The Joan Rivers Show

*The Joan Rivers Show*
The Joan Rivers Show
Starring	Joan Rivers
Country of origin	United States
Production
Running time	60 minutes (inc. adverts)
Original release
Network	Broadcast syndication
Release	September 5, 1989 –; December 26, 1993
Related
	The Late Show with Joan Rivers (Fox)

The Joan Rivers Show is an American first-run syndicated talk show that was hosted by Joan Rivers. The show ran for four seasons, from September 5, 1989, to December 26, 1993.

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:

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

References

^ 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.
^ "The Joan Rivers Show – Episode Guide". TV.com. Retrieved May 31, 2016.
^ Tucker, Ken (September 14, 1990). "The Joan Rivers Show". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved May 31, 2016.
^ 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.
^ Ostrow, Joanne (September 4, 2014). "Joan Rivers 1989 interview: Workaholic Rivers re-enters talk-show fray". The Denver Post. Retrieved May 31, 2016.

External links

The Joan Rivers Show at IMDb

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[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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