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The Milton Berle Show Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
39 Episodes 1949 - 1950
Episode 1
Duke Ellington, June Havoc, Phil Silvers, Buffalo Bob Smith & Howdy Doody, Bob Keeshan, Bert Gordon
Tue, Sep 20, 1949
Milton's guests for the season premiere include Duke Ellington, actress June Havoc, comic actor Phil Silvers, Howdy Doody, "Buffalo Bob" Smith and Robert Keeshan, comic actor Bert "Mad Russian" Gordon, and the Stewart Morgan Dancers. Berle opens the show with a huge banner reading "Welcome Back, Mr. Television!" Ellington performs a medley of his hits at the piano. Havoc sings and clowns with Berle playing a Kentucky colonel. In a take-off of "The Howdy Doody Show," Berle and guests harass Buffalo Bob as members of the peanut gallery.
Episode 2
Bela Lugosi, Billie Burke, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Jackie Robinson, The Maxellos, Olsen & Johnson
Tue, Sep 27, 1949
Uncle Miltie welcomes: horror star Bela Lugosi, actress Billie Burke, dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, baseball legend Jackie Robinson, the Maxellos, and a cameo by comedy team Olsen and Johnson. Lugosi appears in a sketch trying to sell a house to a frightened Berle; Robinson dances and chats briefly with Berle and Robinson; Burke hosts a recreation of the famous Ziegfeld Follies featuring Robinson and impressions of W.C. Fields and the like with Berle as Eddie Cantor.
Episode 3
Episode #2.3
Tue, Oct 4, 1949
Berle's guests include actor Pat O'Brien, trampoline act the Paul and Paulette Trio, tap dancers Steve Condos and Jerry Brandow, juggler Trixie, and comic actress Beatrice Kay. Beatrice and Trixie appear in a picnic sketch based on "Waitin' for the Robert E. Lee." Berle and O'Brien do a takeoff on the Gallagher and Shean vaudeville act.
Episode 4
Episode #2.4
Tue, Oct 11, 1949
Berle's guests include comic actor Hugh Herbert, dancers the Blackburn Twins, Janet Blair, and comic dancer Will Mahoney. Berle opens the show dressed as Christopher Columbus. Herbert, Blair and Berle do a Caesar, Marc Antony, and Cleopatra sketch. Blair and the Blackburn Twins do vaudeville numbers. Mahoney tap dances on a xylophone.
Episode 5
Episode #2.5
Tue, Oct 18, 1949
Uncle Miltie's guests include Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Broadway singer Ethel Merman, unicycle act the Goetschis, adagio team The Zoris, child performer Verna Raymond, the Magid Triplets, bass fiddler Chuck Roe, champion trick roper Junior Eskew, and glamorous dance group The Wally Wanger Girls. In a stand-up bit, Berle tries to mediate an argument between Martin and Lewis and gets assaulted in the process. Milton and Jerry conduct the band while Dean tries to sing. The three do a Buck Rogers-type look at the future. Berle, Martin, Lewis, Merman, Raymond, Magids are in the Western finale featuring performers from the World Championship Rodeo currently at Madison Square Garden.
Episode 6
Episode #2.6
Tue, Oct 25, 1949
Berle's guests are singer Johnny Johnston, comedienne Nancy Walker, song and dance trio Buster Shaver, Olive (Shaver) and George (Shaver), singer/actress Kathryn Grayson, Bert Gordon, and Chinese acrobats Wong Troupe. In a sketch, Berle is Sitting Bull with Walker as Princess Leita and Bert Gordon as her father. Walker and Berle sing and dance "Pass the Peace Pipe." Milton helps a late-arriving audience member (Grayson) find a seat. Berle interviews Gordon portraying an opera coach. Nancy Walker performs a comedy song "Irving." Buster Shaver, Olive and George sing "I'm Just Wild About Harry" and dance "All the Things You Are." Johnson does "That Old Black Magic." The finale production number is set at Texacollege, with Berle as a student, and Walker sings "You've Got to Be a Football Hero."
Episode 7
Episode #2.7
Tue, Nov 1, 1949
Milton's scheduled guests actor Dane Clark, comedian Ben Blue, and dancers Pat Rooney, Sr. and Pat Rooney, Jr.
Episode 8
Episode #2.8
Tue, Nov 8, 1949
Berle's guests include actor Arthur Treacher, comedy actress Imogene Coca, vaudeville comic Benny Fields, puppeteer Frank Paris, dancers the Clark Brothers, ballroom dance team Adam and June Di Gatanos, Rosie the Bear, and comedian Henny Youngman. Berle, dressed as a cannibal, sings "I've Got You Under My Skin." Treacher gives Berle a diction lesson and Youngman joins the two for a number. Fields sings "Baby Face." Coca impersonates movie glamor queens. Fields and Berle do a sketch about old time New York with a skating bear.
Episode 9
Episode #2.9
Tue, Nov 15, 1949
Miltie's guests include: singer/actor Allan Jones and his wife actress Irene Hervey, actress Diosa Costello, actor Don Ameche, TV wrestling host Dennis James, and Ed Hanley. "Beautiful Berle" wrestles the "Mighty Karadajian" with Dennis James doing play-by-play.
