- NaN/100 votes
#1 - A Killing At Sundial
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/4/1963
A young interloper comes between a disgruntled wife and her older husband.
Director: Alex Segal
Writer: Rod Serling
- 8.2/1018 votes
#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
- 7.1/1023 votes
#3 - Seven Miles of Bad Road
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/18/1963
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
- 6.9/1012 votes
#4 - Bob Hope Variety Special
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/1963
Also appearing in this variety special are Beryl Davis and and Los Angeles Dodger stars Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale and Tommy Davis.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1016 votes
#5 - 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
- 7.6/108 votes
#6 - 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
- NaN/100 votes
#7 - The House Next Door
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/1963
Easterner George Warren thinks he has made quite a steal when he purchases a home in fashionable Waverly Hills, Cal. George is unaware that his next-door neighbor is mobster Ernie Santee.
Director: Jack Arnold
Writer: N/A
- 5.2/1010 votes
#8 - The Fifth Passenger
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/29/1963
A British Intelligence Officer suspects a Naval War Hero of giving secret information to the Soviets.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1017 votes
#9 - 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
- 8.8/107 votes
#10 - 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
- 5.6/1019 votes
#11 - Corridor 400
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/27/1963
Anita King, an undercover FBI agent. Posing as a nightclub singer, Anita gets a job in a nightclub owned by Ralph Traven. He takes quite a fancy to her; she wants to prove that he's a kingpin in a narcotics ring.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/107 votes
#12 - 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
- 7.4/1016 votes
#13 - 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
- NaN/100 votes
#14 - The Seven Little Foys
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/24/1964
The story of vaudeville performer Eddie Foy, widowed father of a brood of good-natured but exasperating children who are trying to get an education while at the same time continuing to perform with him on stage.
Director: David Butler
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#15 - Two is the Number
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/31/1964
Hoodlum Joey Rome is electrocuted in his home, and police suspect that middle-aged spinster Jenny Dworak is responsible. The murder investigation brings together two lonely people: Jenny Dworak, who runs a pawnshop, and a police investigator who is a widower.
Director: Sydney Pollack
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#16 - A Wind of Hurricane Force
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/7/1964
During a terrible storm in Mexico two men come to heads for the treasure they both seek.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#17 - Wake Up Darling
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/21/1964
Polly Emerson, has aspirations to be an actress. Her husband, Don, is a successful advertising man, who yearns to be a playwright, and has a shelf of unproduced plays to his credit. Don, understandably, isn't too happy when Polly comes home with Deerfield Prescott, a very young man who has written Broadway's next musical hit - or so he tells Polly and Don.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#18 - The Meal Ticket
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/28/1964
Eddie a fly by night kind of guy, finds romance with a wealthy woman.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1011 votes
#19 - 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
- 5.8/108 votes
#20 - White Snow, Red Ice
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/13/1964
Secret agent Piper finds beauty and brains intriguing and disruptive to his assignment.
Director: Buzz Kulik
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1015 votes
#21 - Her School For Bachelors
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/20/1964
Miss Westcott runs her agency with the finese of the best businessmen and runs several clients ragged with her demands.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 4.4/108 votes
#22 - A Slow Fade to Black
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/27/1964
Mike Kirsch built his studio from nothing in the 1920s; now, four decades later, he is on the way out, the victim of a corporate takeover. We follow Kirsch as he exercises his waning authority on a temperamental movie star, browbeats his alcoholic wife, rebellious daughter and longtime yes-man associate Landers, and vainly attempts to push through an outdated pet movie project. Finally he is wrenched off his throne by a former assistant, who is now in cahoots with the conglomerate buying the studio. Kirsch is left alone to weep in his projection room as one of his past hits plays upon the screen.
Director: Ron Winston
Writer: Rod Serling, Steven Bochco
- 5.9/1013 votes
#23 - A Case of Armed Robbery
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 4/3/1964
Montrose is an angry young man whose bitterness alienates him from his father, Alfred, his girlfriend, Jean, and his work foreman. He blames his ex-wife, Carol, for their marriage failure and clumsily attempts to show love for his son Danny. In his resentment he plans to rob a gas station, ends up getting involved with unsavory characters and doing worse.
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#24 - Bob Hope Comedy Special
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 4/17/1964
The first 45 minutes is all entertainment, opening with a Hope monolog. Martha and Bob team up for a spoof of the movie Tom Jones, and Tony and Jack join in to present a new act--The Japanese Beatles. In the awards portion, TV Guide publisher James T. Quirk and Bob make the presentations in Hollywood.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#25 - Time For Elizabeth
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 4/24/1964
After enduring a pompous and tyrannical boss for 28 years, Ed Davis has a brief argument with him, gets fired, and decides to retire to Florida with his wife.
Director: Ezra Stone
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre Season 1
Every episode of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre Season 1!
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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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"A Killing At Sundial" is the best rated episode of "Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre" season 1. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Alex Segal and written by Rod Serling, it aired on 10/4/1963. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Something About Lee Wiley".