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- Sari Locker, talk show host and sexuality educator, candidly discussed sex and relationships with groups of regular people who revealed intimate details of their personal lives. Sari also provided advice and information in this 30 minute talk show which aired six nights each week on Lifetime. Over 200 episodes aired on Lifetime TV. It was awarded "Best Talk Show" Gracie Allen Award by Alliance for Women in Media in 1996.
- Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees perform a short program, in the style of his shorter radio programs.
- Borrah Minnevitch and his Harmonica Rascals are practicing in the basement of a building owned by a nasty landlord. He has them arrested for disturbing the peace but Borrah and the Rascals serenade the judge and the charges are dismissed.
- One of the "Your True Adventure" series featuring reporter Floyd Gibbons, this entry recreates the story of an old man listed among the missing persons. His daughter and her husband pursue the search for over a year, with no trace of dear old dad. A flashback segment details how the old man was hit by a car, lost his memory, and wandered around securing odd jobs. Finally, he arrives in a home for aged people, but all the efforts of the doctors and nurses fail to revive his memory. Then, an item in the paper leads the family to the home, and the sight of his loved ones brings back his memory.
- Sailor George and his pals visit the Roseland Dance Hall, where funny things happen between conversations with dizzy hostess Gracie.
- All she ever wanted is to be like one of them. They kept telling her she was sick, until she believed it herself. She was the only one sane.
- A couple unwittingly both invite their fathers to visit on the same day. The problem is, the fathers-in-law detest each other. Hi-jinx ensue.
- Molly Townsend, engaged to Luis Riccardi, learns from Capt. John Locke half an hour before the wedding that Riccardi is a thief and a smuggler. Locke, Riccardi's rival for Molly, persuades Molly to sail away with him in his boat bound for South America. He is thrown overboard by the cutthroat crew, and crew leader Jordan nearly makes her his victim before Locke, who has saved himself, rescues her. Riccardi and Jordan, who murdered a man in the Townsend home and stole a diamond necklace, are both jailed.
- Two inmates and a cleaning girl at a home for struggling artists achieve success and fame when they pool their talents and produce a smash hit Broadway musical. Edgar (Monte Blue), the playwright, is in love with April (Madge Kennedy), the ex- leading lady, but she doesn't discover that she loves him until it's almost too late.
- In Mexico, Tom takes a Blonde and a Latin Brunette to Pancho the Bandito's lair. They get along, but American kidnappers abduct Pancho. but he and his men turn the tables on them. Tom leaves, but the girls turn out to be the real crooks.
- Tony Bennett has the amazing ability to take a song and make it his own. In fact, Time magazine said of Tony that there are "no definitive versions of songs, just definitive singers." Tony's appearance on MTV Unplugged, which is marked by its 20th Anniversary in 2014, was a watershed moment that began a sustained and unparalleled level of artistic and industry achievement highlighted by the album of the same name winning the Album of the Year Grammy, multi-platinum releases and a string of Grammy awards that followed. Tony Bennett's MTV Unplugged: The Video features 22 of Tony's greatest songs recorded in the unplugged setting. Also included are several bonus tracks -- the music video for "Steppin' Out With My Baby" (from the Steppin' Out album) -- plus exclusive interview footage featuring Tony Bennett, Elvis Costello and others.
- An innocent dismissal of the wrong man causes Kara to be trapped in between reality and her fears. She must acknowledge her mistake before she can be free from an endless maze.
- At the barber shop, George has trouble with a hair tonic salesman and an eccentric customer; then he finds that Gracie is his manicurist.
- Street-sweeper George flirts with a pretty, but dizzy, nursemaid in the park. Incorporates Burns & Allen's vaudeville "dizzy" routine.
- Tom Clark, the part owner of a luckless gas station in New York, returns to his place of birth for Old Home Week, posing as the millionaire president of the Amalgamated Oil Co. He is chosen as the orator for the homecoming banquet and given complete financial control over an oil well drilled in the town by Coleman and Barton, a pair of oily swindlers. Tom discovers that the well is a fake and has it connected secretly with the local reservoir. A wire from Tom's partner is intercepted, and Tom is exposed as a fraud. Coleman and Barton are about to leave town when Tom fakes a gusher and quickly sells the well back to the swindlers at a profit. The swindlers realize that they have been outsmarted, and their anger convinces the townspeople that Tom has acted in the best interests of the community. Tom is again the toast of the town, feted by its inhabitants and rewarded with the kisses of his sweetheart.
- Kate Mulgrew, star of the popular medical drama "Heartbeat", hosts this daily half-an-hour show focused on helping parents of small children through parental guidance workshop where other parents share their personal experiences.
- Learn with Elmo about opposites and more!
- Singer Ruth Etting sings two popular tunes of 1929. The whole short is filmed in one take.
- George, working in a hat shop, gets tricky with the customers. Then Gracie comes in and drives him batty.
