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51 Episodes 1953 - 1954
Episode 1
Sun, Sep 13, 195360 mins
Episode 2
Sun, Sep 20, 195360 mins
Gene Autry appears on stage on horseback with his famous horse, Champion, and sings a Mexican song. Gene Autry, along with the entire audience, sing "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer". At a campfire setting Gene sings "Your Cheatin' Heart". On horseback, Gene sings "I'm Back in the Saddle Again". Dolores Gray sings "I've Got the World on a String". Anna Russell performs a comedy skit as a hostess at a Ladies Club Meeting and a comedic piano player. John Raitt and Dolores Gray sing a duet in a carnival backdrop "It's a Lovely Day" and "Till the Clouds Roll By". John Raitt sings "You'll Never Walk Alone".
Episode 3
Sun, Sep 27, 195360 mins
Episode 4
Sun, Oct 4, 195360 mins
Episode 5
Sun, Oct 11, 195360 mins
Episode 6
Sun, Oct 18, 195360 mins
Episode 7
Sun, Oct 25, 195360 mins
Episode 8
Sun, Nov 1, 195360 mins
Episode 9
Sun, Nov 8, 195360 mins
Episode 10
Sun, Nov 15, 195360 mins
Episode 11
Sun, Nov 22, 195360 mins
Episode 12
Sun, Nov 29, 195360 mins
Episode 13
Sun, Dec 6, 195360 mins
Ed Sullivan presents Charles Boyer in "Don Juan in Hell"; Sam Levenson, Julius La Rosa, Roberta Peters, the Jack Cole dancers from "Kismet", and members of the Princeton Triangle Club.
Episode 14
Sun, Dec 13, 195360 mins
Episode 15
Sun, Dec 20, 195360 mins
Episode 16
Sun, Dec 27, 195360 mins
Episode 17
Sun, Jan 3, 195460 mins
Episode 18
Sun, Jan 10, 195460 mins
Episode 19
Sun, Jan 17, 195460 mins
Episode 20
Sun, Jan 24, 195460 mins
Episode 21
Sun, Jan 31, 195460 mins
Episode 22
Sun, Feb 7, 195460 mins
Episode 23
Sun, Feb 14, 195460 mins
For MGM's 30th Anniversary, Ed Sullivan broadcasts from Television City in Hollywood featuring some of MGM's biggest stars. The program includes clips of their most popular films, as well as recreated scenes and songs from their films.

Episode 24
Sun, Feb 21, 195460 mins
Episode 25
Sun, Feb 28, 195460 mins
Episode 26
Sun, Mar 7, 195460 mins
Episode 27
Sun, Mar 14, 195460 mins
Episode 28
Sun, Mar 21, 195460 mins
Episode 29
Sun, Apr 4, 195460 mins
"Toast of the Town" celebrates its fifth year with its current sponsor. Host Ed Sullivan welcomes celebrities who made their first TV appearance on the program. The guest list features "Red Hot Mama" Sophie Tucker in a pickup from Miami; golfer Ben Hogan in a pickup from Atlanta; opera star Roberta Peters and the "Three Musketeers" of the Metropolitan Opera-Cesare Siepi, Cesare Valletta and Fernando Corena; song stylist Eartha Kitt; comedian Billy De Wolfe; and songstress Teresa Brewer. Noted opera soprano of former times, Mary Garden, makes her first TV appearance on this show tonight. Comedienne Hermione Gingold joins Mr. DeWolfe in the "Train Scene" from "Almanac."
Episode 30
Sun, Apr 11, 195460 mins
Tonight: boxers Rocky Marciano and Ezzard Charles' record-breaking Navy fliers; singers Leonard Warren and Patti Bross; 1st Piano Quartet; the dancing Szonys; juggler Patricia D'Or; clips from 'Vera Cruz' with Burt Lancaster, Gary Cooper.
Episode 31
Sun, Apr 18, 195460 mins
Ed Sullivan presents the sixth annual Easter Sunday appearance of the Notre Dame Glee Club; clown Joe Jackson, Jr.; and the Marcus Chimpanzees. Eddie Albert will narrate an adaptation of One God, a book for children about the religious faiths practiced in the U.S.
Episode 32
Sun, Apr 25, 195460 mins
Episode 33
Sun, May 2, 195460 mins
Episode 34
Sun, May 9, 195460 mins
Episode 35
Sun, May 16, 195460 mins
Episode 36
Sun, May 23, 195460 mins
Episode 37
Sun, May 30, 195460 mins
Episode 38
Sun, Jun 6, 195460 mins
Finals of the world-wide Army talent contest consisting of 24 G.I. soldiers introduced individually by Ed Sullivan.
Episode 39
Sun, Jun 13, 195460 mins
Singers John Raitt and Janice Paige in a scene from the Broadway musical "The Pajama Game".
Episode 40
Sun, Jun 20, 195460 mins
Episode 41
Sun, Jun 27, 195460 mins
On film appearance by Genevieve de Galard-Terraube (nurse of Dien Bien Phu); on-stage singer Patachou and comedian Richard Hearne; live performances in New York City by comedians Bert Lahr and Pat Henning, and dancing group the Szonys.
Episode 42
Sun, Jul 4, 195460 mins
Episode 43
Sun, Jul 11, 195460 mins
Episode 44
Sun, Jul 18, 195460 mins
Broadcast live from the Westchester Country Club in New York State,
Episode 45
Sun, Jul 25, 195460 mins
Episode 46
Sun, Aug 1, 195460 mins
Episode 47
Sun, Aug 8, 195460 mins
Episode 48
Sun, Aug 15, 195460 mins
Episode 49
Sun, Aug 22, 195460 mins
Episode 50
Sun, Aug 29, 195460 mins
Episode 51
Sun, Sep 5, 195460 mins