The Tomorrow Show
| The Tomorrow Show | |
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| Also known as | Tomorrow with Tom Snyder Tomorrow Coast to Coast |
| Genre | Talk & interview Infotainment Variety show (1980–1981) |
| Presented by | Tom Snyder Rona Barrett |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
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| Production locations | NBC Studios, Burbank, California (1973–1974, 1977–1979) RCA Building, New York City (1974–1977, 1979–1981) |
| Running time | 60 minutes (October 15, 1973–September 5, 1980) 90 minutes (September 8, 1980–December 17, 1981) |
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| Network | NBC |
| Release | October 15, 1973 – December 17, 1981 |
| Related | |
| Late Night with David Letterman (1982–1993) The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder (CBS; 1995–1999) | |
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The Tomorrow Show (also known as Tomorrow with Tom Snyder or Tomorrow and, after 1980, Tomorrow Coast to Coast) is an American late-night television talk show hosted by Tom Snyder that aired on NBC in first-run form from October 1973 to December 1981, at which point its reruns continued until late January 1982.
Straddling the line between news and entertainment and airing immediately following The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, notable guests of Tomorrow throughout its eight-year run included Ken Kesey, Charles Manson, Spiro Agnew, Harlan Ellison, Alfred Hitchcock, Jimmy Hoffa, Sterling Hayden, David Brenner, and James Baldwin. Unique and often revealing one-on-one exchanges were the program's staple. Since Johnny Carson had mostly abandoned the highbrow, intellectual guests that were common in the early years of his Tonight Show while it originated from New York City (and especially previously during Jack Paar's hosting run), many of those types of guests—such as social satirist Mort Sahl, actor-activist Marlon Brando, and novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand—eventually ended up on Tomorrow.
Musicians that were featured on the program included The Clash, Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead, Kiss, John Lennon (in his last televised interview), Paul McCartney, Public Image Ltd, the Ramones, U2 (in their first American television appearance), Anne Murray, "Weird Al" Yankovic (in his first televised appearance), and Wendy O. Williams and the Plasmatics. Los Angeles news anchor Kelly Lange, a colleague of Snyder, was the regular substitute guest host.