This was a Colgate-sponsored comedy hour that featured many notable comedians and entertainers of the era as guest stars.
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.
Martin & Lewis (Folge 1)
Sendedatum: 1953-10-04
Übersicht: Skits: Burt plays an escaped lunatick. Songs: "Great To Be Home", "You're The Right One", "That's Amore", "There's No Tomorrow"
Jimmy Durante (Folge 2)
Sendedatum: 1953-10-11
Eddie Cantor (Folge 3)
Sendedatum: 1953-10-18
Donald O'Connor (Folge 4)
Autor: Sidney Miller
Sendedatum: 1953-10-25
Bud Abbott with Martin & Lewis (Folge 5)
Sendedatum: 1953-11-01
Jimmy Durante (Folge 6)
Sendedatum: 1953-11-08
Martha Raye (Folge 7)
Sendedatum: 1953-11-15
Donald O'Connor (Folge 8)
Sendedatum: 1953-11-22
Eddie Cantor (Folge 9)
Sendedatum: 1953-11-29
Übersicht: 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.
Jimmy Durante (Folge 10)
Sendedatum: 1953-12-06
Perry Como and Martha Raye (Folge 11)
Sendedatum: 1953-12-13
Donald O'Connor (Folge 12)
Sendedatum: 1953-12-20
Eddie Cantor (Folge 13)
Sendedatum: 1953-12-27
Jimmy Durante (Folge 14)
Sendedatum: 1954-01-03
Martin & Lewis (Folge 15)
Sendedatum: 1954-01-10
Alan Young, Stan Freberg, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby (Folge 16)
Sendedatum: 1954-01-17
Ethel Merman (Folge 17)
Sendedatum: 1954-01-24
Eddie Cantor (Folge 18)
Sendedatum: 1954-01-31
Jimmy Durante (Folge 19)
Sendedatum: 1954-02-07
Donald O'Connor (Folge 20)
Sendedatum: 1954-02-14
Sonja Henie (with Abbott & Costello) (Folge 21)
Sendedatum: 1954-02-21
Übersicht: 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.
ANYTHING GOES w Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, Bert Lahr (Folge 22)
Sendedatum: 1954-02-28
Eddie Cantor (Folge 23)
Sendedatum: 1954-03-07
Jimmy Durante (Folge 24)
Sendedatum: 1954-03-14
Abbott & Costello (Folge 25)
Sendedatum: 1954-03-21
Eddie Cantor (Folge 26)
Sendedatum: 1954-04-04
Jimmy Durante (Folge 27)
Sendedatum: 1954-04-11
Abbott & Costello (Folge 28)
Autor: John Grant
Sendedatum: 1954-04-18
Laufzeit: 60 min
Übersicht: 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.
Ice Capades Special (Folge 29)
Sendedatum: 1954-04-25
Martin & Lewis (Folge 30)
Sendedatum: 1954-05-02
Jimmy Durante (Folge 31)
Sendedatum: 1954-05-09
Eddie Cantor (Folge 32)
Sendedatum: 1954-05-16
Abbott & Costello (Folge 33)
Sendedatum: 1954-05-23
Übersicht: 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.
Martin & Lewis (Folge 34)
Sendedatum: 1954-05-30
Debut of Colgate Summer Comedy hour with Kaye Ballard, Jules Munshin, Jackie Cooper (Folge 35)
Sendedatum: 1954-06-06
Let's Go Places (Folge 36)
Sendedatum: 1954-06-13
Continental Holiday (Folge 37)
Sendedatum: 1954-06-20
Away from It All (Folge 38)
Sendedatum: 1954-06-27
Holiday, U.S.A. (Folge 39)
Sendedatum: 1954-07-04
Episode 40 (Folge 40)
Sendedatum: 1954-07-11
Free and Easy (Folge 41)
Sendedatum: 1954-07-18
Bobby Van, Pearl Bailey, Jeff Chandler, Gene Sheldon (Folge 42)
