[ChicagoConservative27]

RIP Phil. The clip of Milton Freedman giving Phil the business is the best.

[Reno89519]

RIP. I remember watching him occasionally decades ago.

[ConservativeMind]

I really enjoyed watching his show.

It brought up great debate opportunities with friends.

RIP.

[Leaning Right]

Phil Donahue was a liberal. But I don’t remember him being obnoxious. Quite unlike the smirking “progressives” on TV shows today.

[blueunicorn6]

Was he related to the race car driver?

[Alas Babylon!]

“Is the caller there?”

No, I’m afraid he died.

THAT Girl is in mourning.

[newfreep]

The clip of Milton Freedman giving Phil the business is the best.

Ditto ...and that smackdown of Phil was classic Milton Friedman.

Milton Friedman was my economic/finance hero even before I completed my MBA with national academic honors.

[xoxox]

Marlo Thomas is interesting because she’s the daughter of Danny Thomas.

Otherwise, meh.

[Ciaphas Cain]

Donahue had one of the better talk shows. Maybe he was a liberal but he never seemed to make a big deal out of it.

For some reason the show he did about the Biosphere 2 stunt came to mind. He told its designers "I'm telling you people, this is gonna leak!"

[Biblebelter]

In the history of television Donahue gets too much credit for developing the audience participation format.

Joe Pyne preceded him with a similar format.

[ronniesgal]

RIP guy sorry for marlo.

[wardaddy]

LaRouche dust up la guardia airport
And I was there real time
RIP

[Dan in Wichita]

During his time decades ago, Donohue was at the leading edge of the leftist movement in America. Compared to the rabid leftists of today, he seems rather mild, but...

As one of the Left's ideological ancestors he did a great deal of damage, paving the road to the edge of the cliff where we are today.

[discostu]

Sweeps week strippers. I remember how completely honest he was that the show would get slightly salacious during sweeps. Never really that salacious, but gotta get the ratings. Sweeps also tended to be when he’d bring the anti-heavy metal people on, and I’d write down all the albums they were waving around to buy. They were great negative indicators.

[CletusVanDamme]

I thought that he was already dead.

[Southern Magnolia]

Wasn’t there something about him challenging the the logic behind the Iraq war (that officially wasn’t declared a “war” per say, ike Vietnam, but a military operation) that got him cancelled? Yeah, he was a Lefty but he was questioning authority.

[Red Badger]

I thought he was already dead.......................

[OldHarbor]

I had a boyhood crush on Marlo, so I therefore hated Phil Donahue . 😂

Donahue’s show was the first time I saw a transvestite. 🤮

[DFG]

Phil Donahue interviews John Wayne (1976)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikITxlBTxvE

[srmanuel]

That was fantastic, I also enjoyed when he interviewed Ayn Rand on his show.

[Kudsman]

Guess a good thing I say about the man is I hope he got right with his maker before his soul took off.