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The Ed Sullivan Show Season 3 Episodes

52 Episodes 1949 - 1950

Episode 1

Louis Prima, Buddy Lester, Ruby Hill, Sonny Howard, Prince Mendez, Loretta & Klemis, The Wong Sisters

Sun, Sep 18, 194960 mins

Louis Prima - "I Don't Wanna Marry the Girl from Napoli" and "I'll be Seeing You" --Buddy Lester (comedian) --Ruby Hill - "One More for the Road" and "The One I Love Belongs to Someone Else" --Sonny Howard (vocal impressionist, sings "Sunny Side Of The Street" and does impressions of popular singers) --Prince Mendez - magician doing newspaper and card tricks, gets celebrities to assist him in charming a snake (Rocky Graziano, Charlie Fuseri, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Robert Stack) --Audience bows: Bobby Lane, Johnny Rausch, Gracie Barrie.

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Episode 2

Victor Borge, George Kirby, Billy Vine, Dickenson Eastham

Sun, Sep 25, 194960 mins

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Episode 3

Ethel Waters, Frank Parker, John Golden, The Blackburn Twins, Harold Lang, Paul Drake, Manuel & Marika Viera

Sun, Oct 2, 194960 mins

Ethel Waters - "Little Joe" (the piano player is jazz legend Fletcher Henderson - believed to be the only known footage of him). --Ethel Waters - "Stormy Weather" --John Golden (Tin Pan Alley song writer) - plays piano and sings "Goodbye Girls," "I'm Through," "Poor Butterfly" and "Venus" --The Blackburn Twins (tap dancing and singing twin brothers) - brothers perform mirror act (as if they are one person) --Frank Parker - "Nothing Like A Dame" (song from "South Pacific") and "Wait Till The Sun Shines Nellie" --Harold Lang - "The Trolley Song" --Paul Drake (stand-up comedian, tells jokes and sings "When I'm Calling You" as MacDonald and Eddy) --Manuel and Marika Viera (trained animal act) - Professor Tippy and Cobina dressed as baseball players; monkeys playing piano and guitar; monkey eats and plays organ. --Audience bows: Joe Page (N. Y. Yankee Relief Pitcher); Joey Adams (comedian); Peter Lawford (actor); William Wilder; Ben Alexander (NYC fireman, decorated 4 times).

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Episode 4

Episode #3.4

Sun, Oct 9, 194960 mins

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Episode 5

Mary McCarty, Jack E. Leonard, Eddie Arcaro

Sun, Oct 16, 194960 mins

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Episode 6

Episode #3.6

Sun, Oct 23, 194960 mins

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Episode 7

Episode #3.7

Sun, Oct 30, 194960 mins

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Episode 8

Episode #3.8

Sun, Nov 6, 194960 mins

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Episode 9

Episode #3.9

Sun, Nov 13, 194960 mins

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Episode 10

Episode #3.10

Sun, Nov 20, 194960 mins

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Episode 11

Episode #3.11

Sun, Nov 27, 194960 mins

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Episode 12

Episode #3.12

Sun, Dec 4, 194960 mins

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Episode 13

Episode #3.13

Sun, Dec 11, 194960 mins

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Episode 14

Episode #3.14

Sun, Dec 18, 194960 mins

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Episode 15

Episode #3.15

Sun, Dec 25, 194960 mins

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Episode 16

Charles Laughton, Joan Barton

Sun, Jan 1, 195060 mins

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Episode 17

Frankie Laine, Betty Kean, Jane Kean

Sun, Jan 8, 195060 mins

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Episode 18

Lillian Roth, Frankie Laine, Virginia Lee

Sun, Jan 15, 195060 mins

Frankie Laine sings "My Desire" and "Sunnyside of the Street". Dancer Anita Alvarez performs an impressionistic Latin dance. Lillian Roth sings a medley of tunes she helped popularize in her early career on stage, movies and radio. Two kickers from Ohio State University and California University, the two teams that had just clashed in The Rose Bowl, conduct an exhibition on place-kicking for Ed Sullivan.

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Episode 19

Joey Adams, Paul Draper, Les Compagnons de Chanson

Sun, Jan 22, 195060 mins

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Episode 20

Dinah Shore, Vic Damone, Alice Pearce, Joan Holloway

Sun, Jan 29, 195060 mins

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Episode 21

Teresa Brewer, Luise Rainer, Mickey Shaughnessy

Sun, Feb 5, 195060 mins

Johnny Heldy's trained pair of bears ride bicycles & roll barrels. Teresa Brewer makes her second appearance on the show. Ed introduces her as the girl who "made history" with her recent recording of "Old Man Mose", which she then sings. Then after another chat and hug from Ed she sings and dances to her new hit Music Music Music, with the June Taylor dancers and Ray Bloch on piano. Rosita Serrano sings. Walter B. Long tap-dances. Walter Nelson rides a tall unicycle.

