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Season 3 (CBS) (1965-66)
Episode Guide
compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Rina Fox
references:
TV Guide / Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (https://us.imdb.com)
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CBS Wednesdays 10:00-11:00pm Eastern
Regulars: Joyce Van Patten, Harvey Korman, The Earl Brown Singers, John
Gary
3.01 [61] The Danny Kaye Show
15Sep65 (rerun 27Apr66)
Guests
Harry Belafonte
Nana Mouskouri
Highlights:
Harry teaches Danny how to do a calypso number and get the "ethnic" feel.
Danny & Harry duet with "Mama Look a Booboo".
Danny & Harry perform a number called "The Breaks".
Danny and Harry show how those baseball pitchers' conferences might appear in
the U.S., England, Germany and Japan.
Harry sings "Girls in Their Summer Dresses", "Rain Drop" and "Walk On".
Nana sings "Telalis".
Danny, Harry and Nana perform "Opa Neena Neena Naee".
*NOTE Danny and Harry were to duet with the song "Man Piaba" but it was instead
replaced with "Mama Look a Booboo". [RF]
3.02 [62] The Danny Kaye Show
22Sep65
Guests
Richard Crenna
Nana Mouskouri
Herman's Hermits (British Pop Group)
Harvey Korman
Highlights:
Danny plays an Olympic runner being interviewed by a TV Sports reporter played
by Richard.
Nana Mouskouri returns from last week's show and sings Greek songs.
Richard, Danny and Harvey are in a sketch about jaunty RAF wing commanders in
World War II ribbing of 12 O'Clock
High called "Thirty Seconds Over Schnitzel".
Herman's Hermits perform "Henry the Eighth". [RF]
3.03 [63] The Danny Kaye Show
29Sep65 (rerun 26Apr67)
Guests
Shirley Jones
The Righteous Brothers
Harvey Korman
Highlights:
Shirley and Danny consider the man-woman conflict in song-and-dance production
title "Man versus Woman".
In a sketch Danny and Shirley play Adam and Eve.
Danny & Shirley duet on "The Begat" and "Love Walked In".
Shirley sings "Blame It on Love".
The Righteous Brothers sing "You've Lost That Loving Feelin'" and "Sticks and
Stones". [RF]
3.04 [64] The Danny Kaye Show
06Oct65
Guests
Buddy Ebsen
Clint Eastwood
Fess Parker
Charo
Harvey Korman
Highlights:
Danny is taught how to order a drink by Rowdy Yates star Clint Eastwood as Fess
Parker and Buddy Ebsen put in their
two cents worth in the Saloon sketch.
Another Western sketch with Clint and Fess as a pair of brothers just out of
jail who are out to get the Sheriff
(Danny) who put them there. Harvey Korman plays the station agent.
Danny & Fess do a song-and-dance routine to "Doodlin'".
Charo sings "La Cucaracha" and "La Bamba".
Cartoonist George Feyer turns up to draw for Danny for the sit-down segment at
the end of the show. [RF]
3.05 [65] The Danny Kaye Show
13Oct65
Guests
Benny Goodman
Caterina Valente
Joyce Van Patten
Harvey Korman
Highlights:
Danny & Caterina open the show with "I Hear Music", backed by the Earl Brown
Singers.
Caterina, Benny, Joyce and Harvey join Danny on a tour through the 1920's, the
depression 1930's and the swing-and-radio
1940's.
In a sketch called "Class of 1922" Danny plays Walter Murray, Joyce plays Mary
Jane and Harvey plays Leonard, graduates
of Mapleton U. It is in the depths of the depression and Walter is a drunk,
Leonard is lucky to have a piece of pie at
an automat where Mary Jane works at filling the little door trays. Leonard and
Mary Jane try to reform Walter, once a
brilliant law prospect.
The "King of Swing" Benny Goodman performs with Danny, Tony Charmoili Dancers
and Earl Brown Singers in musical numbers.
Caterina sings "Hindustan".
Benny Goodman plays the clarinet in "Poor Butterfly" and "The World Is Waiting
For the Sunrise". Appearing with Goodman
are Lou Levy on piano, Colin Bailey at drums, Max Bennett on String Bass and Al
Hendrickson on guitar.
