Season 1, Episode 2
Your Show of Shows - S1 - E2
Burgess Meredith is again the emcee for the second show. Highlights: The opening sketch follows a writer at the typewriter, revising a story as he types. Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca (introduced by name) enact the story as the writer revises their breakfast ordeal. Also appearing are Robert Merrill, ventriloquist Clifford Guest, and Marguerite Piazza.
Your Show of Shows: Season 1 - 11 Episode s
1x1 - February 25, 1950
February 25, 1950
In the premiere telecast, guests are actor Burgess Meredith, and comic actress Gertrude Lawrence. Sketches include Imogene Coca in a parody of turn-of-the century star Lilian Russell; Sid Caesar as a psychologist; Lawrence appears in "Live vs. theatre", a take-off on Noel Coward plays; Christopher Columbus; a nervous groom. Songs include "I Don't Know Why" (Lawrence);"Wiffenpoof Song" (Merrill); "Sweet Betsy from Pike" (Fisher, Ross, Hayes); "Smorgasbord" (Coca); "Main Street, U.S.A."(Foss, Fisher and Piazza); "Dangerous Dan McGrew".
1x2 - Season 1, Episode 2
March 4, 1950
Burgess Meredith is again the emcee for the second show. Highlights: The opening sketch follows a writer at the typewriter, revising a story as he types. Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca (introduced by name) enact the story as the writer revises their breakfast ordeal. Also appearing are Robert Merrill, ventriloquist Clifford Guest, and Marguerite Piazza.
1x3 - Season 1, Episode 3
March 11, 1950
1x4 - Season 1, Episode 4
March 18, 1950
1x5 - Season 1, Episode 5
April 1, 1950
1x6 - Season 1, Episode 6
April 8, 1950
1x7 - Season 1, Episode 7
April 15, 1950
1x8 - Season 1, Episode 8
April 29, 1950
1x9 - Season 1, Episode 9
May 6, 1950
1x10 - Season 1, Episode 10
May 13, 1950
1x11 - Season 1, Episode 11
May 20, 1950