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	The Colgate Comedy Hour
		The Variety Hour's salute to theatrical legend George Abbott came in a distant third with a dismal 7.2.
		Replaced with the poorly conceived NBC Comedy Hour, featuring unlikely host Leo Durocher, one of the most lavish, entertaining and at times extraordinary musical variety series in television history was just a memory.
		In May 1967 NBC presented a Colgate Comedy Hour revival but it was a revival in name only--not in format or in star value.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/C/htmlC/colgatecomed/colgatecomed.htm (1239 words)

	Classic TV Info - The Colgate Comedy Hour
		In fact, The Colgate Comedy Hour occupied the same Sunday night at 8:00 time slot as the Sullivan program (then known as Toast of the Town) and on a weekly basis dealt it a sound thrashing in the ratings race.
		Colgate withdrew its sponsorship after the December 25th broadcast and The Comedy Hour was no more.
		The Colgate Comedy Hour was one of the bright spots of early television.
	www.classictvinfo.com /ColgateComedyHour/index.htm (1788 words)

	Abbott & Costello, celebrities, comedy, abbott and costello, sitcoms!
		Comedy historians have glossed over their contribution, but in fact, Bud and Lou became early television pioneers, along with Phil Silvers, Milton Berle, Jack Benny, and Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
		Today, their comedy continues to generate a whole new legion of fans around the world.
		Their clean style of comedy, born on the burlesque stage over 50 years ago, continues to find a ready and accepting medium in today's market place.
	www.1hollywood.com /Celebrities/abbott_costello.htm (760 words)

	Donald O'Connor The Colgate Comedy Hour (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		O'Connor did what was virtually a solid hour by himself, and at this point he doesn't have the stature to sustain himself for that length of time.
		In the case of Colgate the stakes are higher; with a 6,000,000 time and talent budget for '53-'54 (top coin for a single show on the TV spectrum), it can't afford many misses.
		Donald O'Connor and the Colgate Comedy Hour registered a "first" for TV when the Sunday night 8 to 9 NBC-TV showcase under special FCC authorization prior to official adoption of color standards, became the first compatible color telecast of a sponsored network program.
	www.eviltwinltd.com.cob-web.org:8888 /muppetlabs/oconnor/telgrph/colgate.htm (5028 words)

	The Colgate Comedy Hour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Colgate Comedy Hour was an American musical variety television show that ran on the NBC network from November 1950 to December 1955.
		It was heavily backed by its sponsor, Colgate-Palmolive-Peet to the tune of $3 million in the first year, and the 8:00 pm Sunday evening format show was a spectacular success, particularly for Cantor and the Martin-Lewis, Abbott-Costello duos.
		In November 1967, NBC broadcsast a special Colgate Comedy Hour Revival with guests Nanette Fabray, Kaye Ballard, Edie Adams, Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Phyllis Diller, Bob Newhart, Nipsey Russell, Dan Rowan and Dick Martin, none of whom had performed in the original show.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Colgate_Comedy_Hour (410 words)

	MWOTRC: Metro Washington Old Time Radio Club
		The network jettisoned the situation comedy format in favor of straight variety, similar to the show Bing Crosby was doing over at CBS.
		Readers of RADIO-TV MIRROR voted The Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis Show "favorite comedy show" on radio for 1951-52, and the team was presented with this honor on the broadcast of April 11, 1952.
		In addition to the movies, Lewis began using this modus operandi in their Colgate Comedy Hour sketches.
	www.mwotrc.com /rr2003_04/mandl2.htm (1321 words)

	The Colgate Comedy Hour TV Show - The Colgate Comedy Hour Television Show - TV.com
		The Colgate Comedy Hour was a big-budget variety series featuring some of the biggest names in show business.
		Variety shows hosted by a major comedian were common in the early fifties, but the Colgate show was different in featuring alternating hosts.
		Tell the world what you think of The Colgate Comedy Hour, write a review for this show.
	www.tv.com /the-colgate-comedy-hour/show/2170/summary.html (210 words)

	Comedies
		Bob Hope's 1950 Christmas special is a strange amalgam of light comedy and serious current events, good feeling and uneasiness, local and national politics, and pop culture and high culture.
		But their debut on THE COLGATE COMEDY HOUR showed the team near its peak, doing several of their most well known bits ("Mustard" aka "Hole in the Wall," "The Sanitarium," "Find the Lemon") live, with all of the spontaneity that this implies.
		The show is followed by a beautiful copy of the Abbott and Costello 1952 appeal for Christmas Seals, co-starring Charles Laughton, who was co-starring with the duo in Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kid, arguably the last of their good costume adventure/comedies.
	www.tvdays.com /comedy1.htm (840 words)

