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Season 4

episodes

E1
1.Martin & Lewis
Oct 4, 1953

Skits: Burt plays an escaped lunatick. Songs: "Great To Be Home", "You're The Right One", "That's Amore", "There's No Tomorrow"

E2
2.Jimmy Durante
Oct 11, 1953
E3
3.Eddie Cantor
Oct 18, 1953
E4
4.Donald O'Connor
Oct 25, 1953
E5
5.Bud Abbott with Martin & Lewis
Nov 1, 1953
E6
6.Jimmy Durante
Nov 8, 1953
E7
7.Martha Raye
Nov 15, 1953
E8
8.Donald O'Connor
Nov 22, 1953
E9
9.Eddie Cantor
Nov 29, 1953

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.

E10
10.Jimmy Durante
Dec 6, 1953
E11
11.Perry Como and Martha Raye
Dec 13, 1953
E12
12.Donald O'Connor
Dec 20, 1953
E13
13.Eddie Cantor
Dec 27, 1953
E14
14.Jimmy Durante
Jan 3, 1954
E15
15.Martin & Lewis
Jan 10, 1954
E16
16.Alan Young, Stan Freberg, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby
Jan 17, 1954
E17
17.Ethel Merman
Jan 24, 1954
E18
18.Eddie Cantor
Jan 31, 1954
E19
19.Jimmy Durante
Feb 7, 1954
E20
20.Donald O'Connor
Feb 14, 1954
E21
21.Sonja Henie (with Abbott & Costello)
Feb 21, 1954

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.

E22
22.ANYTHING GOES w Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, Bert Lahr
Feb 28, 1954
E23
23.Eddie Cantor
Mar 7, 1954
E24
24.Jimmy Durante
Mar 14, 1954
E25
25.Abbott & Costello
Mar 21, 1954
E26
26.Eddie Cantor
Apr 4, 1954
E27
27.Jimmy Durante
Apr 11, 1954
E28
28.Abbott & Costello
Apr 18, 195460m

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.

E29
29.Ice Capades Special
Apr 25, 1954
E30
30.Martin & Lewis
May 2, 1954
E31
31.Jimmy Durante
May 9, 1954
E32
32.Eddie Cantor
May 16, 1954
E33
33.Abbott & Costello
May 23, 1954

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.

E34
34.Martin & Lewis
May 30, 1954
E35
35.Debut of Colgate Summer Comedy hour with Kaye Ballard, Jules Munshin, Jackie Cooper
Jun 6, 1954
E36
36.Let's Go Places
Jun 13, 1954
E37
37.Continental Holiday
Jun 20, 1954
E38
38.Away from It All
Jun 27, 1954
E39
39.Holiday, U.S.A.
Jul 4, 1954
E40
40.Episode 40
Jul 11, 1954
E41
41.Free and Easy
Jul 18, 1954
E42
42.Bobby Van, Pearl Bailey, Jeff Chandler, Gene Sheldon
Jul 25, 1954