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Copyright © 1997, Tom Walsh (avs@netport.com) This guide may be reproduced in its entirety for noncommercial purposes only. For other uses, please contact the author.

The following is an episode guide for the talk show The Whoopi Goldberg Show

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Special thanks to Jim Parish for his critical comments about this guide that only made it better. His book on Whoopi is quite good. Thanks, Jim!

Internet Movie Database entry.

ABOUT THE SHOW

In 1992, when talk shows were all the rage, comedian Whoopi Goldberg threw her hat into the ring and started her own interview show. There was no audience, just Whoopi and the guest. While critically acclaimed, the show had low ratings and lasted just six months.

Please note that Whoopi had filmed Made in America that summer, which explains the tie-ins with so many guests.

All episodes were directed by Gene Crowe except the following, which probably were, but I cannot yet prove so: #1024 (Elizabeth Taylor), #1064 (Gloria Estefan), #1067 and #1068 (The Temptations), and #1097 (Lily Tomlin).

A number of shows were packaged under the subtitle Take Two; here, highlights from two different episodes were combined. They appeared on Saturday nights and lasted an hour.

The show is produced by One Ho Productions, Inc. I believe this is Whoopi's own production company.

Trivia: Whoopi's real name is Caryn Johnson. (Source: Poundstone, William, Biggest Secrets, 1994, p. 20.)

ABOUT THIS GUIDE

Episode titles come from the Library of Congress Information Services telnet site, LOCIS. Air dates are from the same location but should not be considered reliable since 1) the show was syndicated, and 2) LOCIS has proven time again to have wrong information.

Production numbers come from the same source and are probably more reliable, except in a few instances.

A number of guests are not known and a smaller number are known but it is not known on which shows they appeared. These are listed under UNSORTED GUESTS below.

As I obtain more complete information, I'll update this guide.

VERSION HISTORY

v1.0.0 - 7 April 1997 Initial version

EPISODES

Syn. - The Whoopi Goldberg Show was syndicated. The order presented below is production number, show title (guest, really), and air date. A one line biography of the star follows on the next line. Episodes are ordered by production number.