Benny and his clarinet join Caterina and Danny in "Hi Ya, Sophia".
Caterina plays guitar and sings bossa-nova nursey rhymes with Danny Kaye in the
sit-down segment closing the show. [RF]
[--] 20Oct65 preempted by Barbra Streisand Special "My
Name is Barbra".
3.06 [66] The Danny Kaye Show
Show No. 74
27Oct65
Guests
Dinah Shore
Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
also appearing
are the Earl Brown Singers, Tony Charmoli Dancers, Harvey Korman, Joyce Van
Patten and the Paul Weston Orchestra.
Highlights:
Dinah sings "The Mood I'm In".
Danny Kaye & Dinah Shore duet with "Once Upon a Summertime".
Dinah Shore sings "Battle Hymn of the Republic".
Danny Kaye, Dinah Shore with a male ensemble and chorus perform "Winds of
Barcelona".
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass perform "A Taste of Honey", "Struttin' With
Maria" and "Never on a Sunday".
Danny Kaye & Dinah Shore duet with "Happiness Is".
Danny Kaye and Earl Brown Singers perform a medley.
Danny Kaye and Dinah Shore are tourists in the studio audience and backstage
during a dance number, concluding with the
two characters taking the stage as Kaye and Shore for the "art challenge"
number, in which the singers respond to
famous paintings such as American Gothic and the Mona Lisa with the first song
to pop into their minds. Also includes
the "Quick change medley," in which Kaye and Shore do a fast series of clothing
changes to appropriate music; and a
sketch on a workaholic executive who received news of his compulsory retirement
(The tycoon sketch / performed by Kaye
and Joyce Van Patten). Ends with a pitch by Kaye for UNICEF at Halloween. [RF]
3.07 [67] The Danny Kaye Show
Show No. 75
03Nov65
Guests
Pat Boone
Carolyn Jones
Harvey Korman
Highlights:
Carolyn sings "Those Ghoulish Things" with Danny.
Harvey portrays a TV interviewer who talks to Christopher Columbus (Danny).
In a skit called "Samson and Delilah" Danny plays Samson Swinger and Carolyn
plays Delilah Hipp, his secretary in the
London music business. [RF]
3.08 [68] The Danny Kaye Show
Show No. 76
10Nov65
Guests
Marguerite Piazza
Freddie and the Dreamers (British Pop Group)
Highlights:
Danny is as funny as ever in a sketch about TV doctor Ben Casey and a confidence
building school.
Danny narrates the "Three Little Pigs" in a German accent.
Danny portrays Jerome the shoe clerk.
Danny and the dancers do a splashy version of "The Watusi". [RF]
3.09 [69] The Danny Kaye Show
17Nov65
Guests
Ray Walston
Vikki Carr
Highlights:
Ray appears as a super agent chasing after master criminal Danny Kaye in a "Goldfinger"
takeoff.
Danny, Ray and Vikki do a skit about a husband and friend baby-sitting while the
wife takes the evening off.
Vikki sings with little Laurie Ichino. [RF]
3.10 [70] The Danny Kaye Show
24Nov65
Guests
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Lainie Kazan
Harvey Korman
Highlights:
Lainie sings "The Blues in the Night" and "Feeling Good".
Danny appears as a turkey who is interviewed by Harvey Korman on his opinion of
Thanksgiving Day.
Tennessee Ernie Ford sings "The Work Song" and "Today".
Harvey plays a broken down king of Blumberg and his servant ex-general Pilaf
(Danny) trying to survive in a cold water
New York flat.
Danny & Tennessee sing "Bless This House" and "May the Good Lord Bless and Keep
You".
The closing features a film clip of a child discovering nature while Danny
delivers a Thanksgiving prayer.
3.11 [71] The Danny Kaye Show
01Dec65
Guests
John Astin
Gwen Verdon
D'Aldo Romano
Highlights:
John plays an oddball character with verve in a sketch.
Danny does his shy Jerome bit in "Howdy, Neighbor Dude Ranch" sketch with John.
