Blog: 30 Days Out

Mike Douglas started out as big band singer before heading to the small screen in the 1950s. The Mike Douglas Show debuted in Cleveland as a local show in 1961, but by 1967 after the show moved to Philadelphia, it was in 171 markets and watched by more than six million people each afternoon. Douglas would come out and wow the crowd at the start of each show, not with a snappy monologue of jokes, but with a popular song of the time (check out his version of "Michelle" on the John [...]