The Hollywood Palace
ABC (ended 1970)
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Season 7
- Ep 17Host: Bing Crosby (Final episode with highlights from past shows)2/7/70
Host: Bing Crosby (Last show of the series)
--Bing introduces "Hollywood Palace" highlights from past shows.
Clips:
Don Adams, Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass, Fred Astaire, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Ray Bolger, Victor Borge, George Burns, James Brown, Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Nat King Cole, Perry Como, Bette Davis, Sammy Davis Jr., Phyllis Diller, Jimmy Durante, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Eydie Gorme, Buster Keaton, Gene Kelly, Don Knotts, Dean Martin, Groucho Marx, Ethel Merman, "Mrs. Miller," Martha Raye, Debbie Reynolds, Buddy Rich, Don Rickles, Gloria Swanson, Tiny Tim, Ed Wynn, and novelty acts like The Wallendas.
Also:
--"Hollywood Palace" bloopers such as Alan Sherman with his fly unzipped.moreless - Ep 16Host: Don Knotts / Joey Heatherton & Lance Rentzel1/31/70
Host: Don Knotts
--Bobby Goldsboro - "Proud Mary" and "Everybody's Talking"
--Joey Heatherton - "Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin"
--Lance Rentzel - "Sunny" (plays organ and sings)
--The Baja Marimba Band - "Hey Jude" (instrumental)
--Mitzi McCall & Charlie Brill (comedy team)
--Sunni Walton (impressionist)
Benito Venito (spelling?) - daredevil, man does tricks with swords ''
Please see "Recap" for episode transcript.moreless - Ep 15Hosts: Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme / Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca1/24/70
Hosts: Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme
--Steve Lawrence - "The Drifter"
--Eydie Gorme - "Tonight I'll Say a Prayer"
--Steve & Eydie - "You've Made Me So Very Happy" & "Golden Rainbow"
--Roy Rogers & Dale Evans - "What a Wonderful World," "Sittin' on Top of the World" & "Happy Heart"
--Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca - appear in a comedy sketch
--Steve Allen & Jane Meadows - in a sketch play a couple on their second honeymoon''
Comedy sketch:
--"The Men vs. the Women" - three married couples take sides.moreless - Ep 14Co-hosts: Bobbie Gentry, John Hartford & Roy Clark / Brooklyn Bridge1/17/70
--Bobbie Gentry, John Hartford & Roy Clark (co-hosts) - "Shady Grove"
--The Brooklyn Bridge - "He's Not a Happy Man"
--Bobbie Gentry - "The Rainmaker" & "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"
--John Hartford - "Natural to Be Gone"
--Roy Clark - "Then She's A Lover"
--Bobbie Gentry, Roy Clark, John Hartford and Frankie Laine - medley: "Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show," "When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder" & "Bye and Bye"
--Frankie Laine sings "You Gave Me A Mountain"
--Louis Nye (comedian)
--Jackie Gayle (comedian)
--Szony and Agnese (dancers)moreless - Ep 13Hosts: Burt Bacharach & Angie Dickinson / Dusty Springfield / Sam & Dave1/10/70
--Burt Bacharach & Angie Dickinson (co-hosts) - "I'll Never Fall in Love Again"
--Burt Bacharach with the Ray Charles singers - "Always Something There to Reming Me" and "What the World Needs Now" ''
--Dusty Springfield - "The Look of Love," "Wishin' and Hopin'" and "Brand New Me"
--Sam & Dave - "Hold On, I'm Coming" & "I Take What I Want"
--Scoey Mitchill (comedian)
--Bill Shoemaker (jockey making his singing and dancing debut) - "The Race Is On"moreless - Ep 12Host: Bing Crosby / Mary Costa / Sergio Franchi1/3/70
Music:
--Bing Crosby - "This Is The Life"
--Mary Costa - "I'm In Love With Vienna"
--Bing with Mary Costa - "Pollution"
--Sergio Franchi - "Stay"
--Sergio Franchi - "To Give"
--The Establishment - "Hair" medley: "Aquarius," "Where Do I Go?" and "Let The Sunshine In" ''
Crosby Medley:
"Love In Bloom" (Sergio Franchi), "June In January" (Mary Costa), "Love Is Just Around The Corner" (Bing with Leland Palmer), "Please" (Bing), "Learn To Croon" (Bing), "Down The Old Ox Road" (Bing with Sergio Franchi, Leland Palmer & Mary Costa), "Temptation" (Sergio Franchi), "Happy Feet" (Bing with Leland Palmer), "The Waiter And The Porter And The Upstairs Maid" (Bing with Leland Palmer & Sergio Franchi), "Pennies From Heaven" (Bing), "True Love" (Mary Costa & Sergio Franchi) and "Swinging On A Star" (Bing with Leland Palmer, Mary Costa & Sergio Franchi)''
Also appearing:
--The Nick Perito Orchestra
--Patchett & Tarses (comedians)
--The Kuban Cossacks
--Mac Ronay (pantomimist)moreless - Ep 11Hosts: George Gobel & Vikki Carr12/27/69
Hosts: George Gobel & Vikki Carr
--Pat Cooper
--Edwin Hawkins Singers
--Enrico Macias
--The Meeners - Ep 10Host: Perry Como (1969 Christmas Show)12/20/69
1969 Christmas show
Host: Perry Como
--Perry Como & singers - "Home for the Holidays," "Love in a Home," "Christmas Eve," "The First Noel," "Oh Holy Night," "Christ Is Born" & "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing."
--Diahann Carroll - "Sweet Beginning," "Remember" & "How Deep Is the Ocean?"
--Perry Como and Diahann Carroll - "Silver Bells"
--Shecky Greene (comedian)
--Edward Villella (dancer from the New York City Ballet) - dances to "Little Drummer Boy"
--Burr Tillstrom's Kukla & Ollie (puppets)moreless - Ep 9Host: Flip Wilson / Friends of Distinction12/13/69
Host: Flip Wilson (co-hosting with Janos Prohaska, a scene-stealing bear from the "Andy Williams Show")
--Friends of Distinction - "Going in Circles" & "Grazin' in the Grass"
--O.C. Smith - "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" & "Me and You"
--Judy Carne - "Don't Tell Mama"
--Gene Baylos (comedian)
--Dana Valery - "You've Made Me So Very Happy" & "Get in Line, Girl"
--The Dancing Devils (Argentine folk dancers)
--The Villams (jugglers)moreless - Ep 8Host: Anthony Newley / Lulu / Dyan Cannon12/6/69
--Anthony Newley (host) - "A Wonderful Day Like Today," "Sweet Beginnings," "Once in a Lifetime," "Gonna Build A Mountian" and "What Kind of Fool Am I?" ''
--Lulu - "Who Can I Turn To?"
--Lulu and Anthony Newley - "Typically English"
--Dyan Cannon (actress, making her singing debut) - "When You Gotta Go"
--Lola Falana - "Feeling Good"
--Lola Falana and Anthony Newley - "Where Would You Be Without Me?"
