Skits: Burt plays an escaped lunatick. Songs: "Great To Be Home", "You're The Right One", "That's Amore", "There's No Tomorrow"
2: Jimmy Durante
Oct 11, 1953
3: Eddie Cantor
Oct 18, 1953
4: Donald O'Connor
Oct 25, 1953
5: Bud Abbott with Martin & Lewis
Nov 1, 1953
6: Jimmy Durante
Nov 8, 1953
7: Martha Raye
Nov 15, 1953
8: Donald O'Connor
Nov 22, 1953
9: Eddie Cantor
Nov 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.
10: Jimmy Durante
Dec 6, 1953
11: Perry Como and Martha Raye
Dec 13, 1953
12: Donald O'Connor
Dec 20, 1953
13: Eddie Cantor
Dec 27, 1953
14: Jimmy Durante
Jan 3, 1954
15: Martin & Lewis
Jan 10, 1954
16: Alan Young, Stan Freberg, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby
Jan 17, 1954
17: Ethel Merman
Jan 24, 1954
18: Eddie Cantor
Jan 31, 1954
19: Jimmy Durante
Feb 7, 1954
20: Donald O'Connor
Feb 14, 1954
21: Sonja Henie (with Abbott & Costello)
Feb 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.
22: ANYTHING GOES w Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, Bert Lahr
Feb 28, 1954
23: Eddie Cantor
Mar 7, 1954
24: Jimmy Durante
Mar 14, 1954
25: Abbott & Costello
Mar 21, 1954
26: Eddie Cantor
Apr 4, 1954
27: Jimmy Durante
Apr 11, 1954
28: Abbott & Costello
Apr 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.
29: Ice Capades Special
Apr 25, 1954
30: Martin & Lewis
May 2, 1954
31: Jimmy Durante
May 9, 1954
32: Eddie Cantor
May 16, 1954
33: Abbott & Costello
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.
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