Hollywood Palace 04.01.1964 - 07.02.1970
1. Hollywood Palace 1-01
Series Premiere_ Bing Crosby (host), Gary Crosby, Bob Newhart, Nancy
Wilson.mp4 2. Hollywood Palace 1-10 Dean Martin
(host), Jackie Mason, Vikki Carr, The Berosini Chimps.mp4 3. Hollywood Palace 1-11
Groucho Marx (host)_ Dr. Hackenbush, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam. Jose
Greco.mp4 4. Hollywood Palace 1-12 Nat
King Cole (host), Diahann Carroll, Paul Winchell, Allen & Rossi.mp4 5. Hollywood Palace 2-12 Burl
Ives (host), Edgar & Candice Bergen, Pat Henry.mp4 6. Hollywood Palace 2-19 David
Janssen (host), Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks and Tim Conway, Vic Damone.mp4 7. Hollywood Palace 2-20
George Burns (host), Wayne Newton, Connie Stevens, Rich Little.mp4 8. Hollywood Palace 2-26 Tony
Randall (host), Diana Ross, Allan Sherman, Nelson Eddy, Pat Morita.mp4 9. Hollywood Palace 2-28
Groucho Marx (host)_ _Animal Crackers_ with Margaret Dumont; Melinda Marx.mp4 10. Hollywood Palace 2-30 Louis
Armstrong (host), Jimmy Durante, Rowan & Martin, Diahann Carroll.mp4 11. Hollywood Palace 2-33
Tennessee Ernie Ford (host), Edie Adams, Jack Carter, Ann Miller.mp4 12. Hollywood Palace 3-03 Fred
Astaire (host), We Five, Jackie Mason, Jimmy Smith, Paul Lynde.mp4 13. Hollywood Palace 3-04 Joan
Crawford (host), Jack Jones, Joanie Sommers, Allen & Rossi.mp4 14. Hollywood Palace 3-05 Frank
Sinatra (host), Count Basie, Jack E. Leonard, Peter Gennaro.mp4 15. Hollywood Palace 3-06
Milton Berle (host), Sonny & Cher, Bill Dana, Maury Willis, Abbe Lane.mp4 16. Hollywood Palace 3-08 Judy
Garland (host), Vic Damone, Burns & Schreiber, Chita Rivera.mp4 17. Hollywood Palace 3-11
Milton Berle (host), Liberace, Cesar Romero, Joey Heatherton, MacGuire
Sisters.mp4 18. Hollywood Palace 3-13
Christmas Show_ Bing Crosby (host), Dorothy Collins, Hogan's Heros cast.mp4 19. Hollywood Palace 3-14 2nd
Anniversary Show_ Bing Crosby (host), Sonny & Cher, Danny Thomas.mp4 20. Hollywood Palace 3-19
Vincent Edwards (host), Liza Minnelli, Bette Davis, Joan Rivers.mp4 21. Hollywood Palace 3-24 Fred Astaire
(host), Ethel Merman, Marcel Marceau, Jack Jones.mp4 22. Hollywood Palace 3-25
Robert Goulet (host), Nancy Sinatra, Chita Rivera, Jan Murray, The
Muppets.mp4 23. Hollywood Palace 3-27
Martha Raye (host), George Carlin, Allen & Rossi, Chad & Jeremy.mp4 24. Hollywood Palace 3-31 Fred
Astaire (host), Barrie Chase, Herb Alpert, Louis Nye.mp4 25. Hollywood Palace 3-32 Judy
Garland (host), Johnny Rivers, Van Johnson, Jack Carter.mp4 26. Hollywood Palace 4-01 Bing
Crosby (host), George Burns, Sid Caesar, The Mamas & the Papas.mp4 27. Hollywood Palace 4-03
Elizabeth Montgomery (host), Jackie Mason, Vic Damone, Paul Lynde.mp4 28. Hollywood Palace 4-04 Adam
West (host), Ray Charles, George Carlin, Roy Rogers & Dale Evans.mp4 29. Hollywood Palace 4-05
Phillis Diller (host), Herman's Hermits, Bob Newhart, Tony Martin.mp4 30. Hollywood Palace 4-06 Herb
Alpert (host), The Supremes, Shelley Berman, Gilbert Bcaud.mp4 31. Hollywood Palace 4-12 Jimmy
Durante (host), The Turtles, George Carlin, Peter Lawford.mp4 32. Hollywood Palace 4-17 Bing
Crosby (host), Jimmy Durante, Edie Adams, Tim Conway.mp4 33. Hollywood Palace 4-18
Donald O'Connor (host), Sid Caesar, Don Ho, Shari Lewis, Ted Lewis.mp4 34. Hollywood Palace 4-20 Sammy
Davis Jr.(host), Liberace, Mickey Rooney, Kaye Stevens.mp4 35. Hollywood Palace 4-23 Steve
Lawrence (host), Florence Henderson, Phyllis Diller, Bill Dana.mp4 36. Hollywood Palace 4-30 Gene
Barry (host), Burns & Schreiber, Theodore Bikel, Mort Sahl.mp4 37. Hollywood Palace 5-01 Bing Crosby (host), Ravi Shankar,
Milton Berle, The Association.mp4 38. Hollywood Palace 5-02
Phyllis Diller (host), The 5th Dimension, Phil Harris, Annette Funicello.mp4 39. Hollywood Palace 5-04 Sammy
Davis Jr. (host), Diana Ross & the Supremes, Raquel Welch.mp4 40. Hollywood Palace 5-10 Steve
Lawrence & Eydie Gorme (hosts), Tim Conway, Corbett Monica.mp4 41. Hollywood Palace 5-11
Milton Berle (host), Nanette Fabray, Buddy Greco, Burns & Schreiber.mp4 42. Hollywood Palace 5-12 Jimmy
Durante (host), Ethel Merman, The Grass Roots, The Lennon Sisters.mp4 43. Hollywood Palace 5-15
Circus Show_ Jimmy Durante (host), Anissa Jones.mp4 44. Hollywood Palace 5-17 Bing
Crosby (host), Peggy Lee, Milton Berle, Jimmy Durante, Phil Harris.mp4 45. Hollywood Palace 5-19 Phil Silvers (host), James Brown, Jack
Jones, Polly Bergen, Henny Youngman.mp4 46. Hollywood Palace 5-20
Victor Borge (host), Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows, Dino Desi & Billy.mp4 47. Hollywood Palace 5-21 Jimmy
Durante (host), Van Johnson, Jimmy Dean, Vikki Carr.mp4 48. Hollywood Palace 6-01 Bing
Crosby (host), Bobby Goldsboro, Sid Caesar, Abbey Lincoln.mp4 49. Hollywood Palace 6-05 Don
Adams (host), Janis Joplin, Barbara Eden, Arte Johnson.mp4 50. Hollywood Palace 6-06 Sammy
Davis Jr. (host), Aretha Franklin, Spanky and Our Gang.mp4 51. Hollywood Palace 6-08 Sid
Caesar & Imogene Coca (co-hosts), The Bee Gees, Lou Rawls.mp4 52. Hollywood Palace 6-12
Christmas Show_ Bing & Kathryn Crosby (co-hosts), Glen Campbell.mp4 53. Hollywood Palace 6-13 Bing
Crosby (host), Bobbie Gentry, Tiny Tim, Judy Carne.mp4 54. Hollywood Palace 6-15 Roy
Rogers & Dale Evans (co-hosts), Jeannie C. Riley, Burl Ives, George
Gobel.mp4 55. Hollywood Palace 6-17 Don
Adams (host), Barrie Chase, The Lettermen, Tony Martin, Joey Forman.mp4 56. Hollywood Palace 6-20
All-Comedy Show_ Rowan & Martin (co-hosts), Jackie Gayle, Gene
Sheldon.mp4 57. Hollywood Palace 6-21 Bing Crosby
(host), Gary Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Jr., Temptations, Victor Borge.mp4 58. Hollywood Palace 6-23 Sammy
Davis Jr. (host), James Brown, Nipsy Russell, Charo.mp4 59. Hollywood Palace 6-24
Phyllis Diller & Don Rickles (co-hosts), Terry Thomas, The King Family.mp4 60. Hollywood Palace 6-25 Sid
Caesar & Imogene Coca (co-hosts), Gladys Knight & the Pips, Buddy
Rich.mp4 61. Hollywood Palace 6-26 Bing
Crosby (host), The Four Tops, Shelley Berman.mp4 62. Hollywood Palace 7-02 Diana
Ross & The Supremes (host), Sammy Davis Jr. , The Jackson Five.mp4 63. Hollywood Palace 7-03
Engelbert Humperdinck (host), Gladys Knight & the Pips, Sid Caesar.mp4 64. Hollywood Palace 7-04 Sammy
Davis Jr. (host), Peter Lawford, Cass Elliott, Lionel Hampton.mp4 65. Hollywood Palace 7-06
Milton Berle (host), The Youngbloods, Gregory Hines, Steve Allen.mp4 66. Hollywood Palace 7-07
Diahann Carroll (host), Stevie Wonder, Robert Culp, John Byner.mp4 67. Hollywood Palace 7-13 Burt
Bacharach & Angie Dickinson (co-hosts), Dusty Springfield, Sam &
Dave.mp4 68. Hollywood Palace 7-14 Bobbie
Gentry, John Hartford & Roy Clark (co-hosts), Brooklyn Bridge.mp4 69. Hollywood Palace 7-16 Don
Knotts (host), Joey Heatherton, Lance Rentzel, Bobby Goldsboro.mp4 70. Hollywood Palace 7-17 Final
Episode_ Bing Crosby (host) - Series Highlights.mp4 71. Jack Benny on Hollywood
Palace - with Petula Clark and Johnny Mathis (Feb 4, 1967).mp4 72. Jack Benny on Hollywood
Palace - with Sammy Davis Jr. and Liza Minelli (Jan 20, 1968).mp4 73. HOLLYWOOD PALACE W/ROBERT
GOULET,NANCY SINATRA,MUPPETS. 3/19/66 COLOUR. VG+ 60 MIN. (27) 74. HOLLYWOOD PALACE W/BUFFALO
SPRINGFIELD. COLOUR. 1967. 55 MIN. VG+ (243) 75. HOLLYWOOD PALACE W/Herb
Albert, Wes Montgomery, Burt Bacharach, Liza Minnelli 12/12/67 76. HOLLYWOOD PALACE W/ BING
CROSBY. LAST SHOW 1970. COLOUR. MANY RARE CLIPS. 55 MIN. EX. (243) 77. HOLLYWOOD PALACE W/NANCY
SINATRA&LEE HAZLEWOOD. 4/6/68. 60 MIN. COLOUR. EX. (428) 78. HOLLYWOOD PALACE
W/DALE&EVANS, EVERLY BROTHERS. COLOUR. 1/8/69. VG+/EX. 60 MIN. (245) 79. HOLLYWOOD PALACE
W/ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK, GLADY`S KNIGHT AND THE PIPS. 1969. COLOUR. EX. (429)
60 MIN |
S01E01 Host: Bing Crosby (The 1st
HOLLYWOOD PALACE Grand Opening Night.)
January 4, 1964 ABC (US)
Host: Bing Crosby Scheduled guests:
--Gary Crosby --Bob Newhart (comedian) --Mickey Rooney and Bobby Van -
""If We Felt Any Better"" --Nancy Wilson (singer) --The
Young Americans (singing group) - ""Green, Green,""
""Saturday Night"" and ""If I Had A
Hammer"" --Silvan (illusionist) --The Andre Tahon puppets --The Hardy
Family (acrobats) --Les Salvadori (musical clowns) --Robert Cummings
(Actor-Comedian) & THE HOLLYWOOD PALACE Billboard Girls.
S01E02 Host: Bob Cummings / Rosemary
Clooney
January 11, 1964 ABC (US)
Host: Bob Cummings --Rosemary Clooney
--Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks (comedians) --Anthony Newley --Dave King
S01E03 Host: Hugh O'Brian
January 18, 1964 ABC (US)
Host: Hugh O'Brian Scheduled guests:
--Johnny Mathis --Ginger Rogers --Marty Ingels (comedian) --Joanie Sommers (singer)
--Johnny Puleo (harmonica player) --Les Charlivels (acrobats) --Bertha, the
dancing elephant --The Andre Tahon Puppets
S01E04 Host: Ernest Borgnine
January 25, 1964 ABC (US)
Host: Ernest Borgnine Other guests:
--Carl Ballantine (comedian, from ""McHale's Navy"") --Joe
Flynn (comedian, from ""McHale's Navy"") --Tony Bennett
--Eleanor Powell (dancer) --Vikki Carr (singer) --Miriam Makeba (South African
folksinger) --Pepper Davis and Tony Reese (comedians) --The Levee singers --The
Norbu novelty gorilla act
S01E05 Host: Donald O'Connor
February 1, 1964 ABC (US)
Host: Donald O'Connor --Donald O'Connor
dances with the Louis DaPron dancers --Don Knotts (comedian) - appears, in a
comedy sketch, as a bashful after-dinner speaker --Buddy Greco (singer-pianist)
--The Wellingtons (singing group) - perform with Donald O'Connor --Mary Costa
(Metropolitan Opera soprano, formerly a TV pitchwoman) --Jack Olvin and Yvonne
Wilder (comedians, spoofing ""Hamlet) --The Pompoff Thedy musical
clowns (Vaudeville comedians) --Francis Brunn (juggler) Note: Buddy Hackett was
originally scheduled to appear on this episode.
S01E06 Host: Gig Young
February 8, 1964 ABC (US)
Host: Gig Young Other guests: --Yma
Sumac (singer) --The Mills Brothers (vocal group) --Buddy Hackett (comedian,
whose appearance was postponed last week) --Dorothy Collins (singer) --Michael
Bentine (British comedian, joins Gig Young in a sketch on British commuters)
--The Andre Tahon puppets (in a parody of the Beatles) --The Berosinis
(acrobats, teeterboard act from Czechoslovakia)
S01E07 Host: Dale Robertson
February 15, 1964 ABC (US)
Host: Dale Robertson --Red Buttons
(comedian) --The Smothers Brothers (comedy folk singers) --Vic Damone (singer)
- ""On the Street Where You Live"" & ""You
and the Night and the Music"" --Jane Morgan (singer) -
""Stay Out of Paris"" --Dale Robertson and Jane Morgan -
""Turkey in the Straw"" --The Four Amigos (singing quartet)
- ""Volare"" --Russ Lewis (ventriloquist) --The Harris
Nelson Family (musical novelty act, correct name might be ""Harrison
Family"") Additional guests (scheduled to appear): --Zony and Claire
(adagio dancers) --The Half Brothers (comic acrobats) --The Old Grey Mare
(performing horse)
S01E08 Host: Gene Kelly
February 22, 1964 ABC (US)
--Gene Kelly opens the show by singing
a few lines from ""Singin' in the Rain"" --Gene Kelly (and
two other dancers, Dick Humphries and Alex Plaschheart) do a tribute to
precision dancers ""King, King and King."" --Della Reese
(singer) --Joey Heatherton (actress, sings and dances with Gene Kelly) --Bill
Dana (comedian) --Ford and Hines (comedians) --The Women Folk (folksingers)
--The Tangier Brothers (Moroccan tumblers) --Anden's poodles
S01E09 Host: Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
February 29, 1964 ABC (US)
Host: Efrem Zimbalist Jr. --Louis Quinn
(appeared with Zimbalist on ""77 Sunset Strip"") --Kate
Smith --Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Trigger and the Sons of the Pioneers --Corbett
Monica (comedian) --Lewis and Christy (comedians) --The Great Wallendas
(high-wire act) --Albert Rix and his trained Russian bears --Szony and Claire
(Adaigo dancers)
S01E10 Host: Dean Martin
March 7, 1964 ABC (US)
Host: Dean Martin Other guests:
--Jackie Mason (comedian) --Barrie Chase (dancer) --Vikki Carr (singer) --Piccola
Pupa (12-year-old singer from Italy) --Leonard Barr (acrobatic dancer) --Rola
and Rolan (acrobats) --The Berosini Chimps
S01E11 Host: Groucho Marx
March 14, 1964 ABC (US)
Guests: --Groucho Marx (host) --Morey
Amsterdam & Rose Marie (comedians, from ""The Dick Van Dyke
Show"") --Jose Greco (flamenco dancer with his dance troupe) --Jennie
Smith (singer) - ""You and the Night and the Music""
--Gilbert Becaud (French pop singer) - ""More"" &
""What Now My Love"" --Lee Allen (roller-skating comedian) -
performs a comedy routine about drunks --The Andre Tahon Puppets - sing
""I Feel Pretty"" in a mouse version of ""West
Side Story"" --Bertha the Elephant (dancing, balancing elephant)
Comedy sketch: --A society matron, played by Dee Hartford, isn't convinced that
""Dr. Hackenbush"" (Groucho) is a real doctor. It could be
because all his nurses look more like chorus girls. Groucho Marx sings
""I'm Dr. Hackenbush"" in a the sketch.
S01E12 Host: Nat King Cole
March 21, 1964 ABC (US)
--Nat King Cole - ""My True
Carrie Love,"" ""Paper
Moon,"" ""Unforgettable"" and ""Day In,
Day Out"" --Nat King Cole and the Young Souls - ""Get on
Board!"" --Diahann Carroll (singer-actress) - sings a tribute to
Ethel Waters. Songs include ""Am I Blue?""
""Taking a Chance on Love,""
""Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe,""
""Dinah,"" ""After you've Gone"" and
""Stormy Weather"" --Paul Winchell (ventriloquist, with his
dummy Jerry Mahoney) - do a ""Ben Casey"" spoof. --Allen
& Rossi (comedy team) - sing ""Let's Face the Music and
Dance"" in their routine. --Ken Murray (narrates his home movies of
Hollywood stars) --The Merry Young Souls (singers) --The Amin Brothers
(acrobats, foot-jugglers) --The Brunos (sway-pole act) - Bruno balances atop a
90-foot pole in the Palace parking lot.
