Season 4

Martin & Lewis

1953-10-04

Skits: Burt plays an escaped lunatick. Songs: "Great To Be Home", "You're The Right One", "That's Amore", "There's No Tomorrow"

Jimmy Durante

1953-10-11

Eddie Cantor

1953-10-18

Donald O'Connor

1953-10-25

Bud Abbott with Martin & Lewis

1953-11-01

Jimmy Durante

1953-11-08

Martha Raye

1953-11-15

Donald O'Connor

1953-11-22

Eddie Cantor

1953-11-29

Highlights include a take-off on TV westerns where all the characters speak in voice-overs and a salute to the songs of Harold Arlen.

Jimmy Durante

1953-12-06

Perry Como and Martha Raye

1953-12-13

Donald O'Connor

1953-12-20

Eddie Cantor

1953-12-27

Jimmy Durante

1954-01-03

Martin & Lewis

1954-01-10

Alan Young, Stan Freberg, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby

1954-01-17

Ethel Merman

1954-01-24

Eddie Cantor

1954-01-31

Jimmy Durante

1954-02-07

Donald O'Connor

1954-02-14

Sonja Henie (with Abbott & Costello)

1954-02-21

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.

ANYTHING GOES w Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, Bert Lahr

1954-02-28

Eddie Cantor

1954-03-07

Jimmy Durante

1954-03-14

Abbott & Costello

1954-03-21

Eddie Cantor

1954-04-04

Jimmy Durante

1954-04-11

Abbott & Costello

1954-04-18 • 60 min

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello welcome guests including: Jane Russell; Rhonda Fleming; A&C stalwarts Connie Haines, Bobby Barber and Mike Ross; actress Beryl Davis; actors Tony Martinez, Nestor Paiva, Frank Richards, Benny Rubin, Jim Hayward and Ken Mayer; Jack Shea; Baby Mistin; Donna Kaye; announcer Hal Sawyer; and Al Goodman and his Orchestra. In comedy highlights, the boys are flat broke in a bording house in the Latin American country of Bolamania. They rehearse a magic trick, hoping to get a job at a nightclub. Then Lou gets the great idea of impersonating the El Presidente! Also, take offs on Liberace and You Bet Your Life.

Ice Capades Special

1954-04-25

Martin & Lewis

1954-05-02

Jimmy Durante

1954-05-09

Eddie Cantor

1954-05-16

Abbott & Costello

1954-05-23

One in this comedy/variety series with rotating hosts. The comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello star in this live episode. Highlights include the following: Bud and Lou get fired from their jobs at a department store after attempting to sell nylons; Abbott and his friends sucker Costello out of his pay, but Lou gets his revenge; Hoagy Carmichael sings and is visited by child actor Ricky Vera; Costello and Vera try to tell each other the tale of Little Red Riding Hood and crack each other up in the process; Abbott cons Costello out of his money, but Vera gets the last laugh; Peggy Lee sings "Johnny Guitar," "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered," and the "Halo Shampoo" song; Costello gets appliances with meters and has to pay a quarter every time he uses one, prompting a lot of mayhem as he attempts to try each one out; the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra plays "Midnight Sleigh Ride" and "Holiday"; and Costello attempts to dance with a woman who is almost twice his height.

Martin & Lewis

1954-05-30

Debut of Colgate Summer Comedy hour with Kaye Ballard, Jules Munshin, Jackie Cooper

1954-06-06

Let's Go Places

1954-06-13

Continental Holiday

1954-06-20

Away from It All

1954-06-27

Holiday, U.S.A.

1954-07-04

Episode 40

1954-07-11

Free and Easy

1954-07-18

Bobby Van, Pearl Bailey, Jeff Chandler, Gene Sheldon

1954-07-25