All Star Revue Season 2 Episodes

Episode 1

Host: Ezio Pinza; Guests: Jane Froman, Herb Shriner, Valerie Bettis, Ben Blue, Jack Carson, Jimmy Durante, Olsen and Johnson, Ed Wynn, Allen Roth & his Orchestra

Sat, Sep 8, 1951

Episode 2

Hosts: Olsen and Johnson; Guests: Tessie O'Shea, Marty May, J. C. Olsen, June Johnson, The Dunhills, John Melina, Milton DeLugg & his Orchestra

Sat, Sep 15, 1951

Episode 3

Host: Ed Wynn; Guests: Joan Blondell, Anne Jeffreys, Valerie Bettis, Tippy & Cobina, The Bruce Brothers, Merle Kendrick & his Orchestra

Sat, Sep 22, 1951

Episode 4

Host: Jack Carson Guests: Lola Albright, The Honey Brothers, Betty and Jane Kean, Marion Colby, Jack Norton, Jerry Bergen, Tommy Wells, The Esther Junger Dancers, Dean Elliott and his Orchestra

Sat, Sep 29, 1951

Episode 5

Host: Jimmy Durante Guests: Helen Traubel, Bob Crozier, Phil Leeds, Eddie Jackson, Jack Roth, Jules Buffano, Roy Bargy and his Orchestra

Sat, Oct 6, 1951

Jimmy Durante and Helen Traubel perform "Our Voices Were Meant for Each Other," "Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet," and "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee." In the Club Durant sequence, Jimmy and Eddie Jackson do "She's Nobody's Sweetheart Now."

Episode 6

Host: Danny Thomas; guests: Milton Berle, Kay Starr, Bunny Lewbel, Barry Gray

Sat, Oct 13, 1951

Episode 7

Host: Martha Raye; Guests: Ezio Pinza, Chandra Kaly & his Dancers, Maria Neglia, Allen Roth & his Orchestra

Sat, Oct 20, 1951

Episode 8

Host: Victor Borge Guests: Lauritz Melchior, Vera Zorina, June Hutton, Phil Leeds

Sat, Oct 27, 1951

Victor Borge spoofs both Ed Sullivan ("Ed Silverman") and European TV shows. Lauritz Melchior sings "The Prize Song" ("Morgenlich leuchtend") from Wagner's "Die Meistersinger".

Episode 9

Host: Jimmy Durante; Guests: Margaret Truman, Al Norman, Eddie Jackson, Jack Roth, Jules Buffano

Sat, Nov 3, 1951

Episode 10

Hosts: Ed Wynn Guests: Dorothy Lamour, Buster Keaton, The Nicholas Brothers, The De Mattiazzis, Lou Bring & his Orchestra, Bob Hope

Sat, Nov 10, 1951

Episode 11

Host: Danny Thomas; Guests: Kay Starr, Bunny Lewbel, Buddy Ebsen, Pat Patrick

Sat, Nov 17, 1951

Episode 12

Host: Jack Carson Guests: Lola Albright, Ricardo Cortez, James Dunn, The Honey Brothers, Jack Norton

Sat, Nov 24, 1951

The theme of the show is a jewelry store heist, with the characters moving through a series of locations chasing after the thief.

Episode 13

Host: Jimmy Durante Guests: Ethel Barrymore, Eddie Jackson, Jules Buffano, Jack Roth, Frank Nelson, Candy Candido, Glen Turnbull, Tony Hughes, John Topa, Roy Bargy and his Orchestra

Sat, Dec 1, 1951

Ethel Barrymore plays the piano while Jimmy Durante sang 'There's a Place in the Theatre for You,'

Episode 14

Host: Ed Wynn; Guests: Danny Thomas, Billie Burke, Lew Parker, Virginia Grey, The Modernaires, The Marimba Merrymakers, The George Prentice Marionettes

Sat, Dec 8, 1951

Actress Billie Burke plays a shopper in a department store during the Christmas rush. Danny Thomas performs a dialect bit with a telephone. Lew Parker and Virginia Grey do a sketch in character as 'The Bickersons', popular on radio and TV.

