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- 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.
- Johnny is a musician who moves to a house in the woods in order to work on his music. Once he arrives, however, he discovers that this is not just any house! His solitude is subsequently disturbed by two magical creatures called Sprites. The Sprites, Ginger and Basil, then learn life lessons from Johnny (in the form of a musical number). Occasionally, Johnny's cranky neighbor, Mrs. Moldystew, peeks across the fence to chastise him for being noisy!
- Official music video for "Torture" by The Jacksons.
- Singer Ruth Etting sings two popular tunes of 1929. The whole short is filmed in one take.
- Cab Calloway performs two numbers at the Cotton Club, then takes his friends down to Harlem for a jitterbug party.
- Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees perform a short program, in the style of his shorter radio programs.
- George is distracted from buying a statue by scatterbrained Gracie.
- Four sailors enter a Singapore dive, meet a Chinese girl from Brooklyn, and find there's more to her than meets the eye. Two songs.
- 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.
- George, working in a hat shop, gets tricky with the customers. Then Gracie comes in and drives him batty.
- George Burns, seeking a tie, is frustrated by department store staff.
- Street-sweeper George flirts with a pretty, but dizzy, nursemaid in the park. Incorporates Burns & Allen's vaudeville "dizzy" routine.
- 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.
- At the barber shop, George has trouble with a hair tonic salesman and an eccentric customer; then he finds that Gracie is his manicurist.
- 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.
- 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.
- George registers at the Jefferson Hotel; after the desk clerk gives him the runaround, he meets Gracie at the cigar counter.
- Burns and Allen have a dizzy conversation in a bookstore.
- Sailor George and his pals visit the Roseland Dance Hall, where funny things happen between conversations with dizzy hostess Gracie.
- 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.
- 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.
- The everyday discoveries of a curious young hand puppet named Oobi. He and his family have funny, simple adventures that celebrate the awkward steps of growing up.
- 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.
- 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.
- A South American festival brings slapstick love trouble to Bob Hope.
- 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.
- The lovable red monster explores different topics in his imaginary world.
- On Clair's birthday, Cliff & their kids surprise her with an act.
- 1984–199221mTV-PG6.2 (112)TV EpisodePam starts working as an assistant for Cliff. Cliff deals with an impatient pregnant patient who tends to misinterpret the instructions he gives her. Meanwhile, Kenny tries to make Rudy jealous by pretending he is dating someone.
- Rudy complains to her parents that she doesn't get to do what her friends can and she still has to follow so many rules. So Cliff and Clair allow Rudy to stay up as late as she wants to teach her a lesson.
- Clair has started menopause. The children talk to each other about menopausal women, hot flashes, confusion, crabbiness, etc. Cliff & Claire play a joke on the kids by pretending she is insane. Aaron, Pam's boyfriend, turns on the romance.
- Cliff babysits Winnie and Nelson when the rest of the family goes to see a Michael Jackson concert.
- The daughter of an acquaintance asks Cliff to help her father make peace with someone whom he's been having a long standing grudge with over a car accident. Because she's been seeing the man's son and would like to get married.
- Olivia's school project is to write about an adult when they were a child, and she writes about Cliff. Theo turns down a corporate job in California so he can finish graduate school in New York. One of Theo's students finds $600.
- Clair goes away for the weekend and tells Cliff he has to behave and not eat a lot of food that is not on his diet. No one believes he will stick to his diet. Rudy and her friends want to take the subway to a dance.
- Theo goes fishing with Cliff and Russell and hooks onto the body of a dead mobster, becoming the object of a local news story. Rudy and Kenny try to hide the fact from Clair that they're taking care of baby birds that have been abandoned.
- Olivia is not feeling well, so several people come up with different remedies to help her feel better.
- Denise comes home from college for the weekend but disappoints her family when she chooses to spend every free moment with her friends instead.
- Clair goes on a crash diet and endures an exhaustive exercise program to lose enough weight to fit into an old dress to wear for an evening out with Cliff.
- 1984–199221mTV-PG6.8 (128)TV EpisodeRudy watches a hamster overnight for a friend but it dies. Feeling bad, Cliff and Rudy buy a replacement hamster. Rudy tells her friend what happened and is surprised how her friend takes the news.