1972
"Kennedy at Night" on WLS Chicago, performed as Elvis
1974
6/6/74 - The Dean Martin Comedy World
6/20/74 - The Joe Franklin Show
1975
Undated SNL screen test
10/11/75 Saturday Night Live 101 - Mighty Mouse
10/25/75 Saturday Night Live 103 - Pop Goes the Weasle
11/8/75 Saturday Night Live 104 - Bongos
1976
1/17/76 - Monty Hall's Variety Hour
1/28/76 - The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson - Steve Allen hosting, with Dick Shawn and Charo
2/28/76 Saturday Night Live 115 - Old Macdonald
6/23/76 - The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson - per IMBD, not on Wikipedia episode guide
6/30/76 The Lisa Hartman Show: Hot Stuff - first bit with his normal voice,
9/20/76 - Van Dyke and Company - Foreign man doing the cannonball joke , first time I've seen his act repeated
10/7/76 - Van Dyke and Company - Mighty Mouse
10/14/76 - Van Dyke and Company - Elvis
10/22/76 God Told Me To https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VHg8sQidmM
10/28/76 - Van Dyke and Company - Interrupts as Andy playing bongos. Later introduced as Andy Kaufman, sings in a non-foreign voice and plays bongos with the Bay City Street Congo Band
11/11/76 - Van Dyke and Company - Old MacDonald
11/25/76 - Van Dyke and Company - Freddie Prinze does an Andy Kaufman impersonation, Pop goes the Weasel
12/2/76 - Van Dyke and Company - Foreign man doing bad standup, material new to me. It's a Small World with Bay City Street Congo Band
12/9/76 - Van Dyke and Company - Bad impressions
12/16/76 - Van Dyke and Company - Elvis. Again. It's not good, doesn't get the voice right, goofs too much
12/30/76 - Van Dyke and Company - Jesus joke, chicken record with Dick joining in. Later with the Bay City Street Congo Band
1977
1/12/77 - The Mike Douglas Show https://archive.org/details/andy-kaufmans-full-discography/12.+Foreign+Man+%2B+Mighty+Mouse+-+Monty+Hall%E2%80%99s+Variety+Hour+(January+17%2C+1976).mp4
First time I've seen him interview in a panel, in character as Foreign Man, and the longest bit I've seen so far.
1/15/77 Saturday Night Live 211 - Elvis
1/17/77 - Dinah!
1/21/77 - The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLQ6-SmWGqc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_IRlq9gg-M - First time meeting Johnny, goes straight to panel as Foreign Man.
3/3/77 - The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r59AWfhwpPg - Elvis
3/4/77 - The Midnight Special https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxYB0KxzZxw
5/30/77 Stick Around https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYaYLwzq-jU
Andy shows his range as the Foreign Man as a robot in a sitcom set in the future, even does a little of his act. Kind of a low rent Jetsons. There's an angle with people cryogenically frozen in the 1980s being revived, discussing the differences between the time periods, and facing discrimination.
8/4/77 - The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lU-NmcfIEI
Elvis, then pulls a Foster Brooks and completely breaks character for panel. Johnny mentions his special, which won't be aired for two years.
8/15/77 - 19/77 - The Hollywood Squares as Foreign Man
8/16/77 Elvis dies
9/15/77 - Red Foxx (aka Red Foxx Comedy Hour) https://youtu.be/GyS2j60HH0Q?si=KEA5VjSUsU95Xnvm&t=724
9/24/77 - The 2nd Annual HBO Young Comedians Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8QrrPMZDWk
Performs as himself, refers to the Foreign Man character by that name. There's likely a difference between a club and TV audience, but this is the first time I've seen Andy perform where some of the audience doesn't immediately catch on that he's doing a bit. The act is still largely the same, just in a regular voice.
He's introduced separately as Tony Clifton, no prosthetics, just a fake moustache. Bob Zmuda, Mel Shearer, and others are audience plants, presumably including a woman who beats him up, foreshadowing his intergender wrestling phase.
