7.4/1033 votes#1 - Frank Sinatra / Diahann Carroll / Jan & Dean
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1965
Premiere Episode of The Dean Martin Show.Music:--Frank Sinatra sings ""Is It Love"" and ""September Song""--Dean Martin - ""Houston""--Jan & Dean - ""Little Old Lady From Pasadena""Also appearing:--Bob Newhart--Danny Thomas--Diahann Carroll--Steve Allen--Frankie Avalon--Joey HeathertonThe Sid and Marty Krofft puppets also appear.
Director: Greg Garrison
Writer: N/A
- 5.8/1030 votes
#2 - Episode #2
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1965
Music: --John Wayne and Dean Martin - ""Don't Fence Me In"" and ""Everybody Loves Somebody"" --Dean Martin - ""Send Me the Pillow That You Dream On"" --Peggy Lee - ""When a Woman Loves a Man,"" ""I'm Just Wild About Harry,"" ""Bill"" and ""Alright, Okay, You Win"" --Dean Martin (with the Krofft Puppets) - ""I've Got Your Number"" --Jack Jones - 'Sound of Music' medley (""Sound of Music,"" ""My Favorite Things"" and ""Climb Every Mountain"") --Shari Lewis - ""The Name Game"" --The Krofft Puppets - ""Tweedlee Dee"" Also: Rudy Cardenas (juggler) Walker Dare Wahl (comedian)
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#3 - Episode #3
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1965
--The Dave Clark Five - ""Catch Us If You Can"" and ""Having a Wild Weekend"" --Eddie Fisher - ""When I Was Young"" and ""Lady of Spain"" --Abbe Lane - ""Pass Me By,"" ""Let's Fall in Love"" and ""Hernando's Hideaway"" --Phyllis Diller --Dean Martin - ""Here Comes My Baby"" --Dean Martin (with the Krofft Puppets) - ""C'est Magnifique"" --Dean Martin, Eddie Fisher and John Bubbles - ""We Three"" --John Bubbles (singer-dancer) - ""Lady Be Good"" and ""When My Baby Smiles at Me"" --Kroft Puppets - ""I Enjoy Being a Girl""
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#4 - Episode #4
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1965
--Dean Martin - ""Born to Lose"" --The Curtis Brothers (dancers) --Vic Damone - ""Someday"" and ""You Don't Know Me"" --Ferrante and Teicher (piano duo) - ""Brazilian Sleigh Bells"" --The Hardy Family (balancing act) --Gordon and Sheila MacRae - ""Where Would You Be Without Me?"" --Gordon MacRae - ""Who Can I Turn To?"" --Allan Sherman (comedian) - sings parodies of ""Secret Love,"" ""Old Black Magic"" and ""Heart"" --Shani Wallis (singer) - ""I'm a Girl"" and ""How Are Things in Glocca Morra?""
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#5 - Episode #5
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1965
Music: --Dino, Desi and Billy (Dean Martin Jr., Desi Arnaz Jr. and Billy Hinsche) - ""I'm A Fool"" and ""Not the Lovin' Kind"" --Pearl Bailey - ""What Is a Man?"" and ""You Can't Make It Anywhere"" --Serendipity Singers - ""Sobbin' Women"" --Dean Martin - ""Take These Chains"" --Dean Martin, Pearl Bailey & George Gobel - ""In a Little Spanish Town"" and ""It Happened in Monterey"" --Gretchen Wyler - ""Bidin' My Time"" --Dukes of Dixieland - ""Muskrat Ramble"" and ""Exactly Like You""
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#6 - Episode #6
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1965
--Dean Martin - ""King of the Road"" --Dean Martin and Louis Armstrong - medley: ""My Kind of Girl,"" ""Sweet Sue,"" ""Diane,"" ""Sweet Georgia Brown"" and ""Hello, Dolly"" --Louis Armstrong and band - ""A Lot of Livin' to Do"" and ""My Bucket's Got a Hole in It"" --Robert Goulet - ""Come Back to Me"" and ""Time After Time"" --Lainie Kazan - ""My Man's Gone Now"" and ""Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair"" --Kirby Stone Four (vocal group) --Brascia and Tybee (dance team) --Helene and Howard (comedic dancers) --The Trio Leema (comedic contortionists)
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#7 - Episode #7
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/28/1965
--Dean Martin - ""They'll Never Believe Me"" --Dean Martin (with the Krofft Puppets) - ""Give Me a Little Kiss"" --Dean Martin, Jane Powell and Jonathan Winters - medley of songs from vintage movie musicals. --John Gary - ""How Deep Is the Ocean?"" and ""Possum Song"" --Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five - ""Caledonia"" and ""Honey Bee"" --Jane Powell - ""Do I Hear a Waltz?"" --Jonathan Winters (comedian) --The Krofft Puppets - ""What's New Pussycat?""
