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Season 27 (NBC) (1976-77)
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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*Note: (September 27th, 1976) Bob Hope appears on "The Captain and Tennille Show".

27.01 [181] Bob Hope's World of Comedy
29Oct1976 NBC Fri (2 hrs)
Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Lucille Ball
Don Rickles
Norman Lear
Neil Simon
Lots of highlights and the original commercials.
A tribute to the comedian's 26 years on television. The two-hour special will highlight Hope's TV programs with spoofs on the "Road" movies,
a 1950 telecast featuring Frank Sinatra and Bea Lillie and a hospital sketch with David Niven.
Comedy writers Norman Lear and Neil Simon join Bob for this two-hour retrospective featuring hilarious excerpts from Bob's television shows.
"Bob Hope's World of Comedy" was a 2-hour special.

*Note: (November 6, 1976) Bob Hope appears in "An All-Star Tribute to John Wayne".
*Note: (November 9th, 1976) Bob Hope appears on "The Merv Griffin Show" .
*Note: (November 21, 1976) Bob Hope appears in the documentary, "NBC: The First Fifty Years" .
A celebration of 50 years of NBC broadcasting in radio and television, since first going on the airwaves on November 15, 1926.
*Note: (November 28, 1976) Bob Hope appears in the documentary, "CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years".

27.02 [182] The Bob Hope Special
13Dec1976 NBC Mon
Guests:
John Wayne
Kate Jackson
Neil Sedaka
Dyan Cannon
Lola Falana
the 1976 AP All America Football Team
Miss America Dorothy Kathleen Benham
Miss Teenage America Rebecca Ann Reid
the Tournament of Roses Queen.
Look for future NFLers Dennis Thurman, Tommy Kramer, Ricky Bell, and Tony Dorsett.
Highlights:
A chat with John Wayne at a "bull sale" in Casa Grande, Arizona.
Neil Sedaka sings a medley of his hits.
Spoofs of "Charlie's Angels" in "Santa's Angels".
Bob plays Funzie in a spoof of "Happy Days".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOluE2DcY7Y

*Note: (Oct 3, 1977) Bob Hope is a guest on
"Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme From This Moment On... Cole Porter".

27.03 [183] Bob Hope's All-Star Comedy Spectacular from Lake Tahoe
21Jan1977 NBC Fri (90 min)
Producer Sheldon Keller
Writer Gig Henry, Charles Lee, Jeffrey Barron, Howard Albrecht, Sol Weinstein, Katherine Green, Sheldon Keller
Director Dick McDonough
Host Bob Hope
Guests are
Dean Martin
Sammy Davis Jr.
Ann-Margret
Mac Davis
Charo
Super Bowl quarterbacks Ken Stabler and Fran Tarkenton,
Muhammad Ali, Howard Cosell and Red Buttons.
Highlights:
Dean Martin sings "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face".
Sammy Davis Jr. sings "What I Did For Love".
Bob Hope and Sammy Davis, Jr. perform a soft-shoe routine to "Tea For Two".
Ann-Margret and Bob duet to "One".
Satirical takeoffs include, "Rocky Jr." with Muhammad Ali
and "A Star is Torn" with Ann-Margret decked out in a wild, frizzy hairdo as Barbra Streisand.
Bob Hope plays Rhett Butler and Charo plays Scarlett in a silly "Gone With the Wind" spoof.
A celebrity roast for "King Kong".

27.04 [184] Bob Hope's All Star Comedy Tribute to Vaudeville
25Mar1977 NBC Fri (90 min)

Host Bob Hope
Guests:
Lucille Ball
Ben Vereen
Bernadette Peters
Jack Albertson
Jimmie Walker
The Captain & Tennille
introducing Vivian Reed of Broadway's "Bubbling Brown Sugar".
with Les Brown and his band of Renown.
Highlights:
Lucille Ball is a wacky doctor and has her patient Bob all bandaged up!
Lucille Ball and Ben Vereen do a tribute to Sophie Tucker and Bert Williams.
A musical salute to vaudeville with tributes to Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor.

*Note: (April 26, 1977) Bob Hope appears in Ann-Margret's tv movie "Rhinestone Cowgirl".
*Note: (May 31, 1977) Bob Hope appears on "The Barbara Walters Special". Others on the show are Bing Crosby and Redd Foxx.

Trivia: Bob Hope was hoping to start production of "The Road to the Fountain of Youth" in England this summer with his buddy Bing Crosby.
"Crosby's already invested money in the script, and you know him, he's not about to blow an investment", quipped Hope,
who actually is quite concerned that Bing still remains in the hospital nearly three weeks after his 20-foot-fall from a Pasadena concert stage.
Also to be in the film is old "Road" partner Dorothy Lamour and a new part for Bernadette Peters.

Bob Hope (born 29-May-1903 / died 27-Jul-2003 Age 100)
Bing Crosby (born 03-May-1903 / died 14-Oct-1977 Age74)

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