The Colgate Comedy Hour Season 2 Episodes

Episode 1

Host: Jackie Gleason; Guests: Johnny Johnston, Rose Marie, Esther Junger Dancers, Al Goodman and his Orchestra; cameo by Eddie Cantor

Sun, Sep 2, 1951

Episode 2

Host: Eddie Cantor; guest star: Cesar Romero

Sun, Sep 9, 1951

Episode 3

Guest Host: Spike Jones; Guests: Jan Peerce, Helen Grayco, The City Slickers

Sun, Sep 16, 1951

Helen Grayco (Mrs. Spike Jones) sings "Mad About the Boy" amid much zaniness, courtesy of Jones and the City Slickers.

Episode 4

Host: Ezio Pinza; Guests: Milton Berle, Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney, Martha Wright, Colette Marchand

Sun, Sep 23, 1951

Episode 5

Host: Eddie Cantor; Guests: Judy Kelly, Martin Freed & Ernie Stewart, Sid Fields, Jack Slattery, Al Goodman and his Orchestra; cameo by Ida Cantor

Sun, Sep 30, 1951

Episode 6

Host: Donald O'Connor; Guests: Ed Wynn, Arlene Dahl, Walter Catlett, Douglas Fowley, Mary Hatcher, The Ungar Twins, Sid Miller, Al Goodman & his Orchestra

Sun, Oct 7, 1951

Episode 7

Hosts: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello; Guests: Gale Storm, Phil Regan

Sun, Oct 14, 1951

Featured guests were singers Gale Storm and Phil Regan. The comedy story line had Lou planning to marry Gale.

Episode 8

Host: Jack Carson; Guests: Robert Alda, Betty Garrett, The Honey Brothers, Hal March, Jack Norton, Peter Leeds, Tommy Wells, Bud & C.C. Robbins, Dean Elliott & his Orchestra

Sun, Oct 21, 1951

Episode 9

Host: Eddie Cantor; Guests: Cesar Romero, Sheilah Graham, Verna Felton, The Caprino Sisters, Al Goodman & his Orchestra

Sun, Oct 28, 1951

Episode 10

Hosts: Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis; Guests: Dorothy Dandridge, Danny Arnold, Bob & Eddie Mayo, Donald MacBride, Marion Marshall, Jimmy Wallington, Dick Stabile & his Orchestra

Sun, Nov 4, 195150 mins

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.

Episode 11

Host: Donald O'Connor; Guests: Harpo Marx, Yvonne De Carlo, Roger Price, Sid Miller, Pat Patrick, Gale Robbins

Sun, Nov 11, 1951

Episode 12

Hosts: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello; Guests: George Raft, Louis Armstrong, Rosette Shaw, The Pied Pipers, Al Goodman & his Orchestra

Sun, Nov 18, 1951

Episode 13

Host: Eddie Cantor; Guests: Cesar Romero, Eddie Fisher, Harvest Moon Festival winner Betty Graham

Sun, Nov 25, 1951

Episode 14

host: Bob Hope; guest stars: Eddie Bracken, Marilyn Maxwell, Bob Crosby, Toni Arden, Georgie Price, Frank Faylen

Sun, Dec 2, 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."

Episode 15

Host: Eddie Cantor; Guests: The Nilsson Twins, Tom D'Andrea, Larry Blake

Sun, Dec 9, 1951

Episode 16

Host: Jack Paar; Guests: Alan Young, Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Trigger, The Whippoorwills, Carmen Miranda, The Three Stooges

Sun, Dec 16, 1951

Episode 17

Host: Eddie Cantor; Guests: Farley Granger, Bobby Breen, Sharon Baird, Stuffy Singer

Sun, Dec 23, 1951

Episode 18

Hosts: Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis; Guests: Eve Young, Ray Malone, Danny Arnold, Margaret Dumont, Mike Mazurki, Dick Stabile & his Orchestra

Sun, Dec 30, 1951

Episode 19

Host: Donald O'Connor; Guests: Harpo Marx, Gale Robbins, Pat Patrick, Sid Miller

Sun, Jan 6, 1952

Episode 20

Hosts: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello; Guests: Errol Flynn, Rhonda Fleming, Bruce Cabot, Sid Fields, Joe Kirk, The Pied Pipers, cameo appearance by George Raft

Sun, Jan 13, 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."

Episode 21

Host: Eddie Cantor; Guests: Adele Jergens, Robert Clary, Jimmy Dobson, Shirley Mitchell, Doris Singleton, Sharon Baird, Herman McCoy's UCLA Swing Choir featuring Edna Craft, Al Goodman & his Orchestra

Sun, Jan 20, 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."

Episode 22

Host: Danny Thomas; guests: Dorothy Lamour, Bunny Lewbel

Sun, Jan 27, 1952

Episode 23

Host: Donald O'Connor; Guest Stars: Corinne Calvet, Kay Starr, Ben Blue

Sun, Feb 3, 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".

