The Mike Douglas Show
Season 3
The Mike Douglas Show was a variety show out of Cleveland OH and then Philadelphia PA, broadcast in the daytime. It's structure was similar to The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and The Merv Griffin Show and was very popular in its time. Mike Douglas was no relation to Michael nor Kirk Douglas.
Where to Watch Season 3
264 Episodes
- Don Ameche co-hostsE90
Don Ameche co-hostsGuests: author Richard Gehman singer Janice Harper comedy trio The Ritz Brothers and retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general Dr. Donald D. Flickinger with Ellie Frankel Quintet. Don Ameche discusses his experiences traveling across Europe as host of "International Showtime." - Louis Armstrong co-hostsE95
Louis Armstrong co-hostsGuests: actress Erin O'Brien magician Peter Pit comedian Professor Backwards (James Edmondson Sr.) and Dr. Henry Crawford with "The Smoking Report" with Ellie Frankel Quintet. Highlights: Louis with Mike on vocals perform "Rockin' Chair", "Lazy Bones", "Gone Fishin'" and "When the Saints Go Marchin' In". Louis and the band perform "When It's Sleepy Time Down South", "My Bucket's Got a Hole In It", and "Struttin' with Some Barbecue". - Louis Armstrong co-hostsE96
Louis Armstrong co-hostsGuests: singer Jewel Brown Chef Joe Darensbourg makes gumbo Dan Hayes executive director of the National Foundation of the March of Dimes talks about birth defects and Joanne Kaufman presents a 1964 White Stag Cruise fashion show with Ellie Frankel Quintet. Highlights: Mike sings "Samantha" and "True Love". Louis performs "Now You Has Jazz" and "High Society Calypso". Mike sings "It's a Most Unusual Day", "I Remember You" and "Something's Gotta Give". Louis performs "Blueberry Hill" and "Back Home Again in Indiana". Louis and Jewel duet with "St. Louis Blues" and "San Francisco". Mike and Jewel duet to "Lover, Come Back to Me". Jewel sings "My Man". Louis closes with "Mack the Knife". - Louis Armstrong co-hostsE97
Louis Armstrong co-hostsGuests: comedian Allan Drake The DeJohn Sisters Chef Joe Darensbourg Big Chief Moore and Dr. Jeremiah Stamler author of "Your Heart Has Nine Lives" with Ellie Frankel Quintet. Highlights: The DeJohn Sisters sing "Teach Me Tonite". Louis performs "A Kiss to Build A Dream On" Mike sings "The Song Is You". Bob Lakner does a Pavlov experiment on a chicken. Mike & Louis do "Ain't Misbehavin'". The DeJohn Sisters sing "Good Morning" and "Fever". Big Chief Moore does "Wabash Blues". Louis performs "Someday". The DeJohn Sisters sing "Pennies From Heaven". Allan Drake does a schtick on the Teenage Lament. Louis does "Sunny Side of the Street". - Louis Armstrong co-hostsE99
Louis Armstrong co-hostsGuests: vocalist Jewel Brown author David Court jazz trombonist Harold Betters singing duo The DeJohn Sisters and "When The Word Is Given" author Louis Lomax. with Ellie Frankel Quintet. Highlights: Louis with Mike on vocals do "I Cover the Waterfront". Louis performs "You Rascal You (I'll Be Glad When You're Dead"), "Muskrat Ramble" and " I Can't Give You Anything But Love". - Edgar Bergen co-hostsE109
Edgar Bergen co-hostsGuests: Dagmar actress Joi Lansing The Jolly Swagmen stuntman Ray Snow and a demonstration of the Port-a-Pit foam rubber landing pad for high jumping with Ellie Frankel Quintet. Highlights: Dagmar sings "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" folksingers The Jolly Swagmen Ellie Frankel plays "Look for the Silver Lining" Monique of Boussac puts on a fashion show of French creations. - Howard Keel co-hostsE116
