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Season 4
October 4, 1953

Season 4

01. Martin & Lewis

Skits: Burt plays an escaped lunatick. Songs: "Great To Be Home", "You're The Right One", "That's Amore", "There's No Tomorrow"

October 4, 1953

02. Jimmy Durante

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October 11, 1953

03. Eddie Cantor

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October 18, 1953

04. Donald O'Connor

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October 25, 1953

05. Bud Abbott with Martin & Lewis

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November 1, 1953

06. Jimmy Durante

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November 8, 1953

07. Martha Raye

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November 15, 1953

08. Donald O'Connor

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November 22, 1953

09. Eddie Cantor

Highlights include a take-off on TV westerns where all the characters speak in voice-overs and a salute to the songs of Harold Arlen.

November 29, 1953

10. Jimmy Durante

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December 6, 1953

11. Perry Como and Martha Raye

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December 13, 1953

12. Donald O'Connor

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December 20, 1953

13. Eddie Cantor

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December 27, 1953

14. Jimmy Durante

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January 3, 1954

15. Martin & Lewis

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January 10, 1954

16. Alan Young, Stan Freberg, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby

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January 17, 1954

17. Ethel Merman

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January 24, 1954

18. Eddie Cantor

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January 31, 1954

19. Jimmy Durante

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February 7, 1954

20. Donald O'Connor

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February 14, 1954

21. Sonja Henie (with Abbott & Costello)

Gene Wesson hosts with guests Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, skater Sonja Henie, comic/singer Keefe Brasselle, with Carolyn Jones, Joyce Jameson, Michael Ross, Will J. White, Jud Conlon Singers, Norman Abbott, Glen Stangle, and announcer Hal Sawyer. Wesson and Brasselle perform dueling impressions, a sketch depicts a mob-run coffee shop, and Abbott and Costello encounter the Frankenstein Monster and the Gill Man in the Universal Studios' prop room.

February 21, 1954

22. ANYTHING GOES w Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, Bert Lahr

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February 28, 1954

23. Eddie Cantor

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March 7, 1954

24. Jimmy Durante

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March 14, 1954

25. Abbott & Costello

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March 21, 1954

26. Eddie Cantor

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April 4, 1954

27. Jimmy Durante

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April 11, 1954

28. Abbott & Costello

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello welcome guests including: Jane Russell; Rhonda Fleming; A&C stalwarts Connie Haines, Bobby Barber and Mike Ross; actress Beryl Davis; actors Tony Martinez, Nestor Paiva, Frank Richards, Benny Rubin, Jim Hayward and Ken Mayer; Jack Shea; Baby Mistin; Donna Kaye; announcer Hal Sawyer; and Al Goodman and his Orchestra.

In comedy highlights, the boys are flat broke in a bording house in the Latin American country of Bolamania. They rehearse a magic trick, hoping to get a job at a nightclub. Then Lou gets the great idea of impersonating the El Presidente!

Also, take offs on Liberace and You Bet Your Life.

April 18, 1954

29. Ice Capades Special

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April 25, 1954

30. Martin & Lewis

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May 2, 1954

31. Jimmy Durante

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May 9, 1954

32. Eddie Cantor

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May 16, 1954

33. Abbott & Costello

One in this comedy/variety series with rotating hosts. The comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello star in this live episode. Highlights include the following: Bud and Lou get fired from their jobs at a department store after attempting to sell nylons; Abbott and his friends sucker Costello out of his pay, but Lou gets his revenge; Hoagy Carmichael sings and is visited by child actor Ricky Vera; Costello and Vera try to tell each other the tale of Little Red Riding Hood and crack each other up in the process; Abbott cons Costello out of his money, but Vera gets the last laugh; Peggy Lee sings "Johnny Guitar," "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered," and the "Halo Shampoo" song; Costello gets appliances with meters and has to pay a quarter every time he uses one, prompting a lot of mayhem as he attempts to try each one out; the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra plays "Midnight Sleigh Ride" and "Holiday"; and Costello attempts to dance with a woman who is almost twice his height.

May 23, 1954

34. Martin & Lewis

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May 30, 1954