	"The Colgate Comedy Hour" (1950) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		However, a court challenge by RCA, which was developing its own color system that was compatible with fl and white sets, tied up the inauguration of the CBS color system until a decision for CBS by the U.S. Supreme Court in May 1951.
		Finally, on June 25, 1951, CBS broadcast a one-hour program in color, called "Premiere", featuring Ed Sullivan and other CBS stars, and carried it on a five-station East Coast CBS-TV hookup.
		The episode of "The Colgate Comedy Hour" broadcast in color in November 1953 was actually the network debut of the rival RCA color television system.
	imdb.com /title/tt0042094 (332 words)

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		THE COLGATE COMEDY HOUR featured some of the biggest names in the business when it first aired in September 1950.
		Martin Scorsese’s THE KING OF COMEDY is a brutally funny depiction of the dangers of celebrity fandom.
		The Martin and Lewis Colgate Comedy Hour - Vol.
	www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/actors/dvds-by-actor-Jerry-Lewis.html (1559 words)

	Radio Hall of Fame - Eddie Cantor, Comedian
		Cantor was the second most recognizable person in America—second only to President Roosevelt, for whom he created the March of Dimes to help in the fight against polio.
		A union activist, Cantor was the first national president of AFRA and SAG.
		Cantor also made the successful transition to television on the Colgate Comedy Hour, making him one of the few performers to reach star status on stage, screen, radio and television.
	www.radiohof.org /comedy/eddiecantor.html (226 words)

	The Colgate Comedy Hour Episode Guide
		The Colgate Comedy Hour was a comedy variety series that ran on NBC from September 1950 to December 1955, Sundays at 8:00 p.m..
		There were many hosts who starred in only one, two or a few Colgate Comedy Hours, such as Jack Carson, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante and Judy Canova.
		Though their own series is well documented, the Comedy Hours are less so.
	www.geocities.com /cosmotwin/colgate/comedyhour.htm (1491 words)

	KineVideo : Vintage Television Programming
		Monsters are the theme as in the first hours the boys visit a haunted house and meet Lon Chaney Jr.
		Roy Rogers and Dale Evans topline this country themed COLOR hour (11/8/69) with the Everly Brothers, Minnie Pearl, Roy Clark, the Sons of the Pioneers, Junior Samples and comic Sammy Shore (!).
		The first hour (11/13/65) features Judy and her guests Vic Damone, Chita Rivera, Gene Baylos, Burns and Schreiber, the acrobatic Lyons Family and the Three Bragazzi, musical clowns from Italy.
	www.kinevideo.net /comedy_variety.php (6289 words)

	Swapsale Videos : 1950s Comedy / Variety Shows
		Episode two (The Colgate SUMMER Comedy Hour) stars singer Connie Russell, Sammy Davis, Gene Sheldon, comedian Jay Lawrence and The Gay lords.
		This tape contains one hour length episode of the Colgate Comedy Hour starring Abbott and Costello and two half hour episodes of The George Gobel show.
		Two hour long TV shows from the 1950s with their original commercials.
	www.swapsale.com /50stv15.htm (462 words)

	Colgate comedy hour page - www.louandbud.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Bud and Lou had some stints on the Colgate comedy hour, but I do not feel as if this represented their best work (far from it).
		The colgate stuff gets more interesting when they perform more original material, like the scenes where the boys have wives or the show where Lizabeth Scott appears.
		The Charles Laughton episode was fun where the boys plugged "Jack and the beanstalk" (which was actually filmed about a year earlier).
	www.louandbud.com /colgate.htm (2420 words)

	Who (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This episode, not only A&C's first for The Comedy Hour but their first TV appearance ever, includes the team's famous "hot dog and mustard" routine.
		Abbott seemed a little ill at ease on stage and far from relaxed," and noted, "their medium was much newer than their material." Despite Gould's reservations, the boys are in fine form, and the audience roars with laughter.
		The boys would continue to host "The Colgate Comedy Hour!"from NBC TV's "El Capitan Theater"(The original "El Capitan TV Theater"on Vine St)for the remainder of their years with the show.
	www.abbottandcostello.net /mesreply7.asp?MID=4885 (347 words)

	Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis
		It's lucky then that through the miracle of the cheap, public domain video, we can view a generous sampling of their remarkable chemistry on the Colgate Comedy Hour, which ran on NBC from 1950 through 1955.
		The Colgate Comedy Hour was a media animal totally foreign to contemporary audiences.
		Martin & Lewis were among several revolving hosts of the Comedy Hour (later renamed the Colgate Variety Hour), but at the start they were not the series' biggest stars.
	www.roctober.com /roctober/greatness/martinlewis.html (3474 words)

	Amazon.com: The Colgate Comedy Hour - Martin & Lewis: DVD: Hal Sawyer,Ray Bolger,Phil Regan,Fred Allen,Peter ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Amazon.com: The Colgate Comedy Hour - Martin & Lewis: DVD: Hal Sawyer,Ray Bolger,Phil Regan,Fred Allen,Peter Conlow,Donald O'Connor,Eddie Garr,Jackie Gleason,Gloria Patrice,Murray Leonard,Jimmy Durante,Eddie Cantor,Joe Silver,Bud Yorkin,James V. Kern,William Asher,Charles Friedman,Ed Sobol
		The Colgate Comedy Hour - Martin & Lewis (1950)
		Colgate Comedy Hour: Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis Show
	www.amazon.com /Colgate-Comedy-Hour-Martin-Lewis/dp/B0000A02VJ (947 words)

