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The Best Episodes of The Colgate Comedy Hour Season 4

Every episode of The Colgate Comedy Hour Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Colgate Comedy Hour Season 4!

The Best Episodes of The Colgate Comedy Hour Season 4

The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many...

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  1. 9.1/10(30 votes)

    #1 - Abbott & Costello

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  2. 8.7/10(34 votes)

    #2 - Abbott & Costello

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    One in this comedy/variety series with rotating hosts. The comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello star in this live episode. Highlights include the following: Bud and Lou get fired from their jobs at a department store after attempting to sell nylons; Abbott and his friends sucker Costello out of his pay, but Lou gets his revenge; Hoagy Carmichael sings and is visited by child actor Ricky Vera; Costello and Vera try to tell each other the tale of Little Red Riding Hood and crack each other up in the process; Abbott cons Costello out of his money, but Vera gets the last laugh; Peggy Lee sings "Johnny Guitar," "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered," and the "Halo Shampoo" song; Costello gets appliances with meters and has to pay a quarter every time he uses one, prompting a lot of mayhem as he attempts to try each one out; the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra plays "Midnight Sleigh Ride" and "Holiday"; and Costello attempts to dance with a woman who is almost twice his height.

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  3. 8.2/10(27 votes)

    #3 - Abbott & Costello

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    Bud Abbott and Lou Costello welcome guests including: Jane Russell; Rhonda Fleming; A&C stalwarts Connie Haines, Bobby Barber and Mike Ross; actress Beryl Davis; actors Tony Martinez, Nestor Paiva, Frank Richards, Benny Rubin, Jim Hayward and Ken Mayer; Jack Shea; Baby Mistin; Donna Kaye; announcer Hal Sawyer; and Al Goodman and his Orchestra. In comedy highlights, the boys are flat broke in a bording house in the Latin American country of Bolamania. They rehearse a magic trick, hoping to get a job at a nightclub. Then Lou gets the great idea of impersonating the El Presidente! Also, take offs on Liberace and You Bet Your Life.

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  4. 7.8/10(12 votes)

    #4 - Martin & Lewis

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  5. 7.3/10(22 votes)

    #5 - Martin & Lewis

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    Skits: Burt plays an escaped lunatick. Songs: "Great To Be Home", "You're The Right One", "That's Amore", "There's No Tomorrow"

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  6. 7.0/10(11 votes)

    #6 - Martin & Lewis

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  8. 6.8/10(29 votes)

    #7 - Sonja Henie (with Abbott & Costello)

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    Gene Wesson hosts with guests Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, skater Sonja Henie, comic/singer Keefe Brasselle, with Carolyn Jones, Joyce Jameson, Michael Ross, Will J. White, Jud Conlon Singers, Norman Abbott, Glen Stangle, and announcer Hal Sawyer. Wesson and Brasselle perform dueling impressions, a sketch depicts a mob-run coffee shop, and Abbott and Costello encounter the Frankenstein Monster and the Gill Man in the Universal Studios' prop room.

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  9. 6.6/10(88 votes)

    #8 - ANYTHING GOES w Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, Bert Lahr

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    #9 - Jimmy Durante

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    #10 - Eddie Cantor

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    #11 - Donald O'Connor

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    #12 - Bud Abbott with Martin & Lewis

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    #13 - Jimmy Durante

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    #14 - Martha Raye

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    #15 - Donald O'Connor

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    #16 - Eddie Cantor

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    Highlights include a take-off on TV westerns where all the characters speak in voice-overs and a salute to the songs of Harold Arlen.

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    #17 - Jimmy Durante

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    #18 - Perry Como and Martha Raye

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    #19 - Donald O'Connor

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    #20 - Eddie Cantor

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    #21 - Jimmy Durante

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    #22 - Alan Young, Stan Freberg, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby

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    #23 - Ethel Merman

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    #24 - Eddie Cantor

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    #25 - Jimmy Durante

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"Abbott & Costello" is the best rated episode of "The Colgate Comedy Hour" season 4. It scored 9.1/10 based on 30 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/21/1954. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Abbott & Costello".