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Season 14 (NBC) (1963-64)
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 Fridays

14.01 [94] The Bob Hope Comedy Special [Season Premiere]
27Sep1963 NBC Fri
Producer George Hope / Directed by Jack Shea
Writers Mort Lachman, Bill Larkin, Lester White, John Rapp and Charles Lee.
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Barbra Streisand
Tuesday Weld
Dean Martin
James Garner join Bob for an hour of music and comedy.
Highlights:
A spoof on folk singing hootenannies with Bob, Dean and Barbra.
Barbra, Bob and Dean perform "Blue Tail Fly".
Barbra sings "Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home" and "Gotta Move"
and then joined Bob Hope for a sketch.
*Note: At the time Barbra Streisand was touring the USA appearing in night clubs.
You'll realize her voice is a little hoarse.
That very same year she released two albums and was signed to "Funny Girl".
Please remember all the Bob Hope TV Shows are available

14.02 [95] The Bob Hope Comedy Special
25Oct1963  NBC Fri
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Andy Griffith
Martha Raye
Jane Russell
Connie Haines
Beryl Davis & Los Angeles Dodger stars Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale and Tommy Davis.
Highlights:
Bob pokes fun at Valachi ("He's the star of I've Got a Secret")
and Madae Nhu ("She's South Vietnam's answer to Zsa Zsa Gabor").
Jane Russell, Beryl Davis and Connie Haines perform a nightclub act.
Sketches with Martha Raye playing a Madame Poo who's just returned from a world trip.
Andy Griffith as a lovable sheriff toying with Hope.
Dodgers Sandy Koufax, Tommy Davis and Don Drysdale singing "We're In the Money".

[--] Nov1963 no details/possibly postponed due to the Assassination of President Kennedy
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14.03 [96] Chrysler presents The Bob Hope Special
13Dec1963 NBC Fri
Guest hosts Bing Crosby and Jack Benny
Guests
Danny Thomas
Juliet Prowse
Highlights:
Bing Crosby and Jack Benny pinch-hit for the ailing Bob Hope
Bing Crosby presents the TV debut of his Christmas perennial anthem "Do You Hear What I Hear?"
Danny Thomas and Juliet Prowse appear in a pre-recorded segment. (From previous specials Feb 10, 1959 and April 15, 1959).
The 1963 Look All-America Football Team, look for Dick Butkus and Carl Eller and six football "queens".

14.04 [97] The Bob Hope Comedy Special
USO Xmas Show from Turkey, Greece, Crete, Libya, and aboard the USS Shangri-La.
17Jan1964  NBC Fri
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Tuesday Weld
Jerry Colonna
Anita Bryant
John Bubbles
Phillip Crosby
Peter Leeds
The Earl Twins
Miss USA, Michelle Metrinko
Les Brown and His Band of Renown
Highlights:
The service men join Hope's crew singing "Silent Night".

*Note: Bob Hope stars in the film "A Global Affair" released January 30, 1964.

14.05 [98] The Bob Hope Comedy Special
14Feb1964  NBC Fri
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Anne Bancroft
Sergio Franchi
Janet Leigh
Julie London
Highlights:
Bob's monologue touches on smoking, the Beatles, golf, President Johnson and Red China.
Hope and Sergio Franchi as a pair of Italian tenors singing their reactions to an automobile crash.
(Hope did this skit years ago with Nelson Eddy).
Hope as the First Man and Anne Bancroft as his wife, the country's first lady president.
Hope as a man reaching his "Busting Point" as a result of carrying on with his wife (Janet Leigh) and his girlfriend (also Janet Leigh).
Sergio Franchi sings "Marta".

14.06 [99] The Bob Hope Comedy Special
17Apr1964  NBC Fri
Directed by Jack Shea
Written by Lester White, John Rapp, Mort Lachman and Bill Larkin
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Tony Randall
Martha Raye
Jack Jones
Synopsis:
The first 45 minutes is all entertainment, opening with a Hope monolog. Martha and Bob team up for a spoof of the movie Tom Jones,
and Tony and Jack join in to present a new act--The Japanese Beatles. In the awards portion,
TV Guide publisher James T. Quirk and Bob make the presentations in Hollywood.

[--] 5th Annual TV Guide Awards
"The Fugitive" won favorite new show.
David Janssen won favorite male star of the year.
This is the fifth Annual TV Guide Awards by publisher James T. Quirk.
Arthur A. Shulman assistant to the publisher does the honors in New York.

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