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The Colgate Comedy Hour

Season 4 • Episode 5 • Bud Abbott with Martin & Lewis

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The Colgate Comedy Hour Season 4, Episode 5: Bud Abbott with Martin & Lewis

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Episodes

34 episodes
1

Martin & Lewis

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

3

Eddie Cantor

4

Donald O'Connor

5

Bud Abbott with Martin & Lewis

6

Jimmy Durante

7

Martha Raye

8

Donald O'Connor

9

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.
10

Jimmy Durante

11

Perry Como and Martha Raye

12

Donald O'Connor

13

Eddie Cantor

14

Jimmy Durante

15

Martin & Lewis

16

Alan Young, Stan Freberg, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby

17

Ethel Merman

18

Eddie Cantor

19

Jimmy Durante

20

Donald O'Connor

21

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

23

Eddie Cantor

24

Jimmy Durante

25

Abbott & Costello

26

Eddie Cantor

27

Jimmy Durante

28

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.
29

Ice Capades Special

30

Martin & Lewis

31

Jimmy Durante

32

Eddie Cantor

33

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.
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Martin & Lewis