The Johnny Carson Show

The Johnny Carson Show presents; Jim Fowler with wild animals; Bob Nelson performs stand-up; Teresa Ganzel comments on spending New Year's in Las Vegas.

The Johnny Carson Show presents; Johnny reads children's letters to Santa. Gore Vidal suggests ideal gifts for famous people; Jim Fowler presents wild animals.

The Johnny Carson Show presents; Joan Embery first brings out an 18-month-old gorilla. Next comes a striped hyena, followed by a Humboldt penguin, a warm-weather species. Next are a pair of three-month-old bushbabies, a primate. Finally she shows a tarantula and some large insects - a walking stick and a large millipede. Embery admits she doesn't like tarantulas.

The Johnny Carson Show presents; Johnny examines the case of a lonely parakeet. Dennis Hopper (Doublecrossed (1991)); Rich Hall performs stand-up; Joan Embery presents wild animals, including a two-headed snake and baby primates.

The Johnny Carson Show presents; Danny DeVito; Joan Embery brings two baby orangutans; longtime fan John Searing gets his chance to introduce Johnny. Also: Doc makes spaghetti with Amatriciana sauce.

The Johnny Carson Show presents; Sarah Miles (play Saint Joan); David Brenner performs stand-up and is interviewed; Kreskin demonstrates the illusions of Ouija boards with audience members using wine glasses and playing cards; Joan Embery presents wild animals.

The Johnny Carson Show presents; Johnny welcomes Baby New Year. Foster Brooks performs stand-up and is interviewed; Victor Buono recites his poetry; Adela Rogers St. Johns (book Some Are Born Great); Joan Embery presents wild animals.

The Johnny Carson Show presents; Susan Clark (Hedda Gabler (1978)); Kelly Monteith performs stand-up; journalist Barbara Howar; Joan Embery presents wild animals.

The Johnny Carson Show presents; Johnny describes his vacation to France and Wimbledon. Dyan Cannon (Honeysuckle Rose (1980)); Rodney Dangerfield (Caddyshack (1980)) performs stand-up and is interviewed; Arnaud de Borchgrave (novel The Spike); Jim Fowler presents wild animals.

The Johnny Carson Show presents; Carnac the Magnificent appears, in a segment that goes particularly well. Jim Fowler brings out four wolf cubs; he discusses their endangered status in the wild, and after tumbling around the stage they compete aggressively over some chicken wings. Next, Fowler brings out a Celebes ape named Doc; the monkey is quite rambunctious, knocking over tables and chairs.

The Johnny Carson Show presents; Joan Embery brings footage of San Diego Zoo's rare albino koala, and presents ferrets, a 5-month-old mountain lion and a Burmese python with one of the funniest animal mishaps with Johnny. Philip Michael Thomas of Miami Vice promotes his album Living the Book of My Life. Comedian Joan Rivers talks about her career choices and development.

The Johnny Carson Show presents; Johnny's comedy segment. Joan Embery brings two koalas and a black and white lemur. Bob Nelson does a comedy routine about a farmer hunting a duck, with sound effects he makes himself. He is then interviewed and does a few more funny characters.

The Johnny Carson Show presents; Johnny's comedy segment. James Stewart discusses his trip to Africa and the destruction of elephants, as well as his book of poems. Jim Fowler brings out several types of turtles. He then shows a baby python before he (and assistants) show a python that had been found living under a house in Florida. It is over 20 feet long and weighs over 200 pounds.

The Johnny Carson Show presents; Johnny's updated nursery rhymes. Ron Silver (Enemies: A Love Story (1989)); Hall of Famer Art Donovan talks about changes in the NFL since his playing days; Joan Embery presents wild animals including a lynx, chameleons, and a female cuscus.

The Johnny Carson Show presents; Tony Randall (Night of 100 Stars III (1990)); Lara Flynn Boyle (Twin Peaks (1990)). As well as Andy Koffman sitting down to discuss the controversial entry of his Goliath frogs in Calaveras County's Jumping Frog Jubilee.