Season 4 (1953)
Episodes: 34
Star Cast:
Episodes List
Ep.1 Martin & Lewis
Air Date: 1953-10-04
Skits: Burt plays an escaped lunatick. Songs: "Great To Be Home", "You're The Right One", "That's Amore", "There's No Tomorrow"
Ep.2 Jimmy Durante
Air Date: 1953-10-11
Ep.3 Eddie Cantor
Air Date: 1953-10-18
Ep.4 Donald O'Connor
Air Date: 1953-10-25
Ep.5 Bud Abbott with Martin & Lewis
Air Date: 1953-11-01
Ep.6 Jimmy Durante
Air Date: 1953-11-08
Ep.7 Martha Raye
Air Date: 1953-11-15
Ep.8 Donald O'Connor
Air Date: 1953-11-22
Ep.9 Eddie Cantor
Air Date: 1953-11-29
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.
Ep.10 Jimmy Durante
Air Date: 1953-12-06
Ep.11 Perry Como and Martha Raye
Air Date: 1953-12-13
Ep.12 Donald O'Connor
Air Date: 1953-12-20
Ep.13 Eddie Cantor
Air Date: 1953-12-27
Ep.14 Jimmy Durante
Air Date: 1954-01-03
Ep.15 Martin & Lewis
Air Date: 1954-01-10
Ep.16 Alan Young, Stan Freberg, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby
Air Date: 1954-01-17
Ep.17 Ethel Merman
Air Date: 1954-01-24
Ep.18 Eddie Cantor
Air Date: 1954-01-31
Ep.19 Jimmy Durante
Air Date: 1954-02-07
Ep.20 Donald O'Connor
Air Date: 1954-02-14
Ep.21 Sonja Henie (with Abbott & Costello)
Air Date: 1954-02-21
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.
Ep.22 ANYTHING GOES w Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, Bert Lahr
Air Date: 1954-02-28
Ep.23 Eddie Cantor
Air Date: 1954-03-07
Ep.24 Jimmy Durante
Air Date: 1954-03-14
Ep.25 Abbott & Costello
Air Date: 1954-03-21
Ep.26 Eddie Cantor
Air Date: 1954-04-04
Ep.27 Jimmy Durante
Air Date: 1954-04-11
Ep.28 Abbott & Costello
Air Date: 1954-04-18
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.
Ep.29 Ice Capades Special
Air Date: 1954-04-25
Ep.30 Martin & Lewis
Air Date: 1954-05-02
Ep.31 Jimmy Durante
Air Date: 1954-05-09
Ep.32 Eddie Cantor
Air Date: 1954-05-16
Ep.33 Abbott & Costello
Air Date: 1954-05-23
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.