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Season 16 (NBC) (1965-66)
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)
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UCLA Film and Television Archive / Writers Guild of America (wga)

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NBC Wednesdays

16.01 [107] The Bob Hope Special [Season Premiere]
29Sep1965 NBC Wed
Written by Mort Lachman and Bill Larkin, John Rapp and Lester White, Charles Lee and Gig Henry with Norman Sullivan as consultant.
Directed by Jack Shea
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Andy Williams
Dinah Shore
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Beatrice Lillie
Highlights:
Presents himself in his first comedy special of the season an hour of brittle humor and solid songs.
It's one of the best efforts for the comedian wlw is
in excellent company with guests Beatrice Lillie (who is mighty funny in a ribbing of the film, "Cat Ballou" called Tiger Ballou),
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, (who provides Hope a mean foil in a satire on astronauts).
Dinah Shore sings "Any Place I Hang My Hat".
Andy Williams solos with "The Way You Look Tonight".
There is also another obvious spoof on the James Bond theme, and Hope's usual crisp commentary on the news.
*Note: Bob Hope's first variety show of the season. Bob and his guests appear in various sketches.
Bob Hope begins his 16th season on NBC TV welcomes back Beatrice Lillie who shared the spotlight on his first TV show in 1950.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Dinah Shore also starred in the 1950 debut are on hand as well as special guest Andy Williams.

16.02 [108] The Bob Hope Special
20Oct1965 NBC Wed (52 min)
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
James Garner
Carol Lawrence
Phyllis Diller
amd the We Five
Highlights:
James Garner as a sharecropper trying to get federal aid in a skit with Bob as the target of a Senator Blohard's war on poverty.
Bob and Phyllis are slightly mad in "The Accumulator" a takeoff on the movie "The Collector".
Carol Lawrence does a big rhythm dance number and joins Bob in a two-part college campus skit involving unkempt protest students.
The We Five perform.

[--] Chrysler Presents: Russian Roulette
17Nov1965 NBC Wed
with Bob Hope, Jill St. John, Victor Buono, Don Rickles and others.

16.03 [109] The Bob Hope Special
15Dec1965 NBC Wed
Directed by Mort Lachman & Bill Larkin
Written by Lester White, John Rapp, Mort Lachman, Gig Henry, Bill Larkin, Charles Lee.
Director of photography Alan Stensvold
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Jack Benny
Janet Leigh
Nancy Wilson
Special Guest Star: Bing Crosby
with Les Brown and His Band of Renown.
Highlights:
Nancy Wilson sings "This Dream" and "I'll Only Miss Him, When I Think of Him".
Busiest of all, of course, is Hope who plays Santa Claus. with a squad of "elves."
A sketch in which he meets Benny (who is at his Scrooge best) who wants to take over Santa's "racket."
Bing Crosby sings "Do You Hear What I Hear?"
Old friends Bing Crosby and Jack Benny turn up to heckle Hope. Benny appears as an unlikely crook
who wants a take over the Santa Claus racket, and Bing has trouble Growing Bob out of his Palm Springs'
home in the two major sketches of the show. Also, Bob plays a movie star eyeing politics in a take - off
with Janet Leigh, and Bing Crosby and Nancy Wilson handle the vocalizing between skits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ685c2zwcI

16.04 [110] The Bob Hope Christmas Special  (From Thailand, Wake Island, Guam & the Philippines)
Sponsored by Chrysler
19Jan1966 NBC Wed (90 min in color)

Directed by Mort Lachman & Bill Larkin
Written by Lester White, John Rapp, Mort Lachman, Gig Henry, Bill Larkin, Charles Lee.
Director of photography Alan Stensvold
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Jack Jones
Joey Heatherton
Kaye Stevens
Jerry Colonna
Anita Bryant
Peter Leeds
The Nicholas Brothers
Miss USA, Diana Lynn Batts
Special Guest: Carroll Baker
with Les Brown and his Band of Renown.
Highlights:
Joey does a wild watusi with sailors on a carrier.
Jack Jones sings to a nurse in Vietnam.
Carroll Baker and Bob sing "Will You Still be Mine".
Kaye sings "Take Me Out to the Ballgame".
*Note: Highlights of Bob Hope's 12-day tour of the Orient, to entertain American troops.

*Note: Bob Hope appears as a guest on "The Dean Martin Comedy Hour" 03Feb66.

16.05 [111] The Bob Hope Special
16Feb1966 NBC Wed
Written by Lester White, John Rapp, Mort Lachman, Bill Larkin, Charles Lee and Gig Henry
Directed by Jack Shea
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Danny Thomas
Martha Raye
Jill St. John
The Righteous Brothers
Les Brown and his Band of Renown
Also featured Peter Leeds, Mike Ross, Bob Jellison, Phil Arnold, Kathryn Minner.
Highlights:
Martha Raye and Bob do a "Batman" takeoff in which Martha is Batgirl and Bob is Lobsterman who tries to catch her with a giant flyswatter.
A spoof on the movie "The Cincinnati Kid" finds Danny Thomas as the Toledo Kid beating Bob at poker.
Bob "Wheels" Hope is a motorcycle demon in Heck's Angels with Jill St. John.
The Righteous Brothers perform "You Are My Soul and Inspiration" and "Turn On Your Lovelight".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbAvwv-UubU

*Note: Bob Hope appears in the campy film "The Oscar" released on March 4th 1966.

16.06 [112] The Bob Hope Special
16Mar1966 NBC Wed
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Lee Marvin
Phyllis Diller
Jonathan Winters
Pete Fountain (jazzman)
Highlights:
Lee and Bob do a snoot on westerns, with Bob as ''El Crummo," a sinister bandit thief, and Lee as "Slim Premise," a sissified gunslinger.

March 23, 1966 preempted for "The Julie Andrews Special", with Gene Kelly and the New Christy Minstrels.

16.06 [113] The Bob Hope Special
13Apr1966 NBC Wed
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Phyllis Diller
Pete Fountain
Jonathan Winters
Lee Marvin
Synopsis:
Bob's guests for this variety show are comedians Jonathan Winters and Phyllis Diller, clarinetist Pete Fountain and actor Lee Marvin.
Sketches include “Pagoda Place,” after remarrying a wealthy Japanese woman learns that her husband is still alive;
“The Putrid Six” stars Bob as a sinister bandit chief and Lee as a sissy gangster with Johnine Lee as Chiquita;
and a police lieutenant (Bob) investigates Oscar nominee Rock Surly (Jonathan), who is suspected of murdering the other contenders.

*Note: Bob Hope hosts "The 38th Annual Academy Awards Show" on April 18th, 1966 and Bob also is an Honorary Gold Medal recipient.
*Note: Bob Hope hosts "The Best on Record" NBC awards show on May 16, 1966.
*Note: Bob Hope appears in the motion picture "Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!" released June 1, 1966.
*Note: Bob Hope appears on "The Merv Griffin Show" on August 2, 1966. Also guests Jack Carter, Donna Jean Young and Linda Bennett.

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