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- This was a Colgate-sponsored comedy hour that featured many notable comedians and entertainers of the era as guest stars.
- Dean and Jerry return from overseas, singing their way thru customs. A crazed Burt Lancaster hides out in the men's bedroom. Dean croons "That's Amore" and, "You're the Right one."
- At Dean's diner, a hungry Jerry shows up looking for a job, but he proves incompetent and makes a mess of the spaghetti that patrons are waiting for. In the next skit, Jerry is adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Martin at an orphanage, where he's twice the size of the other boys. Their guest Jack Benny is billed as "Phil Abrams" and does nearly nothing.
- 1950–19551h1.4 (112)TV Episode
- The City Slickers, George Rock, Sir Frederick Gas, Freddy and Dick Morgan, Bill King, The Wayne Marlin Trio, Lois Ray, Gale Robbins, and Laverne Pearson Note: There was also a cameo appearance by the Today Show's Dave Garroway.
- Comics/dancers Paul and Grace Hartman host an abbreviated version of their recent Broadway revue. In highlights, Patricia Bright complains that TV has stolen her husband, and Dorothy Jarmac interprets an abstract painting via dance.
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello host with guests singer Evelyn Knight, dancer Hal Le Roy, specialty act Paul Remos and his Toy Boys, the Jimmy Ford Four, Art and Mort Havel, Patricia Shea, Valerie de Cadenet, and Al Goodman and his Orchestra. The boys do their "Hot dog and Mustard" monologue. As a sailor, Hal Le Roy dances and flirts while on liberty. At a carnival midway, Abbott fleeces Costello in their "Shell Game" routine. The Jimmy Ford Four lip sync comedy to "Cocktails for Two." Lou checks into Dr. Abbott's sanitarium for needed rest; instead he's harassed non-stop by a parade of lunatics.
- This was a Colgate-sponsored comedy hour that featured many notable comedians and entertainers of the era as guest stars.
- 1950–195559m8.2 (40)TV EpisodeAbbott and Costello recreate some of their most famous skits including "Who's on First?" and "The Haunted Candle" and do a burlesque on the opera "Carmen."
- Episode: (1951)1950–19551hTV Episode
- 1950–19551hTV EpisodeHost: Bob Hope; guest stars: Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Arthur Treacher, Janis Paige.
- Episode: (1951)1950–19551hTV Episode
- 1950–1955TV Episode
- Eddie Cantor hosts with guests actress Adele Jergens, Robert Clary, actor Jimmy Dobson, actress Shirley Mitchell, Doris Singleton, child dancer Sharon Baird, Herman McCoy's UCLA Swing Choir, a cameo from Kirk Douglas, and Al Goodman and his Orchestra. Eddie enrolls at UCLA as a freshman in this musical comedy. He moves on campus and accidentally knocks out the football star, then learns French from student Robert Clary. During the school's Varsity Show, the UCLA Swing Choir sings "Lullaby of Broadway" with a tribute to George Gershin featuring Cantor in blackface. Eddie plays the Kirk Douglas role in a spoof of "Detective Story."
- 1950–195558mNot Rated7.3 (14)TV EpisodeAbbott Costello do several of their burlesque routines with their usual supporting players and play host to screen great Chales Laughton.
- It's Christmas, what better way than to celebrate with Abbott and Costello.
- 1950–19551hTV Episode
- Abbott & Costello host a mock Inaugural Ball for new President Eisenhower. Includes a hilarious recital by Victor Borge sending up outgoing President Truman and his piano-playing daughter Margaret. As Gisele McKenzie checks into Washington hotel, fans recognize her, so she performs a song for them.
- 1950–19551hTV Episode
- 1950–1955TV Episode
- Episode: (1953)1950–1955TV Episode
- 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.
- Adaptation of the 1934 Broadway musical by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz involving a romantic triangle.
- Episode: (1955)1950–19551hTV Episode
- 1950–19551h5.8 (20)TV EpisodeTonight's program offers a salute to the Air Age, featuring scenes from motion pictures about the earliest and the latest in aviation developments.
- Episode: (1955)1950–19551hTV Episode
- Episode: (1955)1950–1955TV Episode
- 1950–19551h6.7 (23)TV Episode
- 1950–1955TV Episode