The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from October 1, 1962 through May 22, 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first decade, Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show was based at Thirty Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, with some episodes recorded at NBC-TV's West Coast studios in Burbank, California; on May 1, 1972, the show was moved exclusively to Burbank. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide '​s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time and in 2013, it was ranked #22 on their list of 60 Best Series.