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THE DANNY KAYE SHOW
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CBS (Wednesdays 10:00-11:00pm ET)
Produced by Perry Lafferty
Writers Larry Gelbart, Mel Tolkin
US Music Variety Series 1963-67 120 episodes x 60 min (4 seasons)
Hosted by Danny Kaye
with Regulars:
The Johnny Mann Singers (season 1)(1963-64)
The Earl Brown Singers (seasons 2-4)(1964-67)
The Tony Charmoli Dancers
The Paul Weston Orchestra
recurring
Harvey Korman, Joyce Van Patten.
Joe & Eddie (Joe Gilbert and Eddie Brown) Howard Morris, John
Gary
Tim Rose, Jimi Hendricks The Big Three.
In its first season, The Danny Kaye Show garnered three Emmy awards, including
one for the show and one for its star.
That same season, the series also received a George Foster Peabody Award as one
of the best entertainment programs for
the year. During the series' four-year run, it accumulated a total of six Emmy
nominations.
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CBS Wednesdays 10:00-11:00pm Eastern
Regulars: Harvey Korman, The Johnny Mann Singers
[01] The Danny Kaye Show
25Sep63 (rerun 12May64)
Guests
Jackie Cooper
Lovelady Powell
Highlights:
Opens with the pseudo-Egyptian and Roman "Cleopatra's procession," featuring
dance ensemble number of classical Egyptian
and African tribal movements and including a surprise appearance by Jack Benny.
Featured parody sketches on how three Broadway composers might have written
music on Baseball: "My Fair Umpire," a sports
satire of Lerner & Loewe's 'My Fair Lady' in which Higgins (Kaye) and Eliza
(Powell) sing songs such as "The aim of the
game is mainly to complain;" "Horsehide Story," a choreographed parody of
Leonard Bernstein's 'West Side Story' set on
the baseball diamond; and "Baseball Man," set to the tune of Meredith Wilson's
'Music Man.' Also, sketch "The Victim"
about a first-time airline passenger (Kaye & Cooper). "The Bandstand" sketch
about a cheap clup trio (Kaye, Cooper and
Sam D'Andrea) trying to perform as well as impersonating another act on a
revolving bandstand.
Danny Kaye sings "Consider Yourself", "Take Me Out to the Ballgame", and a
Russian song "May There Always Be Sunshine".
Lovelady Powell sings "Bye, Bye Blackbird" and "Love Me Lady".
Kaye & Powell sing a Blues medley and "Cherry Pies Ought to be You".
Joe & Eddie perform "Children Go" and "Elijah Rock". [RF]
[02] The Danny Kaye Show
02Oct63 (rerun 13May64)
Guests
Jose Ferrer
Red Norvo
Henry Beckman
Highlights:
Features a musical revue that might have resulted had Shakespeare written Hamlet
for television, including song & dance
numbers by Hamlet (Ferrer) and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern (Kaye). Also, Tony
Charmoli Dancers in a jazz number to march
music with a swing influence. "Gemini" sketch about two astronauts in space and
"The German Officer" sketch about a
private being asked to impersonate a German general captured by British
Intelligence (both sketches with Kaye, Ferrer
and Henry Beckman).
Danny Kaye sings "Brotherhood of Man".
Danny Kaye & Jose Ferrer" perform a parody with Shakespeare's, 'To Be or Not To
Be' with "Macbeth the Knife".
Norvo & Quintet perform "Devil and the Deep Blue Sea".
Kaye, Norvo Quintet & Mann Singers do "Three Blind Mice".
Danny & Jose play two spacemen who try to prove that they can get along with
each other while in a space capsule.
Jose plays a British intelligence officer and Danny plays both a Nazi General
and a British soldier. [RF]
[03] The Danny Kaye Show
09Oct63
Guests
Carol Lawrence
Don Knotts
Joe & Eddie
Highlights:
"Dancing Pagodas" sketch about an Indian trio (Kaye, Knotts & Lawrence) who let
their fingers 'do the talking'.
"The Diner" sketch - a dramatic triangle between a meek diner owner (Knotts),
his sultry and unsatisfied wife (Lawrence)
and black leather trucker (Kaye) who is willing to murder to win her.
"Toothache" sketch on a suffering dental patient
whose rest is interrupted (Kaye & Knotts).
Danny Kaye performs "Together Wherever We Go" and "Turn Around" (dedicated to
his daughter).
Carol Lawrence sings "Fools Rush In". (song & ballet)
Joe & Eddie perform "They Call the Wind Maria".
Danny, Joe & Eddie perform "I Laid Around". [RF]
[04] The Danny Kaye Show
16Oct63 (rerun 24Jun64)
Guests
Mary Tyler Moore
Eddie Foy Jr.
Dino Natali
Johnny Mann Singers
Highlights:
Parodies of three TV domestic comedies set in the U.S. - "Father Knows Nothing,"
France - "Father Knows Plenty" and
Japan - "Osaka Hillbillies." [also appearing Harvey Korman, Dino Natali]
Danny Kaye performs a song and soft shoe dance to "S'posin'".
Danny does a song medley bemoaning the switch from telephone exchanges to area
codes, such as "As I Walked Out on the
Streets of 512"
Mary Tyler Moore does a song-and-dance with "Hard-Hearted Hannah".
Eddie Foy Jr. sings and dances to "Delightful is the Word".
Danny, Mary & Eddie perform a vaudeville song-and-dance with "When the Song and
Dance Man Came to Town". [RF]
[05] The Danny Kaye Show
23Oct63
Guests
Gene Kelly
Michele Lee
also
Jackie Joseph
Henry Beckman
Myrna Ross
Features Kaye and Kelly in a song & dance tribute to Kelly's dancing career on
Broadway and in the movies,
including Kelly's tap dance to Kaye's linguini recipe and closing with both
dancers' versions of "Ballin' the Jack."
Other dance numbers are Charmoli's legs-only choreography to "Days of Wine and
Roses" and a quartet of girls engaging
Kaye in playground-style dance while he sings "You Make Me Feel So Young."
"Business Lunch" sketch about a distracting
restaurant fashion show at an important business meeting (Kaye, Harvey Korman,
Henry Beckman).
"Beauty Expert" sketch about a visit with Viennese beauty entrepreneur Miss
Schmeckenvasser on the fictional TV show
'Wonderful World of Women' (Kaye, Korman, Jackie Joseph, Myrna Ross).
Highlights:
Michele Lee sings "I Could Write a Book" and "By Myself".
Danny & Michele duet with "You'll Never Get Away".
Danny Kaye & the Clinger Sisters do "Side By Side". [RF]
[06] The Danny Kaye Show
30Oct63
Guests
Juliet Prowse
Howard Morris
"Cowboys of the World" sketches parody Westerns - including the stereotypical
villain, hero, sidekick and woman in need
of rescue - set in the U.S. "My Son the Gunslinger;" Scotland "Restless Kilts"
and Russia "Frontier Cossack"
(with Kaye, Morris, Prowse, Korman and Jamie Farr). Also "Dr. Yes" parody of the
James Bond film (Kaye, Prowse, Morris,
Korman). Kaye discusses his memories of Scottish entertainer Sir Harry Lauder.
Highlights:
Danny Kaye sings "Breezin' Along with the Breeze / Will Ye No Come Back Again?
Juliet Prowse performs "Love Makes the World Go 'round" (with male dancers).
The Levee Singers do "I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'".
Danny Kaye & the Levee Singers perform "Everybody Clap Your Hands". [RF]
[07] The Danny Kaye Show
06Nov63
Guests
Art Carney
Joanie Sommers
also appearing
Harvey Korman
Jamie Farr
Highlights:
Danny as a meek button salesman is forced to share a hotel room with a rowdy
conventioneer (Frank Brash is the name
- hardware is the game) played by Art Carney. And there is Danny trying to count
his buttons while Art noisily writes
a letter home, telephoning and practicing his parade marching.
Danny does "South Rampart Street Parade".
Joanie sings "Where Are You?" and "When You're Alone" in which her style shows
the happy influence of the late Billie
Holliday.
Joanie teams up with Danny to illustrate how Shakespeare might have written
lyrics for teenagers today "Romeo and Juliet,
they were teenaged lovers."
Joanie and Danny duet with "When Your Lover Has Gone".
Danny chats with Art in a nostalgic recollection of his radio days as a man of
all voices (Franklin Roosevelt,
Harry Truman, Soap operas, chickens, night sounds - you name it).
Danny & the Clinger Sisters perform "The Story of Alice".
A take-off on a "talent playhouse" with Danny delivering the commercials for the
sponsors, a spray-on dinner,
"Man that's good!" and a roll-on lunch (Man, that's terrible!").
Danny describes the setting of the play: Old France, when the nation was split
between the forces of Cornel Wilde
and Basil Rathbone. Art Carney was King Louis and Danny his long lost enemy
brother and their clowning and duelling was
perfection. [RF]
[08] The Danny Kaye Show
13Nov63
Guests
Louis Jourdan
Nita Talbot
Eileen Farrell
Carl Ballantine
Features Kaye, Jourdan & Dancers in two numbers - the song & dance "Walk Right
In" and an opera parody that presents
a game of football as a dance. Also Carl Ballantine's comedy magic act as 'The
Great Ballantine.' Trio of sketches on
the theme of jealosy as it might appear in movies from the U.S. - "Dial J for
Jealosy," Italy - "Jealousy, Italian-style"
and Turkey - "Quick Bernice, My Burnoose" (with Kaye, Jourdan and Talbot).
Highlights:
Danny sings "Gypsy in My Soul".
Eileen Farrell sings "Danny Boy".
Danny & Eileen Farrell perform "Birth of the Blues".
Danny & Louis duet with "Walk Right In".
Louis Jourdan sings "Honey". [RF]
[09] The Danny Kaye Show
20Nov63 (rerun 01Jul64)
Guests
Gwen Verdon
Don Penny
Zeme North
The Clinger Sisters
with
Joyce Jameson
Harvey Korman
Highlights:
Danny Kaye sings "Alouette"
Danny & Gwen duet with "Two of a Kind".
"What Is a Woman" is spoken by Danny and danced by Gwen.
The Clinger Sisters sing "High Hopes".
Danny & the Clinger Sisters do "I Get So Lonely".
Gwen Verdon & Dancers in a trio of dances set to nursery rhymes - "Pop! Goes the
Weasel".
A jazz version of "Three Blind Mice" and lullaby ballet.
"Comedy Tonight" a sketch about the attempts - through jestering and square,
flamenco, ballet & vaudeville dance of a
band of strolling players who must help the Prince of a mythical kingdom
remember how to laugh (Kaye, Verdon, Korman).
"The Drive-in" sketch about a couple celebrating their anniversary with a
newlywed couple at a drive-in restaurant
(Kaye, Verdon, Don Penny, Zeme North, Joyce Jameson). [RF]
[10] The Danny Kaye Show
27Nov63
Guests
Nancy Walker
Mahalia Jackson
Also appearing are
Harvey Korman
Sig Rumann
Marni Nixon
Dodo Denney
Features Nancy Walker and Kaye in three musical sketches: the comparison of a
possible Old Globe Theatre production
with the contemporary "angry young man" British theatrical approach, both on the
subject of love ("Love - Then and Now");
a 'Cliché Light Opera Company' production with the last-minute substitution of
chorus girl Walker for the star
("Magnolia Blossoms of 1932"); and a Svengali spoof where the great vocal
teacher and hypnotist discovers his maid
can sing - but only with her mop in hand (also appearing - Harvey Korman, Sig
Rumann, Marni Nixon, Dodo Denney).
Highlights:
Danny sings "When My Sugar Walks Down the Street / Gypsy in My Soul
Mahalia Jackson performs "Deep River / Just a Closer Walk with Thee [RF]
[11] The Danny Kaye Show
04Dec63
guest cast:
Glynis Johns
Jo Stafford
Mama Cass Elliot
Jimi Hendricks
Tim Rose
Highlights:
Jo Stafford (wife of Danny's musical director) sings "Tomorrow Mountain" and
"Yesterdays".
Danny & Jo duet on "Temptation".
The Big Three (Tim Rose, Cass Elliot and Jim Hendricks) perform "Rider".
Danny & Glynis perform a song-and-dance routine. [RF]
[12] The Danny Kaye Show
11Dec63
guest cast:
Julie Newmar
Howard Morris
The Ruffinos (the South American answer to the Trapp Family)
Highlights:
Howard & Danny appear in a comedy skit about Robin Hood and his Merry Men.
Danny opens with "The Great Come-And-Get-It-Day".
Danny & Julie do a special number with the dancers on "Simon Says". [RF]
[13] The Danny Kaye Show
18Dec63 (rerun 06May64)
guest cast:
Andy Williams
Mary Tyler Moore
Dick Van Dyke
Highlights:
Danny opens the show with "You Meet the Nicest People Around Christmas Time".
Danny & Dick team up for a song and dance to "Puttin' On the Ritz".
Dick and Danny play a bridegroom and best man in a comedy skit and opposing
lawyers in a courtroom trial battle
in another skit.
Dick plays a best man who tries to persuade a reluctant bridegroom (Danny) to go
through with the wedding.
In another skit Dick plays a flamboyant prosecutor to America's oldest and
sloppiest defense lawyer (Danny) during
a murder trial where the TV cameras in the courtroom bring out the ham in the
foes. [RF]
[14] The Danny Kaye Show
25Dec63
guests
Nat King Cole
Mary Tyler Moore
The Clinger Sisters
Highlights:
Danny & Nat King Cole sing "Jingle Bells".
Nat King Cole sings "Get me to the Church On Time" and "The Christmas Song".
Mary returns for more comedy antics with Danny.
Danny and the Clinger Sisters sing "Baby, It's Cold Outside" and "Let There Be
Peace on Earth". [RF]
[15] The Danny Kaye Show
01Jan64
guests
Jack Weston
Nita Talbot
The Clinger Sisters
Esquivel and His Mexican Group
(Juan Garcia Esquivel)
Highlights:
Esquivel and His Mexican Group perform a big "Lawrence of Arabia dance number.
Other songs include "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails", "Granada" and "Jalousie".
Jack West and Nita Talbot team up for a sketch as a barber and a manicurits in a
lovers' quarrel.
Danny portrays Mme. Schmeckenvasser, a school teacher who conducts a Dingle
Dangle TV School for kiddies. [RF]
[16] The Danny Kaye Show
08Jan64
guests
Terry-Thomas
Marilyn Lovell
The Maori Dancers
Highlights:
Marilyn, Danny and Terry-Thomas perform "Tea For Two".
Terry-Thomas plays a stuffy Captain of an English liner and has served notice to
a bumbling novice waiter played by
Danny.
Danny and Terry-Thomas team up for a sketch, a satire on escapes from
prisoner-of-war camps with the craziest escape
plan ever invented.
*NOTE: This was the first American appearance of the Maori Dancers, 136 of them
from New Zealand with authentic tribal
garb and dances. [RF]
[17] The Danny Kaye Show
15Jan64 (rerun )
Guests
Dorothy Collins
Jackie Cooper
The Clinger Sisters
Marilyn Lovell
Highlights:
Danny and Jackie Cooper review a movie star's career in one sketch and Danny
portrays a marriage counselor with a
heavy accent in another.
Danny sings "Hand Me Down My Walkin' Cane". [RF]
[18] The Danny Kaye Show
22Jan64 (rerun 27May64)
Guests
Art Carney
Rod Serling
Folk singers Joe & Eddie (Joe Gilbert and Eddie Brown)
Highlights:
Art plays a bumbling know-it-all electrician who disrupts Danny's preparations
for a surprise birthday party.
Art joins Danny and Rod for a takeoff on "Twlight Zone" called "Safety Zone" in
which Rod Serling spouts scientific
lingo and Art parachutes into a land ruled by a 400-year-old man (Danny). [RF]
[19] The Danny Kaye Show
29Jan64
Guests
Diahann Carroll
Harvey Korman
Highlights:
In a sketch Danny plays an excited new father seeing his infant son for the
first time in the maternity ward, Diahann
plays the nurse who shows him his new heir.
And in "I'll Cry Tamale" Danny plays the part of a Mexican hero.
Diahann sings "Johnny One Note" and "In Love, In Vain".
Diahann and Danny duet on some nonsense songs.
Danny does a solo dance pantomime illustrating the problem of a tipsy man paying
his bill and leaving a saloon.
Harvey Korman and Danny appear in a comedy version of a late-night television
show "The Hundred Dollar Movie".
*NOTE: Diahann Carroll was in the Broadway musical "No Strings". [RF]
[20] The Danny Kaye Show
05Feb64 (rerun 10Jun64)
Guests
Imogene Coca
Joe & Eddie (Joe Gilbert and Eddie Brown)
Harvey Korman
Highlights:
Imogene & Danny do a comedy sketch based on a family game "Monopoly".
The dancers present a "Can Can" number.
Imogene & Danny team up for a song and dance impression of great show business
combinations of the past.
Joe & Eddie sing "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine".
Harvey joins Danny & Imogene in the closing sketch titled "Der Fledermountie",
another presentation of the Kaye
light opera company. The story concerns the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a
bearskin thief and a pretty Indian maiden. [RF]
[21] The Danny Kaye Show
12Feb64
Show no. 8
choreography Tony Charmoli
Guests
Peter Falk
Clarinestist Pete Fountain
Michele Lee
Highlights:
Peter Falk plays Danny's paranoid roommate in a hospital in one skit.
In another skit Peter as Sheik Ben Khasee gives British secret agent Kaye a bad
time.
Jazzman Pete Fountain and Danny Kaye do a rousing version of "When the Saints Go
Marching In".
Michele Lee sings some Broadway tunes. [RF]
[22] The Danny Kaye Show
19Feb64
Guests
John Mills
Hayley Mills
folksingers Joe & Eddie
Highlights:
Danny backed by the show's dancers perform "Shine on Your Shoes".
Hayley joins Danny in an opening sketch in which Danny gives a hilarious
portrayal of a father suddenly realizing
his daughter is growing into maturity.
John Mills and Danny take the spotlight with a clever "Mutiny on the Bounty"
satire.
Danny, John and Hayley team up for a sketch about a French customs inspector.
Joe and Eddie sing "The Ox Driver's Song". [RF]
[23] The Danny Kaye Show
26Feb64 (rerun 17Jun64)
Guests
Buddy Ebsen
Howard Morris
Marilyn Lovell
Harvey Korman
Highlights:
Buddy and Danny do a light-hearted song-and-dance to "I Caught A Big Bear".
Back in character Buddy plays a hillbilly Pa (Jed Clunk) with two sons - Danny
(as Jud, who went get a wife and came
back with a ba'r instead) and Howard Morris (as Spud) with Harvey Korman as the
folk song researcher who wants to
preserve their rendition of "Mountain Stew".
Danny, Buddy and Howard perform "Marching Together".
Another skit has Danny as a party host, Harry Wittner and Howard Morris as the
obnoxious guest he tries to get rid
of by such devices as putting a turkey in a piano.
Danny sings "Hey, Look Me Over".
Marilyn & Danny duet with "Mommy, I Wanna Drink of Water". [RF]
[24] The Danny Kaye Show
04Mar64
Guests
Art Carney
The Maori Dancers
Harvey Korman
Highlights:
Art returns for his third guest appearance the Maori Dancers make their second
appearance on the show.
In the opening sketch, Art portrays a prospective son-in-law who makes his
marriage pitch to the girl's father, (Danny).
