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The Best Episodes of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Every episode of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre!

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show...
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Best Episodes Summary

"It's Mental Work" is the best rated episode of "Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre". It scored 8.8/10 based on 7 votes. Directed by Alex March and written by N/A, it aired on 12/20/1963. This episode scored 0.6 points higher than the second highest rated, "Something About Lee Wiley".

  • It's Mental Work
    8.8/107 votes
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    #1 - It's Mental Work

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/20/1963

    Ernie Wigman is tired of the bar he owns and wants to get rid of it. Rich, his bartender, might be a good customer for it, only Rich doesn't seem to have the cash.

    Director: Alex March

    Writer: N/A

  • Something About Lee Wiley
    8.2/1018 votes
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    #2 - Something About Lee Wiley

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/11/1963

    The story of jazz singer Lee Wiley, her failed marriage to bandleader Jess Stacy.

    Director: Sydney Pollack

    Writer: N/A

  • The Admiral
    8.2/107 votes
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    #3 - The Admiral

    Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/29/1965

    The admiral's wife dies, he tries to begin again and get along with his son.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Nightmare
    8.2/1013 votes
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    #4 - Nightmare

    Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1966

    In her secluded mansion, crippled Isobel Cain receives loving care from her husband Morgan and her twin sister Vicky. But the two have more than Isobel's welfare at heart: they're planning to poison dear Isobel and live happily ever after on her money.

    Director: Robert Stevens

    Writer: Leslie Stevens

  • Verdict For Terror
    8.2/1012 votes
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    #5 - Verdict For Terror

    Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 3/22/1967

    Law student Darryl Cooper invites an ambitious D.A. to meet his fraternity brothers in 'the griddle,' a political question and answer session. The D.A. accepts, but soon wishes he hadn't, five years ago, he sent Darryl's brother to the gas chamber. Now, Darryl intends to use the griddle to prove his brother's innocence, and to destroy the D.A.'s career.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: David Ellis

  • Double Jeopardy
    8.1/1034 votes
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    #6 - Double Jeopardy

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/8/1965

    Fred Piper, a jet-setting private eye who takes on cases no one else can solve. Right now he's trying to find out what happened to a missing millionaire, a task made difficult by the millionaire's wife. For some reason, she doesn't want Piper to question her identical twin sister (note the title ""Double Jeopardy"").

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Massacre at Fort Phil Kearny
    8.1/1019 votes
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    #7 - Massacre at Fort Phil Kearny

    Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/1966

    On December 21, 1866 eighty men rode out of Fort Phil Kearny to support a wood-cutting expedition that had come under attack. The wood was necessary to build the fort. They were led out onto the Bozeman Trail and ambused in the pass by the Sioux and wiped out. The leader of the Sioux tribe was Chief Red Cloud.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Holloway's Daughters
    8.0/1012 votes
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    #8 - Holloway's Daughters

    Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 5/11/1966

    Admiral Holloway has one big problem, his daughters! When suitors come knocking, they usually end up running.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Deadlock
    7.9/1010 votes
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    #9 - Deadlock

    Season 4 Episode 26 - Aired 5/17/1967

    Virginia Cloyd is the widow of a notorious criminal. Early one morning, Virginia calmly walks into a police precinct office--armed with a pistol and vial of nitroglycerine. In a measured voice, she announces that she intends to wait for detective James Lassiter, the man responsible for the death of her husband. She also declares that she intends to kill Lassiter, in full view of the other cops.

    Director: Leo Penn

    Writer: Evan Hunter

  • Four Kings
    7.8/1016 votes
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    #10 - Four Kings

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/1/1963

    Four Kings is a World War II drama where four prisoners are serving life sentences. They are pulled out of jail by the US military and given an opportunity for a pardon. The ""brass"" isn't asking for much: all the four lifers are expected to do is sneak into Germany and steal the secret plans for the V2 missile.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • War of Nerves
    7.8/107 votes
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    #11 - War of Nerves

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/3/1964

    Two suitors drive a beautiful woman crazy with their pursuit of her.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Wipeout
    7.8/107 votes
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    #12 - Wipeout

    Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 4/26/1967

    Surfer Greg Travis tries to cash in on his friendship with an aging film star-by stealing her multimillion-dollar jewel collection.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Game with Glass Pieces
    7.7/108 votes
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    #13 - The Game with Glass Pieces