10/15/77 Saturday Night Live 303 - Sings Oklahoma, The Cow Goes Moo. Does Elvis outside of his usual suite of bad impressions, like he's skipping the joke and going straight to the catchphrase
11/30/77 - The Johnny Cash Christmas Special (not to be confused with the Johnny Cash & Family Christmas show) - evidently unavailable, not to be confused with the 1979 appearance
12/10/77 Saturday Night Live 307 - Foreign Man bongos. Stands with the cast at the end next to Willie Nelson as they announce the abortive Sex Pistols appearance for the next show.
1978
1/9/78 Variety '77: The Year in Entertainment (some sources have 1/3/78 on ABC, I verified with TV listings, it aired 1/9/78 on CBS) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ass1coasd0 - Bongos
2/20/78 - The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (Steve Martin guest host) Clip doesn't have his act, starts with the panel, in which he describes his Elvis act and explains why it's funny
https://archive.org/details/andy-kaufmans-full-discography/25.+Interview+with+guest+host+Steve+Martin+-+The+Tonight+Show+Starring+Johnny+Carson+(February+20%2C+1978).mp4
3/11/78 Saturday Night Live 313 - Reads Great Gatsby British accent, says he previously had an American character. Reads for 2 1/2 minutes, possibly the first time he's been antagonistic in his TV act. Flubs some lines and corpses a little.
3/14/78 Columbus Goes Bananaz https://archive.org/details/andy-kaufmans-full-discography/27.+Takes+all+the+time+away+from+%E2%80%98a+scientists%E2%80%99+interview+-+Bananaz+(March+14%2C+1978).mp4
Interrupts Bob Zmuda as a scientist, does Old MacDonald, the two get into a fight. Clip is incomplete. Mentions that he had largely retired his Elvis impersonation but revived it after his death due to popular demand.
3/16/78 - Thank You, Rock 'N' Roll: A Tribute to Alan Freed
4/7/78 Midnight Special
4/11/78 The Mike Douglas Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0873hZHVbEk
The Cow Goes Moo, in the interview makes claim that he's not a comedian. Has a different foreign voice, says his American accent is fake. Talks with Carol Channing. Missing final song.
5/19/78 Midnight Special
6/2/78 Midnight Special
July 5, 1978 Taxi starts filming
9/12/78 Taxi (114 episodes)
11/21/78 The Dating Game as Foreign Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMmV-L7nr2c
11/29/78 Dick Clark's Live Wednesday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCjklriyrck
Foreign man standup
1979
2/4/79 Saturday Night Live 413 - Bay City Street Conga Band
3/7/79 Cher... and Other Fantasies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDMDM5G7gHo
As Foreign Man in a comedy skit as Adam
4/22/79 V.I.P. Night on Broadway Benefit - Sings "Tomorrow" from Annie. Not sure if this was aired.
Stormy Justice - IMDB lists as 5/16/79 but is obviously done in the late 80s or 90s and is not Andy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ueiKIb74KE
6/30/79 The Lisa Hartman Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AUWvskU3aU
Kaufman talking about his busboy job, pranking a grocery store clerk with his plants.
8/20/79 Tomorrow Coast to Coast - Unavailable, reportedly his first televised intergender wrestling match
8/28/79 Good Morning America
8/28/79 Andy's Funhouse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6Gzq8xVHsA&t
Taped with commercials. Aired after prime time. A lot of his regular act, some more mean spirited meta stuff. Would have been the first aired material with him acting as if his American accent was a character.
Was repeated in prime time 2/29/80
Firstish Tony Appearance
10/19/79 Dinah! aka Dinah and Friends https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypUr64rXI94
First real Tony Clifton TV appearance, supposedly cut short with some myths about how aggressive he got afterwards. Note that the production put up text letting the audience know it was a gag.
Also seen dates of 9/19 and 10/12, found newspaper TV listing for 10/19 evening and re-aired the morning of 10/22
Note: We're getting into Andy's wrestling era. Andy wrestled women in his nightclub act, then on TV, then in a "real" wrestling promotion. He used plants (including Laurie Anderson) in the clubs and TV (the women all seemed to already be wearing tights). The club and TV audiences are aware that this is a comedy act, but the wrestling itself was real, in the sense that they were trying to pin each other without choreography or a predetermined outcome.