--Jo Anne Worley - "Lumbered"
--Jo Anne Worley and Anthony Newley - "Nag, Nag, Nag"
--Marissa Berman (fashion model) and Anthony Newley - "Look At That Face"
--Anthony Newley and guests - "What A Man"moreless - Ep 7Host: Diahann Carroll / Stevie Wonder / Robert Culp11/29/69
Host: Diahann Carroll
--Stevie Wonder - "Everybody's Talkin'"
--Stevie Wonder & Diahann Carroll - "Pretty World"
--Diahann Carroll - medley: "Aquaris"/"Let the Sunshine In" and "Smiling Phases"
--Diahann Carroll - "Here, There and Everywhere" and "Yesterday" medley
--Robert Culp (actor) - dramatic reading of Thomas Paine's essay "These Are the Times That Try Men's Souls"
--John Byner (comedian)
--Godfrey Cambridge (comedian)
--The Alvin Ailey (interpretative dancers) - music: "Move, Members, Move" & "Sinner Man"
--Rudi Schweitzer (juggler)moreless - Ep 6Host: Milton Berle / The Youngbloods11/22/69
Host: Milton Berle
--The Youngbloods - "Get Together" (excerpt) & "Sunlight"
--Hines, Hines & Dad (song-and-dance trio with Gregory Hines) - "Singing in the Rain"''
--Milton Berle (host) - "Make 'em Laugh"
--Irving Benson (comedian, in character as Sidney Shpritzer, Milton Berle's favorite heckler)
--Steve Allen
--Connie Stevens - "Dancing in the Streets"
--Martha Raye - "Let Go" & "Watch What Happens"
Also, Raye appears in a comedy sketch in which a judge tries to determine the father of her daughter (played by Sarah Sue Gleis)moreless - Ep 5Hosts: Roy Rogers & Dale Evans / Everly Brothers11/8/69
--The Everly Brothers - "Mama Tried"
--The Everly Brothers with Roy Rogers & Dale Evans - medley: "All I Have to Do is Dream," "Wake Up, Little Susie" and "Bye-Bye Love"
--Roy Rogers & Dale Evans (hosts) - "Country Music and Western Music"
--Roy Rogers & Dale Evans with the Sons of the Pioneers - "Don't Fence Me In," "Try a Little Kindness," "Less of Me" and "Get to Know the Lord"
--Roy Clark - "Sally Was A Good 'Ol Girl," "White Lightning," "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" & "Orange Blossom Special"
--Minnie Pearl (comedian)
--Junior Samples (comedian)
--Sammy Shore (comedian)
--The Berosini animal actmoreless - Ep 4Host: Sammy Davis Jr. / Peter Lawford / Cass Elliott11/1/69
--Sammy Davis Jr. (host) - "Spinning Wheel," "My Funny Valentine" and "My Way"
--Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Rosey Grier - "Walkin' Happy" ''
--"Mama" Cass Elliott - "Make Your Own Kind Of Music"
--Sammy Davis Jr. & "Mama" Cass Elliott - medley: "I Dig Rock & Roll Music," "Respect" and "What'd I Say?" (Note: "I Dig Rock and Roll Music" has updated lyrics mentioning soul artists).
--Sammy Davis Jr. and Lionel Hampton - "Flyin' Home" and possibly "Cherokee"
--Peter Lawford - "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" (with dancers)
--Rosey Grier - "Deeper in the Hole"
--The Dells - "Oh, What A Night"
--Dana Valery (singer) - "More Today Than Yesterday" and a medley of Italian language songs (including "Volare")moreless - Ep 3Host: Engelbert Humperdinck / Gladys Knight & the Pips10/25/69
--Engelbert Humperdinck (host) - "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In," "Am I That Easy to Forget?" "Cuando, Cuando, Cuando," "Les Bicyclettes de Belsize," The Last Waltz" and "There Goes My Everything"
--Engelbert Humperdinck and Nancy Ames - "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" and "I Wish I Were in Love Again" ''
--Gladys Knight & the Pips - "Nitty Gritty" & "Ain't No Sun"
--Sid Caesar (comedian) - appears in a sketch with Maureen Arthur and Mickey Deems
--Nancy Ames - "Games People Play" and "With a Little Help from My Friends"
--Jack E. Leonard (comedian)
--Lonnie Donegan - "Keep On The Sunny Side," "Chewing Gum" & "Chesapeake Bay"moreless - Ep 2Hosts: Diana Ross & the Supremes / The Jackson 510/18/69
--Diana Ross & the Supremes (Mary Wilson & Cindy Birdsong) sing "Where Do I Go?" "Good Morning, Starshine," "Someday We'll Be Together," "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" (with Mary Wilson singing lead) and "Love Child."
--The Jackson 5 - "Sing a Simple Song" and "I Want You Back"
--Sammy Davis Jr. - "You've Made Me So Very Happy"
--Diana Ross and Sammy Davis Jr. do a song-and-dance tribute to the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movie musicals.
--Alan Sues (comedian) - sings "Good Times Are Here to Stay" (with dancers) and appears in a sketch as Diana Ross' butler, photographer and clothing designer.
--Willie Tyler & Lester (ventriloquist act)moreless - Ep 1Host: Bing Crosby / Sweetwater10/11/69
Host: Bing Crosby
--Bing Crosby sings about Hollywood Palace's new season
--Gwen Verdon (sings and dances) - song about a new dance, the "Psychedelic Stomp" (very long title, abbreviated). Western bar set with male dancers)
--Sweetwater (rock group) - "Motherless Child"
--Dick Shawn (stand-up comedian)
--Bobbie Gentry - "You've Made Me So Very Happy"
--Bobby Gentry and Bing Crosby - "Put A Little Love in Your Heart" duet
--The Rodriguez Brothers (high wire act)
--Engelbert Humperdinck - "I Could Have Danced All Night" (with dancers) & "I'm A Better Man"
--Medley of Beatles' songs: "Yellow Submarine" (Crosby & Humperdinck); "Can't Buy Me Love" (Verdon, Crosby, Humperdinck); "Fool on the Hill" (Gentry); "Yesterday" (Humperdinck); "With A Little Help from My Friends" (Dick Shaun, Gentry & Verdon); "And I Love Her" (Crosby); and "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" (Bing, Engelbert & cast)
--Bing Crosby sings "Love's Been Good to Me" (correct song title?) ''
--Throughout the show there are cameos by these upcoming hosts: Sammy Davis Jr., Eydie Gorme & Steve Lawrence; Roy Rogers & Dale Evans; Flip Wilson; Tom Jones (These clips were probably taped at a different time and later edited into the show.)moreless
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Season 6
- Ep 26Host: Bing Crosby / The Four Tops4/5/69
--Bing Crosby (host) - "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" and "Both Sides Now"
--The Four Tops - "In the Still of the Night" and "Eleanor Rigby"
--Sally Ann Howes - "Just One of Those Things" and "Free Again"
--Sally Ann Howes and Bing Crosby - medley of songs performed by London's "Buskers" (Please see "Recap" for song titles).
--Phil Crosby (Bing's son) - "For Once in My Life"
--Bing and Phil Crosby - "Sam's Song," "When You and I Were Young Maggie Blues" and "Play a Simple Melody"
--Shelley Berman (comedian)
--George Carl (pantomimist)
--The Dagastan tightrope walkers (acrobats, from the Moscow Circus)moreless - Ep 25Hosts: Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca / Gladys Knight & the Pips3/29/69
Hosts: Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca
--Gladys Knight & the Pips - "Fever" and "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"
--Buddy Rich plays a drummer in a sketch about Caesar and Coca attending a Broadway musical.
--Edie Adams - "When My Baby Smiles At Me"
--Gene Baylos appears in a sketch with Caesar.
--Brendan Hanlon (Irish singer) - "I Gotta Be Me"moreless - Ep 24Hosts: Phyllis Diller & Don Rickles3/22/69
Co-hosts: Phyllis Diller & Don Rickles
--Terry Thomas
--The King Family
--The Baja Marimba Band
--Jack Walker - Ep 23Host: Sammy Davis Jr. / James Brown Revue3/15/69
--Sammy Davis Jr. (host) - "Up - Up and Away," "I've Gotta Be Me," "Ol' Man River" and "Choreography"
--James Brown Revue - "I'm Black & I'm Proud," "I Got The Feeling," "Give It Up Or Turn It Loose" & "Please Please Please"
--Sammy Davis and James Brown - "I Feel Good" ''
--Peggy Lipton (from the "Mod Squad," making her singing debut) - "Just A Little Lovin'"
--Peggy Lipton and Sammy Davis Jr. - "Little Green Apples"
--Charo (singer, married to Xavier Cugat) - Latin medley
--Charo and Sammy Davis Jr. - "I-Yi-Yi-Yi-Yi Like You Very Much"
--Nipsey Russell (comedian, does verses on a variety of topics)
--Dave Madden (comedian from "Laugh-In," commenting on trite sayings)moreless - Ep 22Hosts: Diana Ross & the Supremes / Stevie Wonder / Ethel Waters3/8/69
--Diana Ross & the Supremes (hosts) - "It's Today," "Day After Day" and "I'm Livin' in Shame."
