While working as a staff writer on The Red Skelton Show, local Los Angeles television comedian Carson filled in as host when Skelton was injured during a show rehearsal. As a result of Carson’s ...

Johnny's Navy buddy disrupts the monologue from the audience, a young Jamie Farr appears with the musical group The Double Daters, and Johnny and Eva Gabor star in The One Musketeer.

For almost 30 years as host of “The Tonight Show,” Johnny Carson was the last face millions of viewers saw before they closed their eyes and went to sleep. Carson, the critic David Thomson once noted, ...