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The Johnny Carson Show
The Johnny Carson Show is a 1955–56 half-hour prime time television variety show starring Johnny Carson.
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 performance, CBS created the primetime variety program "The Johnny Carson Show", a traditional potpourri of comedy, music, dance, skits and monologues. It aired on Thursday nights at 10
flagship station of the Galaxy Broadcasting System (GBS) television network, both subsidiaries of media conglomerate Galaxy Communications. Popular shows included "The Midnight Show Starring Johnny Nevada" (a fictional version of NBC's "The Tonight Show", with Johnny Nevada being an analogue of Johnny Carson). (There was a real-life WGBS-TV, in Philadelphia from 1985 to 1995; the call letters stood for Grant Broadcasting System, the original owners. The call letters were changed in 1995 to the current WPSG, after