The audience got riled up, but I don't believe that anyone thought that Andy had retired from comedy and is now a wrestler. He also regularly would break character and say he only acted like a heel as part of the act.
10/20/79 Saturday Night Live - Full heel turn as he challenges women in the audience to a wrestling match. The volunteers vibe as plants. He might do an Elvis voice later. He's at the back with his opponent at the end credits.
11/17/79 Saturday Night Live 505 - Cuts a promo looking for challengers. Heckles Bea Arthur.
11/22/79 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
12/6/79 A Johnny Cash Christmas - Opens show as Foreign Man. Interrupts Anne Murray and Tom T. Hall, comes out as Santa Claus. Cash introduces his Elvis impersonation by saying it was the king's favorite. Back a the end as Santa.
No title on the video, TV listings has it as A Johnny Cash Christmas. This is Andy's last prime time appearance aside from Taxi until 1982, and last playing Andy until 1983
12/13/79 The Merv Griffin Show - unavailable
12/22/79 Saturday Night Live 508 - Buddy Rogers introduces Andy wrestling Diana Peckham. Probably a legit match, but I don't doubt that Peckham, granddaughter of a pro wrestler, was wise to the act. A video package has him harassing candidates, who are laughing the whole time.
Last SNL appearance until 1982. He reportedly offered to do a weekly segment for the infamous sixth season but Ebersol turned him down.
1980
1/25/80 The Merv Griffin Show - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhrXrjb3RWg
Talks about the Tony Clifton appearance on Dinah, said he was carried away by security. Nick Nolte is confused. Wrestles a woman, not in this clip.
2/1/80 Midnight Special
6/12/80 Andy Kaufman Plays Carnegie Hall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQr5EHQGAVw
Filmed 4/26/79, aired on Showtime. Bit with a woman having a heart attack was probably the first that the audience seems to be fooled. Wrestles a man in a clear work. Has a bit where he says the Foreign Man is the real him, but just as a segue to him doing his routine and goes straight back to his regular accent. Ends the show saying he used to do makeup to impersonate Tony Clifton but hired the real deal, who joins him in a song.
7/18/1980 Buckshot- Uncle Andy's Funhouse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evWCte4Wilc
Don't know the story behind this. Buckshot aired, but Andy Kaufman isn't listed in the credits of the Encyclopedia of Television Pilots. Could be this was filmed but not included. Paul Reubens was on the show, so there's some connection from Andy to Pee Wee's Playhouse.
9/26/80 In God We Trust https://archive.org/details/WJZ-QUAD-15
9/26/80 The Merv Griffin Show
10/13/80 The David Letterman Show
https://archive.org/details/andy-kaufmans-full-discography/43.+Jokes+Sob+Story+Part+1+-+The+Letterman+Show+(October+13th%2C+1980).mp4
Andy says he's sleeping in stairways to see what it's like, he's cut off by Dave.
10/15/80 The David Letterman Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fxd7_Z1DzA
https://archive.org/details/andy-kaufmans-full-discography/44.+Jokes+Sob+Story+Part+2+-+The+Letterman+Show+(October+15th%2C+1980).mp4
Andy comes back, Dave mentions the strikes, Andy says he quit Taxi, his wife left him and he can't get work due to the wrestling, panhandles the audience.
IMDB lists 6/23/80, the debut episode, but I don't believe this is correct.
1981
1/23/81 The Midnight Special
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sINO2NgxVEQ
Andy hosts, still doing Foreign Man and Elvis, drops straight out of FM to Andy. Announces television debut of his protégé, Tony Clifton. Busboy job, bad ventriloquism with Howdy Dowdy. Continues the crossover of Andy not being able to get work due to wrestling women, Zmuda says The Midnight Special is the only show that will have him. Breaks kayfabe to explain how he acts as a heel so that people will cheer his opponent and how he will never break character (except for here, of course). Coughs through an interview explaining how his act works. Tony Clifton act cuts away to Andy in the audience, same act as on HBO four years ago.
