The Joan Rivers Show
StarringJoan Rivers
Country of originUnited States
Production
Running time60 minutes (inc. adverts)
Original release
NetworkSyndicated
ReleaseSeptember 5, 1989 (1989-09-05) 
December 26, 1993 (1993-12-26)
Related
The Late Show with Joan Rivers (Fox)

The Joan Rivers Show is an American talk show hosted by comedian Joan Rivers that premiered on September 5, 1989, in broadcast syndication.

History

The show aired for five seasons, and ended in December 1993.[1][2] The show was nominated for numerous Emmy Awards, with Rivers winning the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host in 1990.[3][4] The series was produced by PGHM Productions, Joan Rivers's production company, in association with Tribune Entertainment, and distributed by Paramount Domestic Television for its first season and Tribune Entertainment for its final three seasons.

In the mid-1990s the show was repeated on E! for several months. Repeats aired on the Decades TV network from January to August 2019, and as of January 2021 128 episodes were available for free streaming on the Vidmark app, and the Roku Channel on the Roku store.

Rivers had previously hosted a late-night talk show entitled The Late Show with Joan Rivers, which dropped her as the host in May 1987.[5]

Episodes

While over 900 episodes exist, here is a list of the episodes available on Roku:

  1. Sept. 8, 1989: Kim Novak, Marvin Hamlisch
  2. Sept. 12, 1989: Donna Mills, Rain Pryor
  3. Sept. 22, 1989: Bob Hope, Candida Royalle
  4. Sept. 26, 1989: Boy George, Joy Behar
  5. Sept. 27, 1989: Leslie Uggams, Roxanne Pulitzer, Paul Linke
  6. Oct. 3, 1989: Geraldo Rivera
  7. Oct. 16, 1989: Malcolm Forbes
  8. Oct. 17, 1989: John Travolta, Sugar Ray Leonard, Richard Simmons
  9. Oct. 18, 1989: Pamela Des Barres, Barbara Gardner Proctor, Adrien Arpel (aka. Adrienne Arpel)
  10. Oct. 23, 1989: Roddy McDowall
  11. Oct. 26, 1989: Anthony Quinn, Renée Taylor, Joseph Bologna
  12. Nov. 1, 1989: Elizabeth Ashley, Virginia Graham, Paul Peterson, Angela Cartwright, Stanley Livingston
  13. Nov. 2, 1989: Whoopi Goldberg
  14. Nov. 6, 1989: Joan Van Ark, Howie Mandel
  15. Nov. 8, 1989: Pee Wee Herman, Larry Hagman, John Davidson, Shadoe Stevens
  16. Nov. 9, 1989: Jackée Harry, Peter Horton, Timothy Busfield, Melanie Mayron, Polly Draper, Marshall Herskovitz, Wolfgang Puck, Barbara Lazaroff
  17. Nov. 10, 1989: Little Richard, Jackie Collins, Mariette Hartley
  18. Nov. 13, 1989: Zsa Zsa Gabor, Faith Ford
  19. Nov. 15, 1989: Louie Anderson
  20. Nov. 16, 1989: Patti D'Arbanville
  21. Nov. 21, 1989: Malcolm-Jamal Warner, a prostitute, a lesbian nun, an obese woman, a female-impersonator
  22. Nov. 22, 1989: The Chippendales strippers, Robin Byrd, Ruth Westheimer (Dr. Ruth)
  23. Nov. 29, 1989: Debbie Reynolds, Martina Navratilova, Randy Crawford
  24. Dec. 4, 1989: Robert Klein, Linda Dano
  25. Dec. 6, 1989: Robin Leach
  26. Dec. 8, 1989: Ed Begley, Jr., Gloria Steinem
  27. Dec. 19, 1989: George Burns
  28. Dec. 20, 1989: David Hasselhoff, Diane Ladd
  29. Jan. 5, 1990: Brooke Shields, Herve Villechaize
  30. Jan. 10, 1990: Gary Coleman, Melissa Manchester
  31. Jan. 11, 1990: Mary Frann, Byron Allen
  32. Jan. 16, 1990: Betty White, porn stars Jerry Butler, Rebecca Steele, Charisma Arquette
  33. Jan. 17, 1990: Nancy Reagan, Steve Garvey and his wife Candace
  34. Jan. 30, 1990: Rita Moreno
  35. Feb. 6, 1990: George Foreman, The Disappearance of Johnny Gosch
  36. Feb. 7, 1990: Robert Wuhl, Ana-Alicia
  37. Feb. 8, 1990: James Earl Jones, Women who underwent weight-loss procedures that failed
  38. Feb. 14, 1990: Nell Carter, unusual dating services for the handicapped, obese, and by astrology
  39. Feb. 15, 1990: John Lithgow, Stella Stevens, Dorothy Hamill, Clint Holmes
  40. Feb. 20, 1990: Marla Gibbs, David Brenner
  41. Feb. 21, 1990: Wayne Newton
  42. Feb. 23, 1990: Jessica Tandy, Sam Kinison
  43. Feb. 26, 1990: Rutger Hauer, Jan Hooks, Nora Dunn, Victoria Jackson
  44. March 6, 1990: Linda Gray
  45. March 8, 1990: Susan Saint James
  46. March 20, 1990: Jaclyn Smith
  47. March 23, 1990: Anthony Quinn and 3 of his children, Russian models
  48. March 30, 1990: Meredith Vieira, Kim Zimmer, Faith Daniels
  49. April 2, 1990: Billy Dee Williams, college hazing
  50. April 3, 1990: Paula Zahn, Harry Smith
  51. April 5, 1990: Lea Thompson, Cheryl Ladd, Ricki Lake, Dave Coulier, Nancy Wilson
