Episode list

Jack Carson hosts this week's show. His guests include actress Evelyn Keyes, comic performers Betty and Jane Kean, and actress Mary McCarty. The premise of the show is that NBC has spent all its money on other comedians so the're none left for their show; he's backed by a four-person string section and one dancer. In sketches, Carson and the Keans ridicule cutesy daytime shopping shows. Also, the life of a plumber gets the "Hollywood epic" treatment.

Jimmy Durante hosts with guests singer Eddie Jackson, acrobats Wells and Fournais, Gwen Carter, and two of the co-stars of the new film "The Milkman" Donald O'Connor and Joyce Holden. Durante performs several of his well-known tunes including "You Got To Start Every Day With a Song", "Jimmy, the Well Dressed Man", and "I'm The Guy Who Found the Lost Chord".

Danny Thomas hosts with guests Celeste Holm, Julie Oshins, and dancer Bobby Sheerer. The thread of the show was Thomas on a cross-country bus trip with Oshins as the comic driver. One sketch was set in a bottling plant.

Ed Wynn hosts with guests comedy star Buster Keaton, vocalist Gertrude Niesen, quick clay sculptor Duke Art, Jr., comedy acrobatic team Dick and Dot Remy, and harmonica player Eddy Manson. Niesen sings "Temptation." Manson does a harmonic solo. Jimmy Durante and Jack Carson cameo in the Motorola commercial. Keaton, Wynn and others star in a silent film parody. Comic sculptor Duke Art Jr. makes one of his quick clay sculptures.

Jack Carson's cast includes the Honey Brothers, Betty Kean, Bob Sweeney, Jack Gilford, Jack Norton, Jane Dulo, Billy Sands, and the Pastels. Jack is manhandled by ruffians in the makeup department who put lipstick and false lashes on him. Late for the show, he encounters various oddballs on the subway. A drunk attends a lecture on "The Evils of Drink." Carson gets tied up with Kean who's planning a party on a pay phone. Dancing cops and gangsters salute Brooklyn in a production number.

Jimmy Durante hosts with guests opera star Helen Traubel, comics Shaw and Lee, and regulars Candy Candido, Eddie Jackson, and Jack Roth. In a comic travesty of a Wagner opera, Durante plays Siegmund to Traubel's Brunnhilde. Durante also sings "The Pussy Cat Song" with Candido.

Danny Thomas hosts with opera singer Bidu Sayao, dancer Danny Daniels, magician Gali-Gali, Julie Oshins, Milton Frome, with Lou Bring's orchestra. Thomas goes all the way to a company's treasurer (cameo by Jimmy Durante) to get back the penny he lost in a vending machine. Davis dances to Sayao's Spanish number; she then sings "Un Bel Di".