| Ep# |
Original air date |
Guest(s) |
Musical/entertainment guest(s) |
| 3767 |
January 4, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Lance Burton, Rita Moreno, Baxter Black |
|
|
| 3768 |
January 6, 1988 |
Franklin Ajaye, Jester Hairston |
Belinda Carlisle |
| Motivations to Lose Weight After the Holidays |
| 3769 |
January 7, 1988 |
Bette Davis, Martin Short |
|
| Special Calendars |
| 3770 |
January 8, 1988 |
Robert Goulet, Mark & Delia Owen |
|
| Questions from The Audience |
| 3771 |
January 11, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Dan Aykroyd, Nigel Havers |
Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine |
| Headlines |
| 3772 |
January 13, 1988 |
Whoopi Goldberg, Jerry Seinfeld |
The Chieftains |
| How Americans Slogans Translate in Foreign Countries |
| 3773 |
January 14, 1988 |
Milton Berle, Carol Siskind, Don Yesso |
|
| Public Service Announcements |
| 3774 |
January 15, 1988 |
Lisa Jane Persky |
Buster Poindexter ("Hot, Hot, Hot", "Somebody Buy Me a Drink") |
| A videotape of Johnny trying his jokes out on shoe-shine man Floyd Jackson, security guard Eddie Murphy, and commissary worker Wyn Hoonahan while they sit at Floyd's stand. |
| 3775 |
January 18, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Jimmy Walker, Deborah Raffin, Roy Blount, Jr. |
|
| Notes from a Church Bulletin |
| 3776 |
January 20, 1988 |
Howard Cosell |
Barry Manilow |
|
| 3777 |
January 21, 1988 |
Jack Lemmon |
K.T. Oslin |
| Mighty Carson Art Players- "Malibu Restaurant" (rerun from Betty White episode) |
| 3778 |
January 22, 1988 |
Jim Fowler, Teresa Ganzel, Bob Nelson |
|
| Mighty Carson Art Players- "Tea Time Movie" |
| Ep# |
Original air date |
Guest(s) |
Musical/entertainment guest(s) |
| 3779 |
February 2, 1988 |
Paul Reiser |
James Taylor |
| Emergency backup statistics not used but ready for use at football games by the sports announcers covering them. |
| 3780 |
February 3, 1988 |
Merritt Heaton, Betty White |
Ray Stevens |
| Mighty Carson Art Players- "Breakfast at The Rather Household" |
| 3781 |
February 4, 1988 |
Sammy Davis, Jr, Jason Bateman |
|
| Johnny's mock eulogy of Luicci the Capuccino Monkey |
| 3782 |
February 5, 1988 |
Oprah Winfrey |
Daniel Rosen |
| Backup 'Wheaties' Box Covers |
| 3783 |
February 10, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Sandy Duncan |
Randy Travis |
| Headlines; Kid Inventors |
| 3784 |
February 11, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Dr. David Dahl, Tom Parks, Tim Reid |
Jerry Lee Lewis ("Rockin' My Life Away", "Great Balls of Fire") |
|
| 3785 |
February 12, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Brooke Adams, Kevin Meaney, Carl Weathers |
Glen Campbell |
|
| 3786 |
February 16, 1988 |
Tim Conway |
Jonathan Butler |
| Diary of Things Johnny Did While He Was Sick |
| 3787 |
February 17, 1988 |
Jackie Mason, Joanna Kerns |
Kid Creole & The Coconuts ("Dropout", "Curiosity") |
| USA Today Poll About the Sexes |
| 3788 |
February 18, 1988 |
Minnie Black, Dudley Moore |
|
| A Presidential Debate with Questions asked by Johnny. |
| 3789 |
February 19, 1988 |
Gene Siskel, Roger Ebert, Bob Saget |
Los Lobos ("In America", "La Bamba") |
| Forgotten Movies From the Past |
| 3790 |
February 23, 1988 |
Louie Anderson, Jennifer Tilly |
Dionne Warwick |
|