--Diana Ross & the Supremes - medley ("The Lady Is a Tramp" and "Let's Get Away from It All").
--Stevie Wonder - "I Don't Know Why."
--Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross - "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" and "For Once In My Life."
--Ethel Waters - "Suppertime."
--Ethel Waters and Diana Ross - "Bread 'n' Gravy."
--Donald McKayle (dancer-choreographer) and Diana Ross dance to "Soulful Strut."
--Soupy Sales (comedian)
--Sammy Shore (comedian) - plays a preacher in a stand-up comedy routine.
--The Saddris Dancers (comedic dancers).moreless - Ep 21Host: Bing Crosby / The Temptations3/1/69
Songs:
--Bing Crosby - "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
--The Temptations - "Runaway Child, Running Wild"
--Bing with the Temptations - "My Girl"
--Gary Crosby - "Gentle on My Mind"
--Bing Crosby with Frank Sinatra Jr & Gary Crosby - "Row, Row, Row Your Boat," "Three Blind Mice" and "Fugue For Tinhorns"
--Frank Sinatra Jr. - "Love Was Here Before The Stars" and "We'll Be Together Again"
--Bing and Gary Crosby with Chorus - "Hey, Jude"''
Also appearing:
--Victor Borge
--Guy Marksmoreless - Ep 20Hosts: Rowan & Martin (All-Comedy Show)2/22/69
All-Comedy Show:
--Dan Rowan and Dick Martin (co-hosts)
--Gene Sheldon (pantomime comedian) - plays "I'm Looking Over A Four-Leaf Clover" on the banjo.
--Irwin C. Watson (stand-up comedian)
--Ron Gaylord & Burt Holiday (comedy team) - one sings "The Impossible Dream" while they tell jokes. Also do a skit about a hijacker
--Betty Walker (comedian) - appears four times during show doing telephone monologues.
--Jackie Gayle (stand-up comedian)
--Simmy Bow (double-talking comedian)moreless - Ep 19Host: Milton Berle2/15/69
Host: Milton Berle
--Mel Torme - sings "Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," "One Note Samba," "Quiet Nights" and "The Girl from Ipanema"
--Steve Allen
--Jane Meadows
--Dana Velery (singer) - "Those Were the Days" and "Good Times"
--Jerry Collins (comedian)
--Leland Palmer (singer) - "Angel on My Shoulder" ''
Comedy:
--Milton Berle sings with himself (using split-screen special effects)
--Mitchell Ayres' orchestra spoofs the big band era.
--Vaudeville comedians do a routine about doughnutsmoreless - Ep 18Host: Robert Goulet / Dusty Springfield / The Mills Brothers2/8/69
Guests:
--Robert Goulet (host) - sings "On A Clear Day," "MacArthur Park" and a medley (of "Wives and Lovers" and "Dreams of the Everyday Housewife").
--Dusty Springfield sings "Son Of A Preacher Man" & "I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore"
--Robert Goulet and Dusty Springfield - medley: "The Look of Love" (Goulet) and "American Boys" (Dusty Springfield).
--The Mills Brothers - "Cab Driver," "My Shy Violet" and "The Jimtown Road"
--Robert Goulet joins the Mills Brothers for a medley (of Mills Brothers' hits)
--Kay Thompson (singer) - "Hello, Hello" and "I Love A Violin" (production numbers with male dancers-singers)
--Jack Wakefield (comedian)
--Hendra & Ullett (comedy team)
--Nina Logatsheva (low wire-walker, from the Moscow Circus)moreless - Ep 17Host: Don Adams / Barrie Chase2/1/69
Guests:
--Don Adams (host) - does comedy routines throughout the show (please see "Recap" for more details)
--Barrie Chase (dancer) - sings "Son of a Preacher Man" in a production number.
--The Lettermen sing "Put Your Head on My Shoulder" and "Light My Fire"
--Buth Buzzi and Alan Sues (comedians, from "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In") - do a comedy routine about a woman visiting her jailed husband.
--Tony Martin sings "Learn How to Laugh" and "A Man Without Love"
--Joey Forman (comedian) - In a comedy sketch, Forman plays a struggling actor who runs into Don Adams at Schwab's Drugstore.
--Igor Kio (illusionist from the Moscow State Circus)
--The Half Brothers (comedic jugglers)moreless - Ep 16Host: Don Knotts / Bobby Vinton1/25/69
Host: Don Knotts
--Bobby Vinton
--Cyd Charisse
--Gail Martin
--Georgie Kaye
--Maureen Arthur
--The Checkmates - Ep 15Hosts: Roy Rogers & Dale Evans / Jeannie C. Riley1/18/69
--Roy Rogers & Dale Evans (co-hosts) - "Little Green Apples"
--Roy Rogers & Dale Evans (with the Stoney Mountain Cloggers) - "Nashville Cats"
--Roy Rogers - "Too Many Chiefs"
--Dale Evans - "Queen of the House"
--Burl Ives - "Wolverton Mountain"
--Burl Ives and George Gobel - "In the Summertime"
--Burl Ives and Roy Rogers - "Jambalaya"
--Sonny James - "Born to Be with You"
--Sonny James and Dale Evans - "Hawaiian Wedding Song"
--Jeannie C. Riley - "The Girl Most Likely"
--Jeannie C. Riley and Roy Rogers - "Flattery Will Get You Everywhere"
--Irene Ryan (of "The Beverly Hillbillies") - "I Am a Woman"
--All (entire cast) - "Build a Better Mousetrap"moreless - Ep 14Host: Jimmy Durante / Marvin Gaye1/11/69
--Marvin Gaye - "I Heard It Through the Grapevine."
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--Jimmy Durante (host) - "Inka Dinka Doo," "Say It with Flowers" and "Girls."
--Ella Fitzgerald - "Melancholy Serenade" & "Hey Jude."
--Jimmy Durante and Ella Fitzgerald - "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?"
--Pat Cooper (comedian)
--Sergio Franchi (tenor) - "Eh, Compare" (with Jimmy Durante).
--Sergio Franchi (tenor) sings and dances to "Alexander's Ragtime Band."
--Sergio Franchi (tenor) sings "E Lucevan La Stelle" aria from Puccini's 'Tosca.'
--The Society of Seven (rock group).
--The Tahiti Nue Revue. - Ep 13Host: Bing Crosby / Bob Hope (cameo) / Bobbie Gentry1/4/69
Hollywood Palace Anniversary Show ''
Music:
--Bing Crosby - "Once-A-Year Day," "The Straight Life" and "Little Green Apples"
--Bing Crosby and Bobbie Gentry - "Okolona River Bottom Band"
--Bobbie Gentry - "Mornin' Glory"
--Tiny Tim - "Come to the Ball," "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" and "Great Balls of Fire"
--Judy Carne - "Ring-Around-a-Rosy Rag" (with dancers)''
Also:
--Earl Wilson (columnist) presents Bob Hope and Bing Crosby with trophies for The 1st Annual Show Business Hall of Fame Awards.
--Stu Gilliam (comedian)
--Dovyeko Acrobatic Troupe (of the Moscow State Circus)moreless - Ep 12Host: Bing Crosby (1968 Christmas Show) / Glen Campbell12/21/68
1968 Christmas Show hosted by Bing and Kathryn Crosby,''with their children Harry, Mary Frances and Nathaniel.''
Music:
--Bing Crosby - "White Christmas," "Silent Night" and "This Is That Time of the Year"
--Bing and Kathryn Crosby - "When the Kids Are Married" and "Christmas Is A Birthday"
--Bing, Kathryn and children - "Do You Hear What I Hear?"
