he would record more than 6,000 episodes of “The Phil Donahue Show” — shortened to “Donahue” during his heyday in the late 1970s and ’80s. He was such a juggernaut that in Oprah ...

Among his many pioneering moments, the late star was the first TV host to feature a person living with AIDS on The Phil Donahue Show — which was renamed Donahue in 1974. The episode aired in ...

Earlier in the episode, Donahue and executive producer Patricia McMillen looked back at some of the show’s biggest — and most controversial — moments. Phil Donahue Said He Missed His Talk ...

"I met Phil on the Donahue Show in 1977 - instant chemistry!" the actress once said Phil Donahue and Marlo Thomas had quite the love story. The legendary talk show host died on Sunday, Aug. 18, at ...

Phil Donahue, the legendary ... more diverse — all of the talk shows still cleave to the one thing that laid at the foundation of the 7,000 episodes I taped, and that’s curiosity.” ...

Phil Donahue ... of the daytime talk show. The show included radio-style call-ins, which Donahue greeted with his signature, “Is the caller there?” The show’s last episode aired in 1996 ...

Unlike Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas and numerous other daytime talkers, The Phil Donahue Show typically featured one guest per episode, the better to delve into serious issues with considerable depth.

Phil Donahue, whose pioneering daytime talk show launched an indelible television genre that made household names of Oprah Winfrey, Montel Williams, Ellen DeGeneres and many others, has died.