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After a 23 year run that included introducing American audiences to The Beatles, Elvis Presley and The Rolling Stones, the last original episode of \u2018The Ed Sullivan Show\u2019 aired on CBS on March 28, 1971.\nThe variety programme, which cost $8 million per year, fell victim to \u2018the rural purge\u2019, via which several iconic shows that appealed mainly to poorer and older demographics were axed in favour of screening old movies.\nIn this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly consider how Sullivan was able to become a TV superstar, despite having no discernible talent for presentation; explain how the host\u2019s advancing senility gave an early advantage to comedian Joan Rivers; and reveal whom this famously polite father figure deigned to call \u2018bitch\u2019\u2026\nFurther Reading:\n\u2022 \u2018Right Here on Our Stage Tonight! - Ed Sullivan's America, By Gerald Nachman\u2019 (University of California Press, 2009):\xa0\nhttps://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Right_Here_on_Our_Stage_Tonight/v7owDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=ed+sullivan+show+28th+march+1971&pg=PA384&printsec=frontcover\n\u2022 \u2018Ed Sullivan, Variety Show Host Influenced American Culture\u2019 (ThoughtCo, 2019): https://www.thoughtco.com/ed-sullivan-4589827\n\u2022 \u2018Elvis Presley performs "Hound Dog" on The Ed Sullivan Show\u2019 (CBS, 1956): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNYWl13IWhY&list=PLQWND5qZhbj0nqnmye5U2g3Z-ai8wos4p\nLove the show? Join\xa0\U0001f334CLUB RETROSPECTORS\xa0\U0001f334 to DITCH THE ADS and get an additional full-length episode every SUNDAY!\nPlus, get weekly bonus bits, unlock over 70 bits of extra content and support our independent podcast.\nJoin now via\xa0Apple Podcasts\xa0or\xa0Patreon.\xa0Thanks!\npodfollow.com/Retrospectors\n\xa0\nThe Retrospectors are Olly Mann, Rebecca Messina & Arion McNicoll, with Matt Hill.\nTheme Music: Pass The Peas. Announcer: Bob Ravelli. Graphic Design: Terry Saunders. Edit Producer: Sophie King.\nCopyright: Rethink Audio / Olly Mann 2023.\n Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices