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Season 4 (NBC) (1953-54)
Episode Guide
compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Rina Fox, Tom Alger, KShavo
[#4.9 Updated July 2019]
references:
TV Guide / Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (https://us.imdb.com)
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############## The Bob Hope Show #############
############## season 4 1953-54 ##############
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NBC Tuesdays 8:00-9:00pm Eastern
Hosted by Bob Hope
Replacing
The
Buick-Berle Show starring Milton Berle
approx every 4th week
6.01 [186] The Buick-Berle Show:
23Sep1953 NBC Tue
6.02 [187] The Buick-Berle Show:
06Oct1953 NBC Tue
6.03 [188] The Buick-Berle Show:
13Oct1953 NBC Tue
4.01 [23] The Bob Hope Show
[Season 4 premiere]
20Oct1953 NBC Tues
Directed by Jack Hope
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Gloria DeHaven
Phil Harris
Elvia Allman
Alan Reed
and Ohio Governor Frank J. Lausche.
Synopsis:
During Ohio's Sesquicentennial celebration, Bob Hope visits his hometown of
Cleveland. Hope mistakenly
believes the governor is going to dedicate a statue in his honor.
Gloria DeHaven sings "If You Feel Like Singing, Sing".
Gloria and Bob duet on "So".
Phil Harris performs "Dig, Dig, Dig".
*Note: Show originates in Cleveland, Ohio.
6.04 [189] The Buick-Berle Show:
27Oct1953 NBC Tue
6.05 [190] The Buick-Berle Show:
03Nov1953 NBC Tue
6.06 [191] The Buick-Berle Show:
10Nov1953 NBC Tue
*Note: Bob Hope stars in "Here Come the Girls" released October 22, 1953.
4.02 [24] The Bob Hope Show (Bob's first Color special)
17Nov1953 NBC Tue
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Fred MacMurray
Janis Paige
The Corbett Twins.
Highlights:
Fred, Janis and Bob do a sketch making fun of TV commercials.
Bob played a club-footed college football player in a sketch.
Bob and Janis sang a duet.
Bob and Fred reminisce about their start 20 years ago.
Program Breakdown: [KShavo]
1) Overture with dancers.
2) Monologue (In a tux) inc "I'm available".
3) Jell-o commercial with Jan Crocket singing.
4) Janis Paige sings "New York New York (Heck of a Town)".
5) Behind the scenes in the production of a TV commercial.
At Beacon TV-Film studios Mr. MacMurray (Fred MacMurray) is in charge of the
making of a TV commercial.
A substitute/inexperienced actor named John Hope (Bob Hope) arrives to be the
main actor his Glarro toothpaste commercial.
6) Johnson & Madil perform "The Drummer Boy."
7) Minute Rice commercial.
8) Janis Paige & Bob talk.
9) Janis Paige and Bob Hope perform "Showmanship".
10) Jell-o pudding and pie commercial.
11) Football at Thorndyke University or A Man's Gotta Go His own Way
Flash MacMurray (Fred MacMurray) is a college football star. His new roommate
Crazynose Hope (Bob Hope) arrives,
he's a country boy. Crazynose is a star Quarterback but he refuses to play. The
team try's to strong-arm him into playing.
His girl Ruby May (Janis Paige) arrives. Flash tries to steal his girl by
serenading her.
12) Jell-o pudding commercial (In a real grocery store).
13) "Here Come the Girls" with Bob's Colorgenic Girls Parade.
14) "Girls Are Here to Stay" performed by- Bob Hope & the Corbett Twins.
15) Good night.
*Note: Fred MacMurray recalled with Bob how they were together 20 years ago in
the musical comedy "Roberta"
at the New Amsterdam. Bob was trying to climb the ladder and Fred was a little
below him appearing as a
saxophone player when he was spotted and offered a movie test. He borrowed Bob's
hat and cane for the test
and clicked. Bob had to wait a few years.
*Note: Arlene Dahl was to appear but canceled her guest appearance on "The Bob
Hope Show" last night because
of a tired voice (from the NY Times, November 18, 1953). Miss Dahl is currently
co-starring with Jose Ferrer
in "Cyrano de Bergerac" as Roxane. Miss Dahl would have been paid $3,500 for her
television appearance.
