Original release on CBS: August 1, 1971 – May 29, 1974

“The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour” was a Top 20 hit in the ratings for its
entire run. Among the many guests who appeared on show were George
Burns, Tony Curtis, Glen Campbell, The Supremes and Dick Clark. The
show was scheduled to return for a fourth season in October 1974, but
Sonny and Cher separated that fall, resulting in the cancellation of the
series.

Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisian) turned 70 in May.

The Texaco Star Theatre was a comedy-variety show, broadcast on radio
from 1938 to 1949. It took to television on June 8, 1948 and was a huge
success. Comedian Milton Berle hosted the show that gave him the name 
“Mr. Television”.

The Johnny Cash Show was a music variety television show hosted
by Johnny Cash. The Screen Gems 58-episode series ran from June
7, 1969 to March 31, 1971 on ABC; it was taped before a live audience
at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. The show reached
No. 17 in the Nielsen ratings in 1970.

James Taylor made his prime-time television debut on the “Johnny 
Cash Show."

Richard Augustus Wagstaff "Dick" Clark Jr.
(November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012)

The Dick Clark Show (also known as Dick Clark’s Saturday Night Beechnut Show)
was a musical variety show broadcast weekly on the ABC television network 7:30-8
PM (Eastern Time) on Saturdays from February 15, 1958 through September 10,
1960, sponsored (except for the first two shows) by Beechnut Gum.

Arthur Gordon "Art" Linkletter (Gordon Arthur Kelly)
(July 17, 1912 – May 26, 2010)

House Party is a daytime radio daytime variety/talk show that aired on
CBS Radio and on ABC Radio from January 15, 1945 to October 13,
1967. The show had an equally long run on CBS Television as Art
Linkletter’s House Party.