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 5/1/1964

    A deadly game of cat and mouse, where everything isn't what it seems to be.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
    7.6/108 votes
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    #14 - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/1963

    Under Stalin, it was inconceivable that anyone could publish a book attacking Soviet injustice. But under Khrushchev, a limited but distinct thaw has taken place. Prime evidence of this change was open publication of One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich, an exposé of Stalin's labor camps where the author, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, himself did time. Tonight's adaptation of the novel is set in 1951 in Siberia. A group of prisoners persuade the authorities to transfer them to warmer work by promising to top the previous work record on the first day. But if they fail, it's back to laying barbed wire in the snow. One officer, Lieutenant Volkovoi, would like nothing better.

    Director: Daniel Petrie

    Writer: N/A

  • Dear Deductible
    7.6/1013 votes
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    #15 - Dear Deductible

    Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1966

    A popular but improvident songwriter, after spending all of his royalties, agrees to marry an heiress, not because of her money, but because of her lack of money. You see, both plan to file a joint income tax return, thereby enjoying the bounty of the IRS' ""deductible"" system. This will keep them both solvent until they can recoup their fortunes.

    Director: Jess Oppenheimer

    Writer: N/A

  • To Sleep, Perchance to Scream
    7.6/109 votes
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    #16 - To Sleep, Perchance to Scream

    Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired 5/10/1967

    In Hollywood, private eye Adam Steele investigates the murder of a colleague who was working for a ruthless business tycoon. Steele?s search for motive and murder leads up several blind alleys-but all are somehow connected with his friend's employer.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Candidate
    7.5/1017 votes
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    #17 - The Candidate

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/6/1963

    Things seem to be closing in on campaign manager Parker Hite: he can't get any supporters for his candidate, and his marriage is beginning to collapse.

    Director: Stuart Rosenberg

    Writer: N/A

  • The Betrayal
    7.5/109 votes
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    #18 - The Betrayal

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 12/8/1965

    Two friends are betrayed by the woman they love.

    Director: Paul Almond

    Writer: N/A

  • Runaway
    7.4/1016 votes
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    #19 - Runaway

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/10/1964

    When folksinger Richie Darden fails to show up for a performance, his girlfriend Cress thinks club owner Mig Semple should put Richie's expensive guitar in his safe. And Cress has the right idea--two customers are planning to steal the instrument.

    Director: Paul Stewart

    Writer: N/A

  • The Crime
    7.4/1010 votes
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    #20 - The Crime

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1965

    A pair of illicit lovers have been murdered, and prosecuting attorney Abe Perez is going all out to get a conviction against the dead man's wife, a wealthy socialite who used to date Perez.

    Director: Ron Winston

    Writer: N/A

  • The Reason Nobody Hardly Ever Seen A Fat Outlaw in the Old West is as Follows
    7.4/108 votes
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    #21 - The Reason Nobody Hardly Ever Seen A Fat Outlaw in the Old West is as Follows

    Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 3/8/1967

    Comical Sheriff Tinsley is up against the Swine Gang and mighty frightened of Curly the Kid.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Code Name: Heraclitus (2)
    7.3/1024 votes
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    #22 - Code Name: Heraclitus (2)

    Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 1/25/1967

    A man who dies on an operating table is brought back to life, but he has no memory of anything that happened before he wakes up. A government agent decides that he would make a perfect undercover operative.

    Director: James Goldstone

    Writer: N/A

  • The Square Peg
    7.2/1011 votes
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    #23 - The Square Peg

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/6/1964

    Comedy about a gangster who hires a ""personnel psychologist"" to evaluate the aptitudes of his gang.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Fliers
    7.2/1012 votes
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    #24 - The Fliers

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/5/1965

    After being captured the fliers resort to all kinds of mischief to disrupt the plans of the enemy.

    Director: Sydney Pollack

    Writer: N/A

  • In Any Language
    7.2/109 votes
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    #25 - In Any Language

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 3/12/1965

    Hannah King has two reasons for being in Rome: to win back her husband, who's courting an Arabian princess; and to land a role in Italian director Aldo Carmenelli's new art film.

    Director: Lawrence Dobkin

    Writer: N/A