Art portrays Big Mike, a tough con planning a prison break, Harvey Korman plays
the Prison Warden and Danny the
prisoner who's been in solitary for 11 years.
Danny & Art team up for a song-and-dance number. [RF]
[25] The Danny Kaye Show
11Mar64
Guests
Diahann Carroll
Johnny Mann Singers
Tony Charmoli Dancers
Paul Weston Orchestra
Highlights:
Diahann Carroll returns for her second visit.
Danny starts off the show with a modernized "Old MacDonald".
Danny & Diahann duet on "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah".
Danny & Diahann, cast members and the Tony Charmoli dancers pay tribute to the
clocks in our everyday lives in a
comedy-song production number titled "The Clock".
Danny plays an interpreter at a banquet translating the French and English of
two men who get along until they start
comparing grandson pictures.
A little boy's first haircut is another comedy sketch. [RF]
[26] The Danny Kaye Show
18Mar64
Guests
Nancy Walker
Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara
Folk singers Joe and Eddie
Highlights:
Danny & Nancy play a poor London couple (Rudy & Agnes) in a sketch.
Joe and Eddie perform "The Surfers".
The Kinderspiel Light Opera Company presents "Sheiks in Toyland" with Danny
playing a terrible sheik and Nancy
a French captive woman.
Stiller and Meara play a bickering couple recovering from the after effects of a
party. [RF]
[27] The Danny Kaye Show
25Mar64
Guests
Tony Bennett
Howard Morris
Highlights:
Tony sings "When Joanna Loved Me" and "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie".
Danny & Tony duet with a Blues medley.
Tony Charmoli's dancers and Earl Brown's singers are featured in a production
number titled "The Music Stopped".
Danny and Howard cut up in two sketches. There's a British spy case, a take-off
on James Bond, Danny plays James
Blonde to Howard's Dr. Yes.
In an Italian village postman Vittorio Scampi (Howard) reads a letter to an old
tailor, Giovanni (Danny) who cannot
read the letter from his son in America, giving him a chance to put his idea of
Italian on display. [RF]
[28] The Danny Kaye Show
01Apr64
Guests
Dorothy Collins
Howard Morris
Dancer Laurie Ichino
Highlights:
Danny sings "Gigi".
Danny portrays the part of a wallflower whose friend persuades him to attend a
lonely hearts dance.
Danny plays a skillful matador in a sketch.
Danny & Laurie perform "Change Partners". [RF]
[29] The Danny Kaye Show
08Apr64
Guests
Andy Griffith
Jim Nabors
Bea Benaderet
Highlights:
Danny Kaye and Bea Benaderet do a comedy sketch set in the Deep South titled
"The Long, Hot Supper". Jim Nabors plays
the weak son of Fat Daddy (Kaye), a ruthless tyrant. Bea plays Fat Daddy's wife,
a 'genteel' woman who lives in the
past. Andy makes a brief appearance in the sketch.
Jim Nabors sings "I Ain't Down Yet".
All join in a song for the finale. [RF]
[30] The Danny Kaye Show
15Apr64
Guests
Mary Tyler Moore
Harvey Korman
The Youngfolk (singing group)
Highlights:
Mary plays Queen of the Jungle in one sketch with Danny
Mary plays an Irish colleen whose pub-owner father (Harvey Korman) feels that no
man in Ireland is good enough for
his daughter, even wandering folk singer Danny who is unlucky enough to capture
her heart. [RF]
[31] The Danny Kaye Show
22Apr64
Guests
Vincent Price
Shari Lewis
Howard Morris
Highlights:
Shari and her puppet Lambchop sing a French favorite with Danny.
In a skit Vincent, an art collector and critic explains art to Danny who has
stopped into the gallery only to get
out of the rain.
Danny, Howard & Vincent do a sketch about a fancy restaurant with Vincent
playing the snotty Maitre'd and Danny as
the pain-in-the-neck customer.
*NOTE: Danny Kaye had badly burned his foot last week and did not appear in a
few of the skits. [RF]
[32] The Danny Kaye Show [last new show of the 1st
season]
29Apr64
Guests
comedienne Pat Carroll
pianists Ferrante and Teicher
Highlights:
In sketch, Danny and Pat demonstrate the reactions of people in Germany, France
and Italy when a wife smashes up
the family car.
Danny and Pat do another sketch where Danny plays a male nurse to Pat's wealthy
hypochondriac patient in a hospital.
Ferrante and Teicher perform "Brazil".
*NOTE: Pat Carroll, musical/comedy actress, including a memorable appearance as
one of the wicked stepsisters in the
Lesley Ann Warren version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's “Cinderella” TV special
in 1964. She is now a respected
dramatic stage actress, winning raves for her one-woman show about Gertrude
Stein. [RF]
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Reruns (06May64-01Jul64)
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[--] The Danny Kaye Show
06May64 (rerun from 18Dec63)
Guests
Andy Williams
Dick Van Dyke
Mary Tyler Moore
[--] The Danny Kaye Show
13May64 (rerun from 02Oct63)
Guests
Jose Ferrer
Jazzman Red Norvo and His Quintet
[--] The Danny Kaye Show
20May64 (rerun from 25Sep63)
Guests
Jackie Cooper
Lovelady Powell
[--] The Danny Kaye Show
27May64 (rerun from 25Sep63)
Guests
Rod Serling
Art Carney
Joe and Eddie
[--] The Danny Kaye Show
03Jun64
no details
[--] The Danny Kaye Show
10Jun64 (rerun from 05Feb64)
Guests
Imogene Coca
[--] The Danny Kaye Show
17Jun64 (rerun from 26Feb64)
Guests
Buddy Ebsen
[--] The Danny Kaye Show
24Jun64 (rerun from 16Oct63)
Guests
Mary Tyler Moore
Eddie Foy Jr.
[--] The Danny Kaye Show
01Jul64 (rerun from 20Nov63)
Guests
Gwen Verdon
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CBS Wednesdays 10:00-11:00pm Eastern
Regulars: Joyce Van Patten, Harvey Korman, The Earl Brown Singers
2.01 [33] The Danny Kaye Show
23Sep64
Guests
Gwen Verdon
The Rhythm Masters (a group of college musicians)
Highlights:
A spoof on bashful bachelors.
Gwen Verdon sings and dances to "Downtown". [RF]
2.02 [34] The Danny Kaye Show
30Sep1964
Show No. 39
guests
Phil Silvers
Barbara McNair
Highlights:
Danny and Phil do a skit recalling the old days of the burlesque theater.
Barbara sings "When the Sun Comes Out" and "I Feel a Song Comin' On".
Danny closes his show with a five-minute film of his visit to the Olympic site
in Tokyo and a discussion with
Japanese children. [RF]
2.03 [35] The Danny Kaye Show
07Oct64
Guests
Imogene Coca
Joe and Eddie
Highlights:
Imogene and Danny do a skit about a man buying a birthday gift for his wife.
Joe and Eddie sing "Lonesome Road".
The Kinderspiel Light Opera Company also makes an appearance. [RF]
2.04 [36] The Danny Kaye Show
14Oct64
Guests
Mary Tyler Moore
singer Danny Cox (making his TV debut)
Highlights:
Danny and Mary portray a married couple in a comedy sketch faced with the
question "To Watch or Not to Watch TV".
In another sketch, Mary plays Candy Doll, whose papa is Fat Daddy (Danny) and
whose prospective husband is
Gaylord Siss (Harvey Korman) an Old Southern family fop.
Danny Cox (a burly ex-football player who signed with Columbia Records) sings
both folk and pop tunes.
Mary also appears in a dance routine titled "Ten Cents a Dance".
Danny closes the show with a group of young dance students who improvise a dance
to illustrate a story. [RF]
2.05 [37] The Danny Kaye Show
21Oct64
Guests
Angela Lansbury
John Gary
Highlights:
Angela, Danny and John appear in an amusing spoof of Tennessee Williams' "Night
of the Iguana". Angela is Anna the
Piranha who has devoted her life to crushing men.
Danny & Angela do a song-and-dance routine witg h "A Ruddy by the Name of You".
John sings "This Is All I Ask" and "Danny Boy". [RF]
2.06 [38] The Danny Kaye Show
28Oct64
Guests
Jose Ferrer
singer Dorothy Collins
Harvey Korman
Joyce Van Patten
In the opening comedy sketch, Kaye and Ferrer are applicants for the same post'
tion with • paper clip company.
Joyce Van Patten Is seen as the receptionist.
Later In the show, in the setting of the famous British criminal court, the Old
Bailey, Kaye and Ferrer are antagonists
In a murder trial drama. Kaye is barrister for the defense, and Ferrer Is
prosecutor for the crown. Harvey Korman Is
th- judge. Miss Collins sings, and Joint Kaye aad the rest of the company In a
musical presentation of "Rockla'
Red Riding Hood."
Jose Ferrer is the perfect foil for Danny playing Sir Percival Fopp in a
courtroom sketch "Murder on the Mary Tyler
Moors", Danny plays Sir Chauncy Burroughs.
Dorothy joins Danny in a Beatle-like extravaganza musical called "Rocking' Red
Riding Hood". [RF]
2.07 [39] The Danny Kaye Show
04Nov64
Guests
Lucille Ball
John Gary
Miss Ball and Danny run amuck as two actors in a road company who had to play
six parts. They also play a married
couple with maid trouble n a sit-down bit, and later hop about during a balloon
dance.
NOTE: It may take a while for Lucille Ball to catch her breath. Her performance
on Tuesday night's "Danny Kaye Show"
(9 p. m., CBS-TV), taped a week ago in Hollywood, required the stamina of an
Olympic track star and the dogged
determination of a combat-ready Marine. In the interest of her art, Miss Ball
was punched, pummeled, hurled through
the air and sat upon during a long day of rehearsals and the final taping. In
return, she elbowed Kaye in the ribs,
stepped on his toes and strangled him. The last time such a performance was
staged for television, Gorgeous George
bested Killer Kowalski, two falls out of three. A friend of this department was
present when the talented redheads
joined forces. The following is his verbatim report: Arrived at the studio
before the two stars but in time to find
ten men, seated on the floor, inflating balloons. One fellow said that what was
happening was and when he opened
his mouth o reply, the air went out of his balloon. "Look, Mac, I just work
here," he growled. "They tell me to
blow up balloons, I blow up balloons. A guy's gotta eat." With that, he took a
deep breath and went back to work.
