Editing Liberace (section)

===Later television work===
Liberace made significant appearances on other shows such as ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]'', ''[[The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford]]'', [[Edward R. Murrow]]'s ''[[Person to Person]]'' as well as on the shows of Jack Benny and [[Red Skelton]], on which he often parodied his own persona. A new ''Liberace Show'' premiered on ABC's daytime schedule in 1958, featuring a less flamboyant, less glamorous persona, but it failed in six months as his popularity began slumping.<ref name=pyron202>Pyron, 2000, p. 202.</ref>

Liberace received a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] in 1960 for his contributions to the television industry. He continued to appear on television as a frequent and welcomed guest on ''The Tonight Show'' with [[Jack Paar]] in the 1960s, with memorable exchanges with [[Zsa Zsa Gabor]] and [[Muhammad Ali]], and later with Johnny Carson.

He was [[Red Skelton]]'s 1969 CBS summer replacement with his own variety hour, taped in London. Skelton and Lew Grade's production companies co-produced this program. In a cameo on ''[[The Monkees (TV series)|The Monkees]]'', he appeared at an [[avant-garde]] art gallery as himself, gleefully smashing a grand piano with a sledgehammer as [[Mike Nesmith]] looked on and cringed in mock agony.

In the ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' television series in 1966 with [[Adam West]] and [[Burt Ward]], Liberace played a dual role as concert pianist Chandell and his gangster-like twin Harry, who was extorting Chandell into a life of crime as Fingers, in the episodes "The Devil's Fingers" and "The Dead Ringers". The episodes of this two-part story were the highest-rated of all the show's episodes.<ref>{{cite book |last=Eisner |first=Joel |date=1987 |title=The Official Batman Batbook |location=London |publisher=Titan Books |pages=78–79 |isbn=0-907610-97-8}}</ref>

His subsequent television appearances included episodes of ''[[Here's Lucy]]'' (1970), ''[[Kojak]]'' and ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' (both 1978), all as himself. His performances in the last of these included a "Concerto for the Birds", "Misty", "Five Foot Two" and a rendition of "[[Chopsticks (music)|Chopsticks]]". Television specials were made from Liberace's show at the Las Vegas Hilton in 1978-1979 which were broadcast on CBS.

In the 1980s, he guest-starred on television shows such as ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' (on a [[Saturday Night Live season 10|tenth-season]] episode hosted by [[Hulk Hogan]] and [[Mr. T]]) as well as the 1984 film ''Special People''. In 1985, he appeared at the first ''[[WrestleMania I|WrestleMania]]'' as the guest timekeeper for the main event.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wwe.com/shows/wrestlemania/1/celebrities |title=WrestleMania I: Celebrities |publisher=wwe.com |date=March 31, 1985 |access-date=April 9, 2013 |archive-date=August 17, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120817101823/http://www.wwe.com/shows/wrestlemania/1/celebrities |url-status=live }}</ref>