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- Abbott and Costello were hosts. The Amin Brothers did acrobatics. Teresa Brewer sang a medley of ballads at front stage, then did a song and dance with the June Taylor dancers to Roll Them Roly Boly Eyes, her recent record, wearing a short showgirl skirt. Hoagy Carmichael played piano. Abbott And Costello were involved in skits.
- Episode: (1954)1950–19559.1 (29)TV EpisodeJerry is the newest member.is a shy new member.
- 1950–19558.8 (13)TV Episode
- Abbott & Costello host a mock Inaugural Ball for new President Eisenhower. Includes a hilarious recital by Victor Borge sending up outgoing President Truman and his piano-playing daughter Margaret. As Gisele McKenzie checks into Washington hotel, fans recognize her, so she performs a song for them.
- 1950–19558.6 (10)TV EpisodeHosted by Donald O'Connor. Guests included Ann Sheridan, Patti Moore, Ben Lessey, Sid MIller, Tom D'Andrea, Hal March and The Bell Sisters. The Bell Sisters perform "There's a Ship Comin' In."
- Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis perform at the Mayhem Annual Awards Dinner. Jerry introduces Dean singing, "When You're Smiling." We see the personal lives of Jerry and Dean at home. Dean hires Jerry as a soda jerk.
- Episode: (1951)1950–19558.3 (17)TV Episode
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello host with guests actors Errol Flynn and Bruce Cabot, actress Rhonda Fleming, A & C stalwarts Sid Fields and Joe Kirk, The Pied Pipers, Al Goodman and his Orchestra, and a cameo by George Raft. On the way to work on Fleming's ranch, the boys encounter berserk Flynn doing the classic "Niagra Falls" routine ("Slowly I turn, step by step..."). Lou attempts to milk a cow, and he and Bud get the giggles, start ad libbing, and start spitting milk at each other. Sheriff Lou battles bad guy Flynn in a saloon. Rhonda Fleming performs "Don't Blame Me" and "I'm in Love With a Wonderful Guy."
- The first skit has a gigantic TV being shown to NBC executives, where Dean and Jerry interact with their onscreen selves, then a school for Tarzans is run by Dean, and Jerry's an unlikely student. The last sketch has Jerry as a spoiled rotten kid that makes bizarre science experiments.
- 1950–19558.3 (15)TV EpisodeAbbott & Costello train to Broadway from Hollywood with Lizabeth Scott to appear in her new play. En route Gisele McKenzie sings "Just One of Those Things." The Dassies perform a dazzling comedy acrobatic act.
- 1950–19558.3 (12)TV Episode
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello host with guests singer Evelyn Knight, dancer Hal Le Roy, specialty act Paul Remos and his Toy Boys, the Jimmy Ford Four, Art and Mort Havel, Patricia Shea, Valerie de Cadenet, and Al Goodman and his Orchestra. The boys do their "Hot dog and Mustard" monologue. As a sailor, Hal Le Roy dances and flirts while on liberty. At a carnival midway, Abbott fleeces Costello in their "Shell Game" routine. The Jimmy Ford Four lip sync comedy to "Cocktails for Two." Lou checks into Dr. Abbott's sanitarium for needed rest; instead he's harassed non-stop by a parade of lunatics.
- 1950–195559m8.2 (39)TV EpisodeAbbott and Costello recreate some of their most famous skits including "Who's on First?" and "The Haunted Candle" and do a burlesque on the opera "Carmen."
- In the volatile South American land of "Bullonia", Bud and Lou are broke. To escape their creditors, the put on disguises from some found clothes, Bud in a caballero outfit, and Lou in an exaggerated old time general's uniform. This causes him to be mistaken for the country's despotic presidente, and puts him in the center of several assassination attempts by poison, bombs and flying knives.
- 1950–19558.1 (20)TV EpisodeFeatured guests were singers Gale Storm and Phil Regan. The comedy story line had Lou planning to marry Gale.
