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The Colgate Comedy Hour - Season 4

Episode List

Martin & Lewis
E1 - Martin & Lewis

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"

Jimmy Durante
E2 - Jimmy Durante

Aired: October 11, 1953

Eddie Cantor
E3 - Eddie Cantor

Aired: October 18, 1953

Donald O'Connor
E4 - Donald O'Connor

Aired: October 25, 1953

Bud Abbott with Martin & Lewis
E5 - Bud Abbott with Martin & Lewis

Aired: November 01, 1953

Jimmy Durante
E6 - Jimmy Durante

Aired: November 08, 1953

Martha Raye
E7 - Martha Raye

Aired: November 15, 1953

Donald O'Connor
E8 - Donald O'Connor

Aired: November 22, 1953

Eddie Cantor
E9 - Eddie Cantor

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.

Jimmy Durante
E10 - Jimmy Durante

Aired: December 06, 1953

Perry Como and Martha Raye
E11 - Perry Como and Martha Raye

Aired: December 13, 1953

Donald O'Connor
E12 - Donald O'Connor

Aired: December 20, 1953

Eddie Cantor
E13 - Eddie Cantor

Aired: December 27, 1953

Jimmy Durante
E14 - Jimmy Durante

Aired: January 03, 1954

Martin & Lewis
E15 - Martin & Lewis

Aired: January 10, 1954

Alan Young, Stan Freberg, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby
E16 - Alan Young, Stan Freberg, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby

Aired: January 17, 1954

Ethel Merman
E17 - Ethel Merman

Aired: January 24, 1954

Eddie Cantor
E18 - Eddie Cantor

Aired: January 31, 1954

Jimmy Durante
E19 - Jimmy Durante

Aired: February 07, 1954

Donald O'Connor
E20 - Donald O'Connor

Aired: February 14, 1954

Sonja Henie (with Abbott & Costello)
E21 - Sonja Henie (with Abbott & Costello)

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.

ANYTHING GOES w Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, Bert Lahr
E22 - ANYTHING GOES w Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, Bert Lahr

Aired: February 28, 1954

Eddie Cantor
E23 - Eddie Cantor

Aired: March 07, 1954

Jimmy Durante
E24 - Jimmy Durante

Aired: March 14, 1954

Abbott & Costello
E25 - Abbott & Costello

Aired: March 21, 1954

Eddie Cantor
E26 - Eddie Cantor

Aired: April 04, 1954

Jimmy Durante
E27 - Jimmy Durante

Aired: April 11, 1954

Abbott & Costello
E28 - Abbott & Costello

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.

Ice Capades Special
E29 - Ice Capades Special

Aired: April 25, 1954

Martin & Lewis
E30 - Martin & Lewis

Aired: May 02, 1954

Jimmy Durante
E31 - Jimmy Durante

Aired: May 09, 1954

Eddie Cantor
E32 - Eddie Cantor

Aired: May 16, 1954

Abbott & Costello
E33 - Abbott & Costello

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.

Martin & Lewis
E34 - Martin & Lewis

Aired: May 30, 1954