Host: Bing Crosby Scheduled guests: --Gary Crosby --Bob Newhart (comedian) --Mickey Rooney and Bobby Van - ""If We Felt Any Better"" --Nancy Wilson (singer) --The Young Americans (singing group) - ""Green, Green,"" ""Saturday Night"" and ""If I Had A Hammer"" --Silvan (illusionist) --The Andre Tahon puppets --The Hardy Family (acrobats) --Les Salvadori (musical clowns) --Robert Cummings (Actor-Comedian) & THE HOLLYWOOD PALACE Billboard Girls.
Host: Bob Cummings --Rosemary Clooney --Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks (comedians) --Anthony Newley --Dave King
Host: Hugh O'Brian Scheduled guests: --Johnny Mathis --Ginger Rogers --Marty Ingels (comedian) --Joanie Sommers (singer) --Johnny Puleo (harmonica player) --Les Charlivels (acrobats) --Bertha, the dancing elephant --The Andre Tahon Puppets
Host: Ernest Borgnine Other guests: --Carl Ballantine (comedian, from ""McHale's Navy"") --Joe Flynn (comedian, from ""McHale's Navy"") --Tony Bennett --Eleanor Powell (dancer) --Vikki Carr (singer) --Miriam Makeba (South African folksinger) --Pepper Davis and Tony Reese (comedians) --The Levee singers --The Norbu novelty gorilla act
Host: Donald O'Connor --Donald O'Connor dances with the Louis DaPron dancers --Don Knotts (comedian) - appears, in a comedy sketch, as a bashful after-dinner speaker --Buddy Greco (singer-pianist) --The Wellingtons (singing group) - perform with Donald O'Connor --Mary Costa (Metropolitan Opera soprano, formerly a TV pitchwoman) --Jack Olvin and Yvonne Wilder (comedians, spoofing ""Hamlet) --The Pompoff Thedy musical clowns (Vaudeville comedians) --Francis Brunn (juggler) Note: Buddy Hackett was originally scheduled to appear on this episode.
Host: Gig Young Other guests: --Yma Sumac (singer) --The Mills Brothers (vocal group) --Buddy Hackett (comedian, whose appearance was postponed last week) --Dorothy Collins (singer) --Michael Bentine (British comedian, joins Gig Young in a sketch on British commuters) --The Andre Tahon puppets (in a parody of the Beatles) --The Berosinis (acrobats, teeterboard act from Czechoslovakia)
Host: Dale Robertson --Red Buttons (comedian) --The Smothers Brothers (comedy folk singers) --Vic Damone (singer) - ""On the Street Where You Live"" & ""You and the Night and the Music"" --Jane Morgan (singer) - ""Stay Out of Paris"" --Dale Robertson and Jane Morgan - ""Turkey in the Straw"" --The Four Amigos (singing quartet) - ""Volare"" --Russ Lewis (ventriloquist) --The Harris Nelson Family (musical novelty act, correct name might be ""Harrison Family"") Additional guests (scheduled to appear): --Zony and Claire (adagio dancers) --The Half Brothers (comic acrobats) --The Old Grey Mare (performing horse)
--Gene Kelly opens the show by singing a few lines from ""Singin' in the Rain"" --Gene Kelly (and two other dancers, Dick Humphries and Alex Plaschheart) do a tribute to precision dancers ""King, King and King."" --Della Reese (singer) --Joey Heatherton (actress, sings and dances with Gene Kelly) --Bill Dana (comedian) --Ford and Hines (comedians) --The Women Folk (folksingers) --The Tangier Brothers (Moroccan tumblers) --Anden's poodles
Host: Efrem Zimbalist Jr. --Louis Quinn (appeared with Zimbalist on ""77 Sunset Strip"") --Kate Smith --Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Trigger and the Sons of the Pioneers --Corbett Monica (comedian) --Lewis and Christy (comedians) --The Great Wallendas (high-wire act) --Albert Rix and his trained Russian bears --Szony and Claire (Adaigo dancers)
Host: Dean Martin Other guests: --Jackie Mason (comedian) --Barrie Chase (dancer) --Vikki Carr (singer) --Piccola Pupa (12-year-old singer from Italy) --Leonard Barr (acrobatic dancer) --Rola and Rolan (acrobats) --The Berosini Chimps
Guests: --Groucho Marx (host) --Morey Amsterdam & Rose Marie (comedians, from ""The Dick Van Dyke Show"") --Jose Greco (flamenco dancer with his dance troupe) --Jennie Smith (singer) - ""You and the Night and the Music"" --Gilbert Becaud (French pop singer) - ""More"" & ""What Now My Love"" --Lee Allen (roller-skating comedian) - performs a comedy routine about drunks --The Andre Tahon Puppets - sing ""I Feel Pretty"" in a mouse version of ""West Side Story"" --Bertha the Elephant (dancing, balancing elephant) Comedy sketch: --A society matron, played by Dee Hartford, isn't convinced that ""Dr. Hackenbush"" (Groucho) is a real doctor. It could be because all his nurses look more like chorus girls. Groucho Marx sings ""I'm Dr. Hackenbush"" in a the sketch.
--Nat King Cole - ""My True Carrie Love,"" ""Paper Moon,"" ""Unforgettable"" and ""Day In, Day Out"" --Nat King Cole and the Young Souls - ""Get on Board!"" --Diahann Carroll (singer-actress) - sings a tribute to Ethel Waters. Songs include ""Am I Blue?"" ""Taking a Chance on Love,"" ""Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe,"" ""Dinah,"" ""After you've Gone"" and ""Stormy Weather"" --Paul Winchell (ventriloquist, with his dummy Jerry Mahoney) - do a ""Ben Casey"" spoof. --Allen & Rossi (comedy team) - sing ""Let's Face the Music and Dance"" in their routine. --Ken Murray (narrates his home movies of Hollywood stars) --The Merry Young Souls (singers) --The Amin Brothers (acrobats, foot-jugglers) --The Brunos (sway-pole act) - Bruno balances atop a 90-foot pole in the Palace parking lot.
Host: George Burns --George Burns - ""Don't Take Me Home"" & ""I'll Buy the Ring"" --Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks --Patti Page - ""Call Me Irresponsible"" & ""Sweetest Sounds"" --George Burns and the Lennon Sisters - ""Ain't Misbehavin'"" --Lennon Sisters - ""Moonglow"" & ""East of the Sun"" --George Burns and Sergio Franchi - ""Some of These Days"" --Sergio Franchi (tenor) - theme from ""Summertime"" --Mac Ronay (comic magician) --The Dunhills (tap-dancers)
Co-hosts: Tony Martin and Cyd Charisse --Tony Martin and Cyd Charisse (husband & wife) - ""The Old Soft Shoe"" --Tony Martin - ""The Best Things in Life Are Free,"" ""Wives and Lovers"" and ""More"" Other guests: --Mahalia Jackson (gospel singer) --Ferrante and Teicher (pianists) --Corbett Monica (comedian) --Gaylord and Holliday (comedy team) --The Collins Kids (singers) - perform a Dixie medley --The Amandis teeterboard act --The Three Bizzaros Brothers (comedy act) --The Berosini Chimps
Host: Donald O'Connor --Donald O'Connor - ""Tea for Two"" --Donald O'Connor and the Four Little Angels - sing ""Old MacDonald"" --Jack E. Leonard (comedian) --Jarry Van Dyke (comedian) --Rich Little (comedian-impressionist) --Fran Jeffries (singer) - ""It Had Better Be Tonight"" --The Wellingtons (singers) --The Frielanes (unicyclists) --Tarzan and his Eight Lions (circus act?)
Host: Jimmy Durante --Jimmy Durante - ""Words,"" ""I Could Have Danced All Night,"" ""What a Day"" & ""This is All I Ask"" --Jimmy Durante & Liberace - ""When a Real Piano Player Sits down at the Keys"" --Liberace - ""Stardust"" --Jack Carter (comedian) --Piccola Pupa (singer) - ""Bonga Cha-Cha-Cha"" --The Sylte Sisters (singers) - ""Love Is a Thing"" & ""Them There Eyes"" --Silvio Francesco (dancer-juggler) - ""Anything Goes"" --Colvin and Wilder (comedians) --Otto and Maria (balancing act) --The Hardy Family (acrobats)
Host: Ken Murray --Ken Murray (shows some of his Hollywood home movies) --Chad & Jeremy --Rowan and Martin (comedy team) --Eddie Albert --The Step Brothers (tap dancers) --Charlie Callas (comedian) --Jane Morgan (singer)
Host: Louis Jourdan --Anna Maria Alberghetti (singer) - ""Irma La Douce"" --Henny Youngman (comedian) --The King Sisters (singers) - ""Me and My Shadow"" and a medley of old favorites --John Bubbles (tap dancer) - ""Tip and Tap"" --Russ Lewis (ventriloquist) --Lewis and Christy (comedy team) --Muriel and Abe Grossfeld (Olympic athletes) --Armando Vega (Olympic athlete) --Ron Barak (NCAA champion gymnast) --Johnny Broadway (juggler)
Host: Dale Robertson --Betty Hutton - ""It Had To Be You"" --Paul Lynde and Carole Cook perform a dramatic scene. They then do the same scene again...as a comedy. --The Womenfolk (folk singers) --John Gary --Davis and Reese --Dave Parker (juggler) --Varel and Bailly & Les Chanteurs de Paris --Kunio's Horse Fantasy --The Bumpy Spectacular Acrobat Team
Host: Fred MacMurray --George Gobel (comedian) --Dorothy Collins (singer) --Trini Lopez (singer) --Guy Marks (comedian) --Augie and Margo (adagio dancers) Military acts performing a salute to Armed Forces Day: (1) The Army ""Old Guard"" Fife and Drum Corps (2) The Marine Pacific Drum and Bugle Corps (3) The Air Force Flying Rifles drill team (4) The Navy Starflights trampoline act
Host: Victor Borge --Victor Borge and Caterina Valente - ""The Girl from Ipanema"" --Caterina Valente - ""Cute"" and ""Hindustan"" --Drummers Louis Bellson, Shelly Manne, Irv Cottler, and ""Philly"" Joe Jones provide percussion support on an original jazz number performed by Caterina Valente. --Dennis Day (tenor) - (1) sings ""Give Them All You've Got"" and ""Charlie Brown."" (2) Dennis Day does impressions of Lawrence Welk, comedian Frank Fontaine and a Japanese Beatle. --Gaylord and Holiday (comedians) --Clifford Guest (ventriloquist from England) --Les Tonellys (Parisian acrobats) --The Andre Tahon Puppets (appear as Russian folk dancers)
Host: Phil Harris --Louis Armstrong --Louis Nye (comedian) --Mary Costa (soprano) --Peter Gennaro (dancer-choreographer) --Pete Barbuti (comedian) --The Jubilee Four (instrumental group) --The Peiro Brothers (juggling act) --The Robert Baudy leopard and panther act
Host: Gene Barry (from ""Burke's Law"") --Gene Barry - sings ""Just In Time,"" ""Day In, Day Out"" & ""Perfect Paris Night"" --Buster Keaton and Gloria Swanson - (1) perform a Mack Sennett silent-comedy version of ""Cleopatra"" (2) join Gene Barry in a dance routine --Juliet Prowse (dancer) - ""C'est Magnifique"" & ""I Love You and Don't You Forget It"" --Jack Carter (comedian-singer) - ""Le Grande Boom-Boom"" --The Swingle Singers - ""Sinfonia"" & Bach's Fugue in D Minor --The Andre Tahon Puppets --The Romano Brothers (jugglers) Scheduled guests: --Wayne Newton --Marilyn Michaels (singer-impressionist)
Host: Dean Martin --Dean Martin - ""Smile,"" ""Take These Chains"" & ""Everybody Loves Somebody"" --The Rolling Stones - ""I Just Wanna Make Love To You"" --Joey Forman (comedian) --The King Sisters & daughters (including Tina Cole) - ""Always,"" ""Don't Take Your Love from Me"" and ""Jersey Bounce"" --SHARE (singing group made up of Hollywood celebrity wives working for charity) --Larry Grizwold (comedy trampoline act) --Bertha the elephant and her daughter Tina
Second season premiere Host: Debbie Reynolds --Buddy Hackett (comedian) --Liberace --Rich Little (comedian-impressionist) --Astrud Gilberto (singer) & Stan Getz --Nine gymnasts from the U.S. Olympic team appear in a sketch with Debbie Reynolds. --The 44-member Arirang Korean ballet troupe
Host: Ed Wynn --The Rolling Stones - ""Not Fade Away"" --Eydie Gormé (singer, backed by six guitarists and the Trio Los Panchos) --Ed Wynn and Eydie Gormé - ""Tea for Two"" --The Nicholas Brothers (tap dancers) - ""I've Been Away"" and ""Rhythm Cocktail"" --Jack Carter (comedian) --Zizi Jeanmarie (singer, appearing with her ""La Revue Parisienne"" troupe) - ""Mon Truc en Plumes"" --Linon (rope-walking clown from Paris) --Rob Murray (comic juggler from Austraila) ABC repeated this show on July 31, 1965.
Host: Maurice Chevalier --Maurice Chevalier sings ""Louise,"" ""J'attendrais"" and ""When You're Smiling"" --Jane Powell (dancer) - ""Come Dance with Me"" --Maurice Chevalier and Jane Powell - ""Some People"" and ""I Like the Likes of You"" --Rowan and Martin (comedy duo) - do a sketch about a heckler at Richard Burton's night club debut. --Tim Conway (from ""McHale's Navy) - does a comic lecture on military history. --The Collins Kids (singers) - ""Waiting for the Robert E. Lee,"" ""Swanee,"" ""Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody"" and ""The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise"" --Dave Parker (Dutch comedian, doing an imitation of Charlie Chaplin) --The André Tahon Puppets - ""The Galopade"" --The Staneks (acrobats, doing a teeterboard act) ABC repeated this show on July 17, 1965.
Host: Donald O'Connor --Donald O'Connor - ""Take a Bow"" --Dorothy Provine (singer-dancer) and Donald O'Connor - ""I Love to Dance"" --Sergio Franchi - ""I Have Dreamed"" and ""Ungrateful Heart"" --Donald O'Connor, Dorothy Provone and Sergio Franchi - ""I Get that Minstrel Feeling"" --Morgana King (singer) - ""Corcavado"" --Shecky Greene (comedian) --Marilyn Michaels (song impressionist) --The Haslevs (acrobats, doing a trampoline act) --Victor Julian's Dog Act --The Martin Granger puppets --Mitchell Ayres (orchestra conductor, regular cast member) ABC repeated this show on July 10, 1965.
Host: Betty Grable --Harry James and his band --Dan Dailey --The Smothers Brothers --Diahann Carroll --Henny Youngman (comedian)
Host: Buddy Ebsen --Buddy Ebsen (from the ""Beverly Hillbillies"") - ""I Was in Vaudeville"" --Willie Mays (San Francisco Giants' center fielder) --Jack Carter (comedian) --Buddy Ebsen appears in a comedy baseball sketch with Willie Mays and Jack Carter. --Jane Morgan (singer) - ""Funny World"" --Buddy Ebsen and Shani Wallis - ""Tea for Two"" --Shani Wallis (English singer) - ""No Thanks, Just Looking"" and ""Looking for a Little Boy"" --The Wiere Brothers (comedy musical trio) --The Mascotts (German acrobats) --Tony the Wonder Horse
Host: Gene Barry --Gene Barry (star of ""Burke's Law"") - ""Lady Be Good"" and ""It's All Right with Me"" --Bette Davis and Olivia de Haviland - perform ""The Twilight Shore,"" a dramatic reading. --Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks (comedians) - perform their ""2000-Year-Old Man"" sketch. --Monique Van Vooren (singer) - ""The Girl from Ipanema"" and ""Mack the Knife"" --The Back Porch Majority (folk singers) - ""Where Will You Be?"" --U.S. Olympic Gold Medal winners --Ben Blue (comedian, pantomime artist) --Yonely (musical clown) ABC repeated this show on Sept. 4, 1965.
Host: Victor Borge --Victor Borge (comic pianist) - in a comedy segment, Borge composes by amalgamation, using sheet music, a pair of scissors and a role of cellophane tape. --Victor Borge and Alice Faye - ""Alexander's Ragtime Band"" --Alice Faye - ""Hello Dolly"" --Nancy Wilson (singer) - ""Satin Doll"" and ""The Very Thought of You"" --The Nicholas Brothers (tap dancers) - ""My Kind of Town"" --Pat Morita (comedian) --The Swingle Singers (French vocal group) - ""Bach's Fugue in D Minor"" --Rih Aruso (bicyclist) --De Mille (a 15-year-old high wire performer) ABC repeated this show on July 5, 1965.
Host: Arthur Godfrey --Arthur Godfrey - ""Trail of the Lonesome Pine,"" ""I Like Being Here with You,"" ""I'd Give a Million Tomorrows,"" ""My Little Grass Shack,"" ""Too Fat Polka"" and ""This Is All I Ask"" --Shelley Berman (comedian) --Dorothy Collins (singer) - ""Love Makes the World Go Round,"" ""But Beautiful,"" ""He Loves Me"" and ""Hi Lili"" --John Gary (singer) --Gaylord and Holliday (comedy team) --The Delrays (mimes, comic acrobats) --Eva Vidos (juggler) --Dwight Moore and his Mongrels ABC repeated this show on June 12, 1965.
Host: Tony Martin --Tony Martin - ""Avalon,"" ""Everybody Loves Somebody"" & ""People"" --Cyd Charisse (dancer, wife of Tony Martin) - ""An Occasional Man"" --Desi, Dino and Billy (Dean Martin Jr., Desi Arnaz Jr. and Billy Hinche) - ""Since You Broke My Heart"" --Jack E. Leonard (comedian) --Ted Lewis (veteran song-and-dance man) - ""When My Baby Smiles at Me"" & ""Me and My Shadow"" --Ted Lewis, Tony Martin, Cyd Charisse, Jack E. Leonard, Johnny Puleo - ""Me and My Shadow"" (reprise) --Johnny Puleo and his Harmonica Gang --The Half Brothers (jugglers) --Fred Roby (ventriloquist) ABC repeated this show on July 24, 1965.
Host: Phil Harris --Phil Harris - ""This Could be the Start of Something"" --Ginger Rogers - ""These Foolish Things"" --The McGuire Sisters (singing group, doing a medley of their hits) --Bill Dana (comedian) --Gary Crosby (singer) - ""Can't Stop Loving You"" --The Jubilee Four (vocal group) --Phil Harris and the Jubilee Four - ""It Ain't Necessarily So"" and ""That Old-time Religion"" --Dwight Moore and his Mongrels --the Merkys (acrobats)
Host: Burl Ives --Burl Ives (folk singer) - ""Blue Tail Fly,"" ""Wayfarin' Stranger,"" ""Big Rock Candy Mountain,"" ""Foggy Foggy Dew,"" ""Funny Way of Laughing,"" ""Lavender Blue,"" ""Little Bitty Tear,"" ""Pearly Shells"" and ""Chim Chim Cheree"" --Edgar Bergen (with Charlie McCarthy) --Candice Bergen (Edgar Bergen's daughter, then 18-years-old) --Ann Miller (dancer) - ""It Had Better Be Tonight"" --Anna Moffo (operatic soprano) - ""Ach, chacun le sait"" (from Donizetti's ""Daughter of the Regiment."") --Burl Ives and Anna Moffo - ""Turn Around"" --Pat Henry (comedian) --Rih Aruso (bicycle-balancer) --Liana Stanek (trapeze artist from Vienna) (Repeat aired 14Aug65)
Host: Donald O'Connor --Louis Armstrong --Jane Powell (actress-singer) --Cliff ""Charley Weaver"" Arquette --Norm Crosby (comedian) --The Vienna Boys Choir --The Hanneford Family's trained horse act
Host: Van Johnson --Van Johnson - ""I'm a Ham,"" ""Let Me Entertain You,"" ""I Want to be Happy"" and ""Lot of Livin' to Do"" --Betty Grable - ""Please, Mr. Brown"" --Jackie Mason (comedian) --Sergio Franchi (tenor) - ""In the Still of the Night"" and ""Al Di La"" --Johnson, Grable and Franchi - ""You Gotta Give the People Hoke"" --Paul Gilbert (comedian) --The Bal Caron Trio (dancers) --The Zeros (knife-throwing act) --The Jambaz (balancing act) --Mimi Zerbini (trapeze artist from France)
Host: Liberace --Liberace - ""Blue Danube,"" Me and My Shadow"" and ""There'll Be No New Tunes on This Old Piano"" --Edward G. Robinson (actor) - reading Milton Geiger's patriotic writing ""This Is It"" --Shani Wallis (English singer) - ""There Goes My Heart"" --Liberace and Shani Wallis - ""You Were Meant for Me"" and ""Tea for Two"" (and possibly ""I've Told Every Little Star"" and ""There Goes My Heart"") --Rowan and Martin (comedy team) --Gene Baylos (comedian) --Page and Bray (dancing team) --The Getschys (European cycling family) --Bertha the Elephant and her daughter Tina ABC repeated this show on Aug. 28, 1965.
Host: Bing Crosby --Beverly Garland (from Bing's 1964-65 sitcom) --Frank McHugh (from Bing's 1964-65 sitcom) --Bing Crosby, Beverly Garland and Frank McHugh - ""Top Banana"" --The King Sisters (6 sisters with their children) - ""Lollipops and Roses,"" ""There is Nothing Like a Dame,"" ""Got a Lotta Livin' to Do"" and ""I'm Old-fashioned."" --Bing Crosby and the King Sisters - ""Dream"" --Jacques d'Amboise and Catherine Mazzo (ballet dancers, of the New York City Center Ballet) - ""Meditation,"" from Massenet's opera ""Thais."" --Corbett Monica (comedian) --The Three Rebertes (acrobats) --Leonardo (plate spinner) Also: Bette Davis and former Hollywood Palace hosts Gene Barry, George Burns, Cyd Charisse, Buddy Ebsen, Phil Harris, Liberace, Tony Martin, Debbie Reynolds, Groucho Marx and Ed Wynn join Bing Crosby in a birthday sketch.
Host: Kate Smith --Kate Smith (singer) - ""Danke Schön,"" ""You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You,"" ""Temptation"" and ""God Bless America"" --Trini Lopez (singer) - ""Michael, Row the Boat Ashore"" and ""Lemon Tree"" (and possibly ""We'll Sing in the Sunshine"") --Mort Sahl (comedian-satirist) --Ben Blue (pantomime artist, silent comedian) --The Juan Carlos Copes dance troupe (from Argentina) --Stan Fisher (harmonica player) - ""Slaughter on 10th Avenue"" --Desmond and Marks (comedy dancers from England) --The Karlini and Jupiter dog act ABC repeated this show on May 29, 1965.
Host: Cyd Charisse --Cyd Charisse - ""Let's Dance"" and ""Ballet Blues"" --Tony Martin (singer, Cyd Charisse's husband) - ""Dear Heart"" and ""Lullaby of Broadway"" --Cyd Charisse and Tony Martin - ""A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening"" --Jack Carter (comedian) --Kay Starr (singer) - ""Three Letters,"" ""That Old Gang of Mine"" and ""Ho Ho Ho, Ha Ha Ha, Me Too."" --Alphonse Bergé (French dress designer) --Shai K. Ophir (pantomimist from Israel) --The Cosmos (motorcycle aerialists) --The Dalrays (comic acrobats)
Host: David Janssen --David Janssen (from ""The Fugitive"") --Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks (comedians) - give advice on filing income tax returns. --Edie Adams (singer) - ""Love,"" ""I'm Glad There Is You"" and ""The Man That Got Away"" --Tim Conway (comedian, of ""McHale's Navy"") --Vic Damone (singer) - ""Fascinatin' Rhythm,"" ""But Not for Me"" and ""They Can't Take That Away from Me"" --The Harlem Globetrotters - ""Sweet Georgia Brown."" After their song, the Globetrotters play the Hollywood Palace Dribblers: Janssen, Reiner, Brooks, Damone and Conway. --Les Surfs (singing group from Madagascar) - ""Pretty Please"" and ""Pour la Rose"" --The Zeros (knife-throwing act) --The Princess Tajana trapeze act ABC repeted this show on June 19, 1965.
Host: George Burns --George Burns - ""History of the Dance"" & ""Pack Up Your Sins"" --Connie Stevens - ""Married I Can Always Get"" (or "" Married I Can Always Stay"") --George Burns and Connie Stevens (co-staring in the 1964-65 series ""Wendy and Me"") - ""At the Ball That's All"" --George Burns and the Greenwood County Singers - ""La Vie en Rose"" --Wayne Newton - ""Red Roses for a Blue Lady"" --The Greenwood Country Singers - ""Greenwood County"" & ""Anne"" --Rich Little (impressionist-comedian) --Prassana Rao (illusionist) --The Gaonas (trampoline act from Mexico) --The Zacchinis (human cannonballs)
Host: Bette Davis --Bette Davis sings ""To Be Single"" (an answer to Richard Burton's recording ""A Married Man"") --Bette Davis and Bert Lahr appear in ""Jealousy,"" a comedy sketch from the 1952 Broadway musical revue ""Two's Company"" (in which Bette appeared on Broadway). Lahr plays a paranoid husband who's trying to get his dowdy wife to admit that she's having an affair. --Barrie Chase (dancer) - ""The Girl from Ipanema"" --Julius La Rosa (singer) - ""Out of This World"" and ""People"" --Jan Murray (comedian, does a monologue about his daughter's first date) --Les Cinci (a Parisian couple who parody apache-style dancers) --Rob Murray (comic juggler from Australia) --The Nerveless Nocks (three Swiss men and a girl who perform atop 100-foot sway-poles) ABC repeated this show on July 3, 1965.
Co-hosts: Roy Rogers and Dale Evans --Roy Rogers and Dale Evans (accompanied by Trigger and the Sons of the Pioneers) --Jan and Dean - ""From All over the World"" (theme from the ""T.A.M.I. Show"") --The Nicholas Brothers (singing dancers) - ""Black Magic"" --Shelley Berman (comedian) --Billy de Wolfe --The Ballet Folklorico of Mexico - ""Jalisco"" --The Murais (jugglers from Japan) --The Flying Armors (trapeze act) ABC repeated this show on September 11, 1965.
Host: Eddie Fisher --Eddie Fisher - ""Let Me Entertain You"" --Connie Stevens - ""It Only Takes a Moment"" --Jack Carter (comedian) --The Arirang Korean ballet troupe --Ben Wrigley (comedy pantomimist) --The Kuban Cossacks (Cossack dancers)
Host: Victor Borge --Victor Borge (comic pianist) - demonstrates how great composers stumbled on some of their famous compositions. --Rosemary Clooney - ""Cabin in the Sky,"" ""Come on A-My House,"" ""Botch-a-Me,"" ""Hey There"" and ""Tenderly"" --Shecky Greene (comedian, does a routine about folk and nightclub singers) --The Kessler Twins (singers) - ""For Me, Formidable"" and ""Every Street's a Boulevard in Old New York"" --The Two Freddies (acrobats, on trampoline) --Russ Lewis (ventriloquist) --Marco (sword-balancer)
Host: Robert Goulet --Robert Goulet (guest host) --Carol Lawrence (singer, wife of Robert Goulet) --Bill Cosby (comedian, does a routine about Noah and the Ark) --Les Surfs (singing group from Madagascar) --Bill Dana (comedian, as ""El Matador"" Jose Jimenez) --The Trhee Akeffs (balancing act) --Eva Vidos (juggler) --Kay and her pets
Host: Tony Randall --Tony Randall - does a sketch about an all-night radio disc jockey --Diana Ross and the Supremes - ""Stop! In The Name Of Love"" --Allan Sherman sings ""Crazy Downtown"" (parody of Petula Clark's ""Downtown"") --Nelson Eddy and Gale Sherwood (singers) - ""You and the Night and the Music"" & ""Indian Love Call"" --Nelson Eddy - ""The Song Is You"" --Vikki Carr (singer) - ""The Good Life,"" ""So in Love"" and ""The Days of Wine and Roses"" --Pat Morita (comedian) --The Marthys (tumbling acrobats) --Mendez's high-wire act --A wrestling match between the Hangman and Victor the Great, a Canadian Brown Bear. ABC repeated this show on August 21, 1965.
