Skits: Burt plays an escaped lunatick. Songs: "Great To Be Home", "You're The Right One", "That's Amore", "There's No Tomorrow"
Guest Stars:
Fay McKenzie, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Burt Lancaster, Peter Leeds
Guest Stars:
Eddie Cantor, Sandra Gould, Jack Benny, Peter Leeds, Sheldon Leonard
Guest Stars:
Elaine Stewart, Hal March, Lauren Bacall, Tom D'Andrea, Sidney Miller
Guest Stars:
Bud Abbott, Gene Nelson, Peggy Lee, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis
Guest Stars:
Hy Averback, Jimmy Durante, Danny Thomas, Frank Sinatra
Guest Stars:
Rocky Graziano, Martha Raye, Cesar Romero, Irene Dunne
Guest Stars:
Ralph Bellamy, Corinne Calvet, Jack Albertson, Dorothy Dandridge, Sidney Miller
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.
Guest Stars:
Eddie Cantor, Brian Donlevy, Eddie Fisher, Frank Sinatra
Guest Stars:
Perry Como, Mike Mazurki, Martha Raye, Ben Blue
Guest Stars:
Charles Coburn, Scatman Crothers, Sidney Miller, Donald O'Connor, Dean Martin
Guest Stars:
Eddie Cantor, Dennis Day, Jimmy Durante, George Gobel
Guest Stars:
Gordon MacRae, Stan Freberg, Phil Harris, Alan Young, Frank Sinatra
Guest Stars:
Beatrice Kay, Scatman Crothers, Sidney Miller, Donald O'Connor
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.
Guest Stars:
Bud Abbott, Joyce Jameson, Lou Costello, Sonja Henie, Norman Abbott
Guest Stars:
Sheree North, Nestor Paiva, Bert Lahr, Ethel Merman, Barbara Morrison
Guest Stars:
Eddie Cantor, Brandon De Wilde, Eddie Fisher, Jack Palance, William Holden
Guest Stars:
Bud Abbott, Les Paul, Lou Costello, Norman Abbott
Guest Stars:
Eddie Cantor, Connie Russell, Marilyn Maxwell, Liberace
Guest Stars:
Rhonda Fleming, Jimmy Durante, Connie Haines, Jane Russell, Benny Rubin
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.
Guest Stars:
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello
Guest Stars:
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Peggy Lee, Hoagy Carmichael, Peter Leeds
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.
Guest Stars:
Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis