Today made its TV debut in 1952 with Dave Garroway sitting at the news desk. As the founding host of the program, Garroway pioneered the talk show format that led to success in the years that followed ...

After leaving Today in 1961, Garroway largely stayed out of the spotlight. He made a few rare TV and radio appearances in the years that followed, including a cameo in the series Alias Smith and Jones ...

One day early this year, Comedian Dave Garroway got up to go to work at 4 a.m., and before the sun was well up, the television world was pretty well agreed on the morning’s work: Dave had laid an egg.

On Jan. 14, 1952, anchor Dave Garroway appeared on black-and-white television sets around the country to humbly introduce the first episode of a new morning show. "Good morning," he said. "The very ...

TV hardly seems to miss Howdy Doody, Fulton J. Sheen, Milton Berle or Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts. But then there is Dave Garroway. Rising out of Chicago in the late 1940s, he blazed the interview ...

Radio’s critics have complained that radio is too lazy to produce its own comedians. This summer, while such vaudeville-trained funnymen as Fred Allen and Jack Benny are on vacation, radio hopes to ...

With its orchestra, singers and dancers, straight man and comedian, Garroway at Large (Sun. 10 p.m., NBCTV) might be just another TV variety show. But on the TV screen, something surprising happens.

On Jan. 14, 1952, anchor Dave Garroway appeared on black-and-white television sets around the country to humbly introduce the first episode of a new morning show. "Good morning," he said. "The very ...