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- 1951–197130mTV-G8.4 (30)TV EpisodeDirectorSeymour BernsStarsRed SkeltonBela LugosiLon Chaney Jr.The show is 26 min. long, including Red's opening monologue and a weatherman skit. The Bela/Lon/Vampira skit is intact. SPOILERS: The writing is not exactly Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein quality, but Skelton is amusing. He slips in a marijuana joke, and a tranny joke re Denmark (Christine Jorgensen was in the news.) "Dial B for Brush" comprises most of the show, taking place on three different sets (home lab, graveyard, and morgue with working Jacob's ladder) which are pretty elaborate for TV. There's also an ambitious dance-routine (giving band leader David Rose a chance to shine) with ghosts and skeletons double-exposed into the graveyard set. Clem Kadiddlehopper, for those who've never seen Red's character, is a Lou Costello without a brain to steal, though that doesn't stop Bela as "Prof. Lugosi" from trying. He wears a tux under his lab coat, and does the graveyard scene with Lon and Vampira in his Dracula cape. Lon barks like a dog, wears furry claws and wolf fangs, but takes the teeth out for dialogue (explaining that he just got new wolf dentures at the dentist's). He's Lugosi's half brother ("and half wolf") who sounds exactly like Lenny, and is named (for irony's sake) George. Vampira gets to do her famous shriek, and shows off her absolute deadpan delivery and her weirdly tiny waistline. The ad-libbing does not seem as distressing to Bela as some writers have maintained - many asides actually sound scripted. After his mind-swap, Clem calls Bela "Mother!" and Bela shoots back, "Yes?" then covers his mouth, as if embarrassed. Pretty sure that was arranged. Red also warns a bit player on Bela's gurney not to ad-lib around stars, which suggests Bela might have complained during rehearsal. At one point, Lon reads Red's cue card for him, and Red makes fun of Bela's pronunciation of "tetse" fly. Bela seems to be having fun (but you do worry about the old guy being chased around a set full of props and "bodies") while Lon and Red definitely are. Red's jokes are largely corny, but he did have a sharp wit - he was the one who at Harry Cohn's crowded funeral cracked, "See? You give the people what they want, and they'll turn out."
- DirectorJames AlgarSamuel ArmstrongFord Beebe Jr.StarsLeopold StokowskiDeems TaylorThe Philadelphia OrchestraA series of eight famous pieces of classical music, conducted by Leopold Stokowski and interpreted in animation by Walt Disney's team of artists.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsJoe E. BrownOna MunsonWilliam Collier Jr.Jack's father is sending him away to keep him from gambling, booze, girls, and late nights. He has Ossie go as Jack's companion, not knowing that Ossie does the same things as Jack. They decide to go to California and the trip is long as Jack stops for every girl he sees. In a restaurant in the southwest, they meet Poncho. It seems that every time Ossie sees Pancho, he does something that almost gets him into a fight. When they get to Pasadena, the boys meet Connie and Penny and Aunt Polly. After a few days, Jack proposes and Connie accepts. However, that is that day that Mabel, Jack's jilted fiancée from New York, appears.
- DirectorTed NewsomStarsBud AbbottNick AdamsEvelyn AnkersA history of the famous Monster of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.
- DirectorLen MorrisStarsGene AutryFrank Coghlan Jr.Dale EvansA history of Republic Pictures studios, featuring hundreds of clips plus on-camera interviews with stars, director, stuntman, etc.
- DirectorDavid BergmanStarsSteve AllenStan LaurelOliver HardySteve Allen hosts this collection of clips of some of the greatest comedy teams in movie and television history, including Our Gang, Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers, Burns and Allen, The Three Stooges, The East-Side Kids, Abbott and Costello, and Martin and Lewis.
- DirectorGene FeldmanSuzette WinterStarsJosé FerrerDana AndrewsMartine BeswickA collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them.
- DirectorCharles BartonErle C. KentonCharles LamontStarsJack E. LeonardBud AbbottLou CostelloA compilation of clips from 19 Abbott and Costello features: The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947), In the Navy (1941), Hit the Ice (1943), Who Done It? (1942), Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), Mexican Hayride (1948), Hold That Ghost (1941), Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950), Little Giant (1946), In Society (1944), Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942), The Naughty Nineties (1945), Buck Privates Come Home (1947), Buck Privates (1941), Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955), Lost in Alaska (1952), Comin' Round the Mountain (1951), Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953) and Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955).
- DirectorJohn StanleyStarsJerry WalterDan CaldwellBarrie YoungfellowAttendees at a horror-film convention in San Francisco keep disappearing. It turns out that the guest of honor is a real vampire, and his henchmen are kidnapping the convention guests.