Cavalcade of Stars Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

Premiere with guest stars Peter Lorre, Joan Edwards

Sat, Jun 4, 1949

Jack Carter stars with guests singer Joan Edwards, actor Peter Lorre, bird whistlers The Arnauts, comedy team McCarthy and Farrell, and acrobats The Fontaines. Lorre does a recitation of "The Telltale Heart" and joins Carter in a mad scientist sketch. Edwards performs at the piano and teams with Carter for "You're Adorable."

Episode 2

Ella Logan, Maurice Rocco

Sat, Jun 11, 1949

Episode 3

Marilyn Maxwell

Sat, Jun 18, 1949

Episode 4

Mimi Benzell

Sat, Jun 25, 1949

Episode 5

Vivian Blaine, Mata & Hari

Sat, Jul 2, 1949

Episode 6

Kay Starr

Sat, Jul 9, 1949

Episode 7

Pearl Bailey

Sat, Jul 16, 1949

Episode 8

Kitty Kallen, The Four Step Brothers

Sat, Jul 23, 1949

Episode 9

Victor Borge, Thelma Carpenter

Sat, Jul 30, 1949

Episode 10

Henny Youngman, Ethel Smith

Sat, Aug 6, 1949

Episode 11

Janet Blair, Zero Mostel

Sat, Aug 13, 1949

Episode 12

Gladys Swarthout, the Dunhills, Mimi Benzell, Cabot & Dresden, Professor Irwin Corey

Sat, Aug 20, 1949

Episode 13

Vivian Blaine. Georgia Gibbs, Phil Foster, the Treniers

Sat, Aug 27, 1949

Episode 14

Luba Malina, Ray Malone

Sat, Sep 3, 1949

Episode 15

Paul Winchell, Donald Richards, Joan Edwards, the Clark Brothers

Sat, Sep 10, 1949

Episode 16

Hazel Scott, Jackie Miles

Sat, Sep 17, 1949

Episode 17

Connee Boswell, Carlos Ramirez

Sat, Sep 24, 1949

Episode 18

Kitty Carlisle, Tito Guizar, Jean Carroll

Sat, Oct 1, 1949

Episode 19

Cab Calloway, Marie McDonald, Gil Lamb

Sat, Oct 8, 1949

Episode 20

Carol Bruce, Josh White, Alice Pearce

Sat, Oct 15, 1949

Episode 21

Bert Lahr, Mata & Hari, the DeCastro Sisters

Sat, Oct 22, 1949

Episode 22

Vivian Blaine, Zero Mostel

Sat, Oct 29, 1949

Episode 23

Gali-Gali Luxor, Milt Douglas, Willie Shore

Sat, Nov 5, 1949

Episode 24

Kitty Kallen, Bert Wheeler, Donald Richards, Rudy Cardenas

Sat, Nov 12, 1949

Episode 25

Jackie Coogan, Hal LeRoy, Lina Romay

Sat, Nov 19, 1949

Episode 26

Pinky Lee, Ilona Massey

Sat, Nov 26, 1949

Episode 27

Vera Vague, Joan Merrill

Sat, Dec 3, 1949

Episode 28

Smith & Dale, the DeMarco Sisters

Sat, Dec 10, 1949

Smith and Dale perform their famous "Dr. Kronkheit" skit.