Episode 15

Host: Olsen and Johnson Guest: Helen Donaldson, Tessie O'Shea, June Johnson, J.C. Olsen, Marty May, The Keynotes

Sat, Dec 15, 1951

Episode 16

Host: Danny Thomas Guests: Kay Starr, Bunny Lewbel, Ed Wynn, Walter Slezak

Sat, Dec 22, 1951

Episode 17

Host: Jimmy Durante Guests: Helen Traubel, Jack Roth, Jules Buffano

Sat, Dec 29, 1951

Episode 18

Host: Martha Raye Guests: Robert Cummings, Nathaniel Frye

Sat, Jan 5, 1952

In a dream sequence, Martha Raye imagines that she's Cinderella to Bob Cummings' Prince.

Episode 19

Host: Spike Jones Guests: Billy Eckstine, Hugh Herbert, The Mellomen

Sat, Jan 12, 195260 mins

Episode 20

Host: Jack Carson Guests: Patti Page, Irene Ryan, Hal March

Sat, Jan 19, 1952

Episode 21

Host: Jimmy Durante Guests: Mickey Rooney, Candy Candido, Eddie Jackson, Jack Roth, Jules Buffano; cameo by Bob Hope

Sat, Jan 26, 1952

Episode 22

Hosts: Olsen and Johnson Guests: Rosalie Allen; cameo by Milton Berle

Sat, Feb 2, 1952

Olsen and Johnson terrorize a saloon in a travesty of Westerns. Their acting school production of Shakespeare turns into an extended commercial for Snow Crop orange juice. Young Chet Allen sings "You'll Never Walk Alone." Sight gags rule in their classical play "Marie Antoinette" featuring a cameo by Berle. At O & J's dance, a man from the audience is crowned the party queen.

Episode 23

Host: Danny Thomas Guests: William Bendix, Fran Warren, Jean Holloway

Sat, Feb 9, 1952

Episode 24

Host: Jack Carson Guests: Ann Sothern, Lola Albright, The Honey Brothers, Jack Norton

Sat, Feb 16, 1952

Episode 25

Host: Jimmy Durante Guests: Gloria Swanson, Dr. Samuel Hoffman, Candy Candido, Eddie Jackson, Jack Roth, Jules Buffano

Sat, Feb 23, 1952

Gloria Swanson provides commentary on her silent movies and does a comedic love scene with Jimmy Durante.

Episode 26

Hosts: Olsen and Johnson Guests: Marty May, June Johnson, J. C. Olsen, Billy Kay, The Ben Yost Trio

Sat, Mar 1, 1952

Guests with Olsen and Johnson include regulars J. C. Olsen, Marty May, June Johnson, plus the Ben Yost Trio and dance team Patrice Helene and Jan Howard. The jokes and non sequiturs fly when O & J rent a fleabag room and when they play Martin and Kane, private detectives. Chic is mistaken for a ritzy customer when he wanders into a fashion designers salon to use the phone. In the Party in the Round segment, child dancer Errol Smith performs and a serviceman from the audience plays along in a silly quiz.

Episode 27

Host: Ed Wynn; Guests: Jimmy Durante, Edward Arnold, The Dassies, The Boliano Ivanko Group, Jimmy Dobson, Tim Graham, Jeanne Mayberry, John Holland, Helyn Eby-Rock, Lou Bring & his Orchestra, Candy Ca

Sat, Mar 8, 1952

Jimmy Durante sings his own songs "The Durante Flip" and "One in a Million." Edward Arnold presents Ed' Wynn's grandsons Ned and Tracy with a plaque for Ed from Actors Equity commemorating the comedian's 50 years in show business. As Ed retires to his bed, Jimmy and the cast surprise him with a 50th anniversary cake.

Episode 28

Host: Danny Thomas Guests: Jack Haley, Betty Garrett, Bunny Lewbel

Sat, Mar 15, 1952

Episode 29

Host: Jimmy Durante Guest: Margaret Truman, Eddie Jackson, Jack Roth, Jules Buffano

Sat, Mar 22, 1952

Margaret Truman, the daughter of President Harry Truman, returns, following a successful previous appearance with Jimmy Durante. In a quiz show spoof (with Jimmy as the quizmaster), a blindfolded Margaret is instructed to add some marks to a blackboard. When the blindfold is removed, it's revealed that the blackboard spells out "I Like Ike." "I'll never be able to go home now," Margaret ad libs. In another bit, Margaret takes part in a "Truman, Jackson and Durante" act.

