The Colgate Comedy Hour

Season 4

1953 · 42 episodes · 1h 0m in all

Episodes

1. 1

   1. Martin & Lewis

   4 Oct 1953

   Skits: Burt plays an escaped lunatick. Songs: "Great To Be Home", "You're The Right One", "That's Amore", "There's No Tomorrow"

2. 2

   2. Jimmy Durante

   11 Oct 1953

3. 3

   3. Eddie Cantor

   18 Oct 1953

4. 4

   4. Donald O'Connor

   25 Oct 1953

5. 5

   5. Bud Abbott with Martin & Lewis

   1 Nov 1953

6. 6

   6. Jimmy Durante

   8 Nov 1953

7. 7

   7. Martha Raye

   15 Nov 1953

8. 8

   8. Donald O'Connor

   22 Nov 1953

9. 9

   9. Eddie Cantor

   29 Nov 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.

10. 10

    10. Jimmy Durante

    6 Dec 1953

11. 11

    11. Perry Como and Martha Raye

    13 Dec 1953

12. 12

    12. Donald O'Connor

    20 Dec 1953

13. 13

    13. Eddie Cantor

    27 Dec 1953

14. 14

    14. Jimmy Durante

    3 Jan 1954

15. 15

    15. Martin & Lewis

    10 Jan 1954

16. 16

    16. Alan Young, Stan Freberg, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby

    17 Jan 1954

17. 17

    17. Ethel Merman

    24 Jan 1954

18. 18

    18. Eddie Cantor

    31 Jan 1954

19. 19

    19. Jimmy Durante

    7 Feb 1954

20. 20

    20. Donald O'Connor

    14 Feb 1954

21. 21

    21. Sonja Henie (with Abbott & Costello)

    21 Feb 1954

    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.

22. 22

    22. ANYTHING GOES w Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, Bert Lahr

    28 Feb 1954

23. 23

    23. Eddie Cantor

    7 Mar 1954

24. 24

    24. Jimmy Durante

    14 Mar 1954

25. 25

    25. Abbott & Costello

    21 Mar 1954

26. 26

    26. Eddie Cantor

    4 Apr 1954

27. 27

    27. Jimmy Durante

    11 Apr 1954

28. 28

    28. Abbott & Costello

    18 Apr 1954 · 60 min

    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.

29. 29

    29. Ice Capades Special

    25 Apr 1954

30. 30

    30. Martin & Lewis

    2 May 1954

31. 31

    31. Jimmy Durante

    9 May 1954

32. 32

    32. Eddie Cantor

    16 May 1954

33. 33

    33. Abbott & Costello

    23 May 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.

34. 34

    34. Martin & Lewis

    30 May 1954

35. 35

    35. Debut of Colgate Summer Comedy hour with Kaye Ballard, Jules Munshin, Jackie Cooper

    6 Jun 1954

36. 36

    36. Let's Go Places

    13 Jun 1954

37. 37

    37. Continental Holiday

    20 Jun 1954

38. 38

    38. Away from It All

    27 Jun 1954

39. 39

    39. Holiday, U.S.A.

    4 Jul 1954

40. 40

    40. Episode 40

    11 Jul 1954

41. 41

    41. Free and Easy

    18 Jul 1954

42. 42

    42. Bobby Van, Pearl Bailey, Jeff Chandler, Gene Sheldon

    25 Jul 1954