Host: Dale Robertson --Tim Conway (comedian, from ""McHale's Navy"") - does an obstetrician sketch --George Gobel (comedian) --Barbara McNair (singer) --Lisa Kirk (singer-dancer) --Gaylord and Holiday (comedy team) --The Four Winds of Notre Dame (vocal quartet) --The Morways (teeterboard artists from Prague) --The Hennefore Family's comedy animal act
Host: Groucho Marx --Margaret Dumont (comedian, in her last TV appearance) --Groucho Marx and Margaret Dumont perform their comedy classic ""Captain Spaulding,"" a number from ""Animal Crackers."" --Melinda Marx (Groucho's daughter) - ""East Side of Town"" --Groucho and Melinda Marx - ""Play a Simple Melody"" --Gordon and Sheila MacRae sing ""I Want to Be with You"" --Sheila MacRae - ""Hello Dolly"" and ""Happy Days Are Here Again"" --Gordon MacRae - ""More"" --Shecky Greene (comedian) --Miriam Makeba (African folk singer) - African Game Song --Lydia Torea (flamenco dancer, with her troupe) - ""Dos en Ritmo"" & ""Un Pinto"" --Don Saunders (comedian from Scotland) --The Four Kents (trick unicyclists from Denmark)
Host: Pat Boone --Pat Boone - ""Exodus,"" ""Walk Right In,"" ""Love Letters in the Sand,"" ""Wonderful Time Up There"" and ""April Love"" --Dorothy Collins (singer) - ""Sleeping Bee"" and ""The Eagle and Me"" --Jack E. Leonard (comedian) --Ben Blue (comedian-impressionist, with his troupe) - ""The Parisian Sidewalk Café"" sketch --Liliane Montevecchi (singer-dancer) --The Cherokys (acrobats) --The Steckles (illusionists)
Host: Louis Armstrong --Louis Armstrong - ""Hello, Dolly!"" ""When the Saints Go Marching In,"" ""Mack the Knife"" and ""Blueberry Hill"" (Also, Armstrong is saluted for his 50 years in show business and his role as a goodwill ambassador.) --Edward G. Robinson (actor) - reads tributes to Louis Armstrong from President Johnson and the Senate. --Jimmy Durante - ""Well-Dressed Man,"" ""What a Day,"" ""Alley Cat"" and ""Again You Turn-a"" --Louis Armstrong and Jimmy Durante - ""Old Man Time"" --Diahann Carroll (blues singer) - ""Outskirts of Town,"" ""Porgy"" and ""Nobody Loves You When You're Down and Out"" --Rowan and Martin (comedy team) --The Ballet Folklorico of Mexico - ""Jalisco"" and ""Deer Dance""
Host: Steve Lawrence --Mickey Rooney and Bobby Van - appear in a spoof of the movie ""Bridge on the River Kwai"" --Jean Fenn (operatic soprano) --The Backporch Majority (folk singers) - ""Ramblin' Man"" and ""Old Dan Tucker"" --Jack Cole (choreographer-dancer) --Gene Baylos (comedian) --Alberto and Rosita (plate spinners) --The Gimma Brothers (novelty act) --Poogie Bell (a 4-year-old drummer) ABC repeated this show on August 7, 1965.
Host: George Burns --Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks (comedians, do an interview sketch on dieting) --Jack Jones (singer) --Mary Costa (operatic soprano) --The Young Americans (vocal group) - ""The Young Americans"" --Cully Rihcards and Company (pantomimists) --the Almiros (jugglers) --The Flying Zacchinis (trapeze artists)
Host: Tennessee Ernie Ford --Ann Miller (singer-dancer) --Edie Adams (singer)--Jack Carter (comedian)--Santos (low-wire acrobat act from Portugal)--The O'Keffe comedy divers (from England) --The Gus Augspurg Monkeys Please see ""Recap"" for episode transcript and song titles.
Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby - ""The Hollywood Palace Song"" --Caterina Valente (singer) - ""Meditation"" --Bing Crosby and Caterina Valente - ""Slow Boat to China,"" ""Hindustan,"" ""Fancy Meeting You Here"" and ""It Happened in Monterrey"" --Tim Conway (comedian, from ""McHale's Navy"") --Avery Schreiber and Jack Burns (comedy team) --The Nitwits (comedy music group) --The Rudas (Australian dancers) --The Black Theater of Prague --Bertha the Elephant and her daughter Tina
Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby - ""My Blue Heaven"" --Louis Armstrong - ""Way Down Yonder in New Orleans"" --Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong - ""Dardanella"" --Phil Harris (comedian) - ""King of the Road""--The Young Americans (36 young singers led by Milton Anderson) - ""Waiting for the Robert E. Lee"" & ""Swanee"" --Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Phil Harris & the Young Americans - ""South Rampart Street Parade"" --Bing Crosby and The Young Americans - ""Happiness Is"" --Carl Ballantine (comic magician, a regular on ""McHale's Navy"") --Pat Woodell (a former regular on ""Petticoat Junction,"" making her singing debut) - ""It Might as Well Be Spring"" --Fred Roby (ventriloquist from France) --La Norma (Danish trapeze artist) --Sims' performing ponies
Host: Fred Astaire --Fred Astaire - ""Top Hat"" & ""The Time Has Come"" --We Five - ""You Were on My Mind"" --Jimmy Smith (jazz organist) - ""The Organ Grinder's Swing"" --Fred Astaire and Jimmy Smith - ""The Cat"" --Rudolf Nureyev and Dame Margot Fonteyn (ballet stars of London's Royal Ballet Company) - ""The Black Swan"" pas de deux --Paul Lynde & Carmen Phillips - appear in a sketch about a girl who ""wants to end it all."" --Jackie Mason (stand-up comedian discussing actors entering politics) --The Andre Tahon Puppets (featuring Fuzzy the Caterpillar)
Host: Joan Crawford --Joan Crawford reads ""A Prayer for Little Children"" --Jack Jones - ""Just Yesterday"" & ""More"" --Jack Jones & Joanie Sommers - ""Call Me"" --Joanie Sommers (singer) - ""Till There Was You"" --Allen and Rossi (comedy team) --Steve Rossi - ""Al Di La"" & ""Battle Hymn of the Republic"" --Godfrey Cambridge (comedian) --Lily Yokoi (Japanese bicyclist) --The Rodos (acrobats from West Germany) --Stebbings' Boxers (a comic dog act from England)
Host: Frank Sinatra --Frank Sinatra - ""I've Got the World on a String"" --Frank Sinatra and Count Basie - ""Fly Me to the Moon,"" ""Everybody Has a Right to be Wrong,"" ""Please Be Kind,"" ""The Gal That Got Away"" and ""Too Marvelous for Words"" --Count Basie - ""Summertime"" --Jack E. Leonard (comedian, does a soft-shoe number & recalls former appearances with Sinatra) --Peter Gennaro (choreographer-dancer) - ""What's New Pussycat?"" production number --The Kessler Sisters (Alice and Ellen Kessler, singers from West Germany) - ""The Best is Yet to Come"" & ""Together Wherever We Go""
Host: Milton Berle --Sonny and Cher - ""Baby, Don't Go"" & ""Where Do You Go?"" --Sonny and Cher with Milton Berle - in a skit, perform a version of ""But You're Mine"" titled ""But You're Ours."" (Milton is portrayed as S&C's kid in the skit with long hair, fur vest, etc.) --Abbe Lane (singer) --Bill Dana (comedian, as Jose Jimenez talking about his jujitsu book) --Maury Wills (Los Angeles Dodger captain) - sings and plays banjo --Mike McGivney (quick-change actor doing an abbreviated version of ""Oliver Twist"") --The Rudas (Austrailian dancers) - ""This Must Be the Place""
--Ray Bolger (host) - ""Put on a Happy Face,"" ""Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries,"" ""Ida,"" ""Rosie O'Grady,"" ""Once in Love with Amy"" and ""Who?"" --Kay Starr - ""Never Dreamed I Could Love Someone New"" and ""Rockin' Chair"" --Ray Bolger and Kay Starr - ""Dearie"" --Lionel Hampton - ""How High the Moon"" --Jim Bradley (7-year-old drummer) and Lionel Hampton - ""Vibe Boogie"" --Norm Crosby (comedian) --Rich Little (impressionist-comedian) --Michael De La Vega (escape artist) --The Five Armandis (acrobats, teeterboard act)
Host: Judy Garland --Judy Garland sings ""Once in a While,"" I Loved Him"" and ""We're a Couple of Swells"" --Judy Garland sings ""Play the Palace"" then performs songs made famous by other singers at the Broadway Palace: ""Shine On, Harvest Moon"" (Nora Bayes); ""Some of These Days"" (Sophie Tucker); ""My Man"" (Fanny Brice) and ""I Don't Care"" (Eva Tanguay). --Judy Garland and Vic Damone - ""West Side Story"" medley: ""Maria,"" ""There's a Place for Us"" and ""Tonight"" --Vic Damone - ""Quiet Nights"" --Chita Rivera (singer-dancer) - ""Blue is the Color"" --Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber (comedy team) --Gene Baylos (comedian) --The Lyons Family (acrobats) --The Three Bragazzi (musical clowns from Italy)
Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby (host) - ""Them There Eyes"" --Diahann Carroll (singer) - ""It's Not Unusual"" and ""If I Ruled the World"" --John Bubbles (song-and-dance man) --Charlie Manna (comedian) --The Kessler Twins (singers Ellen and Alice Kessler) - ""Married I Can Always Get"" and ""Identical"" --Michael the Waiter (German juggler) --Desmond and Marks (English comedians) --The Black Theater of Prague (pantomimists)
Host: Janet Leigh --Janet Leigh and Allan Sherman - ""Sarah Jackman"" --Allan Sherman (comedy singer) - ""Peyton Place"" --Rowan & Martin (comedy team) --Andy Russell (singer) - ""Besame Mucho,"" ""Magic Is the Moonlight,"" ""What a Difference a Day Makes,"" ""Amor"" and ""The Second Time Around"" --Michel de la Vega (magician) --Bob Ashley and Erwin Klein (table tennis experts) Additional guests (cast from ""F Troop""): --Forrest Tucker - sings ""Old Man Time"" --Ken Berry - sings ""I'm Beginning to See the Light"" --Larry Storch (comedian) ABC repeated this show on August 27, 1966.
Host: Milton Berle --Milton Berle and Liberace - ""My Kind of Town"" --Liberace - ""More,"" ""Alley Cat"" and the theme from ""Exodus"" --Cesar Romero (actor) --Joey Heatherton (singer-dancer) - ""I'm All Smiles"" --The McGuire Sisters (singers) - ""Bye Bye, Blackbird,"" ""I Can't Give You Anything but Love,"" ""My Melancholy Baby"" and ""When My Baby smiles at Me"" --Johnny Puleo and his Harmonica Gang --The Peiro Brothers (jugglers from Argentina) --The Berosinis (acrobats, teeterboard act from Czechoslovakia) Comedy sketch (about the filming of a spy movie): --Cesar Romero (as the pampered star) --Phyllis McGuire (as ""Kitten Plenty,"" the leading lady) --Liberace (as ""Irving Goldjacket,"" the ruthless killer) --Milton Berle (as the stuntman) --Milton Frome (as ""Alfred Hitchcluck,"" the director) --Johnny Puleo (as the makeup man)
Host: Caterina Valente --Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - ""Whipped Cream"" & ""The Lonely Bull"" --Caterina Valente - sings ""Danke Schön,"" ""Don't Rain on My Parade,"" ""Falling in Love with Love"" & ""Till"" --Bill Cosby (from ""I Spy"") - does a stand-up monologue about shopping for a new car. --Bill Dana (comedian, appearing as flamenco dancer José Jimenez) --the Black Theatre of Prague (pantomimists) --Luiz Bonfa (Brazilian guitarist) - ""The Ski Song"" --Channing Pollock (magician) --The Fredonias (tumblers from Germany)
Host: Bing Crosby (1965 Christmas Show) --Bing Crosby - ""White World of Winter"" --Bob Crane, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Collins - ""We Wish You the Merriest"" --Bing Crosby and Dorothy Collins - ""Glow Worm"" --Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians - ""Twelve Days of Christmas"" --Robert Clary - ""French Christmas Song"" --Werner Klemperer and John Banner - ""Stille Nacht"" (""Silent Night"" in German) --Andre Tahon (puppeteer) --Bob Williams and Louie the Dog (humorous animal act) - overly enthusiastic man tries to get his dog to do tricks. The cast of ""Hogan's Heroes"" (Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, Richard Dawson, John Banner, Robert Clary, Larry Hovis and Ivan Dixon) joins Bing in a sketch.
