The Hollywood Palace Season 5
The Hollywood Palace is an hour-long American television variety show that was broadcast weekly on ABC from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970. Originally titled The Saturday Night Hollywood Palace, it began as a mid-season replacement for The Jerry Lewis Show, another variety show which had lasted only three months. It was staged in Hollywood at the former Hollywood Playhouse on Vine Street, which was renamed The Hollywood Palace during the show's duration and is today known as Avalon Hollywood. A little-known starlet named Raquel Welch was cast during the first season as the "Billboard Girl", who placed the names of the acts on a placard.
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The Hollywood Palace
1964
The Hollywood Palace is an hour-long American television variety show that was broadcast weekly on ABC from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970. Originally titled The Saturday Night Hollywood Palace, it began as a mid-season replacement for The Jerry Lewis Show, another variety show which had lasted only three months. It was staged in Hollywood at the former Hollywood Playhouse on Vine Street, which was renamed The Hollywood Palace during the show's duration and is today known as Avalon Hollywood. A little-known starlet named Raquel Welch was cast during the first season as the "Billboard Girl", who placed the names of the acts on a placard.
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The Hollywood Palace Season 5 Full Episode Guide
Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby sings ""Simon Says"" to children of the production crew. --Gene Baylos (comedian) - stand up routine with Bing Crosby --The King Sisters (singers) - ""You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You"" & ""Valley of the Dolls"" --Bunraku (Japanese puppeteers) - play about a Japanese warlord, narrated by Bing --Joe Bushkin (pianist) - ""Dr. Dolittle"" --Joe Bushkin and Bing Crosby - medley of songs about animals (""Talk to the Animals,"" ""Abba Dabba Dabba"" & ""How Much is that Doggie in the Window?"") --Every Mother's Son - ""Put Your Mind at Ease"" --Florence Henderson - ""When I Look into Your Eyes"" --Bing Crosby & Florence Henderson - medley of songs about strings (incl. ""Zing, Went the Strings of My Heart"") --Restaurant sketch with Sid Caesar, Florence Henderson and Bing Crosby. --Bing Crosby - ""Where the Rainbow Ends"" ABC repeated this show on August 31, 1968.
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Host: Don Adams --Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood - ""You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"" --Nancy Sinatra - ""100 Years"" --Kaye Ballard (comedian) - ""Fabulous You"" --Joey Forman (comedian) --Hal Frazier (singer) - ""Somewhere"" & ""Who Am I?"" --The King Family - ""Girl Talk,"" ""Music to Watch Girls By,"" ""A Man and a Woman"" & ""A Hymn to Him"" --Jerry Quarry and his sister Diana - ""This Is Me"" (Jerry Quarry was a heavyweight boxer making his singing debut.) ABC repeated this show on Sept. 21, 1968.
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Jimmy Durante (host) - ""The Lost Chord"" --Liza Minnelli --Tim Conway (comedian) - plays an Olympic coach whose team is losing. --Jerry Shane --Fred and Mickie Finn (honky-tonk musicians) --Le grand ballet Classique (from Paris) --On film: Beatles - ""Lady Madonna"" (promo video)
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--The Hollies - ""Jennifer Eccles"" --Phil Harris - ""The Bare Necessities"" and ""But I Loved You"" --Abbe Lane (singer) - ""Abanda,"" ""Samba de Orpherus"" and ""It Must Be Him"" --Phillip Crosby - ""Can't Take My Eyes Off of You"" --Bill Dana (as Olympic skier Jose Jimenez) --Sid Miller and Rose Marie (comedians) - play songwriters who are adding lyrics to movie titles --Hendra & Ullett (comedy team) --Jacques Ary (comic magician)
