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IMDb
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Network: NBC
Episode Runtime: 45 min.
Season Runtime: 9270 min.
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-G

The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950)

Season 4 (Oct. 4, 1953, midnight)

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.

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The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950)

Season 4 (Oct. 4, 1953, midnight)

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.

62
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IMDb
7.7
/608/
Trakt
39
/11/
TMDb
70
/9/
Fred Hamilton
Fred Hamilton
Director
Eddie Cantor
Eddie Cantor
Dean Martin
Dean Martin
Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis
Bob Hope
Bob Hope
Bud Abbott
Bud Abbott
Lou Costello
Lou Costello
Donald O'Connor
Donald O'Connor
Jimmy Durante
Jimmy Durante

Oct. 4, 1953, midnight 0.0

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. 11, 1953, midnight 0.0

S4E2 - Jimmy Durante

Oct. 18, 1953, midnight 0.0

S4E3 - Eddie Cantor

Oct. 25, 1953, midnight 0.0

S4E4 - Donald O'Connor

Nov. 1, 1953, midnight 0.0

S4E5 - Bud Abbott with Martin & Lewis

Nov. 8, 1953, midnight 0.0

S4E6 - Jimmy Durante

Nov. 15, 1953, midnight 0.0

S4E7 - Martha Raye

Nov. 22, 1953, midnight 0.0

S4E8 - Donald O'Connor

Nov. 29, 1953, midnight 0.0

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.
Dec. 6, 1953, midnight 0.0

S4E10 - Jimmy Durante

Dec. 13, 1953, midnight 0.0

S4E11 - Perry Como and Martha Raye

Dec. 20, 1953, midnight 0.0

S4E12 - Donald O'Connor

Dec. 27, 1953, midnight 0.0

S4E13 - Eddie Cantor

Jan. 3, 1954, midnight 0.0

S4E14 - Jimmy Durante

Jan. 10, 1954, midnight 0.0

S4E15 - Martin & Lewis

Jan. 17, 1954, midnight 0.0

S4E16 - Alan Young, Stan Freberg, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby

Jan. 24, 1954, midnight 0.0

S4E17 - Ethel Merman

Jan. 31, 1954, midnight 0.0

S4E18 - Eddie Cantor

Feb. 7, 1954, midnight 0.0

S4E19 - Jimmy Durante

Feb. 14, 1954, midnight 0.0

S4E20 - Donald O'Connor

Feb. 21, 1954, midnight 0.0

S4E21 - Sonja Henie (with Abbott & Costello)

Feb. 28, 1954, midnight 0.0

S4E22 - ANYTHING GOES w Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, Bert Lahr

March 7, 1954, midnight 0.0

S4E23 - Eddie Cantor

March 14, 1954, midnight 0.0

S4E24 - Jimmy Durante

March 21, 1954, midnight 0.0

S4E25 - Abbott & Costello

April 4, 1954, midnight 0.0

S4E26 - Eddie Cantor

April 11, 1954, midnight 0.0

S4E27 - Jimmy Durante

April 18, 1954, midnight 0.0

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 25, 1954, midnight 0.0

S4E29 - Ice Capades Special

May 2, 1954, midnight 0.0

S4E30 - Martin & Lewis

May 9, 1954, midnight 0.0

S4E31 - Jimmy Durante

May 16, 1954, midnight 0.0

S4E32 - Eddie Cantor

May 23, 1954, midnight 0.0

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 30, 1954, midnight 0.0

S4E34 - Martin & Lewis

Network: NBC
Episode Runtime: 45 min.
Season Runtime: 9270 min.
Released: Sept. 10, 1950
Last Air Date: Dec. 25, 1955, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-G / 2+

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