Second Anniversary show Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby - ""Let's Start the New Year Right"" and ""This Could be the Start of Something Big"" --Sonny and Cher with Bing Crosby - ""Resolutions"" --Sonny and Cher - ""What Now My Love"" --Danny Thomas (comedian) --Bob Newhart (comedian) --David Nelson (from ""Ozzie and Harriet,"" performing on the trapeze with the Flying Artons) --Donna Butterworth (8 year old actress-singer) - ""Swanee"" and ""Waiting for the Robert E. Lee"" --Donna Butterworth and Bing Crosby - ""Little Grass Shack"" --Marilyn Maye (singer) - ""Misty"" --Ben Blue (pantomimist doing a routine about an ice skater)
Host: Kate Smith --Kate Smith - ""Fine and Dandy,"" ""When the Moon Comes over the Mountain,"" ""Who Cares?"" and ""Love Is a Many Splendored Thing"" --Juliet Prowse (dancer, star of the 1965-66 series ""Mona McCluskey"") - ""Dixie"" medley --Charles Aznavour (singer-composer) - ""Who?"" & ""The Comedians"" --Burns & Schreiber (comedy team doing a routine about a talking vending machine) --Albert T. Berry (comedy-novelty act, billed as a momologist) --Charles Cairoli and Company (pantomime group doing a routine about a bakery) --The Rodos (eight tumblers/acrobatic dancers from Germany) --Prasano Rao (illusionist from India, does shadow puppets of famous people)
Host: Phil Harris --Alice Faye --Tim Conway --Georgie Kaye --Sergio Franchi --The Kim Sisters
Host: Fred Astaire --Barrie Chase (Astaire's dancing partner) --Petula Clark - ""My Love"" & ""My Fair Lady"" medley --Mickey Rooney --Bobby Van --Ray Hastings (comedian) --The Nitwits (British comedy troupe) - orchestra plays the second movement from ""Heidens symphony #94 in C"" and ""12th Street Rag."" --Astaire joins the Nitwits for ""Temptation."" --The Lenz Chimps
Host: Arthur Godfrey --Arthur Godfrey - ""The Wonderful Thing About Love,"" ""S' Wonderful,"" ""England Swings"" and ""Good Old Days"" --Arthur Godfrey with the Mamas and the Papas - ""Be My Valentine"" --The Mamas and the Papas - ""California Dreamin'"" --Sid Caesar (comedian) - appears in a sketch with Arthur Godfrey and Corbett Monica. In the sketch, titled ""How to Make Motion Pictures,"" Sid portrays a bumbling Viennese filmmaker who comes to Hollywood to save a failing movie studio. --Abbe Lane (singer) - ""Gonna Build a Mountain,"" ""A Wonderful Day Like Today"" & ""Down by the Riverside."" --Corbett Monica (comedian doing a stand-up routine) --The Berosinis (acrobats, teeterboard act from Czechoslovakia) --Les Apollo (balancing act)
Guests: --Vincent Edwards (host) - ""A Fellow Needs a Girl"" & medley: ""Lulu's Back in Town,"" ""Maria"" and ""Ida"" --Vincent Edwards and Liza Minnelli - ""Everything I've Got Belongs to You"" --Liza Minnelli - ""Where Did You Learn to Dance?"" & ""There Is a Time"" --Bette Davis - does a dramatic reading (of a Dorothy Parker poem) --Joan Rivers (comedian) --Liliane Montevecchi (singer-dancer) - ""Dis-Donc"" & ""Walk on the Wild Side"" --Miss Elizabeth (trapeze performer) --The Rogge Sisters (acrobats) --Bertha and Tina (trained elephant act)
Host: Donald O'Connor --Donald O'Connor - ""Mother Goose"" --Donald O'Connor and Jane Morgan - ""Look at That Face"" --Edward G. Robinson - reads an excerpt from Aaron Copland's ""A Lincoln Portrait"" --Roger Williams (pianist) - ""Bach's Minuet in G Major"" & ""Flight of the Bumble Bee"" --Paul Anka - ""Oh, Such a Stranger"" & a medley of songs written by Anka --Jane Morgan - ""This Train"" & an Al Jolson medley --Shecky Greene (comedian) --The Three Bragazzis (acrobatic act) --The See Hee Troupe of Formose (acrobats)
Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby - ""Just the Way You Are"" --Rosemary Clooney - Blues medley --Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney - ""Hear That Band,"" ""New Vienna Woods,"" ""The Poor People of Paris"" and ""Molly Malone"" --Gary Crosby (Bing's son) - ""Who Can I Turn To?"" --Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy (ventriloquist act) --Hugh Lambert (dancer) - ""Gabriel"" --Roger Ray (comedy xyloponist) --The Fiji military band - ""Senikau-ni Bula"" & ""Krisimasi""
--Liberace (host) --Bob Newhart (comedian) - does a monologue about a night watchman encountering King Kong. --Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber (comedy team) - do a taxicab routine --John Davidson (singer) --Marni Nixon (singer) --Channing Pollock (magician) --Betty Pasco (trapeze artist)
Comedy: A comic book spoof with Milton Berle, Adam West, Henny Youngman, Martha Raye and Abdou Amin. Music: --Adam West (from ""Batman,"" making his TV singing debut) - sings ""Miranda"" & ""Only You See Her."" --Martha Raye - ""Taking a Chance on Love"" --Elaine Dunn (singer-dancer) - ""Buckle Down Winsocki"" --Sandler and Young (musical-comedy team) Also: --Henny Youngman (comedian) --The Amin Brothers (acrobats)
Host: Fred Astaire --Fred Astaire - sings ""Fascinatin' Rhythm"" & ""Lady Be Good."" Astaire also dances to ""Bugle Call Rag."" --Ethel Merman - ""Some People"" --Fred Astaire and Ethel Merman sing a duet. Medley: ""I Got Rhythm"" (Astaire), ""Everything's Coming Up Roses"" (Merman), ""Let's Face the Music and Dance"" (Astaire/Merman), ""I Get A Kick Out Of You"" (Merman), ""Cheek To Cheek"" (Astaire), ""Putting on the Ritz"" (Merman), ""They Say it's Wonderful"" (Astaire & Merman), ""Anything Goes"" (Astaire/Merman), ""I've Got Rhythm"" reprise. (During medley, Merman tries to get Astaire to sing like her and project his voice.) --Jack Jones (singer) - ""The Shadow of Your Smile"" & ""What Now, My Love"" --Marcel Marceau (mime) - pantomimes ""The Butterfly Collector"" and ""Bip the Lion Tamer"" --Pat Morita (comedian) --The Rogge Sisters (French balancing act) --The Hardy Family (tumbling acrobats)
--Robert Goulet - ""Moment of Truth"" & ""Soliloguy"" --Nancy Sinatra - ""These Boots Are Made For Walkin'"" & ""As Tears Go By"" --Robert Goulet and Nancy Sinatra - Shoe medley --Chita Rivera (singer-dancer) - ""My Home Is In My Shoes"" --Jan Murray (comedian) --The Muppets --Mac Ronay (comedic magician) --The Nerveless Nocks (sway pole acrobats)
Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby - ""Bye, Bye, Blackbird,"" ""Red, Red Robin"" & ""The Men in My Little Girl's Life"" --Bing Crosby and Tammy Grimes - ""Typically English"" --Tammy Grimes - ""Feeling Good"" --Bing Crosby and Nanette Fabray - medley: ""Greensleeves,"" ""Tell Me, Pretty Maiden,"" ""Country Garden,"" ""Indian Love Call"" and ""Baby, It's Cold Outside"" --Nanette Fabray - ""American Patrol"" --Jackie Mason (comedian) --David Frost (satirist) --Cully Richards (comedy pantomimist) --The Harris Nelson family (play unusual musical instruments)
Host: Martha Raye --Martha Raye - ""Lover"" & ""Little Girl Blue"" --Chad and Jeremy - ""Distant Shores"" --Martha Raye, Chad and Jeremy - ""The Stately Homes of England"" --Sgt. Barry Sadler - ""The Ballad of the Green Berets"" & ""The 'A' Team"" --Ann Miller (singer-dancer) - ""Slap That Bass"" --George Carlin (comedian) --Allen and Rossi (comedy team of Marty Allen & Steve Rossi) --Bela Kremo (juggler) Comedy sketch: ""The Hair Dresser"" - Martha Raye styles Marty Allen's hair using the ingredients from a box of cake mix.
Host: Gene Barry --Gene Barry - ""A Real Live Girl,"" ""What Am I?"" and ""All I Need Now Is a Girl"" --The Mamas and the Papas - ""Monday, Monday"" --Wally Cox (comedian) --Tim Conway (comedian) - portrays the inventor of the matchmaking machine --The McGuire Sisters (singers) - ""Blue Skies"" & medley (""Yesterday,"" ""Bye Bye Blues"" & ""Night and Day"") --Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale (Dodger pitchers) - join Milton Berle in a comedy sketch. --The Hildalys (high-wire motorcycle act from France) --The Lenz Chimps (trained animal act)
Hosts: Tony Martin & Cyd Charisse (husband & wife) --Tony Martin (singer) - ""Singing in the Rain,"" ""I'll Only Miss Her,"" ""Who Can I Turn To?"" and ""A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening"" --Cyd Charisse (dancer) --Cesar Romero (actor) - appears in the sketch ""At Home with the Martins"" --Rowan & Martin (comedy team) --Norm Crosby (comedian) --Vikki Carr (singer) - ""Them There Eyes"" --Bobby Winters (juggler) --The Suns Family (acrobats)
Host: Victor Borge --Victor Borge - ""The Viennese Waltz"" and does a routine about phonetic punctuation. --Jane Powell (singer) - ""I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy"" & ""On a Wonderful Day Like Today"" --Peter Gennaro (choreographer-dancer) - ""Ol' Man River"" --The Kim Sisters (singing-musicians) - ""Birth of the Blues"" & ""Bill Bailey"" --The Brothers Kim (instrumentalists) --The Kim Sisters and the Brothers Kim - ""Fingers of Fire,"" ""Steel Guitar Rag,"" ""You'll Never Walk Alone"" & ""Violin Hoedown"" --Irwin Corey (comedian/Comic professor) --Gala Shawn (trapeze artist from Ireland)
Host: Fred Astaire --Fred Astaire - ""Steppin' Out with My Baby"" & ""I'm Puttin' All My Eggs in One Basket"" --Fred Astaire and Barrie Chase (do modern dance steps to a rock 'n' roll beat) - ""See See Rider"" and ""Boom Boom"" --Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - ""Lonely Bull,"" ""A Taste of Honey,"" ""What Now, My Love?"" & ""It Was a Very Good Year."" --Barrie Chase with Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - ""Spanish Flea"" & ""Love Potion No. 9"" --Louis Nye (comedian) --Helen O'Connell (singer) - ""Embraceable You,"" ""All of Me,"" Yours,"" ""Amapola,"" ""Tangerine,"" and ""Green Eyes"" --Bela Kremo (juggler from Switzerland) --John Zerbini (lion tamer)
Host: Judy Garland --Judy Garland - ""What the World Needs Now Is Love"" & ""By Myself Alone"" --Judy Garland & Van Johnson - ""Mr. and Mrs. Clown"" --Van Johnson - ""Guys and Dolls"" --Johnny Rivers - ""Secret Agent"" & ""The Snake"" --Jack Carter (comedian) --The Black Theatre of Prague (pantomimists) - perform ""The Chair"" --Charlie Cairoli (comedy pantomimist from Britain) --The Roselle Troupe (acrobats from Colombia)
Guests: --Bing Crosby (host) - ""This Is One Of Those Songs"" --Leslie Uggams - ""What Did I Have?"" & ""Inka-Dinka-Doo"" --Bing Crosby and Johnny Mercer - ""From Monday On"" --Johnny Mercer (sings a medley with Bing Crosby, see below) --Shelley Berman (comedian doing a telephone routine) --The King Family and Bing Crosby - ""Young At Heart"" & ""You Make Me Feel So Young"" --The Mecners --Pat Daly & Bill Wayne --Mac Ronay --Bing Crosby and Johnny Mercer - Medley: ""Three Little Words"" (Crosby), ""Too Marvellous For Words"" (Mercer), ""Witchcraft"" (Crosby), ""That Old Black Magic"" (Mercer), ""Chattanooga Choo Choo"" (Crosby), ""On the Atcheson, Topeka & The Santa Fe"" (Mercer), ""A Shine On Your Shoes"" (Crosby), Come Rain Or Come Shine"" (Mercer), ""Three O'clock In The Morning"" (Crosby), ""One For My Baby"" (Mercer), ""Yes, We Have No Bananas"" (Crosby), Tangerine"" (Mercer), ""Lazy River"" (Crosby), ""Lazy Bones"" / ""Moon River"" (Mercer), ""Manãna"" (Crosby), ""Blues In The Night"" (Parody)
Host: Bing Crosby --The Mamas & the Papas - ""Dancing Bear"" & ""Dancing in the Street"" --Bing Crosby - ""Strike Up the Band"" (with dancers) --George Burns - ""Pack Up Your Sins and Go to the Devil"" --Bing Crosby and George Burns - ""You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You"" --Sid Caesar --Lola Falana (singer-dancer) - ""Promise Her Anything"" --Jane Marsh (soprano) - ""Mi chiamano Mimi"" (aria from Puccini's ""La Boheme"") --Mickey Deems --Joyce Jameson --Mac Ronay (French comic magician) --The Rhodins (aerialists) Comedy: --Bing appears as a star visiting suburbia in a sketch with Sid Caesar, Mickey Deems and Joyce Jameson.
Host: Phil Silvers --Mr. and Mrs. Bob Top (roller skating couple) - perform stunts atop a 60-foot-high platform outside the theater --Polly Bergen - sings ""It's Today"" & ""If He Walked Into My Life"" --Phil Silvers & Polly Bergen - appear together in a comedy sketch about screen lovers (The woman is near sighted and the man hogs the camera). They sing ""Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life,"" ""I Love You"" & ""They Say It's Wonderful"" --Mel Brooks & Carl Reiner - a visit with the 2000 Year Old Man --The Lovin' Spoonful - ""Rain On The Roof"" & ""Summer In The City"" --Tagora (sword swallower) - does various sword tricks --Sergio Franchi - ""Volare"" & ""The Impossible Dream"" --Phil Silvers tries to show Sergio Franchi how to sing like a pop singer. They sing ""Happy Days Are Here Again.""
