The Best Episodes of The Hollywood Palace Season 2

Second season premiere Host: Debbie Reynolds --Buddy Hackett (comedian) --Liberace --Rich Little (comedian-impressionist) --Astrud Gilberto (singer) & Stan Getz --Nine gymnasts from the U.S. Olympic team appear in a sketch with Debbie Reynolds. --The 44-member Arirang Korean ballet troupe

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Host: Ed Wynn --The Rolling Stones - ""Not Fade Away"" --Eydie Gormé (singer, backed by six guitarists and the Trio Los Panchos) --Ed Wynn and Eydie Gormé - ""Tea for Two"" --The Nicholas Brothers (tap dancers) - ""I've Been Away"" and ""Rhythm Cocktail"" --Jack Carter (comedian) --Zizi Jeanmarie (singer, appearing with her ""La Revue Parisienne"" troupe) - ""Mon Truc en Plumes"" --Linon (rope-walking clown from Paris) --Rob Murray (comic juggler from Austraila) ABC repeated this show on July 31, 1965.

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Host: Maurice Chevalier --Maurice Chevalier sings ""Louise,"" ""J'attendrais"" and ""When You're Smiling"" --Jane Powell (dancer) - ""Come Dance with Me"" --Maurice Chevalier and Jane Powell - ""Some People"" and ""I Like the Likes of You"" --Rowan and Martin (comedy duo) - do a sketch about a heckler at Richard Burton's night club debut. --Tim Conway (from ""McHale's Navy) - does a comic lecture on military history. --The Collins Kids (singers) - ""Waiting for the Robert E. Lee,"" ""Swanee,"" ""Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody"" and ""The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise"" --Dave Parker (Dutch comedian, doing an imitation of Charlie Chaplin) --The André Tahon Puppets - ""The Galopade"" --The Staneks (acrobats, doing a teeterboard act) ABC repeated this show on July 17, 1965.

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Host: Donald O'Connor --Donald O'Connor - ""Take a Bow"" --Dorothy Provine (singer-dancer) and Donald O'Connor - ""I Love to Dance"" --Sergio Franchi - ""I Have Dreamed"" and ""Ungrateful Heart"" --Donald O'Connor, Dorothy Provone and Sergio Franchi - ""I Get that Minstrel Feeling"" --Morgana King (singer) - ""Corcavado"" --Shecky Greene (comedian) --Marilyn Michaels (song impressionist) --The Haslevs (acrobats, doing a trampoline act) --Victor Julian's Dog Act --The Martin Granger puppets --Mitchell Ayres (orchestra conductor, regular cast member) ABC repeated this show on July 10, 1965.

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Host: Betty Grable --Harry James and his band --Dan Dailey --The Smothers Brothers --Diahann Carroll --Henny Youngman (comedian)

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Host: Buddy Ebsen --Buddy Ebsen (from the ""Beverly Hillbillies"") - ""I Was in Vaudeville"" --Willie Mays (San Francisco Giants' center fielder) --Jack Carter (comedian) --Buddy Ebsen appears in a comedy baseball sketch with Willie Mays and Jack Carter. --Jane Morgan (singer) - ""Funny World"" --Buddy Ebsen and Shani Wallis - ""Tea for Two"" --Shani Wallis (English singer) - ""No Thanks, Just Looking"" and ""Looking for a Little Boy"" --The Wiere Brothers (comedy musical trio) --The Mascotts (German acrobats) --Tony the Wonder Horse

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Host: Gene Barry --Gene Barry (star of ""Burke's Law"") - ""Lady Be Good"" and ""It's All Right with Me"" --Bette Davis and Olivia de Haviland - perform ""The Twilight Shore,"" a dramatic reading. --Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks (comedians) - perform their ""2000-Year-Old Man"" sketch. --Monique Van Vooren (singer) - ""The Girl from Ipanema"" and ""Mack the Knife"" --The Back Porch Majority (folk singers) - ""Where Will You Be?"" --U.S. Olympic Gold Medal winners --Ben Blue (comedian, pantomime artist) --Yonely (musical clown) ABC repeated this show on Sept. 4, 1965.