- 1950–19558.1 (13)TV EpisodeMartin and Lewis open the show with a satire of THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW followed by sketches on the life of Dean Martin and a run-through of the May 1955 road tour for the Martin and Lewis Stage Show.
- Episode: (1955)1950–19558.0 (12)TV EpisodeDean Martin and Jerry Lewis host with guests Franklin Pangborn, The Four Step Brothers, Micki Marlow, and Dick Stabile and his Orchestra. Dean's attempt to sing is interrupted by Jerry's "brother," a car attendant. An ill Dean can't get any bed rest with Jerry trying to kill a fly in their room. the show's sponsors get worked over by Jerry with their own products. Dean and Jerry do "We Belong Together" with special lyrics by Sammy Cahn. The boys dance with the Four Step Brothers in the close.
- At Dean's diner, a hungry Jerry shows up looking for a job, but he proves incompetent and makes a mess of the spaghetti that patrons are waiting for. In the next skit, Jerry is adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Martin at an orphanage, where he's twice the size of the other boys. Their guest Jack Benny is billed as "Phil Abrams" and does nearly nothing.
- Jerry plays Dean's life-sized dummy as they pass themselves off as a ventriloquism act for a talent agent. Dean sings "Solitaire" and Jerry lip-syncs to "Be My Love." Jerry goes undercover at a prison to crack the scheme of a couple of tough prisoners and causes chaos. Dandridge sings "Blow Out the Candle." In the finale, Dean attempts to sing as Jerry conducts/disrupts the orchestra.
- Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis host with guests Dick Humphreys, Gretchen Houser, The Treniers, Robert Carson, Henry Slate, Frances Farwell, Helen Eby-Rock, John Harmon, Bobby Fain, Charles Williams, and announcer Hal Sawyer. They boys mark their 8th anniversary as a comedy team. They first meet at an Atlantic City nightclub where they're quickly fired as waiter and busboy. They encounter each other again at a music store which they promptly wreck. After being canned, they team up for a show biz act. They join the Treniers to dance in the close.
- Episode: (1952)1950–19557.6 (15)TV EpisodeDean Martin and Jerry Lewis host with guests singer Kitty Kallen, dancers The Four Step Brothers, Danny Arnold, Harvey Wheelwick, with announcer Hal Sawyer. Jerry tries to get a part in the "Birdwheel Frolics of 1952" by crashing a kids' singing act, the chorus line, and by playing Marlon Brando as "The Continental." Dean and Jerry talk loudly at a librarians' convention. Dean and Kitty's duet is ruined when Jerry joins in. Dean smuggles Jerry aboard a very bouncy cruise ship. The boys dance with the Step Brothers.
- First seen is a rather elaborate parody of "The $64,000 Question" (Did they have use of the actual set?) where Jerry is a phenomenal guesser, and goes in a water tank, then Dean plays a game of pool that Jerry can't help but cover with chalk dust, next, Jerry plays a punchy fighter as a singer,and the boys end on a singing, dancing number with a rock and roll band.
- Martin and Lewis welcome Patti Lewis, dancers The Four Step Brothers, Danny Arnold, and cameos by Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, with Dick Stabile and his Orchestra. Dean and Jerry are upstaged by Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh who refuse to leave the stage. Airline pilot Dean deals with a new lunatic steward, Jerry. Jerry's a disruptive nine-year-old irritating his father and a cop at the arcade. Jerry plugs the new issue of TV Guide with he and Dean on the cover. Patti sings "My Daddy, My Hero, My Love" and a duet with Jerry. The boys dance with the Step Brothers in the close.
- Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis serve as the Colgate show's hosts for a second time and invite the mayors of their hometowns to appear on the show.
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- Dean and Jerry return from overseas, singing their way thru customs. A crazed Burt Lancaster hides out in the men's bedroom. Dean croons "That's Amore" and, "You're the Right one."