Episode 30

Host: Martha Raye; Guests: Sarah Churchill, Los Gatos

Sat, Mar 29, 1952

Episode 31

Host: Ed Wynn; Guests: Dinah Shore; The Mandarins; Bud & Cece Robinson, Anthony, Allyn & Hodges, Veola Vonn, Bob Hopkins, Tim Graham, Lou Bring & his Orchestra, Pat O'Brien

Sat, Apr 5, 1952

Ed introduces Dinah through the screen of a gigantic television, and the recreate her video debut on Ed's 1949-50 series singing "Tea For Two" while riding the wacky piano bicycle. Pat O'Brien gives Ed an award from the Lamb's club for fifty years in show business. There's a skit about a bric-a-brac throwing French actress that calms down only when Ed and Teddy Snowcrop ply her with orange juice and frozen food, and another where Ed's making a 1920's movie starring Dinah.

Episode 32

Host: Danny Thomas Guests: James and Pamela Mason, Betty Garrett, Bunny Lewbel, Benny Baker

Sat, Apr 12, 1952

A sketch about married couples, featuring the Masons as one couple and Danny Thomas and Betty Garrett as the other.

Episode 33

Putting on the Ritz

Episode 34

Host: Bob Hope Guests: Fred MacMurray, The Bell Sisters, Gale Robbins, Alfred Apaka, Les Brown and his Band of Reknown

Sat, Apr 26, 1952

In a live show from San Francisco's Presido, Hope and McMurray play waterfront fishermen, two shop owners in Chinatown, and prisoners breaking out of Alcatraz. The Bell Sisters perform "Wheel of Fortune" and a comedy number, "June Night", with Bob. Rich prospector Hope drops by a Barbary Coast bar where everyone wants his gold. Bob and Fred do "Small Fry." Alpaka sings "Beyond the Reef."

Episode 35

Host: Ed Wynn Guests: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Ben Wrigley, The Duncan Sisters, The Whippoorwills, Lou Bring and his Orchestra

Sat, May 3, 1952

Reprising a "silent movie" sketch she performed previously on Ed Wynn's CBS show, Lucile Ball plays a Mata Hari-type spy trying to use her feminine wiles to wring a state secret from Ed. The Duncan Sisters sing "Side By Side," "Double Dee Do," and "Smiles." The Whippoorwills do "Ballin' the Jack."

Episode 36

Host: Danny Thomas Guests: June Havoc, Eleanor Powell, Bunny Lewbel, Dave Barry, Bob Hopkins, Paul Dubov, Jimmy Ames, Phil Arnold, Ben Yost Colleens; cameo by Eddie Cantor

Sat, May 10, 1952

Danny plays a frustrated husband whose movie-crazed wife imagines everyone she sees is a star. Eleanor Powell performs two dance production numbers. June Havoc portrays self-absorbed vaudeville diva Cushions La Fay. A production number with the cast looks at the then-crazy idea of a woman president.

Episode 37

Hosts: The Ritz Brothers Guests: Evelyn Knight, Jack Webb

Sat, May 17, 1952

The Ritz Brothers perform a song and dance dressed as Revolutionary War soldiers, and another impersonating French vocalists. In an extended Snow Crop commercial, the boys are runners at a track meet. Evelyn Knight sings "Just One of Those Things" and "Dark Eyes." Jack Webb narrates a "Dragnet" take-off as the brothers investigate a murder. The three play Gypsy fortune tellers.

Episode 38

Host: Martha Raye Guest: Arthur Treacher

Sat, May 24, 1952

Martha Raye inherits a fortune - along with a butler in the person of Arthur Treacher.

Episode 39

Host: Spike Jones Guests: Liberace, George Liberace, Helen Grayco, Jim Backus

Sat, May 31, 1952

The City Slickers perform "Chloe," "Holiday for Strings," "All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth," and "Poet and Peasant Overture." Helen Grayco sings "Kiss of Fire," and Liberace performs "Ritual Fire Dance" and "September Song.

Episode 40

Host: Danny Thomas Guests: Betty Garrett, Jim Backus, Bunny Lewbel

Sat, Jun 7, 1952

Episode 41

Hosts: Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney Guests: Hedy Lamarr, Hot Lips Page, The DeMarco Sisters

Sat, Jun 14, 1952

Dummy Jerry Mahoney dances and plays drums with Hot Lips Page.

Episode 42

Host: Ed Wynn; guest stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Rudy Vallee, Ed Gardner, Frankie Laine, Ben Blue, Phil Foster

Sat, Jun 21, 1952