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Host: Victor Borge --Victor Borge (comic pianist) - in a comedy segment, Borge composes by amalgamation, using sheet music, a pair of scissors and a role of cellophane tape. --Victor Borge and Alice Faye - ""Alexander's Ragtime Band"" --Alice Faye - ""Hello Dolly"" --Nancy Wilson (singer) - ""Satin Doll"" and ""The Very Thought of You"" --The Nicholas Brothers (tap dancers) - ""My Kind of Town"" --Pat Morita (comedian) --The Swingle Singers (French vocal group) - ""Bach's Fugue in D Minor"" --Rih Aruso (bicyclist) --De Mille (a 15-year-old high wire performer) ABC repeated this show on July 5, 1965.

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Host: Arthur Godfrey --Arthur Godfrey - ""Trail of the Lonesome Pine,"" ""I Like Being Here with You,"" ""I'd Give a Million Tomorrows,"" ""My Little Grass Shack,"" ""Too Fat Polka"" and ""This Is All I Ask"" --Shelley Berman (comedian) --Dorothy Collins (singer) - ""Love Makes the World Go Round,"" ""But Beautiful,"" ""He Loves Me"" and ""Hi Lili"" --John Gary (singer) --Gaylord and Holliday (comedy team) --The Delrays (mimes, comic acrobats) --Eva Vidos (juggler) --Dwight Moore and his Mongrels ABC repeated this show on June 12, 1965.

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Host: Tony Martin --Tony Martin - ""Avalon,"" ""Everybody Loves Somebody"" & ""People"" --Cyd Charisse (dancer, wife of Tony Martin) - ""An Occasional Man"" --Desi, Dino and Billy (Dean Martin Jr., Desi Arnaz Jr. and Billy Hinche) - ""Since You Broke My Heart"" --Jack E. Leonard (comedian) --Ted Lewis (veteran song-and-dance man) - ""When My Baby Smiles at Me"" & ""Me and My Shadow"" --Ted Lewis, Tony Martin, Cyd Charisse, Jack E. Leonard, Johnny Puleo - ""Me and My Shadow"" (reprise) --Johnny Puleo and his Harmonica Gang --The Half Brothers (jugglers) --Fred Roby (ventriloquist) ABC repeated this show on July 24, 1965.

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Host: Phil Harris --Phil Harris - ""This Could be the Start of Something"" --Ginger Rogers - ""These Foolish Things"" --The McGuire Sisters (singing group, doing a medley of their hits) --Bill Dana (comedian) --Gary Crosby (singer) - ""Can't Stop Loving You"" --The Jubilee Four (vocal group) --Phil Harris and the Jubilee Four - ""It Ain't Necessarily So"" and ""That Old-time Religion"" --Dwight Moore and his Mongrels --the Merkys (acrobats)

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Host: Burl Ives --Burl Ives (folk singer) - ""Blue Tail Fly,"" ""Wayfarin' Stranger,"" ""Big Rock Candy Mountain,"" ""Foggy Foggy Dew,"" ""Funny Way of Laughing,"" ""Lavender Blue,"" ""Little Bitty Tear,"" ""Pearly Shells"" and ""Chim Chim Cheree"" --Edgar Bergen (with Charlie McCarthy) --Candice Bergen (Edgar Bergen's daughter, then 18-years-old) --Ann Miller (dancer) - ""It Had Better Be Tonight"" --Anna Moffo (operatic soprano) - ""Ach, chacun le sait"" (from Donizetti's ""Daughter of the Regiment."") --Burl Ives and Anna Moffo - ""Turn Around"" --Pat Henry (comedian) --Rih Aruso (bicycle-balancer) --Liana Stanek (trapeze artist from Vienna) (Repeat aired 14Aug65)

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Host: Donald O'Connor --Louis Armstrong --Jane Powell (actress-singer) --Cliff ""Charley Weaver"" Arquette --Norm Crosby (comedian) --The Vienna Boys Choir --The Hanneford Family's trained horse act