S01E13 Host: George Burns
March 28, 1964 ABC (US)
Host: George Burns --George Burns -
""Don't Take Me Home"" & ""I'll Buy the
Ring"" --Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks --Patti Page - ""Call
Me Irresponsible"" & ""Sweetest Sounds""
--George Burns and the Lennon Sisters - ""Ain't
Misbehavin'"" --Lennon Sisters - ""Moonglow""
& ""East of the Sun"" --George Burns and Sergio Franchi
- ""Some of These Days"" --Sergio Franchi (tenor) - theme
from ""Summertime"" --Mac Ronay (comic magician) --The
Dunhills (tap-dancers)
S01E14 Co-hosts: Tony Martin and Cyd
Charisse
April 4, 1964 ABC (US)
Co-hosts: Tony Martin and Cyd Charisse
--Tony Martin and Cyd Charisse (husband & wife) - ""The Old Soft
Shoe"" --Tony Martin - ""The Best Things in Life Are
Free,"" ""Wives and Lovers"" and
""More"" Other guests: --Mahalia Jackson (gospel singer)
--Ferrante and Teicher (pianists) --Corbett Monica (comedian) --Gaylord and
Holliday (comedy team) --The Collins Kids (singers) - perform a Dixie medley
--The Amandis teeterboard act --The Three Bizzaros Brothers (comedy act) --The
Berosini Chimps
S01E15 Host: Donald O'Connor
April 11, 1964 ABC (US)
Host: Donald O'Connor --Donald O'Connor
- ""Tea for Two"" --Donald O'Connor and the Four Little
Angels - sing ""Old MacDonald"" --Jack E. Leonard (comedian)
--Jarry Van Dyke (comedian) --Rich Little (comedian-impressionist) --Fran
Jeffries (singer) - ""It Had Better Be Tonight"" --The
Wellingtons (singers) --The Frielanes (unicyclists) --Tarzan and his Eight
Lions (circus act?)
S01E16 Host: Jimmy Durante
April 18, 1964 ABC (US)
Host: Jimmy Durante --Jimmy Durante -
""Words,"" ""I Could Have Danced All
Night,"" ""What a Day"" & ""This is
All I Ask"" --Jimmy Durante & Liberace - ""When a Real
Piano Player Sits down at the Keys"" --Liberace - ""Stardust""
--Jack Carter (comedian) --Piccola Pupa (singer) - ""Bonga
Cha-Cha-Cha"" --The Sylte Sisters (singers) - ""Love Is a
Thing"" & ""Them There Eyes"" --Silvio
Francesco (dancer-juggler) - ""Anything Goes"" --Colvin and
Wilder (comedians) --Otto and Maria (balancing act) --The Hardy Family
(acrobats)
S01E17 Host: Ken Murray / Chad and
Jeremy
April 25, 1964 ABC (US)
Host: Ken Murray --Ken Murray (shows
some of his Hollywood home movies) --Chad & Jeremy --Rowan and Martin (comedy
team) --Eddie Albert --The Step Brothers (tap dancers) --Charlie Callas
(comedian) --Jane Morgan (singer)
S01E18 Host: Louis Jourdan
May 2, 1964 ABC (US)
Host: Louis Jourdan --Anna Maria
Alberghetti (singer) - ""Irma La Douce"" --Henny Youngman
(comedian) --The King Sisters (singers) - ""Me and My
Shadow"" and a medley of old favorites --John Bubbles (tap dancer) -
""Tip and Tap"" --Russ Lewis (ventriloquist) --Lewis and
Christy (comedy team) --Muriel and Abe Grossfeld (Olympic athletes) --Armando Vega
(Olympic athlete) --Ron Barak (NCAA champion gymnast) --Johnny Broadway
(juggler)
S01E19 Host: Dale Robertson / The
Womenfolk
May 9, 1964 ABC (US)
Host: Dale Robertson --Betty Hutton -
""It Had To Be You"" --Paul Lynde and Carole Cook perform a
dramatic scene. They then do the same scene again...as a comedy. --The
Womenfolk (folk singers) --John Gary --Davis and Reese --Dave Parker (juggler)
--Varel and Bailly & Les Chanteurs de Paris --Kunio's Horse Fantasy --The
Bumpy Spectacular Acrobat Team
S01E20 Host: Fred MacMurray
May 16, 1964 ABC (US)
Host: Fred MacMurray --George Gobel
(comedian) --Dorothy Collins (singer) --Trini Lopez (singer) --Guy Marks
(comedian) --Augie and Margo (adagio dancers) Military acts performing a salute
to Armed Forces Day: (1) The Army ""Old Guard"" Fife and
Drum Corps (2) The Marine Pacific Drum and Bugle Corps (3) The Air Force Flying
Rifles drill team (4) The Navy Starflights trampoline act
S01E21 Host: Victor Borge
May 23, 1964 ABC (US)
Host: Victor Borge --Victor Borge and
Caterina Valente - ""The Girl from Ipanema"" --Caterina
Valente - ""Cute"" and ""Hindustan""
--Drummers Louis Bellson, Shelly Manne, Irv Cottler, and
""Philly"" Joe Jones provide percussion support on an
original jazz number performed by Caterina Valente. --Dennis Day (tenor) - (1)
sings ""Give Them All You've Got"" and ""Charlie
Brown."" (2) Dennis Day does impressions of
Lawrence Welk, comedian Frank Fontaine and a Japanese Beatle. --Gaylord and
Holiday (comedians) --Clifford Guest (ventriloquist from England) --Les
Tonellys (Parisian acrobats) --The Andre Tahon Puppets (appear as Russian folk
dancers)
S01E22 Host: Phil Harris
May 30, 1964 ABC (US)
Host: Phil Harris --Louis Armstrong
--Louis Nye (comedian) --Mary Costa (soprano) --Peter Gennaro (dancer-choreographer)
--Pete Barbuti (comedian) --The Jubilee Four (instrumental group) --The Peiro
Brothers (juggling act) --The Robert Baudy leopard and panther act
S01E23 Host: Gene Barry / Buster Keaton
& Gloria Swanson
June 6, 1964 ABC (US)
Host: Gene Barry (from
""Burke's Law"") --Gene Barry - sings ""Just In
Time,"" ""Day In, Day Out"" &
""Perfect Paris Night"" --Buster Keaton and Gloria Swanson
- (1) perform a Mack Sennett silent-comedy version of
""Cleopatra"" (2) join Gene Barry in a dance routine --Juliet
Prowse (dancer) - ""C'est Magnifique"" & ""I
Love You and Don't You Forget It"" --Jack Carter (comedian-singer) -
""Le Grande Boom-Boom"" --The Swingle Singers -
""Sinfonia"" & Bach's Fugue in D Minor --The Andre
Tahon Puppets --The Romano Brothers (jugglers) Scheduled guests: --Wayne Newton
--Marilyn Michaels (singer-impressionist)
S01E24 Host: Dean Martin / The Rolling
Stones
June 13, 1964 ABC (US)
Host: Dean Martin --Dean Martin -
""Smile,"" ""Take These Chains"" &
""Everybody Loves Somebody"" --The Rolling Stones -
""I Just Wanna Make Love To You"" --Joey Forman (comedian)
--The King Sisters & daughters (including Tina Cole) -
""Always,"" ""Don't Take Your Love from
Me"" and ""Jersey Bounce"" --SHARE (singing group
made up of Hollywood celebrity wives working for charity) --Larry Grizwold
(comedy trampoline act) --Bertha the elephant and her daughter Tina
Season 2
S02E01 Host: Debbie Reynolds
September 19, 1964 ABC (US)
Second season premiere Host: Debbie
Reynolds --Buddy Hackett (comedian) --Liberace --Rich Little
(comedian-impressionist) --Astrud Gilberto (singer) & Stan Getz --Nine
gymnasts from the U.S. Olympic team appear in a sketch with Debbie Reynolds.
--The 44-member Arirang Korean ballet troupe
S02E02 Host: Ed Wynn / The Rolling
Stones
September 26, 1964 ABC (US)
Host: Ed Wynn --The Rolling Stones -
""Not Fade Away"" --Eydie Gormé (singer,
backed by six guitarists and the Trio Los Panchos) --Ed Wynn and Eydie
Gormé - ""Tea for Two"" --The Nicholas Brothers
(tap dancers) - ""I've Been Away"" and ""Rhythm
Cocktail"" --Jack Carter (comedian) --Zizi Jeanmarie (singer,
appearing with her ""La Revue Parisienne"" troupe) -
""Mon Truc en Plumes"" --Linon (rope-walking clown from
Paris) --Rob Murray (comic juggler from Austraila) ABC repeated this show on
July 31, 1965.
S02E03 Host: Maurice Chevalier
October 3, 1964 ABC (US)
Host: Maurice Chevalier --Maurice
Chevalier sings ""Louise,""
""J'attendrais"" and ""When You're
Smiling"" --Jane Powell (dancer) - ""Come Dance with
Me"" --Maurice Chevalier and Jane Powell - ""Some
People"" and ""I Like the Likes of You"" --Rowan
and Martin (comedy duo) - do a sketch about a heckler at Richard Burton's night
club debut. --Tim Conway (from ""McHale's Navy) - does a comic
lecture on military history. --The Collins Kids (singers) - ""Waiting
for the Robert E. Lee,"" ""Swanee,""
""Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody"" and
""The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise"" --Dave Parker
(Dutch comedian, doing an imitation of Charlie Chaplin) --The
André Tahon Puppets - ""The Galopade"" --The
Staneks (acrobats, doing a teeterboard act) ABC repeated this show on July 17,
1965.
S02E04 Host: Donald O'Connor
October 10, 1964 ABC (US)
Host: Donald O'Connor --Donald O'Connor
- ""Take a Bow"" --Dorothy Provine (singer-dancer) and
Donald O'Connor - ""I Love to Dance"" --Sergio Franchi -
""I Have Dreamed"" and ""Ungrateful
Heart"" --Donald O'Connor, Dorothy Provone and Sergio Franchi -
""I Get that Minstrel Feeling"" --Morgana King (singer) -
""Corcavado"" --Shecky Greene (comedian) --Marilyn Michaels
(song impressionist) --The Haslevs (acrobats, doing a trampoline act) --Victor
Julian's Dog Act --The Martin Granger puppets --Mitchell Ayres (orchestra
conductor, regular cast member) ABC repeated this show on July 10, 1965.
S02E05 Host: Betty Grable
October 24, 1964 ABC (US)
Host: Betty Grable --Harry James and
his band --Dan Dailey --The Smothers Brothers --Diahann Carroll --Henny
Youngman (comedian)
S02E06 Host: Buddy Ebsen
October 31, 1964 ABC (US)
Host: Buddy Ebsen --Buddy Ebsen (from
the ""Beverly Hillbillies"") - ""I Was in
Vaudeville"" --Willie Mays (San Francisco Giants' center fielder)
--Jack Carter (comedian) --Buddy Ebsen appears in a comedy baseball sketch with
Willie Mays and Jack Carter. --Jane Morgan (singer) - ""Funny
World"" --Buddy Ebsen and Shani Wallis - ""Tea for
Two"" --Shani Wallis (English singer) - ""No Thanks, Just
Looking"" and ""Looking for a Little Boy"" --The
Wiere Brothers (comedy musical trio) --The Mascotts (German acrobats) --Tony
the Wonder Horse
S02E07 Host: Gene Barry / Bette Davis
& Olivia de Haviland
November 7, 1964 ABC (US)
Host: Gene Barry --Gene Barry (star of
""Burke's Law"") - ""Lady Be Good"" and
""It's All Right with Me"" --Bette Davis and Olivia de
Haviland - perform ""The Twilight Shore,""
a dramatic reading. --Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks (comedians) - perform their
""2000-Year-Old Man"" sketch. --Monique Van Vooren (singer)
- ""The Girl from Ipanema"" and ""Mack the
Knife"" --The Back Porch Majority (folk singers) - ""Where
Will You Be?"" --U.S. Olympic Gold Medal winners --Ben Blue
(comedian, pantomime artist) --Yonely (musical clown) ABC repeated this show on
Sept. 4, 1965.
S02E08 Host: Victor Borge
November 14, 1964 ABC (US)
Host: Victor Borge --Victor Borge
(comic pianist) - in a comedy segment, Borge composes by amalgamation, using
sheet music, a pair of scissors and a role of cellophane tape. --Victor Borge
and Alice Faye - ""Alexander's Ragtime Band"" --Alice Faye
- ""Hello Dolly"" --Nancy Wilson (singer) -
""Satin Doll"" and ""The Very Thought of
You"" --The Nicholas Brothers (tap dancers) - ""My Kind of
Town"" --Pat Morita (comedian) --The Swingle Singers (French vocal
group) - ""Bach's Fugue in D Minor"" --Rih Aruso
(bicyclist) --De Mille (a 15-year-old high wire performer) ABC repeated this
show on July 5, 1965.
S02E09 Host: Arthur Godfrey
November 21, 1964 ABC (US)
Host: Arthur Godfrey --Arthur Godfrey -
""Trail of the Lonesome Pine,"" ""I Like Being
Here with You,"" ""I'd Give a Million
Tomorrows,"" ""My Little Grass Shack,""
""Too Fat Polka"" and ""This Is All I
Ask"" --Shelley Berman (comedian) --Dorothy Collins (singer) -
""Love Makes the World Go Round,"" ""But
Beautiful,"" ""He Loves Me"" and ""Hi
Lili"" --John Gary (singer) --Gaylord and Holliday (comedy team)
--The Delrays (mimes, comic acrobats) --Eva Vidos (juggler) --Dwight Moore and
his Mongrels ABC repeated this show on June 12, 1965.
S02E10 Host: Tony Martin
November 28, 1964 ABC (US)
Host: Tony Martin --Tony Martin -
""Avalon,"" ""Everybody Loves
Somebody"" & ""People"" --Cyd Charisse
(dancer, wife of Tony Martin) - ""An Occasional Man""
--Desi, Dino and Billy (Dean Martin Jr., Desi Arnaz Jr. and Billy Hinche) -
""Since You Broke My Heart"" --Jack E. Leonard (comedian)
--Ted Lewis (veteran song-and-dance man) - ""When My Baby Smiles at
Me"" & ""Me and My Shadow"" --Ted Lewis, Tony
Martin, Cyd Charisse, Jack E. Leonard, Johnny Puleo - ""Me and My
Shadow"" (reprise) --Johnny Puleo and his Harmonica Gang --The Half
Brothers (jugglers) --Fred Roby (ventriloquist) ABC repeated this show on July
24, 1965.
S02E11 Host: Phil Harris / Ginger
Rogers
December 5, 1964 ABC (US)
Host: Phil Harris --Phil Harris -
""This Could be the Start of Something"" --Ginger Rogers -
""These Foolish Things"" --The McGuire Sisters (singing
group, doing a medley of their hits) --Bill Dana (comedian) --Gary Crosby
(singer) - ""Can't Stop Loving You"" --The Jubilee Four
(vocal group) --Phil Harris and the Jubilee Four - ""It Ain't
Necessarily So"" and ""That Old-time Religion""
--Dwight Moore and his Mongrels --the Merkys (acrobats)
S02E12 Host: Burl Ives
December 12, 1964 ABC (US)
Host: Burl Ives --Burl Ives (folk
singer) - ""Blue Tail Fly,"" ""Wayfarin'
Stranger,"" ""Big Rock Candy Mountain,""
""Foggy Foggy Dew,"" ""Funny Way of
Laughing,"" ""Lavender Blue,"" ""Little
Bitty Tear,"" ""Pearly Shells"" and
""Chim Chim Cheree"" --Edgar Bergen (with Charlie McCarthy)
--Candice Bergen (Edgar Bergen's daughter, then 18-years-old) --Ann Miller
(dancer) - ""It Had Better Be Tonight"" --Anna Moffo
(operatic soprano) - ""Ach, chacun le sait"" (from
Donizetti's ""Daughter of the Regiment."") --Burl Ives and
Anna Moffo - ""Turn Around"" --Pat Henry (comedian) --Rih
Aruso (bicycle-balancer) --Liana Stanek (trapeze artist from Vienna) (Repeat aired
14Aug65)
S02E13 Host: Donald O'Connor
December 19, 1964 ABC (US)
Host: Donald O'Connor --Louis Armstrong
--Jane Powell (actress-singer) --Cliff ""Charley Weaver""
Arquette --Norm Crosby (comedian) --The Vienna Boys Choir --The Hanneford
Family's trained horse act
S02E14 Host: Van Johnson / Betty Grable
December 26, 1964 ABC (US)
Host: Van Johnson --Van Johnson -
""I'm a Ham,"" ""Let Me Entertain
You,"" ""I Want to be Happy"" and ""Lot
of Livin' to Do"" --Betty Grable - ""Please, Mr. Brown""
--Jackie Mason (comedian) --Sergio Franchi (tenor) - ""In the Still
of the Night"" and ""Al Di La"" --Johnson, Grable
and Franchi - ""You Gotta Give the People Hoke"" --Paul
Gilbert (comedian) --The Bal Caron Trio (dancers) --The Zeros (knife-throwing
act) --The Jambaz (balancing act) --Mimi Zerbini (trapeze artist from France)
S02E15 Host: Liberace
January 9, 1965 ABC (US)
Host: Liberace --Liberace -
""Blue Danube,"" Me and My Shadow"" and
""There'll Be No New Tunes on This Old Piano"" --Edward G. Robinson
(actor) - reading Milton Geiger's patriotic writing ""This Is
It"" --Shani Wallis (English singer) - ""There Goes My
Heart"" --Liberace and Shani Wallis - ""You Were Meant for
Me"" and ""Tea for Two"" (and possibly
""I've Told Every Little Star"" and ""There Goes
My Heart"") --Rowan and Martin (comedy team) --Gene Baylos (comedian)
--Page and Bray (dancing team) --The Getschys (European cycling family)
--Bertha the Elephant and her daughter Tina ABC repeated this show on Aug. 28,
1965.
