Caesar's Hour
A sketch-comedy television series, featuring Sid Caesar as the main star. It was based on Caesar's previous comedy shows, "Admiral Broadway Revue" and "Your Show of Shows", but often featured lengthier sketches than either of them. The series used most of the same cast and writers as the previous shows. The unavailable Imogene Coca (Caesar's long-time comedy partner) was replaced by Nanette Fabray. Several sketches were parodies of film genres, and others were satirical portrayals of the acting profession.
- 1954-1957
- 3 seasons
- NBC
- Comedy
A sketch-comedy television series, featuring Sid Caesar as the main star. It was based on Caesar's previous comedy shows, "Admiral Broadway Revue" and "Your Show of Shows", but often featured lengthier sketches than either of them. The series used most of the same cast and writers as the previous shows. The unavailable Imogene Coca (Caesar's long-time comedy partner) was replaced by Nanette Fabray. Several sketches were parodies of film genres, and others were satirical portrayals of the acting profession.
Season 3 Episode Guide
18 Episodes 1956 - 1957
Episode 1
Episode #3.1
Sat, Sep 15, 1956
Episode 2
Episode #3.2
Sat, Sep 22, 1956
Episode 4
Blast Video Theatre
Sat, Oct 6, 1956 54 mins
As we become emotionally disengaged from everyone and everything, we are all becoming desensitized to the plights of the world. Andrew Harvey, founder of the Sacred Activism movement, explains how you can reignite passion in an active way to create the world you dream of.
Episode 6
Tea and Samurai
Sat, Oct 20, 1956
Episode 8
Episode #3.8
Sat, Nov 3, 1956
Episode 9
Italian Movies in Carnivale
Sat, Nov 10, 1956
Episode 10
Take the 'A' Train
Sat, Nov 17, 1956
Episode 12
What's My Line?: Parody
Sat, Dec 1, 1956
Episode 13
Tower's Trot
Sat, Dec 8, 1956
Tony Towers is a dancer who gets a dancing partner and then invents "And Then You Do That Step" but becomes increasingly fat when on tour with her.
Episode 16
Episode #3.16
Sat, Dec 29, 1956
Episode 17
Omnibus & The Count of Monte Cristo parodies
Sat, Jan 5, 1957
In The commuters' sketch, Bob almost gets stuck paying a $60 dinner check; 'Ominous', a spoof of the TV show Omnibus, features Caesar as Professor Ludwig von Henpeck, marriage authority; the train sketch features Caesar as a businessman and Pat Carroll as an old lady; The count of Monte Cristo is an opera parody.
Episode 18
Episode #3.18
Sat, Jan 12, 1957
Episode 21
Parody of Somerset Maugham Theatre
Sat, Feb 2, 1957
Episode 25
Ingrid Bergman, Joan Crawford, Rock Hudson
Sat, Mar 2, 1957 60 mins
Episode 28
'The daddy'; 'Corporate secretary skit'; 'The brave and the bamboo'
Sat, Mar 23, 1957
The daddy is a monologue delivered by Caesar; in the corporate secretary sketch, Pat Carroll stars as a new, inexperienced secretary; The brave and the bamboo is a Japanese movie parody.
Episode 30
Tonight! America After Dark
Sat, Apr 6, 1957
The Commuters skit recalls when the three men opened a diner that failed, then a look at an "adult" western and later a parody of "Tonight-America after dark", what inadvertently shows people at their worst.
Episode 36
Break Your Brains skit
Sat, May 18, 1957
Skit: "Break Your Brains" with Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner, Janet Blair, Howard Morris, and Pat Carroll.
Episode 37
Person To Person: Parody
Sat, May 25, 1957