- 1950–195558mNot Rated7.3 (14)TV EpisodeAbbott Costello do several of their burlesque routines with their usual supporting players and play host to screen great Chales Laughton.
- 1950–19557.1 (28)TV EpisodeDean Martin and Jerry Lewis host with guests blonde bombshell Marilyn Maxwell, comic dancers Barr and Estes, J.C.McCord, Frank Gallop, Jean Carson, William McCutheon, vocal group The Honeydreamers, with Dick Stabile and his Orchestra. Dean and Jerry disrupt a formal party, and do a stand-up as a man and woman reconciling after an argument. Maxwell performs "I Love the Guys" with dancers. Dean, a failing movie theater owner, forces a kid (played by Jerry) to buy a ticket. Backstage, Martin has a luxurious dressing room while Lewis has a janitor's closet. Dean sings "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter," "Frankie and Johnny," and "La Vie en Rose."
- Episode: (1951)1950–195550m7.1 (20)TV EpisodePolly Bergen, Mary Ann Niles, Bob Fosse, and Dick Stabile and his Orchestra.
- 1950–19557.1 (14)TV Episode
- It's Christmas, what better way than to celebrate with Abbott and Costello.
- Gene Wesson hosts with guests Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, skater Sonja Henie, comic/singer Keefe Brasselle, with Carolyn Jones, Joyce Jameson, Michael Ross, Will J. White, Jud Conlon Singers, Norman Abbott, Glen Stangle, and announcer Hal Sawyer. Wesson and Brasselle perform dueling impressions, a sketch depicts a mob-run coffee shop, and Abbott and Costello encounter the Frankenstein Monster and the Gill Man in the Universal Studios' prop room.
- 1950–19556.8 (10)TV EpisodeGuests include opera star Lily Pons; Eleanor Roosevelt; Bob Cummings; harpist Robert Maxwell; New York Mayor Vincent Impellitteri; the Boys' Choir from the Cathedral of St. John the Divine; and Charles Sandford and his Orchestra.
- Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis host with guests Kitty Kallen, actress Joyce Randoph, comic dancers Leonard Barr and Virginia Estes, comic actor (and Jerry Lewis impersonator) Sammy Petrillo, ballroom dancers De May and Moore, singers The Skylarks, and Dick Stabile and his Orchestra. Kitty Kallen sings "Please Take Me Home" and "I Can't Give You Anything But Love". In a babysitting sketch, Joyce Randolph plays the mom, Jerry the dad, and Petrillo the baby. Another skit involves a dancing school.
- Eddie Cantor hosts with guests actress Adele Jergens, Robert Clary, actor Jimmy Dobson, actress Shirley Mitchell, Doris Singleton, child dancer Sharon Baird, Herman McCoy's UCLA Swing Choir, a cameo from Kirk Douglas, and Al Goodman and his Orchestra. Eddie enrolls at UCLA as a freshman in this musical comedy. He moves on campus and accidentally knocks out the football star, then learns French from student Robert Clary. During the school's Varsity Show, the UCLA Swing Choir sings "Lullaby of Broadway" with a tribute to George Gershin featuring Cantor in blackface. Eddie plays the Kirk Douglas role in a spoof of "Detective Story."
- Episode: (1951)1950–19556.7 (17)TV EpisodeSketches include a hospital bit with Dean as the doctor and Jerry as his intern, and fancy dinner party with Dean and Jerry making a mess of things. Includes special guests Jane Morgan, Bob Fosse and Mary Ann Niles.
- 1950–19551h6.7 (23)TV Episode
- On an ocean liner, a nightclub singer tries to help a fellow American romance an English heiress who is being forced to return home to marry a man she doesn't love. The American must avoid his boss who is traveling on the same vessel and disguises himself as a gangster traveling with a minister who is, in fact, a disguised gangster on the lam.