S02E16 Host: Bing Crosby
January 16, 1965 ABC (US)
Host: Bing Crosby --Beverly Garland
(from Bing's 1964-65 sitcom) --Frank McHugh (from Bing's 1964-65 sitcom) --Bing
Crosby, Beverly Garland and Frank McHugh - ""Top Banana""
--The King Sisters (6 sisters with their children) - ""Lollipops and
Roses,"" ""There is Nothing Like a Dame,""
""Got a Lotta Livin' to Do"" and ""I'm
Old-fashioned."" --Bing Crosby and the King Sisters - ""Dream""
--Jacques d'Amboise and Catherine Mazzo (ballet dancers, of the New York City
Center Ballet) - ""Meditation,""
from Massenet's opera ""Thais."" --Corbett Monica
(comedian) --The Three Rebertes (acrobats) --Leonardo (plate spinner) Also:
Bette Davis and former Hollywood Palace hosts Gene Barry, George Burns, Cyd
Charisse, Buddy Ebsen, Phil Harris, Liberace, Tony Martin, Debbie Reynolds,
Groucho Marx and Ed Wynn join Bing Crosby in a birthday sketch.
S02E17 Host: Kate Smith / Trini Lopez
January 23, 1965 ABC (US)
Host: Kate Smith --Kate Smith (singer)
- ""Danke Schön,"" ""You're Nobody till
Somebody Loves You,"" ""Temptation"" and
""God Bless America"" --Trini Lopez (singer) -
""Michael, Row the Boat Ashore"" and ""Lemon
Tree"" (and possibly ""We'll Sing in the
Sunshine"") --Mort Sahl (comedian-satirist) --Ben Blue (pantomime
artist, silent comedian) --The Juan Carlos Copes dance troupe (from Argentina)
--Stan Fisher (harmonica player) - ""Slaughter on 10th
Avenue"" --Desmond and Marks (comedy dancers from England) --The
Karlini and Jupiter dog act ABC repeated this show on May 29, 1965.
S02E18 Host: Cyd Charisse
January 30, 1965 ABC (US)
Host: Cyd Charisse --Cyd Charisse -
""Let's Dance"" and ""Ballet Blues""
--Tony Martin (singer, Cyd Charisse's husband) - ""Dear
Heart"" and ""Lullaby of Broadway"" --Cyd Charisse
and Tony Martin - ""A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening""
--Jack Carter (comedian) --Kay Starr (singer) - ""Three
Letters,"" ""That Old Gang of Mine"" and
""Ho Ho Ho, Ha Ha Ha, Me Too."" --Alphonse Bergé
(French dress designer) --Shai K. Ophir (pantomimist from Israel) --The Cosmos
(motorcycle aerialists) --The Dalrays (comic acrobats)
S02E19 Host: David Janssen
February 6, 1965 ABC (US)
Host: David Janssen --David Janssen
(from ""The Fugitive"") --Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks
(comedians) - give advice on filing income tax returns. --Edie Adams (singer) -
""Love,"" ""I'm Glad
There Is You"" and ""The Man That Got Away""
--Tim Conway (comedian, of ""McHale's Navy"") --Vic Damone
(singer) - ""Fascinatin' Rhythm,"" ""But Not for
Me"" and ""They Can't Take That Away from Me""
--The Harlem Globetrotters - ""Sweet Georgia Brown."" After
their song, the Globetrotters play the Hollywood Palace Dribblers: Janssen,
Reiner, Brooks, Damone and Conway. --Les Surfs (singing group from Madagascar)
- ""Pretty Please"" and ""Pour la
Rose"" --The Zeros (knife-throwing act) --The Princess Tajana trapeze
act ABC repeted this show on June 19, 1965.
S02E20 Host: George Burns
February 13, 1965 ABC (US)
Host: George Burns --George Burns -
""History of the Dance"" & ""Pack Up Your
Sins"" --Connie Stevens - ""Married I Can Always
Get"" (or "" Married I Can Always Stay"")
--George Burns and Connie Stevens (co-staring in the 1964-65 series
""Wendy and Me"") - ""At the Ball That's
All"" --George Burns and the Greenwood County Singers -
""La Vie en Rose"" --Wayne Newton - ""Red Roses
for a Blue Lady"" --The Greenwood Country Singers -
""Greenwood County"" & ""Anne""
--Rich Little (impressionist-comedian) --Prassana Rao (illusionist) --The
Gaonas (trampoline act from Mexico) --The Zacchinis (human cannonballs)
S02E21 Host: Bette Davis
February 20, 1965 ABC (US)
Host: Bette Davis --Bette Davis sings
""To Be Single"" (an answer to Richard Burton's recording
""A Married Man"") --Bette Davis and Bert Lahr appear in
""Jealousy,"" a comedy sketch from the 1952 Broadway musical
revue ""Two's Company"" (in which Bette appeared on
Broadway). Lahr plays a paranoid husband who's trying to get his dowdy wife to
admit that she's having an affair. --Barrie Chase (dancer) - ""The
Girl from Ipanema"" --Julius La Rosa (singer) - ""Out of
This World"" and ""People"" --Jan Murray
(comedian, does a monologue about his daughter's first date) --Les Cinci (a
Parisian couple who parody apache-style dancers) --Rob Murray (comic juggler
from Australia) --The Nerveless Nocks (three Swiss men and a girl who perform
atop 100-foot sway-poles) ABC repeated this show on July 3, 1965.
S02E22 Hosts: Roy Rogers & Dale
Evans / Jan and Dean
February 27, 1965 ABC (US)
Co-hosts: Roy Rogers and Dale Evans --Roy
Rogers and Dale Evans (accompanied by Trigger and the Sons of the Pioneers)
--Jan and Dean - ""From All over the World"" (theme from
the ""T.A.M.I. Show"") --The Nicholas Brothers (singing
dancers) - ""Black Magic"" --Shelley Berman (comedian)
--Billy de Wolfe --The Ballet Folklorico of Mexico -
""Jalisco"" --The Murais (jugglers from Japan) --The Flying
Armors (trapeze act) ABC repeated this show on September 11, 1965.
S02E23 Host: Eddie Fisher
March 6, 1965 ABC (US)
Host: Eddie Fisher --Eddie Fisher -
""Let Me Entertain You"" --Connie Stevens - ""It
Only Takes a Moment"" --Jack Carter (comedian) --The Arirang Korean
ballet troupe --Ben Wrigley (comedy pantomimist) --The Kuban Cossacks (Cossack
dancers)
S02E24 Host: Victor Borge
March 13, 1965 ABC (US)
Host: Victor Borge --Victor Borge
(comic pianist) - demonstrates how great composers stumbled on some of their
famous compositions. --Rosemary Clooney - ""Cabin in the
Sky,"" ""Come on A-My House,"" ""Botch-a-Me,""
""Hey There"" and ""Tenderly"" --Shecky
Greene (comedian, does a routine about folk and nightclub singers) --The
Kessler Twins (singers) - ""For Me, Formidable"" and
""Every Street's a Boulevard in Old New York"" --The Two
Freddies (acrobats, on trampoline) --Russ Lewis (ventriloquist) --Marco
(sword-balancer)
S02E25 Host: Robert Goulet
March 20, 1965 ABC (US)
Host: Robert Goulet --Robert Goulet
(guest host) --Carol Lawrence (singer, wife of Robert Goulet) --Bill Cosby
(comedian, does a routine about Noah and the Ark) --Les Surfs (singing group
from Madagascar) --Bill Dana (comedian, as ""El Matador""
Jose Jimenez) --The Trhee Akeffs (balancing act) --Eva Vidos (juggler) --Kay
and her pets
S02E26 Host: Tony Randall / Diana Ross
& the Supremes
March 27, 1965 ABC (US)
Host: Tony Randall --Tony Randall -
does a sketch about an all-night radio disc jockey --Diana Ross and the
Supremes - ""Stop! In The Name Of Love"" --Allan Sherman
sings ""Crazy Downtown"" (parody of Petula Clark's
""Downtown"") --Nelson Eddy and Gale Sherwood (singers) -
""You and the Night and the Music"" &
""Indian Love Call"" --Nelson Eddy - ""The Song
Is You"" --Vikki Carr (singer) - ""The Good
Life,"" ""So in Love"" and ""The Days
of Wine and Roses"" --Pat Morita (comedian) --The Marthys (tumbling
acrobats) --Mendez's high-wire act --A wrestling match between the Hangman and
Victor the Great, a Canadian Brown Bear. ABC repeated this show on August 21,
1965.
S02E27 Host: Dale Robertson
April 3, 1965 ABC (US)
Host: Dale Robertson --Tim Conway
(comedian, from ""McHale's Navy"") - does an obstetrician
sketch --George Gobel (comedian) --Barbara McNair (singer) --Lisa Kirk
(singer-dancer) --Gaylord and Holiday (comedy team) --The Four Winds of Notre
Dame (vocal quartet) --The Morways (teeterboard artists from Prague) --The
Hennefore Family's comedy animal act
S02E28 Host: Groucho Marx / Margaret
Dumont
April 17, 1965 ABC (US)
Host: Groucho Marx --Margaret Dumont
(comedian, in her last TV appearance) --Groucho Marx and Margaret Dumont
perform their comedy classic ""Captain Spaulding,"" a
number from ""Animal Crackers."" --Melinda Marx (Groucho's
daughter) - ""East Side of Town"" --Groucho and Melinda
Marx - ""Play a Simple Melody"" --Gordon and Sheila MacRae
sing ""I Want to Be with You"" --Sheila MacRae -
""Hello Dolly"" and ""Happy Days Are Here
Again"" --Gordon MacRae - ""More"" --Shecky
Greene (comedian) --Miriam Makeba (African folk singer) - African Game Song
--Lydia Torea (flamenco dancer, with her troupe) - ""Dos en
Ritmo"" & ""Un Pinto"" --Don Saunders
(comedian from Scotland) --The Four Kents (trick unicyclists from Denmark)
S02E29 Host: Pat Boone
April 24, 1965 ABC (US)
Host: Pat Boone --Pat Boone -
""Exodus,"" ""Walk Right In,""
""Love Letters in the Sand,"" ""Wonderful Time Up
There"" and ""April Love"" --Dorothy Collins (singer)
- ""Sleeping Bee"" and ""The Eagle and
Me"" --Jack E. Leonard (comedian) --Ben Blue (comedian-impressionist,
with his troupe) - ""The Parisian Sidewalk
Café"" sketch --Liliane Montevecchi (singer-dancer)
--The Cherokys (acrobats) --The Steckles (illusionists)
S02E30 Host: Louis Armstrong
May 1, 1965 ABC (US)
Host: Louis Armstrong --Louis Armstrong
- ""Hello, Dolly!"" ""When the Saints Go Marching
In,"" ""Mack the Knife"" and
""Blueberry Hill"" (Also, Armstrong is saluted for his 50
years in show business and his role as a goodwill ambassador.) --Edward G.
Robinson (actor) - reads tributes to Louis Armstrong from President Johnson and
the Senate. --Jimmy Durante - ""Well-Dressed Man,""
""What a Day,"" ""Alley Cat"" and
""Again You Turn-a"" --Louis Armstrong and Jimmy Durante -
""Old Man Time"" --Diahann Carroll (blues singer) -
""Outskirts of Town,"" ""Porgy"" and
""Nobody Loves You When You're Down and Out"" --Rowan and
Martin (comedy team) --The Ballet Folklorico of Mexico -
""Jalisco"" and ""Deer Dance""
S02E31 Host: Steve Lawrence
May 8, 1965 ABC (US)
Host: Steve Lawrence --Mickey Rooney
and Bobby Van - appear in a spoof of the movie ""Bridge on the River
Kwai"" --Jean Fenn (operatic soprano) --The Backporch Majority (folk
singers) - ""Ramblin' Man"" and ""Old Dan
Tucker"" --Jack Cole (choreographer-dancer) --Gene Baylos (comedian)
--Alberto and Rosita (plate spinners) --The Gimma Brothers (novelty act)
--Poogie Bell (a 4-year-old drummer) ABC repeated this show on August 7, 1965.
S02E32 Host: George Burns
May 15, 1965 ABC (US)
Host: George Burns --Carl Reiner and
Mel Brooks (comedians, do an interview sketch on dieting) --Jack Jones (singer)
--Mary Costa (operatic soprano) --The Young Americans (vocal group) -
""The Young Americans"" --Cully Rihcards and Company
(pantomimists) --the Almiros (jugglers) --The Flying Zacchinis (trapeze
artists)
S02E33 Host: Tennessee Ernie Ford
May 22, 1965 ABC (US)
Host: Tennessee Ernie Ford --Ann Miller
(singer-dancer) --Edie Adams (singer)--Jack Carter (comedian)--Santos (low-wire
acrobat act from Portugal)--The O'Keffe comedy divers (from England) --The Gus
Augspurg Monkeys Please see ""Recap"" for episode
transcript and song titles.
Season 3
S03E01 Host: Bing Crosby
September 18, 1965 ABC (US)
Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby -
""The Hollywood Palace Song"" --Caterina Valente (singer) -
""Meditation"" --Bing Crosby and Caterina Valente -
""Slow Boat to China,"" ""Hindustan,"" ""Fancy
Meeting You Here"" and ""It Happened in
Monterrey"" --Tim Conway (comedian, from ""McHale's
Navy"") --Avery Schreiber and Jack Burns (comedy team) --The Nitwits
(comedy music group) --The Rudas (Australian dancers) --The Black Theater of
Prague --Bertha the Elephant and her daughter Tina
S03E02 Host: Bing Crosby / Louis
Armstrong
September 25, 1965 ABC (US)
Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby -
""My Blue Heaven"" --Louis Armstrong - ""Way Down
Yonder in New Orleans"" --Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong -
""Dardanella"" --Phil Harris (comedian) - ""King
of the Road""--The Young Americans (36 young singers led by Milton
Anderson) - ""Waiting for the Robert E. Lee"" &
""Swanee"" --Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Phil Harris
& the Young Americans - ""South Rampart Street Parade""
--Bing Crosby and The Young Americans - ""Happiness Is""
--Carl Ballantine (comic magician, a regular on ""McHale's
Navy"") --Pat Woodell (a former regular on ""Petticoat
Junction,"" making her singing debut) - ""It Might as Well
Be Spring"" --Fred Roby (ventriloquist from France) --La Norma
(Danish trapeze artist) --Sims' performing ponies
S03E03 Host: Fred Astaire / We Five
October 2, 1965 ABC (US)
Host: Fred Astaire --Fred Astaire -
""Top Hat"" & ""The Time Has Come""
--We Five - ""You Were on My Mind"" --Jimmy Smith (jazz
organist) - ""The Organ Grinder's Swing"" --Fred Astaire
and Jimmy Smith - ""The Cat"" --Rudolf Nureyev and Dame
Margot Fonteyn (ballet stars of London's Royal Ballet Company) -
""The Black Swan"" pas de deux --Paul Lynde & Carmen
Phillips - appear in a sketch about a girl who ""wants to end it all.""
--Jackie Mason (stand-up comedian discussing actors entering politics) --The
Andre Tahon Puppets (featuring Fuzzy the Caterpillar)
S03E04 Host: Joan Crawford / Jack Jones
October 9, 1965 ABC (US)
Host: Joan Crawford --Joan Crawford
reads ""A Prayer for Little Children"" --Jack Jones -
""Just Yesterday"" & ""More""
--Jack Jones & Joanie Sommers - ""Call Me"" --Joanie
Sommers (singer) - ""Till There Was You"" --Allen and Rossi
(comedy team) --Steve Rossi - ""Al Di La"" &
""Battle Hymn of the Republic"" --Godfrey Cambridge
(comedian) --Lily Yokoi (Japanese bicyclist) --The Rodos (acrobats from West
Germany) --Stebbings' Boxers (a comic dog act from England)
S03E05 Host: Frank Sinatra / Count
Basie
October 16, 1965 ABC (US)
Host: Frank Sinatra --Frank Sinatra -
""I've Got the World on a String"" --Frank Sinatra and
Count Basie - ""Fly Me to the Moon,"" ""Everybody
Has a Right to be Wrong,"" ""Please Be Kind,""
""The Gal That Got Away"" and ""Too Marvelous for
Words"" --Count Basie - ""Summertime"" --Jack E.
Leonard (comedian, does a soft-shoe number & recalls former appearances
with Sinatra) --Peter Gennaro (choreographer-dancer) - ""What's New
Pussycat?"" production number --The Kessler Sisters (Alice and Ellen
Kessler, singers from West Germany) - ""The Best is Yet to
Come"" & ""Together Wherever We Go""
S03E06 Host: Milton Berle / Sonny &
Cher
October 23, 1965 ABC (US)
Host: Milton Berle --Sonny and Cher -
""Baby, Don't Go"" & ""Where Do You
Go?"" --Sonny and Cher with Milton Berle - in a skit, perform a
version of ""But You're Mine"" titled ""But
You're Ours."" (Milton is portrayed as S&C's kid in the skit with
long hair, fur vest, etc.) --Abbe Lane (singer) --Bill Dana (comedian, as Jose
Jimenez talking about his jujitsu book) --Maury Wills (Los Angeles Dodger
captain) - sings and plays banjo --Mike McGivney (quick-change actor doing an
abbreviated version of ""Oliver Twist"") --The Rudas
(Austrailian dancers) - ""This Must Be the Place""
S03E07 Host: Ray Bolger
November 6, 1965 ABC (US)
--Ray Bolger (host) - ""Put
on a Happy Face,"" ""Life Is Just
a Bowl of Cherries,"" ""Ida,"" ""Rosie
O'Grady,"" ""Once in Love with Amy"" and
""Who?"" --Kay Starr - ""Never Dreamed I Could
Love Someone New"" and ""Rockin' Chair"" --Ray
Bolger and Kay Starr - ""Dearie"" --Lionel Hampton -
""How High the Moon"" --Jim Bradley (7-year-old drummer)
and Lionel Hampton - ""Vibe Boogie"" --Norm Crosby
(comedian) --Rich Little (impressionist-comedian) --Michael De La Vega (escape
artist) --The Five Armandis (acrobats, teeterboard act)
S03E08 Host: Judy Garland / Vic Damone
November 13, 1965 ABC (US)
Host: Judy Garland --Judy Garland sings
""Once in a While,"" I Loved Him"" and
""We're a Couple of Swells"" --Judy Garland sings
""Play the Palace"" then performs songs made famous by other
singers at the Broadway Palace: ""Shine On, Harvest Moon""
(Nora Bayes); ""Some of These Days"" (Sophie Tucker);
""My Man"" (Fanny Brice) and ""I Don't
Care"" (Eva Tanguay). --Judy Garland and Vic Damone -
""West Side Story"" medley: ""Maria,""
""There's a Place for Us"" and
""Tonight"" --Vic Damone - ""Quiet
Nights"" --Chita Rivera (singer-dancer) - ""Blue is the
Color"" --Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber (comedy team) --Gene Baylos
(comedian) --The Lyons Family (acrobats) --The Three Bragazzi (musical clowns
from Italy)
S03E09 Host: Bing Crosby
November 20, 1965 ABC (US)
Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby (host)
- ""Them There Eyes"" --Diahann Carroll (singer) -
""It's Not Unusual"" and ""If I Ruled the
World"" --John Bubbles (song-and-dance man) --Charlie Manna
(comedian) --The Kessler Twins (singers Ellen and Alice Kessler) -
""Married I Can Always Get"" and
""Identical"" --Michael the Waiter (German juggler)
--Desmond and Marks (English comedians) --The Black Theater of Prague
(pantomimists)
S03E10 Host: Janet Leigh
November 27, 1965 ABC (US)
Host: Janet Leigh --Janet Leigh and
Allan Sherman - ""Sarah Jackman"" --Allan Sherman (comedy
singer) - ""Peyton Place"" --Rowan & Martin (comedy
team) --Andy Russell (singer) - ""Besame Mucho,""
""Magic Is the Moonlight,"" ""What a Difference a
Day Makes,"" ""Amor"" and ""The Second
Time Around"" --Michel de la Vega (magician) --Bob Ashley and Erwin
Klein (table tennis experts) Additional guests (cast from ""F
Troop""): --Forrest Tucker - sings ""Old Man
Time"" --Ken Berry - sings ""I'm Beginning to See the
Light"" --Larry Storch (comedian) ABC repeated this show on August
27, 1966.
