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Season 25 (NBC) (1974-75)
Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Rina Fox, Tom Alger [#25.05 Updated July 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

25.01 [171] Ford presents The Bob Hope Special: 
Bob Hope celebrates his 25th Anniversary on NBC.
Filmed in Central Park, New York City
25Sep1974 NBC Wed (60 min)

 Written by Mort Lachman, Lester White, Mel Tolkin, Charles Lee and Gig Henry
Directed by Sid Smith
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Glen Campbell
Carol Channing
Chaka Khan & Rufus
Miss America, Shirley Cothran
Special Guest star
Jackie Gleason
with Les Brown and His Band of Renown
Highlights:
Glen Campbell plays "Bonaparte's Retreat".
Chaka Khan & Rufus perform "Tell Me Something Good".
Bob and Jackie do Noel Coward's tongue-in-cheek "Why Must the Show Go On?"
Bob and Jackie play a pair of vice cops who dress as women.
Carol Channing whistles sibilants as she tells "The Inside Story of Cicely Cisson".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We0KiBIUUA0

25.02 [172] The Bob Hope Special : Las Vegas Entertainment Awards from Caesar's Palace
20Nov1974 NBC Wed (60 min)

Producer Mort Lachman
Writers Mort Lachman, Lester White, Mel Tolkin, Charles Lee and Guy Henry.
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Paul Anka, Wayne Newton, Juliet Prowse, Sammy Davis Jr.,
Charo, Rich Little, Robert Goulet, Ann-Margret, Bobbie Gentry,
Mitzi Gaynor, Alan King, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Shecky Greene,
Marty Allen, Carol Channing and Roy Clark.
with Les Brown and His Band of Renown.

25.03 [173] The Bob Hope Christmas Special
15Dec1974 NBC Sun(60 min)
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Olivia Newton-John
Dean Martin
Dyan Cannon
The Singing Angels
and the 1974 AP All America Football Team join Bob for an hour of music and comedy.
Look for All Americans Randy White, Anthony Davis, Joe Washington, and Steve Bartkowski
Highlights:
Bob and Olivia duet to "Silver Bells".
Olivia Newton-John sings "I Honestly Love You".
Bob and Dyan in a sketch depicting life in a swinging singles unit.
Bob and Dean do a takeoff on disaster movies.

*Note: (March 5, 1975) Bob Hope Presents the Stars of Tomorrow
Spotlighting ten up-and-coming performers.

25.04 [174] The Bob Hope Special: Gillette Cavalcade of Champions
08Apr1975 NBC Tue (90 mins)
Directed by Dick McDonough
Hosted by Bob Hope and Barbara Walters
Guests:
David Janssen
Steve Allen
Dyan Cannon
Eva Gabor
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Alan King
Dean Martin
Jennifer O'Neill
Tony Randall
Award recipients are Muhammad Ali, John Havlicek, Olga Korbut, Archie Griffin, Bobby Orr, Lou Brock,
Johnny Miller, Ken Stabler, Sandra Haynie, Jimmy Connors, and Chris Evert.
In a short segment, David Janssen was co-presenter with Bob Hope an award to Lou Brock.
(aka The Muhammad Ali John Havlicek Sports Awards Show)
Highlights:
Best Achievement in Baseball: Lou Brock, Steve Garvey, Mike Marshall.
Best Achievement in Basketball: Julius Erving, John Havlicek, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Best Achievement in Football: Ken Anderson, Jim Hart, Ken Stabler
Best Achievement in Golf: Jane Blalock, Joanne Carter, Sandra Haynie, Johnny Miller, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player.
Best Achievement in Hockey: Bobby Clarke, Bobby Orr, Bernie Parent.
Best Achievement in Tennis: Chris Evert, Evonne Goolagong, Billie Jean King, Bjorn Borg, Jimmy Connors, John Newcombe.
Best Female Athlete in Other Sports: Swimmer Shirley Babshoff, Runner Mary Decker, Gymnast Olga Korbut.
Male Amateur: Archie Griffin, David Thompson, Bill Walton.
Best Male Pro Athlete in Other Sports: Muhammad Ali, Richard Petty, Johnny Rutherford.
*Note: Bob Hope also was one of four hosts for the Academy Awards on this day.

25.05 [175] The Bob Hope Special:  Sear's presents Bob Hope On-Campus
This Special was taped on the campus of UCLA Paley's Pavilion, Columbia University, Vassar,
Florida Southern College and Howard Payne University (Brownwood, Texas).
17Apr1975 NBC Thu (52 min)
Guests:
John Wayne (actor)
Aretha Franklin (singer)
Flip Wilson (comedian)
America (pop group).
with Les Brown and his Band Renown
Highlights:
Aretha Franklin performs "MacArthur Park Suite."
Bob Hope joins Aretha Franklin onstage and challenges her to apply her famous soul style to some of his old-timey songs,
including "Two Sleepy People," "Buttons and Bows," and his signature "Thanks For the Memory."
Bob Hope portrays a nerdy college student, "Sigmund Hope," who returns to school for a new semester and finds that he is
now rooming with a lothario star athlete, played by Flip Wilson. Annoyed at his new roommate's "carousing and wenching,"
he asks Dean John Wayne to separate them, only for the dean to send Hope packing off to USC.
America performs "Sister Golden Hair."

*Note: (July 3, 1975) "The Stars and Stripes Show"
with Bob Hope, Charley Pride, Juliet Prowse, John Davidson and
Anita Bryant will star on the hour telecast, the fourth taped at Oklahoma City's Convention Center.
The patriot event was founded by the Oklahoma City Association of Broadcasters.

*Note: Bob Hope is a guest on "The Irv Kupcinet Show" on August 18th, 1975, other guests include
Warren Beatty, Barry Newman, Sammy Davis Jr, Peter Bogdanovich, Carolyn Jones, Stefanie Powers and Allen Ginsberg.

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