Charlotte Peters

Charlotte Peters (1913 – December 28, 1988), née Wiedmann, was a television show host based in St. Louis, Missouri. She was the first woman in St. Louis to have a live talk show.

Early life Peters attended school through eighth grade.

The Charlotte Peters Show The Charlotte Peters Show was a weekday live variety television show. It aired at noon on KSD-TV from 1956 to 1964 and then on KTVI until 1970. It was unrehearsed and much audience participation was involved. Phyllis Diller substituted for Peters in 1963.

When the show's run ended, it was one of the few remaining daytime variety shows still on the air.

Personal life and death Peters' husband, William Peters, died in 1974. Her daughter Patricia Schwarz's family operated Charlotte's Rib, a barbecue restaurant named after Peters, in Ballwin, Missouri.

Peters died in 1988 in Northwoods, Missouri, at a nursing home where she had lived for several years. She was buried at Resurrection Cemetery in Affton, Missouri.