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Season 1

  • SPECIAL 0x1 Jan Murray / Woody Herman & His Orchestra / Paul Lynde / The Norman Luboff Choir / Judy Scott

    • January 19, 1957

  • SPECIAL 0x2 Eydie Gorme / Nelson Riddle & His Orchestra / Rowan & Martin / Danny Lewis / Gary Lewis

    • June 8, 1957

  • SPECIAL 0x3 Bill Leyden / Susan Silo / The Mello Larks / The Nick Castle Dancers

    • November 5, 1957

  • SPECIAL 0x4 Sophie Tucker / Hans Conried / The Nick Castle Dancers / Walter Scharf & His Orchestra / Betty Grabl

    • February 18, 1958

  • SPECIAL 0x5 Helen Traubel / Danny Lewis / Gary Lewis

    • April 5, 1958

  • SPECIAL 0x6 Connie Stevens / The Four Step Brothers / The Nitwits / Toastmaster General George Jessel

    • May 16, 1958

  • SPECIAL 0x7 Helen Trauble / The Wiere Brothers / Sonny King

    • October 18, 1958

  • SPECIAL 0x8 Bobby Van / Harry James and His Music Makers

    • December 10, 1958

  • SPECIAL 0x9 Helen Trauble / Lionel Hampton / Johnny Unitas / Gary Lewis / Ron Lewis

    • January 16, 1960

  • SPECIAL 0x10 Tony Bennett / Rose Hardaway / The Nitwits

    • April 15, 1960

  • S01E01 Lynn Redgrave / Sonny & Cher / Harold Sakata

    • September 12, 1967
    • NBC

    Musical Highlights: Cher sings, "You Better Sit Down, Kids" Jerry sings, "I Like You" Sonny & Cher perform "What Now, My Love?" Jerry and the Baja Marimba Band perform "Comin' in the Back Door" and "What Now, My Love?". Sketches: A nervous husband (Jerry) finds his secret-agent wife (Lynn) being attacked by an assassin (Harold). Jerry also plays the trumpet and mimes a maintenance man who takes over a business meeting as chairman of the board.

  • S01E02 Martha Raye / Jack Webb / Harry Morgan

    • September 19, 1967
    • NBC

    Comedy Sketch: Miss Raye sings and appears in a sketch as a USO entertainer sent to cheer a lone soldier at an Arctic outpost. Webb and Morgan join Jerry for an Orient-oriented talk-off on Dragnet.

  • S01E03 Al Hirt / Nanette Fabray

    • September 26, 1967
    • NBC

    Comedy Sketch: Jerry, as a poor soul character, gets a job as a hotel doorman. Jerry and Nanette play a husband and wife; he's a kleptomanic, she's a policewoman. Musical Highlights: Nanette sings "Stout Hearted Men" and joins Jerry in a madcap medley. Al Hirt is featured in two trumpet solos.

  • S01E04 Janet Leigh / Ben Gazzara

    • October 3, 1967
    • NBC

    Ben Gazzara makes his singing debut, and he and Janet Leigh join Jerry in two comedy sketches, one involving an exploratory trip through an ancient Egyptian tomb, the second about a comedy team named "The Mothers Brothers."

  • S01E05 Barbara Feldon / The Doodletown Pipers

    • October 10, 1967
    • NBC

    Comedy Sketch: Jerry portrays the timid son of a lumber tycoon forced to fire a ferocious foreman, and a delivery boy who tangles with a girl rebounding from a ruined romance. In "A Man from Chicken Yum Yum" sketch, Jerry portrays a chicken delivery boy who meets Miss Feldon and must contend with her ravenous appetite - for a husband!

  • S01E06 Joey Heatherton / Laurence Harvey

    • October 17, 1967
    • NBC

    Comedy Sketch: "The Low Chaparral," and Jerry plays a "poor soul" patient who finds that he shares a hospital room with a handsome film star. Also a sketch about the adventures of a grizzled prospector and a villainous gunslinger.

  • S01E07 Don Rickles / Sergio Mendes

    • October 31, 1967
    • NBC

    Comedy Sketch: In "Sidney of the Supermarket," Jerry is an incompetent clerk who is suddenly elevated to the position of manager. Musical Highlights: Sergio Mendes performs "Watch What Happens" and "The Frog".

  • S01E10 Harold J. Stone / Roger Williams / Anna Moffo

    • November 21, 1967
    • NBC

    Jerry's guests are Metropolitan Opera soprano Anna Moffo, pianist Roger Williams and Actor Harold J. Stone.

  • S01E11 Frank Gorshin / The McGuire Sisters

    • December 5, 1967
    • NBC

    Comedy Sketch: Frank Gorshin imitates famous personalities and joins host Jerry in a sketch about a haunted house inhabited by monsters.

  • S01E13 Connie Stevens / Dick Shawn

    • December 26, 1967
    • NBC

    Comedy Sketch: Jerry is an American tourist in France; a wallflower at a high school dance. An old-time medicine show with Shawn playing the barker, Connie his assistant and Jerry a stage struck sheriff who arrives to run the elixir peddlers out of town, but joins them when they offer to launch him in a show business career.

