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Season 2 (NBC) (1951-52)
Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Rina Fox, Tom Alger, KShavo  [Updated June 2019]
references:
TV Guide / Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (https://us.imdb.com)
UCLA Film and Television Archive / Writers Guild of America (wga)

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NBC mainly Sundays

2.01 [07] The Bob Hope Show
14Oct1951 NBC Sun
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Dinah Shore, Jerry Colonna, Jack Dempsey, Hy Averback
Program Breakdown: KShavo 
1) Chesterfield commercial
2) Monologue
3) Dinah shore sings "Hello Young Lovers"
4) Chesterfield commercial with Bob singing
5) Cleopatra & Marc Anthony skit. Cleopatra (Dinah Shore) awaits the arrival of Marc Anthony (Bob Hope).
They pledge their love to each other.
Julius Caesar (Jerry Colonna) arrives and he wants to marry Cleopatra. She chooses Caesar.
6) Chesterfield commercial with Hy Averback
7) Jack Dempsey & Hy Averback talk. Jack Proposes that he'll take any challenger on in a boxing fight
and give that person $500 if they can last one round with him.
Homicide Hope (Bob Hope) accepts the challenge. The referee for the fight is Jerry Colonna.
8) Thanks for the Memory - The entire guest cast. Includes goodnights
9) Chesterfield commercial with Bob, Dinah and Jerry
10) Credits
*Note: Radio Program Recorded on November 13, 1951, at Vine Street Theatre, Hollywood, Calif.
Performer: Bob Hope, host; Corinne Calvet, Jack Kirkwood, guest; Peggy Lee, vocals; with Les Brown and his band; Hy Averback, announcer
*Note: "Sound-Off Time" November 25, 1951 NBC Sunday 7pm featuring Bob Hope, with guests William Bendix and Lina Romay. (1/2hr)

2.02 [08] The Bob Hope Show
02Dec1951 NBC Sun
Produced and Directed by Ernest D. Glucksman
Script supervisor Henry Taylor / Choreography Larry Ceballos
From Hollywood.
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Bob Crosby, Eddie Bracken, Georgie Price, Weber & Fields, The Skylarks, The Rio Brothers
singers Toni Arden, and Jack Kirkwood, juggler Wally Blair, comic cyclist Joe Mole, comedian Pat Flick
and Frank Faylen for an hour of music and comedy saluting and benefiting the American Guild of Variety Artists.
Program Breakdown: KShavo 
1) The stars of the show are backstage being reminded that the show starts in five minutes.
Includes Bob Hope, Eddie Bracken, Bob Crosby, Marilyn Maxwell, Toni Arden
2) The Skylarks sing "Vaudeville is Back".
3) Dancing girls and juggler (Wally Blair)
4) Unicyclist (Joe Mole)
5) Marion & Flick comedy team (Weber & Fields)
6) Mario and Mariann - acrobatic dance team
7) Rio Brothers perform "Shine" (comic dance trio eccentric dancers)
8) The Skylarks perform "Vaudeville is Back" ( refrain)
9) Georgie Price - curtain speech greeting (Vaudeville legend)
10) Bob Hope monologue
11) Toni Arden sings "You've Got to Show Me That You Care".
12) Vacuum Cleaner Salesman routine (classic comedy routine): A man (Frank Faylen) is at home with his wife trying to fix his vacuum.
Mr. Fink (Eddie Bracken) is a vacuum cleaner salesman who arrives at his door.
The man focuses his anger over his broken vacuum on Mr. Fink.
Mr. Fink begins to demonstrate his vacuum. Mr. Fink makes a mess demonstrating his vacuum. The men have fight.
13) Bob Hope blinds himself to guess his next guest (Bob Crosby).
14) Bob Crosby & Skylarks sing "Silver Bells"
15) Georgie Price - Laugh Clown Laugh
16) Televised Medical Procedures:
The announcer (Frank Faylen) introduces "Inside USA" live from the Green Room at the General Hospital. he introduces
Dr. Robert Hope (Bob Hope) who will perform an operation live. The patient (Bob Crosby) arrives.
The doctor flirts with his nurse (Marilyn Maxwell)
and ignores his patient. The doctor begins surgery.
17) Bob speaks about entertainers and The AGVA.
18) Billy Daniel and Lita Baron - Salute to George M. Cohan (medley of Cohan songs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IASGbcRVgvE