Episode 10
Episode #2.10
Tue, Nov 22, 1949
Berle's scheduled guests include songwriter Johnny Mercer, Max "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, actress/singer Ella Logan, dancing trio the Dunhills, and singer Phil Regan.
Episode 11
Episode #2.11
Tue, Nov 29, 1949
Milton Horns into an apache dance by the Mazone-Abott Dancers by playing an irritating Frenchman. Horton tries to tell Berle about the play he's written, but Milton objects to every other line because they will offend the censors. Berle plugs his new movie in a production that salutes performers who "always leave them laughing." Featured are impressions of the Marx Brothers, Danny Kaye, Betty Hutton, Jimmy Durante, Al Jolson, and Charlie Chaplin. Fatso Marco appears as Walter "Pigeon" and releases a bunch of namesake birds from under his hat.
Episode 12
Episode #2.12
Tue, Dec 6, 1949
Uncle Miltie's guests include comic actor Guy Kibbee, comedian Rex Raymer, opera singer Robert Merrill, the Blackburn Twins, comic acrobatic team Coco, Steve and Eddie, harmonica players Borrah Minevitch's Rascals with Johnny Puleo, and actress Janet Blair. Berle stars with Blair in a play he wrote, "One Ham's Family," with Milton playing all the male roles; the quick costume changes can't keep up with the script. Merrill performs the Toreador song. Raymer's act of musical impressions was interrupted by Berle because time had run out and the show was over.
Episode 13
Episode #2.13
Tue, Dec 13, 1949
Comic Hank Ladd guest hosts for the vacationing Berle. His scheduled guests include: comic performer Bert Lahr, Gil Maison and his dog act, vocal group The Ink Spots, Stan Cavanaugh, comedy acrobatic act the Acromaniacs, singer Mary Hatcher, and comedienne Connie Sawyer. The Ink Spots perform "If I Didn't Care."
Episode 14
Guest Host: Hank Ladd, Guest Stars: Perry Como, Fatso Marco, Buck & Bubbles, Grace and Paul Hartman
Tue, Dec 20, 1949
Berle's guest host again this week is Hank Ladd. Guests: singer Perry Como, acrobatic dance team Buck and Bubbles, and comedy dance team Paul and Grace Hartman. The show concludes with Como and a choir performing "The Lord's Prayer" and "Silent Night."
Episode 15
Episode #2.15
Tue, Dec 27, 1949
Milton Berle returns from his two week Florida vacation. His guests include singer/dancer Harry Richman, actor Boris Karloff, acrobats The Bogginos, and trumpeter Leonard Sues.
Episode 16
Episode #2.16
Tue, Jan 3, 1950
Berle starts the new year with guests including: actor John Boles, singer/songwriting team Noble Sissel and Eubie Blake, banjo player Eddie Peabody, vaudeville comedy team O'Donnell and Blair, dancers the Berry Brothers, and singer Patrice Munsel.
Episode 17
Episode #2.17
Tue, Jan 10, 1950
Berle's scheduled guests this week include: comedians Henny Youngman and Morey Amsterdam, singer/actress Lisa Kirk, acrobatic tumblers The Morrocans, comedy team The Arnaut Brothers, O'Connell and Blair, and singer Alan Dale. Kirk performs "The Lady is a Tramp," then clowns with Berle on "Charlie My Boy."
Episode 18
Burgess Meredith, Dinah Shore, Ray McDonald, Peggy Ryan
Tue, Jan 17, 1950
Miltie's guests this week include singer Dinah Shore, actor Burgess Meredith, comic actor Arnold Stang, and dancers Ray McDonald and Peggy Ryan.
Episode 19
Cesar Romero, Margaret Whiting, Jack Smith
Tue, Jan 24, 1950
Milton's scheduled guests include singer Margaret Whiting, Arnold Stang, dance team Cole and Atkins, unicycle act Lebrac and Bernice, and actor Cesar Romero.
Episode 20
Franchot Tone, Pert Kelton, Hal LeRoy, the Quiz Kids
Tue, Jan 31, 1950
Milton Berle's scheduled guests include Jack Smith, acrobats The Christianis, from radio the Quiz Kids, comic performers Arnold Stang and Pert Kelton, actor Franchot Tone, and dancer Hal LeRoy.
Episode 21
Episode #2.21
Fri, Feb 17, 1950
Milton's scheduled guests this week include country singer Eddy Arnold, singer Pearl Bailey and vaudeville performer Ted Lewis. Lewis sings "When My Baby Smiles at Me."
Episode 22
Episode #2.22
Tue, Feb 14, 1950
Berle's guests include vaudeville performer/songwriter Joe Howard, musical comedy act the Slate Brothers, dancer who lifts furniture with his mouth Bobby "Tables" Davis, child musician "Sugar Chile" Robinson, and comic/singer Gracie Fields.
