The Colgate Comedy Hour
Season 4
195342 episodes
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"
Episode 2
Jimmy Durante
Oct 11, 1953
Episode 3
Eddie Cantor
Oct 18, 1953
Episode 4
Donald O'Connor
Oct 25, 1953
Episode 5
Bud Abbott with Martin & Lewis
Nov 1, 1953
Episode 6
Jimmy Durante
Nov 8, 1953
Episode 7
Martha Raye
Nov 15, 1953
Episode 8
Donald O'Connor
Nov 22, 1953
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.
Episode 10
Jimmy Durante
Dec 6, 1953
Episode 11
Perry Como and Martha Raye
Dec 13, 1953
Episode 12
Donald O'Connor
Dec 20, 1953
Episode 13
Eddie Cantor
Dec 27, 1953
Episode 14
Jimmy Durante
Jan 3, 1954
Episode 15
Martin & Lewis
Jan 10, 1954
Episode 16
Alan Young, Stan Freberg, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby
Jan 17, 1954
Episode 17
Ethel Merman
Jan 24, 1954
Episode 18
Eddie Cantor
Jan 31, 1954
Episode 19
Jimmy Durante
Feb 7, 1954
Episode 20
Donald O'Connor
Feb 14, 1954
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.
Episode 22
ANYTHING GOES w Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, Bert Lahr
Feb 28, 1954
Episode 23
Eddie Cantor
Mar 7, 1954
Episode 24
Jimmy Durante
Mar 14, 1954
Episode 25
Abbott & Costello
Mar 21, 1954
Episode 26
Eddie Cantor
Apr 4, 1954
Episode 27
Jimmy Durante
Apr 11, 1954
Episode 28
Abbott & Costello
Apr 18, 19541h
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.
Episode 29
Ice Capades Special
Apr 25, 1954
Episode 30
Martin & Lewis
May 2, 1954
Episode 31
Jimmy Durante
May 9, 1954
Episode 32
Eddie Cantor
May 16, 1954
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.
Episode 34
Martin & Lewis
May 30, 1954
Episode 35
Debut of Colgate Summer Comedy hour with Kaye Ballard, Jules Munshin, Jackie Cooper
Jun 6, 1954
Episode 36
Let's Go Places
Jun 13, 1954
Episode 37
Continental Holiday
Jun 20, 1954
Episode 38
Away from It All
Jun 27, 1954
Episode 39
Holiday, U.S.A.
Jul 4, 1954
Episode 40
Episode 40
Jul 11, 1954
Episode 41
Free and Easy
Jul 18, 1954
Episode 42
Bobby Van, Pearl Bailey, Jeff Chandler, Gene Sheldon
Jul 25, 1954