Production NumberGuestAir DateBiographical Information
This is confirmed as the first episode in the series, hence it is not in the production number sequence like the others.
1024Elizabeth Taylor7 September 1992 Much married actress and Academy Award winner (for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Butterfield 8) [Note: married in succession to Nicky Hilton, Mike Wilding, Mike Todd, Eddie Fisher, Richard Burton, Richard Burton, Sen. John Warner (R-Virginia), and Larry Fortensky; she divorced all except Todd, who died.]
1001Jerry Lewis12 October 1992 Comedian, actor, muscular dystrophy telethon host
1002Diane Feinstein20 August 1992 Former San Francisco mayor, then running (successfully) for US Senate
1003Patti Davis29 September 1992 Stepdaughter to former U.S. President Ronald Reagan and daughter to his wife Nancy
1004unknown20 August 1992
1005unknown22 August 1992
1006Burt Reynolds14 September 1992 Actor, then starring in Evening Shade and married to actress Loni Anderson
1007Bo Jackson14 September 1992 Then a two-athlete star (running back with the LA Raiders and an outfielder with the KC Royals)
1008Jerry Brown5 October 1992 Former California governor then running (unsuccessfully) for President of the U.S.
1009Jackson Browne5 October 1992 Politically active singer of hits such as Running on Empty and Lawyers in Love
1010Sean Young26 August 1992 Temperamental actress
1011Tom Metzger7 September 1992 Controversial white supremacy leader; founder of the White Aryan Resistance and former KKK member
1012Charles Dutton21 September 1992 Actor, then starring in Roc
1013Dennis Miller28 August 1992 Comedian and occasional actor; former Weekend Update host on Saturday Night Live with several talk show hosting jobs under his belt
1014Elton John7 September 1992 Singer of many Top Ten hits including Crocodile Rock and I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues; apparently one part of a two-part episode
1015Al Gore14 September 1992 Former Tennessee senator and then running (successfully) for the U.S. Vice-Presidency
1016Ted Danson7 September 1992 Actor, then starring on Cheers and, by then, Whoopi's boyfriend; now married to Ink co-star Mary Steenbergen. He co-starred with Whoopi in Made in America
1017Jimmy Buffet [video] 16 September 1992 Margaritaville singer [Note: contrary to popular belief, Margaritaville does NOT appear on every album he's released -- I've personally verified this. - TW]
1018Robin Williams7 September 1992 Comedian and actor on TV (Mork and Mindy) and film (Good Morning, Vietnam among others); Whoopi's co-host (along with Billy Crystal) of the Comic Relief charity benefits
1019Billy Crystal14 September 1992 Comedian and actor on TV (Soap, Saturday Night Live) and film (City Slickers among others); Whoopi's co-host (along with Robin Williams) of the Comic Relief charity benefits
1020Ice-T14 September 1992 Rap singer and now an actor
1021Quincy Jones18 September 1992 Famed music producer
1022unknown4 September 1992
1023Evander Holyfield4 September 1992 Then heavyweight champion of the world
1025Annie Lennox21 September 1992 Former Eurythmics lead singer and, by then, a successful solo artist as well
1026George Carlin16 September 1992 Standup comedian of The Seven Dirty Words fame
1027unknown9 September 1992
1028Tim Robbins21 September 1992 Actor (Bull Durham and others); husband of Susan Sarandon, whom he met on the set of Bull Durham
1029Vanessa Williams20 August 1992 Defrocked Miss America and somewhat successful pop star
1030Michael Douglas16 September 1992 Academy Award winning actor (for Wall Street); son of actor Kirk Douglas; producer of Whoopi's Made in America movie
1031Queen Latifah21 September 1992 Singer and, now, actress (Living Single)
1032James Earl Jones11 September 1992 Actor and well-compensated voiceover specialist (This is CNN)
1033Tom Selleck21 September 1992 "Magnum P.I. actor and land developer (with his brother)
1034Will Smith16 September 1992 Rap star (the Fresh Prince of DJ Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince) and actor (Fresh Prince of Bel Air on TV; Independence Day on the big screen)
1035Don Rickles16 September 1992 Insult comedian and occasional actor (CPO Sharkey)
1036unknown16 September 1992
1037Don Henley19 October 1992 Eagles drummer and vocalist and solo artist
1038Wayne Newton17 September 1992 Singer and Las Vegas icon
1039Ike Turner5 October 1992 Singer and ex-husband of singer Tina Turner
1040unknown17 September 1992
1041Debbie Allen12 October 1992 Choreographer, actress (Fame), and sister of actress Felicia Rashad
1042Lyle Lovett18 September 1992 Singer and then-husband of actress Julia Roberts
1043k.d. lang5 October 1992 Singer [Note: k.d. stands for Kathryn Dawn]
1044Steven Wright12 October 1992 Catatonic standup comedian
1045Kirstie Alley12 October 1992 Actress then starring as Rebecca Howe on Cheers and movies including Look Who's Talking
1046Rev. Al Sharpton19 October 1992 Controversial civil rights activist
1047Clint Black12 October 1992 Country singer and husband of actress Lisa Hartman Black
1048unknown24 September 1992
1049Christina Applegate25 September 1992 "Married with Children actress
1050Neil Patrick Harris25 September 1992 "Doogie Howser, M.D. star; he'd co-starred with Whoopi in Clara's Heart (1988). This from Jim Parish: "[T]hey had some sort of in-joke on the show which ref[ered to] her having said to him while making Clara's Heart that when he came of age, she owed him something (I could give a fanciful sexual guess, but won't say)."
1051Andrew Dice Clay19 October 1992 Foul-mouthed standup comedian and actor
1052unknown29 September 1992
1053Jamie Lee Curtis19 October 1992 Former scream queen who proved to be a good actress; wife of actor and comedian Christopher Guest
1054Keenan Ivory Wayans19 October 1992 Actor and comedian; creator of TV show In Living Color; he and his sibling grew up in the same Chelsea NYC housing project as Whoopi
1055unknown30 September 1992
1056Billy Connolly30 September 1992 Scottish-born actor; star of Head of the Class in its last season
1057Drew Barrymore5 October 1992 Latest actress in the Barrymore dynasty; appeared in E.T. and later a bunch of B movies and a layout in Playboy magazine; she later co-starred with Whoopi in 1994's Boys on the Side
