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Season 4

Season 4

October 4, 1953·34 épisodes·1h
Épisodes · 34
E1

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
E2

Jimmy Durante

Oct 11, 1953
E3

Eddie Cantor

Oct 18, 1953
E4

Donald O'Connor

Oct 25, 1953
E5

Bud Abbott with Martin & Lewis

Nov 1, 1953
E6

Jimmy Durante

Nov 8, 1953
E7

Martha Raye

Nov 15, 1953
E8

Donald O'Connor

Nov 22, 1953
E9

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
E10

Jimmy Durante

Dec 6, 1953
E11

Perry Como and Martha Raye

Dec 13, 1953
E12

Donald O'Connor

Dec 20, 1953
E13

Eddie Cantor

Dec 27, 1953
E14

Jimmy Durante

Jan 3, 1954
E15

Martin & Lewis

Jan 10, 1954
E16

Alan Young, Stan Freberg, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby

Jan 17, 1954
E17

Ethel Merman

Jan 24, 1954
E18

Eddie Cantor

Jan 31, 1954
E19

Jimmy Durante

Feb 7, 1954
E20

Donald O'Connor

Feb 14, 1954
E21

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
E22

ANYTHING GOES w Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, Bert Lahr

Feb 28, 1954
E23

Eddie Cantor

Mar 7, 1954
E24

Jimmy Durante

Mar 14, 1954
E25

Abbott & Costello

Mar 21, 1954
E26

Eddie Cantor

Apr 4, 1954
E27

Jimmy Durante

Apr 11, 1954
E28

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.

1h·Apr 18, 1954
E29

Ice Capades Special

Apr 25, 1954
E30

Martin & Lewis

May 2, 1954
E31

Jimmy Durante

May 9, 1954
E32

Eddie Cantor

May 16, 1954
E33

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
E34

Martin & Lewis

May 30, 1954