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Season 10 (NBC) (1959-60)
Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Rina Fox, Tom Alger, KShavo  [Updated June 2019]
references:
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NBC (Various Days)

10.01 [69] The Bob Hope Buick Show
08Oct1959 NBC Thu
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Dean Martin
Natalie Wood
The Crosby Brothers
David Rose and his Orchestra
Highlights:
Bob starts right out with his monologue and Khrushchev is included in those one-liners of his.
The three Crosby boys snap to "Mack The Knife," and hoke it up with Hope in a sketch playing old men to Bob's everlasting youth.
Dean Martin raises his eyebrows to "Evening in Roma," and makes love to Natalie Wood in a gondolier bit.
There's also a gangster takeoff with Hope as a hood and the Crosby boys his henchmen.

Note: Bob Hope is presenting the Crosbys in their first major TV appearance. The boys will be in for good-natured ribbing,
as Bob and their father (Bing) are known as having the most famous legendary "feud" in show business.
Trivia: Tonight's show marks the first of six full hour telecasts this season and not only marks the tenth anniversary for Bob
but also the completion of more than 4,000,000 miles traveled in entertaining U.S. Servicemen since May 1941.

10.02 [70] The Bob Hope Show
09Nov1959 NBC Mon
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Patti Page
James Darren
May Britt
Zsa Zsa Gabor
the Hollywood Deb Stars of 1959
look for Deb Star Yvette Mimieux.
Highlights:
Patti Page sings "Goodbye Charlie" and "Small World".
Bob Hope and James Darren predict the top tunes of 1980 in a song-skit.
Patti and Bob perform "I Never Met a Singer - Any Singer Who Didn't Think He Could Dance".
Shifting the scene to Japan, the romantic Bob and exotic Patti Page promise to evoke chuckles while May Britt prepares
for her role as a sultry temptess in a spoof of "Twilight Zone".
Zsa Zsa introduces the Hollywood Deb Stars — and Hope introduces her as their den mother.

10.03 [71] The Bob Hope Show (Bob Hope's Holiday Show)
11Dec1959 NBC Fri
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Rhonda Fleming
Ernie Kovacs
Janis Paige
Rod Lauren
Highlights:
Rhonda Fleming appears in a sketch with Bob entitled "The Beverly Hills Burglar".
Janis Paige sings and dances "Lullaby of Broadway".
Janis and Bob do a beatnik comedy sketch.
Rod Lauren sings "If I Had a Girl".
Rod will sing and dance aided by pretty chorines Patty Thomas and Marjorie Gramer.
Ernie is in a feature sketch with Bob entitled "Home With a View", in which Ernie sells Bob a seemingly desirable piece
of property in the Hollywood Hills but it turns out that the house has a shaky foundation.

*Note: Bob Hope appears on "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood" documentary on January 10th, 1960.

