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Season 12 (NBC) (1961-62)
Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Rina Fox, Tom Alger  [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

*Note: Bob Hope is a guest on "Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium" on September 10th, 1961.
*Note: Bob Hope appears in "DuPont Show of the Week" episode "USO: Wherever They Go!" on October 8th, 1961.
*Note: "The World of Bob Hope" 29Oct1961 WNBC (30 min)
Narrator Alexander Scourby.
Alexander Scourby narrates the first in a series of shows about prominent Americans.
*Note: Bob Hope stars in the film "Bachelor in Paradise" released November 1, 1961.
*Note: Bob Hope is a guest on "Bing Crosby in London Special" on December 11th, 1961.

12.01 [83] The Bob Hope Revlon Show
13Dec1961 NBC Wed
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Danny Thomas
James Garner
Nancy Kwan
Hollywood Deb Stars of 1961.
Look All-American Football Team
Look for Gary Collins, Lance Alworth, John Hadl, Roman Gabriel.
Highlights:
Bob kids a few shows like "The Hustler" as he plays Rig Fats, a pool player with actor James Garner.
Danny Thomas joins Hope in a takeoff on "Target: Corruptors,"
and Nancy Kwan helps Bob turning up as movie star Linda Cleavage.
Also, a few gags about the traveling chimp, the Look All-American Football Team and Hollywood Deb Stars.
A hustling hour with Hope in good health. [Yonkers NY Herald Statesman]
 
*Note: Bob Hope appears on "Here's Hollywood" December 26th 1961 and talks about his
annual Christmas tour of American military bases overseas.

*Note: News announcement: December 26, 1961
The 24th annual Academy Awards will be televised and broadcast over the television and radio facilities of the
American Broadcasting Company from the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.
Bob Hope's selection as master of ceremonies marks the third successive year he has been its sole master of ceremonies
and the 10th time the comedian has taken the M.C.'s role for the presentation since 1939.

12.02 [84] The Bob Hope Show (From Newfoundland, Labrador, Baffin Island, and Greenland)
24Jan1962 NBC Wed (60 min).
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Jayne Mansfield
Jerry Colonna
Dorothy Provine
Anita Bryant
Peter Leeds
Miss World Rosemarie Frankland
George Hope.
Highlights:
Dorothy Provine sings and dances with Bob to the tune of "I'm In Love With You".
Bob and Jayne are in a very funny "Romeo and Juliet" sketch.
Anita Bryant sings "Silent Night"
.Bob makes his annual tour to entertain service personnel at Christmastime.
Filmed highlights of Bob's 10th annual Yuletide tour to entertain U.S. servicemen
at the Argentia Naval Base and Harmon Base,
Newfoundland: Goose Bay. Labrador: Forbisher
Bay Air Base, Baffin Island, Sonderstrom Air Base
and Thule, Greenland.
 Bob and his gang take some humorous whacks at Shakespeare, beatniks,
and the Twist in this touching and funny photographed record of how a bunch of pros brighten a serviceman's holiday.

12.03 [85] The Bob Hope Show
27Feb1962 NBC Tue (60 min)
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Jack Paar
Joan Collins
Steve Allen
Joanie Sommers
Sid Melton
Robert Strauss
Joi Lansing
 Bing Crosby (cameo appearance)
David Rose and His Orchestra
Highlights:
Bob, Steve and Jack in a skit called "The King and Us" discussing who will replace Jack Paar when he leaves the show.
Bing Crosby makes a surprise guest appearance at the end of the sketch.
A spoof on "Car 54" called "Bicycle 54, Are You There?" in which Steve and Bob play a British "Toody and Muldoon"
working on the killing of Sir Roger Wilco.
Joanie Sommers has a big production number as she sings "It's Love".
Joan Collins plays the first woman customs inspector.

12.04 [86] The Bob Hope Show
22Mar1962 NBC Thur
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Ethel Merman
Maximillian Schell
Piper Laurie
Fabian
David Rose and His Orchestra
Highlights:
Bob has some quips about Jackie Kennedy's tour.
Ethel Merman stars in the main skit, a take-off on "A Majority of One," titled "Call Me Butterfly."
She plays a movie slar who goes to Japan, with Bob as her Japanese landlord.
Ethel and Bob recreate their duet ot "It's De-Lovely," which they did in Broadway's "Red, Hot and Blue" in 1938.
Ethel also has a medley of "smile" songs.
Fabian duets with Bob on "Tiger".
Piper Laurie and Maximillian Schell talk abou the Oscar Awards and all join in for a broad sketch ribbing method acting.
Oscar nominee Schell pretends he's an atomic warhead in a sketch.
Ethel closes with "There's No Business Like Show Business".

*Note: Bob Hope hosted the "34th Academy Awards" on April 9, 1962. This was his seventh time hosting the Oscars.
For the first time in Oscar history the show lasted longer than two hours.

12.05 [87] The Bob Hope Show
25Apr1962 NBC Wed (60 min)
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Frank Sinatra
Dorothy Lamour
Janis Paige
Highlights:
Bob opens up with a barrage of quips on income taxes, the aftermath of the Academy Awards, Liz Taylor and the Kennedys.
There's a long standup routine with Bob and Frank Sinatra.
Frank and Bob duet with "Small Fry".
Frank solos with "Goody, Goody".
Janis Paige dances.
Dorothy Lamour reminisces with Bob about those old road movies they made with Crosby and show clips of the old films.
In addition Bob includes a tape of a dog skit done years ago called "This Is Your Life, Lassie".

*Note: Bob Hope stars in the film "The Road to Hong Kong" released May 22, 1962.

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