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#8 - Episode #8
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/1965
Music: --Dean Martin - ""Where Or When"" --Ethel Merman - ""All Alone"" and ""All by Myself"" --Dean Martin and Ethel Merman - Broadway medley (see ""Recap"" for song titles) --Leslie Uggams - ""Keep Your Head on the Plow,"" ""He's Got the Whole World in His Hands"" and ""Sermonette"" --Joey Heatherton (singer-dancer) - ""Looking for a Boy"" --The New Christy Minstrels - ""Wimoweh"" Also: --Jack Carter (comedian) --Leonard Barr (comic dancer, Dean Martin's uncle) --The Carlssons (balancing act)
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#9 - Episode #9
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/11/1965
Show #9 Guests: --Mickey Rooney --Tammy Grimes --Kate Smith --Corbett Monica --Elaine Dunn --The Amin Brothers (acrobats)
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#10 - Episode #10
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/25/1965
Show # 10 Music: --Dean Martin (with chorus) - ""Things"" --Dean Martin and Ken Lane - ""Nevertheless"" --Dean Martin, Milton Berle and Lisa Kirk - ""Enjoy Yourself,"" ""Happy Talk"" and ""Sunny Side Up"" --Milton Berle - ""Mad Dogs and Englishmen"" --Charo (with Xavier Cugat and his orchestra) - ""Oh Lonesome Me"" --Xavier Cugat (with orchestra) - ""El Cumbanchero"" --Ronnie Demarco (dancer) - ""Ronnie's Stomp"" --Lisa Kirk - ""Consider Yourself"" and ""Have I Stayed Too Long at the Fair?"" --The Windsor Boys Choral Group - ""Chim Chim Cheree"" Also: --Phil Ford and Mimi Hines (comedy team)
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#11 - Tony Bennett / Nanette Fabray / Barbara McNair
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/2/1965
Show #11 Music: --Dean Martin - ""Blue, Blue Day"" --Dean Martin and Tony Bennett - medley: ""San Francisco,"" ""Houston,"" ""I Love Paris,"" Foggy Day in London Town"" and ""My Kind of Town"" --Tony Bennett - ""Who Can I Turn To?"" and ""Moment of Truth"" --Dean Martin and Barbara McNair - ""The Best Things in Life Are Free"" --Barbara McNair - ""Daddy"" and ""Don't Rain on My Parade"" --Dean Martin and Ken Lane - ""If You Were the Only Girl"" --Dean Martin (with the Krofft Puppets) - ""The Darktown Strutters' Ball"" --Nanette Fabray - ""It's a Most Unusual Day"" Also: --Guy Marks (comedian) --Yonely (musical-comedian) - plays a piano by using a baseball bat.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#12 - Louis Armstrong / Andrews Sisters / Carol Lawrence
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/9/1965
Music: --Dean Martin - ""Singing the Blues"" --The Andrews Sisters and Dean Martin - medley: ""Don't Fence Me In"" and ""Apple Blossom time"" --Louis Armstrong - ""Someday"" and ""So Long, Dearie"" --Carol Lawrence and Dean Martin - ""Baby Face"" --Carol Lawrence - ""Funny Face"" --Line Renaud (French singer) - ""Lui et Moi"" (""Side by Side"") Also: --Gene Baylos (comedian) --Rich Little NBC repeated this show on May 12, 1966.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#13 - Ella Fitzgerald / Barrie Chase / Gordon & Sheila MacRae
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/16/1965
Music: --Dean Martin - ""Bumming Around"" & ""Thank Heaven for Little Girls"" --Dean Martin & George Gobel - ""Take These Chains"" --Dean Martin & Ken Lane - ""I'm Confessin'"" --Dean Martin, Ella Fitzgerald & Gordon MacRae - medley: ""You Are My Sunshine,"" ""Red River Valley"" and ""Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie"" --Ella Fitzgerald - ""Can't Buy Me Love"" --Barrie Chase - ""Who Can I Turn To"" --Gordon and Sheila MacRae - medley: ""Desert Song,"" ""Fly Me to the Moon"" and ""Dark Town Strutters Ball""