2/20/81 Fridays https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0S46TiRel0 ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN5vhvIAqY8
Opens mid bad standup, Andy goes "rogue" and refuses to follow script in a clear work. Andy with Zmuda as the Masked Magician. Andy playing both parts of a debate show, purposely goofs up saying he can't read the cue cards without his glasses. Cast member explains the premise of the infamous stoned diners sketch. Other cast members are clearly playing along and not very well, with the exception of Jack Burns who looks livid. They came back from commercial to the fight continuing backstage, so it's not like the entire production wasn't in on it.
A voiceover at the end says Andy will be back next week.
2/27/81 Fridays https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-7Tpq32VUA
Producer John Moffitt makes an announcement that the last episode was staged and explains the premise of the gag, which undercuts Andy's bit where he comes on distraught, kind of a watered down repeat of the David Letterman Show bit.
Moffitt says a select group was in on it, leaving room for speculation of who wasn't, but that speaks more to whether Jack Burns can keep in character more than Andy. At the tail end of the credits Burns consoles a crying Andy backstage.
3/13/81 The Midnight Special
4/16/81 Slycraft Hour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trJSf4vVSgE
NYC cable show. Before the video starts you can hear the host tell everyone to play it straight. Andy as himself with a new foreign accent debating with a fake Moral Majority type group opposed to his wrestling. Says he wants to ruin Fridays. Drops his accent near the end.
4/81 Slycraft Hour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOAN7UPPOaQ
2nd appearance, unsure of date.
5/8/81 An Evening at the Improv
6/8/81 The Merv Grffin Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjLppaqlyFU brief clip of Tony Clifton, likely Zmuda. Griffin introduces Clifton implying he's Andy.
8/26/81 The Merv Griffin Show - Tony Clifton.
9/18/81 Fridays https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pdlhHDeI5k
Mighty Mouse as Foreign Man, introduces Kathie Sullivan (gospel singer on Lawrence Welk) as his fiancée. In her own way, more daring for Kathie to be involved with the stunt, and keeps character better than Andy.
Gives speech about drug use that pushes off the Pretenders, who play their set a few minutes later. Closes with a gospel number. Pretenders play three songs, so I doubt they were really cut short.
10/12/81 Memphis Wrestling against women from audience, unknown if aired. Not mentioned in TV promos.
I watched a lot of Continental Wrestling Association TV, simply called Wrestling or Wrestling from Championship Wrestling, to look for promos or clips of Andy. The TV is complicated and I might not have it right. The show would air live on Saturdays in Memphis and the following week in syndication in other regions. The TV show was filmed in a small studio, with clips from the Memphis live shows and promos. Memphis had a live show every Monday at the Mid-South Coliseum and the same or similar cards in other areas like Louisville later in the week. The promos seemed to be edited in based on the region - a lot of the 1981 stuff available is from Louisville. I have only found one clip of Andy in 1981, but don't know the date. "I'm From Hollywood" has better versions, but I was looking for original aired material.
Unlike Attitude Era wrestling, where they'd talk about someone like Will Sasso appearing for months in a row, there's no mention of Andy in the available clips a week or two separated from his live appearances in 1981. The show seemed focused on promoting just the next show and not hyping in general.
There are appearances documented for the Merv Griffin Show 10/2/81 and 10/28/81 which I believe are wrong.
10/28/81 Good Morning America -Bussing tables
11/23/81 CWA arena appearance against women from audience, first mention of Andy on CWA TV that I could find, unk airdate
https://youtu.be/zuxmctT8HLA?si=W3AnX2QOSPjVK4wf&t=2025
11/30/81 CWA arena appearance against women (not sure)
12/11/81 The Merv Griffin Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b1uR1oyAI8
Partial clip. Andy talks about levitating, robot from Heartbeeps
12/18/81 Heartbeeps
1982
1/30/82 Saturday Night Live 710
Elvis and a chicken song. The performance segues into a skit with Elvis picking up two groupies and asking them to wrestle and explaining how it's a reference to the Albert Goldman book in lieu of an actual ending. It felt like a scripted piece with a non-ending, it didn't feel at all like Andy aborted the scene - the women left the stage as he started his speech, and I doubt they would have kept stripping as part of an original script.
