The David Susskind Show is an American television talk show hosted by David Susskind which was broadcast from 1958 to 1986. The program began locally in New York City in 1958 as Open End, which referred to the fact that the program was open-ended, with no set scheduled end or timeslot restrictions. In this form, the program would continue until Susskind or his guests had felt the conversation had run its full course, or were exhausted and ended the episode by mutual agreement. Overview Open End was launched in 1958 and aired initially in New York over independent station WNTA-TV. Susskind's interview of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, which aired on October 9, 1960, during the height of the Cold War, generated national attention. Susskind and Khrushchev discussed Soviet-U.S. relations, state sovereignty, the United Nations, the unification of Germany, and other topics in world affairs. It is one of the very few talk show telecasts from that era that was preserved and can be viewed today. In 1961, Open End moved to WPIX after WNTA-TV ended commercial operations in preparation to become WNET, New York's main noncommercial educational outlet. Susskind continued with the program before ending Open End in the summer of 1966. Susskind launched his new program, The David Susskind Show in October 1966 with another New York independent station, WNEW-TV as its base. The new effort was also syndicated, as WNEW-TV utilized its sister Metromedia stations to expand the program's reach before a national rollout. Susskind did a two-hour interview including commercials with Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963, two months before the civil rights leader delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. The New York Times reported what it considered the highlight of the interview on its front page: "The civil rights approach of the Kennedy Administration as compared with that of the Eisenhower Administration has merely substituted 'an inadequate approach for a miserable one,' the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. declared yesterday." Few people have seen the video, which belongs to Historic Films Archive, since 1963. The title of Susskind's talk show was changed from Open End to The David Susskind Show for its telecast on Sunday night, October 2, 1966. Shows would occasionally tape in Los Angeles, at the studios of KCOP-TV. On October 10, 1971, the show invited seven lesbian women to be on a panel for a segment called "Women Who Love Women”.