Howard Keel co-hostsGuests: singer Sam Cooke comedy team of Frankie Ford and Gary Reynolds author Eleanor Harris Lois Becker, sand painting artist with Ellie Frankel Quintet. Highlights: Howard Keel sings "The Song is You". Mike sings "I'll Remember April". Mike and Howard duet on "Night and Day". An interview with Women's Lib author Eleanor Harris. The comedy duo of Ford and Reynolds sing "We're on Our Way" Salvation song, done with characters who sin, a gambler, juvenile delinquent and a drunk. Sam Cooke sings "Ain't That Good News". Ford and Reynolds sing "Misty". Sam Cooke talks about his early years in Gospel with the Soul Stirrers Gospel Vocal Group. Sam sings "For Sentimental Reasons and "You Send Me". The Bugs, a comic Beatles imitators group join Mike, Howard, Ford and Reynolds in wigs and mime "She Loves You". Howard Keel sings "If I Loved You", "Some Enchanted Evening" and "This Nearly Was Mine". Lois Becker with sand paintings shows Howard, Frank Ford, Gary Reynolds and Mike how to do-it-yours - Howard Keel co-hostsE119
Howard Keel co-hostsGuests: Wing Commander John Taft RCAF and Corp. White, RCAF. Napoleon Hill author of "Think and Grow Rich" bandleader Vincent Lopez and song-and-dance girl Arlene Fontana Howard demonstrates exercises from the Royal Canadian Air Force exercise manual. with Ellie Frankel Quintet. - Bert Parks co-hostsE122
Bert Parks co-hostsGuests: comedian Bob Blasser The Four Seasons singers Helen O'Connell and Nancy Ray Gail Greene author of "Sex and the College Girl". Bert Parks discusses some of the old "Game Shows" that he used to emcee. and a surprise mystery guest with Ellie Frankel Quintet. - Bert Parks co-hostsE123
Bert Parks co-hostsGuests: comedian Bob Blasser singer Helen O'Connell Jazz trumpeter and bandleader Lee Castle with the Jimmy Dorsey Band and a surprise mystery guest (vocalist Bob Eberle) with Ellie Frankel Quintet. Highlights: The band performs "Boogie Woogie" and almost blew off the roof off the 140-seat KYW studio. Helen belts out "Amapola" Bob Eberle sings "Tangerine" *Note: Both vocalists Helen O'Connell and Bob Eberle sang with the Jimmy Dorsey Band in the 1940's and were reunited when Mike and show producer Forrest L. (Woody) Fraser succeeded in staging a mystery guest surprise. - Louis Nye co-hostsE138
Louis Nye co-hostsGuests: comedienne Dody Goodman comedian John Byner author Helen Klaben "Hey, I'm Alive". and Iroquois Chief Split Cloud and his family perform their ritual war dance with Ellie Frankel Quintet. *Note: Helen Klaben talks about the 49 days she spent lost in the Yukon after a plane crash. - Co-host Judy Canova and Mike sing country songsE142
Co-host Judy Canova and Mike sing country songsGuests: singer Buddy Greco singer-actor Peter Palmer comic Joey Forman judges a blueberry pie-eating contest and dog trainer Loral I. Armstrong and her Labrador retrievers. Trudy Schmidt of Lane Bryant with a fashion show for girls with unusual sizes. Mike interviews Sue Spencer author of "African Creeks I Have Been Up". - Judy Canova co-hostsE143
Judy Canova co-hostsGuests: Tony Randall singer Roy Hamilton trumpet player Jonah Jones and John Davis Lodge, former Governor of Connecticut who talks about his brother Henry Cabot Lodge's Victory in the New Hampshire primary and the United States foreign policy. with Ellie Frankel Quintet. - Judy Canova co-hostsE144
Judy Canova co-hostsGuests: singer Buddy Greco trumpeter Jonah Jones comedian Joey Forman ragtime pianist Bob Durst and psychic Peter Hurkos who tells the part extrasensory perception played in the arrest of a man who may be charged with murder as the "Boston Strangler" with Ellie Frankel Quintet. - Walter Slezak co-hostsE150
Walter Slezak co-hostsGuests: actor-comedian Jerry Lester Vance Packard author of "The Naked Society" and singing group The Womenfolk with Ellie Frankel Quintet. Highlights: Mike and Walter discuss the use of "spying" devices, lie detectors and probing questionnaires by government and private industry. - Walter Slezak co-hostsE151
Walter Slezak co-hostsGuests: actor Edward Everett Horton singer Rita Gardner fashion designer Oleg Cassini and author Lloyd Mallan with Ellie Frankel Quintet. Highlights: Oleg Cassini who discusses some of the clothes he has designed for Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy. Edward Everett Horton gives his philosophy on applause. Walter Slezak introduces Mrs. G.E. Faire, a robot slated to appear at the World's Fair. - Walter Slezak co-hostsE152