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Episode 22

Vaughn Monroe, Ziggy Talent

Sun, Feb 12, 195060 mins

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Episode 23

Mel Torme, Ted Williams, Diana Wynyard

Sun, Feb 19, 195060 mins

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Episode 24

Dave Barry, Gordon Jenkins, Sunny Howard

Sun, Feb 26, 195060 mins

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Episode 25

Margaret O'Brien, Vic Damone, Monica Lewis, Trini Rayes

Sun, Mar 5, 195060 mins

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Episode 26

The Ink Spots, Jack E. Leonard, Don Cornell

Sun, Mar 12, 195060 mins

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Episode 27

Mimi Benzell, Frieda Wing, David Burns, Mickey Deems, Herkie Styles, The Dunhills

Sun, Mar 19, 195060 mins

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Episode 28

Sheila Bond, Eileen Barton

Sun, Mar 26, 195060 mins

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Episode 29

Rose Murphy, Georges Guetary

Sun, Apr 2, 195060 mins

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Episode 30

Guest Host: Milton Berle; guest stars: Ken Murray, Kathryn Lee, Robert Q. Lewis

Sun, Apr 9, 195060 mins

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Episode 31

Jan August, Connie Mack, Juanita Hall

Sun, Apr 16, 195060 mins

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Episode 32

The DeMarco Sisters, Willie Mosconi, Tony Lavelli

Sun, Apr 23, 195060 mins

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Episode 33

Kay Thompson, Connee Boswell, Bobby Winters

Sun, Apr 30, 195060 mins

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Episode 34

The Nat King Cole Trio, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Dorothy Jarnac

Sun, May 7, 195060 mins

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Episode 35

The Ames Brothers, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Jack Marshall, The Three Suns

Sun, May 14, 195060 mins

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Episode 36

Vic Damone, Katherine Dunham

Sun, May 21, 195060 mins

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Episode 37

Joey Bishop, Pat C. Flick

Sun, May 28, 195060 mins

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Episode 38

Patti Page, The Deep River Boys, The Three Suns

Sun, Jun 4, 195060 mins

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Episode 39

Mindy Carson, Dick Contino, Norman Evans, Pauline Betz, the De Mattiazzi's

Sun, Jun 11, 195060 mins

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Episode 40

Paul Winchell & Jerry Mahoney, Harold Lang, Ben Hogan

Sun, Jun 18, 195060 mins

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Episode 41

Mimi Benzell, Sonny Howard, The Rigoletto Brothers

Sun, Jun 25, 195060 mins

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Episode 42

Guest Host: Edward Arnold; Guest Stars: Joey Bishop, Mary Curtis, the Tu-Tones, the Fontaines, Sherier

Sun, Jul 2, 195060 mins

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Episode 43

guest host: Perry Como - guests: The Fontane Sisters, John Sebastian, Toni Harper, Chris Nelson, Dick Buckley

Sun, Jul 9, 195060 mins

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Episode 44

Guest Host: Jane Froman; guest stars: The Carroll Sisters, Danny Crystal

Sun, Jul 16, 195060 mins

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Episode 45

Guest Host: Ray Middleton; guest stars: Phil Foster, Kathryn Lee

Sun, Jul 23, 195060 mins

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Episode 46

Guest Host: Johnny Johnston; guest stars: Ade Duval, Gaudsmith Brothers

Sun, Jul 30, 195060 mins

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Episode 47

Kay Starr, Henny Youngman, The Szonys

Sun, Aug 6, 195060 mins

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Episode 48

Fran Warren, Alice Pearce, Nip Nelson, Sing Lee Sings

Sun, Aug 13, 195060 mins

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Episode 49

Eddie Bracken, Linda Lee Jones, Tommy Hanlon, Andy Williams Jr.

Sun, Aug 20, 195060 mins

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Episode 50

Jean Carroll, Eleanor Steber, Mel Allen

Sun, Aug 27, 195060 mins

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Episode 51

The Ink Spots, Sam Urzetta, Billy Vine, The Piero Brothers, The Gaudsmith Brothers, Winick & Mae

Sun, Sep 3, 195060 mins

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Episode 52

Frankie Laine, Patti Page, Victor Borge, Chester Gould, Smith & Dale

Sun, Sep 10, 195060 mins

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