2/2/82 Just For Laughs - with Robin Williams, part of an American Film Institute special, don't know if or when this was aired, believe this is the filming date
2/17/82 Late Night With David Letterman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GCt9CLdmew
Refers to morning show appearance, Andy says things are much better now. Says he stopped doing Elvis after he died until Johnny Cash told him it was alright. Andy did Elvis at least three times between those dates, including one just two months after the King's death. He had previously said that he revived the impersonations in his stage show after Elvis' death due to its popularity. Says that he didn't finish the last SNL sketch. Challenges Albert Goldman to a debate.
2/18/82 Late Night With David Letterman (Bob Zmuda as Clifton) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GCt9CLdmew&t=756s
3/5/82 last filming date for Taxi on ABC
3/30/82 Late Night With David Letterman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GCt9CLdmew&t=1288s
Promos Lawler match, says first match with a man (aside from Carnegie Hall). Says he was kidding at first when he talked poop to Lawler in the ring. Does the twist while names scroll of those who haven't responded to his class reunion invitation.
4/1/82 Late Night With David Letterman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GCt9CLdmew&t=1744s
Shows promo tapes for the match.
4/3/82 Championship Wrestling - Lawler refers to Andy on David Letterman, shows Andy's promo, cuts a promo in the studio. First promo I've seen on it on CWA during this time, the Lawler/Mantel feud got more attention.
4/5/82 Andy mentions being on a local Memphis talk show with Lawler, don't know more details
4/5/82 CWA match with Jerry Lawler at the Mid-South Coliseum
4/10/82 Championship Wrestling - Match shown in entirety
4/14/82 Good Morning America
4/15/82 The John Davidson Show
4/17/82 Championship Wrestling - Lawler says he's getting hate mail, mentions Good Morning America appearance
4/17/82 - Mid South Wrestling (aired footage from ABC World of Sport)
5/7/82 Hour Magazine
5/15/82 Saturday Night Live - Opens with scenes of the Lawler match. Kaufman in a neck brace with the cast of Taxi. Most of the match is aired. Andy apologizes for everything.
5/17/82 Late Night With David Letterman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GCt9CLdmew&t=1983s
Andy in a neck brace talking about his match, wants an apology. Sings a song.
6/25/82 The Merv Griffin Show https://archive.org/details/andy-kaufmans-full-discography/55.+Orson+Welles+Interview+-+The+Merv+Griffin+Show+(June+25%2C+1982).mp4
Orson Welles guest hosting. Andy still in a neck brace. Winks about Clifton being a character, Welles says "that's metaphysics"
7/28/82 Late Night With David Letterman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GCt9CLdmew&t=2547s
Notorious fight with Lawler. Lawler is booed by the audience throughout. Memphis face is a NYC heel.
9/17/82 The Fantastic Miss Piggy Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV4_wLfbN-A
Tony Clifton, first time on network prime time since 1979 (if it was Andy), last for next year. George Hamilton introduces, Tony does a medley, comes back later and talks nice with Miss Piggy, later has a duet.
Cowritten by Henry Beard between founding National Lampoon and making Leslie Nielsen golf videos, and directed by Jim Henson himself. Clifton was a choice and I think his biggest TV exposure, and last Clifton appearance. Last prime time appearance for over a year.
9/30/82 Catch a Rising Star's 10th Anniversary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzhAZ_gbyvU
Opens as Foreign Man. First appearance as Andy without a neck brace I've seen since his match. Heckled by Zmuda who proceeds to critique his whole career. One of the better pieces, even with Zmuda. HBO
10/30/82 Saturday Night Live 805 - Announced in the opening credits. News segment mentions Andy supporting Jerry Brown's election campaign. Michael Keaton apologizes for cutting Andy Kaufman, who doesn't actually appear.
