House Party with host Art Linkletter (shown above) was a daytime radio variety 
talk show that premiered on Monday, January 15, 1945 on CBS and ran until 
October 13, 1967. The show was sponsored by General Electric. 

John William "Johnny" Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005)

Person to Person was a popular interview program on CBS-TV. It ran from Saturday October 2, 1953 to 1961. Renowned news reporter Edward R. Murrow hosted the
series until 1959. The long list of guests interviewed by Murrow included then-
Senator John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline, Elizabeth Taylor, Dean Martin,
Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, and Fidel Castro. With Person to Person, Murrow pioneered the concept of interviewing celebrities on television.

Marilyn Monroe before her interview on Person to Person