Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'The Johnny Cash Show' from 1970-1982:
- Johnny Cash (1969-1976)
- Jim Varney (1969-1971)
- Steve Martin (1969-1971)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'The Johnny Cash Show':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
Season 1, episode 1
With Arlo Guthrie, Bobbie Gentry, Jose Feliciano.
The country-western singer who had a summer series last year debuts a new series of shows taped in Nashville. Guthrie solos on "Highway in the Wind" and joins Cash in "Talking Blues". Cash sings "Ribbon of Steel", "Casey Jones", "Wreck of the Old 97" and "Wabash Cannonball".
Season 1, episode 2
With Glen Campbell, Nancy Ames, Marty Robbins.
Glen solos "Honey Come Back" and "Sweet Country Girl"; Johnny and Glen dig into "Papa Played the Dobro", "Orange Blossom Special" and "Don't It Make You Wanna Go Home". Robbins sings "My Woman, My Woman, My Wife" and accompanies himself on the piano.
Season 1, episode 3
With Rod McKuen, The Everly Brothers, Dusty Springfield, Kirk Douglas.
Johnny sings "The Talking Leaves", "Trail of Tears", "South Wind", "I Still Miss Someone" and "Folsom Prison Blues". Dusty Springfield sings "Understand Your Man" and "Sugar Time". Johnny and Kirk Douglas duet on "I Walk the Line". Johnny and Rod McKuen duet on "Doesn't Anybody Know My Name?" Johnny and the Statler Brothers perform "This Old House". Johnny and the Carter Family perform "Johnny Yuma".
Season 1, episode 4
With Ray Charles, Neil Diamond, Tammy Wynette.
Johnny sings "I Got Stripes", "He Turned the Water into Wine", "Flesh and Blood" and "Rock Island Line". Ray Charles sings "I Can't Stop Loving You" and "Them That Got". Neil Diamond sings "Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show". Tammy Wynette sings "I'll See Him Through".
Season 1, episode 5
With Vikki Carr, Jimmie Rodgers, Jerry Lee Lewis.
Rodgers sings "What Will You Do When They're Gone?". Miss Carr sings "Singing My Song" and "Sunday Morning Coming Down". Jerry Lee Lewis revives his "Great Balls of Fire".
Season 1, episode 6
With Bob Hope, Cass Elliot, Kenny Rogers and the First Edition.
Johnny sings "Hey, Porter", "Jesus Was A Carpenter" and "Big River". Mama Cass sings "New World Coming" and duets with Cash for "Country Pie". Kenny Rogers and the First Edition perform "Something's Burning". Bob Hope does a monologue on the Nashville sound.
Season 1, episode 7
With Roger Miller, Pete Seeger, Brenda Lee.
Johnny sings "A Boy Named Sue", "The Devil To Pay", "Church In The Wildwood" and "Old Country Church". Johnny and the Carter Family along with the Statler Brothers sing "Preachin', Prayin', Singin'". Brenda Lee sings "Ballad Of A Teenaged Queen". Johnny duets with Roger Miller on "Home". The Carter Family, Statler Brothers and Carl Perkins perform "Greystone Chapel". Johnny, the Carter Family, Statler Brothers and Carl Perkins perform "Were You There".
Season 1, episode 8
With Hank Williams, Linda Ronstadt, O.C. Smith, Larry Reynolds.
Smith sings "Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp" and "Moody", and then joins Cash to reminisce about their younger days with "Yesterday" and "I Still Miss Someone". Miss Ronstadt sings "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?" and joins Cash in a duet of "Walk a Mile in My Shoes".
Season 1, episode 9
With George Gobel, Jeannie C. Riley, Merle Haggard, Tommy Cash.
Gobel talks about his days as a radio announcer. Haggard sings "The Fightin' Side of Me" and is joined by Cash on "Women Make a Fool of Me". Miss Riley sings "Country Girl".
Season 1, episode 10
With Jackie DeShannon, Waylon Jennings, Michael Parks.
Waylon Jennings sings "I Guess Things Happen That Way" and "Bad News". Johnny Cash duets with Jackie DeShannon on "No Light Will Shine On Me". Johnny and Waylon duet on "Waylon's Back In Town". Johnny duets with Michael Parks on "Oklahoma Hills". Johnny sings "Land Of Israel", "He Turned The Water Into Wine", "God Is Not Dead" and "Rock Island Line". Johnny and June Carter Cash duet on "Love's Been Good To Me".
Season 1, episode 11
With Roy Orbison, Shel Siverstein, Gordon Terry, Kenny Rogers and the First Edition.
Johnny sings "Rock Island Line", "Long Black Veil", "I Got Stripes", "Walk With Your Neighbor" and "Six Days on the Road". Kenny Rogers and the First Edition perform "When I'm On My Journey", "Reuben James" and "Ruby". Roy Orbison sings "Pretty Woman", "So Young", "Cryin'" and "Only the Lonely".