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--The Merry Go Round - ""Live"" (excerpt), ""You're A Very Lovely Woman"" (excerpt) and ""Listen, Listen"" (complete song). --Don Knotts (host) talks with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. about Hollywood attractions. --Nancy Ames (singer) - medley: ""Fly Me to the Moon"" & Spanish songs. --Don Knotts and Glenn Ash - ""Shanty in Old Shanty Town"" --Glenn Ash (guitarist) - plays ""Lady of Spain"" on guitar then plays banjo. --Don Knotts (stand-up routine) - nervous man speaking at doctors' convention. --Mary Costa (opera singer) - sings two songs --""Guess Who's Coming to Tea"" comedy sketch with Mary Costa, Don Knotts and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
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Host: Sammy Davis Jr. --Sammy Davis Jr. - ""Tonight,"" ""Once in a Lifetime,"" As Long As She Needs Me,"" ""It Only Takes a Moment,"" ""Let's Keep Swinging"" & ""Sam, by George"" --Diahann Carroll - ""Goin' Out of My Head"" & ""Here's That Rainy Day"" --Sammy Davis Jr. and Diahann Carroll - perform a condensed version of ""Porgy and Bess."" --Peter Lawford - gives Sammy a musical French lesson --Rowan and Martin - comedy routine: sidewalk interview where a man gives his opinion about actors in politics --Checkmates Ltd. - ""Soul Man""
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Host: Milton Berle --Louis Armstrong - ""Willkommen"" & ""No Time Is a Good Good-bye Time"" --Phyllis Diller (comedian) --The Lettermen (vocal group) - medley of hits --Elaine Dunn (singer-dancer) - ""After Today"" --Enzo Stuarti (operatic tenor) - ""Vesti la glubba"" (from Leoncavallo's ""Pagliacci"") --Irving Benson (comedian playing heckler Sidney Shpritzer) --The ""Bottoms Up Revue"" (comedy ensemble from Las Vegas with Nancy Austin, Melendy Britt, Bill Fanning and Breck Wall) --Milton Berle and Nancy Austin - ""The Put-Down Song""
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Guests: --Jimmy Durante (host) - ""The Parade"" --The Temptations --Van Johnson - ""Everybody Ought to Have a Maid"" --Jimmy Dean - ""This Old House"" --Vikki Carr - ""The Lesson,"" ""Some of These Days"" & ""After You've Gone"" --Pat Henry (comedian) --Mac Ronay (magician) --Franklin D'Amore (strongman) --The Bodyguards (strongmen)
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Host: Victor Borge --Dino, Desi & Billy - ""My What A Shame"" --Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows - do a comedy routine in which they answer questions from the studio audience --Jayne Meadows - ""Hello, Dolly!"" --Victor Borge, Jayne Meadows and Steve Allen perform ""I Dig Rock 'n' Roll Music"" --The King Family (singers) - perform a States medley --The Dino Brothers (acrobats) --The Scots Guards (bapipe, drum and bugle corps.) --The Gimma Brothers (tumblers) --Finale: Victor Borge plays Rachmaninov's First Piano Concerto
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Host: Phil Silvers --The James Brown Revue - ""I Feel Good,"" ""I Can't Stand It,"" If I Ruled the World,"" ""Cold Sweat"" & ""There Was a Time"" --Connie Stevens - ""Wouldn't It Be Nice?"" --Polly Bergen - ""Ain't Misbehavin'"" & ""A House Is Not a Home"" --Jack Jones - sings ""Gypsies, Jugglers and Clowns"" & ""I'm Getting Sentimental over You"" --Phil Silvers, Polly Bergen, Connie Stevens & Jack Jones - ""There's Nothing Like a Model T"" --Phil Silvers, Polly Bergen & Connie Stevens - sing a leap-year medley --Henny Youngman (comedian) --The Waraku Trio (Japanese pantomimists)
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--Jack Benny (host) --Liza Minnelli --Sammy Davis Jr. - dances to ""You Got Trouble,"" a recording by Robert Preston --Peter and Chris Allen (Australian folk singers) --Beverly Washburn, Iris Adrian and Peggy Mondo (actresses) - appear in a sketch in which they audition a musical act for Benny. --The Rudenko Brothers (jugglers) --Jack Benny and Sammy Davis Jr. - ""Fascinating Rhythm,"" a musical duel with Benny's violin playing against Sammy's dancing and singing.