Host: Elizabeth Montgomery --Elizabeth Montgomery - ""Bewitched"" theme. --Elizabeth Montgomery and Vic Damone - ""Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered"" duet --Vic Damone (singer) - ""Falling in Love with Love"" and ""I Cried for You"" --Paul Lynde (comedian) --Jackie Mason (comedian) --Morgana King (singer) --The Baja Marimba Band - ""Portuguese Washerwoman"" & ""Acapulco 1922"" --Paul Anthony's tigers --Sensational Parker (acrobatic act) --The Three Robertes (acrobats)
Host: Adam West --Adam West (from ""Batman"") - sings ""The Orange Colored Sky"" & ""The Summer Wind"" --Ray Charles with the Raelettes - ""Crying Time,"" ""Tell the World About You"" & ""Alexander's Ragtime Band."" --Roy Rogers and Dale Evans --Joey Heatherton (singer-dancer) - ""By Myself"" --George Carlin (comedian) - does a monologue about the American Indian --Fred Roby (ventriloquist) --Danny Sailor (high-pole performer) --Landon's Midgets (slapstick comedians)
Host: Phyllis Diller --Herman's Hermits - ""Listen People"" & ""Dandy"" --Bob Newhart (comedian) - does a monologue about a policeman talking to a man who's threatening to commit suicide. --Tony Martin (singer) --Lada Edmund Jr. (dancer, formerly of ""Hullabaloo"") --Kirk Kirkham (magician) --Del Morals' acrobatic act --The Palace Duo (trapeze artists)
--Herb Alpert (host) and the Tijuana Brass - ""Tijuana Taxi"" --Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - ""Mame,"" medley of hits and ""Zorba the Greek"" --The Supremes - ""You Keep Me Hangin On"", ""Somewhere"" & ""What Now My Love"" --Shelley Berman (comedian) --Gilbert Bécaud (French singer-songwriter, wrote the original French version of ""What Now My Love"") --Hendra & Ullett (British comedy team) --Also: a clown act from Europe & a wire walker.
Host: Dale Robertson --Dale Robertson (from the ""Iron Horse"" TV series) - ""Gotta Travel On"" & ""I've Been Working on the Railroad"" --Barrie Chase (dancer-singer) - ""Possibilities"" --Jack Carter (comedian) --Morgana King (singer) - ""I Love Paris"" & ""Meditation"" --The Stoneman Family (country musicians) - ""Fire on the Mountain"" --The Geezinslaw Brothers (comedy bluegrass group) - ""On the Street Where You Live"" --Don Sanders (comedian) --The Hildalys (aerialists) --Novelle's Poodles (trained animal act)
--Phil Harris (guest host, singer) --The Flying Artons with David Nelson (trapeze act) --Szony and Claire (dance team) --George Jessel (comedian / actor) --Elizabeth and Collins (knife throwing act) --Jacques Ary (comic impressionist) --Abbe Lane (singer) --Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber (comedians)
Host: Vince Edwards (from ""Ben Casey"") --Opening number: Vince Edwards sings while women in ""mod"" clothing dance around him. --Rowan & Martin appear with Vince during the opening monologue. --The Geezy Brothers (acrobats from France) Note: ""Geezy"" might be the wrong spelling. --Peter Nero (pianist) - ""El Matador"" --Norm Crosby (stand-up comedian) --Juliet Prowse (dancer) - dances to ""Stop Stop Stop"" (with other dancers). --Rowan & Martin with Vince Edwards - comedy routine about spies exchanging information. --Juliet Prowse and Vince Edwards - duo dances and sings ""People"" & 1 other song. --Otto and Anna (acrobat act) - man balances on blocks --The Standells - ""Dirty Water"" (1-minute excerpt) & ""Why Pick On Me"" (2 min - 6 sec) --Dan Rowan & Dick Martin - comedy routine about political protocol --Vince Edwards - sings ""The Joker"" & 1 other song
Guests: --Bing Crosby (host) - ""Mame"" & ""Sunrise, Sunset"" --Vikki Carr - ""Bye, Bye, Blackbird"" & ""Cuando Caliente El Sol"" --Bill Dana (comedian) - appears in a sketch with Bing. Dana portrays CIA agent Jose Jiminez. --Dorothy Lamour (singer-actress) - ""All Of You"" --Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour - Medley: ""Road To Morocco"" parody (Bing), ""Moonlight Becomes You"" (Bing), ""You Don't Have To Know the Language"" (Bing), ""The Moon of Manakoora"" (Lamour), ""But Beautiful"" (Bing), ""Apalachicola FLA."" (Bing), ""Sunday, Monday or Always"" (Bing) and ""Road to Morocco"" --Sid Caesar appears in a sketch with Lamour. --Liliane Montevecchi - ""I Wanna Be Loved By You"" --The Gimma Brothers (comic acrobats / tumblers) --Tagora (sword swallower / fire-eater) Thanks to Malcolm Macfarlane, editor of BING magazine, for providing the above information.
Host: Victor Borge --Petula Clark - ""Strangers In The Night"" & ""Without A Song"" --Allen & Rossi (comedy team) - routine about a Japanese baseball star --Steve Rossi - ""The Shadow of Your Smile"" --Jean Pierre Aumont & Marisa Pavan (husband & wife singing-dancing team) - ""All I Need Now is the Girl"" & ""C'est Si Bon"" --Claire Sombert & Michel Bruel (French ballet dancers) with Victor Borge - ""Claire de Lune"" --The Flying Cavarettas (teenage aerialists) --Dennis Breilein (escape artist) --Baby Sabu (performing elephant)
--Jimmy Durante (host) - ""One of Those Songs"" & ""A One-Room Home"" --The Turtles - ""Can I Get To Know You Better"" --George Carlin (comedian) - spoofs rock 'n' roll DJs --Jimmy Durante and Peter Lawford - ""Style"" --Peter Lawford - ""Come Back to Me"" --Mrs. Miller sings ""Every Little Movement (Has A Meaning All It's Own)"" --Jimmy Durante and Mrs. Miller - ""Inka-Dinka-Doo"" --Elaine Dunn (singer-dancer) - ""To Be in Love"" --George Carl (comedic dancer) --The Polack Brothers' elephant act
--Eddie Fisher - ""Games that Lovers Play"" and ""Mame"" --Eddie Fisher and the Young Americans - ""Hava Nagila"" --The Young Americans - ""Climp Every Mountain"" and ""Gonna Build a Mountain"" --Agnes Moorehead - does a dramatic reading from Marcel Proust's ""Remembrance of Things Past"" --Joey Forman (comedian) --The Kessler Twins (singers-dancers Alice and Ellen Kessler) - ""A Man and a Woman"" and a foreign language medley. --The Canestrelli Family (trampoline act) --The Swordsmen of the Lido
1966 Christmas Show hosted by Bing and Kathryn Crosby, with their children Harry, Mary Francis and Nathaniel. --Bing Crosby - ""Happy Holliday,"" ""Christmas Waltz"" and ""White Christmas"" --Bing, Kathryn, Harry, Mary and Nathaniel Crosby - ""Silver Bells,"" ""Silent Night,"" ""Do You Hear What I Hear?"" ""The Little Drummer Boy,"" ""12 Days of Christmas"" and ""Never Never Land"" --Kate Smith - ""Christmas Eve in My Home Town"" --Cyd Charrise and Roy Fitzell (dancers) - appear as marionettes Pierette and Pierot. --Bob Newhart (comedian) - monolog about man trying to return a toupee that he got as a gift. --Murillo (tight-rope walker) --The Kuban Cossacks --Excess Baggage (a trained dog act)
Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby - ""Auld Lang Syne"" & ""Cabaret"" --Bing Crosby and the Mills Brothers - ""Paper Doll"" --The Mills Brothers - ""Don't Blame Me"" --Dorothy Collins (singer) - ""Feelin' Good"" --Charles Aznavour - ""Le Temps"" & ""Hier Encore"" --Skitch Henderson (pianist, formerly of ""The Tonight Show"") - ""Lover"" --Burns & Schreiber (comedy team) --Johnny Puleo and his Harmonica Gang
Host: Ray Bolger --Paul Revere and the Raiders - ""Great Airplane Strike of 1966"" --Ray Bolger - ""There Are Smiles"" & ""The Old Soft Shoe"" --Ray Bolger & the King Family children - ""If I Only Had a Brain"" & ""Follow the Yellow Brick Road"" (Bolger is dressed as his Scarecrow character from the ""Wizard of Oz."") --Audrey Meadows & Ray Bolger - perform a ""Honeymooners"" sketch. --Diahann Carroll - ""What the World Needs Now"" & ""Here's That Rainy Day"" --The King Family - ""I'm Old-Fashioned"" & ""The Men in My Little Girl's Life"" (these songs might be performed by only the King Sisters) --Adam Keefe (comic impressionist) - imitates Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and George Sanders --The Morgan Ashton Family (acrobats)
Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby - ""Put On a Happy Face"" & ""This Is a Great Country"" --Jimmy Durante - ""Nobody Wants My Money"" & ""Eagle Rock"" --Tim Conway (comedian) --Edie Adams - sings ""Lady Godiva"" --Everett Dirksen (Senator Minority Leader, Republican from Illinois) - a dramatic reading of ""The Gallant Men"" --Danny Sailor (high-pole climber and acrobat) Also: bloopers from the past 2 seasons and a film of the Palace Anniversary parade in Hollywood.
Host: Donald O'Connor --Donald O'Connor - ""Walking Happy"" --Sid Caesar (comedian) --Shari Lewis (singer-ventriloquist) and Lambchop - sings ""Fred Astaire"" --Don Ho - Pearly Shells"" & ""Tiny Bubbles"" --Ted Lewis (singer) - ""A Million Wonderful Songs"" --Donald O'Connor and Ted Lewis - ""Me and My Shadow"" --Marilyn Maye (singer) - ""Cabaret"" & ""You're Gonna Hear from Me"" --Bob Melvin (comedian) --Rudy Cardenas (juggler) Comedy sketch: On a muddy, rainy day, Sid Caesar finds himself inundated by a horde of visitors wanting to see his new white carpet. ABC repeated this show on June 1, 1968.
Host: Jack Benny --Jack Benny appears with Gloria Chappell, his musical teacher, for a violin duet. --Petula Clark - ""Winchester Cathedral"" & ""This Is My Song"" --Johnny Mathis - medley from ""Man of La Mancha"" --Ernie Terrell and the Heavyweights (heavyweight boxer Terrell with his brothers and sister) - ""A Hammer and a Nail"" --The Nitwits (musical comedians) - ""Cool, Cool Water"" --Brascia and Tybee (dancers) - ""Mambo Flamenco"" --The Halasis (acrobats, teeterboard act from Hungary)
Host: Sammy Davis Jr. --Sammy Davis Jr. - ""Shake, Shake, Shake,"" ""The Lady Is a Tramp,"" ""What Kind of Fool am I?"" and ""The Birth of the Blues"" --Liberace - ""Malaguena"" --Mickey Rooney --Sammy Davis Jr. and Mickey Rooney - sing ""Two of a Kind"" and do impersonations of Clark Gable, James Cagney, Cary Grant and other screen stars. --Kaye Stevens (singer) - ""I Want to Be Happy"" --Lee Tully (comedian) --The Mascots (acrobats) --Mr. and Mrs. Bob Top (high-pole roller skaters from England)
--Bing Crosby (host) - ""The Good Old Days"" --Ella Fitzgerald - ""Jazz Samba"" and ""How Long Has This Been Going On?"" --Bing Crosby and Ella Fitzerald - ""jazz up"" children's songs in a medley. --Alice Faye - ""Mame"" --Phil Harris - ""It Was a Very Good Year"" --Alice Faye and Phil Harris (husband and wife) join Bing for a medley of songs from Alice's film musicals. --Dom DeLuise (comedian) --Hendra & Ullett (British comedy team) - routine spoofing the British R.A.F. --The Nitwits (British music-hall clowns) --The Medini Brothers (acrobats)
--Van Johnson (host) - ""Wilkommen"" --Liza Minnelli - ""Cabaret"" & ""I Will Wait for You"" --Liza Minnelli, Mickey Rooney and Van Johnson - ""Let's Make A Movie"" --Mickey Rooney - appears in a baseball sketch --George Carlin (comedian) --Chris Noel (actress) - talks about her recent visit to Vietnam. --The Palace Duo (acrobats) --Milo and Roger (comic illusionists) --On film: The Beatles - ""Penny Lane"" & ""Strawberry Fields Forever"" promotional videos
--Steve Lawrence (host) - ""She Loves Me,"" ""On a Clear Day"" and ""The Impossible Dream"" --Florence Henderson - ""My Love"" --Steve Lawrence and Florence Henderson - ""Wouldn't It Be Loverly?"" --Phyllis Diller and Steve Lawrence - ""I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face"" --The Fuller Brothers - ""You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You"" and ""I'm in Love for the Very First Time"" --Bill Dana (comedian, in character as Jose Jimenez) - plays a sky-diving instructor. --Russ Lewis (vetriloquist) --The Rhodins (aerialists) --Pat Anthony's wild-animal act.