*Note: Bob Hope is a guest on "Sound-Off" at 7pm on NBC.
Bob entertains the sailors at Christmastime aboard the USS Boxer--just returned from Korea--in San Diego Harbor.
Joining Bob for this half-hour of music
and comedy Constance Moore, brilliant dancers The Nicholas Brothers, and Hy Averback.
*Note: Bob Hope stars in the film "My Favorite Spy" released December 25, 1951.
*Note: Bob Hope appears in an uncredited role in "The Greatest Show on Earth" released January 10, 1952.

2.03 [09] The Bob Hope Show
09Mar1952 NBC Sun
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Martha Stewart, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Georgie Tapps
Summary:
Entertaining female service members at Camp Elliott, California
with singers Martha Stewart and Anna Maria Alberghettie and dancer Georgie Tapps.
*Note: Radio show on March 18, 1952 with Bob Hope Show and guests Arlene Dahl and Lex Barker.

2.04 [10] All Star Revue: The Bob Hope Show
26Apr1952 NBC Sat 8-9pm
From the Presidio of San Francisco.
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Fred MacMurray (TV debut), Gale Robbins, Alfred Apaka, Gloria Pall (Showgirl in Sketches), The Bell Sisters
Program Breakdown: KShavo 
1) Monologue (Eisenhower is running for president).
2) Gale Robbins sings "Who".
3) Bob Hope sings "Anytime". The song is quickly interrupted by Fred MacMurray, who is a saxophone player sitting with the band.
Fred MacMurray and Bob talk.
4) Fred MacMurray & Bob duet with "Small Fry".
5) Snow Crop Orange Juice commercial
6) Alfred Apaka - Beyond the Reef
7) San Francisco's Ethnic Diversity Sketches
Chinatown: Two Chinese men, Lum (Fred MacMurray) and Abner (Bob Hope) discuss the laundry business.
Little Italy: Two Fishermen (Bob Hope & Fred MacMurray) meet on the docks and discuss fishing.
Alcatraz Prison: Lefty Schultz (Bob Hope) and Fingers Murran (Fred MacMurray) are in prison.
They are going stir crazy and plan to escape.
Lefty gets a visitor who gives him a hack saw. They try to break out but get caught tying to escape.
8) The Bell Sisters sing "Wheel of Fortune".
9) The Bell Sisters perform "June Night" (Bob sings with them).
10) The Barbary Coast: At the Yellow Dog Saloon. A saloon girl, Nel (Gale Robbins) and a bartender try to swindle Nuggets Hope (Bob Hope),
a man who is riche because he discovered gold. A prospector (Fred MacMurray) arrives and turns the skit into a Snow Crop commercial.
Nel tries to get a map from Nuggets to find the gold. He draws a map on Nels back.
11) Kellogg's Shredded Wheat commercial.
12) Closing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfu0hXjQarU

2.05 [11] The Bob Hope Show
15Jun1952 NBC Sun
Originates from the flight ramp at the Douglas Aircraft Plant at Santa Monica.
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Paul Douglas, June Hutton, Johnny Mack, The Bell Sisters, The Nilsson Twins, Flying Tigers
Cameos:
Randy Merriman and Bess Myerson hosts of "The Big Payoff" which takes the time slot next Sunday
as the Summer replacement series for "The Colgate Comedy Hour".
Music: Harry Russell
 *Note: Bob Hope radio show June 17, 1952 from Camp Roberts, California, guest Jane Russell.

[--] Bob Hope-Bing Crosby Olympic Telethon for the U.S. Olympic Fund
at the El Capitan Theatre, Hollywood, California
Sat/Sun 21/22-Jun-1952 (see below)
Televised coast-to-coast over the combined networks of NBC and CBS.
Hollywood stars perform for the benefit of the U.S. Olympic Team.
*Trivia: Amount Raised for the US Olympic Fund for the Helsinki, Finland Olympics was $1,000,000.

*Note: Bob Hope stars in "Son of Paleface" released July 14, 1952.

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