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Season 6 (NBC) (1955-56)
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)

 ########## The Bob Hope Chevy Show ###########
############## season 6 1955-56 ##############
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NBC Tuesdays 8:00-9:00pm Eastern
Now called "The Bob Hope Chevy Show" / Hosted by Bob Hope
Alternating with The Milton Berle Show & The Martha Raye Show   every 3rd week

[--] 20Sep55 - The Martha Raye Show
[--] 27Sep55 - The Milton Berle Show

 6.01 [39] The Bob Hope Chevy Show
04Oct1955 NBC Tues
Choreographer Nick Castle
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Jane Russell
Wally Cox
Roy Rogers
Janis Paige
the ten finalists for the Hollywood Deb Stars for 1955
Highlights:
A repeating of the last season sketch in which Bob Hope plays a psychiatrist who analyzes Roy Rogers' horse Trigger is redone for presentation.
Janis Paige fronts a stage full of dancers in a lavish production number.
Wally Cox is a meek husband confronted by pistol-packing Hope who has just escaped from the big house.
Jane Russell helps introduce the Hollywood Deb Stars, Gloria Talbot, Lori Nelson, Karen Sharpeand Cathy Crosby (Bing's niece).
and Les Brown's band contributes to the musical necessities.
Bob plugs his movie "The Seven Little Foys".
*Note: Roy Rogers' appearance is a repeat from the October 12, 1954 episode.

[--] 11Oct55 - The Martha Raye Show
[--] 18Oct55 - The Milton Berle Show

[--] The Betty Hutton Show
25Oct1955 NBC Tue
with Bob Hope and Jimmy Durante.


[--] 01Nov55 - The Martha Raye Show
[--] 08Nov55 - The Milton Berle Show

6.02 [40] The Bob Hope Chevy Show
15Nov1955 NBC Tues
Choreographer Nick Castle
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Betty Hutton
Jeanne Crain
featured are Hy Averback, Arthur Q. Bryan, Dick Elliot, Bob Jellison, Peter Leeds, Sid Melton and Almira Sessions.
Highlights:
Betty Hutton sings "The Little Rock Roll".
Hope repeats last year's filmed sketch "This Is Your Life, Lassie".
He salutes the well-known canine star by inviting several other dog stars to take part in the tribute.

[--] Award Presentation 27Nov1955 NBC
This week's program is an awards presentation telecast from the Coconut Grove nightclub in Hollywood.
Presenters include:
Bob Hope, John Wayne, Louella Parsons (gossip columnist), Claudette Colbert, Debbie Reynolds, Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas.

*Note: Bob Hope appears on "Screen Directors Playhouse" in the episode "The Silent Partner" on December 21st, 1955.

[--] 22Nov55 - The Martha Raye Show
[--] 29Nov55 - The Milton Berle Show

[--] The Ethel Merman Show
06Dec1955 NBC Tue
with Bob Cummings, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Jonathan Winters, Shirley MacLaine and Leo Durocher.

[--] 13Dec55 - The Martha Raye Show
[--] 20Dec55 - The Milton Berle Show

6.03 [41] The Bob Hope Chevy Show  USO Xmas Iceland Show
27Dec1955 NBC Tues
Choreographer Nick Castle
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
James Mason
Betty Grable
 Joan Rhodes (strongwoman)

[--] 03Jan56 - The Martha Raye Show
[--] 10Jan56 - The Milton Berle Show

6.x [--] The Bob Hope Show  (Possibly No Show)
17Jan56 NBC Tue
According to the book "Bob Hope on TV" there is no listing of a show on this date.
https://books.google.ca/books
After the Iceland Show Bob possibly headed for England to work on a movie
and film two of his shows from London England.

[--] 24Jan56 - The Martha Raye Show
[--] 31Jan56 - The Milton Berle Show

[--] The Dinah Shore Show  (Airdate Clash?)
07Feb1956 NBC Tue
with Perry Como, Marcel Marceau, Gisele Mackenzie, Stubby Kaye, Johnny Silver and The Skylarks.

6.04 [42] The Bob Hope Chevy Show (Filmed in London, England)
prod. no. 56-339
07Feb1956 NBC Tues
Producer Jack Hope
Written by Les White, John Rapp, Mort Lachman, Bill Larkin, Charles Lee.
Directed by Bill Ward
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Fernandel
Diana Dors (British Actress/Singer)
Yana (British Singer)
Ted Heath Orchestra (British Orchestra Leader)
Nanci Crompton
Zena Marshall (British Actress)
Richard Wattis (British Comic Actor), The Bernard Brothers,
The Ballet Montmartre
The George Mitchell Choir
Les Brown and His Band of Renown, Nick Castle Dancers
Dagenham Girl Pipers and Lucienne & Astor