S03E11 Host: Milton Berle
December 4, 1965 ABC (US)
Host: Milton Berle --Milton Berle and
Liberace - ""My Kind of Town"" --Liberace -
""More,"" ""Alley Cat"" and the theme
from ""Exodus"" --Cesar Romero (actor) --Joey Heatherton
(singer-dancer) - ""I'm All Smiles"" --The McGuire Sisters
(singers) - ""Bye Bye, Blackbird,"" ""I Can't
Give You Anything but Love,"" ""My Melancholy
Baby"" and ""When My Baby smiles at Me"" --Johnny
Puleo and his Harmonica Gang --The Peiro Brothers (jugglers from Argentina)
--The Berosinis (acrobats, teeterboard act from Czechoslovakia) Comedy sketch
(about the filming of a spy movie): --Cesar Romero (as the pampered star)
--Phyllis McGuire (as ""Kitten Plenty,"" the leading lady)
--Liberace (as ""Irving Goldjacket,"" the ruthless killer)
--Milton Berle (as the stuntman) --Milton Frome (as ""Alfred
Hitchcluck,"" the director) --Johnny Puleo (as the makeup man)
S03E12 Host: Caterina Valente / Herb
Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
December 11, 1965 ABC (US)
Host: Caterina Valente --Herb Alpert
and the Tijuana Brass - ""Whipped Cream"" &
""The Lonely Bull"" --Caterina Valente - sings
""Danke Schön,"" ""Don't Rain on My
Parade,"" ""Falling in Love with Love"" &
""Till"" --Bill Cosby (from ""I Spy"")
- does a stand-up monologue about shopping for a new car. --Bill Dana
(comedian, appearing as flamenco dancer José Jimenez) --the Black
Theatre of Prague (pantomimists) --Luiz Bonfa (Brazilian guitarist) -
""The Ski Song"" --Channing Pollock (magician) --The
Fredonias (tumblers from Germany)
S03E13 Host: Bing Crosby (1965
Christmas Show)
December 25, 1965 ABC (US)
Host: Bing Crosby (1965 Christmas Show)
--Bing Crosby - ""White World of Winter"" --Bob Crane, Bing
Crosby and Dorothy Collins - ""We Wish You the Merriest""
--Bing Crosby and Dorothy Collins - ""Glow Worm"" --Fred
Waring and the Pennsylvanians - ""Twelve Days of
Christmas"" --Robert Clary - ""French Christmas
Song"" --Werner Klemperer and John Banner - ""Stille
Nacht"" (""Silent Night"" in German) --Andre
Tahon (puppeteer) --Bob Williams and Louie the Dog (humorous animal act) -
overly enthusiastic man tries to get his dog to do tricks. The cast of
""Hogan's Heroes"" (Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, Richard
Dawson, John Banner, Robert Clary, Larry Hovis and Ivan Dixon) joins Bing in a
sketch.
S03E14 Host: Bing Crosby / Sonny and
Cher
January 1, 1966 ABC (US)
Second Anniversary show Host: Bing
Crosby --Bing Crosby - ""Let's Start the New Year Right""
and ""This Could be the Start of Something Big"" --Sonny
and Cher with Bing Crosby - ""Resolutions"" --Sonny and
Cher - ""What Now My Love"" --Danny Thomas (comedian) --Bob
Newhart (comedian) --David Nelson (from ""Ozzie and
Harriet,"" performing on the trapeze with the Flying Artons) --Donna
Butterworth (8 year old actress-singer) - ""Swanee"" and
""Waiting for the Robert E. Lee"" --Donna Butterworth and
Bing Crosby - ""Little Grass Shack"" --Marilyn Maye (singer)
- ""Misty"" --Ben Blue (pantomimist doing a routine about
an ice skater)
S03E15 Host: Kate Smith
January 8, 1966 ABC (US)
Host: Kate Smith --Kate Smith -
""Fine and Dandy,""
""When the Moon Comes over the Mountain,"" ""Who
Cares?"" and ""Love Is a Many Splendored Thing""
--Juliet Prowse (dancer, star of the 1965-66 series ""Mona
McCluskey"") - ""Dixie"" medley --Charles
Aznavour (singer-composer) - ""Who?"" & ""The
Comedians"" --Burns & Schreiber (comedy team doing a routine
about a talking vending machine) --Albert T. Berry (comedy-novelty act, billed
as a momologist) --Charles Cairoli and Company (pantomime group doing a routine
about a bakery) --The Rodos (eight tumblers/acrobatic dancers from Germany)
--Prasano Rao (illusionist from India, does shadow puppets of famous people)
S03E16 Host: Phil Harris
January 15, 1966 ABC (US)
Host: Phil Harris --Alice Faye --Tim
Conway --Georgie Kaye --Sergio Franchi --The Kim Sisters
S03E17 Host: Fred Astaire / Petula
Clark
January 22, 1966 ABC (US)
Host: Fred Astaire --Barrie Chase
(Astaire's dancing partner) --Petula Clark - ""My Love""
& ""My Fair Lady"" medley --Mickey Rooney --Bobby Van
--Ray Hastings (comedian) --The Nitwits (British comedy troupe) - orchestra plays
the second movement from ""Heidens symphony #94 in C"" and
""12th Street Rag."" --Astaire joins the Nitwits for
""Temptation."" --The Lenz Chimps
S03E18 Host: Arthur Godfrey / The Mamas
& the Papas
January 29, 1966 ABC (US)
Host: Arthur Godfrey --Arthur Godfrey -
""The Wonderful Thing About Love,"" ""S'
Wonderful,"" ""England Swings"" and
""Good Old Days"" --Arthur Godfrey with the Mamas and the
Papas - ""Be My Valentine"" --The Mamas and the Papas -
""California Dreamin'"" --Sid Caesar (comedian) - appears
in a sketch with Arthur Godfrey and Corbett Monica. In the sketch, titled
""How to Make Motion Pictures,""
Sid portrays a bumbling Viennese filmmaker who comes to Hollywood to save a
failing movie studio. --Abbe Lane (singer) - ""Gonna Build a
Mountain,"" ""A Wonderful Day Like Today"" &
""Down by the Riverside."" --Corbett Monica (comedian doing
a stand-up routine) --The Berosinis (acrobats, teeterboard act from
Czechoslovakia) --Les Apollo (balancing act)
S03E19 Host: Vincent Edwards
February 5, 1966 ABC (US)
Guests: --Vincent Edwards (host) - ""A
Fellow Needs a Girl"" & medley: ""Lulu's Back in Town,"" ""Maria"" and
""Ida"" --Vincent Edwards and Liza Minnelli -
""Everything I've Got Belongs to You"" --Liza Minnelli -
""Where Did You Learn to Dance?"" & ""There
Is a Time"" --Bette Davis - does a dramatic reading (of a Dorothy
Parker poem) --Joan Rivers (comedian) --Liliane Montevecchi (singer-dancer) -
""Dis-Donc"" & ""Walk on the Wild
Side"" --Miss Elizabeth (trapeze performer) --The Rogge Sisters (acrobats)
--Bertha and Tina (trained elephant act)
S03E20 Host: Donald O'Connor / Paul
Anka
February 12, 1966 ABC (US)
Host: Donald O'Connor --Donald O'Connor
- ""Mother Goose"" --Donald O'Connor and Jane Morgan -
""Look at That Face"" --Edward G. Robinson - reads an
excerpt from Aaron Copland's ""A Lincoln Portrait"" --Roger
Williams (pianist) - ""Bach's Minuet in G Major"" &
""Flight of the Bumble Bee"" --Paul Anka - ""Oh,
Such a Stranger"" & a medley of songs written by Anka --Jane
Morgan - ""This Train"" & an Al Jolson medley --Shecky
Greene (comedian) --The Three Bragazzis (acrobatic act) --The See Hee Troupe of
Formose (acrobats)
S03E21 Host: Bing Crosby / Rosemary
Clooney
February 19, 1966 ABC (US)
Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby -
""Just the Way You Are"" --Rosemary Clooney - Blues medley
--Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney - ""Hear That Band,"" ""New Vienna Woods,""
""The Poor People of Paris"" and ""Molly
Malone"" --Gary Crosby (Bing's son) - ""Who Can I Turn
To?"" --Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy (ventriloquist act) --Hugh
Lambert (dancer) - ""Gabriel"" --Roger Ray (comedy
xyloponist) --The Fiji military band - ""Senikau-ni Bula""
& ""Krisimasi""
S03E22 Host: Liberace
February 26, 1966 ABC (US)
--Liberace (host) --Bob Newhart
(comedian) - does a monologue about a night watchman encountering King Kong.
--Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber (comedy team) - do a taxicab routine --John
Davidson (singer) --Marni Nixon (singer) --Channing Pollock (magician) --Betty
Pasco (trapeze artist)
S03E23 Host: Milton Berle / Adam West
March 5, 1966 ABC (US)
Comedy: A comic book spoof with Milton
Berle, Adam West, Henny Youngman, Martha Raye and Abdou Amin. Music: --Adam
West (from ""Batman,"" making his
TV singing debut) - sings ""Miranda"" &
""Only You See Her."" --Martha Raye - ""Taking a
Chance on Love"" --Elaine Dunn (singer-dancer) - ""Buckle
Down Winsocki"" --Sandler and Young (musical-comedy team) Also:
--Henny Youngman (comedian) --The Amin Brothers (acrobats)
S03E24 Host: Fred Astaire / Ethel
Merman
March 12, 1966 ABC (US)
Host: Fred Astaire --Fred Astaire -
sings ""Fascinatin' Rhythm"" & ""Lady Be
Good."" Astaire also dances to ""Bugle Call
Rag."" --Ethel Merman - ""Some People"" --Fred
Astaire and Ethel Merman sing a duet. Medley: ""I Got
Rhythm"" (Astaire), ""Everything's Coming Up
Roses"" (Merman), ""Let's Face the Music and
Dance"" (Astaire/Merman), ""I Get A Kick Out Of
You"" (Merman), ""Cheek To Cheek"" (Astaire),
""Putting on the Ritz"" (Merman), ""They Say it's
Wonderful"" (Astaire & Merman), ""Anything
Goes"" (Astaire/Merman), ""I've Got Rhythm""
reprise. (During medley, Merman tries to get Astaire to sing like her and
project his voice.) --Jack Jones (singer) - ""The Shadow of Your
Smile"" & ""What Now, My Love"" --Marcel
Marceau (mime) - pantomimes ""The Butterfly Collector"" and
""Bip the Lion Tamer"" --Pat Morita (comedian) --The Rogge
Sisters (French balancing act) --The Hardy Family (tumbling acrobats)
S03E25 Host: Robert Goulet / Nancy
Sinatra
March 19, 1966 ABC (US)
--Robert Goulet - ""Moment of
Truth"" & ""Soliloguy"" --Nancy Sinatra -
""These Boots Are Made For Walkin'"" & ""As
Tears Go By"" --Robert Goulet and Nancy Sinatra - Shoe medley --Chita
Rivera (singer-dancer) - ""My Home Is In My Shoes"" --Jan
Murray (comedian) --The Muppets --Mac Ronay (comedic magician) --The Nerveless
Nocks (sway pole acrobats)
S03E26 Host: Bing Crosby
March 26, 1966 ABC (US)
Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby -
""Bye, Bye, Blackbird,"" ""Red, Red
Robin"" & ""The Men in My Little Girl's
Life"" --Bing Crosby and Tammy Grimes - ""Typically
English"" --Tammy Grimes - ""Feeling Good""
--Bing Crosby and Nanette Fabray - medley:
""Greensleeves,"" ""Tell Me, Pretty
Maiden,"" ""Country Garden,"" ""Indian
Love Call"" and ""Baby, It's Cold Outside""
--Nanette Fabray - ""American Patrol"" --Jackie Mason
(comedian) --David Frost (satirist) --Cully Richards (comedy pantomimist) --The
Harris Nelson family (play unusual musical instruments)
S03E27 Host: Martha Raye / Chad and
Jeremy
April 2, 1966 ABC (US)
Host: Martha Raye --Martha Raye -
""Lover"" & ""Little Girl Blue""
--Chad and Jeremy - ""Distant Shores"" --Martha Raye, Chad
and Jeremy - ""The Stately Homes of England"" --Sgt. Barry
Sadler - ""The Ballad of the Green Berets"" &
""The 'A' Team"" --Ann Miller (singer-dancer) -
""Slap That Bass"" --George Carlin (comedian) --Allen and
Rossi (comedy team of Marty Allen & Steve Rossi) --Bela Kremo (juggler)
Comedy sketch: ""The Hair Dresser"" - Martha Raye styles
Marty Allen's hair using the ingredients from a box of cake mix.
S03E28 Host: Gene Barry / The Mamas and
the Papas
April 9, 1966 ABC (US)
Host: Gene Barry --Gene Barry -
""A Real Live Girl,"" ""What Am I?""
and ""All I Need Now Is a Girl"" --The Mamas and the Papas
- ""Monday, Monday"" --Wally Cox (comedian) --Tim Conway
(comedian) - portrays the inventor of the matchmaking machine --The McGuire
Sisters (singers) - ""Blue Skies"" & medley
(""Yesterday,"" ""Bye Bye Blues"" &
""Night and Day"") --Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale (Dodger
pitchers) - join Milton Berle in a comedy sketch. --The Hildalys (high-wire
motorcycle act from France) --The Lenz Chimps (trained animal act)
S03E29 Hosts: Tony Martin & Cyd
Charisse / Cesar Romero
April 16, 1966 ABC (US)
Hosts: Tony Martin & Cyd Charisse
(husband & wife) --Tony Martin (singer) - ""Singing in the
Rain,"" ""I'll Only Miss Her,"" ""Who
Can I Turn To?"" and ""A Lovely Way to Spend an
Evening"" --Cyd Charisse (dancer) --Cesar Romero (actor) - appears in
the sketch ""At Home with the Martins"" --Rowan &
Martin (comedy team) --Norm Crosby (comedian) --Vikki Carr (singer) -
""Them There Eyes"" --Bobby Winters (juggler) --The Suns
Family (acrobats)
S03E30 Host: Victor Borge / Jane Powell
April 23, 1966 ABC (US)
Host: Victor Borge --Victor Borge -
""The Viennese Waltz"" and does a routine about phonetic
punctuation. --Jane Powell (singer) - ""I'm in Love with a Wonderful
Guy"" & ""On a Wonderful Day Like Today""
--Peter Gennaro (choreographer-dancer) - ""Ol' Man River""
--The Kim Sisters (singing-musicians) - ""Birth of the
Blues"" & ""Bill Bailey"" --The Brothers Kim
(instrumentalists) --The Kim Sisters and the Brothers Kim - ""Fingers
of Fire,"" ""Steel Guitar Rag,""
""You'll Never Walk Alone"" & ""Violin
Hoedown"" --Irwin Corey (comedian/Comic professor) --Gala Shawn
(trapeze artist from Ireland)
S03E31 Host: Fred Astaire / Barrie Chase
/ Herb Alpert
April 30, 1966 ABC (US)
Host: Fred Astaire --Fred Astaire -
""Steppin' Out with My Baby"" & ""I'm Puttin'
All My Eggs in One Basket"" --Fred Astaire and Barrie Chase (do
modern dance steps to a rock 'n' roll beat) - ""See See
Rider"" and ""Boom Boom"" --Herb Alpert and the
Tijuana Brass - ""Lonely Bull,"" ""A Taste of
Honey,"" ""What Now, My Love?"" &
""It Was a Very Good Year."" --Barrie Chase with Herb
Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - ""Spanish Flea"" &
""Love Potion No. 9"" --Louis Nye (comedian) --Helen
O'Connell (singer) - ""Embraceable You,""
""All of Me,"" Yours,""
""Amapola,"" ""Tangerine,"" and
""Green Eyes"" --Bela Kremo (juggler from Switzerland)
--John Zerbini (lion tamer)
S03E32 Host: Judy Garland / Johnny
Rivers
May 7, 1966 ABC (US)
Host: Judy Garland --Judy Garland -
""What the World Needs Now Is Love"" & ""By
Myself Alone"" --Judy Garland & Van Johnson - ""Mr. and
Mrs. Clown"" --Van Johnson - ""Guys and Dolls""
--Johnny Rivers - ""Secret Agent"" & ""The
Snake"" --Jack Carter (comedian) --The Black Theatre of Prague
(pantomimists) - perform ""The Chair"" --Charlie Cairoli
(comedy pantomimist from Britain) --The Roselle Troupe (acrobats from Colombia)
S03E33 Host: Bing Crosby / Leslie
Uggams
May 21, 1966 ABC (US)
Guests: --Bing Crosby (host) -
""This Is One Of Those Songs"" --Leslie Uggams -
""What Did I Have?"" &
""Inka-Dinka-Doo"" --Bing Crosby and Johnny Mercer -
""From Monday On"" --Johnny Mercer (sings a medley with
Bing Crosby, see below) --Shelley Berman (comedian doing a telephone routine)
--The King Family and Bing Crosby - ""Young At Heart""
& ""You Make Me Feel So Young"" --The Mecners --Pat
Daly & Bill Wayne --Mac Ronay --Bing Crosby and Johnny Mercer - Medley:
""Three Little Words"" (Crosby), ""Too Marvellous
For Words"" (Mercer), ""Witchcraft"" (Crosby),
""That Old Black Magic"" (Mercer), ""Chattanooga
Choo Choo"" (Crosby), ""On the Atcheson, Topeka & The
Santa Fe"" (Mercer), ""A Shine On Your Shoes""
(Crosby), Come Rain Or Come Shine"" (Mercer), ""Three
O'clock In The Morning"" (Crosby), ""One For My
Baby"" (Mercer), ""Yes, We Have No Bananas""
(Crosby), Tangerine"" (Mercer), ""Lazy River""
(Crosby), ""Lazy Bones"" / ""Moon
River"" (Mercer), ""Manãna""
(Crosby), ""Blues In The Night"" (Parody)
Season 4
S04E01 Host: Bing Crosby / The Mamas
& the Papas
September 17, 1966 ABC (US)
Host: Bing Crosby --The Mamas & the
Papas - ""Dancing Bear"" & ""Dancing in the
Street"" --Bing Crosby - ""Strike Up the Band""
(with dancers) --George Burns - ""Pack Up Your Sins and Go to the
Devil"" --Bing Crosby and George Burns - ""You're Nobody
till Somebody Loves You"" --Sid Caesar --Lola Falana (singer-dancer)
- ""Promise Her Anything"" --Jane Marsh (soprano) - ""Mi
chiamano Mimi"" (aria from Puccini's ""La
Boheme"") --Mickey Deems --Joyce Jameson --Mac Ronay (French comic
magician) --The Rhodins (aerialists) Comedy: --Bing appears as a star visiting
suburbia in a sketch with Sid Caesar, Mickey Deems and Joyce Jameson.
