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Season 4

Season 4

The Colgate Comedy Hour

1953
Episodes: 34

Episodes

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1. Martin & Lewis

October 4, 1953

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

Guest Stars: Fay McKenzie, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis

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2. Jimmy Durante

October 11, 1953

Guest Stars: Jimmy Durante, John Wayne

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3. Eddie Cantor

October 18, 1953

Guest Stars: Eddie Cantor, Sandra Gould, Jack Benny

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4. Donald O'Connor

October 25, 1953

Guest Stars: Elaine Stewart, Hal March, Lauren Bacall

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5. Bud Abbott with Martin & Lewis

November 1, 1953

Guest Stars: Bud Abbott, Gene Nelson, Peggy Lee

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6. Jimmy Durante

November 8, 1953

Guest Stars: Hy Averback, Jimmy Durante, Danny Thomas

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7. Martha Raye

November 15, 1953

Guest Stars: Rocky Graziano, Martha Raye, Cesar Romero

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8. Donald O'Connor

November 22, 1953

Guest Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Corinne Calvet, Jack Albertson

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9. Eddie Cantor

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.

Guest Stars: Eddie Cantor, Brian Donlevy, Eddie Fisher

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10. Jimmy Durante

December 6, 1953

Guest Stars: Jimmy Durante, Keye Luke, Ethel Merman

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11. Perry Como and Martha Raye

December 13, 1953

Guest Stars: Perry Como, Mike Mazurki, Martha Raye

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12. Donald O'Connor

December 20, 1953

Guest Stars: Charles Coburn, Scatman Crothers, Sidney Miller

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13. Eddie Cantor

December 27, 1953

Guest Stars: Eddie Cantor, Dennis Day, Jimmy Durante

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14. Jimmy Durante

January 3, 1954

Guest Stars: Paul Douglas, Jimmy Durante, Eartha Kitt

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15. Martin & Lewis

January 10, 1954

Guest Stars: Franklin Pangborn, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis

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

January 17, 1954

Guest Stars: Gordon MacRae, Stan Freberg, Phil Harris

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17. Ethel Merman

January 24, 1954

Guest Stars: Gene Nelson, Jimmy Durante, Ethel Merman

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18. Eddie Cantor

January 31, 1954

Guest Stars: Eddie Cantor, Wally Cox, Groucho Marx

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19. Jimmy Durante

February 7, 1954

Guest Stars: Jimmy Durante, Tallulah Bankhead, Carol Channing

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20. Donald O'Connor

February 14, 1954

Guest Stars: Beatrice Kay, Scatman Crothers, Sidney Miller

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21. Sonja Henie (with Abbott & Costello)

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.

Guest Stars: Bud Abbott, Joyce Jameson, Lou Costello

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

February 28, 1954

Guest Stars: Sheree North, Nestor Paiva, Bert Lahr

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23. Eddie Cantor

March 7, 1954

Guest Stars: Eddie Cantor, Brandon De Wilde, Eddie Fisher

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24. Jimmy Durante

March 14, 1954

Guest Stars: Jimmy Durante, Patrice Munsel, Robert Montgomery

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25. Abbott & Costello

March 21, 1954

Guest Stars: Bud Abbott, Les Paul, Lou Costello

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26. Eddie Cantor

April 4, 1954

Guest Stars: Eddie Cantor, Connie Russell, Marilyn Maxwell

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27. Jimmy Durante

April 11, 1954

Guest Stars: Rhonda Fleming, Jimmy Durante, Connie Haines

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28. Abbott & Costello

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.

Guest Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello

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29. Ice Capades Special

April 25, 1954

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30. Martin & Lewis

May 2, 1954

Guest Stars: Shelley Winters, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis

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31. Jimmy Durante

May 9, 1954

Guest Stars: Jimmy Durante, Eddie Fisher, Milton Berle

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32. Eddie Cantor

May 16, 1954

Guest Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Peggy Lee

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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.

Guest Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis

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34. Martin & Lewis

May 30, 1954

Guest Stars: Kaye Ballard, Jackie Cooper, Dean Martin

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