Sat, Feb 2, 1952
Olsen and Johnson terrorize a saloon in a travesty of Westerns. Their acting school production of Shakespeare turns into an extended commercial for Snow Crop orange juice. Young Chet Allen sings "You'll Never Walk Alone." Sight gags rule in their classical play "Marie Antoinette" featuring a cameo by Berle. At O & J's dance, a man from the audience is crowned the party queen.
Sat, Mar 1, 1952
Guests with Olsen and Johnson include regulars J. C. Olsen, Marty May, June Johnson, plus the Ben Yost Trio and dance team Patrice Helene and Jan Howard. The jokes and non sequiturs fly when O & J rent a fleabag room and when they play Martin and Kane, private detectives. Chic is mistaken for a ritzy customer when he wanders into a fashion designers salon to use the phone. In the Party in the Round segment, child dancer Errol Smith performs and a serviceman from the audience plays along in a silly quiz.
Sat, Apr 5, 1952
Ed introduces Dinah through the screen of a gigantic television, and the recreate her video debut on Ed's 1949-50 series singing "Tea For Two" while riding the wacky piano bicycle. Pat O'Brien gives Ed an award from the Lamb's club for fifty years in show business. There's a skit about a bric-a-brac throwing French actress that calms down only when Ed and Teddy Snowcrop ply her with orange juice and frozen food, and another where Ed's making a 1920's movie starring Dinah.
Sat, Apr 26, 1952
In a live show from San Francisco's Presido, Hope and McMurray play waterfront fishermen, two shop owners in Chinatown, and prisoners breaking out of Alcatraz. The Bell Sisters perform "Wheel of Fortune" and a comedy number, "June Night", with Bob. Rich prospector Hope drops by a Barbary Coast bar where everyone wants his gold. Bob and Fred do "Small Fry." Alpaka sings "Beyond the Reef."
Sat, May 10, 1952
Danny plays a frustrated husband whose movie-crazed wife imagines everyone she sees is a star. Eleanor Powell performs two dance production numbers. June Havoc portrays self-absorbed vaudeville diva Cushions La Fay. A production number with the cast looks at the then-crazy idea of a woman president.
Sat, May 17, 1952
The Ritz Brothers perform a song and dance dressed as Revolutionary War soldiers, and another impersonating French vocalists. In an extended Snow Crop commercial, the boys are runners at a track meet. Evelyn Knight sings "Just One of Those Things" and "Dark Eyes." Jack Webb narrates a "Dragnet" take-off as the brothers investigate a murder. The three play Gypsy fortune tellers.