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Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby - ""Step to the Rear"" (with dancers) --Bing Crosby and Peggy Lee - medley (including ""The Doodling Song"") --Peggy Lee - ""Seems Like Old Times"" & ""What Is a Woman?"" --Milton Berle --Jimmy Durante --Phil Harris --Lawrence Welk --Roosevelt Grier - ""Spanish Harlem"" --Roosevelt Grier and the Fearsome Foursome - ""Under the Boardwalk"" --The Solokhins (acrobats of the Moscow Circus)
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Host: Phyllis Diller --Phyllis Diller - ""Wives and Lovers"" --Phyllis Diller and Shari Lewis - ""It Was a Very Good Year"" & ""When I'm 64"" --Robert Vaughn (from ""The Man from U.N.C.L.E."") --Johnnie Ray - ""The Little White Cloud,"" ""Cry,"" ""Just Walking in the Rain"" & ""Walking My Baby Back Home."" --The Sandpipers - ""What Now, My Love?"" --Shari Lewis (singer-ventriloquist, with Lambchop) - ""Alexander's Ragtime Band"" --Charlie Manna (comedian) Comedy: --Phyllis Diller, Robert Vaughn and Charlie Manna appear in a Sherlock Holmes sketch.
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Palace Circus Show --Jimmy Durante (host, appearing as the ringmaster) - sings ""Be a Clown,"" ""Buffoons"" and ""When the Circus Leaves Town"" --Anissa Jones (of ""Family Affair"") - appears as the honorary ringmistress --Candy Cavareta (trapeze artist) --The Hanneford Family (bareback horse riders) --Linon (low-wire acrobat-comedian) --Roselle Troupe (aerial acrobats) --The Rudos (performing elephant act) --The Sensational Parker (acrobat, performs on a 110-foot tall swaypole) --Henneford Family --Kay's Pets (performing dogs, monkeys & ponies)
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1967 Christmas Show hosted by Bing Crosby, with wife Kathryn Crosby, and their children Harry, Mary Frances and Nathaniel. --Bing Crosby - ""White Christmas"" --Kathryn Crosby - ""Try to Remember"" --Mary Frances Crosby - ""Where Is Love?"" --Adam West (from ""Batman"") --Adam West, Louis Nye, Bing Crosby and the Crosby children - ""This Old Man"" --The King Family - ""It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas"" --Louis Nye (comedian) --The Marquis Chimps
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Host: Herb Alpert --Boyce & Hart - medley (""I Wanna Be Free"" & ""Last Train To Clarksville"") and ""I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight"" --Liza Minnelli --Burt Bacharach --Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 --Wes Montgomery --Baja Marimba Band Please see ""Recap"" for song titles.
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Host: Jimmy Durante --The Grass Roots - ""Let's Live For Today"" --Jimmy Durante - ""Hellzapoppin'"" & ""Yesterday"" --Larry Bishop and Rob Reiner (comedy team, Joey Bishop's son & Carl Reiner's son) --Ethel Merman - ""Walking Happy"" --The Lennon Sisters - ""Up-Up and Away"" --Noel Harrison - ""Suzanne"" --Milt Kamen (comedian) --The Berosinis (acrobats)
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Host: Milton Berle --Milton Berle - ""Comedy Tonight"" --Nanette Fabray - ""Toot, Toot, Tootsie"" --Buddy Greco (singer-pianist) - ""Is It All That Bright and Beautiful?"" --The Fearsome Foursome (Merlin Olsen, Rosevelt Grier, Roger Brown, Deacon Jones and Lamar Lundy of the Los Angles Rams) - sing ""On the Football Field"" --Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber (comedy team) --The King Family - medley of Spanish songs
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Co-hosts: Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme --Steve and Eydie - ""I Believe in You"" and a medley of Broadway songs (""Without You I'm Nothing,"" ""Where Would You Be Without Me?"" Walking Happy,"" ""Cabaret"" and ""The Honeymoon Is Over"") --Eydie Gorme - ""How Could I Be So Wrong?"" --Steve Lawrence - ""I've Gotta Be Me"" --Steve Lawrence and Corbett Monica - ""Making Whoopee"" --Corbett Monica (comedian, doing a monolog about family life) --Tim Conway (comedian, plays a square at a hippie love-in) --Szony and Claire (dancers) --The Mascotts (head-balancing act from Germany) ABC repeated this show on May 25, 1968.