--Harry Crosby - "Oh, Come Little Children" ''
--Glen Campbell - "Wichita Lineman"
--Bing Crosby and Glen Campbell - "1432 Franklin Pike Circle Hero"
--John Byner (comedian) - "Christmas Is Coming"
--The Lennon Sisters - "Christmas Waltz" and "Christmas Song"
--Bing Crosby and cast - "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" ''
Also appearing:
--Nicolai Olkovikov (juggler from the Moscow State Circus)moreless - Ep 11Host: Jimmy Durante / Ethel Merman / Sugar Ray Robinson12/14/68
Music:
--Jimmy Durante (host) - "Dear World"
--Ethel Merman - "This Is My Lucky Day" and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix"
--Sugar Ray Robinson - "Hello, Show Business"
--Vikki Carr - "Come Rain or Come Shine" and "Yesterday I Heard the Rain" ''
Also appearing:
--Bill Dana (comedian, in character as Jose Jimenez)
--Leland Palmer (singer-dancer)
--Hendra & Ullett (comedy team)
--The Iriston Horsemen (from the Moscow State Circus)moreless - Ep 10Host: Sammy Davis Jr. / Ike & Tina Turner12/7/68
--The Ike & Tina Turner Revue - "Understanding" and "You Got What You Wanted, Now You Don't Want What You Got"
--Sammy Davis Jr. (host) - "Tenement Symphony" & "At the Crossroads"
--Sammy Davis Jr. and Lola Falana - "I Feel Good"
--Lola Falana - medley: "It Never Entered My Mind" & "Goin' Out of My Head"
--Sammy Davis Jr. and Carmen McRae - medley: "People" & "Don't Rain on My Parade"
--Carmen McRae (singer) - "He Loves Me" & "Watch What Happens"
--Jo Anne Worley (comedian from "Laugh-In")
--Jack Carter (comedian) and Sammy Davis Jr. - sing "Without You" and do impressions of various celebrities.
--Bobby Doyle (singer discovered by Sammy) - "Just Can't Help Believing"moreless - Ep 9Host: Milton Berle / Martha Raye11/30/68
Music:
--Milton Berle - "What a Night This Is Going to Be"
--Martha Raye - "Toot Toot Tootsie, Good-Bye" and "Those Were The Good Old Days"
--Barrie Chase (singer-dancer) - "Suzie Q"
--Roosevelt Grier - "Slip Away"
--The Third Wave (teenage musicians from the Phillippines) ''
Also appearing:
--Joey Forman (comedian)
--Joe Besser (comedian)
--Mary Beth Hughesmoreless - Ep 8Host: Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca / Bee Gees11/23/68
Co-Hosts: Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca
--The Bee Gees - "Massachusetts" & "I've Gotta Get a Message to You"
--Lou Rawls - "I'm Satisfied" & "Down Here on the Ground"
--Chita Rivera (singer-dancer) - "Pretty for Me"
--Jane Morgan (singer) - medley: "Georgia," "That Lucky Old Sun" & "What'd I Say?"
--Gelina Adaskina (trapeze artist from the Moscow State Circus). ''
Comedy sketches:
--"The Last Angry Bull," a movie parody with Sid Caesar as a bullfighter and Imogene Coca as a smitten American.
--Imogene Coca plays a frumpy stripper who teases the audience by slowly removing her overcoat.moreless - Ep 7Host: Mike Douglas / Donovan / Polly Bergen11/9/68
--Donovan - "Jennifer Juniper" & "Lalena"
--Donovan and Sergio Mendes - "There Is a Mountain"
--Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 ''
--Mike Douglas (host) - If This Isn't Love" and "Danny Boy"
--Mike Douglas and Polly Bergen - "When I'm 64" & "Wait Till We're 65"
--Polly Bergen - "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" & "When in Rome"
--Hendra and Ullett (comedy duo)
--Rudy Schweitzer (juggler)
--The Solokhins (balancing acrobats from the Moscow State Circus)moreless - Ep 6Host: Sammy Davis Jr. / Aretha Franklin / Spanky and Our Gang11/2/68
--Sammy Davis Jr. (host) sings "If My Friends Could See Me Now" (with special lyrics about being the Hollywood Palace host).
Sammy Davis Jr. - "MacArthur Park," "I Gotta Be Me" and "Peace Brother Peace"
--Aretha Franklin - "I Say A Little Prayer" and "Come Back Baby"
--Aretha Franklin and Sammy Davis Jr. - medley "What Is Soul?" (correct title?), "Think," "Respect" and "What'd I Say?"
--Spanky & Our Gang - "Give A Damn" & "Yesterday's Rain"
--Johnny Whitaker (child actor, from "Family Affair") - sings "Every Boy Can Be President"
--Corbett Monica (comedian)
--John Bassett (singer-guitarist, appeared in "Golden Boy" with Sammy) sings a song dedicated to his own son. ''moreless - Ep 5Host: Don Adams / Janis Joplin / Barbara Eden10/26/68
Host: Don Adams
--Janis Joplin with Big Brother & the Holding Company - "Summertime" & "I Need A Man to Love"
--Barbara Eden sings "Big, Beautiful Ball" (production number with dancers)
--Arte Johnson (comedian, in character as Rozmenko, a Russian entertainer) sings "Mame" in faux Russian.
--The Brothers Castro (singers from Mexico) - "Michelle" & "Por Usted"
--The Dovyeko Company (acrobats from the Moscow State Circus) - acrobats walking on stilts. ''
Comedy:
--Don Adams plays a lawyer known as "The Big Mouthpiece" in a comedy monologue.
--Reporter Arte Johnson interviews coach Leon Football (Don Adams)moreless - Ep 4Host: Diahann Carroll / Richard Harris10/19/68
--Diahann Carroll (host) - "Watch What Happens," "My Personal Property," "Over You" & "The Fool on the Hill"
--Diahann Carroll, Marc Copage and Michael Link (all from the series "Julia") - "The Thank-You Song"
--Richard Harris and Diahann Carroll - "What Do the Simple Folk Do?"
--Richard Harris - "The Yard Went on Forever" and "The Hive"
--The Checkmates, Ltd. - "Black Is Black"
--Mort Sahl (comedian) - does a satire of Presidential candidates
--Buddy Schwab ("Hollywood Palace" choreographer) with dancers - "Broadway Rhythm"moreless - Ep 3Host: Milton Berle / Leonard Nimoy10/12/68
--Milton Berle (host)
--Leonard Nimoy - sings "Here We Go Round Again"
--Shani Wallis - "Oliver!" medley: "Who Will Buy?" "Consider Yourself" and "As Long as He Needs Me"
--The Checkmates Ltd. - "Wear It On Your Face" & "Thank You, Love"
--Johnny Puleo's Harmonica Gang
--Irving Benson (comedian in character as Sidney Shpritzer, Milton Berle's comedy foil)
--The Bottoms Up Revue from Las Vegas ''
Comedy sketch:
--Leonard Nimoy and the Bottoms Up Revue appear in a sci-fi spoof titled "Star Odyssey 2001 7/8"moreless - Ep 2Host: Jimmy Durante / Joey Heatherton10/5/68
Music:
--Jimmy Durante (host) - "Did You Ever Have a Feeling?" "That's How Young I Feel" and "The Father of Girls"
--Jimmy Durante and Joey Heatherton - "I Came Here to Swim"
--Joey Heatherton - "Light My Fire" (with dancers)
--Don Ho - "Next Door to Paradise," "Nai Puni" and "One Paddle, Two Paddle"
--The Lennon Sisters - "I Don't Know Why" and "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams" ''
Also appearing:
--Lewis & Christy (comedy team) - do a sketch about driving non-stop across the US.
