The Hollywood Palace Season 5, Episode 12: Host: Jimmy Durante / Ethel Merman / Grass Roots

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Host: Bing Crosby / The Association

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""

60 min

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Host: Phyllis Diller / Fifth Dimension

--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

60 min

3

Host: Milton Berle / Lena Horne / Spanky & Our Gang

Host: Milton Berle --Spanky & Our Gang - ""Making Every Minute Count"" --Lena Horne --Neile Adams --David Hedison

60 min

4

Host: Sammy Davis Jr. / Diana Ross & Supremes

--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

60 min

5

Host: Victor Borge / Adam West

Expo '67 Salute Host: Victor Borge --Adam West --Don Ho --Hendra & Ullett --Mircille Mathieu

60 min

6

Host: Milton Berle (All-Comedy Show)

All-Comedy Show --Milton Berle (host) --Kaye Ballard --Joe Besser --Irving Benson --Prof. Irwin Corey --The Bottoms Up (comedy troupe)

60 min

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Host: Petula Clark / Lynn Redgrave

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.

60 min

8

Host: Bing Crosby / Roger Miller

--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""

60 min

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Host: Sid Caesar / Marlo Thomas

--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""

60 min

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Co-hosts: Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme

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.

60 min

11

Host: Milton Berle / Nanette Fabray

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

60 min

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Host: Jimmy Durante / Ethel Merman / Grass Roots

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)

60 min

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Host: Herb Alpert / Liza Minnelli / Boyce & Hart

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.

60 min

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Host: Bing Crosby (1967 Christmas Show) / Adam West

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

60 min

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Host: Jimmy Durante / Anissa Jones

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)

60 min

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Host: Phyllis Diller / Robert Vaughn / Johnnie Ray

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.

60 min

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Host: Bing Crosby / Peggy Lee

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)

60 min

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Host: Jack Benny / Liza Minnelli

--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.

60 min

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Host: Phil Silvers / James Brown Revue

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)

60 min

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Host: Victor Borge / Dino Desi & Billy

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

60 min

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Host: Jimmy Durante / The Temptations

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)

60 min

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Host: Milton Berle / Louis Armstrong

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""

60 min

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Host: Sammy Davis Jr. / Peter Lawford / Diahann Carroll

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""

60 min

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Host: Don Knotts / Merry Go Round

--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.

60 min

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Host: Phil Harris / The Hollies

--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)

60 min

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Host: Jimmy Durante / Liza Minnelli

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)

60 min

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Host: Don Adams / Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood

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.

60 min

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Host: Bing Crosby / Every Mother's Son

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.

60 min