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--Sid Caesar (host) - plays an orchestra drummer during Tchaikovsky's ""1812 Overture."" Later in show, Sid sings ""A Real Live Girl."" --Marlo Thomas (actress) - narrates a fashion show of 1968 resort fashions.--Sergio Franchi - ""The Girl from Ipanema"" and ""I Should Care""--Fran Jeffries - ""Another Night""--The Checkmates - ""You've Lost That Loving Feeling""--Sid Caesar, playing saxophone, joins the Checkmates for ""I May Be Wrong""
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--Bing Crosby (host) --Bing Crosby and the United Nations Children's Choir - ""Small World"" --Bing Crosby and Roger Miller - Hobo medley --Roger Miller - ""You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd"" and ""Code of the West"" --Bing Crosby and Gail Martin - ""You Make Me Feel So Young,"" ""Roses and Lollipops,"" ""Mutual Admiration Society"" and ""That's Amore"" --Bing Crosby, Victor Borge, Roger Miller and Paul Lynde sing ""I Dig Rock 'n' Music"" --Fred and Mickie Finn (ragtime group) - ""Sweet Georgia Brown""
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Guests (All-British performers): --Petula Clark (host) - ""This Is My Song,"" ""Don't Sleep in the Subway,"" ""Imagine"" & ""Just Say Good-Bye"" --Lynn Redgrave, Petula Clark and Noel Harrison - ""Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" --Noel Harrison - ""Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"" --George Sanders --Hendra & Ullett (comedy team) --The Nitwits (humorous musical group) Comedy: --A ""Camelot"" parody narrated by Petula Clark: Lynn Redgrave portrays a clumsy Queen Quinevere, George Sanders as the ""gouty"" King Arthur, and Noel Harrison as the dashing Lancelot.
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All-Comedy Show --Milton Berle (host) --Kaye Ballard --Joe Besser --Irving Benson --Prof. Irwin Corey --The Bottoms Up (comedy troupe)
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Expo '67 Salute Host: Victor Borge --Adam West --Don Ho --Hendra & Ullett --Mircille Mathieu
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--Sammy Davis Jr. (host) - ""That Old Black Magic,"" ""After Today"" & ""At the Crossroads"" --Diana Ross and the Supremes - ""Reflections"" and ""The Lady Is A Tramp"" --Raquel Welch sings ""Bang Bang"" --Sammy Davis Jr. and the Supremes - medley (songs about cities) --Jack Burns & Avery Schreiber (comedy team) - parody TV talk shows. --Baby Lawrence (jazz dancer) - appears with Sammy Davis Jr. in a tap-dancing ""duel."" --Joey Bishop (comedian) - makes a cameo walk-on
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Host: Milton Berle --Spanky & Our Gang - ""Making Every Minute Count"" --Lena Horne --Neile Adams --David Hedison
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--Phyllis Diller (host) --The 5th Dimension - ""Up - Up, and Away"" and ""California, My Way"" --Frankie Avalon - ""Sand and Sea"" --Annette Funicello - ""Promise Me Anything"" --Phil Harris (comedian) - ""Ode to Billy Joe"" and ""Tiny Bubbles"" --The Herculeans (balancing act) (Note: another source listed the act as Hercules, a strongman) --Also: a seal act
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Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby - ""When We All Get Together"" --The Association - ""Never My Love"" --Ravi Shankar - ""Raga"" --Milton Berle, Jimmy Durante and Bing Crosby - ""Good Old Days"" medley --Joey Heatherton, Bing Crosby and Diahann Carroll - ""Girl Talk"" --Diahann Carroll - ""I Only Miss Him When I Think of Him""
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