S04E02 Host: Phil Silvers / Lovin'
Spoonful
September 24, 1966 ABC (US)
Host: Phil Silvers --Mr. and Mrs. Bob
Top (roller skating couple) - perform stunts atop a 60-foot-high platform
outside the theater --Polly Bergen - sings ""It's Today""
& ""If He Walked Into My Life"" --Phil Silvers &
Polly Bergen - appear together in a comedy sketch about screen lovers (The
woman is near sighted and the man hogs the camera). They sing ""Ah,
Sweet Mystery of Life,"" ""I Love You"" &
""They Say It's Wonderful"" --Mel Brooks & Carl Reiner
- a visit with the 2000 Year Old Man --The Lovin' Spoonful - ""Rain
On The Roof"" & ""Summer In The City""
--Tagora (sword swallower) - does various sword tricks --Sergio Franchi -
""Volare"" & ""The Impossible
Dream"" --Phil Silvers tries to show Sergio Franchi how to sing like
a pop singer. They sing ""Happy Days Are Here Again.""
S04E03 Host: Elizabeth Montgomery
October 1, 1966 ABC (US)
Host: Elizabeth Montgomery --Elizabeth
Montgomery - ""Bewitched"" theme. --Elizabeth Montgomery
and Vic Damone - ""Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered"" duet
--Vic Damone (singer) - ""Falling in Love with Love"" and
""I Cried for You"" --Paul Lynde (comedian) --Jackie Mason
(comedian) --Morgana King (singer) --The Baja Marimba Band -
""Portuguese Washerwoman"" & ""Acapulco
1922"" --Paul Anthony's tigers --Sensational Parker (acrobatic act)
--The Three Robertes (acrobats)
S04E04 Host: Adam West / Ray Charles
October 8, 1966 ABC (US)
Host: Adam West --Adam West (from
""Batman"") - sings ""The Orange Colored
Sky"" & ""The Summer Wind"" --Ray Charles
with the Raelettes - ""Crying Time,""
""Tell the World About You"" & ""Alexander's
Ragtime Band."" --Roy Rogers and Dale Evans --Joey Heatherton
(singer-dancer) - ""By Myself"" --George Carlin (comedian)
- does a monologue about the American Indian --Fred Roby (ventriloquist)
--Danny Sailor (high-pole performer) --Landon's Midgets (slapstick comedians)
S04E05 Host: Phillis Diller / Herman's
Hermits
October 22, 1966 ABC (US)
Host: Phyllis Diller --Herman's Hermits
- ""Listen People"" & ""Dandy""
--Bob Newhart (comedian) - does a monologue about a policeman talking to a man
who's threatening to commit suicide. --Tony Martin (singer) --Lada Edmund Jr.
(dancer, formerly of ""Hullabaloo"") --Kirk Kirkham
(magician) --Del Morals' acrobatic act --The Palace Duo (trapeze artists)
S04E06 Host: Herb Alpert / The Supremes
October 29, 1966 ABC (US)
--Herb Alpert (host) and the Tijuana
Brass - ""Tijuana Taxi"" --Herb Alpert and the Tijuana
Brass - ""Mame,"" medley of hits and ""Zorba the
Greek"" --The Supremes - ""You Keep Me Hangin
On"", ""Somewhere"" & ""What Now My
Love"" --Shelley Berman (comedian) --Gilbert Bécaud
(French singer-songwriter, wrote the original French version of
""What Now My Love"") --Hendra & Ullett (British comedy
team) --Also: a clown act from Europe & a wire walker.
S04E07 Host: Dale Robertson / The
Stoneman Family
November 5, 1966 ABC (US)
Host: Dale Robertson --Dale Robertson
(from the ""Iron Horse"" TV series) - ""Gotta
Travel On"" & ""I've Been Working on the
Railroad"" --Barrie Chase (dancer-singer) -
""Possibilities"" --Jack Carter (comedian) --Morgana King
(singer) - ""I Love Paris"" &
""Meditation"" --The Stoneman Family (country musicians) -
""Fire on the Mountain"" --The Geezinslaw Brothers (comedy
bluegrass group) - ""On the Street Where You Live"" --Don
Sanders (comedian) --The Hildalys (aerialists) --Novelle's Poodles (trained
animal act)
S04E08 Host: Phil Harris
November 12, 1966 ABC (US)
--Phil Harris (guest host, singer)
--The Flying Artons with David Nelson (trapeze act) --Szony and Claire (dance
team) --George Jessel (comedian / actor) --Elizabeth and Collins (knife
throwing act) --Jacques Ary (comic impressionist) --Abbe Lane (singer) --Jack
Burns and Avery Schreiber (comedians)
S04E09 Host: Vince Edwards / The
Standells
November 19, 1966 ABC (US)
Host: Vince Edwards (from
""Ben Casey"") --Opening number: Vince Edwards sings while
women in ""mod"" clothing dance around him. --Rowan &
Martin appear with Vince during the opening monologue. --The Geezy Brothers
(acrobats from France) Note: ""Geezy"" might be the wrong
spelling. --Peter Nero (pianist) - ""El Matador"" --Norm
Crosby (stand-up comedian) --Juliet Prowse (dancer) - dances to
""Stop Stop Stop"" (with other dancers). --Rowan &
Martin with Vince Edwards - comedy routine about spies exchanging information.
--Juliet Prowse and Vince Edwards - duo dances and sings
""People"" & 1 other song. --Otto and Anna (acrobat
act) - man balances on blocks --The Standells - ""Dirty
Water"" (1-minute excerpt) & ""Why Pick On
Me"" (2 min - 6 sec) --Dan Rowan & Dick Martin - comedy routine
about political protocol --Vince Edwards - sings ""The
Joker"" & 1 other song
S04E10 Host: Bing Crosby / Dorothy
Lamour
November 26, 1966 ABC (US)
Guests: --Bing Crosby (host) -
""Mame"" & ""Sunrise, Sunset""
--Vikki Carr - ""Bye, Bye, Blackbird"" &
""Cuando Caliente El Sol"" --Bill Dana (comedian) - appears
in a sketch with Bing. Dana portrays CIA agent Jose Jiminez. --Dorothy Lamour
(singer-actress) - ""All Of You"" --Bing Crosby and Dorothy
Lamour - Medley: ""Road To Morocco"" parody (Bing),
""Moonlight Becomes You"" (Bing), ""You Don't
Have To Know the Language"" (Bing), ""The Moon of
Manakoora"" (Lamour), ""But Beautiful"" (Bing),
""Apalachicola FLA."" (Bing), ""Sunday, Monday or
Always"" (Bing) and ""Road to Morocco"" --Sid
Caesar appears in a sketch with Lamour. --Liliane Montevecchi - ""I
Wanna Be Loved By You"" --The Gimma Brothers (comic acrobats /
tumblers) --Tagora (sword swallower / fire-eater) Thanks to Malcolm Macfarlane,
editor of BING magazine, for providing the above information.
S04E11 Host: Victor Borge / Petula
Clark
December 3, 1966 ABC (US)
Host: Victor Borge --Petula Clark -
""Strangers In The Night"" & ""Without A
Song"" --Allen & Rossi (comedy team) - routine about a Japanese
baseball star --Steve Rossi - ""The Shadow of Your Smile""
--Jean Pierre Aumont & Marisa Pavan (husband & wife singing-dancing
team) - ""All I Need Now is the Girl"" &
""C'est Si Bon"" --Claire Sombert & Michel Bruel
(French ballet dancers) with Victor Borge - ""Claire de
Lune"" --The Flying Cavarettas (teenage aerialists) --Dennis Breilein
(escape artist) --Baby Sabu (performing elephant)
S04E12 Host: Jimmy Durante / The
Turtles
December 10, 1966 ABC (US)
--Jimmy Durante (host) -
""One of Those Songs"" & ""A One-Room
Home"" --The Turtles - ""Can I Get To Know You
Better"" --George Carlin (comedian) - spoofs rock 'n' roll DJs
--Jimmy Durante and Peter Lawford - ""Style"" --Peter
Lawford - ""Come Back to Me"" --Mrs. Miller sings
""Every Little Movement (Has A Meaning All It's Own)""
--Jimmy Durante and Mrs. Miller - ""Inka-Dinka-Doo""
--Elaine Dunn (singer-dancer) - ""To Be in Love"" --George
Carl (comedic dancer) --The Polack Brothers' elephant act
S04E13 Host: Eddie Fisher
December 17, 1966 ABC (US)
--Eddie Fisher - ""Games that
Lovers Play"" and ""Mame"" --Eddie Fisher and the
Young Americans - ""Hava Nagila"" --The Young Americans -
""Climp Every Mountain"" and ""Gonna Build a
Mountain"" --Agnes Moorehead - does a dramatic reading from Marcel
Proust's ""Remembrance of Things Past"" --Joey Forman
(comedian) --The Kessler Twins (singers-dancers Alice and Ellen Kessler) -
""A Man and a Woman"" and a foreign language medley. --The
Canestrelli Family (trampoline act) --The Swordsmen of the Lido
S04E14 Host: Bing Crosby & family
(1966 Christmas Show)
December 24, 1966 ABC (US)
1966 Christmas Show hosted by Bing and
Kathryn Crosby, with their children Harry, Mary Francis and Nathaniel. --Bing
Crosby - ""Happy Holliday,""
""Christmas Waltz"" and ""White Christmas""
--Bing, Kathryn, Harry, Mary and Nathaniel Crosby - ""Silver
Bells,"" ""Silent Night,"" ""Do You
Hear What I Hear?"" ""The Little Drummer Boy,"" ""12 Days of Christmas""
and ""Never Never Land"" --Kate Smith -
""Christmas Eve in My Home Town"" --Cyd Charrise and Roy
Fitzell (dancers) - appear as marionettes Pierette and Pierot. --Bob Newhart
(comedian) - monolog about man trying to return a toupee that he got as a gift.
--Murillo (tight-rope walker) --The Kuban Cossacks --Excess Baggage (a trained
dog act)
S04E15 Host: Bing Crosby / The Mills
Brothers
December 31, 1966 ABC (US)
Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby -
""Auld Lang Syne"" & ""Cabaret""
--Bing Crosby and the Mills Brothers - ""Paper Doll"" --The
Mills Brothers - ""Don't Blame Me"" --Dorothy Collins
(singer) - ""Feelin' Good"" --Charles Aznavour -
""Le Temps"" & ""Hier Encore""
--Skitch Henderson (pianist, formerly of ""The Tonight
Show"") - ""Lover"" --Burns & Schreiber
(comedy team) --Johnny Puleo and his Harmonica Gang
S04E16 Host: Ray Bolger / Paul Revere
& the Raiders
January 7, 1967 ABC (US)
Host: Ray Bolger --Paul Revere and the
Raiders - ""Great Airplane Strike of 1966"" --Ray Bolger -
""There Are Smiles"" & ""The Old Soft
Shoe"" --Ray Bolger & the King Family children - ""If I
Only Had a Brain"" & ""Follow the Yellow Brick
Road"" (Bolger is dressed as his Scarecrow character from the
""Wizard of Oz."") --Audrey Meadows & Ray Bolger -
perform a ""Honeymooners"" sketch. --Diahann Carroll -
""What the World Needs Now"" & ""Here's That
Rainy Day"" --The King Family - ""I'm
Old-Fashioned"" & ""The Men in My Little Girl's
Life"" (these songs might be performed by only the King Sisters)
--Adam Keefe (comic impressionist) - imitates Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and
George Sanders --The Morgan Ashton Family (acrobats)
S04E17 Host: Bing Crosby / Edie Adams
January 14, 1967 ABC (US)
Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby -
""Put On a Happy Face"" & ""This Is a Great
Country"" --Jimmy Durante - ""Nobody Wants My
Money"" & ""Eagle Rock"" --Tim Conway (comedian)
--Edie Adams - sings ""Lady Godiva"" --Everett Dirksen
(Senator Minority Leader, Republican from Illinois) - a dramatic reading of
""The Gallant Men"" --Danny Sailor (high-pole climber and
acrobat) Also: bloopers from the past 2 seasons and a film of the Palace
Anniversary parade in Hollywood.
S04E18 Host: Donald O'Connor / Don Ho
January 21, 1967 ABC (US)
Host: Donald O'Connor --Donald O'Connor
- ""Walking Happy"" --Sid Caesar (comedian) --Shari Lewis
(singer-ventriloquist) and Lambchop - sings ""Fred Astaire""
--Don Ho - Pearly Shells"" & ""Tiny Bubbles""
--Ted Lewis (singer) - ""A Million Wonderful Songs""
--Donald O'Connor and Ted Lewis - ""Me and My Shadow""
--Marilyn Maye (singer) - ""Cabaret"" &
""You're Gonna Hear from Me"" --Bob Melvin (comedian)
--Rudy Cardenas (juggler) Comedy sketch: On a muddy, rainy day, Sid Caesar
finds himself inundated by a horde of visitors wanting to see his new white
carpet. ABC repeated this show on June 1, 1968.
S04E19 Host: Jack Benny / Petula Clark
/ Johnny Mathis
February 4, 1967 ABC (US)
Host: Jack Benny --Jack Benny appears
with Gloria Chappell, his musical teacher, for a violin duet. --Petula Clark -
""Winchester Cathedral"" & ""This Is My
Song"" --Johnny Mathis - medley from ""Man of La
Mancha"" --Ernie Terrell and the Heavyweights (heavyweight boxer
Terrell with his brothers and sister) - ""A Hammer and a
Nail"" --The Nitwits (musical comedians) - ""Cool, Cool
Water"" --Brascia and Tybee (dancers) - ""Mambo Flamenco""
--The Halasis (acrobats, teeterboard act from Hungary)
S04E20 Host: Sammy Davis Jr.
February 11, 1967 ABC (US)
Host: Sammy Davis Jr. --Sammy Davis Jr.
- ""Shake, Shake, Shake,"" ""The Lady Is a
Tramp,"" ""What Kind of Fool am I?"" and
""The Birth of the Blues"" --Liberace - ""Malaguena""
--Mickey Rooney --Sammy Davis Jr. and Mickey Rooney - sing ""Two of a
Kind"" and do impersonations of Clark Gable, James Cagney, Cary Grant
and other screen stars. --Kaye Stevens (singer) - ""I Want to Be
Happy"" --Lee Tully (comedian) --The Mascots (acrobats) --Mr. and
Mrs. Bob Top (high-pole roller skaters from England)
S04E21 Host: Bing Crosby / Ella
Fitzgerald
February 18, 1967 ABC (US)
--Bing Crosby (host) - ""The
Good Old Days"" --Ella Fitzgerald - ""Jazz
Samba"" and ""How Long Has This Been Going On?"" --Bing
Crosby and Ella Fitzerald - ""jazz up"" children's songs in
a medley. --Alice Faye - ""Mame"" --Phil Harris -
""It Was a Very Good Year"" --Alice Faye and Phil Harris
(husband and wife) join Bing for a medley of songs from Alice's film musicals.
--Dom DeLuise (comedian) --Hendra & Ullett (British comedy team) - routine
spoofing the British R.A.F. --The Nitwits (British music-hall clowns) --The
Medini Brothers (acrobats)
S04E22 Host: Van Johnson / Liza
Minnelli / Mickey Rooney
February 25, 1967 ABC (US)
--Van Johnson (host) -
""Wilkommen"" --Liza Minnelli -
""Cabaret"" & ""I Will Wait for
You"" --Liza Minnelli, Mickey Rooney and Van Johnson -
""Let's Make A Movie"" --Mickey Rooney - appears in a
baseball sketch --George Carlin (comedian) --Chris Noel (actress) - talks about
her recent visit to Vietnam. --The Palace Duo (acrobats) --Milo and Roger
(comic illusionists) --On film: The Beatles - ""Penny
Lane"" & ""Strawberry Fields Forever""
promotional videos
S04E23 Host: Steve Lawrence
March 4, 1967 ABC (US)
--Steve Lawrence (host) -
""She Loves Me,"" ""On a
Clear Day"" and ""The Impossible Dream""
--Florence Henderson - ""My Love"" --Steve Lawrence and
Florence Henderson - ""Wouldn't It Be Loverly?"" --Phyllis
Diller and Steve Lawrence - ""I've Grown Accustomed to Her
Face"" --The Fuller Brothers - ""You're Nobody Till
Somebody Loves You"" and ""I'm in Love for the Very First
Time"" --Bill Dana (comedian, in character as Jose Jimenez) - plays a
sky-diving instructor. --Russ Lewis (vetriloquist) --The Rhodins (aerialists)
--Pat Anthony's wild-animal act.
