
Season 4 (1953)
Episodes: 34
Star Cast:
Episodes List

Ep.1 Martin & Lewis
Air Date: 1953-10-04
Skits: Burt plays an escaped lunatick. Songs: "Great To Be Home", "You're The Right One", "That's Amore", "There's No Tomorrow"

Ep.2 Jimmy Durante
Air Date: 1953-10-11

Ep.3 Eddie Cantor
Air Date: 1953-10-18

Ep.4 Donald O'Connor
Air Date: 1953-10-25

Ep.5 Bud Abbott with Martin & Lewis
Air Date: 1953-11-01

Ep.6 Jimmy Durante
Air Date: 1953-11-08

Ep.7 Martha Raye
Air Date: 1953-11-15

Ep.8 Donald O'Connor
Air Date: 1953-11-22

Ep.9 Eddie Cantor
Air Date: 1953-11-29
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.

Ep.10 Jimmy Durante
Air Date: 1953-12-06

Ep.11 Perry Como and Martha Raye
Air Date: 1953-12-13

Ep.12 Donald O'Connor
Air Date: 1953-12-20

Ep.13 Eddie Cantor
Air Date: 1953-12-27

Ep.14 Jimmy Durante
Air Date: 1954-01-03

Ep.15 Martin & Lewis
Air Date: 1954-01-10

Ep.16 Alan Young, Stan Freberg, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby
Air Date: 1954-01-17

Ep.17 Ethel Merman
Air Date: 1954-01-24

Ep.18 Eddie Cantor
Air Date: 1954-01-31

Ep.19 Jimmy Durante
Air Date: 1954-02-07

Ep.20 Donald O'Connor
Air Date: 1954-02-14

Ep.21 Sonja Henie (with Abbott & Costello)
Air Date: 1954-02-21
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.

Ep.22 ANYTHING GOES w Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, Bert Lahr
Air Date: 1954-02-28

Ep.23 Eddie Cantor
Air Date: 1954-03-07

Ep.24 Jimmy Durante
Air Date: 1954-03-14

Ep.25 Abbott & Costello
Air Date: 1954-03-21

Ep.26 Eddie Cantor
Air Date: 1954-04-04

Ep.27 Jimmy Durante
Air Date: 1954-04-11

Ep.28 Abbott & Costello
Air Date: 1954-04-18
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.

Ep.29 Ice Capades Special
Air Date: 1954-04-25

Ep.30 Martin & Lewis
Air Date: 1954-05-02

Ep.31 Jimmy Durante
Air Date: 1954-05-09

Ep.32 Eddie Cantor
Air Date: 1954-05-16

Ep.33 Abbott & Costello
Air Date: 1954-05-23
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.