After more than a thousand balloons had been deposited in the studio next door,
the co-stars arrived. They embraced,
then launched into their most exhausting sketch, a tour-de-force about two
actors who take all the roles in a
touring drama when the other performers fail to show up. This entailed a
dizzying succession of rapid costume and
make-up changes. [RF]
2.08 [40] The Danny Kaye Show
11Nov64
Guests
Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop
Howard Morris
Highlights:
Danny and Howard portray Italian street singers.
Sketch with Shari as a ballerina and Lamb Chop hamming it up.
And in spoof of James Bond, Danny is secret James Pond and Howard as Dr. Yes. [RF]
2.09 [41] The Danny Kaye Show
18Nov64
Guests
Diahann Carroll
Don Knotts
The Clinger Sisters
Harvey Korman
Highlights:
Don plays a shy shoe salesman, a research assistant and a prince in a square
light opera. [RF]
2.10 [42] The Danny Kaye Show
25Nov64
Guests
Gwen Verdon
Highlights:
Danny & Gwen are a husband and wife battling at breakfast.
Gwen, Danny and Harvey do a parody in the movie musical style titled "The
Elopement".
Gwen sings "I've Got Rhythm". [RF]
2.11 [43] The Danny Kaye Show
02Dec64
Guests
Art Carney
Pearl Bailey
Laurie Ichino
Highlights:
Danny opens the show with little Laurie Ichino dancing to "If This Isn't Love".
Art plays a loud, rude character who drives the car in a two-man car pool and
Danny is his meek passenger.
Art plays Big Joe Carrats in a three-part movie titled "Murder, Maestro,
Murder". Danny is song 'n dance man Peter Piper.
Pearl Bailey makes her debut with Danny singing two songs.
Pearl sings "Who Cares?" and "Personality".
Danny & Pearl duet on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"
Danny closes the show with the Earl Brown singers in "Mother Goose Jumps". [RF]
2.12 [44] The Danny Kaye Show
09Dec64
Guests
Imogene Coca
Tony Bennett
The Clinger Sisters
Highlights:
Imogene makes a return visit and she brings her ballet slippers for the
production number of "Swan Lake" with Danny.
In a Kinderspiel Light Opera Company called "The Fleder-Mikado", Danny plays a
handsome U.S. Naval Lieutenant and
Miss Coca is his Japanese love.
In a Christmas sketch Danny plays a cockney Englishman who has been fired from
his job as a department store Santa,
Imogene plays his wife.
Tony Bennett sings three songs. [RF]
2.13 [45] The Danny Kaye Show
16Dec64
Guests
Pat Carroll
Howard Morris
Joe & Eddie
Highlights:
Skits include a show lampooning television documentaries with Pat Carroll
interviews a German and English war hero
in a TV sketch.
Danny plays a shy bachelor who goes to dinner at a girlfriend's house and is
badgered about marriage by her parents.
The trio do a hillbilly number and Joe & Eddie sing folk songs. [RF]
2.14 [46] The Danny Kaye Show
23Dec64
Guests
Gwen Verdon
Jo Stafford
Harvey Korman
Tony Charmoli Dancers
Highlights:
Gwen & Danny open with a Christmas Waltz.
Danny & Gwen portray rejected dolls in a fantasy dance that takes place in a
child's room.
Gwen sings "There's a Lull in My Life" and "The Song Is Ended".
Jo sings a medley of Christmas songs.
Danny & Jo duet with ""Jingle Journey" and "It's Almost Like Being in Love".
Danny recreates a character from last season as Giovanni the old Italian
expecting a call from his son in America.
Danny, Harvey and Gwen appear in an espionage and counter-espionage comedy
sketch titled "The Spy Who Got a Cold". [RF]
2.15 [47] The Danny Kaye Show
30Dec64
Guests
Buddy Ebsen
Pat Carroll
Howard Morris
Earl Brown Singers
Highlights:
Danny & Buddy do a dance number to "Bidin' My Time".
Pat appears an a trouble-making department store shopper skit with Danny and
Howard.
Buddy & Danny do a Western skit involving an Indian scout.
Pat, Danny and Howard [RF]
2.16 [48] The Danny Kaye Show
06Jan65
Guests
Peter Falk
Dorothy Collins
Highlights:
Peter Falk returns for a "Mr. Novak" takeoff with Danny.
Danny plays a shabby teacher who works in at an ESSO gas station at night and
Peter plays the father who wonders
why his son is failing.
Dorothy Collins and Danny relive the old Hit Parade days.
Peter joins Danny for a bandit movie bit as El Producto to Danny's El Ringle. [RF]
2.17 [49] The Danny Kaye Show
13Jan65
Guests
Vincent Price
Diahann Carroll
Harvey Korman
Highlights:
Danny does a dentist sketch with Vincent Price as the Dentist.
Diahann sings.
Danny, Vincent and Harvey do a costume spoof about Viennese Prince Rudolf
(Danny) and a handyman looalike with Vincent
as the Prime Minister and Harvey as the General. [RF]
2.18 [50] The Danny Kaye Show
20Jan65
Guests
Imogene Coca
Nancy Wilson
Highlights:
Imogene and Danny play a couple of circus acrobats in on sketch.
Imogene plays a wife who brings home an expensive wig.
Danny illustrates how the Russians might do "Cinderella".
Nancy Wilson sings.
Four-year-old Victoria Page Meyerink appears in a sitdown with Danny at the end.
News article Jan20/64.
"Appleface" was comedian Danny Kaye and the object of his affection was
four-year-old Victoria Meyerink who if she
likes you will nickname you after her favorite fruits and vegetables. They met
shortly before her first appearance
on December 31, 1963 when she starred with Danny and dancer Gwen Verdon in a
Christmas sketch on the show. The response
was so favorable to the child's performance that Danny brought her back to share
his final "sit-down spot" on two
succeeding shows. She appears for her fourth time on this episode. [RF]
2.19 [51] The Danny Kaye Show
27Jan65
Guests
Irene Ryan
Bessie Griffin and the Gospel Pearls
with
Earl Brown Singers
Tony Charmoli Dancers
Paul Weston Orchestra
Highlights:
Irene Ryan as Granny goes avisitin' with Danny as Grandpa the oldest couple in
West Virginia.
Irene also does a medicine sketch about hillbillies and blackouts about mothers
and sons with Danny. [RF]
2.20 [52] The Danny Kaye Show
03Feb65
Guests
Fred Gwynne
John Gary
Joyce Van Patten
Highlights:
Fred plays a slipping Broadway stage director who tells a shy Danny how to act.
A wild nightcourt sketch with Danny, Fred and Joyce Van Patten over a restaurant
brawl. [RF]
2.21 [53] The Danny Kaye Show
10Feb65
Guests
Gwen Verdon
Harve Presnell
Highlights:
Danny presents a three-act comedy entitled "Top Hat, White Tie and Green Socks".
Harve, Gwen and Danny do a sketch about a temperamental musical comedy star who
looks for a leading man to star in
her next stage show and decides on an accident-prone delivery boy (Danny).
Gwen and Danny do a sketch about a couple discussing the husband's quest for a
raise at the office. [RF]
Harve sings two songs.
2.22 [54] The Danny Kaye Show
17Feb65
Guests
Elke Sommers
Pat Carroll
Highlights:
Danny opens with little Laurie Ichino.
Elke & Danny duet with some folk songs.
In a sketch Elke plays an actress with Danny as the shy shoe salesman.
Pat Carroll plays a variety of mothers-in-law all of them pushy.
NOTE: This was Elke Sommers television debut. [RF]
2.23 [55] The Danny Kaye Show
24Feb65
Guests
Paul Ford
Shirley Bassey (British Singer)
Highlights:
In a comedy sketch Danny portrays British secret service agent James Blonde who
is assigned to stop the evil racketeer
Ringfinger (Paul Ford).
Shirley belts out "The Lady is a Tramp".
Danny & Shirley do a duet.
Paul Ford plays a sour father who can't stand his son-in-law (Danny). [RF]
2.24 [56] The Danny Kaye Show
03Mar65
Guests
Imogene Coca
Joe & Eddie
Virginia Page Meyerlink
Highlights:
Danny and Imogene take on a sketch about a poker game.
They also present a series of commercials as they might have been written by
William Shakespeare and
Tennessee Williams. [RF]
2.25 [57] The Danny Kaye Show
10Mar65
Guests
Jim Nabors
Oscar Peterson Jazz Trio
Highlights:
Jim sings "Swanee"
In one sketch Jim plays a Marine to Danny's pesky drill-sergeant.
And a Western sketch titled "Labanza" with Danny as Fat Daddy and Jim his clumsy
son.
Danny does a soft show and dance.
Jim as his famous "Gomer Pyle" character takes on a "Roosian Spy".
Danny plays Maestro Bruno Walnut, a Viennses symphony conductor, in a ribbing of
Leonard Bernstein's concerts for
young people.
The Oscar Peterson Jazz Trio perform. [RF]
2.26 [58] The Danny Kaye Show
17Mar65
Guests
Imogene Coca
Enzo Stuarti
Highlights:
Danny celebrates St. Patrick's Day.
"The Irish Traveler" is a sketch about a leprechaun and an unladylike Irish
girl.
Enzo Stuarti sings "Irish Rose".