She is paid $85. a week at the City center. [NYT]
6.07 [192] The Buick-Berle Show:
24Nov1953 NBC Tue
6.08 [193] The Buick-Berle Show:
01Dec1953 NBC Tue
6.09 [194] The Buick-Berle Show:
08Dec1953 NBC Tue
4.03 [25] The Bob Hope Show (Christmas
Special)
15Dec1953 NBC Tues 8-9pm
Written by Laurence Marks, Mort Lachman, Lester White, John Rapp
Music director, Al Goodman
Announcer: Bill Goodwin
Sponsored by Jell-O and Minute Rice
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Gale Storm, Charles Farrell, The Corbett Twins, , Gene Nelson and Pat Hora,
Major General William F. Dean,
Joan Shawlee, Jerry Desmond, Ray Kellogg, Johnny Cooley, Jack Pepper,
Les Brown and his Band of Reknown.
Summary:
Bob Hope opens this Christmas special with a monologue.
Gale Storm and Hope perform a comedy skit with a cameo by Charles Farrell and
sing "Walking My Baby Back Home."
The Corbett Twins (Jeannie and Jane), appearing in Hope’s forthcoming Paramount
film "Here Come the Girls",
help Hope pick the winner of a trip to Hollywood.
Hope performs a Christmas shopping sketch as a store clerk.
Gene Nelson and Pat Hora dance "The Story of the Sandman".
Hope and Nelson do a soft-shoe dance number.
Gale Storm sings "I'm in Love With a Wonderful Guy."
Hope performs in a skit as a member of a committee working to fight Los Angeles
smog.
Hope, Storm and Nelson sing "Silver Bells."
Major General William F. Dean, Korean War hero, gives a speech on the war,
Christmas, an the need to rebuild Korea.
*Note: On his guest appearance on the Bob Hope television show, General Dean
said his experience of five Christmases in Korea made
him hope there would "never again be a tragedy like Korea". He said he was
"haunted by the fear that war is man's great sickness and
that the epidemic will break out again and again". General Dean said he was
afraid that "to so many of our own people the terrible holocaust
that burned and ravaged Korea was a fire too far away to give them a sense of
real danger." Describing the "almost total destruction" that afflicted
the Korean people, he urged that something be done for them "while the spirit of
Christmas is making its annual pilgrimage to our hearts."
[--] Season's Greetings Variety Show
22Dec1953 NBC Tue
with Harpo Marx, Eddie Albert, Ezio Pinza, Betty and Jane Kean, Paul Winchell
and the Robert Shaw Chorale.
[-] "Christmas with the Stars" on 25Dec1953 NBC-TV
10-11pm
Starring Helen Hayes, Rosalind Russell, Audrey Hepburn, Bob Hope, Tyrone Power,
Victor Borge and Eddie Fisher.
[--] The Backbone of America Special
29Dec1953 NBC
with Yvonne DeCarlo, Wendell Corey, Thomas Mitchell, Gene Lockhart.
6.10 [195] The Buick-Berle Show:
05Jan1954 NBC Tue
6.11 [196] The Buick-Berle Show:
12Jan1954 NBC Tue
6.12 [197] The Buick-Berle Show:
19Jan1954 NBC Tue
4.04 [26] The Bob Hope Show
26Jan1954 NBC Tue
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Tony Martin
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Cass Daley (comedienne)
Hillary Brooke
Highlights:
The opening sequence has Bob dancing with a bevy of young ladies to California
themed music.
In the first sketch Bob plays an ultra vain actor and Cass Daley plays a
waitress dying to meet him.
Tony Martin, Hilary Brook and Bob Hope play a newlywed husband suffering from
amnesia for seven years and returning home,
thinking it's still his wedding night, only to find that his wife has remarried
and is celebrating her second wedding night.
Zsa Zsa joins Bob for a skit called "Love Behind the Iron Curtain".
Tony Martin sings a couple of songs.
The finale has Tony, Zsa Zsa and Cass doin a little singing when a mystery guest
shows up, who else but Milton Berle.
*Note: The winner of the nation-wide contest to find a baby under three years of
age who looks like Bob Hope
will appear as Bob's guest. A Fort Lewis boy.
6.13 [198] The Buick-Berle Show:
02Feb1954 NBC Tue
6.14 [199] The Buick-Berle Show:
09Feb1954 NBC Tue
4.05 [27] The Bob Hope Show
16Feb1954 NBC Tue
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Nelson Eddy
Gloria DeHaven
Jerry Colonna
Highlights:
Jerry Colonna a chance to do his song, "I Love Life".
6.16 [200] The Buick-Berle Show:
23Feb1954 NBC Tue
6.17 [201] The Buick-Berle Show:
02Mar1954 NBC Tue
6.18 [202] The Buick-Berle Show:
09Mar1954 NBC Tue
4.06 [28] The Bob Hope Show
16Mar1954 NBC Tue
Director Jack Shea
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
David Niven
Janis Paige
Verna Felton
Elvia Allman
Cass Daley (comedienne)
Les Brown and his Band of Reknown
and Jack Benny (cameo).
