Guest star: Gina Lolllobrigida Gina Lollobrigida makes her first "live" acting appearance on American television.
"The Professor".
Guest star: Peggy Lee. Sid introduces a new character, The Commuter.
A movie satire lampooning the haughty aces of the German Air Force in World War I - done in the familiar fashion of Sid, Carl Reiner and Howard Morris. A couple of other comedy sketches, a pantomimic specialty by Caesar and several dance numbers are featured. Among the latter will be a novelty dance utilizing the dramatic setting of the bullring with Luis Caceras in the stellar role.
Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Mel Powell, Steve Jordan, Charlie Shavers and Eddie Safranski in a jam session with Sid himself, a professional saxophonist before turning to comedy. The three-scene sketch will utilize the talent of Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Virginia Curtis and other regulars. Another dramatic ballet will be featured as well.
"The Commuter". A sketch on commuters. Nanette portrays Caesar's wife in a skit.
A case of hypochondria and what happens after a chance conversation with a physician which starts him brooding over an imaginary illness and eventually sends him to his bed to await the grim reaper. Nanette portrays the poor abused wife. *Note: Nanette Fabray has won a regular assignment on the show.
Bob Victor (Sid Caesar) the Commuter has a great idea - an off-season holiday at a dude ranch.
"The Commuters" sketch and a satire of the Jack Webb series a Russian "Dragnet". Another ballet by choreographer Boris Runanian rounds out the program.
An unexpected business crisis threatens to separate the Victors during the holiday season.
There's an amusing opener, "Man to Man" a satire on a show you'll recognize and we find our Viennese professor friend "at home". Nanette Fabray sings a spirited version of "Birth of the Blues" and admirers of the art of bongo drum beating should catch "Just One of Those Things".
Sid Caesar gives his impression of what a little boy thinks about after he has been spanked and sent to bed.
Sid and Nanette do a sketch about a wife trying to cure the untidiness of her husband.
Sid Caesar satirizes the Hollywood movie industry when he portrays a daredevil test pilot.
A comedy sketch satirizing a popular TV musical series with Sid as a dancer and Nanette as the pop singer. Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Virginia Curtis and Elian Parker will join Sid and Nanette in another "Commuters" sketch.
Nanette has the perfect Valentine Day sentiment in her song "The Glory of Love". The guys have a sketch about proving their manhood and asserting their right not to have to lap up culture in their non-working hours.
A satire on the super-duper musical movies of the 30's with an appropriate dash of the tongue in cheek nonsense. Nanette has a corny scene as she wraps up all the things every little girl from the farm over said during her first assault on New York. Sid proves again he's a well equipped song and dance man and a brief "commuters" sketch rounds out the program.
It's Nanette's birthday and Sid is determined to give his vocabulary a workout while providing a few gaffaws and getting ready to take Nan out for a night on the town. Sid runs headon into a wisecracking nightclub M.C. played by Henny Youngman.
With regulars Nanette Fabray, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris.
Eddy gets caught in the middle of The Victors (Sid and Nan) argument.
A new sports jacket becomes the subject of ridicule for Sid in a Commuter sketch.
Marlon Brando's starring role in "On the Waterfront" will be burlesqued by Sid as he satires the Oscar-winning movie.
A Caspar Milquetoast type by day, a fearless hero by night, is the dual personality Sid will play in a silent movie satire.
Sketches include: Sporting matching suits and black, pompador wigs, Caesar, Reiner and Morris' spoof rock/do wop groups when they appeared as 'The Haircuts'. They performed 'So Rare', an over-the-top ballad, and 'Flippin'' which featured the three the threesome dancing and/or having spasms to the song.
"All Aboard". The commuter train sketch brings the gang together.
The members of the "Caesaro Opera Company" give their own version of the opera "Faust". Also scheduled is another Commuters sketch with a battle developing after Bob Victor returns from a fishing trip with a mustache. His wife expresses much displeasure over the situation.
A movie satire of "Golden Boy" to fight or to fiddle with amusing results. Nanette heads the musical contingent through a production number of "Romance".
Nanette Fabray teams with Bill Lewis, winner of the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air Award, for a special production number. They will give their interpretation of the song "Here I'll Stay". Sid, Howard and Carl appear in a Commuters' sketch in which they try to make their backyards into summer playlands. Included in the ambitious project is the digging of a swimming pool.
Nanette discovers that Sid has hired a pretty new secretary and she expresses some violent opinions on "office wives". Singer Tony Alamo will render a number that was written by Sid.
Bill Hayes a permanent member of the show's summer replacement series is the guest.
The opening show has a "Commuters" bit and a take-off on a Hollywood gang-land movie.
The Commuters become entangled with their dancing lessons and the wives have to use some fancy footwork to unravel them. Papa loves Mambo and everything goes well until the girls step in. A musical takeoff on an opera. Also included is a satire titled "Board of Director's Meeting".
Sid does a takeoff on Verdi's opera "Aida". Caesar and his accomplices will arrayed in Egyptian garb but we are not advised in what language the opera will be sung. Caesar and his troupe will flit from Egypt to London, backstage Broadway and to his version of "Suburbia U.S.A.".
A satire on those gay movie musicals about sailors on liberty in a big city is featured. Also a "Commuters" sketch with Sid and Nanette recalling their first quarrel. Production numbers feature pianist Earl Wild, tenor Bill Lewis and the Ted Cappy dancers.