Imogene plays a health faddist. [RF]
2.27 [59] The Danny Kaye Show
24Mar65
Guests
Lauren Bacall
Jason Robards
Danny Cox
Highlights:
Danny & Jason portray two expectant fathers waiting in a bar for the births of
their heirs.
Lauren & Jason join Danny for a medley of songs.
Lauren plays a movie star on a quiz show paired with timid amateur Danny Kaye. [RF]
2.28 [60] The Danny Kaye Show
31Mar65
Guests
Kit Smythe
Howard Morris
Harvey Korman
Highlights:
Danny plays Giovanni the tailor and Howard Morris plays an irate Italian father
arguing about their children's
wedding plans.
Kit Smythe sings "Some People" and "The Party's Over".
Harvey & Danny do a sketch about an old lawyer and a reformed crook.
Danny, Howard and Kit close the show with "Pleasure". [RF]
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Regulars: Joyce Van Patten, Harvey Korman, The Earl Brown Singers, John
Gary
3.01 [61] The Danny Kaye Show
15Sep65 (rerun 27Apr66)
Guests
Harry Belafonte
Nana Mouskouri
Highlights:
Harry teaches Danny how to do a calypso number and get the "ethnic" feel.
Danny & Harry duet with "Mama Look a Booboo".
Danny & Harry perform a number called "The Breaks".
Danny and Harry show how those baseball pitchers' conferences might appear in
the U.S., England, Germany and Japan.
Harry sings "Girls in Their Summer Dresses", "Rain Drop" and "Walk On".
Nana sings "Telalis".
Danny, Harry and Nana perform "Opa Neena Neena Naee".
*NOTE Danny and Harry were to duet with the song "Man Piaba" but it was instead
replaced with "Mama Look a Booboo". [RF]
3.02 [62] The Danny Kaye Show
22Sep65
Guests
Richard Crenna
Nana Mouskouri
Herman's Hermits (British Pop Group)
Harvey Korman
Highlights:
Danny plays an Olympic runner being interviewed by a TV Sports reporter played
by Richard.
Nana Mouskouri returns from last week's show and sings Greek songs.
Richard, Danny and Harvey are in a sketch about jaunty RAF wing commanders in
World War II ribbing of 12 O'Clock
High called "Thirty Seconds Over Schnitzel".
Herman's Hermits perform "Henry the Eighth". [RF]
3.03 [63] The Danny Kaye Show
29Sep65 (rerun 26Apr67)
Guests
Shirley Jones
The Righteous Brothers
Harvey Korman
Highlights:
Shirley and Danny consider the man-woman conflict in song-and-dance production
title "Man versus Woman".
In a sketch Danny and Shirley play Adam and Eve.
Danny & Shirley duet on "The Begat" and "Love Walked In".
Shirley sings "Blame It on Love".
The Righteous Brothers sing "You've Lost That Loving Feelin'" and "Sticks and
Stones". [RF]
3.04 [64] The Danny Kaye Show
06Oct65
Guests
Buddy Ebsen
Clint Eastwood
Fess Parker
Charo
Harvey Korman
Highlights:
Danny is taught how to order a drink by Rowdy Yates star Clint Eastwood as Fess
Parker and Buddy Ebsen put in their
two cents worth in the Saloon sketch.
Another Western sketch with Clint and Fess as a pair of brothers just out of
jail who are out to get the Sheriff
(Danny) who put them there. Harvey Korman plays the station agent.
Danny & Fess do a song-and-dance routine to "Doodlin'".
Charo sings "La Cucaracha" and "La Bamba".
Cartoonist George Feyer turns up to draw for Danny for the sit-down segment at
the end of the show. [RF]
3.05 [65] The Danny Kaye Show
13Oct65
Guests
Benny Goodman
Caterina Valente
Joyce Van Patten
Harvey Korman
Highlights:
Danny & Caterina open the show with "I Hear Music", backed by the Earl Brown
Singers.
Caterina, Benny, Joyce and Harvey join Danny on a tour through the 1920's, the
depression 1930's and the swing-and-radio
1940's.
In a sketch called "Class of 1922" Danny plays Walter Murray, Joyce plays Mary
Jane and Harvey plays Leonard, graduates
of Mapleton U. It is in the depths of the depression and Walter is a drunk,
Leonard is lucky to have a piece of pie at
an automat where Mary Jane works at filling the little door trays. Leonard and
Mary Jane try to reform Walter, once a
brilliant law prospect.
The "King of Swing" Benny Goodman performs with Danny, Tony Charmoili Dancers
and Earl Brown Singers in musical numbers.
Caterina sings "Hindustan".
Benny Goodman plays the clarinet in "Poor Butterfly" and "The World Is Waiting
For the Sunrise". Appearing with Goodman
are Lou Levy on piano, Colin Bailey at drums, Max Bennett on String Bass and Al
Hendrickson on guitar.
Benny and his clarinet join Caterina and Danny in "Hi Ya, Sophia".
Caterina plays guitar and sings bossa-nova nursey rhymes with Danny Kaye in the
sit-down segment closing the show. [RF]
[--] 20Oct65 preempted by Barbra Streisand Special "My
Name is Barbra".
3.06 [66] The Danny Kaye Show
Show No. 74
27Oct65
Guests
Dinah Shore
Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
also appearing
are the Earl Brown Singers, Tony Charmoli Dancers, Harvey Korman, Joyce Van
Patten and the Paul Weston Orchestra.
Highlights:
Dinah sings "The Mood I'm In".
Danny Kaye & Dinah Shore duet with "Once Upon a Summertime".
Dinah Shore sings "Battle Hymn of the Republic".
Danny Kaye, Dinah Shore with a male ensemble and chorus perform "Winds of
Barcelona".
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass perform "A Taste of Honey", "Struttin' With
Maria" and "Never on a Sunday".
Danny Kaye & Dinah Shore duet with "Happiness Is".
Danny Kaye and Earl Brown Singers perform a medley.
Danny Kaye and Dinah Shore are tourists in the studio audience and backstage
during a dance number, concluding with the
two characters taking the stage as Kaye and Shore for the "art challenge"
number, in which the singers respond to
famous paintings such as American Gothic and the Mona Lisa with the first song
to pop into their minds. Also includes
the "Quick change medley," in which Kaye and Shore do a fast series of clothing
changes to appropriate music; and a
sketch on a workaholic executive who received news of his compulsory retirement
(The tycoon sketch / performed by Kaye
and Joyce Van Patten). Ends with a pitch by Kaye for UNICEF at Halloween. [RF]
3.07 [67] The Danny Kaye Show
Show No. 75
03Nov65
Guests
Pat Boone
Carolyn Jones
Harvey Korman
Highlights:
Carolyn sings "Those Ghoulish Things" with Danny.
Harvey portrays a TV interviewer who talks to Christopher Columbus (Danny).
In a skit called "Samson and Delilah" Danny plays Samson Swinger and Carolyn
plays Delilah Hipp, his secretary in the
London music business. [RF]
3.08 [68] The Danny Kaye Show
Show No. 76
10Nov65
Guests
Marguerite Piazza
Freddie and the Dreamers (British Pop Group)
Highlights:
Danny is as funny as ever in a sketch about TV doctor Ben Casey and a confidence
building school.
Danny narrates the "Three Little Pigs" in a German accent.
Danny portrays Jerome the shoe clerk.
Danny and the dancers do a splashy version of "The Watusi". [RF]
3.09 [69] The Danny Kaye Show
17Nov65
Guests
Ray Walston
Vikki Carr
Highlights:
Ray appears as a super agent chasing after master criminal Danny Kaye in a "Goldfinger"
takeoff.
Danny, Ray and Vikki do a skit about a husband and friend baby-sitting while the
wife takes the evening off.
Vikki sings with little Laurie Ichino. [RF]
3.10 [70] The Danny Kaye Show
24Nov65
Guests
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Lainie Kazan
Harvey Korman
Highlights:
Lainie sings "The Blues in the Night" and "Feeling Good".
Danny appears as a turkey who is interviewed by Harvey Korman on his opinion of
Thanksgiving Day.
Tennessee Ernie Ford sings "The Work Song" and "Today".
Harvey plays a broken down king of Blumberg and his servant ex-general Pilaf
(Danny) trying to survive in a cold water
New York flat.
Danny & Tennessee sing "Bless This House" and "May the Good Lord Bless and Keep
You".
The closing features a film clip of a child discovering nature while Danny
delivers a Thanksgiving prayer.
3.11 [71] The Danny Kaye Show
01Dec65
Guests
John Astin
Gwen Verdon
D'Aldo Romano
Highlights:
John plays an oddball character with verve in a sketch.
Danny does his shy Jerome bit in "Howdy, Neighbor Dude Ranch" sketch with John.
Gwen returns for a western folk dance number and imitates an "emancipated woman"
in a skit with Danny.
D'Aldo Romano is back again to sing "Mexico". [RF]
3.12 [72] The Danny Kaye Show
08Dec65
Guests
Diahann Carroll
George Hamilton
Joyce Van Patten
Highlights:
Diahann sings "I'm in the Mood for Love".
Danny plays an old lighthouse keeper and a German movie director in comedy
sketches.
Actor/singer George Hamilton sings
Danny portrays the director of the film "Nanny Romain" in a sketch with a movie
star called Rock Pile (George Hamilton).
Danny keeps changing the script in an effort to keep his love Nanny (Joyce Van
Patten) away from Rock.
Diahann sings a medley and is joined by Danny for the song "Friendship". [RF]
After a long absence little Victoria Page Meyerlink returns.
3.13 [73] The Danny Kaye Show
15Dec65
Guests
Vincent Price
Vikki Carr
John Gary
Highlights:
Danny opens the show with six tykes singing "All I Need Now" and "Little Girls".
Danny plays a monster in a Dr. Frankenstein sketch with Vincent.
In another sketch he is a window washer looking in on a supposed murder.
