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The Colgate Comedy Hour

This was a Colgate-sponsored comedy hour that featured many notable comedians and entertainers of the era as guest stars.

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The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.

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Created by
Fred Hamilton
First aired
Sep 10, 1950
Status
Ended
Network
NBC
Episodes
216
Country
US

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S1 E1: Revenge with Music

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S1 E1 Revenge with Music

Sep 10, 1950

Eddie Cantor hosts the premiere episode of the series, joined by actor/dancer Tommy Wonder, opera soprano Yma Sumac, dancer Danny Daniels, Yiddish theatre star Joseph Buloff, Lew Hearn, Robert Gari, Jack Albertson, the ballet team of Val Buttingnol and Joy Williams, and Al Goodman and his Orchestra. The program was promoted in the NY Times as "a nostalgic review recalling the halcyon days of the New Amsterdam theater at Broadway and 42nd Street".

  1. 1Revenge with Music
  2. 2Let's Face It
  3. 3Fred Allen
  4. 410/1/1950
  5. 5Eddie Cantor
  6. 6Martin & Lewis: Anything Goes
  7. 7Fred Allen
  8. 8Bobby Clark
  9. 9Eddie Cantor
  10. 10Martin & Lewis
  11. 11Fred Allen
  12. 12Bob Hope
  13. 13Eddie Cantor
  14. 14Tickets Please!
  15. 1512/17/1950
  16. 16Bob Hope
  17. 17Eddie Cantor
  18. 18Abbot & Costello
  19. 19Jerry Lester
  20. 20Bobby Clark
  21. 21Eddie Cantor
  22. 22Martin & Lewis
  23. 23The Spike Jones Show
  24. 24Bobby Clark
  25. 25Eddie Cantor
  26. 26Tony Martin
  27. 27Abbot & Costello
  28. 28Beatrice Lillie
  29. 29Eddie Cantor
  30. 30Eddie Cantor
  31. 31Bob Hope
  32. 32Tony Martin
  33. 33Eddie Cantor
  34. 34Martin & Lewis
  35. 35Phil Silvers
  36. 36Beatrice Lillie
  37. 37Martin & Lewis
  38. 38Eddie Cantor
  39. 39Martin & Lewis
  40. 40Jackie Gleason and Fred Allen
  41. 41Eddie Cantor
  42. 42Martin & Lewis

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