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- In a live show from San Francisco's Presido, Hope and McMurray play waterfront fishermen, two shop owners in Chinatown, and prisoners breaking out of Alcatraz. The Bell Sisters perform "Wheel of Fortune" and a comedy number, "June Night", with Bob. Rich prospector Hope drops by a Barbary Coast bar where everyone wants his gold. Bob and Fred do "Small Fry." Alpaka sings "Beyond the Reef."
- Danny plays a frustrated husband whose movie-crazed wife imagines everyone she sees is a star. Eleanor Powell performs two dance production numbers. June Havoc portrays self-absorbed vaudeville diva Cushions La Fay. A production number with the cast looks at the then-crazy idea of a woman president.
- Olsen and Johnson terrorize a saloon in a travesty of Westerns. Their acting school production of Shakespeare turns into an extended commercial for Snow Crop orange juice. Young Chet Allen sings "You'll Never Walk Alone." Sight gags rule in their classical play "Marie Antoinette" featuring a cameo by Berle. At O & J's dance, a man from the audience is crowned the party queen.
- Episode: (1951)1950–TV Episode
- 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?"
- 1950–TV Episode
- 1950–TV Episode
- Ed introduces Dinah through the screen of a gigantic television, and the recreate her video debut on Ed's 1949-50 series singing "Tea For Two" while riding the wacky piano bicycle. Pat O'Brien gives Ed an award from the Lamb's club for fifty years in show business. There's a skit about a bric-a-brac throwing French actress that calms down only when Ed and Teddy Snowcrop ply her with orange juice and frozen food, and another where Ed's making a 1920's movie starring Dinah.
- Episode: (1950)1950–TV Episode
- Episode: (1950)1950–TV Episode
- 1950–TV EpisodeJack 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.
- 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".
- Danny Thomas hosts with guests Celeste Holm, Julie Oshins, and dancer Bobby Sheerer. The thread of the show was Thomas on a cross-country bus trip with Oshins as the comic driver. One sketch was set in a bottling plant.
- 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.
- 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".
- 1950–TV Episode
- Episode: (1950)1950–TV Episode
- 1950–TV Episode
- 1950–TV Episode
- Ed Wynn hosts with guests English actress Hermione Gingold and American actress and singer Constance Moore.
- 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.
- Jimmy Durante hosts with guests opera star Helen Traubel, comics Shaw and Lee, and regulars Candy Candido, Eddie Jackson, and Jack Roth. In a comic travesty of a Wagner opera, Durante plays Siegmund to Traubel's Brunnhilde. Durante also sings "The Pussy Cat Song" with Candido.
- 1950–TV Episode
- Guests with Olsen and Johnson include regulars J. C. Olsen, Marty May, June Johnson, plus the Ben Yost Trio and dance team Patrice Helene and Jan Howard. The jokes and non sequiturs fly when O & J rent a fleabag room and when they play Martin and Kane, private detectives. Chic is mistaken for a ritzy customer when he wanders into a fashion designers salon to use the phone. In the Party in the Round segment, child dancer Errol Smith performs and a serviceman from the audience plays along in a silly quiz.
- 1950–TV Episode
- The Ritz Brothers perform a song and dance dressed as Revolutionary War soldiers, and another impersonating French vocalists. In an extended Snow Crop commercial, the boys are runners at a track meet. Evelyn Knight sings "Just One of Those Things" and "Dark Eyes." Jack Webb narrates a "Dragnet" take-off as the brothers investigate a murder. The three play Gypsy fortune tellers.
- 1950–TV Episode
- Episode: (1952)1950–TV Episode
- Episode: (1952)1950–TV Episode
- Episode: (1952)1950–TV Episode
- 1950–TV Episode
- 1950–TV Episode
- Perry Como hosts with guests Ben Blue, Joan Blondell, dance team (Danny) Hoctor and (Betty) Byrd, Snag Werris, Siri, Anita West, actor Stanley Prager, and singer Patti Page. Perry sings "Don't Let the Stars Get In Your Eyes" and "You'll Never Walk Alone." Perry woos Joan to be on the show, but she falls asleep thanks to some sleeping pills from her doctor. Page sings "How Much Is That Doggie in the Window." Ben Blue plays in "Montmartre," a silent sketch where he gets the best of snobs in a French bar. Perry takes his kids to a museum where the paintings talk back. Blondell, Blue and Como do a comedy dance as hobos.
- George Jessel is host with guests Eddie Cantor, Fred Allen, and Gloria DeHaven. Show has birthday party theme. Jessel stars in a skit as Professor Conzemacher as he expounds on 3-D movies.
- Jimmy Durante with guests Helen Traubel, Rose Marie, Eddie Jackson, Candy Candido, Jack Roth and Jules Buffano. Jimmy is pressed into service as Helen's music conductor, then joins her in singing "Our Voices Were Meant For Each Other."
- Episode: (1952)1950–TV Episode
- Todays Host: Martha Raye; Guests: Margaret Truman, Cesar Romero, Rocky Graziano, Jake La Motta, George Bassman and his Orchestra.
- Todays Host: Martha Raye; Guests: Bert Lahr, Rocky Graziano, Ray Middleton, Nadja Witkowska, George Bassman and his Orchestra.