11/13/82 Saturday Night Live 806
Cut from reruns, Ebersol explains briefly that Andy was cut from the last two shows because his material wasn't up to the show's standards and he isn't funny anymore. Sets things up for the poll, but the poll itself isn't mentioned here. Andy wasn't mentioned in the intro to the 10/23/82 episode.
https://twitter.com/ThatWeekInSNL/status/1377698861918076928
Robert Blake had a reputation of being difficult to work with and had ranting train wreck talk show interviews about how much he hated show business, in many ways a parallel to Kaufman's appearances around this time. Blake even gets actually banned in the same SNL episode as the poll is announced to ban Kaufman. The show opens with a meta bit about Blake's reputation. I don't think Kaufman was doing a take off or he would have been way more over the top.
11/17/82 Late Night With David Letterman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GCt9CLdmew&t=3666s
Sword swallowing. At the desk said that columnists are trying to get him banned and he thinks the audience should decide. Saturday Night Live isn't referenced. Some hissing from the audience. Apologizes for Heartbeeps.
11/20/82 Saturday Night Live 807 - Drew Barrymore makes a joke about Andy being cut during the intro. Competing 900 numbers to vote to keep or dump Andy. Andy does not appear.
1983
1/7/83 Late Night With David Letterman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GCt9CLdmew&t=4600s
Promos Breakfast With Blassie. Talks about an openness seminar and gives out hugs. Has his parents on and calls Grandma.
1/15/83 Championship Wrestling - Kaufman interferes in a Lawler match. Jimmy Hart cuts a promo, says he called in Kaufman. Post match interview, Kaufman offers $5000 to any wrestler than puts Lawler in the hospital.
1/22/83 Saturday Night Live 810 - Andy rents time to show an ad thanking those who voted for him. Lily Tomlin does her blackface soul singer character Pervis Hawkins and notably doesn't come back to deny it was her or otherwise wink at the camera.
1/30/83 Super Bowl XVII Pre-Game Show as Latka
2/23/83 Late Night With David Letterman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GCt9CLdmew&t=5800s
Promotes his one-night play Teaneck Tanzi: The Venus Flytrap and Breakfast with Blassie with a clip. Announces that they're remaking Sons of the Desert. Blassie announces he's Andy's new manager and bullies him into singing.
4/23/83 Championship Wrestling - Lawler does a promo on repeat of his Letterman appearance
4/30/83 Championship Wrestling - Recap of Lawler/Kaufman History. Looks like they used tapes from late night shows for Andy's promos, you could hear laughing. Shows the slap on Letterman. Kaufman interferes in a Lawler/Bockwinkle match. Andy has a pre-taped promo.
5/7/83 Championship Wrestling - Andy and the Colossus of Death against Lawler. Andy does a promo with a convincing busted jaw. Kaufman is called from the studio.
5/14/83 Championship Wrestling - Ken Patera wants to collect Andy's bounty. Andy does a prerecorded promo.
5/21/83 Championship Wrestling - Ken Patera defeats Lawler, expresses sympathy for Andy in a promo. Andy doesn't appear
5/26/83 Up Close with Tom Cottle - straight interview, talks about childhood, grandfather's death. Doesn't get into character as a heel, but explains that wrestling is real and he's done with it, wouldn't be surprised if the rest of the interview is a work as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r0EZmAwiS8
6/11/83 Championship Wrestling - Hart says Andy sent him Man Mountain Link to collect the bounty. Andy doesn't appear
6/18/23 Championship Wrestling - Man Mountain Link defeats Lawler clean. Jimmy Hart calls Andy. We now have two defeats of Lawler, but nobody's sent him to the hospital so the bounty is still out. Andy says he's buying Graceland and turning it into the Andy Kaufman Television Museum.