Episode 23
Episode #2.23
Tue, Feb 21, 1950
Milton Berle's scheduled guests include actor Robert Alda, vaudevillian/actor James Barton, and composer W.C. Handy.
Episode 24
Episode #2.24
Tue, Feb 28, 1950
Berle's scheduled guests include actor Victor Jory, singer Fran Warren, acrobats The Charlivels, singer Rudy Vallee, and comic Dick Berne.
Episode 25
Episode #2.25
Tue, Mar 7, 1950
Guest host Hank Ladd fills in as host this week. His guests include ventriloquist Paul Winchell, singer Pearl Bailey, comic actor Bert Lahr, and comic actor Arnold Stang.
Episode 26
Episode #2.26
Tue, Mar 14, 1950
Comedian Georgie Price fills in for Berle as host this week. His scheduled guests include: singer/dancer Bobby Van, singer/actress Louise Kirtland, Adrian and Charlie, and comic actor Jack Gilford, comic performer Carl Reiner, and actress June Havoc.
Episode 27
Episode #2.27
Tue, Mar 21, 1950
Berle's scheduled guests this week include actor Lee Tracy, singer/actress Patrice Munsel, composer Hoagy Carmichael, dancers Anthony, Allen and Hodge, and harmonica player Richard Himber.
Episode 28
Episode #2.28
Tue, Mar 28, 1950
Uncle Miltie's guests this week include: composer Sammy Cahn, actor Bruce Cabot, comic acrobats Dick and Dot Remy (The Remys), and comic actor Phil Silvers. In one sketch, Berle plays Cleopatra with Cabot as Julius Ceasar. In a stand-up bit, Silvers gives Berle hands-on singing lessons.
Episode 29
Episode #2.29
Tue, Apr 4, 1950
Berle's scheduled guest list this week includes the Lionel Hampton Orchestra; dancer Gloria Gilbert; dance team Stump and Stumpy; and comic actress Beatrice Kaye.
Episode 30
Episode #2.30
Tue, Apr 11, 1950
Milton Berle's scheduled guests include: entertainer Ken Murray, Broadway producer George White of Broadway's George White's Scandals, trumpeter Raphael Mendez, and dancer Evelyn Farney.
Episode 31
William Bendix, Mitzi Green, Romo Vincent
Tue, Apr 18, 1950
Berle's scheduled guests include: singer/actress Mitzi Green, and singer/actor Romo Vincent.
Episode 32
Robert Alda, Constance Moore, Benny Fields
Tue, Apr 25, 1950
Berle's scheduled guests this week include: vaudevillian Benny Fields, singer Constance Moore, and singer/actor Robert Alda.
Episode 33
Robert Alda, The Three Stooges, Rose Marie, Victoria Troupe, Morton Downey, Jane Froman, Maxie Rosenbloom
Tue, May 2, 1950
Uncle Miltie's scheduled guests include: actor Robert Alda, Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard (The Three Stooges), Rose Marie, bicycle act the Victoria Troupe, singer Morton Downey, vocalist Jane Froman, Max "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, child vocalist Herbert Coleman, and The Lee Sherman Dancers. The Three Stooges interrupt Berle and do their famous three watches routine, and in a sketch, French Foreign Legion commander Alda has to contend with his Stooge soldiers.
Episode 34
Episode #2.34
Tue, May 9, 1950
This week Milton's scheduled guests include: comedian Jan Murray, singer Jane Froman, singer Herbert Coleman, dance team Lane and Claire, the Lee Sherman Dancers, and boxer/comic actor "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom.
Episode 35
Episode #2.35
Tue, May 16, 1950
Milton Berle stars. Allen Roth leads the orchestra.
Episode 36
Episode #2.36
Tue, May 23, 1950
"Mr. Television" welcomes guests including: dancers Peg Leg Bates and Gus Van, and comedy team Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.
Episode 37
Episode #2.37
Tue, May 30, 1950
Berle's guests this week include comedienne Martha Raye, acrobatic team The Seven Marvels, tough-guy actor Mike Mazurki, dancer Marge Banks, harmonica player Stan Fisher, and opera star Robert Merrill. Berle, Raye and Mazurki rehash a Western saloon sketch from earlier in the season. Merrill sings "Old Man River." Dancer Marge Banks opens a take-off of ballet by Berle and Raye called "Dying Swan." In the finale, all impersonate Charlie Chaplain.
Episode 38
Episode #2.38
Tue, Jun 6, 1950
Milton's scheduled guests include: comedienne Martha Raye.
Episode 39
Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis
Tue, Jun 13, 1950
Milton's guests are comedy team Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, singer Gertrude Niesen, actor Robert Alda, tap dancer Betty Bruce, exotic dancer Lou Wills, Jr., M&L's band leader Dick Stabile, and pitchman Sid Stone. In a sketch, Berle visits his sponsor (played by Alda) with writers Martin and Lewis. Niesen sings "Diamonds Are a Girl's best Friend." The finale features famous showbiz teams with Alda and Niesen as Jack Norworth and Nora Bayes. and Berle and Lewis as Edgar Bergan and Charlie McCarthy.