Tue, Oct 24, 1950
Jack Carson hosts this week's show. His guests include actress Evelyn Keyes, comic performers Betty and Jane Kean, and actress Mary McCarty. The premise of the show is that NBC has spent all its money on other comedians so the're none left for their show; he's backed by a four-person string section and one dancer. In sketches, Carson and the Keans ridicule cutesy daytime shopping shows. Also, the life of a plumber gets the "Hollywood epic" treatment.
Tue, Oct 31, 1950
Jimmy Durante hosts with guests singer Eddie Jackson, acrobats Wells and Fournais, Gwen Carter, and two of the co-stars of the new film "The Milkman" Donald O'Connor and Joyce Holden. Durante performs several of his well-known tunes including "You Got To Start Every Day With a Song", "Jimmy, the Well Dressed Man", and "I'm The Guy Who Found the Lost Chord".
Tue, Nov 14, 1950
Ed Wynn hosts with guests comedy star Buster Keaton, vocalist Gertrude Niesen, quick clay sculptor Duke Art, Jr., comedy acrobatic team Dick and Dot Remy, and harmonica player Eddy Manson. Niesen sings "Temptation." Manson does a harmonic solo. Jimmy Durante and Jack Carson cameo in the Motorola commercial. Keaton, Wynn and others star in a silent film parody. Comic sculptor Duke Art Jr. makes one of his quick clay sculptures.
Top-rated
Tue, Nov 21, 1950
Jack Carson's cast includes the Honey Brothers, Betty Kean, Bob Sweeney, Jack Gilford, Jack Norton, Jane Dulo, Billy Sands, and the Pastels. Jack is manhandled by ruffians in the makeup department who put lipstick and false lashes on him. Late for the show, he encounters various oddballs on the subway. A drunk attends a lecture on "The Evils of Drink." Carson gets tied up with Kean who's planning a party on a pay phone. Dancing cops and gangsters salute Brooklyn in a production number.
Tue, Dec 5, 1950
Danny Thomas hosts with opera singer Bidu Sayao, dancer Danny Daniels, magician Gali-Gali, Julie Oshins, Milton Frome, with Lou Bring's orchestra. Thomas goes all the way to a company's treasurer (cameo by Jimmy Durante) to get back the penny he lost in a vending machine. Davis dances to Sayao's Spanish number; she then sings "Un Bel Di".
Top-rated
Tue, May 15, 1951
Jimmy Durante's guest include comedian Fred Allen and Eddie Cantor, Eddie Jackson, Jack Roth, Milton Frome, Al Norman, and Jules Buffano. Allen plays clarinet badly with Durante on "(If You've Got) Personality." Jimmy goes to Bali where he's fawned over by the island girls. Fred invites Jimmy to his Maine cabin where they appear on a local TV show with too many sponsors. At Club Durant, Durante does "She's a Little Bit This." Cantor enters when Jackson is introduced and sings "Waiting For the Robert E. Lee". Jackson sings "Is It True What They Say About Dixie?"