The Best Episodes of Kraft Music Hall Season 13

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   #1 - Alan King Looks At Women's Rights & Wrongs

   S13:E19/16/1970

   Season Premiere: ""Women's Liberation"" theme Sketches: --Eva Gabor plays a female baseball player giving an interview. --A newly liberated woman (Eva Gabor) and her husband (Paul Lynde) share their newfound happiness with friends (Alan King & Anne Meara). --An elderly couple (Alan King and Totie Fields) argue over who is is charge of the family. The couple sings ""Do You Love Me?"" --A runaway wife returns home. The husband is Alan King and the wife is...Paul Lynde!

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   #2 - Mr. Anthony Quinn and Miss Peggy Lee

   S13:E29/23/1970

   Music: --Anthony Quinn and Peggy Lee - ""What Is a Woman?"" & ""Love Story."" --Peggy Lee - ""He's Got the Whole World in His Hands,"" ""Lost in the Stars,"" ""Don't Explain"" & ""Me and My Shadow."" The duo also appeared in a few vignettes: (1) a scene from ""Requiem for a Heavyweight"" (2) a ""carnival barker"" (3) a scene from a Thomas Wolfe novel --Anthony Quinn and Peggy Lee also appeared as three different couples (an English couple, a Japanese couple and an Italian couple) in three short scenes. Each scene ended with the words ""you don't love me anymore.""

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   #3 - The Friars Roast Don Rickles

   S13:E39/30/1970

   Friars roast Don Rickles --Johnny Carson (Roastmaster) --Milton Berle --George C. Scott --Alan King --Henny Youngman --Dick Cavett --Chet Huntley

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   #4 - Alan King - Things Ain't What They Used to Be

   S13:E410/7/1970

   ""Things Ain't What They Used to Be"" - a comedic look at modern life with Alan King, Lena Horne, Charles Nelson Reilly, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. Comedy: --Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara play (1) a couple having an argument during their visit to the top of a skyscraper construction site; (2) parents aggravated by their college drop-out son (played by Charles Nelson Reilly). --A patient (Alan King) suffering from back troubles visits an indifferent doctor (Charles Nelson Reilly) NBC repeated this show on April 28, 1971.

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   #5 - 4th Annual Country Music Association Awards

   S13:E510/14/1970

   4th Annual Country Music Association Awards (broadcast from the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville) --hosted by Tennessee Ernie Ford Scheduled performers: --Tennessee Ernie Ford - ""Sixteen Tons"" --Merle Haggard - ""Okie From Muskogee"" --Charley Pride - ""I'm So Afraid of Losing You"" --Marty Robbins - ""My Woman, My Woman, My Wife"" Nominees scheduled to appear: --Lynn Anderson --Glen Campbell --Johnny Cash --Roy Clark --Merle Haggard --Loretta Lynn --Dolly Parton --Charley Pride --Marty Robbins --Connie Smith --Conway Twitty --Tammy Wynette

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   #6 - Bob & Carol & Martin & Barbara

   S13:E610/21/1970

   --Robert Goulet & Carol Lawrence --Martin Landau & Barbara Bain

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   #7 - TV's Hit Parade of Comedy

   S13:E710/28/1970

   --Milton Berle --Sid Caesar --Phil Silvers

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   #8 - The Kopy Kats

   S13:E811/11/1970

   ""The Kopycats"" with Edie Adams, David Frye, Frank Gorshin, Will Jordan, George Kirby and Rich Little doing celebrity impressions. Impersonations (comedy sketches): --David Brinkley interviews Hubert Humphrey, Nelson Rockefeller and George Wallace. --Pearl Bailey and Al Jolson sing a duet. --Howard Cosell interviews Truman Capote. --A western barroom shootout between Walter Brennan, Andy Devine, Kirk Douglas and Henry Fonda. NBC repeated this show on May 12, 1971.

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   #9 - Don Adams Investigates The Detectives

   S13:E911/18/1970

   ""Don Adams Investigates The Detectives"" Sketches: --""Sam Spade and the Maltese Parakeet"" with Don Adams (imitating Bogart), Raymond Burr, Will Jordan and Elisha Cook. --Don Adams also plays Charlie Chan --""Tony Romeo"" with David Janssen --""Four on the Isle"" - a spoof of Agatha Christie's ""Ten Little Indians"" Also blackouts spoofing ""The Untouchables,"" ""Dragnet"" and ""77 Sunset Strip""

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    #10 - Kraft Presents Robert Young

    S13:E1012/2/1970

    --Robert Young & Jane Wyatt --Lucie & Desi Arnaz Jr. --The Young Americans

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    #11 - Love & Marriage, Part 1

    S13:E1112/9/1970

    ""Love & Marriage"" part 1: --Alan King --Michele Lee --James Coco --Stiller & Meara --Nancy Walker

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    #12 - Love & Marriage, Part 2

    S13:E1212/16/1970

    ""Love & Marriage, Part 2"" Comedy: --Alan King as Skakespeare and Michele Lee as his wife, who gives him his inspiration. --Alan King and Nancy Walker are parents who see their plain daughter in entirely different lights. --Alan King and James Coco as divorce lawyers who become too emotional about their clients. --A card player asks his buddies, ""Why can't A woman be more like a man?"" Music: --Michele Lee - sings ""I Don't Care"" and ""It Never Entered My Mind""