Season 1, episode 12
With Patti Page, Sonny James, Tony Joe White.
Johnny sings "Sunday Morning Coming Down", "Six Days On the Road", "There Ain't No Easy Run", "Sailor On a Concerte Sea" and "Country Boy". Johnny does a medley with Patti Page consisting of "Elusive Dreams", "Cross Over The Bridge", "Detour" and "Gentle On My Mind". Johnny with the Carter Family sings "Blistered" and "Wanted Man". Johnny duets with Tony White on "Polk Salad Annie". All join in for "Smile On Your Brother" and "Ten Commandments".
Season 1, episode 13
With Bobby Goldsboro, George Jones, Judy Collins.
Johnny sings "Frankie's Man Johnny", "Po' Folks", "Wrinkled, Crinkled, Wadded Dollar Bill" and "What Is Truth". George Jones sings "White Trash" and "Pickin' Time". Bobby Goldsboro sings "Blue Moon Of Kentucky". Johnny duets with Judy Collins on "Turn, Turn, Turn". Johnny and June Carter Cash perform "If I Were a Carpenter" and "Jackson".
Season 1, episode 14
With Burl Ives, Glenn Anderson, Tompall and the Glazer Brothers.
Johnny duets with June Carter Cash on "South Wind". Johnny duets with Lynn Anderson on "I've Been Everywhere". Johnny sings "Goin' To Memphis", "Doin' My Time" and "Another Man Done Gone". Johnny does a medley with Burl Ives; songs include "Mary Don't You Weep", "Eating Goober Peas", "Lorena" and "Give My Love To Rose". Johnny duets with June on "Darlin' Companion". All join in for "Children Go How I Send Thee".
Season 1, episode 15
With Rick Nelson, Chet Atkins, Loretta Lynn, Doug Kershaw.
Johnny sings "Delia", "Black Wind", "California Cotton Fields" and "In the Jailhouse". Chet Atkins does a medley of "Back Home in Indiana", "Country Gentleman", "Mister Sandman", "Wildwood Flower" and "Freight Train". Ricky Nelson performs "Come on In" and "Easy to Be Free". Loretta Lynn sings "I Know How". Johnny duets with Kris on "The Pilgrim". Johnny duets with June Carter Cash on "It Ain't Me Babe". Doug Kershaw duets with Johnny on "Louisiana Man". Johnny sings "No One Will Ever Know" and "I'm Moving On".
Season 1, episode 16
With Merle Haggard, Charley Pride, Brenda Lee.
Johnny sings "Life Is Like a Mountain Railway", "One More Ride", "As Long as the Grass Shall Grow", "Ira Hayes" and "Wreck of the Number Nine". Merle Haggard sings "New York City Blues" and "Nobody Knows". Brenda Lee sings "Higher and Higher" and "I Think I Love You". Charley Pride sings "Is Anybody Goin' to San Antone?". Johnny and Merle Haggard duet on "In the Jailhouse Now". Johnny and Brenda Lee duet on "Bad News". Charley Pride sings "Texarkana Baby". Johnny and Charley Pride do a medley of songs including "Long, Long Texas Road", "Abilene" and "Back To Houston".
Season 1, episode 17
With Marty Robbins, Roy Acuff, Tex Ritter, The Everly Brothers.
Johnny and his mother Carrie Cash duet on "Uncloudy Day". Johnny sings "Walk the Line", "Cry, Cry, Cry" and "Keep on the Sunny Side". Tex Ritter sings "Wayward Wind" and "Boll Weevil". Roy Acuff sings "Wabash Cannonball" and "Great Speckled Bird". Marty Robbins sings "The City" and "Don't Worry". Danny Davis & the Nashville Brass perform "Kaw-Liga", "Sweet Dreams" and "Columbus Stockade Blues". Johnny and Marty Robbins do a medley of "Cool Water", "I Ride an Old Paint" and "Streets of Laredo".
September 23, 1970:
Season 2, episode 1
With Liza Minnelli, Ray Charles, Arlo Guthrie.
The second year begins, featuring regulars June Carter, Carl Perkins, Tennessee Three, The Statler Brothers, Mother Maybelle and The Carter Sisters. New feature is the "Country Gold" spot, in which tribute will be paid to country-western singers who've sold millions of records although relatively unknown.
Season 2, episode 2
With Dennis Hopper, Neil Diamond, Jackie DeShannon.
Hopper recites words to a song, "The Pilgrim"; Diamond sings "Cracklin' Rosie"; Miss DeShannon sings "The Weight" and "This Old House".
Season 2, episode 3
With Joni Mitchell, George Lindsey, Joe South.
