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Season 5 (NBC) (1954-55)
Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Rina Fox, Tom Alger,
KShavo  [#5.1, #5.2, #5.3 #5.4 #5.5 #5.6 #5.7 Updated July 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)

############## The Bob Hope Show #############
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NBC Tuesdays 8:00-9:00PM Eastern
Hosted by Bob Hope
Replacing  The Buick-Berle Show starring Milton Berle & The Martha Raye Show   every 4th week

7.01 [212] The Buick-Berle Show:[Season Premiere] 21Sep1954 NBC Tue
[--] The Martha Raye Show  28Sep1954 NBC Tue [Season Premiere]
7.02 [213] The Buick-Berle Show: 05Oct1954 NBC Tue

5.01 [32] The Bob Hope Show [Season Premiere]
12Oct1954 NBC Tues
Written by Chet Castellaw and Martin Ragaway
Choregrapher Nick Castle
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
David Niven, Rosemary Clooney, Marilyn Maxwell
Jose Greco & his dance troupe
also featured: Peter Leeds, Charles Cooley, Jack Pepper,
Alan Turner, Hy Averback, Sara Shane and The Jeff Tomlin Singers.
Also, a remote from the U.S. Olympic Committee Dinner in New York

[--] Olympic Athletes Feted Dinner: Tuesday12-Oct-1954
Event at the Waldorf Astoria in New York opens a drive for funds as President backs the nation-wide appeal.
Fifteen members of past United States Olympic track and field teams were honored 
sponsored by the New York Chapter of the United States Olympians.
The dinner launched a nation-wide drive to raise $1,100,00 to finance full United States participation
in the 1955 Pan American Games at Mexico City,
the 1956 Winter Olympics at Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy and the 1956 Summer Olympics at Melbourne Australia.
Present to receive citations were the following Olympic stars:
Eddie Tolan 100 meters, 1932
Mel Patton 200 meters, 1948
Ralph Hill 5,000 meters, 1932
Louis Tewanima 10,000 meters, 1912
Johnny Hayes marathon, 1908
Charles Moore 400 meter hurdles, 1952
Horace Ashenfelter 3,000 meter steeplechase, 1952
Joseph Pearman 10,000 meter walk, 1920
Ernest Crosbie 50,000 meter walk, 1948
Walt Davis high jump, 1952
Jesse Owens broad jump, 1936
Parry O'Brien shot-put, 1952
Sim Iness discus throw, 1952
Cy Young javelin throw, 1952
Bob Mathias decathlon, 1948-1952
Honored also were Mal Whitfield 800 meters, 1948-52; Harrison Dillard 110 meter hurdles, 1952; Bob Richards pole vault, 1952;
who were in Europe on a State Department goodwill tour. Bill Carr 400 meters, 1932 who was in Japan on business and
the late Mel Sheppard 1,500 meters 1908-12;
Meyer Prinstein hop, step and jump 1900-1904 and John J. Flanagan hammer throw, 1900-1904-1908.
The speakers included Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, pastor of the Marble Collegiate Church;
Sir Percy Spender, Australian Ambassador to the Unite States, Kenneth L. (Tug) Wilson, president of the United States Olympic Committee
and Bernard Baruch. Edward P.F. Eagan chairman of the National Olympic finance committee, acted as toastmaster and
with Bernard Gimbel and Thomas J. Watson organized the dinner on behalf of the United States Olympians, an association of former Olympic officials, athletes and associates.
A portion of the program was nationally televised over the Bob Hope Show. Arthur Daley, Bill Corum, Jesse Abramson and John Daly collaborated in presenting the awards.
Program Breakdown: [KShavo]
1) Overture - TV Mombo
2) Monologue
3) Minute Rice commercial (cartoon)
4) The World's fastest man
Robert Niven (David Niven) is an exceptional runner and his coach is Robert "Swifty" Hope (Bob Hope).
The two arrive at an interview with the press. Swifty moves in on Niven's fiancé Pamela.
5) Minute Rice commercial
6) Jose Greco - The Four Horseman (Flamenco dance)</p>
7) Jose Greco & Bob talk. Bob Flamenco dancing
8) Jell-o Instant Pudding commercial
9) The Medic (Spoof) or This is Your Gallstone
At general Hospital operating room with Dr. Robert Hope (Bob Hope). Includes "Quick Stick band-aid commercial".
The patient (David Niven) arrives. His nurse (Marilyn Maxwell) arrives. the doctor is more interested in the nurse
than the surgery. The surgery is crazy.
10) Jell-o Instant Pudding commercial
11) Remote from the Olympic dinner. Inc Jessie Owen.
12) Marilyn Maxwell sings "Will You Still be Mine".
13) David Niven says goodnight
14) Minute Rice commercial
15) Thanks for the Memory/closing

Note: Bob Hope had planned to do his London command performance as a November filmed TV show
but before he sailed for  England he announced that the project is off.
 
7.03 [214] The Buick-Berle Show: 19Oct1954 NBC Tue
[--] The Martha Raye Show 26Oct1954 NBC Tue
7.04 [215] The Buick-Berle Show: 02Nov1954 NBC Tue

[--] The Steve Allen Show:
09Nov1954 NBC Tue
with Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney.

7.05 [216] The Buick-Berle Show: 16Nov1954 NBC Tue
2.3 [--] The Martha Raye Show 23Nov1954 NBC Tue
7.06 [217] The Buick-Berle Show: 30Nov1954 NBC Tue

5.02 [33] The Bob Hope Show (Filmed in London, England)
07Dec1954 NBC Tues
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Maurice Chevalier
Beatrice Lillie (comedienne)
Liane Dayde (French ballerina)
Moira Lister (South African born actress)
Jerry Desmonde (English film and stage actor)
Shirley Eaton (17-year-old British actress)
Doreen Dawne (English beauty queen)
Victor Rietti and Michael Hall
and the Cologne Male Voice Choir. (182 members)
*Note: From London, his first TV special broadcast from the land of his birth 51 years prior.
Program breakdown: [KShavo]
1) Monologue
2) Cologne Male Voice Choir (Sing in German)
3) Beatrice Lillie - "The lesson with the fan or How to seduce a man".
4) The backdoor at the Palladium
Millicent Beastly (Beatrice Lillie) is begging for money at the backstage door when she meets Bob Hope. Bob recognizes her talent and gives her a chance at stardom.
He attempts to teach her how to conduct herself like a glamorous woman. She becomes the star of the show.
5) Liane Dayde does a ballet dance
6) Bob promotes his new book "Have Tux Will Travel".
7) Jell-o instant pudding commercial
8) The French Riviera, the Charlton Hotel Honeymoon Suite.
Bob (Bob Hope) and Valentine (Moira Lister) are newlyweds. Her cousin Rickey (Maurice Chevalier) arrives unrepentantly to stay with them. He makes Bob jealous.
9) Maurice Chevalier standup about languages.
10) Maurice Chevalier sings " Louise".
11) Minute rice commercial
12) Cologne Male Voice Choir (Bob speaks over the song)
13) Thanks for the Memory

*Note: Bob Hope appears on Producer's Showcase: Correspondents' Dateline
13Dec1954 8-9:30pm NBC
Starring: Bob Hope, Marian Anderson, Hal Boyle, Sid Caesar, Milton Caniff, Perry Como, Bob Considine,
John Daly, Eddie Fisher, Henry Ford II, H.V. Kaltenborn, Elsa Maxwell, Martha Raye, Carl Reiner,
Lawrence Spivak, Richard Rodgers (conducting the orchestra), Carl Sandberg, Robert E. Sherwood, Ray Walston.
Synopsis:
A show presented by the Overseas Press Club to promote their Memorial Press Center in NYC
(which honors reporters who died while covering events overseas).
Highlights:
Bob Hope does the opening monologue.
Marian Anderson sings "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands."
Carl Sandberg reads a dedication for the Memorial Press Center.
The orchestra, conducted by Richard Rodgers, plays excerpts from Rodgers' "Victory at Sea" score.
Sequence includes Perry Como singing "No Other Love."

7.07 [218] The Buick-Berle Show: 14Dec1954 NBC Tue
2.4 [--] The Martha Raye Show 21Dec1954 NBC Tue
7.08 [219] The Buick-Berle Show: 28Dec1954 NBC Tue

[--] Variety Show:
04Jan1955 NBC Tue
with Larry Storch, Teresa Brewer, Senor Wences and The Chordettes.

5.03 [34] The Bob Hope Show (Bob's 1st overseas USO Xmas show)
(Filmed at Goose Air Base in Labrador and Thule Air Base in Greenland).
09Jan1955 NBC Sun
Written by Martin Ragaway, Chet Castellaw and Gig Henry / Choreographer Nick Castle
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
William Holden, Brenda Marshall (William Holden's wife), Anita Ekberg (sexy actress), Hedda Hopper (gossip columnist),
Margaret Whiting (big band vocalist), Robert Strauss, Jerry Colonna (comic),
Peter Leeds, Charlie Cooley (Bob's old Cleveland tap-dancing pal), Patty Thomas (dancer) and The Nick Castle Dancers.
with Les Brown and His Band of Renown and the 100 member Air Force Band
Highlights:
Margaret Whiting sings "We're Having a Heat Wave".
Synopsis:
Bob Hope makes his final (actually 2nd to last) appearance on Colgate in this outing,
Synopsis 2:
1954 USO Show - Bob and his gang travel to Greenland to entertain the troops with a comedy and musical revue.
Hope does his usual comic monologue about life in the military.
William Holden and Robert Strauss join Bob in a Stalag 17 parody. Anita Eckberg is on hand for the soldiers.
Margaret Whiting sings "We're Having a Heat Wave", and cracks up in a routine with Bob.
Jerry Colona gags it up Plus footage from Bob visiting the troops in Alaska from 1957 90 minutes
At the show's end the cast sang "Auld Lang Syne".
  Program Breakdown: [KShavo]
1) Overture - Why do They Call it Greenland - All female dancers/singers. (from Thule)
2) Monologue
3) Poor behavior in the Camp
Bob and Colonel Kibble (Peter Leeds) talk about Bob's the bad behavior from Bob's artists. Colonel Kibble arrests Jerry Colonel and brings him to Bob.
William Holden enters; he is a trouble maker also. William plans to bring gambling to the base.</p>
4) Margaret Whiting and Bob perform "Make Yourself Comfortable"
5) Margaret shows Bob her home and wants to marry him. They return to the song a few times. Her father (Jerry Colonna) arrives to marry them.
6) Hedda Hopper and Bob talk
7) Margaret Whiting sings "Heat Wave"
8) Lonely GI's
A GI (Peter Leeds) and Anita Ekberg talk about the men's loneliness at the base. She goes to the outpost shack to cheer up three men stationed there. The three lonely men (Bob Hope, William Holden & Robert Strauss) celebrate New Years Eve by dancing with each other. They are going stir crazy. Anita Ekberg arrives and she's asked to pick one of them. They fight after she picks Bob Hope. Then Bob gets sent back to the states.</p>
9) Harold Talbot - Secretary of the Air Force.
10) Closing

7.09 [220] The Buick-Berle Show: 11Jan1955 NBC Tue
2.5 [--] The Martha Raye Show 18Jan1955 NBC Tue
7.10 [221] The Buick-Berle Show: 25Jan1955 NBC Tue