Walter Slezak co-hostsGuests singer Betty Johnson comedian Jerry Lester bigotry fighter Gordon Hall folk trio The Big 3 and Bob Gibson of the St. Louis Cardinals with Ellie Frankel Quintet. Highlights: Gordon Hall battler against bigotry talks about hate groups and the growth in public awareness of these groups since the assassination of President Kennedy. Also spotlighted is a hootenaney featuring The Big Three, Bob Gibson, Walter Slezak, Jerry Lester and songstress Betty Johnson. - Betty White co-hostsE156
Betty White co-hostsGuests: TV personality Steve Allen actress Jayne Meadows comedian Bill Daily a special performance by The Four Coins Black nationalist Malcolm X discusses his conversion to Islam, why he left the Black Muslim organization, the philosophy of black nationalism, his feelings about racial violence and the Senate fillbuster on the civil rights bill. and lip-reading teacher Rose Broberg with Ellie Frankel Quintet. - Betty White co-hostsE157
Betty White co-hostsGuests: singer Wayne Newton entertainer Dagmar who gives her opinion on the Clay-Liston fight and the Beatles comedian Bill Daily and Dr. Frank H. Richardson author of "Grandparents and Their Children", discusses the relationship between grandparents, their children and grandchildren. with Ellie Frankel Quintet. - Glynis Johns co-hostsE161
Glynis Johns co-hostsGuests: entertainer Bob Hope who recalls his early days in vaudeville. Hope also recalls a time when he came under gunfire while entertaining servicemen actress Monique Van Vooren retired heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano discusses the Liston-Clay fight and newspaper journalist Drew Pearson. with Ellie Frankel Quintet. - Glynis Johns co-hostsE162
Glynis Johns co-hostsGuests: Glynis reveals her aptitude for judo and tells how she broke two toes kicking Robert Preston singer John Gary tells how he broke the world's record in skin diving comedienne Renee Taylor singer-songwriter Timi Yuro the dance team of Bud and Cece Robinson and attorney Sam Kling reports that American women are demanding more of marriage and giving less with Ellie Frankel Quintet. - Glynis Johns co-hostsE163
Glynis Johns co-hostsGuests: model-actress Greta Thyssen (former Miss Denmark) singer John Gary song-and-dance man Jules Munshin Ruby & the Romantics and Robert Goldman author of "Dope Invades the Suburbs" with Ellie Frankel Quintet. Highlights: Mike opens with "Hundreds of Thousands of Girls in the World". John Gary sings "Warm & Willing", "Ol Sole Mio" and "It's Now or Never" in an Elvis parody. John Gary and Glynis duet with "Honey". Jules Munshin performs "Valentina". Jules shows pictures of the new baby, discusses the unheard of idea of women proposing marriage and the play "In One Bed & Out the Other". Greta Tyson, a former Miss Denmark talks about dieting and how to she keeps her figure. Mike and Jules perform "O'Brien to Ryan to Goldberg". Ruby & the Romantics perform "Our Everlasting Love" and "Our Day Will Come". John Gary with Bow & Arrow Archery demonstration shoots balloons on target, Glynis shoots arrow. John Gary sings "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" and "How Deep is the Ocean". Mike - Gisele MacKenzie co-hostsE178
Gisele MacKenzie co-hostsGuests: singer Vaughn Monroe xylophonist Roger Ray and author Frank Edwards author of "Strange World", says there is documented evidence of the existence of "flying saucers" and creatures from other planets visiting Earth with Ellie Frankel Quintet. - Sheilah Graham co-hostsE200
Sheilah Graham co-hostsGuests: Governor George C. Wallace of Alabama bandleader-songwriter Sammy Kaye actress Rosemary Prinz author Timi Kietlin and six New England Governors, Reed of Maine, Dempsey of Connecticut, Chafee of Rhode Island, Hoff of Vermont, King of New Hampshire and Peabody of Massachusetts with Ellie Frankel Quintet. - Sheilah Graham co-hostsE202
Sheilah Graham co-hostsGuests: actor Jack Kelly dancer-actor Dan Dailey Scottish singer Martin Walker sings a medley of Scotch folk songs John Martino author of "I Was Castro's Prisoner" and J. Fred Muggs, Dave Garroway's chimpanzee side-kick impersonates Ed Sullivan with Ellie Frankel Quintet. - The Four Freshmen co-hostE206
