Wayne was in Mexico during the entire month of November 1970 filming Big Jake.
I don’t know what you think you’re seeing, but that page from TV guide is exactly what I remember, and plenty of shows on it have no description whatsoever.
The point was not 'did TV Guide publish a description for every show?’
That is not the issue and that is not the claim we’re addressing.
The point was, instead: does the message-board post to which you linked constitute a transcription of what would have been in TV Guide for the night in question? (Thus constituting evidence of what actually occurred on the Tonight Show that night.)
OR is it just one person’s typed list of some shows, some of which are appended with the person’s own opinions? As with the “Dan August” description, purportedly from a 1971 issue of TV Guide:
10 PM Dan August (unsuccessful in its original run, it was a smash
hit when CBS reran it in 1973, by which time Burt Reynolds
had become a superstar)
Look at your message-board guy’s typing for the prime-time hours. Then look at any page from a 1970 or 1971 TV Guide for prime-time.
As we can see, the message-board post does not constitute evidence of what was actually broadcast on that night.
Gosh, I hope no one posting on this thread is an on-duty air traffic controller or a surgeon or something.
OTOH, I hear the crime rate has dropped precipitously over the last couple of days in major metropolitan areas.
I have no hope of being any assistance in identifying MM. I wasn’t around at the time of the photograph and can’t really recognize people, anyhow. But in an attempt to get things back on track, I checked out the TV listingsin my local (Pittsburgh) paper for November 11, 1970:
The show happened.
Or a police officer, or any other person who may need to identify someone in court, because christ-all-fucking-mighty.
Someone early in the thread mentioned British, and that’s when I thought of him. The hair color is right, and he would have been the right age. I’m not sure why he would have been on the Tonight Show circa 1970…
That settles it. It’s John Wayne. 
Don’t be ridiculous. It’s not John Wayne. It’s his son Patrick Wayne.
If someone’s obsessed enough to track it down, according tothis ended Ebay auction, the March 1970 edition of Photoplay Magazine was the one that had the voting for the 1969 awards. I assume it would have a list of all the nominees to compare against the photo. I don’t know if you can assume the voting form would still be in there, though.
I hadn’t been reading this thread until this page, but I have access to old issues of the New York Times through ProQuest Historical Newspapers. I just confirmed that they have a practically identical listing for Nov. 11, 1970:
I hope it’s not the Devil.
I think this will only be resolved by viewing the episode.
Probably start by looking at the November 11, 1970 episode.
Do all these episodes still exist?
I remember reading that all of Johnny’s early shows were recorded over by some NBC technician in an effort to conserve videotape. So no Johnny, but plenty of Mannix.
There’sa Johnny Carson channel on YouTube that’s always adding to it’s collection of downloaded Tonight Show episodes. Unfortunately, the episode in question is from November 1970 and most the Tonight Shows before 1972 have been erased.
If I may go way off topic for a moment, this thread, with its links to old TV listings from the second week of November 1970, has proved to be a Proustian experience for me. I can now exactly pinpoint where I was and what I was doing at that stage of my very young life during that week. I was also able to finally identify a movie from which all I previously remembered was one scene.
According to another closed auction from the same Ebay seller, the 1969 Photoplay Award winners were listed in the June 1970 issue of the magazine.
I can’t pinpoint where I was anytime in 1970 because I wasn’t anywhere yet. But I did come across a newspaper article from May of 1970 that quoted then Secretary of HUD George Romney (Mitt’s dad) saying that the U.S. was moving toward a revolution. That was weird.
On page 22 according to one expired auction!
If we’re through arguing about whether the photo, the person or the Tonight show actually existed, I’d like to offer a suggestion.
Edward Mulhare. Mulhare was starring on The Ghost and Mrs. Muir at the time, and in fact, had been nominated for an Emmy in 1969, so he at least was award-caliber.
He also bears a resemblance to Hugh O’Brian, but I couldn’t find anything he might have done in 1970.
That’s it! His name is Hugh!
Too bad you can’t see his teeth.