Season 1
Premiere with guest stars Peter Lorre, Joan Edwards
Jack Carter stars with guests singer Joan Edwards, actor Peter Lorre, bird whistlers The Arnauts, comedy team McCarthy and Farrell, and acrobats The Fontaines. Lorre does a recitation of "The Telltale Heart" and joins Carter in a mad scientist sketch. Edwards performs at the piano and teams with Carter for "You're Adorable."
Ella Logan, Maurice Rocco
Marilyn Maxwell
Mimi Benzell
Vivian Blaine, Mata & Hari
Kay Starr
Pearl Bailey
Kitty Kallen, The Four Step Brothers
Victor Borge, Thelma Carpenter
Henny Youngman, Ethel Smith
Janet Blair, Zero Mostel
Gladys Swarthout, the Dunhills, Mimi Benzell, Cabot & Dresden, Professor Irwin Corey
Vivian Blaine. Georgia Gibbs, Phil Foster, the Treniers
Luba Malina, Ray Malone
Paul Winchell, Donald Richards, Joan Edwards, the Clark Brothers
Hazel Scott, Jackie Miles
Connee Boswell, Carlos Ramirez
Kitty Carlisle, Tito Guizar, Jean Carroll
Cab Calloway, Marie McDonald, Gil Lamb
Carol Bruce, Josh White, Alice Pearce
Bert Lahr, Mata & Hari, the DeCastro Sisters
Vivian Blaine, Zero Mostel
Gali-Gali Luxor, Milt Douglas, Willie Shore
Kitty Kallen, Bert Wheeler, Donald Richards, Rudy Cardenas
Jackie Coogan, Hal LeRoy, Lina Romay
Pinky Lee, Ilona Massey
Vera Vague, Joan Merrill
Smith & Dale, the DeMarco Sisters
Monica Lewis, Jack Durant
Paul Winchell & Jerry Mahoney, Hazel Scott
Jean Carroll
Chico Marx
Frances Langford, The Four Step Brothers
Mindy Carson, Leo DeLyon
Robert Merrill, The Mello-Larks, Jack E. Leonard
Andy Russell, Della Russell, Patricia Bowman, Stan Freeman
Jane Pickens, Buck & Bubbles
Guest Host: Bert Wheeler; Guest Star: Johnny Coy
Guest Host: Jackie Miles; Guest Star: Betty Bruce
Jerry Lester debut as host; guest stars: Janis Paige, Dorothy Jarnac, Baccaloni
Connie Haines, Maurice Rocco
Janet Blair
Chester Morris, Kyle MacDonnell, Dizzy Gillespie
John Loder, Gertrude Niesen, Bert Gordon
Kyle MacDonnell, Bert Wheeler, Jerry Wayne
J. Carrol Naish, Kyle MacDonnell, Louis Nye, Carl Reiner
Jackie Robinson, Kyle MacDonnell, Johnny Johnston, Gali-Gali
Lester as a clown called Arthur Clodfrey (takeoff on Arthur Godfrey), magician Galli-Galli make baby chicks appear under cups, MacDonnell sings "The Boy Next Door", and Jackie Robinson appears in a sketch visiting a kid in a wheelchair.
Sam Levenson, Kyle MacDonnell
Smith & Dale, the Four Step Brothers, Mimi Benzell, Leonard Sues
Jack Pearl & Cliff Hall, Joan Edwards, Elsa & Waldo
Jackie Robinson, Mindy Carson
Keye Luke, Ray Malone, Susan Miller, Carl Ravazza
John Garfield, Kim Stanley, Paul Winchell & Jerry Mahoney
Kitty Kallen, Larry Storch
Vivian Blaine, Carlos Ramirez, Jackie Miles
Anna Maria Alberghetti, Wally Brown, Beatrice Kay, Leonard Sues
Georgia Gibbs
Jackie Gleason debut as host; guest stars: Rose Marie, the DeCastro Sisters
Jackie Gleason debuts as host with Rose Marie, comic Hank Ladd, acrobat Ladd Lyon, singing DeCastro Sisters, and dancer Evelyn Farney. Gleason duets with Rose and in a sketch at a hat check counter. DeCastros sing a Latin-American number.
Gloria DeHaven, Eddie Fisher
Ella Fitzgerald, Kate Murtagh, Mary Raye & Naldi
The Modernaires, Evelyn Farney
Bert Wheeler, Dorothy Clare, Billy Daniels
Andy and Della Russell, Clarence Stroud
Victor Borge, Frances Langford
Richard Tucker
Smith & Dale, Gracie Barrie & the Beachcombers