The Four Freshmen co-hostGuests: comedian-actor Jerry Van Dyke singer-actress Karen Morrow tap dancers Bunny Briggs and Baby Laurence and Carol Taylor founder of The Negro Women on the March, explains the purpose of that organization with Ellie Frankel Quintet. Highlights: The Four Freshmen sing "Somebody Loves Me". - The Four Freshmen co-hostE208
The Four Freshmen co-hostGuests: actor Dan Dailey actress Kathy Nolan humorist Harry Golden comic Al Kelly and The Rolling Stones with Ellie Frankel Quintet. Highlights: The Stones performed "Carol" live and lipsynched "Not Fade Away", "Tell Me" and "I Just Wanna Make Love To You". - The Four Freshmen co-hostE209
The Four Freshmen co-hostGuests: singer Aretha Franklin double talk comedian Al Kelly and Dr. William Herman discusses the emotional immaturity of many parents with Ellie Frankel Quintet. Highlights: The Four Freshmen sing "Moon River". Aretha Franklin sings "Once in a Lifetime". - Cliff Arquette co-hostsE212
Cliff Arquette co-hostsGuests: actor Tony Dow of "Leave It to Beaver" singer-actress Barbara McNair Dixieland bandlearer Roy Liberto and Dr. Frances Howich of Ding, Dong School discusses "Should Advertising be Aimed at Children?" with Ellie Frankel Quintet. Highlights: Cliff Arquette plays the Clavietta or "mouth piano". - Soupy Sales concludes his co-hosting dutiesE229
Soupy Sales concludes his co-hosting dutiesGuests: pianist-composer Peter Nero impressionist Marilyn Michaels singer-guitarist Frank D'Rone and political scientist Dr. Will Irwin. Plus, a pie-throwing (150) farewell to Soupy. with Ellie Frankel Quintet. - Buddy Greco co-hostsE233
Buddy Greco co-hostsGuests: Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard and his wife of five days Ariane Tebbenjohanns and his lawyer F. Lee Bailey comedy team of Ford & Reynolds fitness expert Debbie Drake and TV personality Henry Morgan who walked off in protest at the appearance of Dr. Sheppard with Ellie Frankel Quintet. *Note: Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard was serving time at the Ohio Penitentiary after being convicted of second-degree-murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in the slaying of his wife Marilyn at their Bay Village hom on July 4, 1954. The former osteopath's license was indefinitely suspended in 1957 by the State Medical Board. Sheppard was free on federal bond, a three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Wednesday in Akron that his $10,000 bond and his freedom were valid until the court could decide if the U.S. District Court order for his release would stand. - Regis Philbin is the guest host for the week while Mike is on vacation.E235
Regis Philbin is the guest host for the week while Mike is on vacation.Guests: comedian Bill Daily vocalists The DeJohn Sisters ESP expert David Hoy and karate specialists Robert R. Buchanan and son. with Ellie Frankel Quintet. - Regis Philbin guest hostE236
Regis Philbin guest hostGuests: singer Kaye Stevens comedian Jackie Vernon singing duo Lois Hunt and Earl Wrightson Jazz pianist Joe Bushkin and C. Vern Olmstead, president of Armour Food Service Company, shows housewives how to cup up a side of beef with Ellie Frankel Quintet. - Regis Philbin guest host displays his wounds as a result of Wednesday's wrestling matchE238
Regis Philbin guest host displays his wounds as a result of Wednesday's wrestling matchGuests: comedian Bill Cosby actor Paul Richards singer Anita Bryant author Harry Golden discusses the issue of police brutality in the race riots and Tito Rodriquez and his band with Ellie Frankel Quintet. Highlights: Harry Golden sings "I'm Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage". - Phil Ford & Mimi Hines co-hostE257
Phil Ford & Mimi Hines co-hostGuests: etiquette expert Amy Vanderbilt songwriter Matt Dennis and his wife Virginia "Ginny" Maxey with Ellie Frankel Quintet. Highlights: Phil Ford and Mimi Hines play games on a Burroughs B-200 computer. Composer Matt Dennis and his wife Ginny sing.