1950

S2.E1 ∙ Host: Jackie Gleason; Guests: Johnny Johnston, Rose Marie, Esther Junger Dancers, Al Goodman and his Orchestra; cameo by Eddie Cantor

Sat, Sep 01, 1951

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S2.E2 ∙ Host: Eddie Cantor; guest star: Cesar Romero

Sat, Sep 08, 1951

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S2.E3 ∙ Guest Host: Spike Jones; Guests: Jan Peerce, Helen Grayco, The City Slickers

Sat, Sep 15, 1951

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S2.E4 ∙ Host: Ezio Pinza; Guests: Milton Berle, Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney, Martha Wright, Colette Marchand

Sat, Sep 22, 1951

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S2.E5 ∙ Host: Eddie Cantor; Guests: Judy Kelly, Martin Freed & Ernie Stewart, Sid Fields, Jack Slattery, Al Goodman and his Orchestra; cameo by Ida Cantor

Sat, Sep 29, 1951

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Host: Donald O'Connor; Guests: Ed Wynn, Arlene Dahl, Walter Catlett, Douglas Fowley, Mary Hatcher, The Ungar Twins, Sid Miller, Al Goodman & his Orchestra

S2.E6 ∙ Host: Donald O'Connor; Guests: Ed Wynn, Arlene Dahl, Walter Catlett, Douglas Fowley, Mary Hatcher, The Ungar Twins, Sid Miller, Al Goodman & his Orchestra

Sat, Oct 06, 1951

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S2.E7 ∙ Hosts: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello; Guests: Gale Storm, Phil Regan

Sat, Oct 13, 1951

Featured guests were singers Gale Storm and Phil Regan. The comedy story line had Lou planning to marry Gale.

8.1 /10

Host: Jack Carson; Guests: Robert Alda, Betty Garrett, The Honey Brothers, Hal March, Jack Norton, Peter Leeds, Tommy Wells, Bud & C.C. Robbins, Dean Elliott & his Orchestra

S2.E8 ∙ Host: Jack Carson; Guests: Robert Alda, Betty Garrett, The Honey Brothers, Hal March, Jack Norton, Peter Leeds, Tommy Wells, Bud & C.C. Robbins, Dean Elliott & his Orchestra

Sat, Oct 20, 1951

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S2.E9 ∙ Host: Eddie Cantor; Guests: Cesar Romero, Sheilah Graham, Verna Felton, The Caprino Sisters, Al Goodman & his Orchestra

Sat, Oct 27, 1951

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Hosts: Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis; Guests: Dorothy Dandridge, Danny Arnold, Bob & Eddie Mayo, Donald MacBride, Marion Marshall, Jimmy Wallington, Dick Stabile & his Orchestra

S2.E10 ∙ Hosts: Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis; Guests: Dorothy Dandridge, Danny Arnold, Bob & Eddie Mayo, Donald MacBride, Marion Marshall, Jimmy Wallington, Dick Stabile & his Orchestra

Sat, Nov 03, 1951

Jerry plays Dean's life-sized dummy as they pass themselves off as a ventriloquism act for a talent agent. Dean sings "Solitaire" and Jerry lip-syncs to "Be My Love." Jerry goes undercover at a prison to crack the scheme of a couple of tough prisoners and causes chaos. Dandridge sings "Blow Out the Candle." In the finale, Dean attempts to sing as Jerry conducts/disrupts the orchestra.

7.7 /10

S2.E11 ∙ Host: Donald O'Connor; Guests: Harpo Marx, Yvonne De Carlo, Roger Price, Sid Miller, Pat Patrick, Gale Robbins

Sat, Nov 10, 1951

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S2.E12 ∙ Hosts: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello; Guests: George Raft, Louis Armstrong, Rosette Shaw, The Pied Pipers, Al Goodman & his Orchestra

Sat, Nov 17, 1951

8.3 /10

S2.E13 ∙ Host: Eddie Cantor; Guests: Cesar Romero, Eddie Fisher, Harvest Moon Festival winner Betty Graham

Sat, Nov 24, 1951

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S2.E14 ∙ host: Bob Hope; guest stars: Eddie Bracken, Marilyn Maxwell, Bob Crosby, Toni Arden, Georgie Price, Frank Faylen

Sat, Dec 01, 1951

Bob Hope hosts this AGVA salute to the return of vaudeville. His guests include Marilyn Maxwell, singer Bob Crosby, comic actors Eddie Bracken and Frank Faylen, Georgie Price, singer Toni Arden, comic Pat C. Flick, juggler Wally Blair, dancer Lita Baron and Billy Daniel, cyclist Joe Mole, dance act The Rio Brothers, and The Skylarks. Hope does a monologue and plays a TV surgeon in an operating room sketch. Crosby sings "Silver Bells." Faylen and Bracken play vacuum cleaner salesman. Price sings "Laugh, Clown, Laugh" and impersonates George M. Cohan in the finale with the cast singing "Auld Lang Syne."