[--] 14Feb56 - The Martha Raye Show
[--] 21Feb56 - The Milton Berle Show


6.05 [43] The Bob Hope Chevy Show (Filmed in London, England)
28Feb1956 NBC Tues
Producer Jack Hope
Written by Les White, John Rapp, Mort Lachman, Bill Larkin, Charles Lee.
Directed by Bill Ward
Music Dennis Ringrowe
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Line Renaud (French chanteuse)
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (zctor)
Tommy Trinder (British comedian)
The Bernard Brothers.
Also, dance duo Lucien Bob & Esther, Elsa Martinelli, Melina Lee, Maureen Swanson.
Highlights:
Fairbanks joins Hope in a satire on British commercials.
Line Renaud and Bob are caught smuggling California wine into Paris.
Tommy Trinder presents his version of "A Night at the Palladium".
The Bernard Brothers perform an excerpt from their act at Pigalle in Paris.
Bob Hope presents six lovely ladies in costume representing their respective countries: Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, Scotland and Sweden.

[--] 06Mar56 - The Martha Raye Show
[--] 13Mar56 - The Milton Berle Show

 [--] Spring Holiday (Airdate Clash?)
20Mar1956 NBC Tue
with Host Tony Martin, Cyd Charisse, Polly Bergen and Jack E. Leonard.

6.06 [44] The Bob Hope Chevy Show: "The Awful Truth"
20Mar1956 NBC Tues

Screenplay by Vina Delman / Play by Arthur Richman
Adaptation by Hope's writers including Norman Sullivan.
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Greer Garson
Hedda Hopper
Vivian Blaine
Dick Foran
featured are Ray Walker, Peter Leeds, Eddie Marr, Dick Keane, Eleanor Audley,
Pierre Watkins, Ken Christy, Margaret Dumont, Rex Evans, Howard Hoffman, Isobel Randolph.

[--] 27Mar56 - The Martha Raye Show
[--] 03Apr56 - The Milton Berle Show

 [--] The Dinah Shore Show
10Apr56 NBC Tue

[--] 17Apr56 - The Martha Raye Show
[--] 24Apr56 - The Milton Berle Show

6.07 [45] The Bob Hope Chevy Show
01May1956 NBC Tues
Choreographer Nick Castle
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Kathryn Grayson (TV debut)
George Sanders
Pearl Bailey
George Gobel.
Also featured Hy Averback, Peter Leeds, Elvia Allman, Sid Tomack, Robert Carson,
Jack Petruzzi, Adrienne D'Ambricourt, Ralph Sanford, Curley Clements.
Highlights:
Bob and Kathryn appear in a sketch satirizing opera and hillbilly music, in which she portrays an Italian opera singer and Hope plays the "king of the hillbilly recording stars".
Sanders joins Hope in a tongue-in-cheek routine depicting the chicanery of agents trying to close a deal.
Pearl does a sketch with Hope set against the background of Las Vegas in which she auditions for Hope.


[--] 08May56 - The Martha Raye Show
[--] 15May56 - The Milton Berle Show (Airdate Clash)

6.08 [46] The Bob Hope Chevy Show
15May1956 NBC Tue  ? (Paley Center lists  22May56 NBC Tue)
https://www.paleycenter.org/collection/?q=bob%20hope%20chevy%20show&p=1
Written by Chet Castellaw
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Vic Damone
Pearl Bailey
Kim Novak
Leo Durocher
Ken Murray
Highlights:
Hope is meeting with a group of network executive - a bunch of pre-teens.

*Note: Bob Hope appears in the animation short "Showdown at Ulcer Gulch" with Orson Bean, Groucho Marx, Ernie Kovacs and Bing Crosby.
*Note: Bob Hope stars in "That Certain Feeling" released June 4, 1956.
*Note: Bob Hope is a guest on "Lux Video Theatre" episode "A House of His Own" on June 14th, 1956.


[--] 29May56 - The Martha Raye Show
[--] 06Jun56 - The Milton Berle Show

6.09 [47] The Bob Hope Chevy Show
17Jun1956 NBC NBC Sun
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
George Sanders
Steve Allen
Dorothy Lamour
Jane Russell
Betty Grable
Marilyn Maxwell.
Highlights:
Steve Allen conducts the tour that goes into a story conference, into dressing rooms, backstage, on the set and finally right off the cutting room floor.
Latter comes when a film clip is shown that never got into the movie "That Certain Feeling".
Bob with George Sanders and Steve Allen surrounded by beauties

*Note: Bob Hope guests on "The Patti Page Show" on June 23, 1956.
*Note: Bob Hope is a guest on the premiere episode of "The Steve Allen Plymouth Show" on June 24th, 1956.
 

 ############## The Bob Hope Show #############
############## end of Season 6 ###############
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