16Nov1966 WNBC Wed (52 min)
.Directed by Jack Shea
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Bing Crosby
Miss Vietnam, Bach Yen (aka White Sparrow)
and a group of rising Hollywood starlets billed as "The New Faces of Hollywood" — among them:
Donna Danton, Marilyn Devon, Marianne Gordon, Melodie Johnson, Chris Noel,
Eileen O'Neill, Susan St. James, Venita Wolf, Eleanor Audley, Sara Taft
with: Robert Foulk, Peter Leeds, Chris Noel
Les Brown and His Band of Renown
Highlights:
Bach Yen sings "What Now, My Love?" (in French and in English) and "Dem Dong" a folk song.
Bing sings "In the Cool Cool of the Evening" and "Pennies From Heaven".
Sketch with Bob as a wealthy Texan and Bing as a snooty Englishman who enter their prize ponies in the Grand National.
Also a parody of "Fantastic Voyage" called "Fantastic Stomach" in which a miniaturized Bob and Bing
penetrate the Vast Waistline to find out what's ailing Jackie Gleason.
17.04 [116] The Bob Hope Christmas Special (Filmed in Acapulco)
14Dec1966 NBC Wed
Highlights:
Film clips of celebrities like Claudine Auger, Dolores Del Rio, Glenn Ford, Michael Caine, Gina Lollobrigida,
Merle Oberson, James Mason, Elke Sommer, Jayne Mansfield at the Mexican Film Festival.
A sequence in which Bob and Mexican comedian Cantinflas fight an imaginary bull.
Other guests include Eva Renzi, Emily Cranz, Freddie Guzman and Teddy Stauffer.
Bob combs "bikini land" and visits an after-dark hot spot, Tequila A-Go-Go.
17.05 [117] The Bob Hope Special (25th visit to the Far East visiting the GIs)
18Jan1967 NBC Wed (80 min)
Hope Enterprises / Executive producer, Bob Hope / Director, Mort Lachman
Writers, Lester White, John Rapp, Mort Lachman, Gig Henry, Bill Larkin, Charles Lee
Editor, Igo Kanter / Director of photography, Alan Stensvold
consultant, Norman Sullivan
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Billy Graham
Phyllis Diller
Anita Bryant
Vic Damone
Joey Heatherton
Anna Kashfi
Diana Shelton
Rita Feria (Miss World)
The Korean Kittens.
Appearances by Johnny Grant, Diane McBain. Tippi Hedrin makes a short appearance.
Les Brown and his Band of Renown.
Skit with girls protesting Hope’s treatment of them.
Highlights:
Vic Damone sings "More" and "Strangers in the Night".
Anita Bryant sings "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" aboard the carrier Bennington.
Bob and Phyllis crack jokes on the Franklin D. Roosevelt carrier.
Korean Kittens sing "What’d I Say".
Hope and Joey Heatherton do a song and dance.
Joey sings "Spanish Flea".
Billy Graham gives pep talk to soldiers.
Dolores Hope sings "White Christmas".
Korean Kittens sing "What'd I Say".
Diane Shelton does acrobatic act.
Appearances by Johnny Grant, Diane McBain. Tippi Hedrin makes a short appearance. Skit with girls protesting Hope’s treatment of them.
Anita Bryant sings "Silent Night". Troupe visits wounded. Hope asks General Leo Wald why we must win.
Footage of the copters, "Jolly Green Giants" along with film of the wounded coming out of evacuation planes.
On view are Cardinal Spellman, Billy Graham, Stuart Symington, Tippi Hedren and Chris Noel.
Hope asks General Leo Wald why we must win.
17.06 [118] The Bob Hope Special
15Feb1967 NBC Wed
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Tony Bennett
Carol Lawrence
Jill St. John
Shirley Eaton (British Actress)
The pop music scene and marriage in the US and Britain is spoofed in song and sketches.
Highlights:
Tony Bennett take a crack at a rock 'n roll medley including songs like "Winchester Cathedral, "Wack, Wack," and "The Eggplant That Ate Chicago."
Carol Lawrence dances to "I'm a Brass Band".
England's Shirley Eaton and Jill St. John appear with Hope in sketches on "Our Man in Saigon" and British marriages.
Tony sings "The Lady's in Love" and "She's Funny That Way".
[--] The Bob Hope Special
23Mar1967 NBC Thursday
pre-empted for "Julie Andrews TV Special".
*Note: Bob Hope appears in the motion picture "Eight on the Lam" released April 4, 1967.
*Note" Bob Hope hosts "The 39th Academy Awards" on April 10, 1967.
*Note: Bob Hope hosts "The Best on Record" NBC awards show on May 24, 1967.
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