S04E24 Host: Kate Smith / New
Vaudeville Band
March 11, 1967 ABC (US)
--Kate Smith (host) -
""Somewhere My Love,"" ""Deep Purple,""
""Don't Take Your Love From Me"" & ""Seems
Like Old Times"" --New Vaudeville Band -
""Peek-A-Boo"" & ""Winchester
Cathedral"" --Ann Miller (singer-dancer) - ""Trapped in the
Web of Love"" --Jimmy Dean - ""Sweet Misery""
--Jimmy Dean and Kate Smith - ""When the Moon Comes over the
Mountain"" --Tim Conway --Donna Jean Young (comedian) --The
Hardly-Worthit Players (comedy troupe) - satirize Senator Robert Kennedy
--René and his singing puppets - ""La Bamba""
--Huge Forgie and Shirley Marie - comedy team doing a badminton act
S04E25 Host: George Burns / The King
Family
March 18, 1967 ABC (US)
Host: George Burns --George Burns -
""A Well-Known Fact"" --George Burns - sings ""It
Was a Very Good Year"" while talking about his early vaudeville
career. --Lainie Kazan (singer) - ""Goin' Out of My Head""
--George Burns, Lainie Kazan, and the King Family - ""Some of These
Days"" --The King Family - ""You're Gonna Hear from Me,"" ""We Taught Them Everything They
Know,"" ""Malaguena"" & Liszt's Hungarian
Rhapsody No. 2. --Enzo Stuarti (operatic tenor) -
""Yesterday,"" ""Catari,"" ""The
Shadow of Your Smile"" & ""Strangers in the
Night"" --Desmond & Marks (English music-hall comics) -
""Frivolous Feet"" --Baby Sabu (performing elephant)
S04E26 Host: Bing Crosby / Louis
Armstrong
April 1, 1967 ABC (US)
--Bing Crosby - ""This Is The
Life"" --Bing Crosby with the The Good Time Washboard Three -
""Oh! By Jingo! Oh! By Gee!"" --Nanette Fabray -
""I'm The First Girl In The Second Row"" --Red Buttons -
""Sam, You Made The Pants Too Long"" --‘Joe
The Bartender' sketch with Bing, Red Buttons and Nanette Fabray. --Louis
Armstrong - ""(My Girl Loves) Cheesecake"" --Bing Crosby
and Louis Armstrong - medley: ""Let's Sing Like A Dixieland
Band""/""Muskrat Ramble""/""Let's Sing
Like A Dixieland Band"" (Reprise)
S04E27 Hosts: Cyd Charisse & Tony
Martin / Buffalo Springfield
April 8, 1967 ABC (US)
Guests: --Cyd Charisse & Tony
Martin (co-hosts) - ""Walking Happy"" --Danny Sailor
(Canadian lumberjack - high-pole acrobat) - balances on top of 80 foot pole
outside of theater --The Kim Sisters (3 sisters from Korea) - the trio sings
""Goin' Out of My Head"" and
""Caramba,"" then plays ""La Bamba""
and ""The Peanut Vendor"" on the xylophone. --Jackie Clark
(stand-up comedian) - tells jokes about his family, etc. --Buffalo Springfield
- ""For What It's Worth"" (30-second excerpt) &
""Mr. Soul"" --Cyd Charrise - dance number in which Cyd
plays an Asian woman in love with a soldier (music: ""Mack the
Knife"") --Milo and Roger (comic magicians / illusionists) --Tony
Martin - ""And We Were Lovers"" & ""Born
Free"" --Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner (comedians) - comedy monologue:
Reporter (Reiner) interviews an advertising executive (Brooks). --Cyd Charisse
& Tony Martin - ""The Honeymoon Is Over""
S04E28 Host: Milton Berle
April 15, 1967 ABC (US)
Music: --Milton Berle (host) -
""That's Entertainment"" --Roy Rogers & Dale Evans -
""What the World Needs Now,"" ""Love Makes the
World Go Round,"" ""True Love"" and ""That's
Amore"" --Marilyn King - ""Sunny"" --Buddy Rich
and his band - ""Bugle Call Rag"" --The Dunhills (tap
dancers) Also, Milton Berle chats with Willie Mays (of the San Francisco
Giants), Jim Piersall (of the California Angels) and Maury Wills (of the
Pittsburgh Pirates). Berle then joins the three baseball players for a
rendition of ""Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend.""
--Prassano Rao (illusionist)
S04E29 Host: Joan Crawford / The Cyrkle
April 22, 1967 ABC (US)
--Joan Crawford (host) - performs a
dramatic scene titled ""The Dreamer"" about an imaginative
little girl. --The Cyrkle - ""Turn Down Day"" (and possibly
""Five-Foot-Two"") --Tim Conway (comedian) - appears in a
sketch as a prison warden. --Nancy Ames - ""Yesterday"" and
""What the World Needs Now"" --Julius LaRosa sings
""Hey, Look Me Over"" and ""As Time Goes
By"" --Ralph Adams (illusionist) --The Flying Cavarettas (teenage
aerialists) --The Halasis (acrobats)
S04E30 Host: Gene Barry
May 6, 1967 ABC (US)
--Gene Barry (host) - sings
""Charm, Style and ""Sex"" and
""Sunrise, Sunset"" Gene Barry also does a dramatic reading
about a father's farewell to his soldier son. --Theodore Bikel (folk singer) -
""Two Guitars"" and ""Kretchma""
--Burns and Schreiber (comedy team) --Lana Cantrell (singer) -
""Isn't It a Lovely Day?"" & ""And We Were
Lovers"" --Mort Sahl (satirist) --Jack E. Leonard (comedian)
--Damorra and her doves
S04E31 Host: Bing Crosby / Don Ameche
May 13, 1967 ABC (US)
Guests: --Bing Crosby (host) -
""Cockeyed Optimist"" --Don Ameche --Frances Langford -
""Call Me"" --Louis Nye (comedian) --Barbara McNair -
""You're Gonna Hear From Me"" --Crosby, Langford and Ameche
- ""All Alone by the Telephone"" --The King Family -
""Tradition"" --Bing and the King Family - ""Bill
Bailey"" --Yonely (comic pianist) --Pollack Brothers' trained
elephant act. Sketches: --Don Ameche and Frances Langford re-create their radio
roles as ""The Bickersons"" --Louis Nye and Bing Crosby -
play a Hollywood hippie and a conservative banker
Season 5
S05E01 Host: Bing Crosby / The
Association
September 5, 1967 ABC (US)
Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby -
""When We All Get Together"" --The Association -
""Never My Love"" --Ravi Shankar -
""Raga"" --Milton Berle, Jimmy Durante and Bing Crosby -
""Good Old Days"" medley --Joey Heatherton, Bing Crosby and
Diahann Carroll - ""Girl Talk"" --Diahann Carroll - ""I
Only Miss Him When I Think of Him""
S05E02 Host: Phyllis Diller / Fifth
Dimension
September 12, 1967 ABC (US)
--Phyllis Diller (host) --The 5th
Dimension - ""Up - Up, and Away"" and
""California, My Way"" --Frankie Avalon - ""Sand
and Sea"" --Annette Funicello - ""Promise Me
Anything"" --Phil Harris (comedian) - ""Ode to Billy
Joe"" and ""Tiny Bubbles"" --The Herculeans
(balancing act) (Note: another source listed the act as Hercules, a strongman)
--Also: a seal act
S05E03 Host: Milton Berle / Lena Horne
/ Spanky & Our Gang
September 19, 1967 ABC (US)
Host: Milton Berle --Spanky & Our
Gang - ""Making Every Minute Count"" --Lena Horne --Neile
Adams --David Hedison
S05E04 Host: Sammy Davis Jr. / Diana
Ross & Supremes
September 26, 1967 ABC (US)
--Sammy Davis Jr. (host) -
""That Old Black Magic,"" ""After
Today"" & ""At the Crossroads"" --Diana Ross
and the Supremes - ""Reflections"" and ""The Lady
Is A Tramp"" --Raquel Welch sings ""Bang Bang""
--Sammy Davis Jr. and the Supremes - medley (songs about cities) --Jack Burns
& Avery Schreiber (comedy team) - parody TV talk shows. --Baby Lawrence
(jazz dancer) - appears with Sammy Davis Jr. in a tap-dancing
""duel."" --Joey Bishop (comedian) - makes a cameo walk-on
S05E05 Host: Victor Borge / Adam West
October 3, 1967 ABC (US)
Expo '67 Salute Host: Victor Borge
--Adam West --Don Ho --Hendra & Ullett --Mircille Mathieu
S05E06 Host: Milton Berle (All-Comedy
Show)
October 10, 1967 ABC (US)
All-Comedy Show --Milton Berle (host)
--Kaye Ballard --Joe Besser --Irving Benson --Prof. Irwin Corey --The Bottoms
Up (comedy troupe)
S05E07 Host: Petula Clark / Lynn
Redgrave
October 17, 1967 ABC (US)
Guests (All-British performers):
--Petula Clark (host) - ""This Is My Song,""
""Don't Sleep in the Subway,"" ""Imagine""
& ""Just Say Good-Bye"" --Lynn Redgrave, Petula Clark
and Noel Harrison - ""Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
Band"" --Noel Harrison - ""Lucy in the Sky with
Diamonds"" --George Sanders --Hendra & Ullett (comedy team) --The
Nitwits (humorous musical group) Comedy: --A ""Camelot""
parody narrated by Petula Clark: Lynn Redgrave portrays a clumsy Queen
Quinevere, George Sanders as the ""gouty"" King Arthur, and
Noel Harrison as the dashing Lancelot.
S05E08 Host: Bing Crosby / Roger Miller
October 31, 1967 ABC (US)
--Bing Crosby (host) --Bing Crosby and
the United Nations Children's Choir - ""Small World""
--Bing Crosby and Roger Miller - Hobo medley --Roger Miller - ""You
Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd"" and ""Code of the
West"" --Bing Crosby and Gail Martin - ""You Make Me Feel
So Young,"" ""Roses and Lollipops,""
""Mutual Admiration Society"" and ""That's
Amore"" --Bing Crosby, Victor Borge, Roger Miller and Paul Lynde sing
""I Dig Rock 'n' Music"" --Fred and Mickie Finn (ragtime
group) - ""Sweet Georgia Brown""
S05E09 Host: Sid Caesar / Marlo Thomas
November 7, 1967 ABC (US)
--Sid Caesar (host) - plays an
orchestra drummer during Tchaikovsky's ""1812 Overture.""
Later in show, Sid sings ""A Real Live Girl."" --Marlo
Thomas (actress) - narrates a fashion show of 1968 resort fashions.--Sergio
Franchi - ""The Girl from Ipanema"" and ""I
Should Care""--Fran Jeffries - ""Another
Night""--The Checkmates - ""You've Lost That Loving Feeling""--Sid
Caesar, playing saxophone, joins the Checkmates for ""I May Be
Wrong""
S05E10 Co-hosts: Steve Lawrence and
Eydie Gorme
November 14, 1967 ABC (US)
Co-hosts: Steve Lawrence and Eydie
Gorme --Steve and Eydie - ""I Believe in You"" and a medley
of Broadway songs (""Without You I'm Nothing,""
""Where Would You Be Without Me?"" Walking Happy,"" ""Cabaret"" and
""The Honeymoon Is Over"") --Eydie Gorme - ""How
Could I Be So Wrong?"" --Steve Lawrence - ""I've Gotta Be
Me"" --Steve Lawrence and Corbett Monica - ""Making
Whoopee"" --Corbett Monica (comedian, doing a monolog about family
life) --Tim Conway (comedian, plays a square at a hippie love-in) --Szony and
Claire (dancers) --The Mascotts (head-balancing act from Germany) ABC repeated
this show on May 25, 1968.
S05E11 Host: Milton Berle / Nanette
Fabray
November 28, 1967 ABC (US)
Host: Milton Berle --Milton Berle -
""Comedy Tonight"" --Nanette Fabray - ""Toot,
Toot, Tootsie"" --Buddy Greco (singer-pianist) - ""Is It
All That Bright and Beautiful?"" --The Fearsome Foursome (Merlin
Olsen, Rosevelt Grier, Roger Brown, Deacon Jones and Lamar Lundy of the Los
Angles Rams) - sing ""On the Football Field"" --Jack Burns
and Avery Schreiber (comedy team) --The King Family - medley of Spanish songs
S05E12 Host: Jimmy Durante / Ethel
Merman / Grass Roots
December 5, 1967 ABC (US)
Host: Jimmy Durante --The Grass Roots -
""Let's Live For Today"" --Jimmy Durante -
""Hellzapoppin'"" & ""Yesterday""
--Larry Bishop and Rob Reiner (comedy team, Joey Bishop's son & Carl Reiner's
son) --Ethel Merman - ""Walking Happy"" --The Lennon
Sisters - ""Up-Up and Away"" --Noel Harrison -
""Suzanne"" --Milt Kamen (comedian) --The Berosinis
(acrobats)
S05E13 Host: Herb Alpert / Liza
Minnelli / Boyce & Hart
December 12, 1967 ABC (US)
Host: Herb Alpert --Boyce & Hart -
medley (""I Wanna Be Free"" & ""Last Train To
Clarksville"") and ""I Wonder What She's Doing
Tonight"" --Liza Minnelli --Burt Bacharach --Sergio Mendes &
Brasil '66 --Wes Montgomery --Baja Marimba Band Please see ""Recap""
for song titles.
S05E14 Host: Bing Crosby (1967 Christmas
Show) / Adam West
December 19, 1967 ABC (US)
1967 Christmas Show hosted by Bing
Crosby, with wife Kathryn Crosby, and their children Harry, Mary Frances and
Nathaniel. --Bing Crosby - ""White Christmas"" --Kathryn
Crosby - ""Try to Remember"" --Mary Frances Crosby -
""Where Is Love?"" --Adam West (from
""Batman"") --Adam West, Louis Nye, Bing Crosby and the
Crosby children - ""This Old Man"" --The King Family -
""It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas"" --Louis Nye
(comedian) --The Marquis Chimps
S05E15 Host: Jimmy Durante / Anissa
Jones
December 26, 1967 ABC (US)
Palace Circus Show --Jimmy Durante
(host, appearing as the ringmaster) - sings ""Be a Clown,""
""Buffoons"" and ""When the Circus Leaves
Town"" --Anissa Jones (of ""Family Affair"") - appears
as the honorary ringmistress --Candy Cavareta (trapeze artist) --The Hanneford
Family (bareback horse riders) --Linon (low-wire acrobat-comedian) --Roselle
Troupe (aerial acrobats) --The Rudos (performing elephant act) --The
Sensational Parker (acrobat, performs on a 110-foot tall swaypole) --Henneford
Family --Kay's Pets (performing dogs, monkeys & ponies)
S05E16 Host: Phyllis Diller / Robert
Vaughn / Johnnie Ray
January 2, 1968 ABC (US)
Host: Phyllis Diller --Phyllis Diller -
""Wives and Lovers"" --Phyllis Diller and Shari Lewis -
""It Was a Very Good Year"" & ""When I'm
64"" --Robert Vaughn (from ""The Man from
U.N.C.L.E."") --Johnnie Ray - ""The Little White Cloud,"" ""Cry,"" ""Just
Walking in the Rain"" & ""Walking My Baby Back
Home."" --The Sandpipers - ""What Now, My Love?""
--Shari Lewis (singer-ventriloquist, with Lambchop) - ""Alexander's
Ragtime Band"" --Charlie Manna (comedian) Comedy: --Phyllis Diller,
Robert Vaughn and Charlie Manna appear in a Sherlock Holmes sketch.
S05E17 Host: Bing Crosby / Peggy Lee
January 13, 1968 ABC (US)
Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby -
""Step to the Rear"" (with dancers) --Bing Crosby and Peggy
Lee - medley (including ""The Doodling Song"") --Peggy Lee
- ""Seems Like Old Times"" & ""What Is a
Woman?"" --Milton Berle --Jimmy Durante --Phil Harris --Lawrence Welk
--Roosevelt Grier - ""Spanish Harlem"" --Roosevelt Grier
and the Fearsome Foursome - ""Under the Boardwalk"" --The
Solokhins (acrobats of the Moscow Circus)
S05E18 Host: Jack Benny / Liza Minnelli
January 20, 1968 ABC (US)
--Jack Benny (host) --Liza Minnelli
--Sammy Davis Jr. - dances to ""You Got Trouble,"" a
recording by Robert Preston --Peter and Chris Allen (Australian folk singers) --Beverly
Washburn, Iris Adrian and Peggy Mondo (actresses) - appear in a sketch in which
they audition a musical act for Benny. --The Rudenko Brothers (jugglers) --Jack
Benny and Sammy Davis Jr. - ""Fascinating Rhythm,"" a
musical duel with Benny's violin playing against Sammy's dancing and singing.
S05E19 Host: Phil Silvers / James Brown
Revue
February 3, 1968 ABC (US)
Host: Phil Silvers --The James Brown
Revue - ""I Feel Good,"" ""I Can't Stand
It,"" If I Ruled the World,"" ""Cold
Sweat"" & ""There Was a Time"" --Connie
Stevens - ""Wouldn't It Be Nice?"" --Polly Bergen -
""Ain't Misbehavin'"" & ""A House Is Not a
Home"" --Jack Jones - sings ""Gypsies, Jugglers and Clowns""
& ""I'm Getting Sentimental over You"" --Phil Silvers,
Polly Bergen, Connie Stevens & Jack Jones - ""There's Nothing
Like a Model T"" --Phil Silvers, Polly Bergen & Connie Stevens -
sing a leap-year medley --Henny Youngman (comedian) --The Waraku Trio (Japanese
pantomimists)
S05E20 Host: Victor Borge / Dino Desi
& Billy
February 10, 1968 ABC (US)
Host: Victor Borge --Dino, Desi &
Billy - ""My What A Shame"" --Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows
- do a comedy routine in which they answer questions from the studio audience
--Jayne Meadows - ""Hello, Dolly!"" --Victor Borge, Jayne
Meadows and Steve Allen perform ""I Dig Rock 'n' Roll
Music"" --The King Family (singers) - perform a States medley --The
Dino Brothers (acrobats) --The Scots Guards (bapipe, drum and bugle corps.)
