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List of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson episodes (1979)

episodes in 1979

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ6600079 ↗
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The following is a list of episodes of the television series The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson which aired in 1979. In October, 1962 Johnny Carson took over as host of the show from the previous host Jack Paar.

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“List of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson episodes (1979)” enters the record as episodes in 1979. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what List, Tonight and Show can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979, 1962—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1979. Its strongest next move is a source search built around List, Tonight and Show.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6600079. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1979 and 1962.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson episodes (1979)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.