Top-rated
Sun, Jan 13, 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."
Sun, Jan 20, 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."
Sun, Feb 3, 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".
Sun, Apr 27, 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.
Sun, Nov 30, 1952
The first skit has a gigantic TV being shown to NBC executives, where Dean and Jerry interact with their onscreen selves, then a school for Tarzans is run by Dean, and Jerry's an unlikely student. The last sketch has Jerry as a spoiled rotten kid that makes bizarre science experiments.