--The Gimma Brothers (tumblers) --Finale: Victor Borge plays Rachmaninov's
First Piano Concerto
S05E21 Host: Jimmy Durante / The
Temptations
February 17, 1968 ABC (US)
Guests: --Jimmy Durante (host) -
""The Parade"" --The Temptations --Van Johnson -
""Everybody Ought to Have a Maid"" --Jimmy Dean -
""This Old House"" --Vikki Carr - ""The Lesson,"" ""Some of These Days""
& ""After You've Gone"" --Pat Henry (comedian) --Mac
Ronay (magician) --Franklin D'Amore (strongman) --The Bodyguards (strongmen)
S05E22 Host: Milton Berle / Louis
Armstrong
February 24, 1968 ABC (US)
Host: Milton Berle --Louis Armstrong -
""Willkommen"" & ""No Time Is a Good Good-bye
Time"" --Phyllis Diller (comedian) --The Lettermen (vocal group) -
medley of hits --Elaine Dunn (singer-dancer) - ""After Today""
--Enzo Stuarti (operatic tenor) - ""Vesti la glubba"" (from
Leoncavallo's ""Pagliacci"") --Irving Benson (comedian
playing heckler Sidney Shpritzer) --The ""Bottoms Up
Revue"" (comedy ensemble from Las Vegas with Nancy Austin, Melendy
Britt, Bill Fanning and Breck Wall) --Milton Berle and Nancy Austin - ""The
Put-Down Song""
S05E23 Host: Sammy Davis Jr. / Peter
Lawford / Diahann Carroll
March 2, 1968 ABC (US)
Host: Sammy Davis Jr. --Sammy Davis Jr.
- ""Tonight,"" ""Once in a Lifetime,""
As Long As She Needs Me,"" ""It Only Takes a
Moment,"" ""Let's Keep Swinging"" &
""Sam, by George"" --Diahann Carroll - ""Goin'
Out of My Head"" & ""Here's That Rainy Day""
--Sammy Davis Jr. and Diahann Carroll - perform a condensed version of ""Porgy
and Bess."" --Peter Lawford - gives Sammy a musical French lesson
--Rowan and Martin - comedy routine: sidewalk interview where a man gives his
opinion about actors in politics --Checkmates Ltd. - ""Soul
Man""
S05E24 Host: Don Knotts / Merry Go
Round
March 16, 1968 ABC (US)
--The Merry Go Round -
""Live"" (excerpt), ""You're A Very Lovely
Woman"" (excerpt) and ""Listen, Listen""
(complete song). --Don Knotts (host) talks with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. about
Hollywood attractions. --Nancy Ames (singer) - medley: ""Fly Me to
the Moon"" & Spanish songs. --Don Knotts and Glenn Ash - ""Shanty
in Old Shanty Town"" --Glenn Ash (guitarist) - plays ""Lady
of Spain"" on guitar then plays banjo. --Don Knotts (stand-up
routine) - nervous man speaking at doctors' convention. --Mary Costa (opera
singer) - sings two songs --""Guess Who's Coming to Tea""
comedy sketch with Mary Costa, Don Knotts and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
S05E25 Host: Phil Harris / The Hollies
March 23, 1968 ABC (US)
--The Hollies - ""Jennifer
Eccles"" --Phil Harris - ""The Bare Necessities""
and ""But I Loved You"" --Abbe Lane (singer) -
""Abanda,"" ""Samba de Orpherus"" and
""It Must Be Him"" --Phillip Crosby - ""Can't
Take My Eyes Off of You"" --Bill Dana (as Olympic skier Jose Jimenez)
--Sid Miller and Rose Marie (comedians) - play songwriters who are adding
lyrics to movie titles --Hendra & Ullett (comedy team) --Jacques Ary (comic
magician)
S05E26 Host: Jimmy Durante / Liza
Minnelli
March 30, 1968 ABC (US)
Jimmy Durante (host) - ""The
Lost Chord"" --Liza Minnelli --Tim Conway (comedian) - plays an Olympic
coach whose team is losing. --Jerry Shane --Fred and Mickie Finn (honky-tonk
musicians) --Le grand ballet Classique (from Paris) --On film: Beatles -
""Lady Madonna"" (promo video)
S05E27 Host: Don Adams / Nancy Sinatra
& Lee Hazlewood
April 6, 1968 ABC (US)
Host: Don Adams --Nancy Sinatra and Lee
Hazlewood - ""You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"" --Nancy
Sinatra - ""100 Years"" --Kaye Ballard (comedian) -
""Fabulous You"" --Joey Forman (comedian) --Hal Frazier
(singer) - ""Somewhere"" & ""Who Am
I?"" --The King Family - ""Girl Talk,""
""Music to Watch Girls By,"" ""A Man and a
Woman"" & ""A Hymn to Him"" --Jerry Quarry
and his sister Diana - ""This Is Me"" (Jerry Quarry was a
heavyweight boxer making his singing debut.) ABC repeated this show on Sept.
21, 1968.
S05E28 Host: Bing Crosby / Every
Mother's Son
April 20, 1968 ABC (US)
Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby sings
""Simon Says"" to children of the production crew. --Gene
Baylos (comedian) - stand up routine with Bing Crosby --The King Sisters (singers)
- ""You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You"" &
""Valley of the Dolls"" --Bunraku (Japanese puppeteers) -
play about a Japanese warlord, narrated by Bing --Joe Bushkin (pianist) -
""Dr. Dolittle"" --Joe Bushkin and Bing Crosby - medley of
songs about animals (""Talk to the Animals,""
""Abba Dabba Dabba"" & ""How Much is that
Doggie in the Window?"") --Every Mother's Son - ""Put Your
Mind at Ease"" --Florence Henderson - ""When I Look into
Your Eyes"" --Bing Crosby & Florence Henderson - medley of songs
about strings (incl. ""Zing, Went the Strings of My
Heart"") --Restaurant sketch with Sid Caesar, Florence Henderson and
Bing Crosby. --Bing Crosby - ""Where the Rainbow Ends"" ABC
repeated this show on August 31, 1968.
Season 6
S06E01 Host: Bing Crosby / Bobby
Goldsboro
September 28, 1968 ABC (US)
Songs: --Bing Crosby with chorus -
""If You're Looking For A Man"" --Bobby Goldsboro -
""Honey"" and ""The Straight Life""
--Jeannie C. Riley - ""Harper Valley PTA"" --Bing with
Jeannie C. Riley & Bobby Goldsboro - medley: ""Nashville
Cats,"" ""Gentle On My Mind,"" ""Little
Green Apples"" and ""Hold Me Tight"" Also
appearing: --Sid Caesar --Abbey Lincoln --Bob Gibson (of the St. Louis
Cardinals) --Milton Berle --The Four Robertis --The Iriston Horsemen
--According to one source, a rock group from the off-Broadway hippie musical
""Your Own Thing"" also appeared on this show.
S06E02 Host: Jimmy Durante / Joey
Heatherton
October 5, 1968 ABC (US)
Music: --Jimmy Durante (host) -
""Did You Ever Have a Feeling?"" ""That's How
Young I Feel"" and ""The Father of Girls""
--Jimmy Durante and Joey Heatherton - ""I Came Here to
Swim"" --Joey Heatherton - ""Light My Fire""
(with dancers) --Don Ho - ""Next Door to Paradise,""
""Nai Puni"" and ""One Paddle, Two
Paddle"" --The Lennon Sisters - ""I Don't Know
Why"" and ""Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams"" Also
appearing: --Lewis & Christy (comedy team) - do a sketch about driving
non-stop across the US. --Female Olympic gymnasts - 6 finalists in the US
Olympic trials demonstrating their skills on the balance beam and uneven
parallel bars.
S06E03 Host: Milton Berle / Leonard
Nimoy
October 12, 1968 ABC (US)
Guests: --Milton Berle (host) --Leonard
Nimoy - sings ""Here We Go Round Again"" --Shani Wallis -
""Oliver!"" medley: ""Who Will Buy?""
""Consider Yourself"" and ""As Long as He Needs
Me"" --The Checkmates Ltd. - ""Wear It On Your
Face"" & ""Thank You, Love"" --Johnny Puleo's
Harmonica Gang --Irving Benson (comedian in character as Sidney Shpritzer,
Milton Berle's comedy foil) --The Bottoms Up Revue from Las Vegas Sketch:
--Leonard Nimoy and the Bottoms Up Revue appear in a sci-fi spoof titled
""Star Odyssey 2001 7/8""
S06E04 Host: Diahann Carroll / Richard
Harris
October 19, 1968 ABC (US)
--Diahann Carroll (host) -
""Watch What Happens,""
""My Personal Property,"" ""Over You""
& ""The Fool on the Hill"" --Diahann Carroll, Marc
Copage and Michael Link (all from the series ""Julia"") -
""The Thank-You Song"" --Richard Harris and Diahann Carroll
- ""What Do the Simple Folk Do?"" --Richard Harris -
""The Yard Went on Forever"" and ""The
Hive"" --The Checkmates, Ltd. - ""Black Is
Black"" --Mort Sahl (comedian) - does a satire of Presidential
candidates --Buddy Schwab (""Hollywood Palace""
choreographer) with dancers - ""Broadway Rhythm""
S06E05 Host: Don Adams / Janis Joplin
October 26, 1968 ABC (US)
Host: Don Adams --Janis Joplin (with
Big Brother & the Holding Company) - ""Summertime""
& ""Why"" (another source listed the 2nd song as
""I Need A Man to Love"") --Barbara Eden - sings
""Big, Beautiful Ball"" --Arte Johnson (comedian, in
character as Rozmenko, the singing Russian) - ""Mame""
--Brothers Castro (singers from Mexico) - ""Michelle""
& ""Por Usted"" --The Dovyeko Company (acrobats on
stilts from the Moscow State Circus)
S06E06 Host: Sammy Davis Jr. / Aretha
Franklin / Spanky and Our Gang
November 2, 1968 ABC (US)
Guests: --Sammy Davis Jr. (host)
--Spanky & Our Gang - ""Give A Damn"" &
""Yesterday's Rain"" --Aretha Franklin --Johnny Whitaker
(child actor, from ""Family Affair"") --Corbett Monica
(comedian)
S06E07 Host: Mike Douglas / Donovan
November 9, 1968 ABC (US)
--Donovan - ""Jennifer
Juniper"" & ""Lalena"" --Donovan and Sergio
Mendes - ""There Is a Mountain"" --Sergio Mendes and Brasil
'66 --Mike Douglas (host) - If This Isn't Love"" and
""Danny Boy"" --Mike Douglas and Polly Bergen -
""When I'm 64"" & ""Wait Till We're
65"" --Polly Bergen - ""Smoke Gets in Your Eyes""
& ""When in Rome"" --Hendra and Ullett (comedians)
--Rudy Schweitzer (juggler) --The Solokhins (balancing acrobats from the Moscow
State Circus)
S06E08 Host: Sid Caesar & Imogene
Coca / Bee Gees
November 23, 1968 ABC (US)
Co-Hosts: Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca
--The Bee Gees - ""Massachusetts"" & ""I've
Gotta Get a Message to You"" --Lou Rawls - ""I'm
Satisfied"" & ""Down Here on the Ground""
--Chita Rivera (singer-dancer) - ""Pretty for Me"" --Jane
Morgan (singer) - medley: ""Georgia,"" ""That
Lucky Old Sun"" & ""What'd I Say?"" --Gelina
Adaskina (trapeze artist from the Moscow State Circus). Comedy sketches: --Sid
Caesar & Imogene Coca in a routine about a dying bullfighter and a fawning
American tourist. --Imogene Coca does a routine about a frumpy stripper.
S06E09 Host: Milton Berle / Martha Raye
November 30, 1968 ABC (US)
Music: --Milton Berle -
""What a Night This Is Going to Be"" --Martha Raye -
""Toot Toot Tootsie, Good-Bye"" and ""Those Were
The Good Old Days"" --Barrie Chase (singer-dancer) -
""Suzie Q"" --Roosevelt Grier - ""Slip
Away"" --The Third Wave (teenage musicians from the Phillippines)
Also appearing: --Joey Forman (comedian) --Joe Besser (comedian) --Mary Beth
Hughes
S06E10 Host: Sammy Davis Jr. / Ike
& Tina Turner
December 7, 1968 ABC (US)
--The Ike & Tina Turner Revue -
""Understanding"" and ""You Got What You Wanted,
Now You Don't Want What You Got"" --Sammy Davis Jr. (host) -
""Tenement Symphony"" & ""At the
Crossroads"" --Sammy Davis Jr. and Lola Falana - ""I Feel
Good"" --Lola Falana - medley: ""It Never Entered My
Mind"" & ""Goin' Out of My Head"" --Sammy
Davis Jr. and Carmen McRae - medley: ""People"" &
""Don't Rain on My Parade"" --Carmen McRae (singer) -
""He Loves Me"" & ""Watch What
Happens"" --Jo Anne Worley (comedian from ""Laugh-In"")
--Jack Carter (comedian) and Sammy Davis Jr. - sing ""Without
You"" and do impressions of various celebrities. --Bobby Doyle
(singer discovered by Sammy) - ""Just Can't Help
Believing""
S06E11 Host: Jimmy Durante
December 14, 1968 ABC (US)
Host: Jimmy Durante --Ethel Merman
--Sugar Ray Robinson --Vikki Carr --Bill Dana --Leland Palmer --Hendra &
Ullett
S06E12 Host: Bing Crosby (1968
Christmas Show) / Glen Campbell
December 21, 1968 ABC (US)
1968 Christmas Show hosted by Bing and
Kathryn Crosby, with their children Harry, Mary Frances and Nathaniel. --Bing
Crosby - ""White Christmas,""
""Silent Night"" and ""This Is That Time of the
Year"" --Bing and Kathryn Crosby - ""When the Kids Are
Married"" and ""Christmas Is A Birthday"" --Bing,
Kathryn and children - ""Do You Hear What I Hear?"" --Harry
Crosby - ""Oh, Come Little Children"" --Glen Campbell -
""Wichita Lineman"" --Bing Crosby and Glen Campbell -
""1432 Franklin Pike Circle Hero"" --John Byner (comedian)
- ""Christmas Is Coming"" --The Lennon Sisters -
""Christmas Waltz"" and ""Christmas
Song"" --All (entire cast) - ""We Wish You a Merry
Christmas"" --Nicolai Olkovikov (juggler from the Moscow State
Circus)
S06E13 Host: Bing Crosby / Bob Hope /
Bobbie Gentry
January 4, 1969 ABC (US)
Hollywood Palace Anniversary Show
Music: --Bing Crosby - ""Once-A-Year Day,"" ""The
Straight Life"" and ""Little Green Apples""
--Bobbie Gentry - ""Mornin' Glory"" --Tiny Tim -
""Come to the Ball,"" ""My Dreams Are Getting
Better All the Time"" and ""Great Balls of Fire""
--Judy Carne - ""Ring-Around-a-Rosy Rag"" (with dancers)
Also: --Bob Hope and Bing Crosby receive the 1st Annual Show Business Hall of
Fame Award. Earl Wilson (columnist) presents the award. --Stu Gilliam
(comedian) --Dovyeko Acrobatic Troupe (of the Moscow State Circus)
S06E14 Host: Jimmy Durante / Marvin
Gaye
January 11, 1969 ABC (US)
--Marvin Gaye - ""I Heard It
Through the Grapevine"" --Jimmy Durante (host) - ""Inka
Dinka Doo,"" ""Say It with
Flowers"" and ""Girls"" --Ella Fitzgerald -
""Melancholy Serenade"" & ""Hey
Jude"" --Jimmy Durante and Ella Fitzgerald - ""Bill Bailey,
Won't You Please Come Home?"" --Pat Cooper (comedian) --Sergio
Franchi (tenor) - ""Eh, Compare"" (with Jimmy Durante)
--The Society of Seven (rock group) --The Tahiti Nue Revue
S06E15 Hosts: Roy Rogers & Dale
Evans / Jeannie C. Riley
January 18, 1969 ABC (US)
--Roy Rogers & Dale Evans
(co-hosts) - ""Little Green Apples"" --Roy Rogers &
Dale Evans (with the Stoney Mountain Cloggers) - ""Nashville
Cats"" --Roy Rogers - ""Too Many Chiefs"" --Dale
Evans - ""Queen of the House"" --Burl Ives -
""Wolverton Mountain"" --Burl Ives and George Gobel -
""In the Summertime"" --Burl Ives and Roy Rogers -
""Jambalaya"" --Sonny James - ""Born to Be with
You"" --Sonny James and Dale Evans - ""Hawaiian Wedding
Song"" --Jeannie C. Riley - ""The Girl Most
Likely"" --Jeannie C. Riley and Roy Rogers - ""Flattery
Will Get You Everywhere"" --Irene Ryan (of ""The Beverly
Hillbillies"") - ""I Am a Woman"" --All (entire
cast) - ""Build a Better Mousetrap""
S06E16 Host: Don Knotts / Bobby Vinton
January 25, 1969 ABC (US)
Host: Don Knotts --Bobby Vinton --Cyd Charisse
--Gail Martin --Georgie Kaye --Maureen Arthur --The Checkmates
S06E17 Host: Don Adams
February 1, 1969 ABC (US)
Host: Don Adams --Tony Martin --Barrie
Chase --The Lettermen --Joe Forman --Ruth Buzzi --Alan Sues
S06E18 Host: Robert Goulet / Dusty
Springfield
February 8, 1969 ABC (US)
Guests: --Robert Goulet (host) --Dusty
Springfield - ""Son Of A Preacher Man"" & ""I
Don't Want To Hear It Anymore"" --The Mills Brothers --Kay Thompson
--Jack Wakefield --Hendra & Ullett
S06E19 Host: Milton Berle
February 15, 1969 ABC (US)
Host: Milton Berle --Mel Torme - sings
""Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World,"" ""One Note
Samba,"" ""Quiet Nights"" and ""The
Girl from Ipanema"" --Steve Allen --Jane Meadows --Dana Velery
(singer) - ""Those Were the Days"" and ""Good
Times"" --Jerry Collins (comedian) --Leland Palmer (singer) -
""Angel on My Shoulder"" Comedy: --Milton Berle sings with
