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Season 15 (NBC) (1964-65)
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

15.01 [100] The Bob Hope Comedy Special [Season premiere]
25Sep1964 NBC Fri (60min)

Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Dean Martin
Phyllis Diller
Special Guest Stars: Jack Benny, Milton Berle
with Les Brown and His Band of Renown.
Highlights:
Dean Martin performs "Everybody Loves Somebody".
Phyllis and Bob do a slapstick sketch on TV monster shows,
Bob portrays The Bat, an out-of-work ghoul constantly at war with his prickly tongued wife Cynthia Witch (Phyllis)
and The Atomic Chicken, a successful TV boogeyman (Milton).
Jack Benny and Phyllis perform a skit of a couple seeing a marriage counselor played by Bob.
Milton and Bob crack political jokes right and left.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkntHZ91WJI

[--] Chrysler Presents: Have Girls Will Travel with Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Jack Benny, Rhonda Fleming, and others.
16Oct1964 NBC Fri

15.02 [101] The Bob Hope Thanksgiving Special
20Nov1964 NBC Fri
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Richard Chamberlain
Annette Funicello
Donald O'Connor
Stella Stevens
Trini López
with Les Brown and His Band of Renown.
Highlights
Annette Funicello sings "The Clyde".
Trini López sings "Jezebel".
Bob & Trini duet on "Hello Dolly!"
Sketch with Bob and Stella demonstrating an in-flight floor show.
Donald O'Connor as a demon knife-thrower and Bob as a demon target.
Richard Chamberlain as a Nipponese gunslinger in a comedic Japanese Western skit.
"The Young at Heart" background music by Les Brown and His Orchestra.

15.03 [102] The Bob Hope Show
18Dec1964 NBC Fri
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Nancy Wilson
James Garner
Martha Raye
Kathryn Crosby
The Beach Boys.
Highlights:
The Beach Boys perform "Dance, Dance, Dance".
Nancy Wilson sings "I'm Beginning to See the Light" and "The Music That Makes Me Dance".
James Garner plays Santa Claus who is shot down over Moscow.
Martha and Bob do a takeoff on "Pitiful Place" (Peyton Place).
Bob spoofs TV commercials as "King of Commercials".

15.04 [103] The Bob Hope Show
(Annual Tour Overseas: Southeast Asia: Korea, Guam, the Philippines, Okinawa, Vietnam).
15Jan1965 NBC Fri
Directed by Jack Shea
Written by Mort Lachman, Bill Larkin, Lester White, John Rapp, Gig Henry and Charles Lee
Editor, Hugo Grimaldi / Director of photography, Alan Stensvold
Music, Les Brown
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Jill St. John
Janis Paige
Anna Maria Alberghetti
Jerry Colonna
Anita Bryant
John Bubbles
Ann Sidney (Miss World/Miss Australia)
Peter Leeds
Tony Hope
Highlights:
Jill St. John twisting "The Swim" with eager GI's from the audience.
Janis Paige performs a dance number of "The Best is Yet to Come".
Anita Bryant sings "Hello, Dolly!".
Anna Maria Alberghetti rendering a medley from "Carnival".
Ann Sidney (Miss World 1964) joins Bob in a duet of "Oh, You Beautiful Doll".
Comedy bits by Jerry Colonna, John Bubbles and Peter Leeds.
Glimpses of the party the King and Queen of Thailand threw for the cast.

Bob Hope: Hello, advisers, Here I am at Bien Hoa. That's Vietnamese for "DUCK!" Nice to be here in Sniper Valley.
You all remember Vietnam? It's that place Huntley and Brinkley are always talking about.
We're on our way to Saigon and I hope we do as well as Henry Cabot Lodge. He got out.
And I understand the enemy is very close, but with my act they always are.
This is terrible country for a coward. Can you imagine not knowing which way to run?
You've heard of the NBC peacock? You're looking at the Far Eastern chicken.

15.05 [104] The Bob Hope Comedy Special
12Feb1965 NBC Fri
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Carroll Baker
Johnny Carson
Frankie Avalon
Louis Prima
Jack Jones
Gia Malone
Sam Butera and The Witnesses
Highlights:
Bob Hope interviews Johnny Carson who's playing a celebrity all decked out in a spotted leopard coat.
A take-off on "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." with sexy Carroll Baker.
Jack Jones sings and twists with Bob.
The Louis Prima group performs "That Old Black Magic".

15.06 [105] The Bob Hope Special:  Yuletide Tour of Vietnam
26Mar1965 NBC Fri
This special program of additional highlights of Bob Hope's Yuletide tour of Vietnam. Hope includes new monologue,
some studio guests and additional highlights from six shows.
Also shown will be activities during four tension-filled, top security days traveling through South Vietnam.
Members of the troupe include Janis Paige, Jill St. John, Anita Bryant, Anna Maria Alberghetti,
Jerry Colonna, John Bubbles, Ann Sidney and Les Brown.
Highlights:
More footage on Hope's Southeast Asia tour last Christmas. There are shots of the Pleiku raid and the resulting damage,
plus newsreel footage of Marines being entertained in Okinawa and arriving in Viet Nam.
Cartoonist Bill Mauldin gives his version of the February 7th Pleiku attack and sees films of his son, Bill Jr., a pilot at Pleiku.
Bob quips about the astronauts, the Russian cosmonauts and the upcoming Hollywood Oscars in his opening monologue.

A full hour special devoted to added film footage of Bob Hope's recent entertainment tour of United States fighting men
in Southeast Asia will be seen.
Having shot over thirty thousand feet of film on the Vietnam Christmas trip. A sequel episode was set up to air in March.

*Note: Bob Hope hosts "The 37th Annual Academy Awards" on April 5th, 1965.

15.07 [106] The Bob Hope Special [Last variety show of the season]
16Apr1965 NBC Fri (52 min)
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Frankie Avalon (Singer)
Pete Fountain (Clarinetist)
Nancy Wilson (Singer)
Gina Lollobrigida (Actress)
Highlights:
Gina Lollobrigida sings "Quando, Quando".
Bob and Gina do an Italian takeoff of "My Fair Lady".
Frankie Avalon sings and plays the role of a bum with Bob.
Nancy Wilson sings "Who Can I Turn To".
Pete Fountain performs "Georgia on My Mind".

*Note: Bob Hope stars in the motion picture "I'll Take Sweden" released June 2, 1965.

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