--Female Olympic gymnasts - 6 finalists in the US Olympic trials demonstrating their skills on the balance beam and uneven parallel bars.moreless - Ep 1Host: Bing Crosby / Bobby Goldsboro9/28/68
Music:
--Bing Crosby with chorus - "If You're Looking For A Man"
--Bobby Goldsboro - "Honey" (excerpt) and "The Straight Life"
--Jeannie C. Riley - "Harper Valley PTA"
--Bing with Jeannie C. Riley & Bobby Goldsboro - medley: "Nashville Cats," "Gentle On My Mind," "Little Green Apples" and "Hold Me Tight" (and a few lines from "By the Time I Get to Phoenix")''
--Abbey Lincoln (actress-singer) - "Africa"
--Leland Palmer, Danny Apolinar, John Kuhner and Anthony Travis perform a song from their off-Broadway musical "Your Own Thing." ''
Also appearing:
--Sid Caesar (as Professor Ludwig Know-It-All)
--Bob Gibson (of the St. Louis Cardinals)
--The Four Robertis (acrobats)
--The Iriston Horsemen (on tape) ''
Also, cameos by future Hollywood Palace hosts Milton Berle, Don Adams and Don Knotts.moreless
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- Ep 28Host: Bing Crosby / Every Mother's Son4/20/68
--Bing Crosby sings "Simon Says" and "Where the Rainbow Ends"
--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")
--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?")
--Restaurant sketch with Sid Caesar, Florence Henderson and Bing Crosby.
--Gene Baylos (comedian) - stand up routine with Bing Crosby
--The King Sisters sing "You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You" & "Valley of the Dolls"
--Bunraku (Japanese puppeteers) - play about a Japanese warlord, narrated by Bing ''
ABC repeated this show on August 31, 1968.moreless - Ep 27Host: Don Adams / Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood4/6/68
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.moreless - Ep 26Host: Jimmy Durante / Liza Minnelli3/30/68
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) - Ep 25Host: Phil Harris / The Hollies3/23/68
--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)moreless - Ep 24Host: Don Knotts / Merry Go Round3/16/68
--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.moreless - Ep 23Host: Sammy Davis Jr. / Peter Lawford / Diahann Carroll3/2/68
--Sammy Davis Jr. (host) - "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"moreless - Ep 22Host: Milton Berle / Louis Armstrong2/24/68
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"moreless - Ep 21Host: Jimmy Durante / The Temptations2/17/68
--The Temptations sing "The Best Things In Life Are Free" and "I Wish It Would Rain."
--Jimmy Durante (host, celebrating his 75th birthday) performs "The Parade" and "The Glory of Love."
--Jimmy Durante and Van Johnson - "I Taught Him Everything He Knows."
--Van Johnson dances to "Everybody Ought to Have a Maid" as part of a medley of songs about maids.
--Jimmy Dean sings "This Old House."
--Jimmy Durante, Van Johnson and Jimmy Dean - "Lulu's Back in Town."
--Vikki Carr sings "The Lesson," "Some of These Days" & "After You've Gone."
--Pat Henry (comedian).
--Mac Ronay (magician).
--Franklin D'Amore (strongman).
--The Bodyguards (strongmen).
moreless - Ep 20Host: Victor Borge / Steve Allen / Dino Desi & Billy2/10/68
Host: Victor Borge
--Victor Borge plays Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto #1.
--Dino, Desi & Billy - "My What A Shame"
--Jayne Meadows sings "Hello, Dolly!" in Chinese.
--The King Family (singers) - perform a 'States' medley (please see "Recap" for song titles)
--The Scots Guards (Bapipe, Drum and Dancer Corps.)
--The Gimma Brothers (tumblers)
--Comedy sketches:
--Steve Allen, in character as Senator Phillip Buster, answers questions from the studio audience (with help from Jayne Meadows).
--Victor Borge, Jayne Meadows and Steve Allen perform a Baroque version of "I Dig Rock 'n' Roll Music."moreless - Ep 19Host: Phil Silvers / James Brown Revue2/3/68
Host: Phil Silvers
--The James Brown Revue - medley: "I Can't Stand It," If I Ruled the World," "Cold Sweat," "Try Me," "I Feel Good" and "There Was a Time"
--Connie Stevens - "Wouldn't It Be Nice?"
--Polly Bergen - "A House Is Not a Home" & "Ain't Misbehavin'"
--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 jugglers)moreless - Ep 18Host: Jack Benny / Liza Minnelli / Sammy Davis Jr.1/20/68
--Jack Benny (host)
--Liza Minnelli
--Sammy Davis Jr. - dances to "You Got Trouble," a recording by Robert Preston
--Jack Benny and Sammy Davis Jr. - "Fascinating Rhythm," a musical duel with Benny's violin playing against Sammy's dancing and singing.
--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)moreless - Ep 17Host: Bing Crosby / Peggy Lee1/13/68
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)moreless - Ep 16Host: Phyllis Diller / Robert Vaughn / Johnnie Ray1/2/68
--Phyllis Diller (host) - "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.moreless - Ep 15Host: Jimmy Durante / Anissa Jones12/26/67
Hollywood 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)
--The Hanneford Family (bareback horse riders)
--Kay's Pets (performing dogs, monkeys & ponies)moreless - Ep 14Bing Crosby (1967 Christmas Show)12/19/67
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?"''
Also appearing:
--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 Chimpsmoreless - Ep 13Host: Herb Alpert / Liza Minnelli / Boyce & Hart12/12/67
Host: Herb Alpert
--Boyce & Hart - medley ("I Wanna Be Free" & "Last Train To Clarksville") and "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight"
--Liza Minnelli - "Happy Time" and "Mammy" ''
--Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - "With A Little Help from My Friends" (instrumental)
--Burt Bacharach sings "What the World Needs Now," "What's New, Pussycat?" and "Alfie"
--Sergio Mendez and Brasil '66 (with female singers) - "Going Out of My Head"
--Wes Montgomery
--Baja Marimba Band''
Please see "Recap" for additional song titles.moreless - Ep 12Host: Jimmy Durante / Ethel Merman / Grass Roots12/5/67
Host: Jimmy Durante
--The Grass Roots - "Let's Live For Today"
--Jimmy Durante - "Hellzapoppin'" & "Yesterday"
--Jimmy Durante and Ethel Merman - "Something Stupid"
--Larry Bishop and Rob Reiner (comedy team, sons of Joey Bishop and Carl Reiner)
--Ethel Merman - "Walking Happy"
--The Lennon Sisters - "This Is My Song" and "Up-Up and Away"
--Noel Harrison - "Suzanne"
--Jimmy Durante, Ethel Merman and Noel Harrison - "The Rain in Spain"
--Milt Kamen (comedian)
--The Berosinis (acrobats)moreless - Ep 11Host: Milton Berle / Nanette Fabray11/28/67
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 songsmoreless - Ep 10Co-hosts: Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme11/14/67
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.moreless - Ep 9Host: Sid Caesar / Marlo Thomas11/7/67
--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"moreless - Ep 8Host: Bing Crosby / Roger Miller10/31/67
--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"moreless - Ep 7Host: Petula Clark (All-British Show)10/17/67
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.moreless - Ep 6Host: Milton Berle (All-Comedy Show)10/10/67
All-Comedy Show
--Milton Berle (host)
--Kaye Ballard
--Joe Besser
--Irving Benson
--Prof. Irwin Corey
--The Bottoms Up (comedy troupe) - Ep 5Host: Victor Borge / Adam West10/3/67
Expo '67 Salute hosted by Victor Borge
--Adam West
--Don Ho
--Hendra & Ullett
--Mircille Mathieu - Ep 4Host: Sammy Davis Jr. / Diana Ross & Supremes9/26/67
--Sammy Davis Jr. (host) - "After Today," "Something in Your Smile," "Talk to the Animals," "That Old Black Magic" and "Mack the Knife"
--Diana Ross and the Supremes - "Reflections" and "The Lady Is A Tramp"
--Sammy Davis Jr. and the Supremes - sing a medley of songs about cities (Please see "Recap" for song titles)
--Raquel Welch sings "Bang Bang"
--Jack Burns & Avery Schreiber (comedy team) - parody confrontational TV talk shows.