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S2.E15 ∙ Host: Eddie Cantor; Guests: The Nilsson Twins, Tom D'Andrea, Larry Blake

Sat, Dec 08, 1951

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S2.E16 ∙ Host: Jack Paar; Guests: Alan Young, Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Trigger, The Whippoorwills, Carmen Miranda, The Three Stooges

Sat, Dec 15, 1951

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S2.E17 ∙ Host: Eddie Cantor; Guests: Farley Granger, Bobby Breen, Sharon Baird, Stuffy Singer

Sat, Dec 22, 1951

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S2.E18 ∙ Hosts: Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis; Guests: Eve Young, Ray Malone, Danny Arnold, Margaret Dumont, Mike Mazurki, Dick Stabile & his Orchestra

Sat, Dec 29, 1951

7.1 /10

S2.E19 ∙ Host: Donald O'Connor; Guests: Harpo Marx, Gale Robbins, Pat Patrick, Sid Miller

Sat, Jan 05, 1952

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Hosts: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello; Guests: Errol Flynn, Rhonda Fleming, Bruce Cabot, Sid Fields, Joe Kirk, The Pied Pipers, cameo appearance by George Raft

S2.E20 ∙ Hosts: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello; Guests: Errol Flynn, Rhonda Fleming, Bruce Cabot, Sid Fields, Joe Kirk, The Pied Pipers, cameo appearance by George Raft

Sat, Jan 12, 1952

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello host with guests actors Errol Flynn and Bruce Cabot, actress Rhonda Fleming, A & C stalwarts Sid Fields and Joe Kirk, The Pied Pipers, Al Goodman and his Orchestra, and a cameo by George Raft. On the way to work on Fleming's ranch, the boys encounter berserk Flynn doing the classic "Niagra Falls" routine ("Slowly I turn, step by step..."). Lou attempts to milk a cow, and he and Bud get the giggles, start ad libbing, and start spitting milk at each other. Sheriff Lou battles bad guy Flynn in a saloon. Rhonda Fleming performs "Don't Blame Me" and "I'm in Love With a Wonderful Guy."

8.3 /10

Host: Eddie Cantor; Guests: Adele Jergens, Robert Clary, Jimmy Dobson, Shirley Mitchell, Doris Singleton, Sharon Baird, Herman McCoy's UCLA Swing Choir featuring Edna Craft, Al Goodman & his Orchestra

S2.E21 ∙ Host: Eddie Cantor; Guests: Adele Jergens, Robert Clary, Jimmy Dobson, Shirley Mitchell, Doris Singleton, Sharon Baird, Herman McCoy's UCLA Swing Choir featuring Edna Craft, Al Goodman & his Orchestra

Sat, Jan 19, 1952

Eddie Cantor hosts with guests actress Adele Jergens, Robert Clary, actor Jimmy Dobson, actress Shirley Mitchell, Doris Singleton, child dancer Sharon Baird, Herman McCoy's UCLA Swing Choir, a cameo from Kirk Douglas, and Al Goodman and his Orchestra. Eddie enrolls at UCLA as a freshman in this musical comedy. He moves on campus and accidentally knocks out the football star, then learns French from student Robert Clary. During the school's Varsity Show, the UCLA Swing Choir sings "Lullaby of Broadway" with a tribute to George Gershin featuring Cantor in blackface. Eddie plays the Kirk Douglas role in a spoof of "Detective Story."

6.8 /10

S2.E22 ∙ Host: Danny Thomas; guests: Dorothy Lamour, Bunny Lewbel

Sat, Jan 26, 1952

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S2.E23 ∙ Host: Donald O'Connor; Guest Stars: Corinne Calvet, Kay Starr, Ben Blue

Sat, Feb 02, 1952

Episode highlights include Donald O'Connor performing a song-and-dance about women's hats, Ben Blue starring in a sketch about the upper berth in a train's sleeping compartment, a songwriter sketch featuring suffering partners O'Connor and Sid Miller and a big production number featuring O'Connor and Scatman Crothers based on the song, "The Birth of the Blues".

