Making It In NYC
Once arriving in New York City, Carson began hosting the ABC show Who Do You Trust?, which is where he first met future sidekick Ed McMahon. It was on this show where Carson began ad libbing and discovering that his wit allowed him to become “the hottest item on daytime television.”
Making It In NYC
No Archiving Old Episodes
Early episodes the The Tonight Show are not archived and Carson had no problem with this. He once said that the network should make guitar picks out of the old episodes’ tapes since he didn’t see any value in them. However, all episodes that aired between 1973 and 1992 are preserved.
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No Archiving Old Episodes
