The Mike Wallace Interview featuring Rod Serling (1959)

Mike Wallace interviews Rod Serling before the Twilight Zone. I wanted to include this because I fully understand Serling's feelings about censorship and advertisers.

The Big Surprise game show with host Mike Wallace

I'll bet some of you thought I was lying about Mike Wallace hosting a game show in the 50s. Here is one of them.

MIKE WALLACE ON SKY KING

As many of you know, 60 Minutes host Mike Wallace past away over the weekend. Many don't realize that Wallace was not always the journalist asking hard questions, but was also an announcer and, in the 1950s, an game show host. I had always heard that Mike Wallace was an announcer on the Sky King radio show. Here is a great recording of the Sky King radio show with Wallace at the very beginning reminding kids to be safe.

Also, here is a great article from a Old Radio Shows blog about Mike Wallace's radio career.



MIKE WALLACE 1918 - 2012