--Baby Lawrence (jazz dancer) - appears with Sammy Davis Jr. in a tap-dancing "duel."
--Joey Bishop (comedian) - makes a cameo walk-onmoreless - Ep 3Host: Milton Berle / Lena Horne / Spanky & Our Gang9/19/67
Host: Milton Berle
--Spanky & Our Gang - "Making Every Minute Count"
--Lena Horne
--Neile Adams
--David Hedison - Ep 2Host: Phyllis Diller / Fifth Dimension9/12/67
--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 actmoreless - Ep 1Host: Bing Crosby / The Association9/5/67
--Bing Crosby (host) - "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"moreless
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Season 4
- Ep 31Host: Bing Crosby / Don Ameche & Frances Langford5/13/67
Guests:
--Bing Crosby (host) - "Cockeyed Optimist"
--Don Ameche
--Frances Langford - "Call Me"
--Louis Nye (comedian)
--Barbara McNair - "You're Gonna Hear From Me"
--Crosby, Langford and Ameche - "All Alone by the Telephone"
--The King Family - "Tradition"
--Bing Crosby and the King Family - "Bill Bailey"
--Yonely (comic pianist)
--Pollack Brothers' trained elephant act.''
Comedy sketches:
--Don Ameche and Frances Langford re-create their radio roles as "The Bickersons"
--Louis Nye and Bing Crosby - play a Hollywood hippie and a conservative bankermoreless - Ep 30Host: Gene Barry5/6/67
--Gene Barry (host) - sings "Charm, Style and "Sex" and "Sunrise, Sunset"
Gene Barry also does a dramatic reading about a father's farewell to his soldier son.
--Theodore Bikel (folk singer) - "Two Guitars" and "Kretchma"
--Burns and Schreiber (comedy team)
--Lana Cantrell (singer) - "Isn't It a Lovely Day?" & "And We Were Lovers"
--Mort Sahl (satirist)
--Jack E. Leonard (comedian)
--Damorra and her dovesmoreless - Ep 29Host: Joan Crawford / The Cyrkle4/22/67
--Joan Crawford (host) - performs a dramatic scene titled "The Dreamer" about an imaginative little girl.
--The Cyrkle - "Turn Down Day" (and possibly "Five-Foot-Two")
--Tim Conway (comedian) - appears in a sketch as a prison warden.
--Nancy Ames - "Yesterday" and "What the World Needs Now"
--Julius LaRosa sings "Hey, Look Me Over" and "As Time Goes By"
--Ralph Adams (illusionist)
--The Flying Cavarettas (teenage aerialists)
--The Halasis (acrobats)moreless - Ep 28Host: Milton Berle / Roy Rogers & Dale Evans4/15/67
Music:
--Milton Berle (host) - "That's Entertainment"
--Roy Rogers & Dale Evans - "What the World Needs Now," "Love Makes the World Go Round," "True Love" and "That's Amore"
--Marilyn King - "Sunny"
--Buddy Rich and his band - "Bugle Call Rag"
--The Dunhills (tap dancers) ''
Also, Milton Berle chats with Willie Mays (of the San Francisco Giants), Jim Piersall (of the California Angels) and Maury Wills (of the Pittsburgh Pirates).
Berle then joins the three baseball players for a rendition of "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend."
Also appearing:
--Prassano Rao (illusionist)moreless - Ep 27Hosts: Cyd Charisse & Tony Martin / Buffalo Springfield4/8/67
--Cyd Charisse & Tony Martin (co-hosts) - "Walking Happy" and "The Honeymoon Is Over"
--Cyd Charrise - production number in which Cyd plays an Asian woman in love with a soldier (music: "Mack the Knife")
--Tony Martin - "And We Were Lovers" & "Born Free"''
--Buffalo Springfield - "For What It's Worth" (30-second excerpt) & "Mr. Soul"
--Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner (comedians) - comedy monologue: Reporter (Reiner) interviews an advertising executive (Brooks).
--Danny Sailor (Canadian lumberjack - high-pole acrobat) - balances on top of 80 foot pole outside of theater
--The Kim Sisters (3 sisters from Korea) - the trio sings "Goin' Out of My Head" and "Caramba," then plays "La Bamba" and "The Peanut Vendor" on the xylophone.
--Jackie Clark (stand-up comedian) - tells jokes about his family, etc.
--Milo and Roger (comic magicians / illusionists) '' ''moreless - Ep 26Host: Bing Crosby / Louis Armstrong4/1/67
--Bing Crosby (host) - "This Is The Life."
--Bing Crosby with The Good Time Washboard Three - "Oh! By Jingo! Oh! By Gee!"
--Nanette Fabray - "I'm The First Girl In The Second Row."
--Red Buttons - "Sam, You Made The Pants Too Long"
--'Joe The Bartender' sketch with Bing, Red Buttons and Nanette Fabray.
--Louis Armstrong - "(My Girl Loves) Cheesecake."
--Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong - medley: "Let's Sing Like A Dixieland Band," "Muskrat Ramble" and "Let's Sing Like A Dixieland Band" (reprise).''
Also appearing:
--The Ghezzi Brothers (tumblers)
--Marvin Roy (magician)
--The Black Theatre of Prague (pantomime troupe)moreless - Ep 25Host: George Burns / The King Family3/18/67
Host: George Burns
--George Burns - "A Well-Known Fact"
--George Burns - sings "It Was a Very Good Year" while talking about his early vaudeville career.
--Lainie Kazan (singer) - "Goin' Out of My Head"
--George Burns, Lainie Kazan, and the King Family - "Some of These Days"
--The King Family - "You're Gonna Hear from Me," "We Taught Them Everything They Know," "Malaguena" & Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2.
--Enzo Stuarti (operatic tenor) - "Yesterday," "Catari," "The Shadow of Your Smile" & "Strangers in the Night"
--Desmond & Marks (English music-hall comics) - "Frivolous Feet"
--Baby Sabu (performing elephant)moreless - Ep 24Host: Kate Smith / New Vaudeville Band3/11/67
--Kate Smith (host) - "Somewhere My Love," "Deep Purple," "Don't Take Your Love From Me" & "Seems Like Old Times"
--New Vaudeville Band - "Peek-A-Boo" & "Winchester Cathedral"
--Ann Miller (singer-dancer) - "Trapped in the Web of Love"
--Jimmy Dean - "Sweet Misery"
--Jimmy Dean and Kate Smith - "When the Moon Comes over the Mountain"
--Tim Conway
--Donna Jean Young (comedian)
--The Hardly-Worthit Players (comedy troupe) - satirize Senator Robert Kennedy
--Ren and his singing puppets - "La Bamba"
--Huge Forgie and Shirley Marie - comedy team doing a badminton actmoreless - Ep 23Host: Steve Lawrence / Florence Henderson3/4/67
--Steve Lawrence (host) - "She Loves Me," "On a Clear Day" and "The Impossible Dream"
--Florence Henderson - "My Love"
--Steve Lawrence and Florence Henderson - "Wouldn't It Be Loverly?"
--Phyllis Diller and Steve Lawrence - "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face"
--The Fuller Brothers - "You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You" and "I'm in Love for the Very First Time"
--Bill Dana (comedian, in character as Jose Jimenez) - plays a sky-diving instructor.