| 3791 |
February 24, 1988 |
Ritch Shydner, Rita Rudner, Fred Roggin |
|
| Questions From the Audience |
| 3792 |
February 25, 1988 |
Eddy Edwards, Burt Reynolds, Teresa Ganzel |
|
| Mighty Carson Art Players- "Tele-Scam"; Expensive Props |
| 3793 |
February 26, 1988 |
Garry Shandling, Allyce Beasley |
Donna Theodore |
| The Wheel of Candidates |
| Ep# |
Original air date |
Guest(s) |
Musical/entertainment guest(s) |
| 3795 |
May 11, 1988 |
Joe Piscopo |
|
|
| 3796 |
May 12, 1988 |
Dana Carvey, Joe Garagiola |
|
| Carnac the Magnificent |
| 3797 |
May 13, 1988 |
Bob Hope |
K.D. Lang |
|
| 3798 |
May 18, 1988 |
Dr. Terry Gosliner |
Billy Vera & The Beaters |
| Blue Cards |
| 3799 |
May 19, 1988 |
Jonathan Winters |
|
|
| 3800 |
May 20, 1988 |
Sylvester Stallone |
|
| Stump the Band |
| 3801 |
May 25, 1988 |
David Brenner, Paul Hogan |
Linda Hopkins ("Born on Friday") |
| Direct Response Commercials, the 'Playette' and the 'Jog'r'. |
| 3802 |
May 26, 1988 |
Chevy Chase, Thalassa Cruso |
|
|
| 3803 |
May 27, 1988 |
James Stewart, Fred Roggin |
|
| Johnny provides evidence that Bonzo the famous chimpanzee is really still alive. |
| 3804 |
May 30, 1988 |
Garry Shandling (guest host), Elizabeth Perkins, Bob Saget |
Jimmy Buffett |
|
| 3805 |
May 31, 1988 |
Garry Shandling (guest host) |
Harry Connick, Jr. |
|
| Ep# |
Original air date |
Guest(s) |
Musical/entertainment guest(s) |
| 3806 |
June 1, 1988 |
Garry Shandling (guest host), Paula Poundstone |
Natalie Cole |
| Comparison of Photos between Reagan at the Kremlin and a family at Disneyland. |
| 3807 |
June 2, 1988 |
Garry Shandling (guest host), Angie Dickinson, Fritz Coleman, Allyce Beasley |
Michael Bolton |
|
| 3808 |
June 3, 1988 |
Garry Shandling (guest host), Stan Kann, Joanna Kerns, Roy Blount, Jr. |
|
|
| 3809 |
June 6, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Marilu Henner, Cathy Guisewite |
|
| Headlines |
| 3810 |
June 8, 1988 |
David Brinkley |
Chuck Berry |
|
| 3811 |
June 9, 1988 |
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jerry Seinfeld, Andre Agassi |
|
| Jokes That Are Sent In By Viewers During the Writers Strike |
| 3812 |
June 10, 1988 |
Don Yesso |
Basia |
|
| 3813 |
June 13, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Vincent Price, Dave Barry |
|
| Jay shows a film clip of his adventure with the Blue Angels. |
| 3814 |
June 15, 1988 |
James Belushi |
Julio Iglesias |
| Commencement Address to The Audience |
| 3815 |
June 16, 1988 |
William Ennis, Bill Cosby |
Belinda Carlisle |
|
| 3816 |
June 17, 1988 |
David Steinberg |
Andrea Marcovicci |
| Blue Cards |
| 3817 |
June 20, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Joan Embery, Marsha Warfield, Dr. Joyce Brothers |
|
| Jay reads unusual newspaper clippings. |
| 3818 |
June 22, 1988 |
Jay Leno, Raquel Welch, Ray Anderson |
|
|
| 3819 |
June 23, 1988 |
Magic Johnson, Bruce Willis |
|
| Rules of Thumb |
| 3820 |
June 24, 1988 |
Lottie Hicks, Dudley Moore |
Diane Schuur |
| Extracurricular Activities from Celebrity's High School Yearbooks |
| 3821 |
June 27, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Dennis Miller, Erma Bombeck |
Little Richard |
| Headlines |
| 3822 |
June 28, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Steve Allen, Super Dave Osborne, Bill Maher |
|
|
| 3823 |