Episode 24

Hosts: Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis; Guests: Ray Malone, Jill Jarmon, Danny Arnold, Sheldon Leonard, Mike Mazurki, Dick Stabile & his Orchestra; cameo by writer Norman Lear

Sun, Feb 10, 1952

Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis perform at the Mayhem Annual Awards Dinner. Jerry introduces Dean singing, "When You're Smiling." We see the personal lives of Jerry and Dean at home. Dean hires Jerry as a soda jerk.

Episode 25

Host: Eddie Cantor; Guests: The Will Mastin Trio starring Sammy Davis Jr., Reggie Rymal

Sun, Feb 17, 1952

Episode 26

Host: Danny Thomas; Guests: Carmen Miranda, Grace Hartman, The Beatrice Kraft Dancers, Bunny Lewbell

Sun, Feb 24, 1952

Episode 27

Host: Donald O'Connor; Guests: Broderick Crawford, Patricia Morison, Cecil Kellaway, Buster Keaton, Eddie Gribbon, Sid Miller

Sun, Mar 2, 1952

Episode 28

Host: Bob Hope; guest stars: Anna Maria Alberghetti, Georgie Tapps, Martha Stewart, Les Brown & his Band of Reknown

Sun, Mar 9, 1952

Host: Bob Hope; guest stars: Anna Maria Alberghetti, Georgie Tapps, Martha Stewart.

Episode 29

Host: Eddie Cantor; Guest: Dorothy Kirsten, The Will Mastin Trio starring Sammy Davis Jr., Sharon Baird, Mabel Butterworth, Harry Von Zell

Sun, Mar 16, 1952

Episode 30

Hosts: Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis; Guests: Danny Lewis (Jerry's father), Tommy Wonder, Margaret Banks, Danny Arnold, Dick Stabile & his Orchestra; cameo by writers Ed Simmons and Norman Lear

Sun, Mar 23, 1952

Episode 31

Host Tony Martin; guests Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kay Starr, The St. Paul Choir, Al Goodman & his Orchestra

Sun, Mar 30, 1952

Tony Martin sings "It's Great to Be Alive," "Begin the Beguine," and "Ave Maria". Kay Starr sings her hit "Wheel of Fortune." They duet on "I Cried for You." Harpo Marx plays his harp, and with brother Chico Marx, goof around on the piano.

Episode 32

Hosts: Abbott & Costello; Guests: Charles Laughton, Isabel Bigley, Johnny Conrad, Sid Fields, Joe Kirk, Milton Frome, Bobby Barber, Jill Kraft, Anita Anton, Alex Fossell, Helen Donaldson, Three Beaus

Sun, Apr 6, 195258 mins

Abbott and Costello do several of their old burlesque routines with regulars Joe Kirk, Sidney Fields, and Bobby Barber including their famous ice cream cart and handkerchief routines, joke with screen great Charles Laughton, who reads "The Gettysburg address," host two musical acts, and shamelessly plug their new theatrical feature, "Jack and the Beanstalk."

Episode 33

Host: Eddie Cantor; Guests: Joe E. Brown, Constance Moore, Dave Barry, Sharon Baird, Los Gatos Trio

Sun, Apr 13, 1952

Episode 34

Host: Donald O'Connor; Guests: Andy Devine, Mindy Carson, Ben Blue, Sid Miller

Sun, Apr 20, 1952

Episode 35

Hosts: Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis; Guests: Kitty Kallen, The Four Step Brothers, Danny Arnold

Sun, Apr 27, 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.

Episode 36

Hosts: Abbott & Costello; Guests: Vera Zorina, Tony Bavaar, The Ashtons, Monique Van Vooren, "Sport" Morgan, Sid Fields, Gemze de Lappe, Joe Kirk, Bobby Barber, Jean Cleveland, Charlie Bollinder, Thre

Sun, May 4, 1952

Episode 37

Host: Donald O'Connor; Guests: Hedy Lamarr, Tony Dexter, Martha Tilton, Sid Miller, Scatman Crothers, Tom D'Andrea, Hal March, Al Goodman & his Orchestra

Sun, May 11, 1952

Episode 38

Host: Eddie Cantor; Guests: Cesar Romero, The Szonys, Rusty Draper

Sun, May 18, 1952

Episode 39

Host: Ben Blue; Guests: Ann Sheridan, Peggy Lee, The Step Brothers, The Whipporwills, Al Goodman & his Orchestra

Sun, May 25, 1952

Episode 40

Host: Herb Shriner; Guests: Lily Pons, The Borrah Minevitch Harmonica Rascals with Johnny Puleo

Sun, Jun 1, 1952

Episode 41

Host: Eddie Cantor; Guests: Kay Starr, Pat O'Brien, Ida Cantor, Danny Thomas, Harry Von Zell, Tom D'Andrea, Hal March, Johnny Dugan, Sharon Baird, Harry Akst, Jimmy McHugh, Harry Ruby, Jay Livingston,

Sun, Jun 8, 1952

Episode 42

host: Bob Hope; guest stars: Paul Douglas, June Hutton, Randy Merriman & Bess Myerson

Sun, Jun 15, 1952