3.14 [74] The Danny Kaye Show
22Dec65
Guests
Jean Simmons
Laurence Harvey
John Gary
Highlights:
Laurence and Jean team up in a British murder sketch hoping to polish off a rich
Cockney (Danny) called "Fop at the Top".
Danny as shy Jerome is caught in a storm at a ski resort and huddles together
with Miss Simmons to keep warm during the
blizzard.
John Gary performs "A Christmas Wish".
Laurence Harvey reads.
For the closing Danny and the Children's Choir sing "Let There Be Peace on
Earth". [RF]
3.15 [75] The Danny Kaye Show
29Dec65
Guests
Eddie Albert
Wayne Newton
Harvey Korman
Joyce Van Patten
Highlights:
Danny's opening number has him playing Father Time and preparing for the Baby
1966.
Eddie Albert turns up here to play his guitar, sing a folk song and join Danny
in a sketch about two men with hangovers
after a New Year's Eve Party.
Wayne Newton sings "What Kind of Fool Am I?". [RF]
3.16 [76] The Danny Kaye Show
05Jan66
Guests
Liza Minelli
Alan Young
John Gary
Joyce Van Patten
Highlights:
A comedy sketch about the dangers and romance of the Grand Prix race.
Danny and Alan portray husbands gathering around a laundromat to get away from
their nagging wives.
Liza sings a song medley.
John Gary sings two songs. [RF]
3.17 [77] The Danny Kaye Show
12Jan66
Guests
Bill Dana
Caterina Valente
D'Aldo Romano
Joyce Van Patten
Harvey Korman
Highlights:
Bill Dana as Jose Jimenez that expert on languages and phonetics.
In a sketch with Danny, Caterina and Joyce, Bill plays an English Lord, Joyce
plays Lady Daphne Hyde-Jekyll
who insists the two men vying for her have a race around the World.
Caterina sings a foreign language medley with Danny
Caterina sings "Do I Hear a Waltz". [RF]
3.18 [78] The Danny Kaye Show
19Jan66
Guests
Tammy Grimes
Bob Crane
Highlights:
Tammy sings "Limehouse Blues".
In a sketch Tammy demonstrates how a pampered, spoiled movie star acts.
Bob Crane re-enacts his days as a radio interviewer.
Danny turns up as composer Beethoven for another comedy interview. [RF]
3.19 [79] The Danny Kaye Show
26Jan66
Guests
Robert Vaughn
French composer Michel Legrand
Twelve year old ballerina Joyce Cuoco will also appear.
Highlights:
Danny & Robert spoof the well-dressed secret agent and tackle a broad takeoff on
"The Treasure of Sierra Madre" film.
Joyce Cuoco performs a show-stopping number dancing to Michel LeGrand's music
from the film "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg".
Michel LeGrand performs "Valse des Lilas". [RF]
3.20 [80] The Danny Kaye Show
02Feb66
Guests
Eddie Albert
Morgana King
Highlights:
Eddie Albert reads Stephen Vincent Benet's "Ballad of William Sycamore".
Danny & Eddie play poker playing husbands lying to their wives.
Danny pretends he's Napoleon in a bit.
Danny Kaye, Paul West, Earl Brown and composer Billy Barnes do a barbershop
rendition of "Indiana".
Morgana King sings "Lazy Afternoon" and "Mountain Valley". [RF]
3.21 [81] The Danny Kaye Show
09Feb66 (rerun 19Apr67)
Guests
Cyril Ritchard
Eddy Arnold
Highlights:
Eddy sings "Make the World Go Away" and "Just a Little Lovin'".
Eddy & Danny perform a 'Broken-Hearts' medley.
Cyril stars as the head of an English diction class with Danny as his obtuse shy
Jerome character being the student
trying to overcome his bashfulness and Brooklyn accent.
Danny & Cyril appear in another sketch about noble British flyers who crash in
the desert.
Arnold, Cyril & Danny perform in the finale "Where I Come From". [RF]
3.22 [82] The Danny Kaye Show
16Feb66
Guests
Tim Conway
John Gary
Japanese musician Kimio Eto
Highlights:
Danny & Tim play construction workers on a skyscrapper.
Danny & Tim play secret agents meeting at a restaurant.
Musician Kimio Eto plays a stringed instrument called the koto. [RF]
3.23 [83] The Danny Kaye Show
23Feb66
Guests
Inger Stevens
Woody Herman and his Band
The Clinger Sisters
Brother Aaron
Highlights:
Inger sings the wistful folk ballad "A Lass From the Low Country"
Inger dances with Danny.
Inger is a school teacher visiting Italian widower Giovanni (Danny).
Woody Herman and the Clinger Sisters perform some big band music.
Harvey Korman as Walter Klunkite interviews George Washington (Danny). [RF]
3.24 [84] The Danny Kaye Show
02Mar66
Guests
Joanne Woodward
Robert Goulet
Highlights:
Danny portrays Richard Thimble in a spoof of "The Fugitive".
Danny plays Shenadopey in a Wild West but.
And "Run For Your Life" Danny plays a man with 18 months to live, with Joanne
playing his wife and Goulet his best
friend, who is madly in love with Joanne.
Robert Goulet sings "She Touched Me".
Danny sings "Company's Coming" and "Wee Hughie".
Joanne Woodward makes fun of actresses on TV commercials in a sketch.
And the trio appear in the final comedy sketch of life on a Southern Plantation.
[RF]
3.25 [85] The Danny Kaye Show
09Mar66
Guests
Nancy Wilson
John Gary
Harvey Korman
Highlights:
Nancy sings "Don't Take Your Love From Me" and "Gee, Baby".
Nancy & John duet on sings "Memphis Blues".
Danny does another takeoff on the tv show "Batman".
John Gary sings "Lonesome Me" and "The Green Leaves of Summer".
John plays Parakeet aide to super-hero Chickenman (Danny) in a skit.
Danny joins Harvey Korman in a pantomime bit of horseplay in a public library. [RF]
3.26 [86] The Danny Kaye Show
16Mar66 (rerun 08Mar67)
Amzie Strickland (as Mrs. Betty Simpson)
Harold Gould (Marco)
Harvey Korman (Roberto)
Joyce Van Patten (Eleanor)
Tony Charmoli Dancers
Earl Brown Singers
Paul Weston Orchestra
"Giovanni's Wedding.
An hour-long musical about Kaye's lovable character, the Italian tailor, who
comes to live with his son. The plot has
the widow Simpson hovering about, intent on tapping Giovanni into marriage.
Great moments come in the variety of sentimental and happy times sung by Kaye
and company.
Bill Barnes' original tunes include "What She Mean by That?" and "I'm Jealous"
(Danny) and "Too Old to Be Young"
(Danny and Amzie). [RF]
3.27 [87] The Danny Kaye Show
Show No. 93
23Mar66
Guests
Senta Berger
Chaim Topel
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Highlights:
"A Time For Singing" is sung by Danny Kaye and Earl Brown Singers and danced by
Tony Charmoli Dancers.
"A Taste of Honey" is performed by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass.
"Zorba the Greek" is performed by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
"Comes Once in a Lifetime" and "Love Me Tender" are sung by John Gary.
"Men of Sheik Ech Mech" is performed by Harvey Korman and Alpert & the Tijuana
Brass.
Danny sings "Duty of a Sheik".
"Marry Me Fatima" is sung by Chaim Topol and Senta Berger.
The Challenge Dance and Bahklava is performed by Kaye and Topol.
"Hora" is danced by Kaye, Berger, and Topol
"To Life" is sung in Hebrew by Danny Kaye and Chaim Topol.
Danny sings "Matchmaker, Matchmaker".
Features the music of guests Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, John Gary, and
Chaim Topol. Includes motion picture
costars Topol and Senta Berger joining Kaye in a hora; a duet in Hebrew between
Kaye and Topol; Kaye's German version
of the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel; and a "desert musical" spoof about two
sheiks fighting over the hand of a princess
(Singing Sheik Sheik/The Sands of Hankie-Pankie / performed by Kaye, Topol,
Berger, Alpert and the Tijuana Brass,
Harvey Korman, and ensemble.) [RF]
3.28 [88] The Danny Kaye Show
30Mar66
Guests
Vikki Carr
John Gary
Joyce Van Patten
Highlights:
Danny and Vikki duet to "A Simple Melody".
John Gary sings some pop tunes.
Danny as Jerome the shy shoe clerk asks for a raise.
Danny plays a concert violinist in love with his valuable hands, he has had them
insured for $1 million and he won't
even let his wife (Joyce Van Patten) touch them.
Danny sings about William Tell and his son in one musical segment. [RF]
3.29 [89] The Danny Kaye Show
06Apr66
Guests
Vincent Price
John Gary
Stan Worth
Highlights:
Danny plays a drunk in a silent routine.
Danny & Vincent talk about movie villains and work together in a gangster
sketch.
John sings "Once Upon a Time".
Pianist Stan Worth performs two numbers.
Danny renders a Gilbert and Sullivan song medley. [RF]
3.30 [90] The Danny Kaye Show
13Apr66 (postponed from 16Mar66)
Guests
Edie Adams
Fred Gwynne
Glenn Yarbrough
Highlights:
In a spoof of "The Munsters" Danny dresses up as David Dracula, Edie Adams is
Lily and Fred Gwynne is Chet Munster
who are busy every night giving the "Munster-Dracula" Report.
Edie joins the boys in a song about parents watching a Little League baseball
game.
Fred joins Danny in a sketch which depicts the former as an over-bearing skipper
and Danny as a melon-headed tag-along
buddy (reminiscent of the Skipper and Gilligan of "Gilligan's Island").
Danny & Edie duet on "Looking at You".
Glenn Yarbrough plays some folk ditties.
The show's musical director Paul Weston, leads a group called The Weston
Brothers in a song spoof.