June 29, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Charles Fleischer, Sydney Walsh, Frank Zappa |
|
|
| 3824 |
June 30, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Sammy Davis, Jr., Connie Chung |
|
| Stamps by Mail |
| Ep# |
Original air date |
Guest(s) |
Musical/entertainment guest(s) |
| 3825 |
July 1, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Stephanie Kramer, Kevin Pollak, Michael Warren |
|
| Jay has a satellite interview with President Reagan. |
| 3826 |
July 18, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Pee Wee Herman, John Cleese, Malcolm Forbes |
|
| Headlines |
| 3827 |
July 20, 1988 |
Joe King, Yakov Smirnoff |
Buster Poindexter |
| Photos of Famous Political People with Insertions of What They May Be Saying |
| 3828 |
July 21, 1988 |
Arsenio Hall |
Hall & Oates ("Missing Each Other", "She's a Monster") |
| The Tonight Show version of The Democratic Convention (audience members as the delegates) |
| 3829 |
July 22, 1988 |
Tom Hanks |
Michael Davis |
|
| 3830 |
July 25, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Jamie Lee Curtis, Louie Anderson |
Johnny Mathis |
|
| 3831 |
July 27, 1988 |
John Bogosian, John Larroquette |
Rosemary Clooney |
| A satellite interview with the 'still alive' Elvis Presley in a cabin in North Dakota. This Elvis is known as Ron Stein. |
| 3832 |
July 28, 1988 |
Governor Bill Clinton |
Joe Cocker |
| A film clip of the youngest pilot. |
| 3833 |
July 29, 1988 |
Smokey Tennison, Michael Landon |
K.D. Lang |
| Celebrity Photos |
| Ep# |
Original air date |
Guest(s) |
Musical/entertainment guest(s) |
| 3834 |
August 1, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Joan Van Ark, Chuck Norris, Abigail Van Buren |
Oak Ridge Boys |
|
| 3835 |
August 3, 1988 |
Bill Murray |
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg |
| Psychic Predictions |
| 3836 |
August 4, 1988 |
Mabel Hines Buck, Paul Reiser |
Robert Ford |
|
| 3837 |
August 5, 1988 |
Richard Pryor |
Pete Fountain |
| Photos of celebrities showing tiny notes on their person supposedly enlarged by 'high resolution cameras'. |
| 3838 |
August 8, 1988 |
Garry Shandling (guest host), Phoebe Mills, Ed Begley, Jr., Richard Lewis |
Dizzy Gillespie |
|
| 3839 |
August 9, 1988 |
Garry Shandling (guest host), Sugar Ray Leonard, Bill Maher, Patti D'Arbanville |
|
|
| 3840 |
August 10, 1988 |
Garry Shandling (guest host), Joan Embery, David Steinberg, Catherine O'Hara |
Linda Hopkins |
|
| 3841 |
August 11, 1988 |
Garry Shandling (guest host), Tracey Ullman, Ken Olin, Fred Roggin |
Brenda Russell |
|
| 3842 |
August 12, 1988 |
Garry Shandling (guest host), Kirstie Alley, Mariel Hemingway, Cathy Guisewite |
|
| The Lobster Boy Letter |
| 3843 |
August 22, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Wayne Gretzky |
B.B. King |
| Headlines |
| 3844 |
August 24, 1988 |
George Carlin, Mark Harmon |
|
| The Tonight Show version of the Republican Convention (audience members as the delegates) |
| 3845 |
August 25, 1988 |
Jonathan Winters |
|
| Phobias |
| 3846 |
August 29, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Holly Robinson |
Dwight Yoakam & Buck Owens |
| Headlines |
| 3847 |
August 31, 1988 |
Kirk Douglas, Ritch Shydner |
The Temptations |
| Examples of Contemporary Slang |
| Ep# |
Original air date |
Guest(s) |
