Fred Hamilton
Director
The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950)
Season 4
The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.
Released Sept. 10, 1950
Episode 60 min
2+
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Production Companies: NBC, Colgate-Palmolive-Peet
Network: NBC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S4E1 - Martin & Lewis
Skits: Burt plays an escaped lunatick. Songs: "Great To Be Home", "You're The Right One", "That's Amore", "There's No Tomorrow"
Oct. 4, 1953, midnight
S4E2 - Jimmy Durante
Oct. 11, 1953, midnight
S4E3 - Eddie Cantor
Oct. 18, 1953, midnight
S4E4 - Donald O'Connor
Oct. 25, 1953, midnight
S4E5 - Bud Abbott with Martin & Lewis
Nov. 1, 1953, midnight
S4E6 - Jimmy Durante
Nov. 8, 1953, midnight
S4E7 - Martha Raye
Nov. 15, 1953, midnight
S4E8 - Donald O'Connor
Nov. 22, 1953, midnight
S4E9 - Eddie Cantor
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.
Nov. 29, 1953, midnight
S4E10 - Jimmy Durante
Dec. 6, 1953, midnight
S4E11 - Perry Como and Martha Raye
Dec. 13, 1953, midnight
S4E12 - Donald O'Connor
Dec. 20, 1953, midnight
S4E13 - Eddie Cantor
Dec. 27, 1953, midnight
S4E14 - Jimmy Durante
Jan. 3, 1954, midnight
S4E15 - Martin & Lewis
Jan. 10, 1954, midnight
S4E16 - Alan Young, Stan Freberg, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby
Jan. 17, 1954, midnight
S4E17 - Ethel Merman
Jan. 24, 1954, midnight
S4E18 - Eddie Cantor
Jan. 31, 1954, midnight
S4E19 - Jimmy Durante
Feb. 7, 1954, midnight
S4E20 - Donald O'Connor
Feb. 14, 1954, midnight
S4E21 - Sonja Henie (with Abbott & Costello)
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.
Feb. 21, 1954, midnight
S4E22 - ANYTHING GOES w Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, Bert Lahr
Feb. 28, 1954, midnight
S4E23 - Eddie Cantor
March 7, 1954, midnight
S4E24 - Jimmy Durante
March 14, 1954, midnight
S4E25 - Abbott & Costello
March 21, 1954, midnight
S4E26 - Eddie Cantor
April 4, 1954, midnight
S4E27 - Jimmy Durante
April 11, 1954, midnight
S4E28 - Abbott & Costello
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.
April 18, 1954, midnight
S4E29 - Ice Capades Special
April 25, 1954, midnight
S4E30 - Martin & Lewis
May 2, 1954, midnight
S4E31 - Jimmy Durante
May 9, 1954, midnight
S4E32 - Eddie Cantor
May 16, 1954, midnight
S4E33 - Abbott & Costello
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.
May 23, 1954, midnight
S4E34 - Martin & Lewis
May 30, 1954, midnight
Network: NBC
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 45 min.
Released: Sept. 10, 1950
Last Air Date: Dec. 25, 1955, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-G / 2+
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