--Kate Smith (host) - ""Somewhere My Love,"" ""Deep Purple,"" ""Don't Take Your Love From Me"" & ""Seems Like Old Times"" --New Vaudeville Band - ""Peek-A-Boo"" & ""Winchester Cathedral"" --Ann Miller (singer-dancer) - ""Trapped in the Web of Love"" --Jimmy Dean - ""Sweet Misery"" --Jimmy Dean and Kate Smith - ""When the Moon Comes over the Mountain"" --Tim Conway --Donna Jean Young (comedian) --The Hardly-Worthit Players (comedy troupe) - satirize Senator Robert Kennedy --René and his singing puppets - ""La Bamba"" --Huge Forgie and Shirley Marie - comedy team doing a badminton act
Host: George Burns --George Burns - ""A Well-Known Fact"" --George Burns - sings ""It Was a Very Good Year"" while talking about his early vaudeville career. --Lainie Kazan (singer) - ""Goin' Out of My Head"" --George Burns, Lainie Kazan, and the King Family - ""Some of These Days"" --The King Family - ""You're Gonna Hear from Me,"" ""We Taught Them Everything They Know,"" ""Malaguena"" & Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. --Enzo Stuarti (operatic tenor) - ""Yesterday,"" ""Catari,"" ""The Shadow of Your Smile"" & ""Strangers in the Night"" --Desmond & Marks (English music-hall comics) - ""Frivolous Feet"" --Baby Sabu (performing elephant)
--Bing Crosby - ""This Is The Life"" --Bing Crosby with the The Good Time Washboard Three - ""Oh! By Jingo! Oh! By Gee!"" --Nanette Fabray - ""I'm The First Girl In The Second Row"" --Red Buttons - ""Sam, You Made The Pants Too Long"" --‘Joe The Bartender' sketch with Bing, Red Buttons and Nanette Fabray. --Louis Armstrong - ""(My Girl Loves) Cheesecake"" --Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong - medley: ""Let's Sing Like A Dixieland Band""/""Muskrat Ramble""/""Let's Sing Like A Dixieland Band"" (Reprise)
Guests: --Cyd Charisse & Tony Martin (co-hosts) - ""Walking Happy"" --Danny Sailor (Canadian lumberjack - high-pole acrobat) - balances on top of 80 foot pole outside of theater --The Kim Sisters (3 sisters from Korea) - the trio sings ""Goin' Out of My Head"" and ""Caramba,"" then plays ""La Bamba"" and ""The Peanut Vendor"" on the xylophone. --Jackie Clark (stand-up comedian) - tells jokes about his family, etc. --Buffalo Springfield - ""For What It's Worth"" (30-second excerpt) & ""Mr. Soul"" --Cyd Charrise - dance number in which Cyd plays an Asian woman in love with a soldier (music: ""Mack the Knife"") --Milo and Roger (comic magicians / illusionists) --Tony Martin - ""And We Were Lovers"" & ""Born Free"" --Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner (comedians) - comedy monologue: Reporter (Reiner) interviews an advertising executive (Brooks). --Cyd Charisse & Tony Martin - ""The Honeymoon Is Over""
Music: --Milton Berle (host) - ""That's Entertainment"" --Roy Rogers & Dale Evans - ""What the World Needs Now,"" ""Love Makes the World Go Round,"" ""True Love"" and ""That's Amore"" --Marilyn King - ""Sunny"" --Buddy Rich and his band - ""Bugle Call Rag"" --The Dunhills (tap dancers) Also, Milton Berle chats with Willie Mays (of the San Francisco Giants), Jim Piersall (of the California Angels) and Maury Wills (of the Pittsburgh Pirates). Berle then joins the three baseball players for a rendition of ""Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend."" --Prassano Rao (illusionist)
--Joan Crawford (host) - performs a dramatic scene titled ""The Dreamer"" about an imaginative little girl. --The Cyrkle - ""Turn Down Day"" (and possibly ""Five-Foot-Two"") --Tim Conway (comedian) - appears in a sketch as a prison warden. --Nancy Ames - ""Yesterday"" and ""What the World Needs Now"" --Julius LaRosa sings ""Hey, Look Me Over"" and ""As Time Goes By"" --Ralph Adams (illusionist) --The Flying Cavarettas (teenage aerialists) --The Halasis (acrobats)
--Gene Barry (host) - sings ""Charm, Style and ""Sex"" and ""Sunrise, Sunset"" Gene Barry also does a dramatic reading about a father's farewell to his soldier son. --Theodore Bikel (folk singer) - ""Two Guitars"" and ""Kretchma"" --Burns and Schreiber (comedy team) --Lana Cantrell (singer) - ""Isn't It a Lovely Day?"" & ""And We Were Lovers"" --Mort Sahl (satirist) --Jack E. Leonard (comedian) --Damorra and her doves
Guests: --Bing Crosby (host) - ""Cockeyed Optimist"" --Don Ameche --Frances Langford - ""Call Me"" --Louis Nye (comedian) --Barbara McNair - ""You're Gonna Hear From Me"" --Crosby, Langford and Ameche - ""All Alone by the Telephone"" --The King Family - ""Tradition"" --Bing and the King Family - ""Bill Bailey"" --Yonely (comic pianist) --Pollack Brothers' trained elephant act. Sketches: --Don Ameche and Frances Langford re-create their radio roles as ""The Bickersons"" --Louis Nye and Bing Crosby - play a Hollywood hippie and a conservative banker
Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby - ""When We All Get Together"" --The Association - ""Never My Love"" --Ravi Shankar - ""Raga"" --Milton Berle, Jimmy Durante and Bing Crosby - ""Good Old Days"" medley --Joey Heatherton, Bing Crosby and Diahann Carroll - ""Girl Talk"" --Diahann Carroll - ""I Only Miss Him When I Think of Him""
--Phyllis Diller (host) --The 5th Dimension - ""Up - Up, and Away"" and ""California, My Way"" --Frankie Avalon - ""Sand and Sea"" --Annette Funicello - ""Promise Me Anything"" --Phil Harris (comedian) - ""Ode to Billy Joe"" and ""Tiny Bubbles"" --The Herculeans (balancing act) (Note: another source listed the act as Hercules, a strongman) --Also: a seal act
Host: Milton Berle --Spanky & Our Gang - ""Making Every Minute Count"" --Lena Horne --Neile Adams --David Hedison
--Sammy Davis Jr. (host) - ""That Old Black Magic,"" ""After Today"" & ""At the Crossroads"" --Diana Ross and the Supremes - ""Reflections"" and ""The Lady Is A Tramp"" --Raquel Welch sings ""Bang Bang"" --Sammy Davis Jr. and the Supremes - medley (songs about cities) --Jack Burns & Avery Schreiber (comedy team) - parody TV talk shows. --Baby Lawrence (jazz dancer) - appears with Sammy Davis Jr. in a tap-dancing ""duel."" --Joey Bishop (comedian) - makes a cameo walk-on
Expo '67 Salute Host: Victor Borge --Adam West --Don Ho --Hendra & Ullett --Mircille Mathieu
All-Comedy Show --Milton Berle (host) --Kaye Ballard --Joe Besser --Irving Benson --Prof. Irwin Corey --The Bottoms Up (comedy troupe)
Guests (All-British performers): --Petula Clark (host) - ""This Is My Song,"" ""Don't Sleep in the Subway,"" ""Imagine"" & ""Just Say Good-Bye"" --Lynn Redgrave, Petula Clark and Noel Harrison - ""Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" --Noel Harrison - ""Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"" --George Sanders --Hendra & Ullett (comedy team) --The Nitwits (humorous musical group) Comedy: --A ""Camelot"" parody narrated by Petula Clark: Lynn Redgrave portrays a clumsy Queen Quinevere, George Sanders as the ""gouty"" King Arthur, and Noel Harrison as the dashing Lancelot.
--Bing Crosby (host) --Bing Crosby and the United Nations Children's Choir - ""Small World"" --Bing Crosby and Roger Miller - Hobo medley --Roger Miller - ""You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd"" and ""Code of the West"" --Bing Crosby and Gail Martin - ""You Make Me Feel So Young,"" ""Roses and Lollipops,"" ""Mutual Admiration Society"" and ""That's Amore"" --Bing Crosby, Victor Borge, Roger Miller and Paul Lynde sing ""I Dig Rock 'n' Music"" --Fred and Mickie Finn (ragtime group) - ""Sweet Georgia Brown""
--Sid Caesar (host) - plays an orchestra drummer during Tchaikovsky's ""1812 Overture."" Later in show, Sid sings ""A Real Live Girl."" --Marlo Thomas (actress) - narrates a fashion show of 1968 resort fashions.--Sergio Franchi - ""The Girl from Ipanema"" and ""I Should Care""--Fran Jeffries - ""Another Night""--The Checkmates - ""You've Lost That Loving Feeling""--Sid Caesar, playing saxophone, joins the Checkmates for ""I May Be Wrong""
Co-hosts: Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme --Steve and Eydie - ""I Believe in You"" and a medley of Broadway songs (""Without You I'm Nothing,"" ""Where Would You Be Without Me?"" Walking Happy,"" ""Cabaret"" and ""The Honeymoon Is Over"") --Eydie Gorme - ""How Could I Be So Wrong?"" --Steve Lawrence - ""I've Gotta Be Me"" --Steve Lawrence and Corbett Monica - ""Making Whoopee"" --Corbett Monica (comedian, doing a monolog about family life) --Tim Conway (comedian, plays a square at a hippie love-in) --Szony and Claire (dancers) --The Mascotts (head-balancing act from Germany) ABC repeated this show on May 25, 1968.
Host: Milton Berle --Milton Berle - ""Comedy Tonight"" --Nanette Fabray - ""Toot, Toot, Tootsie"" --Buddy Greco (singer-pianist) - ""Is It All That Bright and Beautiful?"" --The Fearsome Foursome (Merlin Olsen, Rosevelt Grier, Roger Brown, Deacon Jones and Lamar Lundy of the Los Angles Rams) - sing ""On the Football Field"" --Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber (comedy team) --The King Family - medley of Spanish songs
Host: Jimmy Durante --The Grass Roots - ""Let's Live For Today"" --Jimmy Durante - ""Hellzapoppin'"" & ""Yesterday"" --Larry Bishop and Rob Reiner (comedy team, Joey Bishop's son & Carl Reiner's son) --Ethel Merman - ""Walking Happy"" --The Lennon Sisters - ""Up-Up and Away"" --Noel Harrison - ""Suzanne"" --Milt Kamen (comedian) --The Berosinis (acrobats)
Host: Herb Alpert --Boyce & Hart - medley (""I Wanna Be Free"" & ""Last Train To Clarksville"") and ""I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight"" --Liza Minnelli --Burt Bacharach --Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 --Wes Montgomery --Baja Marimba Band Please see ""Recap"" for song titles.
1967 Christmas Show hosted by Bing Crosby, with wife Kathryn Crosby, and their children Harry, Mary Frances and Nathaniel. --Bing Crosby - ""White Christmas"" --Kathryn Crosby - ""Try to Remember"" --Mary Frances Crosby - ""Where Is Love?"" --Adam West (from ""Batman"") --Adam West, Louis Nye, Bing Crosby and the Crosby children - ""This Old Man"" --The King Family - ""It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas"" --Louis Nye (comedian) --The Marquis Chimps
Palace Circus Show --Jimmy Durante (host, appearing as the ringmaster) - sings ""Be a Clown,"" ""Buffoons"" and ""When the Circus Leaves Town"" --Anissa Jones (of ""Family Affair"") - appears as the honorary ringmistress --Candy Cavareta (trapeze artist) --The Hanneford Family (bareback horse riders) --Linon (low-wire acrobat-comedian) --Roselle Troupe (aerial acrobats) --The Rudos (performing elephant act) --The Sensational Parker (acrobat, performs on a 110-foot tall swaypole) --Henneford Family --Kay's Pets (performing dogs, monkeys & ponies)
Host: Phyllis Diller --Phyllis Diller - ""Wives and Lovers"" --Phyllis Diller and Shari Lewis - ""It Was a Very Good Year"" & ""When I'm 64"" --Robert Vaughn (from ""The Man from U.N.C.L.E."") --Johnnie Ray - ""The Little White Cloud,"" ""Cry,"" ""Just Walking in the Rain"" & ""Walking My Baby Back Home."" --The Sandpipers - ""What Now, My Love?"" --Shari Lewis (singer-ventriloquist, with Lambchop) - ""Alexander's Ragtime Band"" --Charlie Manna (comedian) Comedy: --Phyllis Diller, Robert Vaughn and Charlie Manna appear in a Sherlock Holmes sketch.
Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby - ""Step to the Rear"" (with dancers) --Bing Crosby and Peggy Lee - medley (including ""The Doodling Song"") --Peggy Lee - ""Seems Like Old Times"" & ""What Is a Woman?"" --Milton Berle --Jimmy Durante --Phil Harris --Lawrence Welk --Roosevelt Grier - ""Spanish Harlem"" --Roosevelt Grier and the Fearsome Foursome - ""Under the Boardwalk"" --The Solokhins (acrobats of the Moscow Circus)
--Jack Benny (host) --Liza Minnelli --Sammy Davis Jr. - dances to ""You Got Trouble,"" a recording by Robert Preston --Peter and Chris Allen (Australian folk singers) --Beverly Washburn, Iris Adrian and Peggy Mondo (actresses) - appear in a sketch in which they audition a musical act for Benny. --The Rudenko Brothers (jugglers) --Jack Benny and Sammy Davis Jr. - ""Fascinating Rhythm,"" a musical duel with Benny's violin playing against Sammy's dancing and singing.