- Adaptation of Cole Porter's famous 1941 musical which ran on Broadway for 547 performances. Three wives grow suspicious of their husbands' supposed hunting trips and decide throw a small party and invite three young Army recruits as their dates. The recruits' girlfriends learn about the party and crash it and are soon joined by the wives' husbands who return from hunting early.
- 1950–19551h5.8 (20)TV EpisodeTonight's program offers a salute to the Air Age, featuring scenes from motion pictures about the earliest and the latest in aviation developments.
- 1950–19551h1.4 (112)TV Episode
- Broadcast live from the S.S. United States sail away party. Jaye P Morgan. Gordon Mac Rae. Ronny Graham. Mrs America, AND the entire Gabor family.
- Episode: (1952)1950–1955TV EpisodeHost Tony Martin: Guests Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kay Starr, The St. Paul Choir.
- On NBC, from Hollywood, California. Cynthia and Kay Strother, as The Bell Sisters, perform "There's a Ship Comin' In"
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- 1950–1955TV EpisodeBobby Clark hosts with songwriter Sig Romberg and actress Joan Blondell guesting. Clark plays a judge with a pea-shooter, and entertains snooty matrons at a Boston tea party. Romberg does a medley of songs he's composed.
- The City Slickers, George Rock, Sir Frederick Gas, Freddy and Dick Morgan, Bill King, The Wayne Marlin Trio, Lois Ray, Gale Robbins, and Laverne Pearson Note: There was also a cameo appearance by the Today Show's Dave Garroway.
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- 1950–195535mTV EpisodeActor/dancer Tommy Wonder, opera soprano Yma Sumac, dancer Danny Daniels, Yiddish theatre star Joseph Buloff, Lew Hearn, Robert Gari, Jack Albertson, the ballet team of Val Buttingnol and Joy Williams, and Al Goodman and his Orchestra.
- 1950–1955TV EpisodeFred Allen hosts. His guests include actors Monte Woolley and Peter Donald, opera star Rise Stevens, ballet stars Sono Osato, Hugh Laing and Zachary Solov, Tony award winner David Burns, Fred Allen's radio co-horts Kenny Delmar, Minerva Pious, Parker Fennelly (supplying voices in a puppet version of "Allen's ALley") with Al Goodman and his Orchestra. Stevens joins Allen for a "Middle-town U.S.A." version of "Carmen." Wooley and Allen do a department store sketch. Burns follows Allen around and pre-tests his material for him.
- 1950–1955TV EpisodeEddie Cantor makes a second appearance as the Colgate show host and performs a skit playing 'Maxie the Taxi' and later sings 'Dinah'.
- For Fred Allen's second time hosting the Colgate program, his guests include part of his regular radio program cast Peter Donald, Parker Fennelly and Portland Hoffa (Allen's wife). Other guests include the dancers Anthony, Allyn and Hodges and comedians Mort and Art Havel. Parker Fennelley plays his radio character Titus Moody in a sketch. Logan sings "Sunny Side of the Street" and joins Allen in a production take-off on "Brigadoon".
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Host: Bobby Clark; Guests: Mel Allen, Frances Langford, Gussie Moran, The Peiro Brothers, The Albins
1950–1955TV EpisodeComedian Bobby Clark hosts "Michael Todd's Revue" sponsored by Frigidaire. Guests are singer Frances Langford, baseball announcer Mel Allen, tennis player Gussie Moran, Argentinian jugglers Atilio and Hector (The Peiro Brothers), and comedy act The Albins. Clark is judge in a courtroom sketch with Moran complaining someone had stolen her lacy underwear. Clark performs a comedy rendition of the poem "The Shooting of Dan McGrew." A stream of crazies keeps Clark from getting sleep in a hospital. - Eddie Cantor hosts with guests singer June Keegan, pianist Joe Bushkin, actors Jack Albertson, Dick Van Patten and Connie Sawyer, teeter-board acrobats The Armandis, and dancers Les Zoris (Robert Gross and Claudine Baudin). Sawyer and Cantor stumble around as a near-sighted couple. Cantor is joined by Albertson and Van Patten in a "Maxi the Taxi" sketch. Cantor is accompanied by Bushkin on "Ballin' the Jack" and "Dust Off That Old Piano". The finale, based on "Babes in Toyland," features Keegan singing a holiday tune.
