What is The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson?
{{italictitle}} [[File:Johnny Carson Woody Allen The Tonight Show 1964.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Carson interviewing [[Woody Allen]], June 1964]] '''''The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson''''' was a [[talk show]] hosted by [[Johnny Carson]] under ''[[The Tonight Show]]'' [[Media franchise|franchise]]. It ran from October 1, 1962 through May 22, 1992.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=The Man Who Retired|magazine=[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]|date=June 2002|author=Bill Zehme|url=http://www.cjayarts.com/pages/ASSORTED/retired.htm|accessdate=2010-06-09}}</ref> It originally aired during [[late-night talk show|late-night]]. For its first ten years, Johnny Carson's ''The Tonight Show'' was based at Thirty [[Rockefeller Center|Rockefeller Plaza]] in [[New York City]], on May 1, 1972, the show was moved to [[Burbank, California]].<ref>(Carson, however, brought the show back to Manhattan in November 1972, and again in May 1973).</ref> [[Peter Lassally]] served as the show's executive producer. In 2002, ''The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson'' was ranked #12 on [[TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time|''TV Guide''{{'}}s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/04/26/entertainment/main507388.shtml |title=TV Guide Names Top 50 Shows |publisher=Cbsnews.com |accessdate=2011-10-26 |archive-date=2002-08-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020802082054/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/04/26/entertainment/main507388.shtml |url-status=dead }}</ref> Carson played some [[skits]] during his show, the most popular were [[Carnac the Magnificent]], [[Floyd R. Turbo]], and [[Ronald Reagan]] (during his term in office, Carson would [[impersonate]] him). In the show, [[Ed McMahon]] would be Caron's [[sidekick]] throughout the entire series and [[Doc Severinsen]] would lead the [[orchestra]] and would sometimes be Carson's sidekick. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commonscat|The Tonight Show}} *[http://www.johnnycarson.com/ Carson's official ''Tonight Show'