Does Decades air a mix of his 70s variety show and 80s talk show in their 9PM primetime hour? I had thought it was the talk show but Anissa Jones from Family Affair is on tonight. Based on when she died, it would have to be the variety show. Yet that only lasted four weeks in first-run episodes according to my primetime directory. With Blue Bloods 2 hour season finale tonight at 9:00, I am definitely watching that live. It is oo bad tonight's Anissa Jones and Sammy Davis Jr. episode isn't switched with next Friday's Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin episode I am not interested in. And now I just saw he had a talk show in the early 70s as well. That could be what they air, but all Decades lists on their schedule is who the guests are. When you have three similar shows all with the same title.. :crazy:

Decades airs most of the various Dick Cavett talk shows, these for certain:

Late '60s to mid-70s ABC
PBS
USA (noteworthy: Mary Tyler Moore interview)
CNBC -- pretty certain

I don't know if they've aired some others like his Turner network show or CBS '75. If there's any interview in particular that interests you, let me know and I'll see if I recall it having been on.

No variety shows, all interviews.

Here are some of the Cavett interview subjects that have appeared on Decades:

Anissa Jones
Sammy Davis Jr.
Agnes Nixon
Groucho Marx
Jerry Lewis (solo)
Phil Silvers
Carroll O'Connor
Sally Struthers
Bob Hope
Robin Williams
Jack Benny
Lucille Ball
Dick Van Dyke
Carol Burnett
Robert Young
Natalie Wood
Marlon Brando
John Lennon
George Harrison
Janis Joplin
Fred Astaire
Charlton Heston
Ronald Reagan
Ralph Nader
Mickey Mantle
Jackie Robinson
Joe Frazier/Muhammad Ali
Truman Capote
Norman Mailer/Gore Vidal
Sydney Pollack & other directors

The Wednesday night episode consisted of a Kirk Douglas interview from June 29, 1971. Fun and fairly insightful. Originally aired on ABC late night.

Some others that have appeared:

Alfred Hitchcock
Danny Kaye
Katherine Hepburn