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Season 23 (NBC) (1972-73)
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

*Note: Bob Hope is in the film "Cancel My Reservation" released September 21, 1972.

23.01 [159] The Bob Hope Special [Season 23 premiere]
05Oct1972 NBC Thu (52 min)
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
 Richard & Karen Carpenter: The Carpenters
David Cassidy
Alexis Smith
Mark Spitz
Peter Leeds
Bobby Fischer.
Highlights:
The Carpenters sing "Top of the World" and "A Song For You".
David Cassidy sings "Rock Me".
Chess king Bobby Fischer trades quips with Bob over his big summer win.
Mark Spitz talks about his Olympic races and plays a dentist treating patient Bob Hope. (Spitz received a standing ovation for his efforts).
Alexis Smith tries sketch material in "The Road to Sacramento" playing a movie star campagning for governor against her movie star husband Hope.
The Gold Medal Winner meets the Oscar Loser.

23.02 [160] The Bob Hope Special: Christmas Special
10Dec1972 NBC Sun (52 min).
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Redd Foxx
Phyllis Diller
Elke Sommer
Gloria Loring
The AP All-American Football Team.
Highlights:
Redd Foxx visits Bob Hope's house as Santa Claus.
Bob and Elke are lured to entertain in the lounge of a 747 in a satirical sketch.
Members of the Associated Press' All-American football team take a bow in a portion of the show filmed in New York.

23.03 [161] The Bob Hope Special: USO Xmas Show
From Vietnam, Thailand, Korea, Japan, Shemya Island, Diego Garcia,
Philippines, Guam, Wake Island, and aboard the USS Midway.
17Jan1973 NBC Wed (80 min)
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Redd Foxx
Lola Falana
Roman Gabriel
Dolores Hope
Rudy Cardenas
Fran Jeffries
The American Beauties
Miss World, Belinda Green.

23.04 [162] The Bob Hope Special
08Feb1973 NBC Thu (52 min)
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Jack Benny
Red Buttons
Jerry Colonna
Don Rickles
Tony Randall
Jan Murray
George Foreman (heavyweight boxing champion of the world)
Cameos by
Danny Thomas, Wally Cox, Jack Carter, Joe Flynn, Shecky Greene,
Steve Allen, Arte Johnson, Ken Murray, Merv Griffin and Howard Cosell.
Highlights:
The current energy crisis is the work of a mad scientist (Hope) planning to hold the world for ransom.
Along the way, he runs into Jack Benny, Don Rickles, Tony Randall, Jerry Colonna, Red Buttons,
Jack Carter, Jan Murray, Wally Cox and Danny Thomas.

23.05 [163] The Bob Hope Special: New Orleans Mardi Gras Parade
07Mar1973 NBC Wed (52 min)
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Phil Harris
Al Hirt
Pete Fountain.
Highlights:
Bob Hope in New Orleans presides as Bacchus over the Mardi Gras parade.
Bob builds a show around the famous "Fat Tuesday" (that's what Mardi Gras really means) celebration.
The Dixieland Bands and floats in the parade and the outdoor dancing in Bourbon St, with a visit to nightclubs
featuring Pete Fountain and Al Hirt.

*Note: 04Apr1973 (rerun 28Oct73)
Ann-Margret - When You're Smiling Special
On stage in Las Vegas
Ann-Margret is joined by Bob Hope and George Burns for an hour featuring much of her night-club act and a musical takeoff
on the infamous Lady in Red - the woman who wooed John Dillinger to his violent death at the hands of the law.
Singers: The Firm of Hodges, James and Smith. The Walter Painter Dancers.
Highlights:
Ann-Margret sings "When You're Smiling", "Everything I've Got Belongs to You" and a concert medley.
Bob & George duet on "Who Taught Her Everything She Knows?"
Ann-Margret, Firm and Dancers perform "Land of a Thousand Dancers".
Ann-Margret and the Dancers perform "Take a Little One-Step" and "The Nights Are Six Months Long".

23.06 [164] The Bob Hope Special
19Apr1973 NBC Thu
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Milton Berle
Joey Heatherton (singer-dancer)
Glen Campbell (Country star)
Doodles Weaver
The Supremes
and the celebrated Evelyn Hans Dog act.
Highlights:
An old burlesque sketch "The Transformer" heads the list with Hope playing the doctor,
Joey Heatherton his wandering wife and Milton Berle, the boyfriend.
Glen Campbell sings "I Knew Jesus Before He Was a Superstar".

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