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List of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson episodes

episodes from 1962 - 1992

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ6600055 ↗
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This is the list of episodes for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, which aired from October 1, 1962 to May 22, 1992. Lists include first-run episodes only and do not include Best of Carson rebroadcasts.

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“List of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson episodes” enters the record as episodes from 1962 - 1992. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what List, Tonight and Show can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson episodes” 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.