10.04 [72] The Bob Hope Buick Christmas Show
Hope Enterprises production in association with NBC
13Jan1960 NBC Wed
Executive producer, Bob Hope/ Producer, Jack Hope / Director, Jack Shea
Writers, Mort Lachman, Bill Larkin, Lester White, John Rapp, Charles Lee.
Editors, Don Olson, Hugo Grimaldi, Bill O’Hara;
Photography, Taylor Byars / Choreography, Jack Baker / Sound Dave Forrest
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Jayne Mansfield
Steve McQueen
Neile Adams
Frances Langford
Jerry Colonna
 Tony Romano (musician)
 Patty Thomas (dancer)
Peter Leeds
 Vince Flaherty (reporter)
the Skinnay Ennis Orchestra (Les Brown was unavailable at Tour time)
Copyright notice on film: c1960 by Bob Hope Enterprises.
Bob Hope entertained troops in Alaska for Christmas
Highlights:
Patty Thomas and Bob Hope dance "Bear dance".
Frances Langford sings "Night and Day"
Japanese sketch is performed by Hope, McQueen, Leeds
Jayne Mansfield sings "I've Got a Crush on You."
"If I Had My Way" is performed by Bob Hope, Jerry Colonna and Tony Romano.
Neile Adams performs "I Enjoy Being a Girl".
All join in for "Standing on the Corner".
Frances Langford sings "Silent Night".
Summary:
"Bob Hope entertained troops in Alaska this Christmas, and the highlights of his tour are presented in this one-hour filmed show.
In Hope’s troupe are Jayne Mansfield; TV Western star Steve McQueen and his wife, dancer Neile Adams; singer Frances Langford;
zany Jerry Colonna; musician Tony Romano; dancer Patty Thomas; actor Peter Leeds; and the Skinnay Ennis orchestra.
Highlights: Bear dance--Hope, Thomas; Night and day--Langford; Japanese sketch--Hope, McQueen, Leeds; I’ve got a crush on you--Mansfield;
If I had my way--Hope, Colonna, Romano; I enjoy being a girl--Adams; sketch: Standing on the corner--all;
Silent night--Langford".
During one stop along the tour at King Salmon, Jayne showed up in a sheer, very low cut pink gown - so low cut that her nipples were exposed.
Bob Hope turned to his brother Jack and shouted over the roaring from the crowd of soldiers and said, "Jack, I don't believe her.
She can't do that! We're filming!" Jack turned to Bob and said, "You're the only one who can handle this!"
Bob reached centerstage and hollered, "We've got a gal here - I think you're going to like. It's Mr. and Mrs. Mansfield's favorite child, Jayne - right here."
At the cast party that night, Bob asked Jayne Mansfield to sing "White Christmas" and she die it with such warmth and beauty that Bob said,
"Somewhere beneath that blond hair and plastic makeup was a lovely woman singing softly with so much meaning."

*Note: On January 17, 1960 Bob Hope narrates special on Cerebral Palsy
at 3 p.m. on (7) with a dramatic story of one family in crisis.
*Note: Bob Hope narrates "Not So Long Ago" on PROJECT 20 on February 19, 1960

10.05 [73] The Bob Hope Show
22Feb1960 NBC Mon
Producer, Jack Hope / Director, Jack Shea
Writers, Mort Lachman, Bill Larkin, Lester White, John Rapp, Charles Lee.
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Ginger Rogers
Wally Cox
 Jimmy Demaret (golfer)
And winners from the Photoplay Magazine Gold Medal Awards
Millie Perkins
Troy Donahue
 Ross Hunter (Producer)
Michael Gordon (Director)
David Rose Orchestra
Highlights:
Bob, Ginger and Wally do a sketch titled "Life in the Afternoon".
Bob and Ginger duet on "Ballin' the Jack".
Ginger performs "I Got Rhythm".

*Note: "The Arthur Murray Special for Bob Hope" on 15Mar1960
Arthur Murray & Kathryn Murray with guest of honor Bob Hope,
guests include Cliff Arquette, Tony Bennett, Johnny Carson, Gloria DeHaven, Alan King,
Dorothy Lamour, Jayne Mansfield, Ethel Merman, Jane Russell and Earl Wilson.

*Note: Bob Hope hosts "The 32nd Annual Academy Awards" on April 4th, 1960 and also is the recipient of the
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian of the Year award.

10.06 [74] The Bob Hope Show [Last show of the season]
20Apr1960 NBC Wed
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
James Garner
Patti Page
Joan Caulfield
Highlights:
In a skit, Bob is a fat comic (he keeps bread in his golf bag, bologna in the lamp base, etc.) with Joan Caulfield assisting.
Bob is a psychiatrist with Jim Garner as the patient who is asked to choose between Joi Lansing in a bathing suit and a horse.
Bob as a beatnik with James (in a turtleneck sweater down to his ankles) as his bongo-playing protege.
Patti joins Bob in a duet
Patti sings "2223 Miles" and "Misty".
Bob sings an oldie of his, "I Can't Get Started With You".

*Note: Bob Hope is on the Celebrity gold charity show called "The Golf Channel Presents Celebrity Golf with Sam Snead 1960".

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