  • S01E15 Anne Baxter / Jack Jones

    • January 9, 1968
    • NBC

    Musical Highlights: Anne sings, "Horses" and "All I Do Is Dream of You". Jack sings, "Live for Life" and "Free Again". Comedy Sketch: Anne plays a socialite race horse owner at the track with her trainer (Jerry), and a seductive Honky-tonk girl with evil designs on Jerry's football hero (Jack). In vignettes, Jerry auditions to be a radio announcer, and explains the difference between sound and noise.

  • S01E17 Ricardo Montalban / The Osmond Brothers

    • January 30, 1968
    • NBC

    Comedy Sketches: The Osmonds play Boy Scouts who are learning survival skills from their troup leader, the Nutty Professor. A New Wave director (Ricardo Montalban) thinks he's found the perfect model for a hair spray commercial. His discovery is delivery boy Sidney (aka "The Man from Yum-Yum"). Musical Highlights: The Osmonds sing "Then I'll Be Happy." Ricardo Montalban sings "I Don't Think I'm in Love." The entire cast joins in on "A Banda" and "Before the Parade Passes By."

  • S01E19 Zsa Zsa Gabor / Peter Lawford

    • February 13, 1968
    • NBC

    Comedy Sketches: Zsa Zsa plays a spy who tries to seduce two World World I pilots. In the Garden of Eden, the Nutty Professor lectures Adam and Eve (Zsa Zsa and Peter Lawford) on marriage. Jerry does a pantomime as Sidney, the operator of a rundown newsstand who faces competition by a superstand that employs beautiful women. Musical Highlights: Zsa Zsa and the Dancers perform "Oo La La." Peter Lawford sings "Music to Watch Girls By."

  • S01E20 Tony Randall / Nancy Ames

    • February 20, 1968
    • NBC

    Comedy Sketches: Tony hosts a TV game show that turns loving couples into greedy, bitter enemies. The Nutty Professor (Jerry) gives a speech on the history of dancing. Jerry works at a store where "The Salesman is Always Wrong." Musical Highlights: Nancy sings "Dear Hearts and Gentle People" and "See the Friendship There." Tony sings "They're Wearing Them Higher in Hawaii." Nancy & Jerry duet on "Meditation."

  • S01E21 Bobby Darin / Jane Powell

    • February 27, 1968
    • NBC

    Comedy Sketches: Jerry plays a hapless handyman working at a senior citizens' center. In a parody of variety shows, Powell, Darin and Lewis play unusual musical instruments, attempt celebrity impressions and do an acrobatic routine. Also, Bobby Darin and Jerry Lewis play violinists whose duet turns into a duel. Musical Highlights: Bobby sings "Talk to the Animals" and "Sixteen Tons." Jane Powell sings "Chattanooga Choo Choo." Jane Powell, Bobby Darin and Jerry Lewis perform "Epicurean Delight."

  • S01E22 Don Rickles / Michele Lee

    • March 12, 1968
    • NBC

    Comedy Sketches: Don plays an abrasive talk show host whose guests are a fashion designer and a guru (both played by Jerry). Michele Lee and Don Rickles do a parody of daytime soap operas. An Adam and Eve sketch with Michele Lee and Jerry Lewis. Musical Highlights: Michele Lee sings "Yesterday" and "L. David Sloane." Jerry Lewis - "If You Could See Her Now." The George Wyle Singers and The Nick Castle Dancers join together in a "Time" production number.

  • S01E23 Barbara Eden / Merv Griffin

    • March 19, 1968
    • NBC

    Comedy Sketch: Jerry Lewis plays a hillbilly named Jethro, and Barbara Eden plays his girlfriend Minnie, with Merv Griffin playing a wealthy city man. Musical Highlights: Barbara Eden sings the song "Beautiful Things". Jerry Lewis sings the song "Smile", his theme song for The Jerry Lewis Show.

  • S01E25 Nanette Fabray / Sergio Franchi

    • April 9, 1968
    • NBC

    Comedy Sketches: A recently divorced man-about-town (Torme) hires Hari Kari (Jerry) to be his houseboy. At the urging of his wife (Nanette), a has-been safecracker attempts a comeback. But instead of safes, the husband resorts to robbing parking meters. Musical Highlights: Mel Torme - "We've Got a World That Swings" and "A Man and a Woman." Nanette Fabray - "House of Fire" (production number with dancers).

  • S01E26 Count Basie / Mel Torme

    • April 16, 1968
    • NBC

    Comedy Sketches: In a parody of Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts, Jerry "explains" the music of Count Basie's Orchestra. Musical Highlights: Mel Torme sings "Blusette" Mel Torme and Jerry Lewis sing "Bring Back the Bands" Count Basie and orchestra - "Splanky" Jerry Lewis - "Singing in the Rain" Jerry Lewis and the Count Basie Orchestra - "Nose Cone"

Season 2