The Colgate Comedy Hour - Season 4
1 - Martin & Lewis
Air Date: October 4, 1953
Skits: Burt plays an escaped lunatick. Songs: "Great To Be Home", "You're The Right One", "That's Amore", "There's No Tomorrow"
2 - Jimmy Durante
Air Date: October 11, 1953
3 - Eddie Cantor
Air Date: October 18, 1953
4 - Donald O'Connor
Air Date: October 25, 1953
5 - Bud Abbott with Martin & Lewis
Air Date: November 1, 1953
6 - Jimmy Durante
Air Date: November 8, 1953
7 - Martha Raye
Air Date: November 15, 1953
8 - Donald O'Connor
Air Date: November 22, 1953
9 - Eddie Cantor
Air Date: November 29, 1953
Highlights include a take-off on TV westerns where all the characters speak in voice-overs and a salute to the songs of Harold Arlen.
10 - Jimmy Durante
Air Date: December 6, 1953
11 - Perry Como and Martha Raye
Air Date: December 13, 1953
12 - Donald O'Connor
Air Date: December 20, 1953
13 - Eddie Cantor
Air Date: December 27, 1953
14 - Jimmy Durante
Air Date: January 3, 1954
15 - Martin & Lewis
Air Date: January 10, 1954
16 - Alan Young, Stan Freberg, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby
Air Date: January 17, 1954
17 - Ethel Merman
Air Date: January 24, 1954
18 - Eddie Cantor
Air Date: January 31, 1954
19 - Jimmy Durante
Air Date: February 7, 1954
20 - Donald O'Connor
Air Date: February 14, 1954
21 - Sonja Henie (with Abbott & Costello)
Air Date: February 21, 1954
Gene Wesson hosts with guests Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, skater Sonja Henie, comic/singer Keefe Brasselle, with Carolyn Jones, Joyce Jameson, Michael Ross, Will J. White, Jud Conlon Singers, Norman Abbott, Glen Stangle, and announcer Hal Sawyer. Wesson and Brasselle perform dueling impressions, a sketch depicts a mob-run coffee shop, and Abbott and Costello encounter the Frankenstein Monster and the Gill Man in the Universal Studios' prop room.
22 - ANYTHING GOES w Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, Bert Lahr
Air Date: February 28, 1954
23 - Eddie Cantor
Air Date: March 7, 1954
24 - Jimmy Durante
Air Date: March 14, 1954
25 - Abbott & Costello
Air Date: March 21, 1954
26 - Eddie Cantor
Air Date: April 4, 1954
27 - Jimmy Durante
Air Date: April 11, 1954
28 - Abbott & Costello
Air Date: April 18, 1954
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello welcome guests including: Jane Russell; Rhonda Fleming; A&C stalwarts Connie Haines, Bobby Barber and Mike Ross; actress Beryl Davis; actors Tony Martinez, Nestor Paiva, Frank Richards, Benny Rubin, Jim Hayward and Ken Mayer; Jack Shea; Baby Mistin; Donna Kaye; announcer Hal Sawyer; and Al Goodman and his Orchestra. In comedy highlights, the boys are flat broke in a bording house in the Latin American country of Bolamania. They rehearse a magic trick, hoping to get a job at a nightclub. Then Lou gets the great idea of impersonating the El Presidente! Also, take offs on Liberace and You Bet Your Life.
29 - Ice Capades Special
Air Date: April 25, 1954
30 - Martin & Lewis
Air Date: May 2, 1954
31 - Jimmy Durante
Air Date: May 9, 1954
32 - Eddie Cantor
Air Date: May 16, 1954
33 - Abbott & Costello
Air Date: May 23, 1954
One in this comedy/variety series with rotating hosts. The comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello star in this live episode. Highlights include the following: Bud and Lou get fired from their jobs at a department store after attempting to sell nylons; Abbott and his friends sucker Costello out of his pay, but Lou gets his revenge; Hoagy Carmichael sings and is visited by child actor Ricky Vera; Costello and Vera try to tell each other the tale of Little Red Riding Hood and crack each other up in the process; Abbott cons Costello out of his money, but Vera gets the last laugh; Peggy Lee sings "Johnny Guitar," "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered," and the "Halo Shampoo" song; Costello gets appliances with meters and has to pay a quarter every time he uses one, prompting a lot of mayhem as he attempts to try each one out; the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra plays "Midnight Sleigh Ride" and "Holiday"; and Costello attempts to dance with a woman who is almost twice his height.
34 - Martin & Lewis
Air Date: May 30, 1954