Musical/entertainment guest(s) |
| 3848 |
September 1, 1988 |
Dana Delaney, Buddy Hackett |
|
| Albums Sung by Celebrities in The Past |
| 3849 |
September 2, 1988 |
Jennifer Tilly |
Randy Travis |
| Comedy Crypt- Some Old Jokes |
| 3850 |
September 5, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Norm Crosby |
George Benson |
| The Tonight Show's Little Big Book of Romantic Phrases |
| 3851 |
September 7, 1988 |
Bob Hope, Tim Conway |
Joe Williams |
| Low-Down On The Candidates |
| 3852 |
September 8, 1988 |
Martin Short |
Johnny Clegg & Savuka |
| Different Sounds That Give People the Willies |
| 3853 |
September 9, 1988 |
Shabana Kazi |
Harry Belafonte |
| International Symbols |
| 3854 |
September 12, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Betty White, Elvira |
The Spinners |
| Newspaper Clippings |
| 3855 |
September 14, 1988 |
Jim Fowler |
|
|
| 3856 |
September 15, 1988 |
Bob Uecker, Sigourney Weaver |
Reba McEntire |
| New Fall Shows |
| Ep# |
Original air date |
Guest(s) |
Musical/entertainment guest(s) |
| 3857 |
October 6, 1988 |
|
|
| 26th Anniversary Show |
| 3858 |
October 10, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Robert Stack, Franklin Ajaye |
Kenny G |
|
| 3859 |
October 12, 1988 |
Cody Carr |
Ray Charles |
| A takeoff on the Presidential Debate in which Ed McMahon asks Johnny questions as if Johnny is Quayle or Bentsen. |
| 3860 |
October 13, 1988 |
Tom Lasorda |
Jimmy Buffett |
|
| 3861 |
October 14, 1988 |
Sandy Duncan, Irv Kupcinet |
|
| Personalized License Plates |
| 3862 |
October 17, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Super Dave Osborne, Robert Mitchum |
|
| Headlines |
| 3863 |
October 19, 1988 |
Whoopi Goldberg, Kevin Pollack |
|
| Answers to the Questionnaire passed out to 2nd and 3rd Graders based on the Presidential Election |
| 3864 |
October 20, 1988 |
Michael Caine |
Eydie Gorme, Steve Lawrence |
| Blue Cards |
| 3865 |
October 21, 1988 |
Orel Hershiser, Floyd Jackson, Susan Sullivan |
Lee Ritenour |
|
| 3866 |
October 31, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Stephanie Kramer, Jimmie Walker, Richard Mulligan |
|
|
| Ep# |
Original air date |
Guest(s) |
Musical/entertainment guest(s) |
| 3867 |
November 2, 1988 |
Jonathan Zachary, Christopher Reeve |
|
| 'If Election Was Held Tomorrow' Quiz; Local Propositions |
| 3868 |
November 3, 1988 |
Michael J. Fox, Larry Miller |
|
| Funny Advertising Ads |
| 3869 |
November 4, 1988 |
James Garner, Park Overall |
|
| 'Politicboy' Magazine |
| 3870 |
November 7, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Marilu Henner, Jester Hairston, Vanna White |
Lu Leonard |
| Headlines |
| 3871 |
November 9, 1988 |
Candice Bergen, Steven Wright |
|
| As The White House Turns |
| 3872 |
November 10, 1988 |
Greg Irwin, Gore Vidal |
|
| Blue Cards |
| 3873 |
November 11, 1988 |
Paul Reiser |
Oak Ridge Boys |
| Cultural Customs of The World |
| 3874 |
November 14, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Joan Collins, John Byner |
|
| Newspaper Clippings |
| 3875 |
November 16, 1988 |
Harry Anderson, Argus Hamilton, Calvin Trillin |
|
| Messages From Home |
| 3876 |
November 17, 1988 |
Bob Newhart, David Horowitz |
|
| Letters from Viewers Who Didn't Want Credit Cards But Got Them Away; Off The Wall Video Tapes On The Market Today |