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Hosts: Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis; Guests: Ray Malone, Jill Jarmon, Danny Arnold, Sheldon Leonard, Mike Mazurki, Dick Stabile & his Orchestra; cameo by writer Norman Lear

S2.E24 ∙ Hosts: Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis; Guests: Ray Malone, Jill Jarmon, Danny Arnold, Sheldon Leonard, Mike Mazurki, Dick Stabile & his Orchestra; cameo by writer Norman Lear

Sat, Feb 09, 1952

Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis perform at the Mayhem Annual Awards Dinner. Jerry introduces Dean singing, "When You're Smiling." We see the personal lives of Jerry and Dean at home. Dean hires Jerry as a soda jerk.

8.2 /10

S2.E25 ∙ Host: Eddie Cantor; Guests: The Will Mastin Trio starring Sammy Davis Jr., Reggie Rymal

Sat, Feb 16, 1952

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S2.E26 ∙ Host: Danny Thomas; Guests: Carmen Miranda, Grace Hartman, The Beatrice Kraft Dancers, Bunny Lewbell

Sat, Feb 23, 1952

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S2.E27 ∙ Host: Donald O'Connor; Guests: Broderick Crawford, Patricia Morison, Cecil Kellaway, Buster Keaton, Eddie Gribbon, Sid Miller

Sat, Mar 01, 1952

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S2.E28 ∙ Host: Bob Hope; guest stars: Anna Maria Alberghetti, Georgie Tapps, Martha Stewart, Les Brown & his Band of Reknown

Sat, Mar 08, 1952

Host: Bob Hope; guest stars: Anna Maria Alberghetti, Georgie Tapps, Martha Stewart.

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S2.E29 ∙ Host: Eddie Cantor; Guest: Dorothy Kirsten, The Will Mastin Trio starring Sammy Davis Jr., Sharon Baird, Mabel Butterworth, Harry Von Zell

Sat, Mar 15, 1952

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Hosts: Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis; Guests: Danny Lewis (Jerry's father), Tommy Wonder, Margaret Banks, Danny Arnold, Dick Stabile & his Orchestra; cameo by writers Ed Simmons and Norman Lear

S2.E30 ∙ Hosts: Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis; Guests: Danny Lewis (Jerry's father), Tommy Wonder, Margaret Banks, Danny Arnold, Dick Stabile & his Orchestra; cameo by writers Ed Simmons and Norman Lear

Sat, Mar 22, 1952

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S2.E31 ∙ Host Tony Martin; guests Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kay Starr, The St. Paul Choir, Al Goodman & his Orchestra

Sat, Mar 29, 1952

Host Tony Martin: Guests Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kay Starr, The St. Paul Choir.

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Hosts: Abbott & Costello; Guests: Charles Laughton, Isabel Bigley, Johnny Conrad, Sid Fields, Joe Kirk, Milton Frome, Bobby Barber, Jill Kraft, Anita Anton, Alex Fossell, Helen Donaldson, Three Beaus

S2.E32 ∙ Hosts: Abbott & Costello; Guests: Charles Laughton, Isabel Bigley, Johnny Conrad, Sid Fields, Joe Kirk, Milton Frome, Bobby Barber, Jill Kraft, Anita Anton, Alex Fossell, Helen Donaldson, Three Beaus

Sat, Apr 05, 1952

Abbott Costello do several of their burlesque routines with their usual supporting players and play host to screen great Chales Laughton.

7.3 /10

S2.E33 ∙ Host: Eddie Cantor; Guests: Joe E. Brown, Constance Moore, Dave Barry, Sharon Baird, Los Gatos Trio

Sat, Apr 12, 1952

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S2.E34 ∙ Host: Donald O'Connor; Guests: Andy Devine, Mindy Carson, Ben Blue, Sid Miller

Sat, Apr 19, 1952

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S2.E35 ∙ Hosts: Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis; Guests: Kitty Kallen, The Four Step Brothers, Danny Arnold

Sat, Apr 26, 1952

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis host with guests singer Kitty Kallen, dancers The Four Step Brothers, Danny Arnold, Harvey Wheelwick, with announcer Hal Sawyer. Jerry tries to get a part in the "Birdwheel Frolics of 1952" by crashing a kids' singing act, the chorus line, and by playing Marlon Brando as "The Continental." Dean and Jerry talk loudly at a librarians' convention. Dean and Kitty's duet is ruined when Jerry joins in. Dean smuggles Jerry aboard a very bouncy cruise ship. The boys dance with the Step Brothers.

7.5 /10