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Abbott & Costello
The Colgate Comedy Hour - S4 - E28
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.
The Colgate Comedy Hour: Season 4 - 34 Episode s
4x1 - Martin & Lewis
October 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"
4x2 - Jimmy Durante
October 11, 1953
4x3 - Eddie Cantor
October 18, 1953
4x4 - Donald O'Connor
October 25, 1953
4x5 - Bud Abbott with Martin & Lewis
November 1, 1953
4x6 - Jimmy Durante
November 8, 1953
4x7 - Martha Raye
November 15, 1953
4x8 - Donald O'Connor
November 22, 1953
4x9 - Eddie Cantor
November 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.
4x10 - Jimmy Durante
December 6, 1953
4x11 - Perry Como and Martha Raye
December 13, 1953
4x12 - Donald O'Connor
December 20, 1953
4x13 - Eddie Cantor
December 27, 1953
4x14 - Jimmy Durante
January 3, 1954
4x15 - Martin & Lewis
January 10, 1954
4x16 - Alan Young, Stan Freberg, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby
January 17, 1954
4x17 - Ethel Merman
January 24, 1954
4x18 - Eddie Cantor
January 31, 1954
4x19 - Jimmy Durante
February 7, 1954
4x20 - Donald O'Connor
February 14, 1954
4x21 - Sonja Henie (with Abbott & Costello)
February 21, 1954
4x22 - ANYTHING GOES w Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, Bert Lahr
February 28, 1954
4x23 - Eddie Cantor
March 7, 1954
4x24 - Jimmy Durante
March 14, 1954
4x25 - Abbott & Costello
March 21, 1954
4x26 - Eddie Cantor
April 4, 1954
4x27 - Jimmy Durante
April 11, 1954
4x28 - Abbott & Costello
April 18, 1954
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.
4x29 - Ice Capades Special
April 25, 1954
4x30 - Martin & Lewis
May 2, 1954
4x31 - Jimmy Durante
May 9, 1954
4x32 - Eddie Cantor
May 16, 1954
4x33 - 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.
4x34 - Martin & Lewis
May 30, 1954