| 3877 |
November 18, 1988 |
Oprah Winfrey |
Sheena Easton |
| Sketch- "UCLA vs. Stanford Game (with Johnny as a commentator)" |
| 3878 |
November 21, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Tony Danza, Malcolm-Jamal Warner |
Andy Williams |
| Tonight Show's Little Big Book of Romantic Phrases |
| 3879 |
November 23, 1988 |
George Burns, Tracey Ullman |
Jeff Healey |
| School Kids' Answers To a Thanksgiving Questionnaire. |
| 3880 |
November 24, 1988 |
Lucy Webb |
Willie Nelson |
| Evening News with Zontar Rather in The Year 2008 |
| 3881 |
November 25, 1988 |
Teri Garr, Marsha Warfield |
Johnny Clegg & Savuka |
| Celebirty Perfumes |
| 3882 |
November 28, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Barbara Walters, Joanna Kerns |
Stanley Jordan |
| Jay's High School Reunion |
| 3883 |
November 29, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Mary Tyler Moore, James Earl Jones |
|
| Actual Notes That Parents Wrote to Schools to Excuse their Children From Class |
| 3884 |
November 30, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Harvey Fierstein, Courteney Cox |
K.T. Oslin |
| Headlines |
| Ep# |
Original air date |
Guest(s) |
Musical/entertainment guest(s) |
| 3885 |
December 1, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Fred Savage, Joan Van Ark |
Los Lobos |
|
| 3886 |
December 2, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Larry Miller, Stephen Collins |
Phil Collins ("Groovy Kind of Love", "Living Separate Lives") |
| Games |
| 3887 |
December 5, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Kirk Douglas, Paula Poundstone, Eva Marie Saint |
Linda Hopkins |
|
| 3888 |
December 7, 1988 |
Zota Croughan, Carl Reiner |
|
| Titles for Some Christmas Specials |
| 3889 |
December 8, 1988 |
Jonathan Winters |
Kenny Loggins ("Footloose", "A Lesson Hard to Learn") |
| Johnny puts on a Christmas Helmet that was sent in.; Blue Cards |
| 3890 |
December 9, 1988 |
Danny DeVito, Richard Benjamin |
|
| Christmas Naughty or Nice List from The North Pole; Letters from Deprived Children to Santa |
| 3891 |
December 12, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Pee Wee Herman, Ricardo Montalban, Ritch Shydner |
Lou Rawls |
|
| 3892 |
December 14, 1988 |
Steve Jenne, Steve Martin, Helen Shaver |
|
| Actual Children's Letters to Santa Claus |
| 3893 |
December 15, 1988 |
Bob Hope, Ellen Greene |
|
| Photos of Supposed Relatives of Audience Members and The Strange Things They Have Done |
| 3894 |
December 16, 1988 |
Bette Midler, Arnold Schwarzenegger |
|
| Fred de Cordova wears a moose hat called 'Chris Moose'.; New Products |
| 3895 |
December 26, 1988 |
Jay Leno (guest host), Brice Beckham, Joey Bishop, Louie Anderson |
Dwight Yoakam |
| Jay ran into Chuck Norris at a store and saw he bought his wife an electronic automatic dog grooming brush for Xmas. He telephones Mrs. Norris to see if she really liked this Xmas present.; Psychic Predictions for Next Year |
| 3896 |
December 28, 1988 |
'Poppa John' Venturello, Franklin Ajaye, Catherine Hicks |
|
| Specialized Christmas Cards |
| 3897 |
December 29, 1988 |
Halden Martinson, Jessica Vallot |
Cristin Morrison |
| Stump the Band |
| 3898 |
December 30, 1988 |
A. Whitney Brown |
Grigori Popovich, Sweet Baby Blues Band |
| Dictionary Terms |