The Colgate Comedy Hour
-Season 4
Episodes
1. Martin & Lewis
Oct 4, 1953Skits: Burt plays an escaped lunatick. Songs: "Great To Be Home", "You're The Right One", "That's Amore", "There's No Tomorrow"
2. Jimmy Durante
Oct 11, 1953No overview available.
3. Eddie Cantor
Oct 18, 1953No overview available.
4. Donald O'Connor
Oct 25, 1953No overview available.
5. Bud Abbott with Martin & Lewis
Nov 1, 1953No overview available.
6. Jimmy Durante
Nov 8, 1953No overview available.
7. Martha Raye
Nov 15, 1953No overview available.
8. Donald O'Connor
Nov 22, 1953No overview available.
9. Eddie Cantor
Nov 29, 1953Highlights 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. Jimmy Durante
Dec 6, 1953No overview available.
11. Perry Como and Martha Raye
Dec 13, 1953No overview available.
12. Donald O'Connor
Dec 20, 1953No overview available.
13. Eddie Cantor
Dec 27, 1953No overview available.
14. Jimmy Durante
Jan 3, 1954No overview available.
15. Martin & Lewis
Jan 10, 1954No overview available.
16. Alan Young, Stan Freberg, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby
Jan 17, 1954No overview available.
17. Ethel Merman
Jan 24, 1954No overview available.
18. Eddie Cantor
Jan 31, 1954No overview available.
19. Jimmy Durante
Feb 7, 1954No overview available.
20. Donald O'Connor
Feb 14, 1954No overview available.
21. Sonja Henie (with Abbott & Costello)
Feb 21, 1954Gene 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. ANYTHING GOES w Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, Bert Lahr
Feb 28, 1954No overview available.
23. Eddie Cantor
Mar 7, 1954No overview available.
24. Jimmy Durante
Mar 14, 1954No overview available.
25. Abbott & Costello
Mar 21, 1954No overview available.
26. Eddie Cantor
Apr 4, 1954No overview available.
27. Jimmy Durante
Apr 11, 1954No overview available.
28. Abbott & Costello
Apr 18, 1954Bud 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. Ice Capades Special
Apr 25, 1954No overview available.
30. Martin & Lewis
May 2, 1954No overview available.
31. Jimmy Durante
May 9, 1954No overview available.
32. Eddie Cantor
May 16, 1954No overview available.
33. Abbott & Costello
May 23, 1954One 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. Martin & Lewis
May 30, 1954No overview available.