The Colgate Comedy Hour - Season 4

The Colgate Comedy Hour - Season 4

First aired: 10/4/1953 34 episodes
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Episodes

1. Martin & Lewis

Aired: 10/4/1953

Skits: Burt plays an escaped lunatick. Songs: "Great To Be Home", "You're The Right One", "That's Amore", "There's No Tomorrow"

2. Jimmy Durante

Aired: 10/11/1953

3. Eddie Cantor

Aired: 10/18/1953

4. Donald O'Connor

Aired: 10/25/1953

5. Bud Abbott with Martin & Lewis

Aired: 11/1/1953

6. Jimmy Durante

Aired: 11/8/1953

7. Martha Raye

Aired: 11/15/1953

8. Donald O'Connor

Aired: 11/22/1953

9. Eddie Cantor

Aired: 11/29/1953

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.

10. Jimmy Durante

Aired: 12/6/1953

11. Perry Como and Martha Raye

Aired: 12/13/1953

12. Donald O'Connor

Aired: 12/20/1953

13. Eddie Cantor

Aired: 12/27/1953

14. Jimmy Durante

Aired: 1/3/1954

15. Martin & Lewis

Aired: 1/10/1954

16. Alan Young, Stan Freberg, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby

Aired: 1/17/1954

17. Ethel Merman

Aired: 1/24/1954

18. Eddie Cantor

Aired: 1/31/1954

19. Jimmy Durante

Aired: 2/7/1954

20. Donald O'Connor

Aired: 2/14/1954

21. Sonja Henie (with Abbott & Costello)

Aired: 2/21/1954

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.

22. ANYTHING GOES w Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, Bert Lahr

Aired: 2/28/1954

23. Eddie Cantor

Aired: 3/7/1954

24. Jimmy Durante

Aired: 3/14/1954

25. Abbott & Costello

Aired: 3/21/1954

26. Eddie Cantor

Aired: 4/4/1954

27. Jimmy Durante

Aired: 4/11/1954

28. Abbott & Costello

Aired: 4/18/1954

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.

29. Ice Capades Special

Aired: 4/25/1954

30. Martin & Lewis

Aired: 5/2/1954

31. Jimmy Durante

Aired: 5/9/1954

32. Eddie Cantor

Aired: 5/16/1954

33. Abbott & Costello

Aired: 5/23/1954

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.

34. Martin & Lewis

Aired: 5/30/1954