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#14 - Stanley Holloway / Louis Prima, Gia Maione & Sam Butera
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/30/1965
Music:--Dean Martin - ""Everybody but Me"" --Dean Martin and Ken Lane - ""Blue Moon""--Dean Martin, Stanley Holloway and Louis Prima - medley: ""The Girl That I Marry,"" ""Aba-Daba Honeymoon"" & ""Love and Marriage""--Janis Paige - ""Downtown""--Joanie Sommers - ""Something's Coming""--Stanley Holloway - ""Thank You So Much, Missus Lowsborough-Goodbye""--Louis Prima, Gia Maione, Sam Butera and the Witnesses - ""Las Vegas Woman""--Homer and Jethro - ""Red Roses for a Blue Lady"" --Dean Martin with Homer and Jethro - ""She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain""
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#15 - Peggy Lee / Frankie Avalon / Rose Marie
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/6/1966
Show #15 Music: --Dean Martin - ""Bye Bye, Blackbird"" --Dean Martin and Ken Lane - ""I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now"" --Peggy Lee - ""It's a Wonderful World"" and ""When the World Was Young"" --Frankie Avalon - ""Standing on the Corner,"" ""Making Whoopee"" and ""There Is Nothing Like a Dame"" --Rose Marie - ""Little Girl Blue"" --Rose Marie and Dean Martin - ""Smile"" --Allan Sherman - ""It's a Most Unusual Play"" --The Kelly Sisters - ""The Grass Is Greener"" Also: --Guy Marks
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1011 votes
#16 - Mahalia Jackson / Kay Starr / Soupy Sales
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/13/1966
Music: --Dean Martin - ""Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter"" --Dean Martin and Ken Lane - ""S'posin'"" --Vic Dana - ""Ramona,"" ""Down by the Riverside"" --Mahalia Jackson - ""Just a Closer Walk with Thee"" --Kay Starr - ""Rock and Roll Waltz,"" ""My Favorite Things"" and ""Bluesette"" --Key Star and Dean Martin - medley: ""Silver Dollar,"" ""Money Burns a Hole in My Pocket"" and ""Wheel of Fortune"" --Soupy Sales - ""The Rain in Spain"" --The Swingle Singers - Bach's ""Salfeggletto"" and ""La Marche de Limoges"" Also: --Yonely (musical comedian) --Davis and Reese (comedy team) --John Byner (comedian)
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#17 - Episode #17
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/20/1966
Guests: Gisele MacKenzie, Shari Lewis, Tommy Sands, The McGuire Sisters, and The Treniers.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#18 - Episode #18
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/27/1966
Show #18 Music: --Dean Martin - ""Slow Boat to China"" --Dean Martin and Ken Lane - ""Pennies from Heaven"" --Polly Bergen - medley: ""Who Can I Turn To?"" ""Remember?"" ""I Can't Give You Anything but Love"" and ""Paper Moon"" --Buddy Greco - ""Falling in Love with Love"" and ""Girl from Ipanema"" --Stanley Holloway - ""Mrs. Worthington"" and ""Comedy Tonight"" Also: --Bill Dana (comedian, in character as Jose Jimenez, ""the world's greatest movie director"") --Dan Rowan and Dick Martin (comedy team)
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#19 - Episode #19
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/3/1966
Show #19 Music: --Dean Martin - ""C'est Si Bon"" --Dean Martin and Ken Lane - ""Home"" --Dean Martin and the Lively Set - ""Get Happy"" --Joel Grey - ""Shine on My Shoes"" --Juliet Prowse - ""Blue Prelude"" --Pete Fountain (jazz clarinetist with band) - ""Basin Street Blues"" --The Lively Set - ""Try to Remember"" Also: --Bob Hope --Donna Butterworth (8-year-old singer)
