The Colgate Comedy Hour

- Season 4

(1953)

Dean and Jerry return from overseas, singing their way thru customs. A crazed Burt Lancaster hides out in the men's bedroom. Dean croons "That's Amore" and, "You're the Right one."

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Bud Abbott hosts solo as Lou Costello is ill. His guests include: Peggy Lee; Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis; actor Jimmy Thompson; dancers Pat Horn and Gene Nelson; The Pied Pipers; and Al Goodman and his Orchestra. Miss Lee performs "Baubles, Bangles and Beads" in a smoke filled production number and sings a commercial for Halo shampoo! Nelson performs a dance titled "Off Center". Kinescoped clips from A&C's previous appearances are shown, including one involving a rubdown, another featuring diamonds.

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Eddie Cantor hosts with guests Frank Sinatra, Brian Donlevy, Eddie Fisher, Harold Arlen, Connie Russell, the Debonaires, Joan Shawlee, Harold Arlen, and Al Goodman and his Orchestra. Maxi the Taxi picks up a woman he thinks is expecting. In a take-off of westerns, all the characters speak in voice overs. Composer Harold Arlen leads the cast in a medley of collection of his biggest hit songs.

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Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis star with guests Franklin Pangborn, Duke Art Jr., Birdie Brickerbrack, The Modernaires, and Dick Stabile and his Orchestra. Dean's attempt to sing is disrupted by Jerry's lousy trumpet playing. A movie executive and his entourage come backstage to discuss business, and leave covered in food and water. Jerry destroys a store's toy department and clerk Franklin Pangborn. Jerry mugs to Leroy Anderson's "The Typewriter." The Modernaires sing "Crazy Man, Crazy" and Martin performs "Pretty Baby." Jerry presents Dean with a gold record for "That's...

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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.

On an ocean liner, a nightclub singer tries to help a fellow American romance an English heiress who is being forced to return home to marry a man she doesn't love. The American must avoid his boss who is traveling on the same vessel and disguises himself as a gangster traveling with a minister who is, in fact, a disguised gangster on the lam.

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Jerry is the newest member.is a shy new member.

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In the volatile South American land of "Bullonia", Bud and Lou are broke. To escape their creditors, the put on disguises from some found clothes, Bud in a caballero outfit, and Lou in an exaggerated old time general's uniform. This causes him to be mistaken for the country's despotic presidente, and puts him in the center of several assassination attempts by poison, bombs and flying knives.

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Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis host with guests Dick Humphreys, Gretchen Houser, The Treniers, Robert Carson, Henry Slate, Frances Farwell, Helen Eby-Rock, John Harmon, Bobby Fain, Charles Williams, and announcer Hal Sawyer. They boys mark their 8th anniversary as a comedy team. They first meet at an Atlantic City nightclub where they're quickly fired as waiter and busboy. They encounter each other again at a music store which they promptly wreck. After being canned, they team up for a show biz act. They join the Treniers to dance in the close.

Jimmy Durante's last episode as a series host finds him surrounded by circus performers. He gets into the act in a sketch playing a clown who is hopelessly in love with a beautiful lion tamer (played by Shelley Winters).

Host Eddie Cantor welcomes guests Milton Berle, Eddie Fisher and Connie Russell.

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Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis host with The Skylarks, Byron Kane, Mary Ellen Kaye, Paul Power, and Dick Stabile and his Orchestra. Songs include "That's Entertainment," "Every Street's a Boulevard" and "Money Burns a Hole in my Pocket. Jerry's a hotel bellhop who destroys honeymoon night for Dean and his new bride. Jerry conducts a glee club. At a lonely heart's club meeting, Jerry is the newest member.is a shy new member.

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Performers from Hollywood include The Will Mastin Trio (starring Sammy Davis Jr.), singer Connie Russell, Gene Sheldon, comedian Jay Lawrence, singers The Gaylords, The Nita Bieber Dancers, announcer Don Wilson, and Vic Schoen and his Orchestra. Jay Lawrence performs a comedy routine. Sammy Davis, Jr. sings "Because of You," "Hey, There" and "The Birth of the Blues". Russell performs "One Arabian Night" and "You've Changed." The Gaylords do "The Little Shoemaker" and "I Love You."

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