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The Bell Telephone Hour

Season 2 · 13 episodes · Oct 9, 1959

  1. Episode 1

    A Night Of Music

    Oct 9, 1959

  2. Episode 2

    Music of the West

    Oct 23, 1959

  3. Episode 3

    On Stage With Music

    Nov 6, 1959

    Burgess Meredith is host. Performers are John Raitt, Jayne P. Morgan, Johnny Desmond, Gene Nelson, Taina Elg, The Four Lads, pianist Loren Hollander, dancers Allegra Kent and Jacques d'Amboise, and the Coast Guard Academy Choir.

  4. Episode 4

    The Music of Gershwin

    Nov 20, 1959

  5. Episode 5

    The Gift of Music

    Dec 18, 1959

  6. Episode 6

    Our Musical Ambassadors

    Jan 1, 1960

  7. Episode 7

    We To

    Jan 15, 1960

    Musical variety show with this episode focusing on famous couples: recording artists Les Paul and Mary Ford; dancers Marge and Gower Champion; singers Gordon and Sheila MacRae; concert pianist JosZ iturbi and his sister Amparo Iturbi; and Raymond Scott and his wife Dorothy Collins.

  8. Episode 8

    The Four of Us

    Jan 29, 1960

    Four entertainers perform songs not readily associated with them: Ray Bolger sings and dances 'Slaughter on Tenth Avenue;' clarinetist Benny Goodman plays Carl Maria von Weber's Concerto in E-flat Major; Beatrice Lillie sings ballads in a comic style; and Ethel Merman sings ragtime tunes.

  9. Episode 9

    Portraits In Music

    Feb 12, 1960

  10. Episode 10

    The Music Makers

    Feb 26, 1960

    Polly Bergen is the host with singers John Raitt and Barbara Cook, 15-year-old concert pianist Lorin Hollander; the jazz combo Dukes of Dixieland; the barbershop quartet Buffalo Bills; and the Bob Hamilton dance trio.

  11. Episode 11

    Main Street USA

    Mar 11, 1960

  12. Episode 12

    Concert Hall

    Apr 1, 1960

  13. Episode 13

    The Mikado

    Apr 29, 1960