Television Pioneers - Your Show of Shows

Harvey, Karen J.: Sid Caesar and Your Show of Shows: The Birth of the Television Sketch Comedy Series (McFarland & Co.)

In 1973, I entered a movie theater on West 57th Street off of 6th Avenue. I don’t remember now how I found out about it, but the movie playing was called “Ten from Your Show of Shows,” a TV program I’d read about as one of the first television variety shows. There were very few people in the audience as the movie began. The beginning of the film was a d…