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Host: Van Johnson --Van Johnson - ""I'm a Ham,"" ""Let Me Entertain You,"" ""I Want to be Happy"" and ""Lot of Livin' to Do"" --Betty Grable - ""Please, Mr. Brown"" --Jackie Mason (comedian) --Sergio Franchi (tenor) - ""In the Still of the Night"" and ""Al Di La"" --Johnson, Grable and Franchi - ""You Gotta Give the People Hoke"" --Paul Gilbert (comedian) --The Bal Caron Trio (dancers) --The Zeros (knife-throwing act) --The Jambaz (balancing act) --Mimi Zerbini (trapeze artist from France)

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Host: Liberace --Liberace - ""Blue Danube,"" Me and My Shadow"" and ""There'll Be No New Tunes on This Old Piano"" --Edward G. Robinson (actor) - reading Milton Geiger's patriotic writing ""This Is It"" --Shani Wallis (English singer) - ""There Goes My Heart"" --Liberace and Shani Wallis - ""You Were Meant for Me"" and ""Tea for Two"" (and possibly ""I've Told Every Little Star"" and ""There Goes My Heart"") --Rowan and Martin (comedy team) --Gene Baylos (comedian) --Page and Bray (dancing team) --The Getschys (European cycling family) --Bertha the Elephant and her daughter Tina ABC repeated this show on Aug. 28, 1965.

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Host: Bing Crosby --Beverly Garland (from Bing's 1964-65 sitcom) --Frank McHugh (from Bing's 1964-65 sitcom) --Bing Crosby, Beverly Garland and Frank McHugh - ""Top Banana"" --The King Sisters (6 sisters with their children) - ""Lollipops and Roses,"" ""There is Nothing Like a Dame,"" ""Got a Lotta Livin' to Do"" and ""I'm Old-fashioned."" --Bing Crosby and the King Sisters - ""Dream"" --Jacques d'Amboise and Catherine Mazzo (ballet dancers, of the New York City Center Ballet) - ""Meditation,"" from Massenet's opera ""Thais."" --Corbett Monica (comedian) --The Three Rebertes (acrobats) --Leonardo (plate spinner) Also: Bette Davis and former Hollywood Palace hosts Gene Barry, George Burns, Cyd Charisse, Buddy Ebsen, Phil Harris, Liberace, Tony Martin, Debbie Reynolds, Groucho Marx and Ed Wynn join Bing Crosby in a birthday sketch.

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Host: Kate Smith --Kate Smith (singer) - ""Danke Schön,"" ""You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You,"" ""Temptation"" and ""God Bless America"" --Trini Lopez (singer) - ""Michael, Row the Boat Ashore"" and ""Lemon Tree"" (and possibly ""We'll Sing in the Sunshine"") --Mort Sahl (comedian-satirist) --Ben Blue (pantomime artist, silent comedian) --The Juan Carlos Copes dance troupe (from Argentina) --Stan Fisher (harmonica player) - ""Slaughter on 10th Avenue"" --Desmond and Marks (comedy dancers from England) --The Karlini and Jupiter dog act ABC repeated this show on May 29, 1965.

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Host: Cyd Charisse --Cyd Charisse - ""Let's Dance"" and ""Ballet Blues"" --Tony Martin (singer, Cyd Charisse's husband) - ""Dear Heart"" and ""Lullaby of Broadway"" --Cyd Charisse and Tony Martin - ""A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening"" --Jack Carter (comedian) --Kay Starr (singer) - ""Three Letters,"" ""That Old Gang of Mine"" and ""Ho Ho Ho, Ha Ha Ha, Me Too."" --Alphonse Bergé (French dress designer) --Shai K. Ophir (pantomimist from Israel) --The Cosmos (motorcycle aerialists) --The Dalrays (comic acrobats)

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Host: David Janssen --David Janssen (from ""The Fugitive"") --Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks (comedians) - give advice on filing income tax returns. --Edie Adams (singer) - ""Love,"" ""I'm Glad There Is You"" and ""The Man That Got Away"" --Tim Conway (comedian, of ""McHale's Navy"") --Vic Damone (singer) - ""Fascinatin' Rhythm,"" ""But Not for Me"" and ""They Can't Take That Away from Me"" --The Harlem Globetrotters - ""Sweet Georgia Brown."" After their song, the Globetrotters play the Hollywood Palace Dribblers: Janssen, Reiner, Brooks, Damone and Conway. --Les Surfs (singing group from Madagascar) - ""Pretty Please"" and ""Pour la Rose"" --The Zeros (knife-throwing act) --The Princess Tajana trapeze act ABC repeted this show on June 19, 1965.

