Cavalcade of Stars - Season 1

1. Premiere with guest stars Peter Lorre, Joan Edwards

Aired: 6/4/1949

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."

2. Ella Logan, Maurice Rocco

Aired: 6/11/1949

3. Marilyn Maxwell

Aired: 6/18/1949

4. Mimi Benzell

Aired: 6/25/1949

5. Vivian Blaine, Mata & Hari

Aired: 7/2/1949

6. Kay Starr

Aired: 7/9/1949

7. Pearl Bailey

Aired: 7/16/1949

8. Kitty Kallen, The Four Step Brothers

Aired: 7/23/1949

9. Victor Borge, Thelma Carpenter

Aired: 7/30/1949

10. Henny Youngman, Ethel Smith

Aired: 8/6/1949

11. Janet Blair, Zero Mostel

Aired: 8/13/1949

12. Gladys Swarthout, the Dunhills, Mimi Benzell, Cabot & Dresden, Professor Irwin Corey

Aired: 8/20/1949

13. Vivian Blaine. Georgia Gibbs, Phil Foster, the Treniers

Aired: 8/27/1949

14. Luba Malina, Ray Malone

Aired: 9/3/1949

15. Paul Winchell, Donald Richards, Joan Edwards, the Clark Brothers

Aired: 9/10/1949

16. Hazel Scott, Jackie Miles

Aired: 9/17/1949

17. Connee Boswell, Carlos Ramirez

Aired: 9/24/1949

18. Kitty Carlisle, Tito Guizar, Jean Carroll

Aired: 10/1/1949

19. Cab Calloway, Marie McDonald, Gil Lamb

Aired: 10/8/1949

20. Carol Bruce, Josh White, Alice Pearce

Aired: 10/15/1949

21. Bert Lahr, Mata & Hari, the DeCastro Sisters

Aired: 10/22/1949

22. Vivian Blaine, Zero Mostel

Aired: 10/29/1949

23. Gali-Gali Luxor, Milt Douglas, Willie Shore

Aired: 11/5/1949

24. Kitty Kallen, Bert Wheeler, Donald Richards, Rudy Cardenas

Aired: 11/12/1949

25. Jackie Coogan, Hal LeRoy, Lina Romay

Aired: 11/19/1949

26. Pinky Lee, Ilona Massey

Aired: 11/26/1949

27. Vera Vague, Joan Merrill

Aired: 12/3/1949

28. Smith & Dale, the DeMarco Sisters

Aired: 12/10/1949

29. Monica Lewis, Jack Durant

Aired: 12/17/1949

30. Paul Winchell & Jerry Mahoney, Hazel Scott

Aired: 12/24/1949

31. Jean Carroll

Aired: 12/31/1949

32. Chico Marx

Aired: 1/7/1950

33. Frances Langford, The Four Step Brothers

Aired: 1/14/1950

34. Mindy Carson, Leo DeLyon

Aired: 1/21/1950

35. Robert Merrill, The Mello-Larks, Jack E. Leonard

Aired: 1/28/1950

36. Andy Russell, Della Russell, Patricia Bowman, Stan Freeman

Aired: 2/4/1950

37. Jane Pickens, Buck & Bubbles

Aired: 2/11/1950

38. Guest Host: Bert Wheeler; Guest Star: Johnny Coy

Aired: 2/18/1950

39. Guest Host: Jackie Miles; Guest Star: Betty Bruce

Aired: 2/25/1950

40. Jerry Lester debut as host; guest stars: Janis Paige, Dorothy Jarnac, Baccaloni

Aired: 3/4/1950

41. Connie Haines, Maurice Rocco

Aired: 3/11/1950

42. Janet Blair

Aired: 3/18/1950

43. Chester Morris, Kyle MacDonnell, Dizzy Gillespie

Aired: 3/25/1950

44. John Loder, Gertrude Niesen, Bert Gordon

Aired: 4/1/1950

45. Kyle MacDonnell, Bert Wheeler, Jerry Wayne

Aired: 4/8/1950

46. J. Carrol Naish, Kyle MacDonnell, Louis Nye, Carl Reiner

Aired: 4/15/1950

47. Jackie Robinson, Kyle MacDonnell, Johnny Johnston, Gali-Gali

Aired: 4/22/1950

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.

48. Sam Levenson, Kyle MacDonnell

Aired: 4/29/1950

49. Smith & Dale, the Four Step Brothers, Mimi Benzell, Leonard Sues

Aired: 5/6/1950

50. Jack Pearl & Cliff Hall, Joan Edwards, Elsa & Waldo

Aired: 5/13/1950

51. Jackie Robinson, Mindy Carson

Aired: 5/20/1950

52. Keye Luke, Ray Malone, Susan Miller, Carl Ravazza

Aired: 5/27/1950

53. John Garfield, Kim Stanley, Paul Winchell & Jerry Mahoney

Aired: 6/3/1950

54. Kitty Kallen, Larry Storch

Aired: 6/10/1950

55. Vivian Blaine, Carlos Ramirez, Jackie Miles

Aired: 6/17/1950

56. Anna Maria Alberghetti, Wally Brown, Beatrice Kay, Leonard Sues

Aired: 6/24/1950

57. Georgia Gibbs

Aired: 7/1/1950

58. Jackie Gleason debut as host; guest stars: Rose Marie, the DeCastro Sisters

Aired: 7/8/1950

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.

59. Gloria DeHaven, Eddie Fisher

Aired: 7/15/1950

60. Ella Fitzgerald, Kate Murtagh, Mary Raye & Naldi

Aired: 7/22/1950

61. The Modernaires, Evelyn Farney

Aired: 7/29/1950

62. Bert Wheeler, Dorothy Clare, Billy Daniels

Aired: 8/5/1950

63. Andy and Della Russell, Clarence Stroud

Aired: 8/12/1950

64. Victor Borge, Frances Langford

Aired: 8/19/1950

65. Richard Tucker

Aired: 8/26/1950

66. Smith & Dale, Gracie Barrie & the Beachcombers

Aired: 9/2/1950