The Colgate Comedy Hour Season 4, Episode 1: Martin & Lewis

Jimmy Durante

Eddie Cantor

Donald O'Connor

Bud Abbott with Martin & Lewis

Jimmy Durante

Martha Raye

Donald O'Connor

Eddie Cantor

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.

Jimmy Durante

Perry Como and Martha Raye

Donald O'Connor

Eddie Cantor

Jimmy Durante

Martin & Lewis

Alan Young, Stan Freberg, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby

Ethel Merman

Eddie Cantor

Jimmy Durante

Donald O'Connor

Sonja Henie (with Abbott & Costello)

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.

ANYTHING GOES w Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, Bert Lahr

Eddie Cantor

Jimmy Durante

Abbott & Costello

Eddie Cantor

Jimmy Durante

Abbott & Costello

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.

Ice Capades Special

Martin & Lewis

Jimmy Durante

Eddie Cantor

Abbott & Costello

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.

Martin & Lewis