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NBC
21.01 [145] The Bob Hope Special : Bob Hope looks at Women's Lib.
05Oct1970 NBC Mon (52 min)
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Connie Stevens, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Virginia Graham, Kaye Ballard,
Totie Fields, Sheila MacRae, Nanette Fabray, Imogene Coca,
Phyllis Diller, Edie Adams, Jo Anne Worley, Ruth Buzzi, Martha Raye,
Teresa Graves, Minnie Pearl, Nancy Walker, Irene Ryan.
Highlights:
When we meet Hope, he is doing the chores in his kitchen. Virginia Graham, one of the 17 lady guests, comes to find out why he has
disappeared from television. In flashbacks, we see his specials being taken from him by Phyllis Diller, the news with a new
Huntley-Brinkley report (from Minnie Pearl and Irene Ryan), Ruth Buzzi as his agent, Martha Raye and Teresa Graves as his dresser and make-up man,
"Bonanza" with Kaye Ballard as Ma Cartwright and Jo Anne Worley as Hoss and Imogene Coca as Little Josie.
There's a new player on the Rams (Zsa Zsa Gabor) and Mrs. Sarnoff, the head of the network, is Nanette Fabray.
The final humiliation for Bob is when he has to dress as a rabbit and go to work in a club where the ladies (Sheila MacRae, Edie Adams and Connie Stevens)
make passes and paw him. Totie Fields and Nancy Walker complete the list of women against Bob.
21.02 [146] The Bob Hope Special: 3rd Annual Bringing Back Vaudeville Show
16Nov1970 NBC Mon
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Lucille Ball
Danny Thomas
George Burns
Tom Jones
Lisa Miller
with Les Brown and His Band of Renown.
Highlights:
Bob plays a comic heckled by Danny and a hypnotist who takes Lucy out of the audience to be his stooge.
George does a Burns-and-Allen routine with his young protege Lisa Miller.
Bob, Lucy and Danny play small fry auditioning for Gus Edwards' "School Days" a vaudeville classic.
Tom Jones sings "Cabaret", "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?"
Danny sings "It All Depends on You".
Bob and Tom duet on "You Gotta Have Heart", "Love Is Just Around the Corner", "Don't Give Up the Ship"
and "We Joined the Navy to See the World".
21.03 [147] The Bob Hope Christmas Special
07Dec1970 NBC Mon (52 min)
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Jack Benny
Dorothy Lamour
Elke Sommer
Engelbert Humperdinck
and the Look Magazine All-American Football Team.
with Les Brown and His Band of Renown
Highlights:
Jack Benny scores in the evening's top sketch, playing Hope's neighbor, and conning Bob out of car, house, wine cellar and tuxedo as Ski Nose leaves for Vietnam.
Benny also plays Elke Sommer's fiance in "Three for Breakfast", in which husband Hope suddenly turns up after a seven-year absence.
Dorothy Lamour turns up as Mrs. Santa Claus, ready to make her first Christmas trip and butler Hope waits on an impoverished Engelbert Humperdinck in the family castle.
Bob's Christmas Special which includes a sketch about Santa Claus and Women's Lib.
*Note: Elke Sommer was a last minute replacement for Claudia Cardinale.
21.04 [148] The Bob Hope Christmas Show: 20th Annual Overseas Trip
from England, West Germany, the Mediterranean, Thailand, Vietnam, Korea and Alaska.
14Jan1971 NBC Thu (84 min)
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Ursula Andress
Johnny Bench
Lola Falana
Redd Foxx
Cyb Barnstable
Patricia Barnstable
Gloria Loring (singer)
Bobbi Martin (singer)
The Golddiggers
and Jennifer Hosten, Miss World 1971.
Highlights:
Hope's 20th annual overseas trip from England, West Germany, the Mediterranean, Thailand, Vietnam, Korea and Alaska.
*Note: (13Feb1971) Bob Hope Desert Classic (Golf Tournament)
21.05 [149] The Bob Hope Special
15Feb1971 NBC Mon (52 min)
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Bing Crosby
Petula Clark
Jo Anne Worley
Teresa Graves.
Highlights:
Petula sings "The Song Of My Life".
Bob and Petula duet on "Tea For Two".
Bing Crosby sings "Some Fine Old Chestnuts" and "Smile Awhile Today".
21.06 [150] The Bob Hope Special
05Apr1971 NBC Mon (52 min)
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Lee Marvin
Shirley Jones
Wally Cox
Sammy Davis Jr.
Joe Frazier (Boxer).
Highlights:
Bob Hope flies to Philadelphia to trade quips with World Heavyweight champ Joe Frazier. Joe jabs back with a few gags,
the best one about Muhammad Ali going down, and then sings "My Way".
Hope and Marvin play pilots for a chintsy airline.
Bob is seen as an aging child star in a "Lassie" spoof with Shirley Jones and Wally Cox.
Bob invades Sammy Davis Jr.'s nightclub dressing room in the hour's top spot, to invite him on the show and faces a mad house.
Sammy Davis Jr. performs "Me and My Shadow" and a rousing performance with "Vehicle".
Shirley Jones sings "Theme From Love Story".
*Note: Bob Hope closes out his 21st season on television with this "Comedy Tonight" Special.
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