The Jimmy Durante show aired Saturday evenings on NBC. The half hour show
ran for 51 episodes between October 2, 1954 and June 23, 1956.

"Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are."

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. 

 

Arthur Godfrey and His Friends was a television variety show hosted by Arthur
Godfrey. The hour-long series aired on CBS from Wednesday, January 12, 1949
to June 1957 (as The Arthur Godfrey Show after September 1956), then again as
a half-hour show from September 1958, to April 1959. The show was live and often unscripted with Godfrey improvising. He never did a commercial for a product he
did not believe in.

Hullabaloo is a musical variety series that ran in prime time on the NBC television network from Tuesday, January 12, 1965 through August 29, 1966. It featured the leading pop acts of the day with a different host presiding each week.

Elvis Presley with The Jordanaires during rehearsal 

Elvis, with Leny Eversong and Ed Sullivan, after rehearsing for his
final appearance on the Sullivan show

Elvis Presley made his third and final appearance on Ed Sullivan’s ‘Toast
of the Town Show’ on Sunday, January 6, 1957, just days before his 22nd
birthday on January 8th.