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Season 8 (NBC) (1957-58)
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 Sundays

8.01 [55] The Bob Hope Show (USO Show in French Morocco)
06Oct1957 NBC Sun
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Ann Miller
Eddie Fisher
Marie McDonald
Gary Crosby
Les Brown and His Band of Renown
Highlights:
Filmed in Casablanca.
Bob comes on as Ali Ben Hope and Pepsi La Cola, the black-market king in a couple of sketches.
Ann Miller goes African in a leggy number, "700 Darn Hot", and Marie (The Body) McDonald sways to
"I Cound Have Danced All Night".
Bob and Ann get together for a dance number. He does the old soft shoe, while Ann just wiggles.
Eddie Fisher sings "Around the World".

*Note: Bob Hope is a guest on "The Frank Sinatra Show" on October 18th, 1957.

8.02 [56] The Bob Hope Show
24Nov1957 NBC Sun
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Rhonda Fleming
Sheree North
Jimmy Durante
Francis X. Bushman
Special guest star
Danny Thomas
the Hollywood Deb Stars of 1957
and in a cameo appearance Joan Caulfield join Bob for an hour of music and comedy.
Look for Ruta Lee in the Deb Stars segment.
Highlights:
Bob and Danny poke fun at Westerns in a sketch called "Bad Day at NBC".
Rhonda Fleming belts out "Baby, Baby".
Sheree North dances "Mu-Cha-Cha-Cha".
Bob does jokes on Sputnik.
Francis X. Bushman appears with 12 lucious starlets.

*Note: Bob guests on "The Eddie Fisher Show" on December 10th, 1957

8.03 [57] The Bob Hope Show  (Far East Xmas USO show)
17Jan1958 NBC Fri
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Jayne Mansfield
Jerry Colonna
Erin O'Brien
Carol Jarvis
Hedda Hopper
Arthur Duncan
Les Brown and His Band of Renown
Highlights:
Erin O'Brien sings "White Christmas".
All join in for "Silent Night".
During the Christmas season Bob Hope was traveling around the Pacific entertaining GI's.
His troupe included glamor gal Jayne Mansfield, star of the films "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" and "Kiss Them For Me",
songstress Erin O'Brien; comedian Jerry Colonna for years a radio sidekick of Hope's. Holly columnist Hedda Hopper,
dancer Arthur Duncan and strongman Mickey Hargitay, fiance of Miss Mansfield who appeared in several films with her.
Les Brown and his orchestra. The highlights of the tour which stopped at Hawaii, Korea, Okinawa and Japan.
A spy sketch in which Bob's son Tony Hope and Les Brown Jr. appear briefly as soldiers.
On Friday January 17, 1958 NBC's Bob Hope Show has put together the world's most inexhaustible comedian during a
10-day 16,000 mile island hop through the Pacific.
One of Bob's jokes, "My Uncle was in the Navy. You may remember him - Admiral Tuna, the chicken of the sea."
Even though the sketches involving Mickey Hargitay were rewritten and he was eliminated, (what eliminating Mr. Universe!)
Jayne Mansfield remained loyal, she said that she and Hargitay would soon be wed "in a little glass chapel back home in California".
What she liked best about Mickey, she confided, was "his heart and his soul".

8.04 [58] The Bob Hope Show
06Feb1958 NBC Thurs
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Wally Cox
Dorothy Malone
Nick Todd (singer)
Ray Ferrell
Alan Gifford
Doris Singleton
Highlights:
Dorothy Malone who won the Academy Award as best supporting actress of 1956 for her performance in "Written on the Wind",
turns to singing and also plays a psychiatrist in a sketch. Also appearing in sketches are Ray Ferrell, Alan Gifford and Doris Singleton.
Nick Todd (Pat Boone's brother) sings "Teenage Cutie".
Bob & Dorothy duet with "Nothing in Common".
Bob and Miss Malone will be featured in one skit titled, "Three Faces of Hope " In another Bob and Wally will do a take off on disk jockeys
with Hope portraying the deejay. The final sketch will highlight the entire cast in a "story of a boy and his dog entitled "Flossie."
Hope will pay a special tribute to the Boy Scouts of America on the group's 48th anniversary and for the BSA's safety campaign.

https://books.google.ca/books?
*Note Error: Incorrectly listed in the book "Television Specials: 5,336 Entertainment Programs 1936-2012" as airing February 6, 1959
with Mike Todd as a guest (Todd died in a plane crash March 22, 1958) and was NOT a guest
Pat Boone's brother Nick Todd was the guest which aired February 6, 1958 as the 58th program of The Bob Hope Show not the 65th.
There was no February 6, 1959 program of The Bob Hope Show only the one that aired on February 10, 1959 from tvguides and newspapers.

8.05 [59] The Bob Hope Show
02Mar1958 NBC Sun
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Natalie Wood
Robert Wagner
Bing Crosby
Anita Ekberg
Highlights:
Bing joins Bob a sings "Nothing In Common".
Bob plays Laurence Olive, big movie star being interviewed by Natalie Wood with hubby Robert Wagner playing a butler.
Bob and Natalie sing and dance to "Two Sleepy People".
Bob discusses what makes Paris special with Anita Ekberg.

*Note: Bob Hope co-hosts "The 30th Annual Academy Awards" on March 26th, 1958.

8.06 [60] The Bob Hope Show (Cold War Visit to Russia)
05Apr1958 NBC Sat
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Violinist David Oistrakh, Ballerina Galina Ulanova.
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At the height of the Cold War Bob took American viewers behind the Iron Curtain to introduce them to entertainment...Soviet style.
Bob presented Russian comic David Raikin, violinist David Oistrakh, renowned ballerina Galina Ulanova, and the extraordinary clown Oleg Popov.
The Moscow Circus is introduced, as well as movie stars Skobtsova, Shigalova, and Cherednichenko. A fascinating look at Soviet Russian cultural
icons presented through the eyes of an American icon.
*Note: Bob was told by Davydov the Russian producer that a few of his jokes should be left out. Bob asked which ones.
Davydov replied: "The Russians are overjoyed with their Sputnik. It's kind of weird being in a country where every 92 minutes there's a national holiday.
Anyone without a stiff neck is a traitor. It's a big topic of conversation everyplace but the dog show."
Bob Hope: (to Davydov) We are anxious to cooperate but we must be reasonable. Satellites and missiles are a big topic in Russia just as they are in America.
We both lose if we treat you any differently than any other country in the world. Listen here are the jokes I told on my last television show: "I guess you heard
the big news from Cape Canaveral. Our government has launched another submarine .... Actually the test firing of missiles is going very well .... they hit the
target every time. As a matter of fact, there's hardly anything left of Bermuda".

*Note: This episode won the TV industry's two most prestigious honors, the Peabody and the Sylvania awards for 1958.
*Note: The Nielson rating figures for the show was 25 million people.

*Note: Bob Hope appeared on "Wide, Wide World" on May 24, 1958 Laughter was the subject
others appearing were Steve Allen, Mort Sahl, Al Capp and Will Rogers.
*Note: Bob Hope was a guest on "The Polly Bergen Show" on April 19th, 1958.
*Note: Bob Hope was a guest on "The Steve Allen Plymouth Show" on April 20th, 1958.
*Note: Bob Hope is a guest on "The Big Record" hosted by Patti Page on May 7, 1958.
*Note: Bob Hope stars in "Paris Holiday" released May 9, 1958.

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