	KineVideo : Bruce Simon : Vintage Television Programming
		EDDIE CANTOR—COLGATE COMEDY HOUR (1951) with guest Cesar Romero, COLGATE COMEDY HOUR (1953) with his guests Frank Sinatra and Eddie Fisher.
		COLGATE COMEDY HOUR (1951) with Hal March, Betty Garrett and Robert Alda.
		STAN FREBERG—NBC COMEDY HOUR (1956) Stan appears with Jonathan Winters, Ben Blue and hostess Gale Storm.
	www.gwenharlow.com /client/kinevideo/comedy_variety.php (6301 words)

	Classic TV Info - The Colgate Comedy Hour - Season 4
		Show biz veteran Jimmy Durante, late of the recently deceased All Star Revue (and who had appeared previously as a guest on The Comedy Hour), signed on as a regular host, joining the roster of Eddie Cantor, Martin and Lewis, and Donald O'Connor.
		In place of the team's skits, kinescopes were shown of their past Comedy Hour performances.
		Note: This is a "year-end salute to show business," with a couple of Eddie's fellow Comedy Hour hosts along for the ride.
	classictvinfo.com /ColgateComedyHour/Season4.htm (1701 words)

	The Colgate Comedy Hour TV Show
		The Colgate Comedy Hour was a sketch, musical, comedy series with rotating hosts including Eddie Cantor, Abbott and Costello, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Ed Wynn, Donald O'Conner, Ethel Merman, and Frank Sinatra!
		The Colgate Comedy Hour was broadcast on NBC from 8:00PM to 9:00PM on Sunday nights during its entire run.
		Several comedy routines including their classic: "Who's On First".
	www.crazyabouttv.com /colgatecomedyhour.html (2027 words)

	Amazon.com: Colgate Comedy Hour: Video: Charles Friedman,Bud Yorkin,James V. Kern,Ray Bolger,Phil Regan,Peter ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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		The Colgate Comedy Hour - Martin & Lewis
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	www.amazon.com /Colgate-Comedy-Hour-Charles-Friedman/dp/6303011470 (395 words)

	Colgate Comedy Hour - V. 3
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	CENTER SQUARE: THE PAUL LYNDE STORY \| Television, 1952-1959
		Comedienne Martha Raye hicks off her fourth season in television with a full hour of buffoonery at 8 p.
		It will be a comedy- book show with singing and dancing production numbers integrated into the storyline.
		A post holiday hazard – exchanging Christmas gifts at the store where they were purchased – provides the subject for a comedy sketch.
	home.columbus.rr.com /paullynde/tvfifties.htm (802 words)

	Who (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Dear Mike, This same skit was also performed by the boys on NBC TV's"Colgate Comedy Hour!" and on"The A&C TV Show".
		But..Mr.Bruce Cabot may have played the cook behind the counter in the skit on NBC TV's"Colgate Comedy Hour"?
		Dear Mike, This same skity was also performed by the boys on NBC TV's"Colgate Comedy Hour!" and on"The A&C TV Show".
	www.abbottandcostello.net /mesreply2.asp?MID=4845 (180 words)

	Classic TV Info - The Colgate Summer Comedy Hour - Summer 1954 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In 1954, for the first time, The Comedy Hour didn't take a break for the summer.
		Instead, a series of "travel" musicals was presented with alternating casts headed by Kaye Ballard and Bobby Van on alternating coasts.
		"If Sunday's premier entry is to be accepted as a criterion for the summer run," it wrote, "then perhaps Colgate should have put Comedy Hour on ice pending the new fall season." The episode originated from New York.
	classictvinfo.com.cob-web.org:8888 /ColgateComedyHour/ComedySummer.htm (443 words)

	Abbott & Costello - Colgate Comedy Hour Christmas Special
		Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for Abbott & Costello - Colgate Comedy Hour Christmas Special to receive a rating.
		The comedy duo joins Margaret Whiting, the Four Pipers, and the tap-dancing Nicholas Brothers for this special holiday presentation on the famous early 1950s sketch comedy/variety show.
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	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/abbott_and_costello_colgate_comedy_hour_christmas_special (382 words)

	Colgate Comedy Hour - Anything Goes
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		Brandon Routh's spitcurl wasn't able to leap over box-office records during its theatrical run this summer, but if you missed "Superman Returns" the first time around, now's your chance to see it in the comfort of your living room.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/colgate_comedy_hour_anything_goes (365 words)

	THE COLGATE COMEDY HOUR, VOLUMES 1-3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		THE COLGATE COMEDY HOUR, VOLUME 1 (B&W TV, 1951-58)
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		THE COLGATE COMEDY HOUR, VOLUME 3 (B&W TV, 1951-58)
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