--Russ Lewis (vetriloquist)
--The Rhodins (aerialists)
--Pat Anthony's wild-animal act.moreless - Ep 22Host: Van Johnson / Liza Minnelli / Mickey Rooney2/25/67
--Van Johnson (host) - "Wilkommen"
--Liza Minnelli - "Cabaret" & "I Will Wait for You"
--Liza Minnelli, Mickey Rooney and Van Johnson - "Let's Make A Movie" sketch
--Mickey Rooney - appears in a baseball sketch
--George Carlin (comedian)
--Chris Noel (actress) - talks about her recent visit to Vietnam.
--The Palace Duo (acrobats)
--Milo and Roger (comic illusionists)
--On film: The Beatles - "Penny Lane" & "Strawberry Fields Forever" promotional videosmoreless - Ep 21Host: Bing Crosby / Ella Fitzgerald2/18/67
--Bing Crosby (host) - "Good Old Days" (Roger Miller song)
--Ella Fitzgerald - "Jazz Samba" and "How Long Has This Been Going On?"
--Bing Crosby and Ella Fitzerald perform a medley of children's songs (please see "Recap" for songs)
--Alice Faye - "Mame"
--Phil Harris - "It Was a Very Good Year"
--Alice Faye and Phil Harris (husband and wife) join Bing for a medley of songs from Alice's film musicals.
--Dom DeLuise (comedian)
--Hendra & Ullett (British comedy team) - routine spoofing WWII movies with the British R.A.F. planning a mission over Germany.
--The Nitwits (British music-hall comedy troupe) perform "Dance Espanol" and "Lily of Laguna"
--The Medini Brothers (acrobats)moreless - Ep 20Host: Sammy Davis Jr.2/11/67
Host: Sammy Davis Jr.
--Sammy Davis Jr. - "Shake, Shake, Shake," "The Lady Is a Tramp," "What Kind of Fool am I?" and "The Birth of the Blues"
--Liberace - "Malaguena"
--Mickey Rooney
--Sammy Davis Jr. and Mickey Rooney - sing "Two of a Kind" and do impersonations of Clark Gable, James Cagney, Cary Grant and other screen stars.
--Kaye Stevens (singer) - "I Want to Be Happy"
--Lee Tully (comedian)
--The Mascots (acrobats)
--Mr. and Mrs. Bob Top (high-pole roller skaters from England)moreless - Ep 19Host: Jack Benny / Petula Clark / Johnny Mathis2/4/67
Host: Jack Benny
--Jack Benny appears with Gloria Chappell, his musical teacher, for a violin duet. ''
--Petula Clark - "Winchester Cathedral" & "This Is My Song"
--Johnny Mathis - medley from "Man of La Mancha"
--Ernie Terrell and the Heavyweights (heavyweight boxer Terrell with his brothers and sister) - "A Hammer and a Nail"
--The Nitwits (musical comedians) - "Cool, Cool Water"
--Brascia and Tybee (dancers) - "Mambo Flamenco"
--The Halasis (acrobats, teeterboard act from Hungary)moreless - Ep 18Host: Donald O'Connor / Sid Caesar / Don Ho1/21/67
Host: Donald O'Connor
--Donald O'Connor - "Walking Happy"
--Sid Caesar (comedian)
--Shari Lewis (singer-ventriloquist) and Lambchop - sings "Fred Astaire"
--Don Ho - Pearly Shells" & "Tiny Bubbles"
--Ted Lewis (singer) - "A Million Wonderful Songs"
--Donald O'Connor and Ted Lewis - "Me and My Shadow"
--Marilyn Maye (singer) - "Cabaret" & "You're Gonna Hear from Me"
--Bob Melvin (comedian)
--Rudy Cardenas (juggler)
Comedy sketch: On a muddy, rainy day, Sid Caesar finds himself inundated by a horde of visitors wanting to see his new white carpet.''
ABC repeated this show on June 1, 1968.moreless - Ep 17Host: Bing Crosby / Edie Adams1/14/67
Host: Bing Crosby
--Bing Crosby - "Put On a Happy Face" & "This Is a Great Country"
--Jimmy Durante - "Nobody Wants My Money" & "Eagle Rock"
--Tim Conway (comedian)
--Edie Adams - sings "Lady Godiva"
--Everett Dirksen (Senator Minority Leader, Republican from Illinois) - a dramatic reading of "The Gallant Men"
--Danny Sailor (high-pole climber and acrobat)
Also: bloopers from the past 2 seasons and a film of the Palace Anniversary parade in Hollywood.moreless - Ep 16Host: Ray Bolger / Paul Revere & the Raiders1/7/67
Host: Ray Bolger
--Paul Revere and the Raiders - "Great Airplane Strike of 1966"
--Ray Bolger - "There Are Smiles" & "The Old Soft Shoe"
--Ray Bolger & the King Family children - "If I Only Had a Brain" & "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" (Bolger is dressed as his Scarecrow character from the "Wizard of Oz.")
--Audrey Meadows & Ray Bolger - perform a "Honeymooners" sketch.
--Diahann Carroll - "What the World Needs Now" & "Here's That Rainy Day"
--The King Family - "I'm Old-Fashioned" & "The Men in My Little Girl's Life" (these songs might be performed by only the King Sisters)
--Adam Keefe (comic impressionist) - imitates Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and George Sanders
--The Morgan Ashton Family (acrobats)moreless - Ep 15Host: Bing Crosby / The Mills Brothers12/31/66
Host: Bing Crosby
--Bing Crosby - "Auld Lang Syne" & "Cabaret"
--Bing Crosby and the Mills Brothers - "Paper Doll"
--The Mills Brothers - "Don't Blame Me"
--Dorothy Collins (singer) - "Feelin' Good"
--Charles Aznavour - "Le Temps" & "Hier Encore"
--Skitch Henderson (pianist, formerly of "The Tonight Show") - "Lover"
--Burns & Schreiber (comedy team)
--Johnny Puleo and his Harmonica Gangmoreless - Ep 14Host: Bing Crosby & family (1966 Christmas Show)12/24/66
1966 Christmas Show hosted by Bing and Kathryn Crosby, with their children Harry, Mary Francis and Nathaniel. ''
--Bing Crosby - "Happy Holliday," "Christmas Waltz" and "White Christmas"
--Bing, Kathryn, Harry, Mary and Nathaniel Crosby - "Silver Bells," "Silent Night," "Do You Hear What I Hear?" "The Little Drummer Boy," "12 Days of Christmas" and "Never Never Land"
--Kate Smith - "Christmas Eve in My Home Town"
--Cyd Charrise and Roy Fitzell (dancers) - appear as marionettes Pierette and Pierot.
--Bob Newhart (comedian) - monolog about man trying to return a toupee that he got as a gift.
--Murillo (tight-rope walker)
--The Kuban Cossacks
--Excess Baggage (a trained dog act)moreless - Ep 13Host: Eddie Fisher / Agnes Moorehead12/17/66
--Eddie Fisher (host) - "Games that Lovers Play" and "Mame"
--Eddie Fisher and the Young Americans - "Hava Nagila"
--The Young Americans - "Climp Every Mountain" and "Gonna Build a Mountain"''
--Agnes Moorehead - does a dramatic reading from Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past"
--Joey Forman (comedian)
--The Kessler Twins (singers-dancers Alice and Ellen Kessler) - "A Man and a Woman" and a foreign language medley.
