CBS had not asked the Estate for permission.

In 1961, Sullivan was asked by CBS to fill in for an ailing Red Skelton on The Red Skelton Show.

The Doors were banned on September 17, 1967 after they were asked to remove the lyric " Girl, we couldn't get much higher " from their song " Light My Fire " ( CBS censors believed that it was too overt a reference to drug use ).

According to Moore, she asked CBS to pull the show, as she was unhappy with the direction of the program and the producers.

In the Cowboys ' locker room after the game, flustered CBS reporter Tom Brookshier asked Duane Thomas a long-winded question, the gist of which was " You're fast, aren't you?

In an August 1967 article, Dorothy Manners reported that CBS had asked McGoohan to produce 36 segments, but that he would only agree to produce 17.

** Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show, when Morrison sings the word " higher " from their # 1 hit Light My Fire, despite having been asked not to.

While Rather was reporting from the convention floor, CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite turned his attention towards the area where Rather was reporting from and Rather was grabbed by security guards after he walked towards a delegate who was being hauled out and asked him " what is your name sir?

After being chosen to be the first teacher in space, McAuliffe was a guest on several television programs, including Good Morning America ; the CBS Morning News ; the Today Show ; and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, where, when asked about the mission, she stated, " If you ’ re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don ’ t ask what seat.

In 1966, Bill Weiss asked Bakshi to help him carry presentation boards to Manhattan for a meeting with CBS.

CBS asked Serling to have more action and less character interaction.

When asked to comment, the CBS star said that he wouldn't consider presenting Presley before a family audience.

In 1950, CBS asked Ball to take My Favorite Husband to television with co-star Richard Denning.

In the late 1940s, CBS chairman William S. Paley, a fan of The Adventures of Philip Marlowe radio serial, asked his programming chief, Hubell Robinson, to develop a hardboiled Western series, a show about a " Philip Marlowe of the Old West.

" According to a James Arness interview, CBS felt John Wayne was ideal for the role, but he, as most big screen stars, saw the fledging medium as a step down ; The belief Wayne was asked to pin on the badge is disputed by Warren.

During her absence from Ryan's Hope, Michael Brockman, former President of CBS Daytime, asked Claire Labine to develop a new serial in 1986.

Unlike with This Morning, CBS asked its affiliates to carry the whole two-hour show in its entirety.

In an " interview " on CBS Early Show on January 21, 2002, Daria was asked by Jane Clayson if she kept in touch with Beavis and Butt-head ; she responded " I'd like to " but first they'd " have to figure out that when the telephone makes that funny sound, you're supposed to pick it up and say hello ".

However, in the CBS version, only one trader is asked to participate in the Big Deal.

In 2006 both schools and the Southeastern Conference asked CBS and the city to abandon the name in promotions due to concerns about alcohol abuse by students and other attendees.

In 1948, shortly after The Baby Snooks Show went off the air, CBS asked Oppenheimer to write a script for a new unsponsored radio sitcom, My Favorite Husband, starring Lucille Ball.

George Stevens asked Isaac Stern to become involved, and then " pitched " the idea to the television network CBS, who " bought it.

In 2004, Thornburgh was asked by CBS to undertake an independent investigation of the so-called Rathergate controversy with former Associated Press CEO, Lou Boccardi.

Summers was a young page at CBS when The Price Is Right premiered with The Joker's Wild and Gambit in 1972, and he often asked advice of Barker, Jack Barry and Wink Martindale — the shows ' respective hosts — about a hosting career.

CBS repeatedly asked Major League Baseball for a rebate, but MLB wasn't willing to do this.

According to Arnaz, the CBS network told him, " You cannot show a pregnant woman on television ".

Just before his death, Moore had secured a job for him in the CBS mailroom.

McGoohan had originally only wanted to produce seven episodes of The Prisoner, but Grade argued that more shows were necessary in order for him to successfully sell the series to CBS.

Peckinpah became Akkad's mentor in Hollywood and hired him as a consultant for a film about the Algerian revolution that never made it to the big screen, but he continued to encourage him until he found a job as a producer at CBS.

Stanton's colorful, but impeccable, wardrobe — slate-blue pinstripe suit, ecru shirt, robin's egg blue necktie with splashes of saffron — made him, in the mind of one sardonic CBS vice-president, " the greatest argument we have for color television.

These commentaries endeared him to President Nixon, who rewarded him with a rare, hour-long, one-on-one interview in 1971, at the height of the administration's animus against major newspapers, CBS, and NBC.

According to the CBS press release for Rawhide, Universal Studios ( then known as Universal-International ) was shooting in Fort Ord when an assistant noticed Eastwood and arranged for him to meet the series ' director.

Alfred Hitchcock noticed Altman's first two features and hired him as a director for his CBS anthology series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

* Andy Rooney, of the CBS programme 60 Minutes, who furiously ends his interview abruptly after Ali G accuses him of racism.

While Captain Kangaroo was still in planning stages, CBS executives had the idea of hiring Al Lewis, a kids ' show host in Cincinnati ( ABC was running Lewis's show at that time ), to host their show, but Lewis's managers refused to release him from his contract.

A November 1983 New York Times / CBS News poll found him second, supported by 41 % of those polled, to Mondale's 49 %.

The chemistry between Somers and Reilly prompted Goodson-Todman and CBS to hire them as regular panelists ; Somers, who occupied the top center seat, remained on the show until 1982, while Reilly ( top right ) continued appearing through the 1983 – 1984 and 1990 – 1991 revivals, with a brief break from 1974 – 1975 when Gary Burghoff, Nipsey Russell, and Rip Taylor substituted for him.

Although CBS investigated Larson, they determined that figuring out the patterns was not cheating and let him keep his winnings.

He adopted his stage name, Martin Sheen, from a combination of the CBS casting director, Robert Dale Martin, who gave him his first big break, and the televangelist archbishop, Fulton J. Sheen.

Concerning Bakshi's involvement with Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, the AFA claimed that CBS " intentionally hired a known pornographer to do a cartoon for children, and then allowed him to insert a scene in which the cartoon hero is shown sniffing cocaine.

When Letterman moved to CBS and began Late Show, several of Late Nights long-running comedy bits made the move with him.

He cut three obscure singles on CBS Records and sang with a variety of bands, including The Crawling King Snakes, which brought him into contact with drummer John Bonham.

Shaffer was to appear in the duo's 1980 film, but, as he revealed in October 2009 on CBS Sunday Morning, Belushi dropped him from the project.

CBS began to adapt the popular novel as a miniseries, but the historians Virginius Dabney ( a direct descendant of Jefferson's sister Martha ) and Dumas Malone successfully campaigned against it directly with the network's president William S. Paley, and persuaded him to kill the project.

This so impressed the network executives at CBS, that they offered him a job as a CBS News correspondent.