Tag: The Tonight Show
Posted in 1960's
Did Tiny Tim Tiptoe Into Your Living Room?
Tiny Tim took “Tiptoe Through the Tulips” and turned it into one of the most unforgettable TV moments of the…
Posted in 1980's
When Tippee-Toes Tiptoed Into Trouble
Leave it to the early 1980s to give us a controversy over a baby doll’s bare bottom. Mattel’s Tippee-Toes was…
Posted in 1980's
I Wish I Could Go Back To The Future For This Sale!
Early in 1982 Bank of America seized 1,400 DeLorean DMC-12’s because John DeLorean’s company failed to make payments on a…
Posted in 1980's
Johnny Carson As Ronald Reagan
In a 1982 Tonight Show skit reminiscent of the old Abbott and Costello ‘Who’s On First?’ routine, Johnny Carson plays…
Posted in 1990's
Michael Landon Final Tonight Show Appearance
In April 1991, TV icon Michael Landon was diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer. A month later, on May 9, 1991,…