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The Colgate Comedy Hour

Season 4

1953 · 34 episodes

  1. 1. 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"

  2. 2. Jimmy Durante

    1953-10-11

  3. 3. Eddie Cantor

    1953-10-18

  4. 4. Donald O'Connor

    1953-10-25

  5. 5. Bud Abbott with Martin & Lewis

    1953-11-01

  6. 6. Jimmy Durante

    1953-11-08

  7. 7. Martha Raye

    1953-11-15

  8. 8. Donald O'Connor

    1953-11-22

  9. 9. 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.

  10. 10. Jimmy Durante

    1953-12-06

  11. 11. Perry Como and Martha Raye

    1953-12-13

  12. 12. Donald O'Connor

    1953-12-20

  13. 13. Eddie Cantor

    1953-12-27

  14. 14. Jimmy Durante

    1954-01-03

  15. 15. Martin & Lewis

    1954-01-10

  16. 16. Alan Young, Stan Freberg, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby

    1954-01-17

  17. 17. Ethel Merman

    1954-01-24

  18. 18. Eddie Cantor

    1954-01-31

  19. 19. Jimmy Durante

    1954-02-07

  20. 20. Donald O'Connor

    1954-02-14

  21. 21. 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.

  22. 22. ANYTHING GOES w Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, Bert Lahr

    1954-02-28

  23. 23. Eddie Cantor

    1954-03-07

  24. 24. Jimmy Durante

    1954-03-14

  25. 25. Abbott & Costello

    1954-03-21

  26. 26. Eddie Cantor

    1954-04-04

  27. 27. Jimmy Durante

    1954-04-11

  28. 28. Abbott & Costello

    1954-04-18 · 60m

    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.

  29. 29. Ice Capades Special

    1954-04-25

  30. 30. Martin & Lewis

    1954-05-02

  31. 31. Jimmy Durante

    1954-05-09

  32. 32. Eddie Cantor

    1954-05-16

  33. 33. 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.

  34. 34. Martin & Lewis

    1954-05-30

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