MPI Home Video will release a box set of 44 episodes of The Merv Griffin Show on Nov. 4.
The 12-DVD set is comprised of 44 episodes and features more than 200 guests, including Orson Welles. It will carry a $129.98 suggested list price.
Welles was a frequent guest on the long-running talk show. Which episode will be included was not specified, though the appearance he taped just hours before his death in October 1985 would seem a likely choice.
The episodes are presented with new transfers from the original master tapes. The set will include seven hours of bonus material.
According to MPI, guests include Hollywood stars including Welles, George Clooney, Bette Davis, Laurence Olivier, Jane Fonda, Tom Hanks, John Wayne, Warren Beatty, Betty White, Gene Wilder, Farrah Fawcett, Brooke Shields, Dennis Hopper, and Alec Baldwin. History makers: Martin Luther King Jr., Ronald Reagan, Robert Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Gore Vidal, and John Glenn. Comedians: Jerry Seinfeld, Steve Martin, Carol Burnett, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Phyllis Diller, Woody Allen, Redd Foxx, Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, Andy Kaufman, Mel Brooks, Bill Maher, Bill Cosby, Joan Rivers, and Don Rickles. Music: Whitney Houston, Everly Brothers, Phil Spector, John Denver, Carole King, Aretha Franklin, and Merle Haggard. Art & Culture: Andy Warhol, Timothy Leary, Salvador Dali, Muhammad Ali, Alex Haley, Maya Angelou, and Willie Mays.
The Merv Griffin Show aired from 1962 to 1986.
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