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The Colgate Comedy Hour Season 4

October. 04,1953

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The Colgate Comedy Hour

The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.

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Episode 34 - Martin & Lewis

First Aired: May. 30,1954

Episode 33 - Abbott & Costello

First Aired: May. 23,1954

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.

Episode 32 - Eddie Cantor

First Aired: May. 16,1954

Episode 31 - Jimmy Durante

First Aired: May. 09,1954

Episode 30 - Martin & Lewis

First Aired: May. 02,1954

Episode 29 - Ice Capades Special

First Aired: April. 25,1954

Episode 28 - Abbott & Costello

First Aired: April. 18,1954

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.

Episode 27 - Jimmy Durante

First Aired: April. 11,1954

Episode 26 - Eddie Cantor

First Aired: April. 04,1954

Episode 25 - Abbott & Costello

First Aired: March. 21,1954

Episode 24 - Jimmy Durante

First Aired: March. 14,1954

Episode 23 - Eddie Cantor

First Aired: March. 07,1954

Episode 22 - ANYTHING GOES w Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, Bert Lahr

First Aired: February. 28,1954

Episode 21 - Sonja Henie (with Abbott & Costello)

First Aired: February. 21,1954

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.

Episode 20 - Donald O'Connor

First Aired: February. 14,1954

Episode 19 - Jimmy Durante

First Aired: February. 07,1954

Episode 18 - Eddie Cantor

First Aired: January. 31,1954

Episode 17 - Ethel Merman

First Aired: January. 24,1954

Episode 16 - Alan Young, Stan Freberg, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby

First Aired: January. 17,1954

Episode 15 - Martin & Lewis

First Aired: January. 10,1954

Episode 14 - Jimmy Durante

First Aired: January. 03,1954

Episode 13 - Eddie Cantor

First Aired: December. 27,1953

Episode 12 - Donald O'Connor

First Aired: December. 20,1953

Episode 11 - Perry Como and Martha Raye

First Aired: December. 13,1953

Episode 10 - Jimmy Durante

First Aired: December. 06,1953

Episode 9 - Eddie Cantor

First Aired: November. 29,1953

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.

Episode 8 - Donald O'Connor

First Aired: November. 22,1953

Episode 7 - Martha Raye

First Aired: November. 15,1953

Episode 6 - Jimmy Durante

First Aired: November. 08,1953

Episode 5 - Bud Abbott with Martin & Lewis

First Aired: November. 01,1953

Episode 4 - Donald O'Connor

First Aired: October. 25,1953

Episode 3 - Eddie Cantor

First Aired: October. 18,1953

Episode 2 - Jimmy Durante

First Aired: October. 11,1953

Episode 1 - Martin & Lewis

First Aired: October. 04,1953

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

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