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    #13 - The Eve Before Christmas Eve

    S13:E1312/23/1970

    ""The Eve Before Christmas Eve"" (a Christmas musicale) --Eddy Arnold --Brenda Lee --Charley Pride --The Klowns

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    #14 - On Stage: Miss America

    S13:E141/6/1971

    ""On Stage: Miss America"" - Variety hour with 5 Miss America winners & 5 talent winners. --Hosted by Bert Parks Five current and past Miss America winners: --Phyllis George (reigning Miss America) --Judith Anne Ford (1969) - doing a trampoline act. --Debra Barnes (1968) - playing Chopin on piano --Vonda Kay Van Dyke (1965) - sings with Bert Parks --Mary Ann Mobley (1959) - sings ""Celebration"" Five women who won the talent catagory: --Anita Bryant (1958) - ""The Impossible Dream"" --Ann Fowler (1960) - ""I Got Love"" --Susan Henryson (1961) - ""Lorelei"" --Betty Buckley (1966) - ""Cycles."" --Adria Easton (1969) - baton twirling

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    #15 - Alan King Plays The Games People Play

    S13:E151/13/1971

    ""Alan King Plays the Games People Play"" Sketches --James Coco and Anne Meara are a married couple trying not to have a fight. --Alan King plays the star of his son's cinema verite project. --Alan King plays a long-suffering hospital patient --""The Pop Game"" - the cast does a roll call of ""in"" people and trends. Music: --Mary Ann Mobley - ""Games People Play"" --All (entire cast) - Your Health, My Friends""

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    #16 - The Kopy Kats Kopy TV

    S13:E161/20/1971

    ""The Kopy Kats Kopy TV"" --The cast does impressions of actors and TV stars. This includes parodies of (1) classic movies shown on the late show (2) the ""Honeymooners"" series, and (3) Johnny Carson and his ""Tonight Show"" guests. --In a serious moment, George Kirby pays tribute to Joe Louis, the onetime boxing heavyweight champion of the world.

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    #17 - The Friars Roast Jerry Lewis

    S13:E171/27/1971

    Friars roast Jerry Lewis --Johnny Carson (as the Roastmaster) --Milton Berle --Jack Carter --Charlie Callas --Alan King --Rex Reed (the movie critic) --Don Rickles

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    #18 - Locker Room Follies

    S13:E182/3/1971

    ""Locker Room Follies"" --Don Rickles --Joe Frazier (heavyweight champion) --Bill Russell (basketball player) --Vic Hadfield (hockey player) --Boog Powell (baseball player) --Alex Karras (football player) --Tony Conigliaro (baseball player) --The Harlem Magicians (basketball) Sketches: --Rickles plays a doctor overwhelmed by a string of injured athletes. --A 98-year-old football coach gives his team a pep talk. --""The Loser"" - Rickles as a locker-room attendant recalling his days as a football player. --The cast appears in a ""Gunsmoke"" parody.

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    #19 - Kraft Presents Eddy Arnold

    S13:E192/10/1971

    ""Eddie Arnold & the Young Americans"" --Loretta Lynn --Marty Robbins

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    #20 - Alan King's Wonderful World of Aggravation...1971

    S13:E202/17/1971

    ""Alan King's Wonderful World of Aggravation...1971"" Comedy: --Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara are former sweethearts reminiscing at a high school reunion. --Marriage counselor sketch with Anne Meara and Alan King as an incompatable couple. --Alan King plays a man named Oscar Plotman, who's dealing with his free-loading brother-in-law (played by Coco) Music: --Lena Horne - ""To a Small Degree"" --Lena Horne and Alan King - ""Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries""

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    #21 - Kraft Presents The Festival of Music

    S13:E213/3/1971

    ""A Festival of Music"" --Chet Akins --Boots Randolph --Lynn Anderson --Floyd Cramer

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    #22 - Surburbia, U.S.A.

    S13:E223/17/1971

    ""Surburbia, U.S.A."" --Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme --Barbara Feldon --Sid Caesar --Anne Meara

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    #23 - Kraft Salutes The Oscars

    S13:E233/31/1971

    ""A Salute to the Oscars"" --Bette Davis --Michele Lee --Stiller & Meara --Frank Gorshin

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    #24 - Des O'Connor / Jack Benny / New Faces / Connie Stevens

    S13:E246/2/1971

    From London: --Des O'Connor (Summer 1971 host) --Jack Benny --New Faces --Connie Stevens (series regular) --Jack Douglas (series regular) --Mike Sammes singers (series regulars)

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    #25 - Des O'Connor / Jack Benny / New Faces / Connie Stevens

    S13:E256/9/1971

    From London (encore show - same guests as last week): --Des O'Connor (Summer 1971 host) - ""To Be the One You Love,"" ""Anytime"" & ""The Tip of My Fingers"" --Jack Benny - appears in 2 comedy skits --New Faces & Des O'Connor - ""Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma"" --Connie Stevens (series regular) - ""The Whiffenpoof Song"" & ""When I Look in Your Eyes"" --Connie Stevens & Des O'Connor - ""Jackson""

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