The Best Episodes of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

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   8.8/10(12 votes)

   #1 - Verdict For Terror

   S4:E213/22/1967

   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.

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   Writer:David Ellis

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   8.6/10(10 votes)

   #2 - War of Nerves

   S1:E121/3/1964

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

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   8.6/10(10 votes)

   #3 - The Betrayal

   S3:E912/8/1965

   Two friends are betrayed by the woman they love.

   Director:Paul Almond

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   8.6/10(14 votes)

   #4 - Dear Deductible

   S4:E711/9/1966

   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

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   8.5/10(36 votes)

   #5 - Double Jeopardy

   S2:E111/8/1965

   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"").

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   8.4/10(13 votes)

   #6 - The Crime

   S3:E29/22/1965

   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

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   8.4/10(9 votes)

   #7 - The Admiral

   S3:E1112/29/1965

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

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   8.3/10(18 votes)

   #8 - Something About Lee Wiley

   S1:E210/11/1963

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

   Director:Sydney Pollack

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   8.2/10(13 votes)

   #9 - Nightmare

   S4:E19/14/1966

   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

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    8.1/10(20 votes)

    #10 - Massacre at Fort Phil Kearny

    S4:E610/26/1966

    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.

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    8.0/10(13 votes)

    #11 - Holloway's Daughters

    S3:E235/11/1966

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

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    8.0/10(12 votes)

    #12 - Deadlock

    S4:E265/17/1967

    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

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    7.9/10(16 votes)

    #13 - Four Kings

    S1:E511/1/1963

    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.

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    7.9/10(17 votes)

    #14 - Cops and Robbers

    S2:E162/19/1965

    When a bungling group of crooks get messed up with a bunch of incompetent cops you know the outcome.

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    7.5/10(20 votes)

    #15 - The Candidate

    S1:E912/6/1963

    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

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    7.5/10(16 votes)

    #16 - Runaway

    S1:E131/10/1964

    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:Unknown

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    7.5/10(19 votes)

    #17 - Murder at N.B.C.

    S4:E510/19/1966

    Fifteen fellow comedians join Bob in ""Murder at NBC"", a spy spoof. Bob plays a mad scientist with a nuclear chemical capable of shrinking the U.S.A. Spies are Don Adams, Milton Berle, Red Buttons, Johnny Carson, Jack Carter, Bill Cosby, Wally Cox, Bill Dana, Jimmy Durante, Don Rickles, Dan Rowan and Dick Martin, Soupy Sales, Dick Shawn and Jonathan Winters.

    Director:Unknown

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    7.3/10(13 votes)

    #18 - Bob Hope Variety Special

    S1:E410/25/1963

    Also appearing in this variety special are Beryl Davis and and Los Angeles Dodger stars Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale and Tommy Davis.

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    7.2/10(13 votes)

    #19 - The Square Peg

    S1:E193/6/1964

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

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    7.1/10(25 votes)

    #20 - Seven Miles of Bad Road

    S1:E310/18/1963

    In a small southern town, the sheriff's wife is attracted to handsome Gabe Flanders, who is hitchhiking to California. Trouble ensues.

    Director:Douglas Heyes

    Writer:Douglas Heyes

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    7.1/10(26 votes)

    #21 - Code Name: Heraclitus (2)

    S4:E161/25/1967

    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:Unknown

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    7.0/10(15 votes)

    #22 - Her School For Bachelors

    S1:E213/20/1964

    Miss Westcott runs her agency with the finese of the best businessmen and runs several clients ragged with her demands.

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    7.0/10(20 votes)

    #23 - The Game

    S3:E19/15/1965

    After being invited for a big hunt, he soon realizes he is the game.

    Director:Sydney Pollack

    Writer:Unknown

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    6.9/10(15 votes)

    #24 - Mr. Biddle's Crime Wave

    S2:E812/4/1964

    Eccentric research chemist Arthur Biddle isn't a safe man to be around: he's caused two plants to burn down and done extensive damage to another, managed to break a few traffic regulations, wrecked a policeman's motorcycle and has accidentally broken the arm of police chief Sinclair—who also happens to be his fiancee's father.

    Director:Lawrence Dobkin

    Writer:Unknown

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    6.9/10(14 votes)

    #25 - Bob Hope Comedy Special

    S3:E214/13/1966

    Sketches include “Pagoda Place,” after remarrying a wealthy Japanese woman learns that her husband is still alive; “The Putrid Six” stars Bob as a sinister bandit chief and Lee as a sissy gangster with Johnine Lee as Chiquita; and a police lieutenant (Bob) investigates Oscar nominee Rock Surly (Jonathan), who is suspected of murdering the other contenders.

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