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Host: George Burns --George Burns - ""History of the Dance"" & ""Pack Up Your Sins"" --Connie Stevens - ""Married I Can Always Get"" (or "" Married I Can Always Stay"") --George Burns and Connie Stevens (co-staring in the 1964-65 series ""Wendy and Me"") - ""At the Ball That's All"" --George Burns and the Greenwood County Singers - ""La Vie en Rose"" --Wayne Newton - ""Red Roses for a Blue Lady"" --The Greenwood Country Singers - ""Greenwood County"" & ""Anne"" --Rich Little (impressionist-comedian) --Prassana Rao (illusionist) --The Gaonas (trampoline act from Mexico) --The Zacchinis (human cannonballs)

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Host: Bette Davis --Bette Davis sings ""To Be Single"" (an answer to Richard Burton's recording ""A Married Man"") --Bette Davis and Bert Lahr appear in ""Jealousy,"" a comedy sketch from the 1952 Broadway musical revue ""Two's Company"" (in which Bette appeared on Broadway). Lahr plays a paranoid husband who's trying to get his dowdy wife to admit that she's having an affair. --Barrie Chase (dancer) - ""The Girl from Ipanema"" --Julius La Rosa (singer) - ""Out of This World"" and ""People"" --Jan Murray (comedian, does a monologue about his daughter's first date) --Les Cinci (a Parisian couple who parody apache-style dancers) --Rob Murray (comic juggler from Australia) --The Nerveless Nocks (three Swiss men and a girl who perform atop 100-foot sway-poles) ABC repeated this show on July 3, 1965.

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Co-hosts: Roy Rogers and Dale Evans --Roy Rogers and Dale Evans (accompanied by Trigger and the Sons of the Pioneers) --Jan and Dean - ""From All over the World"" (theme from the ""T.A.M.I. Show"") --The Nicholas Brothers (singing dancers) - ""Black Magic"" --Shelley Berman (comedian) --Billy de Wolfe --The Ballet Folklorico of Mexico - ""Jalisco"" --The Murais (jugglers from Japan) --The Flying Armors (trapeze act) ABC repeated this show on September 11, 1965.

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Host: Eddie Fisher --Eddie Fisher - ""Let Me Entertain You"" --Connie Stevens - ""It Only Takes a Moment"" --Jack Carter (comedian) --The Arirang Korean ballet troupe --Ben Wrigley (comedy pantomimist) --The Kuban Cossacks (Cossack dancers)

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Host: Victor Borge --Victor Borge (comic pianist) - demonstrates how great composers stumbled on some of their famous compositions. --Rosemary Clooney - ""Cabin in the Sky,"" ""Come on A-My House,"" ""Botch-a-Me,"" ""Hey There"" and ""Tenderly"" --Shecky Greene (comedian, does a routine about folk and nightclub singers) --The Kessler Twins (singers) - ""For Me, Formidable"" and ""Every Street's a Boulevard in Old New York"" --The Two Freddies (acrobats, on trampoline) --Russ Lewis (ventriloquist) --Marco (sword-balancer)

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Host: Robert Goulet --Robert Goulet (guest host) --Carol Lawrence (singer, wife of Robert Goulet) --Bill Cosby (comedian, does a routine about Noah and the Ark) --Les Surfs (singing group from Madagascar) --Bill Dana (comedian, as ""El Matador"" Jose Jimenez) --The Trhee Akeffs (balancing act) --Eva Vidos (juggler) --Kay and her pets

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