Host: Phil Silvers --The James Brown Revue - ""I Feel Good,"" ""I Can't Stand It,"" If I Ruled the World,"" ""Cold Sweat"" & ""There Was a Time"" --Connie Stevens - ""Wouldn't It Be Nice?"" --Polly Bergen - ""Ain't Misbehavin'"" & ""A House Is Not a Home"" --Jack Jones - sings ""Gypsies, Jugglers and Clowns"" & ""I'm Getting Sentimental over You"" --Phil Silvers, Polly Bergen, Connie Stevens & Jack Jones - ""There's Nothing Like a Model T"" --Phil Silvers, Polly Bergen & Connie Stevens - sing a leap-year medley --Henny Youngman (comedian) --The Waraku Trio (Japanese pantomimists)
Host: Victor Borge --Dino, Desi & Billy - ""My What A Shame"" --Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows - do a comedy routine in which they answer questions from the studio audience --Jayne Meadows - ""Hello, Dolly!"" --Victor Borge, Jayne Meadows and Steve Allen perform ""I Dig Rock 'n' Roll Music"" --The King Family (singers) - perform a States medley --The Dino Brothers (acrobats) --The Scots Guards (bapipe, drum and bugle corps.) --The Gimma Brothers (tumblers) --Finale: Victor Borge plays Rachmaninov's First Piano Concerto
Guests: --Jimmy Durante (host) - ""The Parade"" --The Temptations --Van Johnson - ""Everybody Ought to Have a Maid"" --Jimmy Dean - ""This Old House"" --Vikki Carr - ""The Lesson,"" ""Some of These Days"" & ""After You've Gone"" --Pat Henry (comedian) --Mac Ronay (magician) --Franklin D'Amore (strongman) --The Bodyguards (strongmen)
Host: Milton Berle --Louis Armstrong - ""Willkommen"" & ""No Time Is a Good Good-bye Time"" --Phyllis Diller (comedian) --The Lettermen (vocal group) - medley of hits --Elaine Dunn (singer-dancer) - ""After Today"" --Enzo Stuarti (operatic tenor) - ""Vesti la glubba"" (from Leoncavallo's ""Pagliacci"") --Irving Benson (comedian playing heckler Sidney Shpritzer) --The ""Bottoms Up Revue"" (comedy ensemble from Las Vegas with Nancy Austin, Melendy Britt, Bill Fanning and Breck Wall) --Milton Berle and Nancy Austin - ""The Put-Down Song""
Host: Sammy Davis Jr. --Sammy Davis Jr. - ""Tonight,"" ""Once in a Lifetime,"" As Long As She Needs Me,"" ""It Only Takes a Moment,"" ""Let's Keep Swinging"" & ""Sam, by George"" --Diahann Carroll - ""Goin' Out of My Head"" & ""Here's That Rainy Day"" --Sammy Davis Jr. and Diahann Carroll - perform a condensed version of ""Porgy and Bess."" --Peter Lawford - gives Sammy a musical French lesson --Rowan and Martin - comedy routine: sidewalk interview where a man gives his opinion about actors in politics --Checkmates Ltd. - ""Soul Man""
--The Merry Go Round - ""Live"" (excerpt), ""You're A Very Lovely Woman"" (excerpt) and ""Listen, Listen"" (complete song). --Don Knotts (host) talks with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. about Hollywood attractions. --Nancy Ames (singer) - medley: ""Fly Me to the Moon"" & Spanish songs. --Don Knotts and Glenn Ash - ""Shanty in Old Shanty Town"" --Glenn Ash (guitarist) - plays ""Lady of Spain"" on guitar then plays banjo. --Don Knotts (stand-up routine) - nervous man speaking at doctors' convention. --Mary Costa (opera singer) - sings two songs --""Guess Who's Coming to Tea"" comedy sketch with Mary Costa, Don Knotts and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
--The Hollies - ""Jennifer Eccles"" --Phil Harris - ""The Bare Necessities"" and ""But I Loved You"" --Abbe Lane (singer) - ""Abanda,"" ""Samba de Orpherus"" and ""It Must Be Him"" --Phillip Crosby - ""Can't Take My Eyes Off of You"" --Bill Dana (as Olympic skier Jose Jimenez) --Sid Miller and Rose Marie (comedians) - play songwriters who are adding lyrics to movie titles --Hendra & Ullett (comedy team) --Jacques Ary (comic magician)
Jimmy Durante (host) - ""The Lost Chord"" --Liza Minnelli --Tim Conway (comedian) - plays an Olympic coach whose team is losing. --Jerry Shane --Fred and Mickie Finn (honky-tonk musicians) --Le grand ballet Classique (from Paris) --On film: Beatles - ""Lady Madonna"" (promo video)
Host: Don Adams --Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood - ""You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"" --Nancy Sinatra - ""100 Years"" --Kaye Ballard (comedian) - ""Fabulous You"" --Joey Forman (comedian) --Hal Frazier (singer) - ""Somewhere"" & ""Who Am I?"" --The King Family - ""Girl Talk,"" ""Music to Watch Girls By,"" ""A Man and a Woman"" & ""A Hymn to Him"" --Jerry Quarry and his sister Diana - ""This Is Me"" (Jerry Quarry was a heavyweight boxer making his singing debut.) ABC repeated this show on Sept. 21, 1968.
Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby sings ""Simon Says"" to children of the production crew. --Gene Baylos (comedian) - stand up routine with Bing Crosby --The King Sisters (singers) - ""You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You"" & ""Valley of the Dolls"" --Bunraku (Japanese puppeteers) - play about a Japanese warlord, narrated by Bing --Joe Bushkin (pianist) - ""Dr. Dolittle"" --Joe Bushkin and Bing Crosby - medley of songs about animals (""Talk to the Animals,"" ""Abba Dabba Dabba"" & ""How Much is that Doggie in the Window?"") --Every Mother's Son - ""Put Your Mind at Ease"" --Florence Henderson - ""When I Look into Your Eyes"" --Bing Crosby & Florence Henderson - medley of songs about strings (incl. ""Zing, Went the Strings of My Heart"") --Restaurant sketch with Sid Caesar, Florence Henderson and Bing Crosby. --Bing Crosby - ""Where the Rainbow Ends"" ABC repeated this show on August 31, 1968.
Songs: --Bing Crosby with chorus - ""If You're Looking For A Man"" --Bobby Goldsboro - ""Honey"" and ""The Straight Life"" --Jeannie C. Riley - ""Harper Valley PTA"" --Bing with Jeannie C. Riley & Bobby Goldsboro - medley: ""Nashville Cats,"" ""Gentle On My Mind,"" ""Little Green Apples"" and ""Hold Me Tight"" Also appearing: --Sid Caesar --Abbey Lincoln --Bob Gibson (of the St. Louis Cardinals) --Milton Berle --The Four Robertis --The Iriston Horsemen --According to one source, a rock group from the off-Broadway hippie musical ""Your Own Thing"" also appeared on this show.
Music: --Jimmy Durante (host) - ""Did You Ever Have a Feeling?"" ""That's How Young I Feel"" and ""The Father of Girls"" --Jimmy Durante and Joey Heatherton - ""I Came Here to Swim"" --Joey Heatherton - ""Light My Fire"" (with dancers) --Don Ho - ""Next Door to Paradise,"" ""Nai Puni"" and ""One Paddle, Two Paddle"" --The Lennon Sisters - ""I Don't Know Why"" and ""Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams"" Also appearing: --Lewis & Christy (comedy team) - do a sketch about driving non-stop across the US. --Female Olympic gymnasts - 6 finalists in the US Olympic trials demonstrating their skills on the balance beam and uneven parallel bars.
Guests: --Milton Berle (host) --Leonard Nimoy - sings ""Here We Go Round Again"" --Shani Wallis - ""Oliver!"" medley: ""Who Will Buy?"" ""Consider Yourself"" and ""As Long as He Needs Me"" --The Checkmates Ltd. - ""Wear It On Your Face"" & ""Thank You, Love"" --Johnny Puleo's Harmonica Gang --Irving Benson (comedian in character as Sidney Shpritzer, Milton Berle's comedy foil) --The Bottoms Up Revue from Las Vegas Sketch: --Leonard Nimoy and the Bottoms Up Revue appear in a sci-fi spoof titled ""Star Odyssey 2001 7/8""
--Diahann Carroll (host) - ""Watch What Happens,"" ""My Personal Property,"" ""Over You"" & ""The Fool on the Hill"" --Diahann Carroll, Marc Copage and Michael Link (all from the series ""Julia"") - ""The Thank-You Song"" --Richard Harris and Diahann Carroll - ""What Do the Simple Folk Do?"" --Richard Harris - ""The Yard Went on Forever"" and ""The Hive"" --The Checkmates, Ltd. - ""Black Is Black"" --Mort Sahl (comedian) - does a satire of Presidential candidates --Buddy Schwab (""Hollywood Palace"" choreographer) with dancers - ""Broadway Rhythm""
Host: Don Adams --Janis Joplin (with Big Brother & the Holding Company) - ""Summertime"" & ""Why"" (another source listed the 2nd song as ""I Need A Man to Love"") --Barbara Eden - sings ""Big, Beautiful Ball"" --Arte Johnson (comedian, in character as Rozmenko, the singing Russian) - ""Mame"" --Brothers Castro (singers from Mexico) - ""Michelle"" & ""Por Usted"" --The Dovyeko Company (acrobats on stilts from the Moscow State Circus)
Guests: --Sammy Davis Jr. (host) --Spanky & Our Gang - ""Give A Damn"" & ""Yesterday's Rain"" --Aretha Franklin --Johnny Whitaker (child actor, from ""Family Affair"") --Corbett Monica (comedian)
--Donovan - ""Jennifer Juniper"" & ""Lalena"" --Donovan and Sergio Mendes - ""There Is a Mountain"" --Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 --Mike Douglas (host) - If This Isn't Love"" and ""Danny Boy"" --Mike Douglas and Polly Bergen - ""When I'm 64"" & ""Wait Till We're 65"" --Polly Bergen - ""Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"" & ""When in Rome"" --Hendra and Ullett (comedians) --Rudy Schweitzer (juggler) --The Solokhins (balancing acrobats from the Moscow State Circus)
Co-Hosts: Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca --The Bee Gees - ""Massachusetts"" & ""I've Gotta Get a Message to You"" --Lou Rawls - ""I'm Satisfied"" & ""Down Here on the Ground"" --Chita Rivera (singer-dancer) - ""Pretty for Me"" --Jane Morgan (singer) - medley: ""Georgia,"" ""That Lucky Old Sun"" & ""What'd I Say?"" --Gelina Adaskina (trapeze artist from the Moscow State Circus). Comedy sketches: --Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca in a routine about a dying bullfighter and a fawning American tourist. --Imogene Coca does a routine about a frumpy stripper.
Music: --Milton Berle - ""What a Night This Is Going to Be"" --Martha Raye - ""Toot Toot Tootsie, Good-Bye"" and ""Those Were The Good Old Days"" --Barrie Chase (singer-dancer) - ""Suzie Q"" --Roosevelt Grier - ""Slip Away"" --The Third Wave (teenage musicians from the Phillippines) Also appearing: --Joey Forman (comedian) --Joe Besser (comedian) --Mary Beth Hughes
--The Ike & Tina Turner Revue - ""Understanding"" and ""You Got What You Wanted, Now You Don't Want What You Got"" --Sammy Davis Jr. (host) - ""Tenement Symphony"" & ""At the Crossroads"" --Sammy Davis Jr. and Lola Falana - ""I Feel Good"" --Lola Falana - medley: ""It Never Entered My Mind"" & ""Goin' Out of My Head"" --Sammy Davis Jr. and Carmen McRae - medley: ""People"" & ""Don't Rain on My Parade"" --Carmen McRae (singer) - ""He Loves Me"" & ""Watch What Happens"" --Jo Anne Worley (comedian from ""Laugh-In"") --Jack Carter (comedian) and Sammy Davis Jr. - sing ""Without You"" and do impressions of various celebrities. --Bobby Doyle (singer discovered by Sammy) - ""Just Can't Help Believing""
Host: Jimmy Durante --Ethel Merman --Sugar Ray Robinson --Vikki Carr --Bill Dana --Leland Palmer --Hendra & Ullett
1968 Christmas Show hosted by Bing and Kathryn Crosby, with their children Harry, Mary Frances and Nathaniel. --Bing Crosby - ""White Christmas,"" ""Silent Night"" and ""This Is That Time of the Year"" --Bing and Kathryn Crosby - ""When the Kids Are Married"" and ""Christmas Is A Birthday"" --Bing, Kathryn and children - ""Do You Hear What I Hear?"" --Harry Crosby - ""Oh, Come Little Children"" --Glen Campbell - ""Wichita Lineman"" --Bing Crosby and Glen Campbell - ""1432 Franklin Pike Circle Hero"" --John Byner (comedian) - ""Christmas Is Coming"" --The Lennon Sisters - ""Christmas Waltz"" and ""Christmas Song"" --All (entire cast) - ""We Wish You a Merry Christmas"" --Nicolai Olkovikov (juggler from the Moscow State Circus)
Hollywood Palace Anniversary Show Music: --Bing Crosby - ""Once-A-Year Day,"" ""The Straight Life"" and ""Little Green Apples"" --Bobbie Gentry - ""Mornin' Glory"" --Tiny Tim - ""Come to the Ball,"" ""My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time"" and ""Great Balls of Fire"" --Judy Carne - ""Ring-Around-a-Rosy Rag"" (with dancers) Also: --Bob Hope and Bing Crosby receive the 1st Annual Show Business Hall of Fame Award. Earl Wilson (columnist) presents the award. --Stu Gilliam (comedian) --Dovyeko Acrobatic Troupe (of the Moscow State Circus)
--Marvin Gaye - ""I Heard It Through the Grapevine"" --Jimmy Durante (host) - ""Inka Dinka Doo,"" ""Say It with Flowers"" and ""Girls"" --Ella Fitzgerald - ""Melancholy Serenade"" & ""Hey Jude"" --Jimmy Durante and Ella Fitzgerald - ""Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?"" --Pat Cooper (comedian) --Sergio Franchi (tenor) - ""Eh, Compare"" (with Jimmy Durante) --The Society of Seven (rock group) --The Tahiti Nue Revue
--Roy Rogers & Dale Evans (co-hosts) - ""Little Green Apples"" --Roy Rogers & Dale Evans (with the Stoney Mountain Cloggers) - ""Nashville Cats"" --Roy Rogers - ""Too Many Chiefs"" --Dale Evans - ""Queen of the House"" --Burl Ives - ""Wolverton Mountain"" --Burl Ives and George Gobel - ""In the Summertime"" --Burl Ives and Roy Rogers - ""Jambalaya"" --Sonny James - ""Born to Be with You"" --Sonny James and Dale Evans - ""Hawaiian Wedding Song"" --Jeannie C. Riley - ""The Girl Most Likely"" --Jeannie C. Riley and Roy Rogers - ""Flattery Will Get You Everywhere"" --Irene Ryan (of ""The Beverly Hillbillies"") - ""I Am a Woman"" --All (entire cast) - ""Build a Better Mousetrap""
Host: Don Knotts --Bobby Vinton --Cyd Charisse --Gail Martin --Georgie Kaye --Maureen Arthur --The Checkmates
Host: Don Adams --Tony Martin --Barrie Chase --The Lettermen --Joe Forman --Ruth Buzzi --Alan Sues