5.04 [35] The Bob Hope Show
01Feb1955 NBC Tues
Writers Mort Lachman, Bill Larkin, Martin Ragaway, John Rapp and Lester White.
Choreographer Nick Castle (The Nick Castle Dancers)
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Shirley MacLaine
Line Renaud (French songstress)
Roy Rogers, Dale Evans and Trigger,
The Sons of the Pioneers and the Nick Castle Dancers.
Also featured are Peter Leeds and Sid Melton
with Les Brown and His Band of Renown.
Program Breakdown: [KShavo]
1) Overture - Louisiana - The Land of Rhythm and Blues
2) Monologue
3) Minute Rice commercial
4) Two TV Cowboys
Roy Winders (Roy Rogers) is a TV star. He lives next door to Slim Premis (Bob Hope).
Roy is successful and Slim is not. Slim accuses Roy of letting his horse Trigger fool
around with his horse Zsa Zsa. They meet in cactus Pete's Saloon to play cards.
Slim bets Zsa Zsa and loses her to trigger.
5) Jell-O pudding commercial with Roy and Dale
6) Shirley MacLaine dances to "The Case of the Tall Man".
7) Line Renaud sings "Arms of the One I Love".
8) Line Renaud & Bob talk
9) Line Renaud - Unknown (Bob Interprets)
10) Minute Rice commercial
11) Blood is the Thickest
Sheriff Roy (Roy Rogers) is the good bother and Junior (Bob Hope) is the bad brother.
Roy is trying to capture the Masked Bandit (Bob Hope). Junior attempts to get rid of
Roy by making him believe he's crazy. Dale (Dale Evans) helps Junior to fool Roy.
Roy figures out what Junior is doing and shoots him.
12) Swans Down Cake commercial
13) Dale Evans and the Sons of the Pioneers perform "Two Seated Saddle".
14) Shirley MacLaine & Bob tap dance.
15) Roy Rogers, Dale Evans & Bob sing "San Antoine".
16) Closing
Jell-o Pudding commercial featuring Roy & Dale from the Bob Hope Show.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3p9nfz

*Note: Book "Television Specials: 5,336 Entertainment Programs, 1936-2012" 2nd ed. incorrectly lists guest as Shirley Jones should be Shirley MacLaine.
Also the book, "King of Cowboys, Queen of the West: Roy Rogers and Dale Evans incorrectly lists Shirley Jones as guest which should be Shirley MacLaine.

7.11 [222] The Buick-Berle Show: 08Feb1955 NBC Tue
2.6 [--] The Martha Raye Show 15Feb1955 NBC Tue
7.12 [223] The Buick-Berle Show: 22Feb1955 NBC Tue

5.05 [36] The Bob Hope Show
01Mar1955 NBC Tues (60mins)
Written by Martin Ragaway and Chet Castellaw / Choreographer Louis DaPron
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
David Niven
Vivian Blaine
Quintetto Allegro
and The Louis DaPron Dancers.
Also featured are Peter Leeds and Sid Melton.
Cameo from Jimmy Durante.
Highlights:
Bob Hope introduces a scene from his new movie "The Seven Little Foys."
Program Breakdown: [KShavo]
1) Overture - In Hollywood
2) Monologue (Problems with the cue cards)
3) What Makes a Hollywood Star
Blah Millar (Bob Hope) is a Hollywood press agent. His boss calls him demanding a new big star.
Stella (Vivian Vance) arrives and she's a female Marlon Brando. he renames her Lana Lynn and begins taking publicity shots.
Includes Sid Melton and a Jimmy Durante cameo.
4) Quintetto Allegro performs "Marie" (In Italian and German)
5) Vivian Blaine and Bob talk.
6) "All of You" with Vivian Blaine & Bob (The song turns into a skit)
7) Harvey (Bob Hope) and his girl (Vivian Blaine) take a walk. Harvey speaks with a policeman (Peter Leeds) about getting bus fare.
She wants to get engaged and Harvey is reluctant to buy an engagement ring. They see a jeweler (David Niven) to buy a ring.
8) A birthday cake for David Niven.
9) Closing
10) Off camera thank you.

7.13 [224] The Buick-Berle Show: 08Mar1955 NBC Tue
2.7 [--] The Martha Raye Show 15Mar1955 NBC Tue
7.14 [225] The Buick-Berle Show: 22Mar1955 NBC Tue

*Note: 27Mar55 Bob Hope appeared on "Entertainment 1955" with Helen Hayes, Judy Holliday, Cesar Romero, Dinah Shore, Fred Allen,
Charlton Heston, John Derek, Ralph Edwards and others.
The program included excerpts from a broadway play, comedy sketch and variety for the opening of NBC-TV's color city in Burbank, California.

[--] The Circus:
29Mar1955 NBC Tue
Highlights from Barnum and Bailey's "Greatest Show on Earth" from Madison Square Garden with John Daly.

