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Stanley Siegel: Television's Most Controversial Shock Banterman

Throughout the early 1970s, veteran TV personality and interviewer Stanley Siegel confronted with issues that affected daytime TV fans and their beneficiaries alike. Siegel was the loudmouth banterman of
the television syndication airwaves, with thousands of half-hour shows
distribution to a number of network-affiliated and independent stations across the United States and Canada. His long-running, nationally syndicated 30-minute talk show featured a variety of guests speaking out on an array of issues and themes concerning various conflicts of
controversy, from female impersonators and martial arts to politics and popular culture and so much more.

The Stanley Siegel Show began broadcasting over one of the CBS Television Stations O&Os; in 1968 and stayed on top of the local Nielsen ratings for eight years. KCBS-TV telecast TSSS for eight seasons before shifting to WABC-TV in the mid-1970s.

Whether Siegel gets one of the guests involved in a stunt involving a
bathtub filled with gelatine dessert or perform a death-defying martial
arts attrack on two of his most fiercest guests , viewers caught him asking guests many big questions affecting me and my fellow SodaHeads.

As TV's most controversial daytime TV shock talk personality, Siegel,
a California native, was the most prolific electronic media host ever to
speak out on diverse conspiracies. At the start of each half-hour program, Siegel starts the show with an opening monologue depicting
the various conflicts of social controversy facing TSSS viewers.

Over the years, Siegel has tackled the toughest, bizarre issues and themes of hardball controversy in a hilarious and conspirative form.

Following his tenure as emcee of The Stanley Siegel Show, Stanley Siegel would go on to preside over a defunct Monday-through-Friday
series, which debuted in the mid-1980s on cable television's female- oriented general entertainment network Lifetime, a Disney-ABC Television Group/Hearst Corporation partnership.

Why should SodaHeads believe in the power of Stanley Siegel?

For former Stanley Siegel Show viewers, Siegel was the embodiment
of daytime TV shock talk, taking no prisoners when it came to interviewing a diverse roster of guests bantering on issues
such as racism, music, sports, the government, military interrogation,
conservative and liberal power politics and many, many more themes
and conspiracies discussed in a satirically controversial manner.

To me, Stanley Siegel continues to be my favorite fearless TV shock
talk leader - and has long been interviewing his guests in front of a live
studio audience for years to come and in the coming years ahead.
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  • Corky February 23, 2012 17:41:33
    Corky
    +2
    Stanley is now on RLTV. He has a travel tv series called "Stanley On The Go"
  • Corky February 23, 2012 17:35:12
    Corky
    +2
    Stanley now has a tv travel series on RLTV. He travels the world, still asking more of the same hard hitting questions: (in Costa Rica hanging from a zip line) " If I fall, will the canopy save me?" to which his guide smiles and says: "No, its bye-bye".
  • vanita collins January 08, 2012 20:18:32
    vanita collins
    +2
    I remember Stanley Segal show very well, never forget when Copote was a guest.
  • Cheryl David Bailey October 02, 2011 23:08:18
    Cheryl David Bailey
    +2
    II love him when he was in NY, I'd watch him first thing. I remember when he was crazy enough to put Truman Capote on higher than a Georgia Pine . But, that was ancient history. I hope he is doing well...Does he still do talk shows ?
  • U.N. Owen August 06, 2011 19:43:05
    U.N. Owen
    +2
    before school, I'd sit home and watch The Stanley Seigal Show. Sometimes, I got so wrapped up in it, I'd be late to school, but, hey.

    Glad to hear Stanley's doing well. CAERASTEVE said Mr. Siegal's involved with him, and his show. I don't know how old that post was, but, is the show still on the air - and, if so, where?
  • camerasteve November 23, 2008 01:22:22
    camerasteve
    +1
    Stanley is doing quit well these days...I direct and shoot his travel show, "Stanley Siegel On the Go"...traveling around the world to such places as India, Vietnam, Brazil, Peru, China, Japan ,Tanzania, all of Europe, Russia, Israel, Turkey, Ireland....
  • butt November 09, 2008 23:14:38
    butt
    +1
    Stanley Siegel was a f'ing moron. See this "interview" where he sandbags Tim Leary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?... . It's absolutely disgusting and shows an abysmal level of integrity on his part.
  • Jane June 26, 2008 21:48:56
    Jane
    +1
    I remember the Stanley Siegel Show very clearly and I enjoyed it a lot, and I often wonder where he is now.
  • Hobo Jane February 20, 2009 00:58:46
    Hobo
    There was a short-lived talk show airing on cable TV's Lifetime in the mid-1980s
    that was emceed by the great Stanley Siegel. I have posted a full episode online
    on http://www.youtube.com/watch, so you better watch Mr. Siegel before it's too late.

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