The Colgate Comedy Hour Season 4 Episode release dates & where to watch

1. 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"

2. Jimmy Durante

3. Eddie Cantor

4. Donald O'Connor

5. Bud Abbott with Martin & Lewis

6. Jimmy Durante

7. Martha Raye

8. Donald O'Connor

9. 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.

10. Jimmy Durante

11. Perry Como and Martha Raye

12. Donald O'Connor

13. Eddie Cantor

14. Jimmy Durante

15. Martin & Lewis

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

17. Ethel Merman

18. Eddie Cantor

19. Jimmy Durante

20. Donald O'Connor

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.

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

23. Eddie Cantor

24. Jimmy Durante

25. Abbott & Costello

26. Eddie Cantor

27. Jimmy Durante

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.

29. Ice Capades Special

30. Martin & Lewis

31. Jimmy Durante

32. Eddie Cantor

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.

34. Martin & Lewis

35. Debut of Colgate Summer Comedy hour with Kaye Ballard, Jules Munshin, Jackie Cooper

36. Let's Go Places

37. Continental Holiday

38. Away from It All

39. Holiday, U.S.A.

40. Episode 40

41. Free and Easy

42. Bobby Van, Pearl Bailey, Jeff Chandler, Gene Sheldon