Program Breakdown: [KShavo]
1) Overture - Big Parade (St Patrick's day theme)
2) Monologue
3) Minute Rice commercial (No audio)
4) Bob discusses a NY Post article about him call "This is on Me"
5) Bob's Start in Vaudeville
Mildred Rosequist (Janis Paige) and Bob arrive in Ottawa for a Vaudeville show.
They rehearse their act at the train station.
They sing "You Are My Lucky Star". The act bombs. Mildred's mom arrives and
takes Mildred home.
6) Jell-o commercial (no audio)
7) A Psychiatrist's Office
Post cards to Priscilla with Priscilla Plumb. An advice columnist speaks to
introduce the skit.
David Nosegay (David Niven) is waiting to meet a psychiatrist. Another man (Bob
Hope) arrives.
They believe the other is the doctor. They eventually determine that they are
both patients.
Dr. Wedge (Hy Averback) arrives. Dream sequence; Mr. Nosegay arrives home to a
loving wife (Janis Paige)
whom he ignores. Second dream sequence; Bob arrives home to a wife (Janis Paige)
who ignores him.
They determine they are dating the same woman - the doctor's wife.
8) Janis Paige - Carolina in the Morning
9) Minute rice commercial
10) The Marion Monroe Story Pt 2
Marion Monroe (Cass Daily) is a waitress at the movie studio Empire Pictures.
The top director, Orson Von Hope (Bob Hope),
arrives to eat and she waits on him, he speaks with Godfrey (Hy Averback) at his
table about finding a new talent.
Marion throws herself at Orson in an attempt to be discovered as a new star. he
decides to make a star out of her.
She gets a screen test. The test is terrible but the studio executives love her.
She decides to go with another director (Jack Benny cameo)
11) Minute rice commercial (weak audio)
12) Cassanova's Big Night contest with Bob Hope
13) Janis Paige & Bob talk and sing "Lucky star"
14) David Niven & Bob talk. David mimes "That's Amore" with Bob standing behind
him and being his arms.
15) Cass Daley and Bob talk briefly
16) Cass Daley - Change
17) Closing (no credits)
6.19 [203] The Buick-Berle Show:
23Mar1954 NBC Tue
6.20 [204] The Buick-Berle Show:
30Mar1954 NBC Tue
6.21 [205] The Buick-Berle Show:
06Apr1954 NBC Tue
4.07 [29] The Bob Hope Show
13Apr1954 NBC Tue
Written by Larry Marks / Choreography Nick Castle
Rosemary Clooney's Gown Desiger Edith Head.
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Jack Benny
Rosemary Clooney
Jimmy Durante
featuring John Gallaudet, Elvia Allman, Margaret Dumont, Eddie Marr, Peter
Leeds, Bob Jellison and Bob Bence.
Les Brown and his Band of Renown
Also Bob will introduce, the winner of his "Campus Casanova" search, Warren
Robertson, a senior from University of Texas.
He gets a six-day stay in Hollywood with an "all-expenses paid" date each night
with - different movie starlet.
Highlights:
Bob and Rosemary do "You Got Class", a tune from their new movie "Here Come the
Girls".
Program Breakdown [KShavo]
1) Score card (Overture about the opening day of baseball season)
2) Monologue
3) Jell-o pudding commercial
4) Casanova's Big Night Out Contest Winner - Warren Robertson & Bob talk
5) Bob Hope - Young at Hear (introduction of next skit)
6) Robert Casanova Hope; Rosemary (Rosemary Clooney) is waiting for Robert
Casanova (Bob Hope) to arrive.
She is waiting for him to propose. he arrives and she begins to discuss
marriage. he is reluctant to marry.
Includes "Tea For Two" with a slow dance. She tricks him into marrying her.
7) Minute rice commercial
8) Dizzy Hope Star Pitcher: Steve Fosters Baseball warm-up. Steve (Hy Averback)
introduces the skit.
Dizzy Hope (Bob Hope) is the Indians new star rookie pitcher. The players talk
with Dizzy in the locker room.
Dizzy losses badly pitching his first game.
9) Rosemary Clooney sings "What is This Thing Called Love?"
10) Jell-o Pudding commercial (Busy Day Blues song)
11) New Orleans - The Green Hat Club.
