The Colgate Comedy Hour — Season 6
This was a Colgate-sponsored comedy hour that featured many notable comedians and entertainers of the era as guest stars.
About this season
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 notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.
Episodes (12)
1. Martin & Lewis
Aired 18 September 1955
2. Jack Carson, Thelma Ritter
Aired 25 September 1955
3. Martha Scott, Jack Carson, Harry Belafonte
Aired 2 October 1955
4. SALUTE TO RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN
Aired 16 October 1955
5. GALA FOOTBALL REVUE w Mickey Rooney, Stan Freberg, Rudy Vallee
Aired 23 October 1955
6. Billy Daniel, Anna Maria Alberghetti
Aired 30 October 1955
7. Martin & Lewis
Aired 13 November 1955
Dean Martin sings "It Must Be True" and "Memories Are Made of This". He and Jerry Lewis sing "Two Lost Souls" and "Sometimes I'm Happy". Jerry a Japanese actor in Martin's Mighty Midnight Matinee Movie "Eggroll is a Many Splendored Dish."
8. Harry Belafonte, Gordon MacRae
Aired 20 November 1955
9. ANNIVERSARY PROGRAM
Aired 27 November 1955
10. Salute to George Abbott
Aired 11 December 1955
11. Mickey Rooney, George Raft
Aired 18 December 1955
12. Robert Paige
Aired 25 December 1955