- Amy Rivard walked into The Astor Room in the legendary Kaufman Astoria Studios. Kaufman was built in 1920. It was the original home to Paramount Pictures, one of the 1st movie studios in all of North America and The Astor Room was originally the commissary where the silent film stars used to dine. That evening the manager told Amy some ghost stories he'd heard from his morning porter. Apparently, a number of the silent film stars had not yet left the building and they still wanted to be seen. Amy immediately went home and wrote, "The Three Divas", inspired by the ghosts of Gloria Swanson, Betty Bronson and Sylvia Sydney. Amy sings at The Astor Room every Friday night from 6:30-10:30pm.
- At a cabaret, steel worker Dundee Reilly meets Mary Malone, sister of former boxing champion Pat Malone. When Mary is accosted by prizefighter Killer Agerra, Dundee knocks his rival unconscious. Under Pat's guidance, Dundee trains for a scheduled bout with Agerra. However, Dundee is framed for a shooting, and spends his prison term working in a quarry and developing his muscles. Following his release, Dundee substitutes for another fighter against Agerra. Acting on intuition, Mary informs Dundee that he was framed by his opponent, spurring him on to win in the final round.
- Hop to it and join Elmo for this riveting and ribbiting video where he learns all about frogs, penguins and horses. Featuring 3 Elmo's World shows full of animal antics.
- Felix Rudolff is a dressmaker tailor and later dresses like a policeman after seeing a parade He becomes a rookie policeman who handcuffs Dynamite Dan. He doesn't stay captured. Felix Rudolff has to deal with a live and kicking Dynamite Dan. Rufolff ends up with the collar and the girl.
- In the first of Paramount's "Headliner" series, narrator Ted Husing travels up and down and around Broadway and other main stem New York City locations, and views the likes of Earl Carroll picking show-girls for hie Varieties; Al Jolson and Jack Benny rehearsing their radio programs; and other celebs, such as Gary Cooper visiting The Big Apple, and Bea Lillie and Sophie Tucker and others caught by the Headliner camera.
- George is taken to the hospital in mistake for an accident victim. After his needless operation, he meets Nurse Gracie, who adds insanity to injury.
- Through the terms of a will in which he inherits a lot of money if he will run a dude ranch for six months and get away from the city, Red figures out a plan to build a night-club dude ranch on Broadway, so he will not have to abandon his beloved Broadway night-life. He hires the Condos Brothers (Nick, Frank and Harry) to do their dance routines, and the trick-roping act of Maidie & Ray. Red supplies his own brand of emceeing the acts, while the music is supplied by Hank Lawson and His Texans.
- Burns and Allen have a dizzy conversation in a bookstore.
- During the movement to repeal Prohibition, Oxidontal University student editor Elmer Brown is strongly in favor. He loves the daughter of an ardent prohibitionist; by chicanery, he tries to win Gloria and sell his bottle stopper invention.
- George is distracted from buying a statue by scatterbrained Gracie.
- Presents Lincoln's difficulties with Gen. McClellan and Secretary of State Seward, over the selection of a commander of the Army of the Potomac. Lincoln asserts his leadership and appoints Gen. Grant.
- An unlucky inventor's attempt to demonstrate his break-proof glass at a convention goes humiliatingly wrong, but his luck may be about to change when he runs into pretty young woman on the train ride home.
- Ben Jordan runs away after accidentally setting fire to a barn in his small New England community. He returns when his mother dies to find that she has left everything to her ward, Jane Crosby.
- In a run down New York Tenament, a chorine named Orchid lives with her overprotective brother Buddy, who sees to it that no uptown Casanovas get a chance at seducing his sister. At a New Year's Eve party the two are separated in the festivities, and millionaire playboy Brian Alden meets her, and they start seeing each other. Against her brother's wishes, Orchid, at Alden's behest, takes charm school-type instructions on how to be a society lady, and she seems to be turning into a snob. Alden regrets it, and after promising to allow her to be herself, gets Buddy's okay to marry her.
- Boardinghouse servant Adele Clark is unexpectedly awarded the ownership of a certain piece of New York City property known as Clark's Field. The trustees send her to a finishing school, whose headmistress, Signorina Vitale, persuades Adele and her sweetheart, Tim Sullivan, that she should travel in Europe. Adele's new riches cause her to lose her sense of proportion, and she soon is involved with a fast set indulging in the jazz life. Even Tim cannot curb Adele's extravagance, and he returns to America while Adele marries Italian fortune-hunter Prince Arnolfo Da Pescia. When a will is discovered naming Tim as the rightful heir to Clark's Field, Adele and Arnolfo hurry to New York, and Arnolfo tries to steal the will, then dies in a hotel fire. All dispute over the land is ended when Tim and Adele are united.
- At a department store, George seeks help in getting a bone out of his throat. No one will help him; lunch counter girl Gracie wants to talk about airplanes.
- A cameraman is covering police court when a burly, wild-eyed man demands to see the Chief and tells the latter that he demands $200,000 from the president of a street-car company. The demand is backed by the stranger carrying an intricate wired-box charged with dynamite which will explode when the fingers of the demanding stranger release a button, in which event that section of the town will be blown to bits. The Chief devise many intricate plans to divert the disaster, but all are impractical. But the cameraman also has a plan.