Fingers Hope (Bob Hope) plays the piano at the club. his girl Rosey (Rosemary
Clooney) talks with him.
Jell-Roll Benny (Jack Benny) arrives looking for a job. Fingers lets him
audition for the band. he gets the job.
He steals Rosey and Fingers and Jell Roll kill each other. They end up at the
crossroads to Heaven & Hell.
12) Jell-o Pudding commercial.
13) Bob talks about his future schedule.*Note: Bob Hope stars in "Mr. Casanova" released April 17, 1954.
6.22 [206] The Buick-Berle Show:
20Apr1954 NBC Tue
6.23 [207] The Buick-Berle Show:
27Apr1954 NBC Tue
6.24 [208] The Buick-Berle Show:
04May1954 NBC Tue
4.08 [30] The Bob Hope Show
11May1954 NBC Tue
Written by Larry Masters / Choreography Al White Jr.
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Dorothy Lamour
Edmond O'Brien
with
Sheldon Leonard, Verna Felton, Hy Averback, Peter Leeds, Bill Johnstone
also: Jerry Hausner, Bob Jellison, Ray Kellogg, Mabel Mann, Ralph Montgomery and
Jack Shea.
And Randy Cardenas performs a long juggling routine.
Program
Breakdown: [KShavo]
1) Vacation Time (Overture)
2) Monologue
3) Jell-O Instant Pudding Commercial
4) The Navy makes mistakes Seaman second class (Bob Hope) gets a paycheck for 86
million dollars. The money changes his life in the navy.
5) Jell-O Commercial (No Sound)
6) Lapu Lapu Island in the South Seas
Klapu presents Chief Malaku & his Friends". Chief Malakua (Bob Hope) & Princess
Lala (Dorothy Lamour).
Guest Dr. Mango demonstrates his reducing remedy. Hula girls dance.
7) The Laughing Song - Dorothy Lamour
8) Minute Rice commercial
9) Punchy Hope - Boxing legend
Punchy Hope (Bob Hope) meets the champ, Rechy Rocky and he's asked to take a
dive.
10) Jell-O Commercial
11) General John G Sullen speaks
12) Dorothy Lamour talks with Bob. They go in the audience and Dorothy sings to
a service man.
13) Edmond O'Brien talks with Bob and does Shakespeare.
14) Rudy Cardinas
15) Goodnight
6.25 [209] The Buick-Berle Show:
18May1954 NBC Tue
*Note: "The Jack Benny Show" on 23May1954 CBS-TV with
guest Bob Hope
6.26 [210] The Buick-Berle Show:
25May1954 NBC Tue
4.09 [31] The Bob Hope Show
01Jun1954 NBC Tue
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Marilyn Maxwell
Cass Daley
Jerry Colonna
Cameos by Zsa Zsa Gabor and Jack Benny.
with Elvia Allman and Peter Leeds.
Also, "Most Beautiful June Bride" Contest Winner
Program
Breakdown: [KShavo]
1) Overture - It's June (June Wedding Theme).
2) Monologue
3) A College course that guarantees marriage.
Professor Hope's (Bob Hope) class in love, romance & marriage. Marilyn (Marilyn
Maxwell) is a student in the class.
Includes "Hurray For Love" sung by Bob and Marilyn. Marilyn is pursuing Bob
romantically. He's more interested in teaching.
4) Cass Daley sings "Together".
5) Jell-o instant pudding commercial
6) A Survey Expert
A man (Bob Hope) asks people on the street about the McCarthy hearings.
He speaks to a man (Peter Leeds) who has a speech problem.
He also speaks to JC Colonna (Jerry Colonna).
7) Minute Rice commercial (audio for second 1/2 of the commercial)
8) Marilyn Maxwell sings "Taking a Chance on Love".
9) Princess for a Day
Violet C. Harkian (Cass Daly) wins the princess for a day contaest.
She wins a date with Montgomery Hope (Bob Hope). he doesn't want to go on the
date.
She arrives at his home for the date. Zsa Zsa cameo.
10) Minute Rice commercial
11) June Bride 1954 contest winner - Ruth Eislman & Bob Van Jones her finance
12) Goodnights including the show guests and a cameo with Jack Benny
6.27 [211] The Buick-Berle Show:
08Jun1954 NBC Tue
*Note: "The Milton Berle Show" on 08Jun1954 NBC-TV Tues 8-9pm (time slot shared with
The Bob Hope Show)
with guests Bob Hope, Tony Martin, Ray Bolger and Connie Russell.
############## The Bob Hope Show #############
############## end of Season 4 ###############
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