- Comics/dancers Paul and Grace Hartman host an abbreviated version of their recent Broadway revue. In highlights, Patricia Bright complains that TV has stolen her husband, and Dorothy Jarmac interprets an abstract painting via dance.
- Fred Allen's guests are comic Doc Rockwell, acrobats the Christianis, opera singer Eileen Farrell, and, from Allen's radio show, Minerva Pious, Kenny Delmar, Peter Donald, and Parker Fennelly. With Al Goodman and his orchestra. Eileen Farrell performs a song from "Madame Butterfly". Sketches include Allen as Santa refusing to make his yearly rounds because of the state of the world. There's a murder trial involving hillbillies in rural Maine. Also, a sketch shows a nine-year-old who's gotten all his knowledge from television.
- 1950–1955TV EpisodeDanny Thomas, Ed Wynn and Sigmund Romberg.
- Jerry Lester hosts with the regular cast of his series "Broadway Open House": David Street, Dagmar, Milton DeLugg, The Mello-Larks, and Wayne Howell. Guests are Kukla, Fran and Ollie, Fred Allen, and actors Pat O'Brien and Joan Bennett. Allen and Lester participate in one of Dagmar's plays. Lester does a take-off on radio giveaway shows.
- Julie Wilson; Willie, West and McGinty; The Maxwells; Miriam Wakefield; Bobby Lane and Claire; Jack Mann; Dick Dana; and Tom Jones and his Orchestra.
- Episode: (1951)1950–1955TV EpisodeLee Fairfax, Basil O'Connor, Dave Powell, Joe Marks, and Estelle Sloan.
- This was a Colgate-sponsored comedy hour that featured many notable comedians and entertainers of the era as guest stars.
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- 1950–1955TV EpisodeHost Eddie Cantor's celebrity guests are singers Eddie Fisher and Marion Colby. Eddie's spotlight on "future stars" features opera singer Evelyn Gould, young singer/dancer Joel Grey, actor/vocalist William Warfield, comics Tony and Eddie who lip sync to records, classical violinist Miche'le Auclair, and dancers Gehrig and Weismuller.
- 1950–19551hTV EpisodeHost: Bob Hope; guest stars: Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Arthur Treacher, Janis Paige.
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- 1950–1955TV EpisodeFred Allen hosts with guests humorist/author H. Allen Smith; Tony award winning actress Sheila Bond; and Broadway performer Billy Tabbert.
- Episode: (1950)1950–1955TV EpisodeBob Hope hosts this Frigidaire-sponsored episode. Guests are singer Jimmy Wakely, actress Marilyn Maxwell, vocalists The Taylor Maids, dance duo High Hatters, dancer Judy Kelly, Les Brown and his Band of Renown, and pitchman Nelson Case. Performing to an all-military audience, Hope opens with his usual monologue. High Hatters tap dance to "Me and My Shadow". Wakely performs "Lonesome Train" and duets with Hope on "Tumbling Tumbleweeds". In comedy sketches, Hope plays a show-off test pilot. He and Maxwell, as Mata Hari, do a spy skit featuring Hitler and Stalin doubles. The two duet on "Darn It, Baby, That's Love". Taylor Maids sing "Orange Colored Sky". Les Brown's band plays "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm".
