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DIANA ROSS   TV-GRAPHY


THE SUPREMES  -  1964
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Shows or songs officially released on videotape, laserdisc, DVD... are marked with (*). Those that surfaced only unofficially are marked with (**)
Note: none of the videos linked to this page (nor any of the TVgraphy) have been posted by me.
Show:    THE MOTORTOWN REVUE (**)
Taping date:
 June 1963
Air date:
not aired
Country:
USA
Channel:
-
b&w/color:
b&w

Program: Motortown Revue at the Apollo

The Supremes: My Heart Can't Take It No More
and with the entire cast at the end of the show.

Note: not actually a TV show but the earliest (if not the first) live footage of the Supremes.

Show:    TEEN TOWN
Taping date:
 
Air date:
 between November 1963 and February 1964 (most probably at the beginning of 1964)
Country:
Canada / Windsor, Ontario
Channel:
  CKLW-TV Channel 9 (local Detroit channel)
b&w/color:
 b&w
Program:  Host: Robin Seymour
- When The Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes

Note: the only mention yet found of this early TV show is Robin Seymour's interview of the Supremes on the TV show "Swingin' Time - Salute To The Supremes" (January 22, 1966): "We remember first meeting you girls, of course, when you were on our show a couple of years ago with "When the lovelight shines...".
Show:    SATURDAY DATE
Taping date:
 August 1964 (most probably)
Air date:
 August (most probably - exact date unknown)
Country:
Canada (Ottawa local show)
Channel:
-
b&w/color:
b&w

Program: Host: Peter Jennings or John Pozer

Interview of the Supremes.
The Supremes also most probably performed (and then it was most probably "Where Did Our Love Go").

Note: broadcast at the time "Where Did Our Love Go" was #1, so around August 22.

Click here for an extract (the Supremes appear at 22'36")
Show:    STEVE ALLEN SHOW
Taping date:
 September 24, 1964
Air date:
October 7, 1964
Country:
USA
Channel:
-
b&w/color:
b&w
Location: the Steve Allen Playhouse in Hollywood
Program: Host: Steve Allen

The Supremes:
- Where Did Our Love Go (*)
- I Am Woman

The Supremes also receive the Billboard N°1 award for "Where Did Our Love Go" (pictures).
Show:    9th STREET WEST
Taping date:
 probably beween September 24 & October 5, 1964
Air date:
aired live
Country:
USA (local LA show)
Channel:
KHJ TV
b&w/color:
-

Program: Host: Sam Riddle
Guests: 1) Bobby Darin, Johnny Mathis, 
             2) Mike Clifford, the Supremes
(1 & 2 might be the guests of two different shows)

Note: this show was broadcast live 5 days a week and was not recorded, which means that no show survived.

Show:    SCENE AT 6.30
Taping date:
 October 7 or 8, 1964
Air date:
October 8 (?), 1964
Country:
UK (local north west & Yorkshire show)
Channel:
Granada TV 
b&w/color:
b&w
Location:
 Manchester

Program: Hosts included Gay Byrne, Mike Scott, Peter Eckersley, James Murray, Brian Truman, Bill Grundy, Michael Parkinson, Bob Greaves and Chris Kelly during the existance of the show (1963-1966).

Half an hour weekly tv magazine program featuring entertainment guests.

Guests : the Supremes (interview and/or performance).

Show:    TOP OF THE POPS
Taping date:
 October 7 or 8, 1964
Air date:
 October 8, 1964
Country:
UK 
Channel:
 BBC
b&w/color:
b&w


Note: the "Baby Love" segment was re-aired on October 15, 1964, November 12 & 26, 1964 and on Christmas Eve 1964 (in “Top Of the Pops ‘64”).
Program:  
The Supremes: Where Did our Love Go  
                          Baby Love (*)

