Martin & Lewis

S04 E01 • Sunday, Oct 4, 1953 • Oct 4

Skits: Burt plays an escaped lunatick. Songs: "Great To Be Home", "You're The Right One", "That's Amore", "There's No Tomorrow"

Jimmy Durante

S04 E02 • Sunday, Oct 11, 1953 • Oct 11

Eddie Cantor

S04 E03 • Sunday, Oct 18, 1953 • Oct 18

Donald O'Connor

S04 E04 • Sunday, Oct 25, 1953 • Oct 25

Bud Abbott with Martin & Lewis

S04 E05 • Sunday, Nov 1, 1953 • Nov 1

Jimmy Durante

S04 E06 • Sunday, Nov 8, 1953 • Nov 8

Martha Raye

S04 E07 • Sunday, Nov 15, 1953 • Nov 15

Donald O'Connor

S04 E08 • Sunday, Nov 22, 1953 • Nov 22

Eddie Cantor

S04 E09 • Sunday, Nov 29, 1953 • Nov 29

Highlights include a take-off on TV westerns where all the characters speak in voice-overs and a salute to the songs of Harold Arlen.

Jimmy Durante

S04 E10 • Sunday, Dec 6, 1953 • Dec 6

Perry Como and Martha Raye

S04 E11 • Sunday, Dec 13, 1953 • Dec 13

Donald O'Connor

S04 E12 • Sunday, Dec 20, 1953 • Dec 20

Eddie Cantor

S04 E13 • Sunday, Dec 27, 1953 • Dec 27

Jimmy Durante

S04 E14 • Sunday, Jan 3, 1954 • Jan 3

Martin & Lewis

S04 E15 • Sunday, Jan 10, 1954 • Jan 10

Alan Young, Stan Freberg, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby

S04 E16 • Sunday, Jan 17, 1954 • Jan 17

Ethel Merman

S04 E17 • Sunday, Jan 24, 1954 • Jan 24

Eddie Cantor

S04 E18 • Sunday, Jan 31, 1954 • Jan 31

Jimmy Durante

S04 E19 • Sunday, Feb 7, 1954 • Feb 7

Donald O'Connor

S04 E20 • Sunday, Feb 14, 1954 • Feb 14

Sonja Henie (with Abbott & Costello)

S04 E21 • Sunday, Feb 21, 1954 • Feb 21

Gene Wesson hosts with guests Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, skater Sonja Henie, comic/singer Keefe Brasselle, with Carolyn Jones, Joyce Jameson, Michael Ross, Will J. White, Jud Conlon Singers, Norman Abbott, Glen Stangle, and announcer Hal Sawyer. Wesson and Brasselle perform dueling impressions, a sketch depicts a mob-run coffee shop, and Abbott and Costello encounter the Frankenstein Monster and the Gill Man in the Universal Studios' prop room.

ANYTHING GOES w Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, Bert Lahr

S04 E22 • Sunday, Feb 28, 1954 • Feb 28

Eddie Cantor

S04 E23 • Sunday, Mar 7, 1954 • Mar 7

Jimmy Durante

S04 E24 • Sunday, Mar 14, 1954 • Mar 14

Abbott & Costello

S04 E25 • Sunday, Mar 21, 1954 • Mar 21

Eddie Cantor

S04 E26 • Sunday, Apr 4, 1954 • Apr 4

Jimmy Durante

S04 E27 • Sunday, Apr 11, 1954 • Apr 11

Abbott & Costello

S04 E28 • Sunday, Apr 18, 1954 • Apr 18

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello welcome guests including: Jane Russell; Rhonda Fleming; A&C stalwarts Connie Haines, Bobby Barber and Mike Ross; actress Beryl Davis; actors Tony Martinez, Nestor Paiva, Frank Richards, Benny Rubin, Jim Hayward and Ken Mayer; Jack Shea; Baby Mistin; Donna Kaye; announcer Hal Sawyer; and Al Goodman and his Orchestra. In comedy highlights, the boys are flat broke in a bording house in the Latin American country of Bolamania. They rehearse a magic trick, hoping to get a job at a nightclub. Then Lou gets the great idea of impersonating the El Presidente! Also, take offs on Liberace and You Bet Your Life.

Ice Capades Special

S04 E29 • Sunday, Apr 25, 1954 • Apr 25

Martin & Lewis

S04 E30 • Sunday, May 2, 1954 • May 2

Jimmy Durante

S04 E31 • Sunday, May 9, 1954 • May 9

Eddie Cantor

S04 E32 • Sunday, May 16, 1954 • May 16

Abbott & Costello

S04 E33 • Sunday, May 23, 1954 • May 23

One in this comedy/variety series with rotating hosts. The comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello star in this live episode. Highlights include the following: Bud and Lou get fired from their jobs at a department store after attempting to sell nylons; Abbott and his friends sucker Costello out of his pay, but Lou gets his revenge; Hoagy Carmichael sings and is visited by child actor Ricky Vera; Costello and Vera try to tell each other the tale of Little Red Riding Hood and crack each other up in the process; Abbott cons Costello out of his money, but Vera gets the last laugh; Peggy Lee sings "Johnny Guitar," "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered," and the "Halo Shampoo" song; Costello gets appliances with meters and has to pay a quarter every time he uses one, prompting a lot of mayhem as he attempts to try each one out; the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra plays "Midnight Sleigh Ride" and "Holiday"; and Costello attempts to dance with a woman who is almost twice his height.

Martin & Lewis

S04 E34 • Sunday, May 30, 1954 • May 30