The Hollywood Palace Season 2, Episode 16: Host: Bing Crosby

Host: Debbie Reynolds

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

60 min

Host: Ed Wynn / The Rolling Stones

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.

60 min

Host: Maurice Chevalier

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.

60 min

Host: Donald O'Connor

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.

60 min

Host: Betty Grable

Host: Betty Grable --Harry James and his band --Dan Dailey --The Smothers Brothers --Diahann Carroll --Henny Youngman (comedian)

60 min

Host: Buddy Ebsen

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

60 min

Host: Gene Barry / Bette Davis & Olivia de Haviland

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.

60 min

Host: Victor Borge

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.

60 min

Host: Arthur Godfrey

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.

60 min

Host: Tony Martin

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.

60 min

Host: Phil Harris / Ginger Rogers

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)

60 min

Host: Burl Ives

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)

60 min

Host: Donald O'Connor

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

60 min

Host: Van Johnson / Betty Grable

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)

60 min

Host: Liberace

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.

60 min

Host: Kate Smith / Trini Lopez

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.

60 min

Host: Cyd Charisse

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)

60 min

Host: David Janssen

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.

60 min

Host: George Burns

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)

60 min

Host: Bette Davis

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.

60 min

Hosts: Roy Rogers & Dale Evans / Jan and Dean

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.

60 min

Host: Eddie Fisher

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)

60 min

Host: Victor Borge

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)

60 min

Host: Robert Goulet

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

60 min

Host: Tony Randall / Diana Ross & the Supremes

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.

60 min

Host: Dale Robertson

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

60 min

Host: Groucho Marx / Margaret Dumont

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)

60 min

Host: Pat Boone

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)

60 min

Host: Louis Armstrong

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""

60 min

Host: Steve Lawrence

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.

60 min

Host: George Burns

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)

60 min

Host: Tennessee Ernie Ford

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.

60 min

Host: Kate Smith

60 min

Host: Victor Borge

60 min