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Season 4

Season 4 • 1953

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Episodes

1. Martin & Lewis

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

1953-10-04? min

2. Jimmy Durante

1953-10-11? min

3. Eddie Cantor

1953-10-18? min

4. Donald O'Connor

1953-10-25? min

5. Bud Abbott with Martin & Lewis

1953-11-01? min

6. Jimmy Durante

1953-11-08? min

7. Martha Raye

1953-11-15? min

8. Donald O'Connor

1953-11-22? min

9. Eddie Cantor

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.

1953-11-29? min

10. Jimmy Durante

1953-12-06? min

11. Perry Como and Martha Raye

1953-12-13? min

12. Donald O'Connor

1953-12-20? min

13. Eddie Cantor

1953-12-27? min

14. Jimmy Durante

1954-01-03? min

15. Martin & Lewis

1954-01-10? min

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

1954-01-17? min

17. Ethel Merman

1954-01-24? min

18. Eddie Cantor

1954-01-31? min

19. Jimmy Durante

1954-02-07? min

20. Donald O'Connor

1954-02-14? min

21. Sonja Henie (with Abbott & Costello)

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.

1954-02-21? min

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

1954-02-28? min

23. Eddie Cantor

1954-03-07? min

24. Jimmy Durante

1954-03-14? min

25. Abbott & Costello

1954-03-21? min

26. Eddie Cantor

1954-04-04? min

27. Jimmy Durante

1954-04-11? min

28. Abbott & Costello

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.

1954-04-18? min

29. Ice Capades Special

1954-04-25? min

30. Martin & Lewis

1954-05-02? min

31. Jimmy Durante

1954-05-09? min

32. Eddie Cantor

1954-05-16? min

33. Abbott & Costello

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.

1954-05-23? min

34. Martin & Lewis

1954-05-30? min