himself (using split-screen special effects) --Mitchell Ayres' orchestra spoofs
the big band era. --Vaudeville comedians do a routine about doughnuts
S06E20 Hosts: Rowan & Martin
February 22, 1969 ABC (US)
All-Comedy Show: --Dan Rowan and Dick
Martin (co-hosts) --Gene Sheldon (banjo playing pantomimist) --Irwin C. Watson
(stand-up comedian) --Ron Gaylord & Burt Holiday (comedy team) - sing
""The Impossible Dream"" & do a skit about hijackers
--Betty Walker (comedian) - does a telephone gossip routine --Jackie Gayle
(stand-up comedian) --Simmy Bow (double-talking comedian)
S06E21 Host: Bing Crosby / The
Temptations
March 1, 1969 ABC (US)
Songs: --Bing Crosby -
""Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"" --The Temptations -
""Runaway Child, Running Wild"" --Bing with the Temptations
- ""My Girl"" --Gary Crosby - ""Gentle on My
Mind"" --Bing with Frank Sinatra Jr & Gary Crosby -
""Row, Row, Row Your Boat,"" ""Three Blind
Mice"" and ""Fugue For Tinhorns"" --Frank Sinatra
Jr. - ""Love Was Here Before The Stars"" and
""We'll Be Together Again"" --Bing with Gary Crosby &
Chorus - ""Hey, Jude"" Also appearing: --Victor Borge --Guy
Marks
S06E22 Hosts: Diana Ross & the Supremes
/ Stevie Wonder
March 8, 1969 ABC (US)
--Diana Ross & the Supremes (hosts)
- ""With a Song in My Heart,"" ""Strangers in
Paradise"" and ""Without a Song"" --Diana Ross
and the Supremes - medley: ""Let's Get Away from It All,""
""The Lady Is a Tramp,"" ""Day After
Day"" and ""I'm Living in Shame"" --Stevie Wonder
- ""For Once in My Life"" --Diana Ross and Stevie Wonder -
""I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"" --Ethel Waters -
""Suppertime"" --Diana Ross and Ethel Waters -
""Bread 'n' Gravy"" --Diana Ross and Donald McKayle
(dancer) - ""Soulful Strut"" --Soupy Sales (comedian)
--Sammy Shore (comedian) --Saddris (comic)
S06E23 Host: Sammy Davis Jr. / James
Brown Revue
March 15, 1969 ABC (US)
--Sammy Davis Jr. (host) -
""Up - Up and Away,"" ""I've Gotta Be
Me,"" ""Ol' Man River"" and
""Choreography"" --James Brown Revue - ""I'm
Black & I'm Proud,"" ""I Got The Feeling,""
""Give It Up Or Turn It Loose"" & ""Please
Please Please"" --Sammy Davis and James Brown - ""I Feel
Good"" --Peggy Lipton (from the ""Mod Squad,""
making her singing debut) - ""Just A Little Lovin'""
--Peggy Lipton and Sammy Davis Jr. - ""Little Green
Apples"" --Charo (singer, married to Xavier Cugat) - Latin medley
--Charo and Sammy Davis Jr. - ""I-Yi-Yi-Yi-Yi Like You Very
Much"" --Nipsey Russell (comedian, does verses on a variety of
topics) --Dave Madden (comedian from ""Laugh-In,""
commenting on trite sayings)
S06E24 Hosts: Phyllis Diller & Don
Rickles
March 22, 1969 ABC (US)
Co-hosts: Phyllis Diller & Don
Rickles --Terry Thomas --The King Family --The Baja Marimba Band --Jack Walker
S06E25 Hosts: Sid Caesar & Imogene
Coca / Gladys Knight & the Pips
March 29, 1969 ABC (US)
Hosts: Sid Caesar & Imogene
Coca--Gladys Knight & the Pips - ""Fever"" and
""I Heard It Through the Grapevine""--Buddy Rich plays a
drummer in a sketch about Caesar and Coca attending a Broadway musical.--Edie
Adams - ""When My Baby Smiles At Me""--Gene Baylos appears
in a sketch with Caesar.--Brendan Hanlon (Irish singer) - ""I Gotta
Be Me""
S06E26 Host: Bing Crosby / Four Tops
April 5, 1969 ABC (US)
--Bing Crosby (host) -
""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"" and ""Both Sides
Now"" --The Four Tops - ""In the Still of the
Night"" and ""Eleanor Rigby"" --Sally Ann Howes -
""Just One of Those Things"" and ""Free
Again"" --Phil Crosby (Bing's son) - ""For Once in My
Life"" --Bing and Phil Crosby - ""Sam's Song,""
""When You and I Were Young Maggie Blues"" and
""Play a Simple Melody"" --Shelley Berman (comedian)
--George Carl (pantomimist) --The Dagastan tightrope walkers (acrobats, from
the Moscow Circus)
S06E99 Unknown
ABC (US)
Season 7
S07E01 Host: Bing Crosby / Sweetwater
October 11, 1969 ABC (US)
Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby sings
about Hollywood Palace's new season --Gwen Verdon (sings and dances) - song
about a new dance, the ""…Psychedelic
Stomp"" (very long title, abbreviated). Western bar set with male
dancers) --Sweetwater (rock group) - ""Motherless Child""
--Dick Shawn (stand-up comedian) --Bobbie Gentry - ""You've Made Me
So Very Happy"" --Bobby Gentry and Bing Crosby - ""Put A
Little Love in Your Heart"" duet --The Rodriguez Brothers (high wire
act) --Engelbert Humperdinck - ""I Could Have Danced All
Night"" (with dancers) & ""I'm A Better Man""
--Medley of Beatles' songs: ""Yellow Submarine"" (Crosby
& Humperdinck); ""Can't Buy Me Love"" (Verdon, Crosby,
Humperdinck); ""Fool on the Hill"" (Gentry);
""Yesterday"" (Humperdinck); ""With A Little Help
from My Friends"" (Dick Shaun, Gentry & Verdon); ""And
I Love Her"" (Crosby); and ""Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da""
(Bing, Engelbert & cast) --Bing Crosby sings ""Love's Been Good
to Me"" (correct song title?) --Throughout the
S07E02 Hosts: Diana Ross & the
Supremes / The Jackson 5
October 18, 1969 ABC (US)
--Diana Ross & the Supremes (Mary
Wilson & Cindy Birdsong) - Where Do I Go?"" ""Good
Morning, Starshine,"" ""Can't Take My Eyes Off of
you"" and ""Someday We'll Be Together"" --The
Jackson 5 - ""I Want You Back"" and ""Sing a
Simple Song"" --Sammy Davis Jr. - ""You've Made Me So Very
Happy"" --Diana Ross and Sammy Davis Jr. - do a song-and-dance
routine reminiscent of the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' musicals. --Diana
Ross, Sammy Davis Jr. and the Jackson Five - ""There Was a
Time"" and ""One More Time"" --Alan Sues
(comedian) - sings ""Good Times Are Here to Stay"" (with
female dancers) and appears in a ""Dames at Sea""
production number. --Willie Tyler (ventriloquist)
S07E03 Host: Engelbert Humperdinck /
Gladys Knight & the Pips
October 25, 1969 ABC (US)
--Engelbert Humperdinck (host) -
""Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In,""
""Am I That Easy to Forget?"" ""Cuando, Cuando,
Cuando,"" ""Les Bicyclettes de Belsize,"" The
Last Waltz"" and ""There Goes My Everything""
--Engelbert Humperdinck and Nancy Ames - ""I'll Never Fall in Love
Again"" and ""I Wish I Were in Love Again"" --Gladys
Knight & the Pips - ""Nitty Gritty"" &
""Ain't No Sun"" --Sid Caesar (comedian) - appears in a
sketch with Maureen Arthur and Mickey Deems --Nancy Ames - ""Games
People Play"" and ""With a Little Help from My
Friends"" --Jack E. Leonard (comedian) --Lonnie Donegan -
""Keep On The Sunny Side,"" ""Chewing
Gum"" & ""Chesapeake Bay""
S07E04 Host: Sammy Davis Jr. / Cass
Elliott
November 1, 1969 ABC (US)
--Sammy Davis Jr. (host) -
""My Funny Valentine,"" ""My Way"" and
""Spinning Wheel"" --Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and
Rosey Grier - ""Walkin' Happy""
--""Mama"" Cass Elliott - ""Make Your Own Kind Of
Music"" --Sammy Davis Jr. & ""Mama"" Cass
Elliott - ""I Dig Rock & Roll Music"" --Lionel Hampton
and his orchestra - ""Cherokee"" --Sammy Davis Jr. and Lionel
Hampton - ""Flyin' Home"" --Peter Lawford -
""Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In"" (with dancers) --Rosey
Grier - ""Deeper in the Hole"" --The Dells -
""Oh, What A Night"" --Dana Valery (singer) -
""More Today Than Yesterday"" &
""Volare""
S07E05 Hosts: Roy Rogers & Dale
Evans / Everly Brothers
November 8, 1969 ABC (US)
--The Everly Brothers -
""Mama Tried"" --The Everly Brothers with Roy Rogers &
Dale Evans - medley: ""All I Have to Do is Dream,""
""Wake Up, Little Susie"" and ""Bye-Bye Love""
--Roy Rogers & Dale Evans (hosts) - ""Country Music and Western
Music"" --Roy Rogers & Dale Evans with the Sons of the Pioneers -
""Don't Fence Me In,"" ""Try a Little
Kindness,"" ""Less of Me"" and ""Get to
Know the Lord"" --Roy Clark - ""Sally Was A Good Ol
Girl,"" ""White Lightning,"" ""Foggy
Mountain Breakdown"" & ""Orange Blossom
Special"" --Minnie Pearl (comedian) --Junior Samples (comedian)
--Sammy Shore (comedian) --The Berosini animal act
S07E06 Host: Milton Berle / The
Youngbloods
November 22, 1969 ABC (US)
--Milton Berle (host) -
""Make 'em Laugh"" --Irving Benson (comedian, known as
""Milton's favorite heckler"") --Steve Allen --Connie
Stevens - ""Dancing in the Streets"" --Martha Raye - ""Let
Go"" & ""Watch What Happens"" Also, Raye
appears in a comedy sketch in which a judge tries to determine the father of
her daughter (played by Sarah Sue Gleis) --The Youngbloods - ""Get
Together"" (excerpt) & ""Sunlight"" --Hines,
Hines & Dad (song-and-dance trio with Gregory Hines) - ""Singing
in the Rain""
S07E07 Host: Diahann Carroll / Stevie
Wonder
November 29, 1969 ABC (US)
Host: Diahann Carroll --Stevie Wonder -
""Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday"" --Stevie Wonder &
Diahann Carroll - ""Pretty World"" --Diahann Carroll -
""Smiling Phases,"" ""Here, There and
Everywhere,"" ""Let the Sunshine In"" &
""Yesterday"" --Robert Culp (actor) - dramatic reading of
Thomas Paine's essay ""These Are the Times That Try Men's
Souls"" --John Byner (comedian) --Godfrey Cambridge (comedian) --The
Alvin Ailey (interpretative dancers) - ""Move, Members,
Move"" & ""Sinner Man"" --Rudi Schweitzer
(juggler)
S07E08 Host: Anthony Newley / Lulu /
Dyan Cannon
December 6, 1969 ABC (US)
Host: Anthony Newley --Lulu --Dyan
Cannon (actress, making her singing debut) --Lola Falana --Jo Anne Worley
--Marissa Berman
S07E09 Host: Flip Wilson / Friends of
Distinction
December 13, 1969 ABC (US)
Host: Flip Wilson (co-hosting with
Janos Prohaska, a scene-stealing bear from the Andy Williams Show) --Friends of
Distinction - ""Going in Circles"" &
""Grazin' in the Grass"" --O.C. Smith - ""Can't
Take My Eyes Off of You"" & ""Me and You""
--Judy Carne - ""Don't Tell Mama"" --Gene Baylos (comedian)
--Dana Valery - ""You've Made Me So Very Happy"" &
""Get in Line, Girl"" --The Dancing Devils (Argentine folk
dancers) --The Villams (jugglers)
S07E10 Host: Perry Como (Christmas
show)
December 20, 1969 ABC (US)
1969 Christmas show Host: Perry Como
--Perry Como & singers - ""Home for the Holidays,"" ""Love in a Home,""
""Christmas Eve,"" ""The First Noel,""
""Oh Holy Night,"" ""Christ Is Born""
& ""Hark! The Herald Angels Sing."" --Diahann Carroll -
""Sweet Beginning,"" ""Remember"" &
""How Deep Is the Ocean?"" --Perry Como and Diahann Carroll
- ""Silver Bells"" --Shecky Greene (comedian) --Edward
Villella (dancer from the New York City Ballet) - dances to ""Little
Drummer Boy"" --Burr Tillstrom's Kukla & Ollie (puppets)
S07E11 Hosts: George Gobel & Vikki
Carr
December 27, 1969 ABC (US)
Hosts: George Gobel & Vikki Carr
--Pat Cooper --Edwin Hawkins Singers --Enrico Macias --The Meeners
S07E12 Host: Bing Crosby
January 3, 1970 ABC (US)
Music: --Bing Crosby - ""This
Is The Life"" --Mary Costa - ""I'm In Love With
Vienna"" --Bing with Mary Costa - ""Pollution""
--Sergio Franchi - ""Stay"" --Sergio Franchi - ""To
Give"" --The Establishment - ""Hair"" medley:
""Aquarius,"" ""Where Do I Go?"" and
""Let The Sunshine In"" Crosby Medley: ""Love In
Bloom"" (Sergio Franchi), ""June In January""
(Mary Costa), ""Love Is Just Around The Corner"" (Bing with
Leland Palmer), ""Please"" (Bing), ""Learn To
Croon"" (Bing), ""Down The Old Ox Road"" (Bing
with Sergio Franchi, Leland Palmer & Mary Costa),
""Temptation"" (Sergio Franchi), ""Happy
Feet"" (Bing with Leland Palmer), ""The Waiter And The
Porter And The Upstairs Maid"" (Bing with Leland Palmer & Sergio
Franchi), ""Pennies From Heaven"" (Bing), ""True
Love"" (Mary Costa & Sergio Franchi) and ""Swinging On
A Star"" (Bing with Leland Palmer, Mary Costa & Sergio Franchi)
Also appearing: --The Nick Perito Orchestra --Patchett & Tarses --The Kuban
Cossacks --Mac Ronay
S07E13 Hosts: Burt Bacharach &
Angie Dickinson / Dusty Springfield / Sam & Dave
January 10, 1970 ABC (US)
--Dusty Springfield - ""The
Look of Love,"" ""Wishin' and Hopin'"" and
""Brand New Me"" --Sam & Dave - ""Hold On,
I'm Coming"" & ""I Take What I Want"" --Burt
Bacharach & Angie Dickinson (co-hosts) - ""I'll Never Fall in
Love Again"" --Burt Bacharach with the Ray Charles singers -
""Always Something There to Reming Me"" and
""What the World Needs Now"" --Scoey Mitchill (comedian)
--Bill Shoemaker (jockey making his singing and dancing debut) -
""The Race Is On""
S07E14 Hosts: Bobbie Gentry, J.
Hartford & Roy Clark / Brooklyn Bridge
January 17, 1970 ABC (US)
Co-hosts: Bobbie Gentry, John Hartford
& Roy Clark --Brooklyn Bridge - ""He's Not a Happy Man --Bobbie
Gentry - ""The Rainmaker"" & ""Raindrops Keep
Falln' on My Head"" --John Hartford - ""Natural to Be
Gone"" --Roy Clark - ""Then She's A Lover""
--Bobbie Gentry, Frankie Laine, Roy Clark and John Hartford - medley:
""Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show,""
""When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder"" & ""Bye
and Bye"" --Frankie Laine (singer) --Louis Nye (comedian) --Jackie
Gayle (comedian) --Szony and Agnese (dancers)
S07E15 Hosts: Steve Lawrence & Eydie
Gorme / Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca
January 24, 1970 ABC (US)
Hosts: Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme
--Steve Lawrence - ""The Drifter"" --Eydie Gorme -
""Tonight I'll Say a Prayer"" --Steve & Eydie -
""You've Made Me So Very Happy"" & ""Golden
Rainbow"" --Roy Rogers & Dale Evans - ""What a
Wonderful World,"" ""Sittin' on Top of the
World"" & ""Happy Heart"" --Sid Caesar &
Imogene Coca - appear in a comedy sketch --Steve Allen & Jane Meadows - in
a sketch play a couple on their second honeymoon Comedy sketch:
--""The Men vs. the Women"" - three married couples take
sides.
S07E16 Host: Don Knotts / Bobby
Goldsboro
January 31, 1970 ABC (US)
Host: Don Knotts --Bobby Goldsboro
--Joey Heatherton & Lance Rentzel --Mitzi McCall & Charlie Brill
(comedy team) --Sunni Walton --The Baja Marimba Band
S07E17 Host: Bing Crosby (Final episode
with highlights from past shows)
February 7, 1970 ABC (US)
Host: Bing Crosby (Last show of the series) --Bing introduces ""Hollywood Palace"" highlights. From past shows: Don Adams, Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass, Fred Astaire, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Ray Bolger, Victor Borge, George Burns, James Brown, Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Nat King Cole, Perry Como, Bette Davis, Sammy Davis Jr., Phyllis Diller, Jimmy Durante, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Eydie Gorme, Buster Keaton, Gene Kelly, Don Knotts, Dean Martin, Groucho Marx, Ethel Merman, ""Mrs. Miller,"" Martha Raye, Debbie Reynolds, Buddy Rich, Don Rickles, Gloria Swanson, Tiny Tim, Ed Wynn, and novelty acts like The Wallendas. --Also, ""Hollywood Palace"" bloopers such as Alan Sherman with his fly unzipped.