Johnny with George Lindsey and June Carter perform "Don't It Make You Want To Go Home". Johnny and Joni Mitchell duet on "Girl From The North County" Johnny sings "Cow Poke", "Someday Soon" and "Southwind". Johnny with the Statler Brothers perform "Everybody Love A Nut". Johnny with the Carter Family perform "Big River" and "Poison Red Berries". Johnny with the Carter Family and the Statler Brothers perform "Wings Of A Dove". Johnny and June duet "The Loving Gift".
Season 2, episode 4
With Jose Feliciano, Mac Davis, Linda Ronstadt, Bobby Bare.
Feliciano sings "Life Is That Way". Johnny Cash sings "Five Feet High and Rising" and "These Hands". Bobby Bare sings "Detroit City". Linda Ronstadt sings "Long, Long Time". Mac Davis sings "A Poem For My Little Lady" and "I Believe In Music". Johnny and Linda duet on "Big Yellow Taxi", "The Old Swimming Hole" and "Water Isn't Water Anymore". Carl Perkins sings "I'll Fly Away". Johnny and June Carter Cash duet on "Keep on the Sunnyside", "Salute To The Delta Queen", "Country Boy" and "Pickin' Time".
Season 2, episode 5
With Peggy Lee, The Guess Who, Marty Robbins, Tommy Cash.
Johnny sings, "Mama Tried", "Just A Closer Walk With Thee" and "What Is Truth". Peggy Lee sings "For the Good Times". The Guess Who perform "Hand Me Down World".
Season 2, episode 6
With Louis Armstrong, Tennessee Ernie Ford, The First Edition.
Johnny sings "On This Side of the Law", a song from the score he wrote for "I Walk the Line" (an unreleased movie starring Gregory Peck). Johnny and Louis Armstrong duet on "Blue Yodel No. 9". Louis performs "Almost Persuaded", "Crystal Chandelier" and "Ramblin' Rose". Johnny and Tennessee Ernie Ford duet on "I'll Have A New Life". Kenny Rogers & the First Edition perform "Heed the Call".
Season 2, episode 7
With Burl Ives, Bobby Sherman, Melanie.
Cash and Ives team on "Water Isn't Water Anymore"; Sherman sings "Julie, Do Ya Love Me?"; Melanie offers "Peace Will Come".
Season 2, episode 8
With George Gobel, Ian and Sylvia, The Great Speckled Bird.
Gobel sings "Old Skyball Paint". Johnny sings "Blowin' in the Wind", "Allegheny", "I Got Stripes", "Remember Me" and "Big Midnight Special". Stevie Wonder sings "Heaven Help Us". Ian and Sylvia Tyson perform "Four Strong Winds", "Crazy Arms" and "Long, Long Time to Get Old". Bill Monroe performs "Blue Moon of Kentucky". Anita Carter does "Tulsa County".
Season 2, episode 9
With Lorne Greene, Cass Elliot, Kris Kristofferson.
Greene sings "Way Out West in the Old Days" and recites "The Times They Are A'Changin'".
Season 2, episode 10
With Glen Campbell, Tony Joe White, The Stoneman Family.
Campbell sings "Wichita Lineman". Johnny sings "Workin' Man Blues" and "Folsom Prison Blues". Johnny and Glen duet on "Arkansas". The Stoneman Family perform "Doin' My Time". Tony Joe White sings "Conjure Woman".
Season 2, episode 11
With Merle Haggard, Anne Murray.
Johnny with Homer & Jethro perform "Guess Things". Homer & Jethro perform "Portrait Of A Woman". Johnny, the Carter Family and the Statler Brothers perform "Daddy Sang Bass". Johnny, Merle Haggard and Bonnie Owens sing "Sing Me Back Home". Johnny and Merle Haggard duet on "Mama Tried". Johnny, June Carter Cash, Merle Haggard and Bonnie Owens perform "Swinging Doors". Johnny with the Carter Family, Statler Brothers, Merle Haggard and Bonnie Owens perform "Sing Me Back Home". Johnny sings "Fireball Mail", "Wreck Of The Old 97" and "Casey Jones".
Season 2, episode 12
With Al Hirt, Jackie DeShannon, Homer and Jethro, Hank Snow.
Jackie DeShannon sings "A Thing Called Love". Hank Snow sings "Remember Me". Johnny Cash with the Carter Family, Statler Brothers and Carl Perkins perform "Old Time Religion". Johnny and Al Hirt duet on "I Walk The Line". Johnny sings "Johnny Reb" and "Ballad Of The Harp Weaver".
Season 2, episode 13
With George Gobel, Minnie Pearl, The Everly Brothers and father Ike, Roy Orbison, Tommy Cash.
Johnny with the Carter Family and the Statler Brothers perform "Twelve Days Of Christmas". Johnny sings "Little Drummer Boy" and "I Never Picked Cotton". Johnny and June duet on "Turn Around". The entire cast with Carrie Cash on piano join in for "Silent Night".