Show:    READY STEADY GO
Taping date:
 October (9?), 1964
Air date:
 October 9, 1964
Country:
UK 
Channel:
 ITV
b&w/color:
b&w
Location: Television House, on Kingsway in London
Program:  Host: Keith Fordyce
- The Supremes: Baby Love, Where Did our Love Go
- Dave Clark Five
- The Honeycombs
- Manfred Mann
- The Poets
- The Rockin' Berries
(click for pictures of the Supremes with Dave Clark Five on the set)
Show:    OPEN HOUSE
Taping date:
 October (between 6 to 10) 1964
Air date:
 October 10, 1964 at 4 p.m.
Country:
UK 
Channel:
 BBC2
b&w/color:
b&w

Program: Hosts: Gay Byrne & Peter Haigh 
Guests: Anita Harris, Vince Hill, Cleo Laine, Humphrey Lyttelton, The Supremes, the Voomins, Tony Osborne and his Orchestra, Arthur Garratt.

Show:    THE EAMONN ANDREWS SHOW
Taping date:
 October (between 6 to 11) 1964
Air date:
 October 11, 1964 at 11:05 p.m.
Country:
UK 
Channel:
 ABC Weekend Television
b&w/color:
b&w

Program: Host: Eamonn Andrews 
Guests: Petula Clark, Harry H. Corbett, Earl of Arran, Laurence Harvey, Ted Ray, The Supremes.

The black & white pictures are from a concert tour book of 1965. The photo on the left is credited as the Supremes meeting actor Laurence Harvey on the Eamonn Andrews show. They wear the same outfits and the same wigs than on the two other pictures. Note the white kind of podium on the color picture that is also on the other side of the group on the photo on the right.
Show:    THE LLOYD THAXTON SHOW
Taping date:
 probably between Sept 20-25, 64
Air date:
in LA: October 12, 1964
               in Honolulu : October 19, 1964
               in Indianapolis: October 26, 1964
               in Pittsburgh: October 30, 1964
               ...
Country:
USA (local LA show, syndicated)
Channel:
KCOP-TV / Channel 13 (5 to 6 p.m)
b&w/color:
b&w

First appearance of the Supremes on this show.
Program: Host: Lloyd Thaxton

The Supremes perform "Baby Love" and "Where Did Our Love Go".


Note: the pictures below are from the first or the second appearance of the Supremes on the Lloyd Thaxton show.
Note: the tapes of the Lloyd Thaxton Shows still exist. Lloyd Thaxton planned and tried to release DVDs of his show. Unfortunately he passed away in 2008 before his project came to reality. It’s up to his heirs now…
Show:    HOE MAAKT U HET ?
Taping date:
 October 13 or 14, 1964
Air date:
 October 24, 1964
Country:
The Netherlands
Channel:
 Nederland 2
b&w/color:
b&w

Program: Hosts: Ilse Wessel and Harry Hagedorn

- Where Did Our Love Go (excerpt only)
- ?

Note : the name of the show is according to the video on youtube and couldn't be verified. The air date is according to the newspaper  "Het Nieuwe Dagblad". It's the first episode of this monthly show.
The Supremes in a very Spartan dressing room, most probably during this TV show.
Show:    THANK YOUR LUCKY STAR
Taping date:
 October 11, 1964
Air date:
 October 17, 1964 at 5:50 p.m.
Country:
UK
Channel:
 ABC-UK
b&w/color:
-
Program: Host: Brian Matthew
Guests: Manfred Mann, The Honeycombs, The Supremes, The Gonks, Tommy Quickly, Mike Berry, the Nashville Teens.

Show:    THE FIVE O'CLOCK CLUB
Taping date:
 between Oct 6 & 15, 1964
Air date:
October 20, 1964
Country:
UK
Channel:
Rediffusion London (local)
b&w/color:
b&w


Program: Children program aired every Tuesday and Friday with musical guests.

Guests : the Supremes, Bern Elliott & The Klan.

Note : none of the show apparently survived.