Gwen returns for a western folk dance number and imitates an "emancipated woman"
in a skit with Danny.
D'Aldo Romano is back again to sing "Mexico". [RF]
3.12 [72] The Danny Kaye Show
08Dec65
Guests
Diahann Carroll
George Hamilton
Joyce Van Patten
Highlights:
Diahann sings "I'm in the Mood for Love".
Danny plays an old lighthouse keeper and a German movie director in comedy
sketches.
Actor/singer George Hamilton sings
Danny portrays the director of the film "Nanny Romain" in a sketch with a movie
star called Rock Pile (George Hamilton).
Danny keeps changing the script in an effort to keep his love Nanny (Joyce Van
Patten) away from Rock.
Diahann sings a medley and is joined by Danny for the song "Friendship". [RF]
After a long absence little Victoria Page Meyerlink returns.
3.13 [73] The Danny Kaye Show
15Dec65
Guests
Vincent Price
Vikki Carr
John Gary
Highlights:
Danny opens the show with six tykes singing "All I Need Now" and "Little Girls".
Danny plays a monster in a Dr. Frankenstein sketch with Vincent.
In another sketch he is a window washer looking in on a supposed murder.
3.14 [74] The Danny Kaye Show
22Dec65
Guests
Jean Simmons
Laurence Harvey
John Gary
Highlights:
Laurence and Jean team up in a British murder sketch hoping to polish off a rich
Cockney (Danny) called "Fop at the Top".
Danny as shy Jerome is caught in a storm at a ski resort and huddles together
with Miss Simmons to keep warm during the
blizzard.
John Gary performs "A Christmas Wish".
Laurence Harvey reads.
For the closing Danny and the Children's Choir sing "Let There Be Peace on
Earth". [RF]
3.15 [75] The Danny Kaye Show
29Dec65
Guests
Eddie Albert
Wayne Newton
Harvey Korman
Joyce Van Patten
Highlights:
Danny's opening number has him playing Father Time and preparing for the Baby
1966.
Eddie Albert turns up here to play his guitar, sing a folk song and join Danny
in a sketch about two men with hangovers
after a New Year's Eve Party.
Wayne Newton sings "What Kind of Fool Am I?". [RF]
3.16 [76] The Danny Kaye Show
05Jan66
Guests
Liza Minelli
Alan Young
John Gary
Joyce Van Patten
Highlights:
A comedy sketch about the dangers and romance of the Grand Prix race.
Danny and Alan portray husbands gathering around a laundromat to get away from
their nagging wives.
Liza sings a song medley.
John Gary sings two songs. [RF]
3.17 [77] The Danny Kaye Show
12Jan66
Guests
Bill Dana
Caterina Valente
D'Aldo Romano
Joyce Van Patten
Harvey Korman
Highlights:
Bill Dana as Jose Jimenez that expert on languages and phonetics.
In a sketch with Danny, Caterina and Joyce, Bill plays an English Lord, Joyce
plays Lady Daphne Hyde-Jekyll
who insists the two men vying for her have a race around the World.
Caterina sings a foreign language medley with Danny
Caterina sings "Do I Hear a Waltz". [RF]
3.18 [78] The Danny Kaye Show
19Jan66
Guests
Tammy Grimes
Bob Crane
Highlights:
Tammy sings "Limehouse Blues".
In a sketch Tammy demonstrates how a pampered, spoiled movie star acts.
Bob Crane re-enacts his days as a radio interviewer.
Danny turns up as composer Beethoven for another comedy interview. [RF]
3.19 [79] The Danny Kaye Show
26Jan66
Guests
Robert Vaughn
French composer Michel Legrand
Twelve year old ballerina Joyce Cuoco will also appear.
Highlights:
Danny & Robert spoof the well-dressed secret agent and tackle a broad takeoff on
"The Treasure of Sierra Madre" film.
Joyce Cuoco performs a show-stopping number dancing to Michel LeGrand's music
from the film "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg".
Michel LeGrand performs "Valse des Lilas". [RF]
3.20 [80] The Danny Kaye Show
02Feb66
Guests
Eddie Albert
Morgana King
Highlights:
Eddie Albert reads Stephen Vincent Benet's "Ballad of William Sycamore".
