8.2/1013 votes#1 - 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
- NaN/100 votes
#2 - Time of Flight
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1966
Private detective Al Packer had his legs broken by two hoods after he put their friend behind bars. Now, barely able to hobble around his apartment, Packer receives an attractive offer for a routine job: $300 a week to protect a small-time thief named Markos. But the new case is anything but routine: At a seedy hotel hideout, Packer sees Markos gunned down -- or does he? The ""corpse"" comes alive, fires Packer and leaves the hotel.
Director: Joseph Sargent
Writer: Richard Matheson
- NaN/100 votes
#3 - And Baby Makes Five
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1966
A New York author fed up with the pressures of urban living, quits his job and moves with his pregnant wife to a small California town. Here he accepts an editor's position at a tiny weekly newspaper, inspiring both praise and wrath by using the publication as a pulpit for his crusading.
Director: Hal Kanter
Writer: Hal Kanter
- NaN/100 votes
#4 - Crazier than Cotton
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/1966
Matt, a 34-year-old sculptor who is spectacularly unsuccessful, knows he's hit rock bottom when he has to borrow money from his girlfriend in order to attend his father's funeral. As he stands at graveside, Matt vows to do something ""worthwhile"" with his life. Problem is, sculpting is all he knows.
Director: S. Lee Pogostin
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1018 votes
#5 - Murder at N.B.C.
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1966
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1019 votes
#6 - 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
- 7.6/1013 votes
#7 - 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
- NaN/100 votes
#8 - Bing and Me
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1966
Where there's Hope, there's often Bing. And when Bing and Bob get together you'll invariably find pretty scenery - almost all of it female! Bob introduces Bach Yen (White Swallow), a 23-year old Vietnamese singer, and his own selection of promising Hollywood starlets. Bach Yen sings ""What Now My Love?"" (in French & English) and ""Dem Dong"", a Vietnamese folk song. Bing offers ""In the Cool, Cool of the Evening"" and ""Pennies From Heaven"". Sketches include, a wealthy Texan (Bob) and a snooty Englishman (Bing) enter their prize ponies in the Grand National. And ""Fantastic Stomach"" a parody of the movie ""Fantastic Voyage"" which finds a miniaturized Bob and Bing penetrating the Vast Waistline to find out what's ailing Jackie Gleason. Les Brown conducts the orchestra.
Director: Jack Shea
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#9 - The Blue-Eyed Horse
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/23/1966
A beleaguered husband stands before the judge, trying to explain why his wife has disappeared. The police suspect foul play, offering as evidence the strained relationship of the couple and the debts incurred by her gambling. Only he knows (or thinks he knows) the incredible truth: his wife has been magically transformed into a horse!
Director: Hal Kanter
Writer: Michael Fessier
- NaN/100 votes
#10 - The Fatal Mistake
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/30/1966
Set in England, a respectable accountant and family man every month on the dot, he is visited by his ""friend"", who graciously bestows gifts upon his wife and children, then retires with his host into the den. Here he collects his monthly blackmail check--just as he does with all his other ""clients"". Tired of paying out extortion, he plans a neat little mishap for him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#11 - Storm Crossing
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/7/1966
Trapped by a severe storm, do they risk getting out.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#12 - The Eighth Day
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 12/21/1966
An embittered ex-athelete finds himself very much alone after stealing priceless jewels from a church on Christmas Eve.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#13 - Free of Charge
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 12/28/1966
This free-wheeling story about a composer named Harrybell, who swings around Los Angles seeking inspiration for a musical tribute to the city. Harrybell is also running from the police, who think he?s some kind of nut.
Director: S. Lee Pogostin
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#14 - A Time to Love
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 1/11/1967
A tired doctor is renewed by a young protege while his wife finds her own distraction.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#15 - Code Name: Heraclitus (1)
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 1/18/1967
Frank G. Wheatley is a British spy who is investigating the past of Lydia Constantine, the widow of a secret agent. Constantine is suspected of selling Cold War secrets to the Communists. To ascertain the truth, it is necessary to ""rebuild"" Constantine and send his living counterpart behind the Iron Curtain.
Director: James Goldstone
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1024 votes
#16 - 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
- NaN/100 votes
#17 - The Lady is My Wife
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 2/1/1967
Set in the post-Civil War Old West. A wealthy horse breeder hires the Bannisters, a genteel--and broke--Southern couple. The cowboy has more in mind than horses when he sets his sights on Mrs. Bannister.
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#18 - Blind Man's Bluff
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 2/8/1967
While investigating a murder, involvements become an entangled mess when love happens.
Director: Gordon Hessler
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#19 - A Song Called Revenge
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 3/1/1967
A singer gets caught up in a romantic triangle.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#20 - 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
- 8.4/1011 votes
#21 - 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
- NaN/100 votes
#22 - Dead Wrong
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 4/5/1967
A tense drama about a hermit monk, whose isolated mountain cabin is invaded by a gun-wielding ex-convict, his younger brother and the girl they both love.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: William Kelley
- NaN/100 votes
#23 - Don't Wait For Tomorrow
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 4/19/1967
Newspaperman Matt Braid's search for an international criminal leads him to a lavish villa on a Greek island -- where a vicious beating convinces Braid that he's on the right track.
Director: Harvey Hart
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/107 votes
#24 - 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
- 7.6/109 votes
#25 - 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 Best Episodes of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre Season 4
Every episode of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre Season 4!
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 4 Ratings Summary
"Nightmare" is the best rated episode of "Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre" season 4. It scored 8.2/10 based on 13 votes. Directed by Robert Stevens and written by Leslie Stevens, it aired on 9/14/1966. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Time of Flight".