 The show featured music and entertainment luminaries such as Melba Moore, Joe Williams, Paul Williams, Burt Bacharach, Anthony Newley, Rosemary Clooney, Lou Rawls, Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan and Henry Mancini.From 1977 until 1981, Allen wrote, produced and hosted the award-winning show "Meeting of Minds", which aired on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).The series pitted the likes of Socrates, Marie Antoinette, Thomas Paine, Sir Thomas More, Attila the Hun, Karl Marx, Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and Galileo Galilei, all of whom were acting as if brought back from the past.