric Hardwicke Self 1
Cliff Arquette Self 1
William Bendix Self 1
Adolphe Menjou Self 1
Ben Hecht Self 1
Miyoshi Umeki Self 1
Charlotte Rae Self 1
Donald O'Connor Self - Guest Host 1
Vivian Vance Self 1
Robert Horton Self 1
Cecil Kellaway Self 1
Hugh O'Brian Self 1
Charlie Brill Self 1
Arlene Francis Self 1
Barbara McNair Self 1
Howard Duff Self 1
Al Martino Self 1
Charles Nelson Reilly Self 1
Otto Preminger Self 1
Frank De Vol Self 1
Paul Lynde Self 1
Betsy Palmer Self 1
Mel Tormé Self 1
Stepin Fetchit Self 1
Joel Bishop Self - Guest Host 1
Hoagy Carmichael Self 1
Joan Blondell Self 1
Hildegard Knef Self 1
Richard Nixon Self 1
Hermione Baddeley Self 1
Mike Nichols Self 1
Burl Ives Self 1
Shelley Berman Self - Guest Host 1
Eric Portman Self 1
Dick Gregory Self 1
Joan Caulfield Self 1
Alice Faye Self 1
Terry Moore Self 1
George Gobel Self 1
Mervyn LeRoy Self 1
Fran Jeffries Self 1
Allyn Joslyn Self 1
Gypsy Rose Lee Self 1
Kurt Kasznar Self 1
Allen Case Self 1
Louis Nye Self 1
Marie Wilson Self 1
Teresa Brewer Self 1
Faye Emerson Self 1
Eddie Mayehoff Self 1
Tammy Grimes Self 1
Shani Wallis Self 1
Mort Sahl Self - Guest Host 1
Helen Kane Self 1
William Peter Blatty Self 1
Bobby Van Self 1
John Indrisano Self 1
Allen Funt Self 1
Adam Wade Self 1
George Kirby Self 1
Garson Kanin Self 1
Nelson Eddy Self 1
Monique van Vooren Self 1
Duke Ellington Self 1
George S. Kaufman Self 1
Paula Stewart Self 1
Dayton Allen Self 1
Georgia Lee Self 1
Woody Woodbury Self 1
Dave Barry Self 1
Rummy Bishop Self 1
Robert Dhéry Self 1
Jim Jordan Self 1
Joe Garagiola Self 1
Will Jordan Self 1
Jack Barry Self 1
Les Paul Self 1
Keely Smith Self 1
Dorothy Loudon Self 1
Ben Blue Self 1
Chet Huntley Self 1
Joe Williams Self 1
Yolande Bavan Self 1
Al Capp Self 1
Leo Durocher Self 1
David Wayne Self 1
Kathleen Nolan Self 1
Elaine May Self 1
Denise Lor Self 1
David Merrick Self 1
John V. Lindsay Self 1
Jack DeLeon Self 1
Nipsey Russell Self 1
Robert Rossen Self 1
Archie Moore Self 1
Leslie Scott Self 1
Marc Connelly Self 1
Steve Rossi Self 1
Felix Knight Self 1
Criswell Self / the Amazing Criswell 1
Billy Graham Self 1