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Season 18 (NBC) (1967-68)
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 Wednesdays

18.01 [119] The Bob Hope Special [Season Premiere]
20Sep1967 NBC Wed (50 min)
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Jimmy Durante
Jack Jones
Phyllis Diller
Don Rickles
Kaye Stevens
Dan Rowan & Dick Martin.
Cameo appearances from
Danny Thomas, Don Adams, Paul Lynde, Buddy Hackett, Rudy Vallee.
Highlights:
Fun of Vaudeville with Bob, Jimmy Durante and Jack Jones recreate the routines of Clayton, Jackson and Durante,
singing most of Jimmy's perennials.
Jimmy Durante solos with "A Real Piano Player" and "Jimmy the Well-Dressed Man".
Bob goes back to his days on the boards with partner Louise Troxell, a Gracie Allen type, played by Kaye Stevens,
and then shifts to a heckler's routing with Dick Martin and Dan Rowan.
Dolled up in a paper dress, Phyllis Diller comes on for her standup bit about clothes and husband Fang.
Jack Jones croons a medley of songs including "Moon River".

18.02 [120] The Bob Hope Special
16Oct1967 NBC Mon (52 min).
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Debbie Reynolds
Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme
Phyllis Diller
Highlights:
Debbie Reynolds does impressions of Hollywood ladies with political potential.
Phyllis Diller wants to run for political office against Debbie Dimples.
Bob joins Steve and Eydie for sketches about a Hollywood divorce triangle and three wigged-out hippies.
Steve sings "It's Got to Be Me".
Eydie sings "When the World Was Young".
Spoof of "The Flying Nun".
Debbie Reynolds does a song-and-dance from her night club act that includes,
"Sunny Side of the Street", "Lullaby of Broadway" and "Me and My Shadow".

*Note: Register Republic states that this is the second of 9 programs of "The Bob Hope Show" for the season.

[--] Chrysler Presents: Shoot-In at NBC
08Nov1967 NBC Wed
with Bob Hope,
Guests:
Steve Allen, Jack Carter, Wally Cox, Bill Dana, Don Rickles,
Danny Thomas, Rod Cameron, Richard Deacon, Buddy Hackett, Paul Lynde, Jan Murray,
Dan Rowan & Dick Martin, Bobbie Gentry, Jack Palance
TV Detectives/ Spies:
Raymond Burr (Perry Mason/Ironside), Don Adams (Get Smart),
TV Cowboys:
Jack Kelly (Maverick), James Drury (The Virginian), Doug McClure (Trampas in The Virginian),
Cameron Mitchell (The High Chaparral), Dale Robertson (Wells Fargo),
 Forrest Tucker (F Troop),  Larry Storch (F Troop)
Highlights:
A comical blend of "High Noon" and high camp as Bob arranges a showdown between cowboys and comedians.

18.03 [121] The Bob Hope Special
29Nov1967 NBC Wed (52 min)
Directed by Jack Shea
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
David Janssen
Elke Sommer
Jack Jones
The Kids Next Door
Lew Alcindor
Football All-Americans
O. J. Simpson is introduced as the star USC running back.
Highlights:
Jack Jones sings "She Loves Me" and "Impossible Dream".
Elke Sommers sings German, Spanish, Oriental and Italian bits in a fancy international cabaret production number.
The Kids Next Door perform "Mame".
Bob, David and Jack play members of the UCLA football team in a sketch with Janssen as star Gary Beban
and Bob as a prep school recuit who won't suit up.
Big finale with "Thanks for the Memory" with a serious Hope plea for college contributions.
Bob Hope Special taped on the campus of UCLA.
Taped at Pauley Pavilion

18.04 [122] The Bob Hope Special
14Dec1967 NBC Thursday (52 min)
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Don Adams
Ernest Borgnine
Jerry Colonna
Wally Cox
Joyce Jamison
Paul Lynde
Phil Silvers
The International Children's Choir
Highlights:
"Miracle on the Freeway". Bob and his guests take a satiric look at Christmas present.
Santa Claus (Bob Hope) goes to jail for causing a big traffic jam on the Hollywood Freeway.
Cop Phil Silvers makes the arrest, Don Adams is the prosecuting attorney and psychiatrist Paul Lynde
checks Santa to see if the fat man's senses are all there.
Joyce Jamison is the perplexed Mrs. Claus. Hope's cellmates are Ernest Borgnine and Wally Cox,
two brains plotting a jail break, and the crazy judge is old Hope buddy, Jerry Colonna.
And in the closing moments, The International Children's Choir sings "Santa Claus is Coming to Town".

18.05 [123] The Bob Hope Special
18Jan1968 NBC Thursday (88 min)
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Raquel Welch
Barbara McNair
Elaine Dunn
Phil Crosby
Les Brown Orchestra
Miss World (Peru's Madeleine Hartog Bel)
The troupe visits the aircraft carriers USS Coral Sea and USS Ranger; they perform a command performance for the
King and Queen of Thailand and spend Christmas at Long Binh, where Bob trades quips with
South Vietnam's Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky.
Highlights:
Barbara McNair sings "I'm a Woman" and "I Can't Stop Loving You".
Phil Crosby sings "It's All Right With Me" and "Let There Be Love".
Raquel Welch sings "You're an Old Smoothie".
Elaine Dunn sings "To Be or Not to Be in Love" and "Song-and-Dance Man".
Bob Hope sings "You Make Me Feel So Young".

18.06 [124] The Bob Hope Special:  Benefit Salute to the USO
12Feb1968 NBC Monday
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Bing Crosby
Pearl Bailey
Barbara Eden
The U.S. Military Academy Glee Club
Les Brown Orchestra
Highlights:
A boxing match between Marciano and Chicken Delight (Bob Hope).
Bing Crosby sings "Thanks for the Memory".
Bob Hope sings "White Christmas".
Both join in for songs from their "Road" movies.
Pearl sings "Hello, Dolly!"
The Cadet Glee Club perform.
*Note:
A benefit salute to the USO. First event held in the new Madison Square Garden.
Pearl Bailey was starring in Broadway's "Hello, Dolly!" at the time.
The Bob Hope Variety Special was the first event in New York City's new Madison Square Garden.

*Note: "The Danny Thomas Hour" was pre-empted for Bob's special.

18.07 [125] The Bob Hope Special
20Mar1968 NBC Wed
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Paul Lynde
Arnold Palmer
Anne Bancroft
Lou Rawls
Jill St. John
Highlights:
Bob comments on the New Hampshire Primary, in his opening monologue on income taxes and the forthcoming Oscars.
Hope gives his heart to socialite Anne Bancroft and is surprised when his fiance Jill St. John show up.
Jill St. John as Bonnie and Bob as Killer Clod a bashful lover and bank robber.
Lou Rawls sings.
Bob kids around with Arnold Palmer.

*Note: Bob Hope appears in the motion picture "The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell" released May 8, 1968.

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