Sid and Nanette run into a problem of trying to please everybody during an evening out with Carl Reiner, Sandra Deel, Howie Morris and Ellen Parker. They try to plan an entertaining evening in spite of the fact that one couple has seen the current hit play and another has been to "all the movies". Caesar, Reiner and Morris appear in a sketch called "The Wealth Club", a satire on the world of big business.
Sid and the gang offer a satire on a Western films called "Empty Holster". In a "Commuter" sketch Bob Victor (Caesar) finds himself left out of a party that his neighbors will be attending.
Sid and the cast do a satire on a musical comedy called "Abandon Ship For Love" with Nan as a movie star and Sid, Carl and Howie as sailors on leave. Included in the show will be a musical spoof, in a USO where she sings "Even Though I'm Above You, I Love You".
In a "Commuters" sketch the Victors think they are going up in the world, but they decide to do it sensibly - a cheap maid, inexpensive butler, and maybe just a tiny castle. Then they learn that Bob's big promotion is worth just a six dollar raise. *Note: Nanette sustains an injury from a falling light on the set and is knocked unconscious and hospitalized.
Sid has to battle with Carl and Howie because he wants to eat his lunch in the office and they want him to come out. Also a satire on a British movie and a session with "The Haircuts".
Nanette returns to the show after being injured by a falling light two weeks ago. She joins Sid, Howie, and Carl in a "Commuters" sketch with the Victors trying to raise money for charity by engaging in athletic events with their neighbors. Also a satire of an Italian movie.
Nanette Fabray, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Sandra Deel and Ellen Parker.
A movie satire of "Cyrano de Bergerac".
The "Commuters" welcome a former neighbor who has become a big business tycoon. At first, they are envious, but later they decide his way of life is not for them.
Nanette Fabray, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Sandra Deel and Ellen Parker.
Sid and Nanette as the Victors plan a vacation.
Sid and Nanette turn back the calendar to their newlywed days. When Bob Victor's (Caesar) parents came to visit the couple shortly after the wedding.
In a "Commuters" sketch Bob Victor (Caesar) breaks a personal rule in a test of friendship.
The silent movie sketch is an often funny outing about an immigrant named Jazznik, arriving in the land of hope and promise. A lively Gershwin finale with a medley of "S'Wonderful", "Somebody Loves Me" and "I Got Rhythm".
"The Haircuts" do a parody of current hit songs.
Sid as an English defense lawyer and Nanette as a femme fatale spoofing those British courtroom melodramas. And a sketch about the best way to gift wrap garbage. *News item: Sid Caesar announces that his leading lady Nanette Fabray will be leaving the show come June. Nanette reportedly made $5,000 a week and asked for a pay increase which was denied. Nanette would win a Best Supporting Actress EMMY for her role on the series.
Nanette Fabray, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Sandra Deel and Ellen Parker.
Nanette Fabray, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Sandra Deel and Ellen Parker.
Sid's out to modernize the underworld by committing only "legal" crimes with his shimmying gun moll Nanette, who must agree to his bank heist under the protection of the Perch-Bickey Act of 1803, in this funny gangster take-off. A "Commuters" sketch and Nan sings "Taking a Chance on Love" and a Carnegie Hall recording session with Earl Wild and Bill Lewis.
The Victors have trouble with the in-laws when they recall their early married life when they lived with her parents. Sid brings back one of his favorite characters "Der Protestor". He will audtion for the magician's role in a Broadway play.
In a "Commuters" sketch Bob Victor (Sid) tests his memory when he makes a foolish bet with his suburbanite neigbor George Hanson (Carl Reiner). Terribly Expensive Productions, the hour's motion picture unit, will put together another movie satire. This one takes place in Hollywood and tells the story of the rise and fall of a great director.
The "Commuters" has another earth shattering problem as Bob Victor and his wife come to heads.
Nanette Fabray, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Sandra Deel and Ellen Parker.
Another visit with The Victors. *Note: Janet Blair has been set to replace Nanette Fabray.
Nanette Fabray, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Sandra Deel and Ellen Parker.
In The Commuters, the Springdale Community Center holds a fundraising beauty contest. A final "Commuters" sketch with Sid and Nanette as The Victors.
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Italian Movies in Carnivale
Take the 'A' Train
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What's My Line?: Parody
Tony Towers is a dancer who gets a dancing partner and then invents "And Then You Do That Step" but becomes increasingly fat when on tour with her.
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In The commuters' sketch, Bob almost gets stuck paying a $60 dinner check; 'Ominous', a spoof of the TV show Omnibus, features Caesar as Professor Ludwig von Henpeck, marriage authority; the train sketch features Caesar as a businessman and Pat Carroll as an old lady; The count of Monte Cristo is an opera parody.
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Parody of Somerset Maugham Theatre
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Ingrid Bergman, Joan Crawford, Rock Hudson Look magazine awards to Rock Hudson, and in a separately-filmed piece, to Ingrid Bergman given by Joan Crawford.
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The daddy is a monologue delivered by Caesar; in the corporate secretary sketch, Pat Carroll stars as a new, inexperienced secretary; The brave and the bamboo is a Japanese movie parody.
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The Commuters skit recalls when the three men opened a diner that failed, then a look at an "adult" western and later a parody of "Tonight-America after dark", what inadvertently shows people at their worst.
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Skit: "Break Your Brains" with Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner, Janet Blair, Howard Morris, and Pat Carroll.
Person to Person: Parody