Season 2, episode 14
With Connie Smith, Jack Elliott, Homer and Jethro, Derek and the Dominos, Eric Anderson.
Eric Andersen sings "Born Again," with the vocal backing of the Carter Family. Andersen wrote the song specifically for his appearance on this show.
Season 2, episode 15
With Jane Morgan, Bill Anderson, Jan Howard, Gordon Lightfoot, Homer and Jethro.
Gordon Lightfoot sings "When Uncle Bill Quit Dope". Bill Anderson sings "Amazing Grace". Johnny with the Carter Family and the Statler Brothers perform "In The Sweet Bye And Bye", We Washed In the Blood Of the Lamb" and "Bringing In the Sheaves". Johnny and Jane Morgan duet on "A Boy Named Sue" and "A Girl Named Cash". All join in for "One More Ride".
Season 2, episode 16
With Roy Acuff, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Tex Ritter, Marty Robbins, Loretta Lynn, Buck Owens, Carl Perkins.
Cash and his guests, along with appearances in film clips from the late Jimmie Rodgers and Patsy Cline, trace the progress of country music from remote areas of the southeastern mountains of the U.S. to its current international popularity.
Season 2, episode 17
With Chet Atkins, Merle Haggard, Minnie Pearl, Tammy Wynette, Faron Young, Takahiro Saito (Japan's "Johnny Cash").
Cash and his guests trace the progress of country music from remote areas of the southeastern mountains of the U.S. to its current international popularity.
Season 2, episode 18
With Kirk Douglas, Walter Brennan, Andy Devine, Chill Wills, Edgar Buchanan.
A show saluting the West, taped in Tucson.
Season 2, episode 19
With Jim Nabors, Minnie Pearl, George Lindsay, Homer and Jethro, Ferlin Husky, The Dillards, The Hee Haw gang.
"Captain Campbell's Medicine Show" barrels into town with songs, dances and remedies for every ailment; the students of "Dear old Jaspar High" raise a ruckus at a year-end bash; the farmer's daughter-traveling salesman joke gets another go-round.
Season 2, episode 20
With James Taylor, Neil Young, Tony Joe White, Linda Ronstadt, Albert Brooks, The Dillards.
Taylor sings "Sweet Baby James", "Fire and Rain" and "Country Road". Johnny Cash sings "A Boy Named Sue", "One Too Many Mornings" and "A Man in Black". Linda Ronstadt sings "A Very Lovely Woman". Neil Young sings "Needle and the Damage Done" and "A Journey Through the Past". The Dillards perform "I'll Fly Away" and "St. Peter Is Going to Put Me Up". Tony Joe White sings "Daddy, Travelin' Bone". June Carter Cash sings "He's a Good Man".
Season 2, episode 21
With Billy Graham, Mahalia Jackson, Stuart Hamblin, The Blackwood Brothers, The Edwin Hawkins Singers.
Johnny sings "The Preacher Said". Mahalia Jackson sings "Amazing Grace". The Edwin Hawkins Singers perform "My Father's House". The Staple Singers perform "More Than a Hammer and a Nail". The Blackwood Brothers perform "Old Country Church". The Oak Ridge Boys perform "I Know". Stuart Hamblin sings "This Old House". Johnny and June duet with "The Nazarene", "Water into Wine" and "The Wailing Wall". All join in for "Old Time Religion" and "When the Saints Go Marching In".
Season 2, episode 22
Cash salutes the "greatest show on Earth" with a number of circus acts, then joins with his regulars for a rousing musical finale. Performers include Emmet Kelly Jr., Senor Antonio, Bobby & His Chimps, the Rodriguez Brothers and Bob Williams and his dog, Louie.
Season 2, episode 23
With Ray Price, Conway Twitty, B.J. Thomas, Hank Williams Jr.
The program salutes the late country songwriter, Hank Williams.
Season 2, episode 24
With Sammi Smith, Mary Dean, The Dillards, Chris Gentry, Mickey Newbury, Randy and Gary Scruggs, Area Code 615.
Johnny sings "Folsom Prison Blues", "If Not For Love (I Could Be One of These)" and "Singing in Vietnam Talking Blues". Johnny with the Carter Family and the Statler Brothers perform "June Makes the Flowers Grow" and "Belshazah".
Season 2, episode 25
With The Carpenters, Charley Pride, Tommy Cash, Bob Luman, Red Lane.
Season 2, episode 26
With Homer and Jethro, June Carter, The Statler Brothers, Carl Perkins, Tennessee Three, Norman Blake, Merle Travis.
Johnny sings "I Walk The Line" and "Sunday Morning Coming Down". Johnny and June duet on "Darlin Companion", "If I Were a Carpenter" and "Jackson". Merle Travis performs "Sing Sing Sing". (Last show of the series.)