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MORT'S ACTING ROLES ON TELEVISION SERIES

The Snoop Sisters (1974) Black Day for Bluebeard

Emergency (April 1972) Hang-Up (episode 11). Mort makes a comical appearance during the first season of this action show as a too-successful burglar who philosophically complains that if he hadn't gained weight, he wouldn't have gotten himself stuck in an office's air-conditioning vent

Love, American Style (March 1970) in Love and the Singles Apartment first season, 24th episode

Ironside: Beyond a Shadow (1969)

Pilot: "Josie And Joe" (1962) a half-hour sitcom

Thriller (December, 1960) episode: "The Man in the Middle" (below: Mort overhears Werner Klemperer outlining a kidnap plot)

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Richard Diamond (February, 1959) episode: "The Sport"

A few amusing moments with Mort playing himself, as David Janssen visits a nightclub on the trail of some criminal or other

Playhouse 90 "The Ding-A-Ling Girl" as Dettering Rohn (1959)

Pursuit (November, 1958) episode: "Kiss Me Again, Stranger"


Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition, a documentary about Mort directed by Bob Weide, was show on PBS in 1989

MORT'S TALK & VARIETY SHOW APPEARANCES

Larry King (multiple, through 2008)

Countdown with Keith Olbermann CNBC (2008)

Tavis Smiley (2007)

Comedy Central Presents: 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time" (2004)

Inside the Playboy Mansion (documentary) 2002

Late Show with David Letterman (Show #1928) (2002)

Late Show with David Letterman (Show #1716) (2001)

Whoopi Goldberg Show (1993)

Later With Bob Costas (1992)

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron, A Retrospective (1993)

The Dennis Miller Show (1992)

Late Night With David Letterman - Show #0973 (1988)

Jonathan Winters On the Ledge (1987)

The Great Standups (1984)

Comedy Shop (1978)

The Dean Martin Show - Episode #238 (1974)

The Dean Martin Show - Episode #226 (1973)

Note: Dean Martin Celebrity Roast appearances sometimes listed for Mort in reference books or TV credit websites are wrong. The Ralph Nader and Hubert Humphrey roasts featured Mark Russell, not Mort.

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In Episode #108 Season 5 (January 1972)

Lenny Bruce Without Tears (documentary) 1972

Dick Cavett Show (1972)

Dinah's Place (1972)

Comedy News (1972)

Love, American Style "Love and the Singles Apartment" Seaso 1, Episode 24 (March 27, 1970)

The Hugh Hefner Show (1970)

The David Frost Show (1970)

The Merv Grifin Show (1970)

That's Life "Happy New Year" (1968)

The Hollywood Palace (host: Diahann Carroll) 1968

The Hollywood Palace - (host: Gene Barry) (1967)

ABC Stage 67 "The People Trap" (1966)

The Ed Sullivan Show (with Johnny Mathis, Peter Nero) (1965)

The Hollywood Palace (host: Kate Smith) (1965)

That Was the Week That Was (1964)

To Tell The Truth (1964)

The Tonight Show - guest host (1963)

The Jerry Lewis Show (premiere September 21, 1963)

The Tonight Show (guest host, 1962)

The Good Years (TV special 1961) Yes, Mort "in costume" below!

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What's My Line? - Mystery Guest - EPISODE #568 (1961)

The Ed Sullivan Show - (with Roger Williams, the Limeliters (1961)

The Mort Sahl Special (1960) with Vicki Benet

The Ed Sullivan Show - (with Jackie Wilson, Jane Morgan (1960)

See America with Ed Sullivan - originating from San Francisco (1960)

The Ed Sullivan Show - (with Johnny Mathis; Peggy Lee; the Dave Brubeck Quartet) (1960)

What's My Line? - Guest Panelist - EPISODE #506 (March, 1960)

What's My Line? - Guest Panelist - EPISODE #484 and #478 (1959)

31st Annual Academy Awards (co-host) (1959)

The Big Party from Revlon (with Rock Hudson, Tallulah Bankhead, Sammy Davis Jr., Esther Williams) NBC 10/8/59



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