The Jimmy Durante Show

Episode 1

Jose Iturbi and Amparo Iturbi

Sat, Oct 8, 1955 30 mins

Episode 2

Carmen Miranda

Sat, Oct 15, 1955 30 mins

Carmen Miranda comes to visit, and Jimmy puts her up in his apartment. Her musicians make so much commotion that Jimmy is in danger of being evicted by his landlord.

Episode 3

Marguerite Piazza

Sat, Oct 22, 1955 30 mins

This episode is set at the Winter Carnival in Lake Placid, New York.

Episode 4

Peter Lawford

Sat, Oct 29, 1955 30 mins

Episode 5

Jeannie Carson, Peter Lawford

Sat, Nov 12, 1955 30 mins

Episode 6

Celeste Holm

Sat, Nov 19, 1955 30 mins

Episode 7

Betty Hutton, Janet Blair

Sat, Dec 3, 1955 30 mins

Episode 8

Polly Bergen Frank Nelson

Sat, Dec 10, 1955 30 mins

Songs include "Please Don't Talk About Us When We're Gone", "Oh, Wht a Miserable Afternoon", "Poor Bud is Going", "In My Convertible Without a Top" and "Pennsylvania".

Episode 9

Vivian Blaine, Stubby Kaye

Sat, Dec 17, 1955 30 mins

This episode features songs from the hit Broadway musical "Guys and Dolls."

Episode 10

Jane Froman

Sat, Dec 31, 1955 30 mins

This episode celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Club Durant.

Episode 11

George Raft

Sat, Jan 7, 1956 30 mins

Episode 12

Tab Hunter, Jeannie Carson

Sat, Jan 14, 1956 30 mins

Episode 13

Liberace

Sat, Jan 28, 1956 30 mins

Episode 14

Milton Berle

Sat, Feb 4, 1956 30 mins

Episode 15

Robert Mitchum

Sat, Feb 11, 1956 30 mins

Episode 16

Esther Williams

Sat, Feb 25, 1956 30 mins

Episode 17

Charles Laughton

Sat, Mar 3, 1956 30 mins

Episode 18

Liberace, George Liberace

Sat, Mar 10, 1956 30 mins

Episode 19

Gordon MacRae, Janis Paige

Sat, Mar 24, 1956 30 mins

Episode 20

Charles Boyer

Sat, Mar 31, 1956 30 mins

Episode 21

Ernest Borgnine

Sat, Apr 7, 1956 30 mins

Episode 22

George Jessel, Patrice Munsel

Sat, Apr 21, 1956 30 mins

Episode 23

Johnny Ray, Liberace, Peter Lawford, George Raft

Sat, Apr 28, 1956 30 mins

This show originated from The Desert Inn in Las Vegas. Jimmy Durante, Johnny Ray, Liberace, Peter Lawford, George Raft perform song and dance numbers individually and all together. At the finale, Xavier Cugat comes out briefly with violin.

Episode 24

Peter Lawford, Anna Maria Alberghetti

Sat, May 5, 1956 30 mins

Episode 25

Connie Russell

Sat, May 19, 1956 30 mins

Episode 26

Marilyn Maxwell

Sat, May 26, 1956 30 mins

Episode 27

Lisa Kirk

Sat, Jun 2, 1956 30 mins

Episode 28

George Sanders

Sat, Jun 16, 1956 30 mins

Episode 29

Last show of series

Sat, Jun 23, 1956 30 mins