"For two decades, Mike Douglas's name was synonymous with television entertainment in America. The Mike Douglas Show, which aired each weekday, became the prototype for all future talk shows that sought to combine spontaneous conversation - on virtually any subject - with the best in entertainment. In those twenty years and more than four thousand shows, virtually all the great performers - actors, singers, comics - and many outstanding sports figures and prominent statesmen, Presidents included, appeared with Mike, performing and chatting informally in front of the show's many millions of viewers."