Danny & Eddie play poker playing husbands lying to their wives.
Danny pretends he's Napoleon in a bit.
Danny Kaye, Paul West, Earl Brown and composer Billy Barnes do a barbershop
rendition of "Indiana".
Morgana King sings "Lazy Afternoon" and "Mountain Valley". [RF]
3.21 [81] The Danny Kaye Show
09Feb66 (rerun 19Apr67)
Guests
Cyril Ritchard
Eddy Arnold
Highlights:
Eddy sings "Make the World Go Away" and "Just a Little Lovin'".
Eddy & Danny perform a 'Broken-Hearts' medley.
Cyril stars as the head of an English diction class with Danny as his obtuse shy
Jerome character being the student
trying to overcome his bashfulness and Brooklyn accent.
Danny & Cyril appear in another sketch about noble British flyers who crash in
the desert.
Arnold, Cyril & Danny perform in the finale "Where I Come From". [RF]
3.22 [82] The Danny Kaye Show
16Feb66
Guests
Tim Conway
John Gary
Japanese musician Kimio Eto
Highlights:
Danny & Tim play construction workers on a skyscrapper.
Danny & Tim play secret agents meeting at a restaurant.
Musician Kimio Eto plays a stringed instrument called the koto. [RF]
3.23 [83] The Danny Kaye Show
23Feb66
Guests
Inger Stevens
Woody Herman and his Band
The Clinger Sisters
Brother Aaron
Highlights:
Inger sings the wistful folk ballad "A Lass From the Low Country"
Inger dances with Danny.
Inger is a school teacher visiting Italian widower Giovanni (Danny).
Woody Herman and the Clinger Sisters perform some big band music.
Harvey Korman as Walter Klunkite interviews George Washington (Danny). [RF]
3.24 [84] The Danny Kaye Show
02Mar66
Guests
Joanne Woodward
Robert Goulet
Highlights:
Danny portrays Richard Thimble in a spoof of "The Fugitive".
Danny plays Shenadopey in a Wild West but.
And "Run For Your Life" Danny plays a man with 18 months to live, with Joanne
playing his wife and Goulet his best
friend, who is madly in love with Joanne.
Robert Goulet sings "She Touched Me".
Danny sings "Company's Coming" and "Wee Hughie".
Joanne Woodward makes fun of actresses on TV commercials in a sketch.
And the trio appear in the final comedy sketch of life on a Southern Plantation.
[RF]
3.25 [85] The Danny Kaye Show
09Mar66
Guests
Nancy Wilson
John Gary
Harvey Korman
Highlights:
Nancy sings "Don't Take Your Love From Me" and "Gee, Baby".
Nancy & John duet on sings "Memphis Blues".
Danny does another takeoff on the tv show "Batman".
John Gary sings "Lonesome Me" and "The Green Leaves of Summer".
John plays Parakeet aide to super-hero Chickenman (Danny) in a skit.
Danny joins Harvey Korman in a pantomime bit of horseplay in a public library. [RF]
3.26 [86] The Danny Kaye Show
16Mar66 (rerun 08Mar67)
Amzie Strickland (as Mrs. Betty Simpson)
Harold Gould (Marco)
Harvey Korman (Roberto)
Joyce Van Patten (Eleanor)
Tony Charmoli Dancers
Earl Brown Singers
Paul Weston Orchestra
"Giovanni's Wedding.
An hour-long musical about Kaye's lovable character, the Italian tailor, who
comes to live with his son. The plot has
the widow Simpson hovering about, intent on tapping Giovanni into marriage.
Great moments come in the variety of sentimental and happy times sung by Kaye
and company.
Bill Barnes' original tunes include "What She Mean by That?" and "I'm Jealous"
(Danny) and "Too Old to Be Young"
(Danny and Amzie). [RF]
3.27 [87] The Danny Kaye Show
Show No. 93
23Mar66
Guests
Senta Berger
Chaim Topel
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Highlights:
"A Time For Singing" is sung by Danny Kaye and Earl Brown Singers and danced by
Tony Charmoli Dancers.
