
Season 4
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Episodes
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
2. Jimmy Durante
October 11, 1953
Guest Stars: Jimmy Durante, John Wayne
3. Eddie Cantor
October 18, 1953
Guest Stars: Eddie Cantor, Sandra Gould, Jack Benny
4. Donald O'Connor
October 25, 1953
Guest Stars: Elaine Stewart, Hal March, Lauren Bacall
5. Bud Abbott with Martin & Lewis
November 1, 1953
Guest Stars: Bud Abbott, Gene Nelson, Peggy Lee
6. Jimmy Durante
November 8, 1953
Guest Stars: Hy Averback, Jimmy Durante, Danny Thomas
7. Martha Raye
November 15, 1953
Guest Stars: Rocky Graziano, Martha Raye, Cesar Romero
8. Donald O'Connor
November 22, 1953
Guest Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Corinne Calvet, Jack Albertson
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
10. Jimmy Durante
December 6, 1953
Guest Stars: Jimmy Durante, Keye Luke, Ethel Merman
11. Perry Como and Martha Raye
December 13, 1953
Guest Stars: Perry Como, Mike Mazurki, Martha Raye
12. Donald O'Connor
December 20, 1953
Guest Stars: Charles Coburn, Scatman Crothers, Sidney Miller
13. Eddie Cantor
December 27, 1953
Guest Stars: Eddie Cantor, Dennis Day, Jimmy Durante
14. Jimmy Durante
January 3, 1954
Guest Stars: Paul Douglas, Jimmy Durante, Eartha Kitt
15. Martin & Lewis
January 10, 1954
Guest Stars: Franklin Pangborn, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis
16. Alan Young, Stan Freberg, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby
January 17, 1954
Guest Stars: Gordon MacRae, Stan Freberg, Phil Harris
17. Ethel Merman
January 24, 1954
Guest Stars: Gene Nelson, Jimmy Durante, Ethel Merman
18. Eddie Cantor
January 31, 1954
Guest Stars: Eddie Cantor, Wally Cox, Groucho Marx
19. Jimmy Durante
February 7, 1954
Guest Stars: Jimmy Durante, Tallulah Bankhead, Carol Channing
20. Donald O'Connor
February 14, 1954
Guest Stars: Beatrice Kay, Scatman Crothers, Sidney Miller
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
22. ANYTHING GOES w Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, Bert Lahr
February 28, 1954
Guest Stars: Sheree North, Nestor Paiva, Bert Lahr
23. Eddie Cantor
March 7, 1954
Guest Stars: Eddie Cantor, Brandon De Wilde, Eddie Fisher
24. Jimmy Durante
March 14, 1954
Guest Stars: Jimmy Durante, Patrice Munsel, Robert Montgomery
25. Abbott & Costello
March 21, 1954
Guest Stars: Bud Abbott, Les Paul, Lou Costello
26. Eddie Cantor
April 4, 1954
Guest Stars: Eddie Cantor, Connie Russell, Marilyn Maxwell
27. Jimmy Durante
April 11, 1954
Guest Stars: Rhonda Fleming, Jimmy Durante, Connie Haines
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
29. Ice Capades Special
April 25, 1954
30. Martin & Lewis
May 2, 1954
Guest Stars: Shelley Winters, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis
31. Jimmy Durante
May 9, 1954
Guest Stars: Jimmy Durante, Eddie Fisher, Milton Berle
32. Eddie Cantor
May 16, 1954
Guest Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Peggy Lee
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
34. Martin & Lewis
May 30, 1954
Guest Stars: Kaye Ballard, Jackie Cooper, Dean Martin
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