  52. April 26, 1990: Lily Tomlin
  53. April 27, 1990: Dudley Moore
  54. April 30, 1990: Phil Donahue
  55. May 1, 1990: Eva Marie Saint
  56. May 3, 1990: Lou Diamond Phillips, Jerry Seinfeld, the sons of Billy Tipton, who was revealed to be transgender after his death.
  57. May 4, 1990: Howard Stern, Angela Bowie
  58. May 7, 1990: Dom DeLuise
  59. May 8, 1990: Joan Chen, Russ Tamblyn, Dana Ashbrook, Jeff Bergman
  60. May 11, 1990: Roseanne Barr, Tom Arnold, Eddie Rabbit
  61. May 15, 1990: Eva Gabor, Todd Bridges, Danny Bonaduce, Paul Peterson
  62. May 18, 1990: Angie Dickinson
  63. May 21, 1990: Alex Rocco, Telma Hopkins, clips of Joan's final interview with Jill Ireland
  64. May 22, 1990: Alan Thicke, a police psychic, retired prostitutes
  65. May 24, 1990: Marla Maples, game show hosts Gene Rayburn, Peter Marshall, and Art Fleming
  66. June 4, 1990: Robby Benson and his wife Karla DeVito, Robert Picardo
  67. June 6, 1990: Jean LeClerc, Cree Summer, lyme disease, shoplifting, multiple sclerosis
  68. June 18, 1990: Janet Leigh
  69. July 17, 1990: Jane Pauley, a couple who stars in amateur porn videos
  70. July 19, 1990: Genie Francis, Elvis impersonators, cheating husbands
  71. July 23, 1990: Maury Povich, Alison Gertz discuses how she contracted AIDS
  72. Aug. 2, 1990: William Shatner, Rhonda Hansome, Dana Delaney, Louis Gossett Jr., coping with the death of a pet
  73. Sept. 11, 1990: Donna Mills, cousins who married each other
  74. Sept. 14, 1990: Bob Hope, Bobby Rivers, college campus murders
  75. Sept. 19, 1990: Florence Henderson, Robert Urich, Carol Kane, obese porn stars
  76. Sept. 20, 1990: Jane Seymour, Ashford & Simpson, near-death experiences, twins; when one is gay and the other is straight
  77. Sept. 24, 1990: Donald Trump
  78. Sept. 27, 1990: Valerie Harper
  79. Sept. 28, 1990: Raymond Burr, Rosa Parks, Placido Domingo, Rhonda Hansome
  80. Oct. 8, 1990: Judith Light, Jackie Collins, people who hired private investigators to stalk their loved ones
  81. Oct. 25, 1990: Randy Travis, Michael Feinstein, Dread Zeppelin, women terrorized over the phone
  82. Nov. 15, 1990: John Ritter, Richard Thomas, David Benoit performs with his jazz band
  83. Nov. 26, 1990: Bob Saget, George Carlin, Pat Robertson
  84. Jan. 31, 1991: Harry Smith and his wife Andrea Joyce, Florence Quivar
  85. Feb. 8, 1991: Debbie Gibson, Phoebe Legere, As the World Turns stars Andrew Kavovit, Michael David Morrison, and John Hensley
  86. Feb. 11, 1991: Jamie Lee Curtis, Holly Fulger
  87. Feb. 20, 1991: Richard Crenna, Deidre Hall, Brenda Lee
  88. March 6, 1991: Tom Eplin, Marc Summers, Richie Havens
  89. March 19, 1991: Joan Collins
  90. April 17, 1991: Tyne Daly, Shari Lewis, James Earl Jones
  91. April 24, 1991: gay men who date straight men
  92. Aug 8, 1991: Dorian Corey, Pepper Labieja, Willi Ninja and Freddie Pendavis
  93. Sept. 11, 1991: Gary Morton, Altovise Davis, Shirlee Fonda
  94. Phil Donahue, Donahue Childhood Friends, The Hollywood Kids, Who Can You Trust
  95. Joan Collins (1992)
  96. Kevin Dobson John James
  97. The Hollywood Kids, Robert Blake
  98. The Hollywood Kids, Tori Spelling, Brian Austin Green (1992)
  99. Classic sitcom stars Joyce DeWitt, Bob Denver, Robert Reed, Donna Douglas
  100. Tom Arnold, Roseanne Barr
  101. Jeffrey Lyons, Bobby Rydell, Martha Reeves, Tab Hunter
  102. I Love Lucy 40th Anniversary, John Michael Howson, Bart Andrews, Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf, Irma Kusely, Keith Thibodeaux, Desi Arnaz Jr.
  103. Jesse Nash, Della Reese, KaHo Foxx, LaWanda Page, Jackée
  104. Susan Lucci (1993)
  105. Julie Andrews, Ben Kingsley, Peabo Bryson

References

  1. O'Connor, John J. (October 9, 1989). "Review/Television; Channel 2 Enlists Rivers And Rivera in Ratings War". The New York Times. Retrieved May 31, 2016.
  2. "The Joan Rivers Show – Episode Guide". TV.com. Retrieved May 31, 2016.
  3. Tucker, Ken (September 14, 1990). "The Joan Rivers Show". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved May 31, 2016.
  4. Takeda, Allison (September 5, 2014). "Joan Rivers' Daytime Emmy Acceptance Speech in 1990 Was Both Funny and Heartbreaking: Watch". Us Weekly. Retrieved May 31, 2016.
  5. Ostrow, Joanne (September 4, 2014). "Joan Rivers 1989 interview: Workaholic Rivers re-enters talk-show fray". The Denver Post. Retrieved May 31, 2016.


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