  *Note: 30Mar55 Bob Hope hosts the "Motion Picture Academy Awards Show" from Hollywood with Thelma Ritter and Conrad Nagel co-hosting from New York.


7.15 [226] The Buick-Berle Show: 05Apr1955 NBC Tue
2.8 [--] The Martha Raye Show 12Apr1955 NBC Tue
7.16 [227] The Buick-Berle Show: 19Apr1955 NBC Tue

5.06 [37] The Bob Hope Show
26Apr1955 NBC Tues
Choreographer Louis DaPron
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Line Renaud (Parisian singing sensation)
Lloyd Nolan
Hans Conried
Jerry Colonna, Vicki Draves
Lassie and Miss Malta & Company dog act.
Program Breakdown: [KShavo]
1) Overture - "Under the Sea"
2) Monologue
3) Minute Man instant frosting mix
4) Paris in the Spring
Lily (Line Renaud) meets Maurice (Hans Conried) on the Eifel tower.
Includes "If I Fell in Love" sung by Line Renaud. Lily also meets
Orvil Finkinbinder (Bob Hope) and they fall in love.
Includes "I Want You to Love" sung by Line Renaud.
Maurice returns and wants her back.
5) The Happy Hideaway Rehabilitation Center
A government experiment of a pleasant prison experience.
Duke Hope (Bob Hope) and Whitey Nolan Lloyd Nolan
wake up to the new prison experience while in prison.
When they get out of prison they try to get back in.
6) Jell-O Pudding commercial
7) Minute Rice commercial
8) Line Renaud sings "Paris Song (Pombuday)".
9) This is Your Life - Lassie
10) Bob Hope talks (Includes silly camera tricks)
11) Chicago Style - Jerry Colonna
12) Most beautiful Bride Contest
13) Line Renaud
14) Lloyd Nolan
15) Goodnight

7.17 [228] The Buick-Berle Show: 03May1955 NBC Tue
2.9 [--] The Martha Raye Show 10May1955 NBC Tue
7.18 [229] The Buick-Berle Show:  17May1955 NBC Tue

5.07 [38] The Bob Hope Show  [Final Show of the Season]
24May1955 NBC Tues
Written by Martin Ragaway and Chet Castellaw
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Bing Crosby
Jane Russell
Don Hartman
Hy Averback
Les Brown and his Band of Renown
Clips from his cinema career from the beginning to "The Seven Little Foys".
Don shows Bob singing "Two Sleepy People" with Shirley Ross from "The Big Broadcast of 1938".
Bob plugs his new book "Have Tux, Will Travel".
Program Breakdown: [KShavo]
1) Monologue
2) Minute Rice commercial
3) The Paramount Studio
Don Hartman arrives in his office. Bob Hope arrives for a meeting with Don. Don wants him to go to Australia.
They reminisce about Bob's old films with clips shown.
4) Minute Man Instant frosting mix
5) A Party for Bob
Bing Crosby throws a going away party for Bob's trip to Australia.
His date, Jane Russell, arrives at Bob's home. He shows her film of his old movies.
6) Minute Rice commercial
7) A Party for Bob (continued)
Bob arrives at Bing's house. He expects to a surprise party - but no one is there.
He finds Bing in bed, and learns the party was the day before.
Bob and Bing argue (includes film clips) of the two.
8) Minute Man Instant frosting mix
9) Bob talks about his new movie "The Seven Little Foys" with movie clips.
10) Minute Rice commercial
11) The winner of the most beautiful bride contest Dana Hutchins and her fiancé Thomas Taylor
12) Closing
 

*Note: Bob Hope stars in "The Seven Little Foys" released May 31, 1955.
7.19 [230] The Buick-Berle Show: 31May1955 NBC Tue
2.10 [--] The Martha Raye Show  07Jun1955 NBC Tue

*Note: Bob Hope TV appearance on 10June1955 - Bob Hope guests on "Person to Person" hosted by Edward R. Murrow. (CBS-TV 10:30-11pm)

7.20 [231] The Buick-Berle Show: 14Jun1955 NBC Tue

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