"A Taste of Honey" is performed by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass.
"Zorba the Greek" is performed by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
"Comes Once in a Lifetime" and "Love Me Tender" are sung by John Gary.
"Men of Sheik Ech Mech" is performed by Harvey Korman and Alpert & the Tijuana
Brass.
Danny sings "Duty of a Sheik".
"Marry Me Fatima" is sung by Chaim Topol and Senta Berger.
The Challenge Dance and Bahklava is performed by Kaye and Topol.
"Hora" is danced by Kaye, Berger, and Topol
"To Life" is sung in Hebrew by Danny Kaye and Chaim Topol.
Danny sings "Matchmaker, Matchmaker".
Features the music of guests Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, John Gary, and
Chaim Topol. Includes motion picture
costars Topol and Senta Berger joining Kaye in a hora; a duet in Hebrew between
Kaye and Topol; Kaye's German version
of the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel; and a "desert musical" spoof about two
sheiks fighting over the hand of a princess
(Singing Sheik Sheik/The Sands of Hankie-Pankie / performed by Kaye, Topol,
Berger, Alpert and the Tijuana Brass,
Harvey Korman, and ensemble.) [RF]
3.28 [88] The Danny Kaye Show
30Mar66
Guests
Vikki Carr
John Gary
Joyce Van Patten
Highlights:
Danny and Vikki duet to "A Simple Melody".
John Gary sings some pop tunes.
Danny as Jerome the shy shoe clerk asks for a raise.
Danny plays a concert violinist in love with his valuable hands, he has had them
insured for $1 million and he won't
even let his wife (Joyce Van Patten) touch them.
Danny sings about William Tell and his son in one musical segment. [RF]
3.29 [89] The Danny Kaye Show
06Apr66
Guests
Vincent Price
John Gary
Stan Worth
Highlights:
Danny plays a drunk in a silent routine.
Danny & Vincent talk about movie villains and work together in a gangster
sketch.
John sings "Once Upon a Time".
Pianist Stan Worth performs two numbers.
Danny renders a Gilbert and Sullivan song medley. [RF]
3.30 [90] The Danny Kaye Show
13Apr66 (postponed from 16Mar66)
Guests
Edie Adams
Fred Gwynne
Glenn Yarbrough
Highlights:
In a spoof of "The Munsters" Danny dresses up as David Dracula, Edie Adams is
Lily and Fred Gwynne is Chet Munster
who are busy every night giving the "Munster-Dracula" Report.
Edie joins the boys in a song about parents watching a Little League baseball
game.
Fred joins Danny in a sketch which depicts the former as an over-bearing skipper
and Danny as a melon-headed tag-along
buddy (reminiscent of the Skipper and Gilligan of "Gilligan's Island").
Danny & Edie duet on "Looking at You".
Glenn Yarbrough plays some folk ditties.
The show's musical director Paul Weston, leads a group called The Weston
Brothers in a song spoof.
Edie sings "Wonderful Day" and "Soon It's Gonna Rain". [RF]
3.31 [91] The Danny Kaye Show
20Apr66
Guests
John Gary
Judi Armstrong
Joyce Van Patten
Highlights:
Danny & Joyce do a sketch about a missing English husband.
Danny & Joyce also do a sketch about changes in courtship from Italians,
Eskimos, British and Civil War couples.
Canada's Judi Armstrong sings "Sometimes I'm Happy" and "The Sound of Music".
Danny plays a husband who returns home after an 8-year-long case of amnesia.
John Gary sings "Georgia On My Mind".
Joyce & Danny improvise the scenes in the finale. [RF]
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Reruns (27Apr66- )
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[--] The Danny Kaye Show
27Apr66 (rerun season 3 premiere episode)
Guests
Harry Belafonte
Nana Mouskouri
Highlights:
Danny and Harry show how those baseball pitchers' conferences might appear in
the U.S., England, Germany and Japan.
Harry sings "Raindrops" and "Walk On".
Nana sings "Telalis".
Danny, Harry and Nana perform "Opa Neena Neena Naee".
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