- Eddie Cantor hosts with guests actor Robert Gari, comedian Charlie Cantor (no relation), dancers Fred and Sledge, Leslie Scott, Bil and Cora Baird's Marionettes, show's choreographer Dick Barstow, his wife Ida Cantor, and Al Goodman and his Orchestra. Cantor plays cab driver "Maxie the Taxi." Eddie and Charlie are in drag as a couple of housewives at a laundromat. Scott sings "Basin Street Blues" with Fred and Sledge dancing. Cantor is joined by his wife, Ida, in a tribute to their recently deceased friend Al Jolson; Gari performs as Jolson singing "Swanee".
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- Bob Hope hosts this AGVA salute to the return of vaudeville. His guests include Marilyn Maxwell, singer Bob Crosby, comic actors Eddie Bracken and Frank Faylen, Georgie Price, singer Toni Arden, comic Pat C. Flick, juggler Wally Blair, dancer Lita Baron and Billy Daniel, cyclist Joe Mole, dance act The Rio Brothers, and The Skylarks. Hope does a monologue and plays a TV surgeon in an operating room sketch. Crosby sings "Silver Bells." Faylen and Bracken play vacuum cleaner salesman. Price sings "Laugh, Clown, Laugh" and impersonates George M. Cohan in the finale with the cast singing "Auld Lang Syne."
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- 1950–1955TV EpisodeEpisode highlights include Donald O'Connor performing a song-and-dance about women's hats, Ben Blue starring in a sketch about the upper berth in a train's sleeping compartment, a songwriter sketch featuring suffering partners O'Connor and Sid Miller and a big production number featuring O'Connor and Scatman Crothers based on the song, "The Birth of the Blues".
- Bobby Clark hosts this episode which was based on a 1946 Broadway show called 'Would-Be Gentleman'. Clark adapted the book for the performance based on a play written by Moliere.
- Host: Bob Hope; guest stars: Anna Maria Alberghetti, Georgie Tapps, Martha Stewart.
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- Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis introduce sketches from earlier shows because Jerry had injured himself on a motor scooter.
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- Aired as the 100th telecast of "The Colgate Comedy Hour".
- 1950–1955TV EpisodeFilmed at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood, California and broadcast on NBC. Cynthia and Kay Strother, as the Bell Sisters, perform "Do It Again" and then duet with Bob Hope on "June Night."
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- 1950–1955TV EpisodeDean Martin and Jerry Lewis star with guests Franklin Pangborn, Duke Art Jr., Birdie Brickerbrack, The Modernaires, and Dick Stabile and his Orchestra. Dean's attempt to sing is disrupted by Jerry's lousy trumpet playing. A movie executive and his entourage come backstage to discuss business, and leave covered in food and water. Jerry destroys a store's toy department and clerk Franklin Pangborn. Jerry mugs to Leroy Anderson's "The Typewriter." The Modernaires sing "Crazy Man, Crazy" and Martin performs "Pretty Baby." Jerry presents Dean with a gold record for "That's Amore."
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- Bud Abbott hosts solo as Lou Costello is ill. His guests include: Peggy Lee; Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis; actor Jimmy Thompson; dancers Pat Horn and Gene Nelson; The Pied Pipers; and Al Goodman and his Orchestra. Miss Lee performs "Baubles, Bangles and Beads" in a smoke filled production number and sings a commercial for Halo shampoo! Nelson performs a dance titled "Off Center". Kinescoped clips from A&C's previous appearances are shown, including one involving a rubdown, another featuring diamonds.
- Eddie Cantor hosts with guests Frank Sinatra, Brian Donlevy, Eddie Fisher, Harold Arlen, Connie Russell, the Debonaires, Joan Shawlee, Harold Arlen, and Al Goodman and his Orchestra. Maxi the Taxi picks up a woman he thinks is expecting. In a take-off of westerns, all the characters speak in voice overs. Composer Harold Arlen leads the cast in a medley of collection of his biggest hit songs.
- Jimmy Durante's last episode as a series host finds him surrounded by circus performers. He gets into the act in a sketch playing a clown who is hopelessly in love with a beautiful lion tamer (played by Shelley Winters).