--The Canestrelli Family (trampoline act)
--The Swordsmen of the Lidomoreless - Ep 12Host: Jimmy Durante / The Turtles12/10/66
--Jimmy Durante (host) - "One of Those Songs" & "A One-Room Home"
--The Turtles - "Can I Get To Know You Better"
--George Carlin (comedian) - spoofs rock 'n' roll DJs
--Jimmy Durante and Peter Lawford - "Style"
--Peter Lawford - "Come Back to Me"
--Mrs. Miller sings "Every Little Movement (Has A Meaning All It's Own)"
--Jimmy Durante and Mrs. Miller - "Inka-Dinka-Doo"
--Elaine Dunn (singer-dancer) - "To Be in Love"
--George Carl (comedic dancer)
--The Polack Brothers' elephant actmoreless - Ep 11Host: Victor Borge / Petula Clark12/3/66
Host: Victor Borge
--Petula Clark - "Strangers In The Night" & "Without A Song"
--Allen & Rossi (comedy team) - routine about a Japanese baseball star
--Steve Rossi - "The Shadow of Your Smile"
--Jean Pierre Aumont & Marisa Pavan (husband & wife singing-dancing team) - "All I Need Now is the Girl" & "C'est Si Bon"
--Claire Sombert & Michel Bruel (French ballet dancers) with Victor Borge - "Claire de Lune"
--The Flying Cavarettas (teenage aerialists)
--Dennis Breilein (escape artist)
--Baby Sabu (performing elephant)moreless - Ep 10Host: Bing Crosby / Dorothy Lamour11/26/66
--Bing Crosby (host) - "Mame" & "Sunrise, Sunset"
--Vikki Carr - "Bye, Bye, Blackbird" & "Cuando Caliente El Sol"
--Bill Dana (comedian) - appears in a sketch with Bing. Dana portrays CIA agent Jose Jiminez.
--Dorothy Lamour (singer-actress) - "All Of You"
--Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour - Medley: "Road To Morocco" parody (Bing), "Moonlight Becomes You" (Bing), "You Don't Have To Know the Language" (Bing), "The Moon of Manakoora" (Lamour), "But Beautiful" (Bing), "Apalachicola FLA." (Bing), "Sunday, Monday or Always" (Bing) and "Road to Morocco"
--Sid Caesar appears in a sketch with Lamour.
--Liliane Montevecchi - "I Wanna Be Loved By You"
--The Gimma Brothers (comic acrobats / tumblers)
--Tagora (sword swallower / fire-eater)''
Thanks to Malcolm Macfarlane, editor of BING magazine, for providing the above information.moreless - Ep 9Host: Vince Edwards / Juliet Prowse / The Standells11/19/66
Host: Vince Edwards (actor, from "Ben Casey") - sings "Who Am I?" "A Day in the Life of a Fool" and "The Joker"
--The Standells - "Dirty Water" (1-minute excerpt) & "Why Pick On Me" (runs 2 min - 6 sec)
--Juliet Prowse and Vince Edwards - duo dances and sings "People" & 1 other song.
--Peter Nero (pianist) - "El Matador"
--Norm Crosby (stand-up comedian)
--Juliet Prowse (dancer) - dances to "Stop Stop Stop" (with other dancers).
--Rowan & Martin with Vince Edwards do 2 comedy routines (spies and political protocol)
--The Ghezzi Brothers (acrobats from France)
--Otto and Anna (acrobatic act) - man balances on blocksmoreless - Ep 8Host: Phil Harris / Abbe Lane11/12/66
Host: Phil Harris (singer)
--Abbe Lane (singer)
--George Jessel (comedian / actor)
--Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber (comedians)
--The Flying Artons with David Nelson (trapeze act)
--Szony and Claire (dance team)
--Elizabeth and Collins (knife throwing act)
--Jacques Ary (comic impressionist) - Ep 7Host: Dale Robertson / The Stoneman Family11/5/66
Host: Dale Robertson
--Dale Robertson (from the "Iron Horse" TV series) - "Gotta Travel On" & "I've Been Working on the Railroad"
--Barrie Chase (dancer-singer) - "Possibilities"
--Jack Carter (comedian)
--Morgana King (singer) - "I Love Paris" & "Meditation"
--The Stoneman Family (country musicians) - "Fire on the Mountain"
--The Geezinslaw Brothers (comedy bluegrass group) - "On the Street Where You Live"
--Don Sanders (comedian)
--The Hildalys (aerialists)
--Novelle's Poodles (trained animal act)moreless - Ep 6Host: Herb Alpert / The Supremes10/29/66
--Herb Alpert (host) and the Tijuana Brass - "Tijuana Taxi"
--Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - "Mame," medley of hits and "Zorba the Greek"
--The Supremes - "You Keep Me Hangin On", "Somewhere" & "What Now My Love"
--Gilbert Bcaud (French singer-songwriter) - "Sand and Sea" and "Mon Armour"
--Herb Alpert, Glbert Bcaud and The Supremes - "What Now My Love"
--Shelley Berman (comedian)
--Hendra & Ullett (British comedy team)
The Amazing Santos (low-wire ''walker)
The Sorlettis (spelling?) - musical clownsmoreless - Ep 5Host: Phillis Diller / Herman's Hermits10/22/66
--Phyllis Diller - "I Feel Pretty"
--Herman's Hermits - "Listen People" & "Dandy"
--Bob Newhart (comedian) - does a monologue about a policeman using psychology when talking to a man who's attempting suicide.
--Tony Martin - "I Could Write a Book," "Strangers in the Night" and "September Song"
--Lada Edmund Jr. (dancer, formerly of "Hullabaloo")
--Kirk Kirkham (magician)
--The Del Morals (balancing act)
--The Palace Duo (trapeze artists)moreless - Ep 4Host: Adam West / Ray Charles10/8/66
Host: Adam West
--Adam West (from "Batman") - sings "The Orange Colored Sky" & "The Summer Wind"
--Ray Charles with the Raelettes - "Crying Time," "Tell the World About You" & "Alexander's Ragtime Band."
--Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
--Joey Heatherton (singer-dancer) - "By Myself"
--George Carlin (comedian) - does a monologue about the American Indian
--Fred Roby (ventriloquist)
--Danny Sailor (high-pole performer)
--Landon's Midgets (slapstick comedians)moreless - Ep 3Host: Elizabeth Montgomery10/1/66
Host: Elizabeth Montgomery
--Elizabeth Montgomery - "Bewitched" theme.
--Elizabeth Montgomery and Vic Damone - "Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered" duet
--Vic Damone (singer) - "Falling in Love with Love" and "I Cried for You"
--Paul Lynde (comedian)
--Jackie Mason (comedian)
--Morgana King (singer)
--The Baja Marimba Band - "Portuguese Washerwoman" & "Acapulco 1922"
--Paul Anthony's tigers
--Sensational Parker (acrobatic act)
--The Three Robertes (acrobats)moreless - Ep 2Host: Phil Silvers / Lovin' Spoonful9/24/66
Host: Phil Silvers
--The Lovin' Spoonful - "Rain On The Roof" & "Summer In The City"
--Polly Bergen - sings "It's Today" & "If He Walked Into My Life"
--Phil Silvers & Polly Bergen - appear together in a comedy sketch about screen lovers (The woman is near sighted and the man hogs the camera). They sing "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life," "I Love You" & "They Say It's Wonderful"
--Mel Brooks & Carl Reiner - a visit with the 2000 Year Old Man
--Sergio Franchi - "Volare" & "The Impossible Dream"
--Phil Silvers tries to show Sergio Franchi how to sing like a pop singer. They sing "Happy Days Are Here Again."
--Mr. and Mrs. Bob Top (roller skating couple) - perform stunts atop a 60-foot-high platform outside the theater
--Tagora (sword swallower) - does various sword tricksmoreless - Ep 1Host: Bing Crosby / The Mamas & the Papas9/17/66
Host: Bing Crosby
--The Mamas & the Papas - "Dancing Bear" & "Dancing in the Street"
--Bing Crosby - "Strike Up the Band" (with dancers)
--George Burns - "Pack Up Your Sins and Go to the Devil"
--Bing Crosby and George Burns - "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You"
--Lola Falana (singer-dancer) - "Promise Her Anything"
--Jane Marsh (soprano) - "Mi chiamano Mimi" (aria from Puccini's "La Boheme")
--Mac Ronay (French comic magician)
--The Rhodins (aerialists) ''
Comedy sketch:
--Bing (as himself) visits a surburban couple (Sid Caesar and Joyce Jameson). Mickey Deems appears as a neighbor.moreless
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