1058Charlton Heston19 October 1992 Actor of Ben Hur and The Ten Commandments fame
1059Traci Lords1 October 1992 Notorious underage porn star, now a legitimate, if not competent, actress [Note: real name is Nora Louise Kuzuma]
1060John Travolta1 October 1992 Actor (TV's Welcome Back, Kotter and movies including Saturday Night Fever, Look Who's Talking and Phenomena) and airplane enthusiast; he and Whoopi were supposed to have done a movie together in 1986, but it never happened
1061Tony Bennett8 October 1992 Silver aged singer of I Left My Heart in San Francisco and later a hit with the Generation X crowd
1062Sammy Hagar8 October 1992 The Red Rocker who gave up his solo career to helm Van Halen, who would later dump him
1063Jann Wenner8 October 1992 Publisher of Rolling Stone magazine
1064Gloria Estefan9 October 1992 Miami Sound Machine lead singer and later a solo star who was recovering from a bad injury sustained in a bus accident
1065Grace Slick9 October 1992 Former lead singer and songwriter for Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship; mother of China Kantner (with fellow-Airplane member Paul Kantner)
1066Dwight Yoakam9 October 1992 Country singer
1067The Temptations (part 1)14 October 1992 Classic 1960s Motown group who've suffered a lot of tragedy
1068The Temptations (part 2)14 October 1992 Classic 1960s Motown group who've suffered a lot of tragedy
1069Barry Manilow15 October 1992 Pop singer with many hits, including Copacabana
1070Carl Lewis15 October 1992 US Olympic track star
1071Ozzy Osbourne15 October 1992 Heavy metal icon with Black Sabbath and solo career; legendary for biting the heads off of animals, most of which never happened
1072Ed O'Neill16 October 1992 Star of TV's Married with Children and movies such as Dutch
1073Carlos Santana16 October 1992 Famed guitarist
1074unknown16 October 1992
1075unknownunknown
1076Stephen King22 October 1992 Well-paid horror novelist
1077Danny Aiello21 October 1992 Actor in films such as Do the Right Thing
1078Carol Burnett22 October 1992 Comedian, star of the Carol Burnett Show
1079Betty Ford22 October 1992 Wife of former U.S. President Gerald Ford and founder of the Betty Ford Clinic, a substance abuse center
1080unknown23 October 1992
1081Paul Rodriguez4 November 1992 Standup comedian
1082Alan King23 October 1992 Comedian
1083Glenn Close28 October 1992 "Fatal Attraction and The Big Chill actress
1084unknown28 October 1992
1085Luke Perry28 October 1992 Actor, Beverly Hills, 90210
1086Alexander Haig29 October 1992 Retired general, former Secretary of State under President Reagan
1087Robert Palmer29 October 1992 Singer and songwriter of solo material and with the group Power Station
1088Gary Shandling29 October 1992 Standup comedian, former Tonight Show fill-in host, and star of then-new The Larry Sanders Show
1089unknown30 October 1992
1090unknown30 October 1992
1091Delta Burke30 October 1992 Actress, former star of Designing Women
1092unknown4 November 1992
1093Bill Medley4 November 1992 One half of sixties pop duo The Righteous Brothers
1094Robbie Robertson4 November 1992 Musician, former member of The Band, who were then reforming
1095unknown5 November 1992
1096Goldie Hawn5 November 1992 Comedienne and actress on TV's Laugh-In and movies such as Foul Play and Bird on a Wire
1097Lily Tomlin5 November 1992 Comedienne and actress on TV's Laugh-In and movies such as 9 to 5
1098Alec Baldwin18 September 1992 Actor, star of The Hunt for Red Oct; then new-husband of actress Kim Bassinger; he later appeared with Whoopi in Ghosts of Mississippi
1099unknown6 November 1992
1100Irv Ruben6 November 1992 Controversial civil rights activist with the Jewish Defense League
1101unknown6 November 1992
1102unknown10 November 1992
1103unknown10 November 1992
1104Rob Reiner (part 1)11 November 1992 Actor in All in the Family and director of films including This Is Spinal Tap and An American President; ex-husband of actress and director Penny Marshall; he directed Whoopi in Ghosts of Mississippi in 1996. This from Jim Parish: "[I]n 1986 WG honestly thought if she campaigned she could get to play the Caucasian blonde bride (title figure) of Rob Reiner's movie The Princess Bride - she called him pretending to be an agent and suggested the role - he laughed in her face.
1105Joan Rivers11 November 1992 Standup comedienne and actress; fill-in host on The Tonight Show and had her own failed late night talk show
1106Jack Lemmon11 November 1992 Actor; star with Walter Matthau in many films including The Odd Couple and the Grumpy Old Men series and without Matthau in such films as The Apartment
1107LL Cool J12 November 1992 Rap star and now actor [Note: LL Cool J stands for Ladies Love Cool James; real name is James Todd Smith.]
1108Eartha Kitt (part 1)12 November 1992 Singer and actress
1109unknown12 September 1992
1110Robin Williams (part 2)25 October 1992 Comedian and actor on TV (Mork and Mindy) and film (Good Morning, Vietnam among others); Whoopi's co-host (along with Billy Crystal) of the Comic Relief charity benefits
1113Eartha Kitt (part 2)12 November 1992 Singer and actress
1115Rob Reiner (part 2)11 November 1992 Actor in All in the Family and director of films including This Is Spinal Tap and An American President
1116unknown11 November 1992
1901Take two -- Elizabeth Taylor & Robin Williams7 September 1992
1902Take two -- Bo Jackson & Burt Reynolds14 September 1992
1903Take two -- Ted Danson & Jimmy Buffett18 September 1992
1904Take two -- George Carlin -- Elton John21 September 1992
1905Michael Douglas27 September 1992
1906Take two -- Will Smith -- Andrew Dice Clay5 October 1992
1907unknown12 October 1992
1908unknown19 October 1992
1909unknown23 October 1992
19xxTake two -- Charles Schulz -- Robbie Robertson9 December 1992
1910unknown30 October 1992
1911unknown16 November 1992
1912unknown9 November 1992
1913unknown11 November 1992
1914unknown23 November 1992
1915Take two -- Alec Baldwin & Carlos Santana1 December 1992
1916unknown1 December 1992
1917unknown1 December 1992
1918unknown9 December 1992
1919Charles Schultz9 December 1992

UNSORTED GUESTS

OTHER KNOWN GUESTS
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