Sat, Nov 3, 1951
Jerry plays Dean's life-sized dummy as they pass themselves off as a ventriloquism act for a talent agent. Dean sings "Solitaire" and Jerry lip-syncs to "Be My Love." Jerry goes undercover at a prison to crack the scheme of a couple of tough prisoners and causes chaos. Dandridge sings "Blow Out the Candle." In the finale, Dean attempts to sing as Jerry conducts/disrupts the orchestra.
Sat, Dec 1, 1951
Bob Hope hosts this AGVA salute to the return of vaudeville. His guests include Marilyn Maxwell, singer Bob Crosby, comic actors Eddie Bracken and Frank Faylen, Georgie Price, singer Toni Arden, comic Pat C. Flick, juggler Wally Blair, dancer Lita Baron and Billy Daniel, cyclist Joe Mole, dance act The Rio Brothers, and The Skylarks. Hope does a monologue and plays a TV surgeon in an operating room sketch. Crosby sings "Silver Bells." Faylen and Bracken play vacuum cleaner salesman. Price sings "Laugh, Clown, Laugh" and impersonates George M. Cohan in the finale with the cast singing "Auld Lang Syne."
Top-rated
Sat, Jan 12, 1952
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello host with guests actors Errol Flynn and Bruce Cabot, actress Rhonda Fleming, A & C stalwarts Sid Fields and Joe Kirk, The Pied Pipers, Al Goodman and his Orchestra, and a cameo by George Raft. On the way to work on Fleming's ranch, the boys encounter berserk Flynn doing the classic "Niagra Falls" routine ("Slowly I turn, step by step..."). Lou attempts to milk a cow, and he and Bud get the giggles, start ad libbing, and start spitting milk at each other. Sheriff Lou battles bad guy Flynn in a saloon. Rhonda Fleming performs "Don't Blame Me" and "I'm in Love With a Wonderful Guy."
Sat, Jan 19, 1952
Eddie Cantor hosts with guests actress Adele Jergens, Robert Clary, actor Jimmy Dobson, actress Shirley Mitchell, Doris Singleton, child dancer Sharon Baird, Herman McCoy's UCLA Swing Choir, a cameo from Kirk Douglas, and Al Goodman and his Orchestra. Eddie enrolls at UCLA as a freshman in this musical comedy. He moves on campus and accidentally knocks out the football star, then learns French from student Robert Clary. During the school's Varsity Show, the UCLA Swing Choir sings "Lullaby of Broadway" with a tribute to George Gershin featuring Cantor in blackface. Eddie plays the Kirk Douglas role in a spoof of "Detective Story."
Sat, Feb 2, 1952
Episode highlights include Donald O'Connor performing a song-and-dance about women's hats, Ben Blue starring in a sketch about the upper berth in a train's sleeping compartment, a songwriter sketch featuring suffering partners O'Connor and Sid Miller and a big production number featuring O'Connor and Scatman Crothers based on the song, "The Birth of the Blues".
Sat, Apr 26, 1952
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis host with guests singer Kitty Kallen, dancers The Four Step Brothers, Danny Arnold, Harvey Wheelwick, with announcer Hal Sawyer. Jerry tries to get a part in the "Birdwheel Frolics of 1952" by crashing a kids' singing act, the chorus line, and by playing Marlon Brando as "The Continental." Dean and Jerry talk loudly at a librarians' convention. Dean and Kitty's duet is ruined when Jerry joins in. Dean smuggles Jerry aboard a very bouncy cruise ship. The boys dance with the Step Brothers.