[2] The Andy Williams Show featured a number of regular performers including:[1] The first series began as a summer replacement on ABC in 1958 and on CBS in 1959.

[1] The weekly year-round series premiered on NBC in 1962, where it ran until 1967, when Williams reduced his workload to three specials a year.

However, two years later he returned to weekly television in a revised format that included rock and roll acts and psychedelic lighting.

[3] Hungarian acrobat and stuntman Janos Prohaska began appearing in a bear costume, asking for cookies.

The bear never got any cookies in the series, but fans began mailing baked goods to Prohaska.