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''Tonight Starring Jack Paar'' (in later seasons ''The Jack Paar Tonight Show'') is an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under ''The Tonight Show'' franchise from 1957 to 1962. It originally aired during late-night. During most of its run it was broadcast from Studio 6B (formerly the home of Milton Berle's ''Texaco Star Theater'' series) inside the RCA Building (now called the GE Building) in New York City. The same studio would also host early episodes of ''The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson'', ''Late Night with Jimmy Fallon'' and ''The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon''. Its theme song was an instrumental version of "Everything's Coming Up Roses", and the closing theme was "So Until I See You" by Al Lerner. ==History== In July 1957, after the failure of ''Tonight! America After Dark'' (a news-oriented program first hosted by Jack Lescoulie and briefly by Al Collins), NBC reverted its late-night show, ''Tonight'', to a talk/variety show format as it had been during Steve Allen's tenure as host. Jack Paar became the new solo host of the show. Under Paar, most of the NBC affiliates which had dropped the show during the ill-fated run of ''America After Dark'' (or who had never picked it up) began airing the show once again. Paar's era began the practice of branding the series after the host, and as such the program, though officially still called ''Tonight'', was marketed as ''The Jack Paar Show''. A combo band conducted by Paar's Army buddy pianist José Melis filled commercial breaks and backed musical entertainers. When Paar was on vacation, the show was presided over by guest hosts; one of these early hosts was Johnny Carson. Starting in 1960, it was one of the first regularly scheduled shows to be videotaped in color, with the show recorded very early in the evening and broadcast from 11:15 P.M. to 1 A.M. Eastern time that night. Only a handful of complete Jack Paar "Tonight Show" episodes exist. All of them are black-and-white kinescope recordings; no color videotapes of any complete Paar "Tonight" shows are known to exist. Paar hosted the program from 1957 to 1962. Paar's original announcer was actor Franklin Pangborn, but he was fired after only a few weeks for not showing enough "spontaneous enthusiasm". His replacement was Hugh Downs, who stayed with Paar to the end. At first, the show was called "Tonight Starring Jack Paar"; after 1959 it was officially known as ''The Jack Paar Show'' (or ''The Jack Paar Tonight Show'', a phrasing which led to the name "The Tonight Show," as opposed to simply "Tonight," being adopted permanently after Paar's departure). On September 19, 1960, the series became one of the first regularly scheduled videotaped programs in color. Only a few minutes of video of Paar's talk host career in color are known to exist today; NBC's policy at the time was to preserve programming on black-and-white kinescopes, but this policy only applied to live or videotaped prime time programming, and as such, the videotapes of most of Paar's ''Tonight'' Show appearances were taped over and no longer exist, a policy that continued through the first ten years of Johnny Carson's subsequent hosting of the same series. It was during Paar's stint as host that ''The Tonight Show'' first became an entertainment juggernaut; Paar generated the most obsessive fascination and curiosity from press and public of anyone who ever hosted the show. Paar strove for compelling conversation as well as humor; his guests tended to be literate raconteurs such as Peter Ustinov or intellectuals such as William F. Buckley, Jr., as opposed to just actors or other performers selling their current work, while Paar himself earned a reputation as a superb storyteller. He also surrounded himself with a memorable group of regulars and semi-regulars, including Cliff Arquette (as the homespun "Charlie Weaver"), author-illustrator Alexander King, Tedi Thurman (NBC's sultry "Miss Monitor") and comedy actresses Peggy Cass and Dody Goodman. Paar's oft repeated expression, '' I kid you not'' (something Humphrey Bogart as Capt. Philip Queeg uttered often in ''The Caine Mutiny''), became a national catchphrase. In 1959, Paar's gag writer Jack Douglas became a bestselling author (''My Brother Was an Only Child'', ''A Funny Thing Happened to Me on the Way to the Grave: An Autobiography'') after his regular appearances with Paar. Douglas' Japanese wife Reiko often appeared, as did Hungarian beauty queen Zsa Zsa Gabor, French comedienne Genevieve and several British performers appeared as well; Paar enjoyed conversing with foreigners and knew their accents would spice up the proceedings. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tonight Starring Jack Paar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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