Bob Hope Special - April 14 1963

Pepsodent presents The Bob Hope Show, presenting the TV Guide Awards. Martha Raye and Dean Martin join Bob Hope for tonight's show, which concludes with the presentation of the fourth annual TV Guide Awards to winners selected by thousands of TV guide readers in final balloting. Bob Hope and TV Guide publisher James T. Quirk make the presentations in Hollywood. Arthur Schulman, assistant to the publisher, does the honors in New York. With the David Rose Orchestra. Highlights: "The Rating Investigator" finds Congressman Bilge (Bob) badgering the popular star (Dean) of a hillbilly series. In "Calling Miss Nightingale", TV's Dr. Kilroy (Bob) and Nurse Nightingale (Martha) are having script problems, they've run out of diseases. Martha sings "I'll Remember April". Dean sings "A Face in the Crowd". FAVORITE SERIES Ben Casey Bonanza Dr. Kildare Perry Mason The Defenders FAVORITE NEW SERIES McHale's Navy Stoney Burke The Beverly Hillbillies The Eleventh Hour The Virginian BEST SINGLE DRAMATIC, MUSICAL OR VARIETY PROGRAM Bob Hope Christmas Show Cardinal Act of Mercy (Ben Casey episode) Danny Kaye Show Peter Pan Pygmallion BEST SINGLE NEWS OR INFORMATION PROGRAM A Look at Monaco The Death of Stalin The Rise of Khrushchev The Tunnel The World of Jacqueline Kennedy BEST NEWS OR INFORMATION SERIES CBS Reports David Brinkley's Journal Huntley-Brinkley News The Twentieth Century Walter Cronkite News BEST CHILDREN'S SERIES Captain Kangaroo Discovery Lassie The Shari Lewis Show Walt Disney's Wonderful World FAVORITE MALE PERFORMER Raymond Burr Richard Chamberlain Vincent Edwards Red Skelton Dick Van Dyke FAVORITE FEMALE PERFORMER Lucille Ball Shirley Booth Carol Burnett Donna Reed Loretta Young,