Edie sings "Wonderful Day" and "Soon It's Gonna Rain". [RF]
3.31 [91] The Danny Kaye Show
20Apr66
Guests
John Gary
Judi Armstrong
Joyce Van Patten
Highlights:
Danny & Joyce do a sketch about a missing English husband.
Danny & Joyce also do a sketch about changes in courtship from Italians,
Eskimos, British and Civil War couples.
Canada's Judi Armstrong sings "Sometimes I'm Happy" and "The Sound of Music".
Danny plays a husband who returns home after an 8-year-long case of amnesia.
John Gary sings "Georgia On My Mind".
Joyce & Danny improvise the scenes in the finale. [RF]
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Reruns (27Apr66- )
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[--] The Danny Kaye Show
27Apr66 (rerun season 3 premiere episode)
Guests
Harry Belafonte
Nana Mouskouri
Highlights:
Danny and Harry show how those baseball pitchers' conferences might appear in
the U.S., England, Germany and Japan.
Harry sings "Raindrops" and "Walk On".
Nana sings "Telalis".
Danny, Harry and Nana perform "Opa Neena Neena Naee".
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CBS Wednesdays 10:00-11:00pm Eastern
Regulars: Joyce Van Patten, Harvey Korman, The Earl Brown Singers
4.01 [92] The Danny Kaye Show
14Sep66
Guests
Andy Griffith
Ronny Howard
Clint Howard
Susan Barrett
Donna Butterworth (9-year-old vocalist)
Joyce Van Patten
Harvey Korman
Highlights:
Ronny imitates Danny as a variety host of his own show, "The Ronny Howard Show"
with Danny as the guest and introduces
a line of sub-teen dancers and presents his guest vocalist 9-year-old Donna
Butterworth.
Ronny stars in a toy sketch with his little brother Clint.
Susan Barrett sings "Where Am I Going".
Danny gives an Italian recitation of "Snow White".
Danny does an adult lampoon of spy thrillers, then Ronny does his own version of
the same thriller with a cast of
children and Danny. [RF]
4.02 [93] The Danny Kaye Show
21Sep66
Guests
Eddie Albert
Vikki Carr
Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66
Highlights:
An informal opening with "The Joker" as the theme.
Danny sings "Let's Get Away From it All".
And spoofs tourists on a first class airplane passengers. [RF]
4.03 [94] The Danny Kaye Show
28Sep66
Guests
The Peanuts, Japanese twins who sing and dance.
Mrs. Isa Watanabe the twins chaperone
Frankie Randall
Highlights:
Danny croons with the Peanuts in Japanese, chats with their manager and mimics a
Japanese chef on TV.
The Peanuts sing "Ok, You Win".
Danny plays his shy Jerome character about to have an X-ray taken.
Frankie Randall sings "The Spanish Flea". [RF]
4.04 [95] The Danny Kaye Show
05Oct66 (rerun 03May67)
Directed by Bill Foster
Guests
Ella Fitzgerald
Buddy Greco
Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66
Highlights:
Danny Kaye, Ella Fitzgerald and Buddy Greco perform "It Don't Mean a Thing".
Picnic at the beach sketch
Danny, Ella Fitzgerald and Buddy Greco perform "Mood Indigo".
Ella sings "The Moment of Truth".
Buddy performs "Charade"
Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 do "Goin' Out of My Head".
Danny and Ella do a medley with "Hello Ella!", "Where or When?", "September in
the Rain", "New Sun in the Sky",
"Great Day" and "Happy Days Are Here Again".
"We Like Each Other Fine" is performed by Danny, Ella and Buddy Greco.
In a May-December comedy sketch Danny plays an octogenarian who proposes to a
young Miss Joyce Van Patten and Harvey
plays Danny's doctor who is in constant attendance.
Ella sings "Body and Soul".
Buddy performs "Satin Doll".
Danny tells the tale of Little Green Riding Hood who has booze in her basket. [RF]
4.05 [96] The Danny Kaye Show
12Oct66
Guests
Tim Conway
Barbara Minkus
The Peanuts (singing Japanese twins)
Highlights:
Danny & Barbara duet on "We Kiss in a Shadow". [RF]
4.06 [97] The Danny Kaye Show
19Oct66 (rerun 10May67)
Guests
Leslie Uggams
Steve Sanders
Harvey Korman
Joyce Van Patten
Victoria Meyerink is back
Highlights:
Danny & Leslie duet with "Glow Worm"
Fourteen year old Steve Sanders performs some swinging gospel music.
Leslie Uggams sings "If My Friends Could See Me Now" from "Sweet Charity".
Danny sings "Thou Swell" and "I Wish You Love"
A chorus of tots perform.
Danny plays an old family retainer in one sketch and Giovanni, the Italian
tailor paying a surprise visit to his
son and daughter-in-law in America.
4.07 [98] The Danny Kaye Show
26Oct66
Guests
Eddie Albert
Joe Williams (former vocalist for Count Basie)
The Peanuts
Highlights:
The high spirited production number "Bring Back Those Minstrel Days" opens the
show.
Danny and Eddie do a sketch about what happens when two hunters are isolated in
a cabin and suspect each other
of being the murderer.
The Peanuts perform a song. [RF]
4.08 [99] The Danny Kaye Show
02Nov66 (rerun 17May67)
Guests
Tony Randall
Pianist Stan Worth
Vikki Carr
Victoria Meyerlink
With regulars Joyce Van Patten and Harvey Korman.
Highlights:
Danny & Vikki duet with "Sunny Disposition".
Danny's shy Jerome character appears with Tony as a college class reunion
sketch.
Vikki sings "Alfie" amd "I Will Wait for You".
Danny plays a telephone answering serivce operator in another segment.
Tony & Danny also do a comedy sketch involving laundry shirt-boards.
Stan Worth performs "Swingin'" and "Pick Yourself Up".
Victoria Meyerink talks with Danny for the finale. [RF]
[--] The Danny Kaye Show
09Nov66
pre-empted for "Clown Alley"
A special tribute to the beloved buffoons of the Circus World.
Appearing are Red Skelton, Amanda Blake, Jackie Coogan, Audrey Meadows, Robert
Merrill, Vincent Price, Martha Raye,
Bobby Rydell and eight working clowns. [RF]
4.09 [100] The Danny Kaye Show
16Nov66
Guests
Louis Armstrong
Caterina Valente
The Earl Brown Singers
Highlight:
A Salute to Louis Armstrong.
Songs include "Ja Da", "Rockin' Chair", "Basin Street Blues", "Mack the Knife",
"Hello, Dolly!" and "C'es Si Bon". [RF]
4.10 [101] The Danny Kaye Show
23Nov66
Guests
Petula Clark (British Singer)
Stanley Holloway (British Actor/Singer)
Highlights:
Danny & Stanley play a Cockney bank clerk and a coal delivery man in a skit.
Petula sings "Who am I" and "Two Rivers".
Danny appears as Captain Ahab in pursuit of Moby Dick is interviewed by Stanley.
Danny & Petula duet with "You Do Something To Me".
Danny, Petula & Stanley perform an English Music Hall medley. [RF]
4.11 [102] The Danny Kaye Show
30Nov66
Guests
Peter Ustinov
Frank Gorshin
Nancy Wilson
Highlights:
Danny & Peter do a sketch playing a Western gunfighter and a violinist in
constant disagreement.
Frank Gorshin plays a pushy business executive named Hubert Fink in a skit with
Danny.
Nancy sings a couple of songs. [RF]
4.12 [103] The Danny Kaye Show
07Dec66
Guests
Shirley Jones
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
Joyce Van Patten
Harvey Korman
Highlights:
A pantomime comedy sketch features Danny as a new bellhop whose adventures in a
revolving door infuriate the hotel
manager (Harvey).
Danny portrays the shy Jerome who sends his pal Arnold (Harvey Korman) to meet
his fiancee (Shirley) at a perfume
counter, but Arnold misses the scent.
Shirley sings "I'm Old-Fashioned".
The dancers are featured in a number called "The Blues".
Shirley and Danny duet with "Walking Happy" a new song from Broadway.
Sergio Mendes & Brazil '66 perform "Bim-Bom".
For the closer, little Victoria Meyerink is on Danny's lap to join him in
"What's New at the Zoo". [RF]
4.13 [104] The Danny Kaye Show
14Dec66
Guests
Sergio Franchi
Sallie Blair
Joyce Van Patten
Harvey Korman
Highlights:
Danny plays Jerome, the shy show clerk who happens to be hiding a girl (Joyce
Van Patten) in his apartment closet.
Sergio sings and joins Danny in a musical sketch.
Danny spoofs the television series "Rat Patrol" playing Major Nigel Dumwitty, a
British Army Officer.
Sallie Blair sings a the theme song of the motion picture "Valley of the Dolls"
and a duet with Danny. [RF]
4.14 [105] The Danny Kaye Show
21Dec66
Guests
Peggy Lee
Wayne Newton
The 150-voice International Children's Choir from Long Beach, California.
Highlights:
Danny portrays a man who tries to assemble a bicycle as a Christmas gift for his
son.
Danny plays Giovanni, an elderly Italian who has come to America to live with
his son and daughter-in-law.
Peggy Lee sings two solos.
Danny & Peggy duet with "Jingle Journey".
Wayne sings "Every Street's a Boulevard" and "Jingle Bell Rock".
The Choir closes the evening with Christmas carols. [RF]
4.15 [106] The Danny Kaye Show
28Dec66
Guests
Caterina Valente
Composer Gilbert Becaud
Highlights:
Caterina sings "Just One of Those Things" and "Stompin' At the Savoy".
Danny & Caterina join in a song talk with "Conversation Bossa Nova".
In a comedy sketch Harvey Korman interviews Timothy Harrigan (Danny) who has
just been voted "Father of the Year"
and has trouble remembering how many children he has.
Danny portrays a window washer who becomes involved in an espionage plot.
Danny is in a 'drama' of the sea involving a duel between an English man-of-war
Captain and a German U-Boat skipper
(Danny plays both roles).