Episode 29

Monica Lewis, Jack Durant

Sat, Dec 17, 1949

Episode 30

Paul Winchell & Jerry Mahoney, Hazel Scott

Sat, Dec 24, 1949

Episode 31

Jean Carroll

Sat, Dec 31, 1949

Episode 32

Chico Marx

Sat, Jan 7, 1950

Episode 33

Frances Langford, The Four Step Brothers

Sat, Jan 14, 1950

Episode 34

Mindy Carson, Leo DeLyon

Sat, Jan 21, 1950

Episode 35

Robert Merrill, The Mello-Larks

Sat, Jan 28, 1950

Episode 36

Andy Russell, Della Russell, Patricia Bowman, Stan Freeman

Sat, Feb 4, 1950

Episode 37

Jane Pickens, Buck & Bubbles

Sat, Feb 11, 1950

Episode 38

Guest Host: Bert Wheeler; Guest Star: Johnny Coy

Sat, Feb 18, 1950

Episode 39

Guest Host: Jackie Miles; Guest Star: Betty Bruce

Sat, Feb 25, 1950

Episode 40

Jerry Lester debut as host; guest stars: Janis Paige, Dorothy Jarnac, Baccaloni

Sat, Mar 4, 1950

Episode 41

Connie Haines, Maurice Rocco

Sat, Mar 11, 1950

Episode 42

Janet Blair

Sat, Mar 18, 1950

Episode 43

Chester Morris, Kyle MacDonnell, Dizzy Gillespie

Sat, Mar 25, 1950

Episode 44

John Loder, Gertrude Niesen, Bert Gordon

Sat, Apr 1, 1950

Episode 45

Kyle MacDonnell, Bert Wheeler, Jerry Wayne

Sat, Apr 8, 1950

Episode 46

J. Carrol Naish, Kyle MacDonnell, Louis Nye, Carl Reiner

Sat, Apr 15, 1950

Episode 47

Jackie Robinson, Kyle MacDonnell, Johnny Johnston, Gali-Gali

Sat, Apr 22, 1950

Lester as a clown called Arthur Clodfrey (takeoff on Arthur Godfrey), magician Galli-Galli make baby chicks appear under cups, MacDonnell sings "The Boy Next Door", and Jackie Robinson appears in a sketch visiting a kid in a wheelchair.

Episode 48

Sam Levenson, Kyle MacDonnell

Sat, Apr 29, 1950

Episode 49

Smith & Dale, the Four Step Brothers, Mimi Benzell, Leonard Sues

Sat, May 6, 1950

Episode 50

Jack Pearl & Cliff Hall, Joan Edwards, Elsa & Waldo

Sat, May 13, 1950

Jerry Lester's guests include comics Jack Pearl and Cliff Hall, comedy dancers Elsa and Waldo, singer Joan Edwards, the Kurt Jons Dancers, with Dick Bernie and Herbie Faye. Edwards does voice impressions of several singers including Lena Horne, and a comedy number on how TV has ruined her love life. Jons' company performs an East India dance. Pearl, with usual straight-man Hall, plus Bernie and Faye, does a comedy bit based on the shell game.

Episode 51

Jackie Robinson, Mindy Carson

Sat, May 20, 1950

In one sketch, Jackie Robinson and his son visit Lester and his son. Clips from the new film "The Jackie Robinson Story" are shown.

Episode 52

Keye Luke, Ray Malone, Susan Miller, Carl Ravazza

Sat, May 27, 1950

Episode 53

John Garfield, Kim Stanley, Paul Winchell & Jerry Mahoney

Sat, Jun 3, 1950

Jerry Lester hosts the series' first anniversary. Guests include ventriloquist Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney, Jane Pickens and the Escourtiers, rumba dancers Horatio and Lana, and actors Kim Stanley and John Garfield. Winchell tries to get Mahoney to go to sleep; when he does, the dummy dreams about the two trading places. Pickens and her six Escourtiers' songs include "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and "St. Louis Blues." Lester is a greedy contestant on the radio quiz show "Take It or Lump It." Garfield and Stanley perform a dramatic scene from Clifford Odets' "Golden Boy". Lester also juggles.

Episode 54

Kitty Kallen, Larry Storch

Sat, Jun 10, 1950

Episode 55

Vivian Blaine, Carlos Ramirez, Jackie Miles

Sat, Jun 17, 1950

Episode 56

Anna Maria Alberghetti, Wally Brown, Beatrice Kay, Leonard Sues

Sat, Jun 24, 1950

Episode 57

Georgia Gibbs

Sat, Jul 1, 1950

Episode 58

Jackie Gleason debut as host; guest stars: Rose Marie, the DeCastro Sisters

Sat, Jul 8, 1950

Jackie Gleason debuts as host with Rose Marie, comic Hank Ladd, acrobat Ladd Lyon, singing DeCastro Sisters, and dancer Evelyn Farney. Gleason duets with Rose and in a sketch at a hat check counter. DeCastros sing a Latin-American number.

Episode 59

Gloria DeHaven, Eddie Fisher

Sat, Jul 15, 1950

Episode 60

Ella Fitzgerald, Kate Murtagh, Mary Raye & Naldi

Sat, Jul 22, 1950

Episode 61

The Modernaires, Evelyn Farney

Sat, Jul 29, 1950

Episode 62

Bert Wheeler, Dorothy Clare, Billy Daniels

Sat, Aug 5, 1950

Episode 63

Andy and Della Russell, Clarence Stroud

Sat, Aug 12, 1950

Episode 64

Victor Borge, Frances Langford

Sat, Aug 19, 1950

Episode 65

Richard Tucker

Sat, Aug 26, 1950

Episode 66

Smith & Dale, Gracie Barrie & the Beachcombers

Sat, Sep 2, 1950