The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon individual stations, airing on ABC on Sunday, September 1, 2013, and running two hours. The final edition aired on ABC on August 31, 2014, again as a two-hour special, beginning at 9PM ET/PT. It was announced on May 1, 2015 that the MDA would be discontinuing the annual event for good. Jerry Lewis began hosting telethons to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Associations of America (MDAA) in 1952 after a plea from a staff member who worked with Lewis and Dean Martin on "The Colgate Comedy Hour". Lewis had previously taken part in what has been described as the very first
Jerry Lewis appeared on "The Red Skelton Show", then contributed to some scripts for the Filmation animated series "Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down". He later guest hosted "The Mike Douglas Show" and then directed an episode of "The Bold Ones". He made guest appearances on "The Hollywood Palace", "The Engelbert Humperdinck Show", "The Irv Kupcinet Show", "The Linkletter Show", "The Real Tom Kennedy Show" and "A Christmas Night with the Stars". For United Artists, Lewis directed and made his first offscreen voice performance as a bandleader in "One More Time" (1970), a sequel to the 1968 film "Salt and