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1013 votes
#20 - Lucille Ball / Bill Cosby / Kate Smith
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/10/1966
Music: --Dean Martin - ""Where or When"" --Dean Martin and Ken Lane - ""Melancholy Baby"" --Bill Cosby and Dean Martin - ""You Gotta Be a Football Hero""--Lucille Ball, Kate Smith and Dean Martin - Vaudeville medley: ""Give My Regards to Broadway,"" ""Wait till the Sun Shines Nellie"" and ""Yankee Doodle Boy"" (and possibly ""In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree"" and ""I Don't Care"")--Kate Smith - ""Climb Every Mountain"" and ""I Left My Heart in San Francisco"" --Big Tiny Little (pianist, with his band) - ""Caledonia""Also appearing: --Rowan & Martin
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#21 - Julie London / Phyllis Diller / Eddie Albert / Mahalia Jackson
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/17/1966
Music:--Dean Martin - ""I Will"" --Dean Martin and Ken Lane - ""True Love"" --Julie London - ""Girl Talk"" and ""Never on Sunday"" --Julie London and Dean Martin - ""Two Sleepy People"" --Mahalia Jackson - ""The House I Love In"" --Eddie Albert - ""Ya Got Trouble"" --Guy Marks, Eddie Albert and Dean Martin - ""Style"" --Phyllis Diller and Dean Martin - ""I Hate Men"" and ""You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby"" --The Swingle Singers - Bach's Prelude No. 9
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#22 - Eddie Fisher / Don Adams / Kate Smith
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/24/1966
Music:--Dean Martin - ""Here Comes My Baby""--Dean Martin and Ken Lane (pianist) - ""You Made Me Love You"" --Eddie Fisher - medley of Jolson songs (""Baby Face,"" ""Liza,"" ""Rockabye Your Baby"")--Dean & Eddie - ""Back In Your Own Backyard"" & ""My Baby Just Cares For Me""--Kate Smith - ""More"" & ""If Ever I Would Leave You""--Dean Martin and Kate Smith - medley (""Shine On, Harvest Moon,"" ""Moonlight and Roses"" & ""Alexander's Ragtime Band"") Comedy:--Don Adams, Agent 86 from ""Get Smart,"" talks about the spy business. --Rich Little does impressions of celebrities.Also appearing: The Piero Brothers (jugglers). Van Alexander (orchestra conductor)
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#23 - Episode #23
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/3/1966
Guests: Abbe Lane, Marguerite Piazza, The Lettermen, David & Goliath
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1014 votes
#24 - Episode #24
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/10/1966
Guests: Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Mathis, The Young Americans, Shelley Berman, Gene Shelson
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#25 - Episode #25
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/17/1966
Guests: Godfrey Cambridge, Frankie Randall, Hal LeRoy, The Tangiers.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Dean Martin Show Season 1
Every episode of The Dean Martin Show Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Dean Martin Show Season 1!
The Dean Martin Show, also known as The Dean Martin Variety Show, is a TV variety-comedy series that ran from 1965 to 1974 for 264...
Genre:Comedy
Network:NBC
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Frank Sinatra / Diahann Carroll / Jan & Dean" is the best rated episode of "The Dean Martin Show" season 1. It scored 7.4/10 based on 33 votes. Directed by Greg Garrison and written by N/A, it aired on 9/16/1965. This episode is rated 1.6 points higher than the second-best, "Episode #2".