- 1950–1955TV EpisodeHost Eddie Cantor welcomes guests Milton Berle, Eddie Fisher and Connie Russell.
- Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis host with The Skylarks, Byron Kane, Mary Ellen Kaye, Paul Power, and Dick Stabile and his Orchestra. Songs include "That's Entertainment," "Every Street's a Boulevard" and "Money Burns a Hole in my Pocket. Jerry's a hotel bellhop who destroys honeymoon night for Dean and his new bride. Jerry conducts a glee club. At a lonely heart's club meeting, Jerry is the newest member.is a shy new member.
- Performers from Hollywood include The Will Mastin Trio (starring Sammy Davis Jr.), singer Connie Russell, Gene Sheldon, comedian Jay Lawrence, singers The Gaylords, The Nita Bieber Dancers, announcer Don Wilson, and Vic Schoen and his Orchestra. Jay Lawrence performs a comedy routine. Sammy Davis, Jr. sings "Because of You," "Hey, There" and "The Birth of the Blues". Russell performs "One Arabian Night" and "You've Changed." The Gaylords do "The Little Shoemaker" and "I Love You."
- Gordon MacRae hosts with guests Tony Curtis, Gloria De Haven, Gene Nelson, Paul Gilbert, Mara Corday, in person and on film in a preview of So This Is Paris, plus Gene Sheldon, Notre Dame Coach Terry Brennan, the 1955 Rose Bowl Queen, special guests Jeff Chandler and Rock Hudson, Carmen Dragon and his Orchestra
- This episode celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Friar's Club.
- Adaptation of the 1934 Broadway musical by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz involving a romantic triangle.
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- Gordon MacRae and Rhonda Fleming co-host from March Air Force Base in Riverside, California commemorating Armed Forces Week. Guests are Abbott and Costello, dancers the Clark Brothers, singer Jana Mason, Carmen Dragon and his Orchestra, and (on film) President Eisenhower. Abbott is a sergeant to goof-ball soldier Costello, the Singing Sergeants of the Air Force perform, stunts by the Thunderbirds, and an F-100 travels from Tuscon to March Air Force base during the show.
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- Broadway Director George Abbott introduces scenes from two of his hit musicals, "Damn Yankees" and "The Pajama Game," in this tribute to songwriters Richard Adler and Jerry Ross.
- This program, telecast from the Hollywood Bowl, salutes the release of the film Oklahoma! Robert Paige is the host and guests include: from the movie Gordon MacRae; Shirley Jones; Gene Nelson; Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis; and Bambi Linn (and her dance partner Rod Alexander); Yul Brynner; Will Rogers Jr.; and Jan Clayton. The show includes an interview (on film) with composer Oscar Hammerstein, director Fred Zinneman, and footage from the movie's premiere in New York. Scheduled songs include "People Will Say We're in Love" and "If I Loved You" sung by Shirley Jones and Gordon MacRae; "Oh What a Beautiful Morning" from Shirley Jones; and Yul Brenner with "A Puzzlement".
- Episode: (1955)1950–1955TV EpisodeDean Martin and Jerry Lewis host their final appearance on Colgate. Jerry destroys Dean's high society engagement party. As host of "Martin's Mighty Midnight Matinee Movie," Dean exhibits "Eggroll is a Many Splendored Dish."
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- Eddie Fisher hosts this episode which features scenes from hit shows from the current Broadway season. Highlights include excerpts from Damn Yankees, Fanny, House of Flowers and Palace.
- Jack Webb takes the hour to break down, step by step, all the elements that went into production of his new film, "Pete Kelly's Blues, to be released on 1 August. Peggy Lee and Ella Fitzgerald sing numbers from the film, a mix of 1920's standards and some created for the movie.
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Host: Danny Thomas; Guests: Carmen Miranda, Grace Hartman, The Beatrice Kraft Dancers, Bunny Lewbell
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