The Ed Sullivan Channel continues to release classic performance clip on their YouTube channel, and this holiday classic is a great way to kick off your own holiday season. Jerry Stiller plays Walker Flonkite (from the t and v), who visits the North Poll hoping to get and interview with Santa himself, but instead gets a face to face with Mrs. Claus played by Anne Meara. In this clip Mrs. Claus goes through her problems including Meshuggena elves, an overabundance of Ho Ho Ho, and the difficulty she has finding her husband when he’s out carousing with the reindeer.

It was one of Elvis Presley’s more unusual ventures. The king of rock’n’roll had just been enjoying his first taste of success with singles such as Heartbreak Hotel, and was about to appear on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1956, when he was given an unexpected medical challenge. Would he agree to be vaccinated against polio in front of the press before the show? He did. Read more at The Guardian.

A 1968 performance on The Ed Sullivan Show by the Mamas and the Papas is the latest clip from the series to be shared on streaming services. The archives of the famous and massively influential show were opened up to the public under the digital rights agreement announced in June between UMe and SOFA Entertainment. The vocal quartet were on the June 22, 1968 edition to sing “Twelve Thirty,” a track from their fourth studio album The Papas and the Mamas, which had been released the month...

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Jackie Robinson again grips a bat, his muscles bulging through his suit jacket. Eight days after announcing his retirement from baseball, Mickey Mantle speaks in what surely was his first major public appearance since leaving the game. Willie Mays, always the entertainer, unintentionally prompts laughter from the studio audience. These arresting images, all more than a half-century old, can be seen via streaming video on The Ed Sullivan Show’s official YouTube channel. Nearly everybody possessing or approaching senior-citizen status or who maintains ample pop-culture knowledge recognizes Sullivan’s impact....

Just in time for the planned return of a historic abbreviated baseball season, The Ed Sullivan Show's official YouTube channel hits it out of the park with the official worldwide streaming premieres of baseball legends Jackie Robinson and Willie Mays, offering viewers batting tips, and Mickey Mantle, who makes a major career announcement. These full segments join the streaming universe to live on forever more than 50 years after they first aired as part of the UMe agreement with SOFA Entertainment Inc. for the global digital rights to The Ed Sullivan Show, which encompasses the influential television program's historic 23-year primetime run on...

A week after Jerry Stiller died in May, “The Ed Sullivan Show” YouTube channel uploaded several performances by Stiller and his wife, comedy partner and fellow Brooklyn native, Anne Meara, which appeared on the TV variety series in the 1960s and early ’70s. This release allowed fans to experience anew the couple’s onscreen chemistry, whether they were playing fictionalized versions of themselves or a reporter and a woman on the street. Until recently, anyone searching for footage from “The Ed Sullivan Show,” which was must-see TV in the ’50s and ’60s, had to settle for low-resolution bootlegs or...

We’ve got a reeeally big show headed to the internet. A trove of digitally restored clips from “The Ed Sullivan Show” will arrive online during the next three years, reviving more than 10,000 long-buried performances and guest appearances from the iconic variety show. The global streaming project launched this month with seven clips on YouTube and other platforms — a Motown-dominated batch of videos that includes performances by Diana Ross & the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, the Jackson 5 and Temptations and Gladys Knight & the Pips.

Universal Music Enterprises (UMe), the global catalog division of Universal Music Group (UMG), has inked a deal with SOFA Entertainment Inc. for the global digital rights to The Ed Sullivan Show library, which encompasses the influential television program’s historic 23-year primetime run on CBS. This marks the first time that Ed Sullivan Show performance and guest segments will be officially available in their entirety across streaming services worldwide. Launching today (June 12) on The Ed Sullivan Show’s official YouTube channel, the first segments...

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