7/9/83 Championship Wrestling - First time in the studio, raises bounty to 10k. In a neck brace, Andy had done the circuit the previous week. Hart and Andy accuse each other of letting the other down. Andy challenges Hart, they fight at the announce desk, crowd cheers Hart. Clips from the Hart/Kaufman on Lawler match.
7/15/83 The Andy Kaufman Show
https://archive.org/details/andy-kaufmans-full-discography/62.+The+Andy+Kaufman+Show+(2nd+TV+Special)+-+WTTW+Chicago+(PBS)+(July+15%2C+1983).mp4
Hosted by Tony Clifton puppet. Said his wrestling was due to eating meat making him aggressive.
7/16/83 Championship Wrestling - Highlights of Kaufman/Hart match. In the studio, Kaufman offers his $10k bounty to Lawler if he'll be his partner against Jimmy Hart
7/23/83 Championship Wrestling - Kaufman in the studio, Kaufman double crossed Lawler, pays the $10k to the Assassins. Match highlights. Lawler sets Kaufman's face on fire with flash paper.
7/30/83 Championship Wrestling - Video promo of Kaufman showing his burned face and stack of scripts he's been offered.
8/6/83 Championship Wrestling - Kaufman on video, gives hygiene lessons
8/13/83 Championship Wrestling - More hygiene lessons
8/20/83 Championship Wrestling - More helpful hints, says he doesn't want fan letters
9/22/83 Late Night With David Letterman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GCt9CLdmew&t=6820s
Says he isn't wrestling, not doing anything professionally, homeless and hitchhiking across the country. Letterman kept trying to prompt him to get to his schtick, that he adopted three adult men, which is meant to be funny because they're Black. Does Elvis.
11/83 My Breakfast with Blassie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWCJM8wvcg8 Think this is the date it started playing in small theaters.
11/5/83 Championship Wrestling - Lawler announces Andy is suing him. Pretape of Andy, on the phone in the studio. Says Taxi was cancelled because he was burnt. His friend Muhammad Ali taught Andy to box. Claims he was the San Diego Chicken interfering in Lawler's matches.
Late 1983 Jerry Lawler Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA2_Y4yzZXQ
11/17/83 Late Night With David Letterman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GCt9CLdmew&t=7597s
Tells bad joke. Promotes My Breakfast with Blassie and the Rodney Dangerfield Special. Shows a clip from the Big Chill. Brings back the "kids", says he's giving them vocational training, which is meant to be funny because they're Black.
11/19/83 CWA Wrestling - Andy in the studio, commentates
11/21/83 Andy's final match, following week's show is unavailable
11/29/83 The Rodney Dangerfield Special: I Can't Take It No More https://archive.org/details/andy-kaufmans-full-discography/63.+Doctor+Sketch+-+The+Rodney+Dangerfield+Special+-+I+Can%E2%80%99t+Take+It+No+More+(November+7%2C+1983).mp4
ABC Last network appearance, in skits Losers Anonymous, sings along with Rappin' Rodney, does Dr, Vinnie Boombatz
1984
2/12/84 Superstars of Comedy Salute the Improv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9U7CttW8i8
Rock Island from Music Man on Congas, does his laundry
11/26/84 The Top (last TV appearance) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmnZcPCYuuo
KTLA. Directed by David Jove who was implicated in the murder of Peter Ivers, host of New Wave Theater and composer of the In Heaven song from Eraserhead. Chevy Chase got into a fight with an audience member and walked off - Andy came in later as host and was edited in.
Introduces Cyndi Lauper. Explains the I Love LA video in detail. Talks to Rodney Dangerfield about his Rappin' Rodney video.
After Andy's Death
10/7/86 Elayne Boosler: Party of One
1989 I'm from Hollywood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB0hLuDdbD0
Good place to see his wrestling excerpts in one place, mostly in order, with a lot that I couldn't find in original programming. Shots from Fridays 2nd appearance a full year before the Lawler fight. Swaps the Jimmy Hart feud and the hygiene lessons in the timeline.
Jerry Lawler and Lance Russell stay perfectly in character, Robin Williams is clearly playing along.