Gilbert Becaud performs "What Now My Love?"
Victoria Meyerlink sweetens things up for Danny. [RF]
4.16 [107] The Danny Kaye Show
04Jan67
Guests
Louis Armstrong
The German Kessler Twins
Victoria Meyerlink
Highlights:
Danny performs a Mexican version with "Jose and the Beanstalk".
Louis Armstrong and his band perform "So Long Dearie", "The Faithful Hussar" and
"The Five Pennies Saint".
The Kessler Sisters dance and appear as clowns.
Danny plays a construction worker.
Danny as shy Jerome at a surprise birthday party.
Danny chats with Victoria Meyerlink in the finale. [RF]
4.17 [108] The Danny Kaye Show
11Jan67
Guests
Liberace
Vikki Carr
Victoria Meyerlink
Highlights:
Liberace performs "All the Things You Are".
Liberace appears in a James Bond sketch as a hood named Mr. 88.
Danny is seen as the Italian tailor Giovanni.
Vikki sings "Some of These Days".
Danny appears in a sketch as the manager of a home for the aged.
Danny closes singing to Victoria. [RF]
4.18 [109] The Danny Kaye Show
18Jan67
Guests
John Gary
Godfrey Cambridge
Highlights:
Danny's guest is John Gary, the young singer who was host of the show last
summer.
In one segment Kaye, taking a cue from earlier in the evening, retells the
Cinderella story as an old Russian
storyteller.
In another sketch, Danny appears in one of his regular characterizations
as Giovanni, who comes to live with his son and daughter-in-law (Harvey Korman
and Joyce Van Patten) only to find
that his pet dog is not allowed by the landlord. [RF]
4.19 [110] The Danny Kaye Show
25Jan67
Guests
Peter Falk
Pat Carroll
The Lettermen
Highlights:
Danny plays bashful Jerome I. Taperman who is besieged by his powerhouse mother
(Pat Carroll) and the two advertise
for a roommate who turns out to be a bank robber Willie 'Mad Dog' Cochran (Peter
Falk).
Joyce Van Patten plays the girl Mama (Pat Carroll) thinks is good
daughter-in-law material.
Danny, The Lettermen and the Earl Brown singers perform.
*NOTE: Some list Ethel Merman as guesting, but could have postponed due to
illness. [RF]
4.20 [111] The Danny Kaye Show
01Feb67
Guests
Burl Ives
Barbara Rush
Harvey Korman
Highlights:
Danny, Burl and Barbara appear in a sketch a takeoff on "Cat On a Hot Tin Roof".
Danny plays shy Jerome planning to match Barbara with his best friend (Harvey
Korman).
Danny, Burl and Barbara sing together. [RF]
4.21 [112] The Danny Kaye Show
08Feb67
Guests
Fred Gwynne
Vikki Carr
Joyce Van Patten
Highlights:
Fred, Danny and Vikki sing "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles".
Danny & Vikki do a medley of songs about birds.
A takeoff on "Cyrano de Bergerac" with Danny (as Cyrano), Fred (as Christian)
and Joyce Van Patten as the
lovely Roxanne.
Vocal instrumental selections by the Las Vegas Quintet. [RF]
4.22 [113] The Danny Kaye Show
15Feb67 (rerun 24May67)
Guests
Eddy Arnold
Millicent Martin
With regulars Harvey Korman and Joyce Van Patten.
Highlights:
Danny plays Jerome, the shy lad from the Bronx who is encouraged to try a
computer to find a girl friend. And guess
who the machine finds for him? None other than Millicent Martin, the British
Miss Featherstone.
Eddy sings "Lonely Again" and "The Easy Way".
Eddy & Danny duet with "There's Always Potato".
Millicent & Danny duet to "Who Can I Turn To?"
Millicent sings "Rules of the Road". [RF]
4.23 [114] The Danny Kaye Show
22Feb67
Guests
Tim Conway
Izumi
with regulars
Joyce Van Patten
Harvey Korman
Highlights:
Tim Conway plays Texas Tony a children's TV hero with a hangover.
Danny tells an Irish version of "Little Green Riding Hood".
Singer Izumi offers a medley of Japanese songs.
Danny and Tim play frustrated publishers of a dictionary.
Danny, Tim and Harvey appear in a sketch about a plumber, a customer relations
man and window glass installers.
Danny sings "A Fellow Needs a Girl". [RF]
4.24 [115] The Danny Kaye Show
01Mar67 (rerun 31May67)
Guests
George Burns
Mirelle Mathieu
Highlights:
George tries to teach Danny (as shy Jerome) how to be top banana.
George tells Danny stories about vaudeville which cause Danny to break up.
They sing and dance together to some of the world's best unknown songs "Red Rose
Rag", "My Gal's A Hightoned Lady",
"High Society", "Yankee Doodle Blues" and "Ain't Misbehavin'".
18-year-old Mirelle Mathieu coined as "the little Edith Piaf" sings "Viens Dans
Marue" and "Mon Credo".
In a pantomime sketch Danny plays a barber shop janitor who cuts hair when the
barber goes for lunch. [RF]
[--] The Danny Kaye Show
08Mar67 (rerun from 16Mar66, repeated 07Jun67)
Guests
Amzie Strickland (as Mrs. Betty Simpson)
Harold Gould (Marco)
Harvey Korman (Roberto)
Joyce Van Patten (Eleanor)
Tony Charmoli Dancers
Earl Brown Singers
Paul Weston Orchestra
"Giovanni's Wedding.
An hour-long musical about Kaye's lovable character, the Italian tailor, who
comes to live with his son. The plot
has the widow Simpson hovering about, intent on tapping Giovanni into marriage.
Great moments come in the variety of sentimental and happy times sung by Kaye
and company.
Bill Barnes' original tunes include "What She Mean by That?" and "I'm Jealous"
(Danny) and "Too Old to Be Young"
(Danny and Amzie). [RF]
4.25 [116] The Danny Kaye Show
15Mar67
Guests
Roddy McDowall
Blossom Dearie
with regulars
Joyce Van Patten and Harvey Korman
Highlights:
Roddy talks about his interest in photography and shows selections from his book
"Double Exposure".
Danny and Joyce do an improvisation.
Roddy joins Danny in the main comedy sketch when he plays Caesar and Danny plays
Nautilus, a slave who wants to
gain his freedom by beating the Emperor at the game of "Caesar Says".
Blossom Dearie sings "My Gentleman Friend" and "Soon It's Gonna Rain".
Danny sings "Great Big Ball" and "Wee Huey". [RF]
4.26 [117] The Danny Kaye Show
22Mar67
Guests
Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66
Harvey Korman
Joyce Van Patten
Highlights:
Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 perform "The One-Note Samba" and "Night and Day".
As shy Jerome, Danny attends a ballet class with his Rhoda (Joyce Van Patten) in
a comedy sketch.
Danny sings "Lonesome Road" with the Earl Brown Singers.
Danny appears in a musical skit title "The Three Little Pigs" in Italian style.
[RF]
*NOTE: This was Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 fourth guest appearance.
4.27 [118] The Danny Kaye Show
29Mar67
Guests
Diahann Carroll
Joyce Jamison
Herbie Faye
Buddy Lewis
Highlights:
An hour built around his character Jerome Taperman on a Caribbean cruise. Dihann
Carroll, as a
shipboard entertainer, sings "As Time Goes By" and "Fine and Dandy." Others
joining in the fun are Joyce Jameson,
Herbie Faye and Buddy Lewis. The scant plot has Jerome impersonating a commodore
to impress Joyce Van Patten, and
the ship's detectives think he is Lover Lips Louis, a master of 1000 disguises.
[RF]
4.28 [119] The Danny Kaye Show
05Apr67
Guests
Joanie Sommers
The Brothers Four
Highlights:
A mixture of sketches
and songs for teenagers by guests Joanie Sommers and the Brothers Four. Miss
Sommers offerings include
"England Swings" and "Where Am I Going?"; the Brothers Four try "San Francisco
Bay Blues"; dancers
perform to "Lara's Theme;" and, as shy Jerome, Kaye has a nightmare about a
Broadway actress in. one skit,
and Danny examines love triangles in various countries in another. [RF]
4.29 [120] The Danny Kaye Show [final episode]
12Apr67
Guests
Robert Morley (British Actor)
the vocal Arbors Quartet
Highlights:
From out of nowhere Robert Morley turns up in a Jerome Taperman sketch giving
public speaking lessons to the
shy Jerome (Danny).
Danny plays an army recruit in a pantomime sketch.
Danny sings "Walking on New Grass" and "Tall Hope" with the Earl Brown singers
and harmonizes with a combo
called The Arbors to "Down by the Old Mill Stream".
*NOTE: "The Steve Allen Comedy Hour" takes over Danny's spot on June 14, 1967.
On his first show are Sonny & Cher and Lana Cantrell. (regulars are Jayne
Meadows, Ruth Buzzi and Louis Nye). [RF]
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TV Guide article.
Danny Kaye's special recipe for Szechuan chicken was the only non-Cantonese dish
served. It was so peppery that
if left some guests gasping. "All Szechuan cooking makes Mexican cooking taste
like malted milk," said Kaye.
"In the old days it was very difficult to get salt in Szechuan Province, so they
learned to cook with red peppers."
Danny Kaye's special recipe for Szechuan chicken is minus measurements because
the famous comedian belongs to the
taste-as-you-cook school Steam a chicken (broilerfryer) for about 20 minutes in
(chicken) stock. Drain and dryit
and deep fry it until golden brown. Chop into small pieces with a cleaver or
heavy knife and dip pieces into a sauce
made by heating a few tablespoons of tomato catsup with Chinese rice wine
seasoned with chopped fresh ginger, garlic,
green onion and hot chili peppers and thickened slightly with cornstarch. The
chicken pieces should be lightly coated,
not immersed in sauce. [RF]
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