Former news editor Alan Burke hosted the program filmed at WNEW Channel 5 in New York City.
The program consisted of very pointed, sometimes caustic, exchanges between the host, the guests and the studio audience.
[1] Rather than the celebrities and public figures that appeared on most talk shows, Burke usually hosted counterculture guests who represented the fringes of social, political and religious subjects, including witchcraft, UFOs and life after death.
[4] More mainstream celebrities appearing on the show included Allen Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, James Brown, Muhammad Ali and F. Lee Bailey.
Some sources note that a daily 30-minute version of the program was syndicated in larger cities under the title Dear Alan.