Guests: --Robert Goulet (host) --Dusty Springfield - ""Son Of A Preacher Man"" & ""I Don't Want To Hear It Anymore"" --The Mills Brothers --Kay Thompson --Jack Wakefield --Hendra & Ullett
Host: Milton Berle --Mel Torme - sings ""Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World,"" ""One Note Samba,"" ""Quiet Nights"" and ""The Girl from Ipanema"" --Steve Allen --Jane Meadows --Dana Velery (singer) - ""Those Were the Days"" and ""Good Times"" --Jerry Collins (comedian) --Leland Palmer (singer) - ""Angel on My Shoulder"" Comedy: --Milton Berle sings with himself (using split-screen special effects) --Mitchell Ayres' orchestra spoofs the big band era. --Vaudeville comedians do a routine about doughnuts
All-Comedy Show: --Dan Rowan and Dick Martin (co-hosts) --Gene Sheldon (banjo playing pantomimist) --Irwin C. Watson (stand-up comedian) --Ron Gaylord & Burt Holiday (comedy team) - sing ""The Impossible Dream"" & do a skit about hijackers --Betty Walker (comedian) - does a telephone gossip routine --Jackie Gayle (stand-up comedian) --Simmy Bow (double-talking comedian)
Songs: --Bing Crosby - ""Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"" --The Temptations - ""Runaway Child, Running Wild"" --Bing with the Temptations - ""My Girl"" --Gary Crosby - ""Gentle on My Mind"" --Bing with Frank Sinatra Jr & Gary Crosby - ""Row, Row, Row Your Boat,"" ""Three Blind Mice"" and ""Fugue For Tinhorns"" --Frank Sinatra Jr. - ""Love Was Here Before The Stars"" and ""We'll Be Together Again"" --Bing with Gary Crosby & Chorus - ""Hey, Jude"" Also appearing: --Victor Borge --Guy Marks
--Diana Ross & the Supremes (hosts) - ""With a Song in My Heart,"" ""Strangers in Paradise"" and ""Without a Song"" --Diana Ross and the Supremes - medley: ""Let's Get Away from It All,"" ""The Lady Is a Tramp,"" ""Day After Day"" and ""I'm Living in Shame"" --Stevie Wonder - ""For Once in My Life"" --Diana Ross and Stevie Wonder - ""I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"" --Ethel Waters - ""Suppertime"" --Diana Ross and Ethel Waters - ""Bread 'n' Gravy"" --Diana Ross and Donald McKayle (dancer) - ""Soulful Strut"" --Soupy Sales (comedian) --Sammy Shore (comedian) --Saddris (comic)
--Sammy Davis Jr. (host) - ""Up - Up and Away,"" ""I've Gotta Be Me,"" ""Ol' Man River"" and ""Choreography"" --James Brown Revue - ""I'm Black & I'm Proud,"" ""I Got The Feeling,"" ""Give It Up Or Turn It Loose"" & ""Please Please Please"" --Sammy Davis and James Brown - ""I Feel Good"" --Peggy Lipton (from the ""Mod Squad,"" making her singing debut) - ""Just A Little Lovin'"" --Peggy Lipton and Sammy Davis Jr. - ""Little Green Apples"" --Charo (singer, married to Xavier Cugat) - Latin medley --Charo and Sammy Davis Jr. - ""I-Yi-Yi-Yi-Yi Like You Very Much"" --Nipsey Russell (comedian, does verses on a variety of topics) --Dave Madden (comedian from ""Laugh-In,"" commenting on trite sayings)
Co-hosts: Phyllis Diller & Don Rickles --Terry Thomas --The King Family --The Baja Marimba Band --Jack Walker
Hosts: Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca--Gladys Knight & the Pips - ""Fever"" and ""I Heard It Through the Grapevine""--Buddy Rich plays a drummer in a sketch about Caesar and Coca attending a Broadway musical.--Edie Adams - ""When My Baby Smiles At Me""--Gene Baylos appears in a sketch with Caesar.--Brendan Hanlon (Irish singer) - ""I Gotta Be Me""
--Bing Crosby (host) - ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"" and ""Both Sides Now"" --The Four Tops - ""In the Still of the Night"" and ""Eleanor Rigby"" --Sally Ann Howes - ""Just One of Those Things"" and ""Free Again"" --Phil Crosby (Bing's son) - ""For Once in My Life"" --Bing and Phil Crosby - ""Sam's Song,"" ""When You and I Were Young Maggie Blues"" and ""Play a Simple Melody"" --Shelley Berman (comedian) --George Carl (pantomimist) --The Dagastan tightrope walkers (acrobats, from the Moscow Circus)
Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby sings about Hollywood Palace's new season --Gwen Verdon (sings and dances) - song about a new dance, the ""…Psychedelic Stomp"" (very long title, abbreviated). Western bar set with male dancers) --Sweetwater (rock group) - ""Motherless Child"" --Dick Shawn (stand-up comedian) --Bobbie Gentry - ""You've Made Me So Very Happy"" --Bobby Gentry and Bing Crosby - ""Put A Little Love in Your Heart"" duet --The Rodriguez Brothers (high wire act) --Engelbert Humperdinck - ""I Could Have Danced All Night"" (with dancers) & ""I'm A Better Man"" --Medley of Beatles' songs: ""Yellow Submarine"" (Crosby & Humperdinck); ""Can't Buy Me Love"" (Verdon, Crosby, Humperdinck); ""Fool on the Hill"" (Gentry); ""Yesterday"" (Humperdinck); ""With A Little Help from My Friends"" (Dick Shaun, Gentry & Verdon); ""And I Love Her"" (Crosby); and ""Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"" (Bing, Engelbert & cast) --Bing Crosby sings ""Love's Been Good to Me"" (correct song title?) --Throughout the
--Diana Ross & the Supremes (Mary Wilson & Cindy Birdsong) - Where Do I Go?"" ""Good Morning, Starshine,"" ""Can't Take My Eyes Off of you"" and ""Someday We'll Be Together"" --The Jackson 5 - ""I Want You Back"" and ""Sing a Simple Song"" --Sammy Davis Jr. - ""You've Made Me So Very Happy"" --Diana Ross and Sammy Davis Jr. - do a song-and-dance routine reminiscent of the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' musicals. --Diana Ross, Sammy Davis Jr. and the Jackson Five - ""There Was a Time"" and ""One More Time"" --Alan Sues (comedian) - sings ""Good Times Are Here to Stay"" (with female dancers) and appears in a ""Dames at Sea"" production number. --Willie Tyler (ventriloquist)
--Engelbert Humperdinck (host) - ""Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In,"" ""Am I That Easy to Forget?"" ""Cuando, Cuando, Cuando,"" ""Les Bicyclettes de Belsize,"" The Last Waltz"" and ""There Goes My Everything"" --Engelbert Humperdinck and Nancy Ames - ""I'll Never Fall in Love Again"" and ""I Wish I Were in Love Again"" --Gladys Knight & the Pips - ""Nitty Gritty"" & ""Ain't No Sun"" --Sid Caesar (comedian) - appears in a sketch with Maureen Arthur and Mickey Deems --Nancy Ames - ""Games People Play"" and ""With a Little Help from My Friends"" --Jack E. Leonard (comedian) --Lonnie Donegan - ""Keep On The Sunny Side,"" ""Chewing Gum"" & ""Chesapeake Bay""
--Sammy Davis Jr. (host) - ""My Funny Valentine,"" ""My Way"" and ""Spinning Wheel"" --Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Rosey Grier - ""Walkin' Happy"" --""Mama"" Cass Elliott - ""Make Your Own Kind Of Music"" --Sammy Davis Jr. & ""Mama"" Cass Elliott - ""I Dig Rock & Roll Music"" --Lionel Hampton and his orchestra - ""Cherokee"" --Sammy Davis Jr. and Lionel Hampton - ""Flyin' Home"" --Peter Lawford - ""Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In"" (with dancers) --Rosey Grier - ""Deeper in the Hole"" --The Dells - ""Oh, What A Night"" --Dana Valery (singer) - ""More Today Than Yesterday"" & ""Volare""
--The Everly Brothers - ""Mama Tried"" --The Everly Brothers with Roy Rogers & Dale Evans - medley: ""All I Have to Do is Dream,"" ""Wake Up, Little Susie"" and ""Bye-Bye Love"" --Roy Rogers & Dale Evans (hosts) - ""Country Music and Western Music"" --Roy Rogers & Dale Evans with the Sons of the Pioneers - ""Don't Fence Me In,"" ""Try a Little Kindness,"" ""Less of Me"" and ""Get to Know the Lord"" --Roy Clark - ""Sally Was A Good Ol Girl,"" ""White Lightning,"" ""Foggy Mountain Breakdown"" & ""Orange Blossom Special"" --Minnie Pearl (comedian) --Junior Samples (comedian) --Sammy Shore (comedian) --The Berosini animal act
--Milton Berle (host) - ""Make 'em Laugh"" --Irving Benson (comedian, known as ""Milton's favorite heckler"") --Steve Allen --Connie Stevens - ""Dancing in the Streets"" --Martha Raye - ""Let Go"" & ""Watch What Happens"" Also, Raye appears in a comedy sketch in which a judge tries to determine the father of her daughter (played by Sarah Sue Gleis) --The Youngbloods - ""Get Together"" (excerpt) & ""Sunlight"" --Hines, Hines & Dad (song-and-dance trio with Gregory Hines) - ""Singing in the Rain""
Host: Diahann Carroll --Stevie Wonder - ""Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday"" --Stevie Wonder & Diahann Carroll - ""Pretty World"" --Diahann Carroll - ""Smiling Phases,"" ""Here, There and Everywhere,"" ""Let the Sunshine In"" & ""Yesterday"" --Robert Culp (actor) - dramatic reading of Thomas Paine's essay ""These Are the Times That Try Men's Souls"" --John Byner (comedian) --Godfrey Cambridge (comedian) --The Alvin Ailey (interpretative dancers) - ""Move, Members, Move"" & ""Sinner Man"" --Rudi Schweitzer (juggler)
Host: Anthony Newley --Lulu --Dyan Cannon (actress, making her singing debut) --Lola Falana --Jo Anne Worley --Marissa Berman
Host: Flip Wilson (co-hosting with Janos Prohaska, a scene-stealing bear from the Andy Williams Show) --Friends of Distinction - ""Going in Circles"" & ""Grazin' in the Grass"" --O.C. Smith - ""Can't Take My Eyes Off of You"" & ""Me and You"" --Judy Carne - ""Don't Tell Mama"" --Gene Baylos (comedian) --Dana Valery - ""You've Made Me So Very Happy"" & ""Get in Line, Girl"" --The Dancing Devils (Argentine folk dancers) --The Villams (jugglers)
1969 Christmas show Host: Perry Como --Perry Como & singers - ""Home for the Holidays,"" ""Love in a Home,"" ""Christmas Eve,"" ""The First Noel,"" ""Oh Holy Night,"" ""Christ Is Born"" & ""Hark! The Herald Angels Sing."" --Diahann Carroll - ""Sweet Beginning,"" ""Remember"" & ""How Deep Is the Ocean?"" --Perry Como and Diahann Carroll - ""Silver Bells"" --Shecky Greene (comedian) --Edward Villella (dancer from the New York City Ballet) - dances to ""Little Drummer Boy"" --Burr Tillstrom's Kukla & Ollie (puppets)
Hosts: George Gobel & Vikki Carr --Pat Cooper --Edwin Hawkins Singers --Enrico Macias --The Meeners
Music: --Bing Crosby - ""This Is The Life"" --Mary Costa - ""I'm In Love With Vienna"" --Bing with Mary Costa - ""Pollution"" --Sergio Franchi - ""Stay"" --Sergio Franchi - ""To Give"" --The Establishment - ""Hair"" medley: ""Aquarius,"" ""Where Do I Go?"" and ""Let The Sunshine In"" Crosby Medley: ""Love In Bloom"" (Sergio Franchi), ""June In January"" (Mary Costa), ""Love Is Just Around The Corner"" (Bing with Leland Palmer), ""Please"" (Bing), ""Learn To Croon"" (Bing), ""Down The Old Ox Road"" (Bing with Sergio Franchi, Leland Palmer & Mary Costa), ""Temptation"" (Sergio Franchi), ""Happy Feet"" (Bing with Leland Palmer), ""The Waiter And The Porter And The Upstairs Maid"" (Bing with Leland Palmer & Sergio Franchi), ""Pennies From Heaven"" (Bing), ""True Love"" (Mary Costa & Sergio Franchi) and ""Swinging On A Star"" (Bing with Leland Palmer, Mary Costa & Sergio Franchi) Also appearing: --The Nick Perito Orchestra --Patchett & Tarses --The Kuban Cossacks --Mac Ronay
--Dusty Springfield - ""The Look of Love,"" ""Wishin' and Hopin'"" and ""Brand New Me"" --Sam & Dave - ""Hold On, I'm Coming"" & ""I Take What I Want"" --Burt Bacharach & Angie Dickinson (co-hosts) - ""I'll Never Fall in Love Again"" --Burt Bacharach with the Ray Charles singers - ""Always Something There to Reming Me"" and ""What the World Needs Now"" --Scoey Mitchill (comedian) --Bill Shoemaker (jockey making his singing and dancing debut) - ""The Race Is On""
Co-hosts: Bobbie Gentry, John Hartford & Roy Clark --Brooklyn Bridge - ""He's Not a Happy Man --Bobbie Gentry - ""The Rainmaker"" & ""Raindrops Keep Falln' on My Head"" --John Hartford - ""Natural to Be Gone"" --Roy Clark - ""Then She's A Lover"" --Bobbie Gentry, Frankie Laine, Roy Clark and John Hartford - medley: ""Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show,"" ""When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder"" & ""Bye and Bye"" --Frankie Laine (singer) --Louis Nye (comedian) --Jackie Gayle (comedian) --Szony and Agnese (dancers)
Hosts: Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme --Steve Lawrence - ""The Drifter"" --Eydie Gorme - ""Tonight I'll Say a Prayer"" --Steve & Eydie - ""You've Made Me So Very Happy"" & ""Golden Rainbow"" --Roy Rogers & Dale Evans - ""What a Wonderful World,"" ""Sittin' on Top of the World"" & ""Happy Heart"" --Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca - appear in a comedy sketch --Steve Allen & Jane Meadows - in a sketch play a couple on their second honeymoon Comedy sketch: --""The Men vs. the Women"" - three married couples take sides.
Host: Don Knotts --Bobby Goldsboro --Joey Heatherton & Lance Rentzel --Mitzi McCall & Charlie Brill (comedy team) --Sunni Walton --The Baja Marimba Band
Host: Bing Crosby (Last show of the series) --Bing introduces ""Hollywood Palace"" highlights. From past shows: Don Adams, Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass, Fred Astaire, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Ray Bolger, Victor Borge, George Burns, James Brown, Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Nat King Cole, Perry Como, Bette Davis, Sammy Davis Jr., Phyllis Diller, Jimmy Durante, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Eydie Gorme, Buster Keaton, Gene Kelly, Don Knotts, Dean Martin, Groucho Marx, Ethel Merman, ""Mrs. Miller,"" Martha Raye, Debbie Reynolds, Buddy Rich, Don Rickles, Gloria Swanson, Tiny Tim, Ed Wynn, and novelty acts like The Wallendas. --Also, ""Hollywood Palace"" bloopers such as Alan Sherman with his fly unzipped.