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The Colgate Comedy Hour

Season 4 · 42 episodes · Oct 4, 1953

  1. Episode 1

    Martin & Lewis

    Oct 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. Episode 2

    Jimmy Durante

    Oct 11, 1953

  3. Episode 3

    Eddie Cantor

    Oct 18, 1953

  4. Episode 4

    Donald O'Connor

    Oct 25, 1953

  5. Episode 5

    Bud Abbott with Martin & Lewis

    Nov 1, 1953

  6. Episode 6

    Jimmy Durante

    Nov 8, 1953

  7. Episode 7

    Martha Raye

    Nov 15, 1953

  8. Episode 8

    Donald O'Connor

    Nov 22, 1953

  9. Episode 9

    Eddie Cantor

    Nov 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. Episode 10

    Jimmy Durante

    Dec 6, 1953

  11. Episode 11

    Perry Como and Martha Raye

    Dec 13, 1953

  12. Episode 12

    Donald O'Connor

    Dec 20, 1953

  13. Episode 13

    Eddie Cantor

    Dec 27, 1953

  14. Episode 14

    Jimmy Durante

    Jan 3, 1954

  15. Episode 15

    Martin & Lewis

    Jan 10, 1954

  16. Episode 16

    Alan Young, Stan Freberg, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby

    Jan 17, 1954

  17. Episode 17

    Ethel Merman

    Jan 24, 1954

  18. Episode 18

    Eddie Cantor

    Jan 31, 1954

  19. Episode 19

    Jimmy Durante

    Feb 7, 1954

  20. Episode 20

    Donald O'Connor

    Feb 14, 1954

  21. Episode 21

    Sonja Henie (with Abbott & Costello)

    Feb 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. Episode 22

    ANYTHING GOES w Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, Bert Lahr

    Feb 28, 1954

  23. Episode 23

    Eddie Cantor

    Mar 7, 1954

  24. Episode 24

    Jimmy Durante

    Mar 14, 1954

  25. Episode 25

    Abbott & Costello

    Mar 21, 1954

  26. Episode 26

    Eddie Cantor

    Apr 4, 1954

  27. Episode 27

    Jimmy Durante

    Apr 11, 1954

  28. Episode 28

    Abbott & Costello

    Apr 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. Episode 29

    Ice Capades Special

    Apr 25, 1954

  30. Episode 30

    Martin & Lewis

    May 2, 1954

  31. Episode 31

    Jimmy Durante

    May 9, 1954

  32. Episode 32

    Eddie Cantor

    May 16, 1954

  33. Episode 33

    Abbott & Costello

    May 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. Episode 34

    Martin & Lewis

    May 30, 1954

  35. Episode 35

    Debut of Colgate Summer Comedy hour with Kaye Ballard, Jules Munshin, Jackie Cooper

    Jun 6, 1954

  36. Episode 36

    Let's Go Places

    Jun 13, 1954

  37. Episode 37

    Continental Holiday

    Jun 20, 1954

  38. Episode 38

    Away from It All

    Jun 27, 1954

  39. Episode 39

    Holiday, U.S.A.

    Jul 4, 1954

  40. Episode 40

    Episode 40

    Jul 11, 1954

  41. Episode 41

    Free and Easy

    Jul 18, 1954

  42. Episode 42

    Bobby Van, Pearl Bailey, Jeff Chandler, Gene Sheldon

    Jul 25, 1954