RIP: New York Talk Show Host Stanley Siegel

The colorful one-time WABC and WCBS personality was 79.

Try for a moment to imagine Michael Strahan lying down on a couch once a week for 10 minutes to speak to a psychoanalyst about his personal struggles, while Kelly Ripa takes a coffee break. And… Strahan further framing the weekly on-air sessions with three longer such sessions off-camera.

As crazy as this conjured image seems, it was once a part of WABC’s The Stanley Siegel Show, which debuted in 1975 in the same weekday time slot.

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