The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950)

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The Colgate Comedy Hour was an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show featured many notable comedians and entertainers of the era as guest stars.

Original Release

09/10/1950 on NBC

Cast

Name	Character

Jerry Lewis	Himself - Host
Dean Martin	Himself - Host
Al Goodman	Himself - Orchestra Leader
Eddie Cantor	Himself - Host
Dick Stabile	Himself - Orchestra Leader
Donald O'Connor	Himself - Host
Bud Abbott	Himself - Host
Lou Costello	Himself - Host
Bob Hope	Himself - Host
Eddie Cantor	Himself

(see additional cast & crew)

#	Title	Air Date
1	Episode #6.1	Sunday, 18 September 1955
2	Episode #6.2	Sunday, 25 September 1955
3	Episode #6.3	Sunday, 02 October 1955
4	Episode #6.4	Sunday, 16 October 1955
5	Episode #6.5	Sunday, 23 October 1955
6	Episode #6.6	Sunday, 30 October 1955
7	Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis hosts: guests Isobel Elsom, Milton Frome, The Norman Luboff Choir	Sunday, 13 November 1955
8	Episode #6.8	Sunday, 20 November 1955
9	Episode #6.9	Sunday, 27 November 1955
10	Salute to George Abbott	Sunday, 11 December 1955
11	Episode #6.11	Sunday, 18 December 1955
12	Robert Paige	Sunday, 25 December 1955

Directors

Fred Hamilton, Ernest D. Glucksman, Kingman T. Moore, Bud Yorkin, Jim Jordan, Ed Sobol, Charles Friedman, Jim Jordan, Joe Tinney, Sid Smith, Al Capstaff, Bob Finkel, Sid Smith, Jack Donohue, Manning Ostroff, William Asher, Joseph Santley, William Morrow, Nat Hiken, Sid Kuller, Hank Ladd, Coby Ruskin, Leo Morgan, Hal Keith, George Habib, James V. Kern, Bill Miller, Dick Weinberg, Manny Ostroff

Writers

Ed Simmons, Norman Lear, John Grant, Arthur Phillips, Harry Crane, Sid Kuller, Jackie Barnett, Jack Elinson, Glenn Wheaton, John Rapp, Charles Issacs, Norman Sullivan, Les White, Sidney Miller, Jack Brooks, Snag Werris, William Morrow, Hugh Wedlock Jr., Eddie Forman, Howard Snyder, Jesse Goldstein, Danny Arnold, Larry Gelbart, Jack Douglas, Marvin Fisher, Charles Lee, Manning Ostroff, Bobby Clark, Eddie Cantor, Mannie Manheim, Arnold Horwitt, Pat Costello, Henry Taylor, Laurence Marks, Molière, Joseph Quillan, Martin Ragaway, Mort Lachman, Herbert Baker, Russel Crouse, Otto A. Harbach, Elwood Ullman, Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf, Al Schwartz, Billy FriedBerg, Nat Hiken, Arnie Rosen, Guy Bolton, Irving Elinson, Ernest D. Glucksman, Arthur Schwartz, Ray Buffum, Tom Adair, Harry Bailey, Coleman Jacoby, Phil Sharp, Richard L. Breen, Si Rose, Frank Fox, Howard Lindsay, George Axelrod, Joe Bigelow, Morris Freedman, Austin Kalish, Arthur Stander, Danny Shapiro, Jerry Seelen, Stanley Davis, P.G. Wodehouse, Dorothy Fields, Herbert Fields, Elon Packard, Howard Dietz, Gig Henry, Charles Friedman, Lester A. White, Ben Blue, Jackie Gleason, Jay Sommers, Edmund L. Hartmann, Rocky Kalish, Don Johnson, Ian Bernard, Chet Castalaw, Larry Marks, Larry Klein, Fred Williams, Alfred Von Ronkel, Phil Davis

Cast

Name	Character

Jerry Lewis	Himself - Host
Dean Martin	Himself - Host
Al Goodman	Himself - Orchestra Leader
Eddie Cantor	Himself - Host
Dick Stabile	Himself - Orchestra Leader
Donald O'Connor	Himself - Host
Bud Abbott	Himself - Host
Lou Costello	Himself - Host
Bob Hope	Himself - Host
Eddie Cantor	Himself
Gordon MacRae	Himself - Host
Connie Russell	Herself
Hal Sawyer	Himself - Announcer
Tom D'Andrea	Himself - Comedian
Hal March	Himself - Comedian
Jimmy Durante	Himself - Host
Eddie Jackson	Himself - Singer
Sid Fields	Himself - Comic Actor
Scatman Crothers	Himself
Peggy Lee	Herself - Singer

Producers

Name	Role

Samuel Fuller	Executive Producer
Peter Barnum	Executive Producer
Leland Hayward	Executive Producer
Ernest D. Glucksman	Producer
Manning Ostroff	Producer
Ed Sobol	Producer
Charles Friedman	Producer
George Habib	Producer
Samuel Fuller	Producer
Joseph Santley	Producer
William Morrow	Producer
Jack Donohue	Producer
Al Capstaff	Producer
Robert Masson	Producer
Peter Barnum	Producer
Jim Jordan	Producer
Jim Jordan	Producer
Max Siegel	Producer
Bill Miller	Producer
Leo Morgan	Producer
Bob Henry	Producer
Leland Hayward	Producer
Sid Kuller	Producer
Robert L. Welch	Producer
Jack Hurdle	Producer
Joe Bigelow	Producer
Bob Finkel	Producer
Hank Ladd	Producer
Coby Ruskin	Producer
Jule Styne	Producer
Albert McCleery	Producer
William Kayden	Producer
Monte Proser	Producer
Hal Friedman	Producer
Howard Ross	Producer
Eddie Cantor	Producer
William Asher	Producer
Howard Ross	Producer
Manny Ostroff	Producer
Maggie Wallace	Producer

Editors

Art Seid

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Year	Type	Category	Won

1955	Emmy	Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Variety Program	Nominated
1954	Emmy	Best Variety Program	Nominated
1954	Emmy	Best Male Star of Regular Series	Won
1953	Emmy	Best Variety Program	Nominated
1952	Emmy	Best Variety Show	Nominated