Show:    THE T.A.M.I. SHOW (*)
Taping date:
 October 28 & 29, 1964
Air date:
 - (premiered in LA on November 14, released in theaters on December 29, 1964)
Country:
USA
Channel:
 -
b&w/color:
b&w on DVD but "film processing in technicolor" on opening credits.
Location:  Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
Opening credits:
Rehearsal and backstage photos:
Show:    THE LLOYD THAXTON SHOW
Taping date:
 circa mid-October - mid-November
Air date:
in LA: November 17, 1964
               in Honolulu: November 24, 1964
               in New York: December 1, 1964
               in Pittsburgh: December 5, 1964
               ...

Country:
USA (local LA show)
Channel:
KCOP-TV / Channel 13 (5 to 6 p.m)
b&w/color:
b&w

Second appearance of the Supremes on this show.
Program: Host: Lloyd Thaxton

The Supremes perform "Baby Love" and "Come See About Me".


Show:    SHINDIG!
Taping date:
 -
Air date:
 November 18, 1964
Country:
USA
Channel:
 ABC
b&w/color:
b&w
Program: Host: Jimmy O'Neill
- Baby Love (*)
- Come See About Me (*)
- The Supremes can be seen at the end of the last song of the show: the Righteous Brothers "Little Latin Lupe Lu" (**)
Baby Love:
Come See About Me:
Show:    TELEVISUM
Taping date:
 October 14 or 15, 1964
Air date:
 December 02, 1964
Country:
Belgium, in Brussels
Channel:
 BRT
b&w/color:
b&w
Program:  

Note: The Supremes recorded a TV show in Brussels (Belgium) which was most probably recorded on October 15. According to the Belgium magazines JukeBox (n°99, December 1964 issue) and  "Telepro" (n°560 with Florence Ballard on cover) the TV show recorded on October 15 is likely the one broadcast on December 02 (Televisum).
Show:    KIJKT U OOK VANAVOND ?
  aka:      SNIP & SNAP REVUE

Taping date:
 October 14, 1964 (Wednesday)
Air date:
 December 13, 1964 (Sunday)
Country:
The Netherlands, in Amsterdam 
Channel:
 Nederland 1
b&w/color:
b&w
Location:
 Koninklijk Theater Carré (aka Carré Amsterdam)
Program:   Hosts : Willy Walden and Piet Muyselaar
The Supremes:
Baby Love (*)
- When The Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes (*)
- Let Me Go The Right Way
(*)
- Where Did Our Love Go
- Run, Run, Run
(+ Ask Any Girl, according to Billboard Nov 28, 1964 issue)
Note: sung live to backing tracks.
Rehearsal photos:
Show:    THE LLOYD THAXTON SHOW
Taping date:
 circa December 19, 1964
Air date:
 in LA: December 30, 1964
               in Honolulu: January 6, 1965
               ... 
Country:
USA (local LA show)
Channel:
 KCOP-TV / Channel 13
b&w/color:
b&w

Third appearance of the Supremes on this show.
Program:  Host: Lloyd Thaxton
Guests: Gary Lewis & the Playboys and the Supremes as surprise guess.
The Supremes perform "Come See About Me".

Note: the Supremes are surprise guests the day "Come See About Me" reached n°1. Lloyd Thaxton phoned the Supremes (which were in Hollywood to receive a gold record) while the show was already under way (more in the Timeline).
Show:    THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW
Taping date:
 December 27, 1964
Air date:
 December 27, 1964
Country:
USA (New York)
Channel:
 CBS
b&w/color:
b&w

First appearance of the Supremes on this show.
Program: Host: Ed Sullivan
- Come See About Me (*)
Note:  the Supremes wear the same outfits during the TV show "Shivaree" on March 1965 but wear different wigs.
Show:    CLUB 1270
Taping date:
 1964-1965
Air date:
 1964-1965
Country:
USA
Channel:
 WXYZ-Channel 7 (local Detroit channel)
b&w/color:
-
Program:  Host: Dave Prince

Note: according to the book "TV Land Detroit", the Supremes made several appearances on this TV show in 1964 and 1965.