Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby - ""The Hollywood Palace Song"" --Caterina Valente (singer) - ""Meditation"" --Bing Crosby and Caterina Valente - ""Slow Boat to China,"" ""Hindustan,"" ""Fancy Meeting You Here"" and ""It Happened in Monterrey"" --Tim Conway (comedian, from ""McHale's Navy"") --Avery Schreiber and Jack Burns (comedy team) --The Nitwits (comedy music group) --The Rudas (Australian dancers) --The Black Theater of Prague --Bertha the Elephant and her daughter Tina
Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby - ""My Blue Heaven"" --Louis Armstrong - ""Way Down Yonder in New Orleans"" --Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong - ""Dardanella"" --Phil Harris (comedian) - ""King of the Road""--The Young Americans (36 young singers led by Milton Anderson) - ""Waiting for the Robert E. Lee"" & ""Swanee"" --Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Phil Harris & the Young Americans - ""South Rampart Street Parade"" --Bing Crosby and The Young Americans - ""Happiness Is"" --Carl Ballantine (comic magician, a regular on ""McHale's Navy"") --Pat Woodell (a former regular on ""Petticoat Junction,"" making her singing debut) - ""It Might as Well Be Spring"" --Fred Roby (ventriloquist from France) --La Norma (Danish trapeze artist) --Sims' performing ponies
Host: Fred Astaire --Fred Astaire - ""Top Hat"" & ""The Time Has Come"" --We Five - ""You Were on My Mind"" --Jimmy Smith (jazz organist) - ""The Organ Grinder's Swing"" --Fred Astaire and Jimmy Smith - ""The Cat"" --Rudolf Nureyev and Dame Margot Fonteyn (ballet stars of London's Royal Ballet Company) - ""The Black Swan"" pas de deux --Paul Lynde & Carmen Phillips - appear in a sketch about a girl who ""wants to end it all."" --Jackie Mason (stand-up comedian discussing actors entering politics) --The Andre Tahon Puppets (featuring Fuzzy the Caterpillar)
Host: Joan Crawford --Joan Crawford reads ""A Prayer for Little Children"" --Jack Jones - ""Just Yesterday"" & ""More"" --Jack Jones & Joanie Sommers - ""Call Me"" --Joanie Sommers (singer) - ""Till There Was You"" --Allen and Rossi (comedy team) --Steve Rossi - ""Al Di La"" & ""Battle Hymn of the Republic"" --Godfrey Cambridge (comedian) --Lily Yokoi (Japanese bicyclist) --The Rodos (acrobats from West Germany) --Stebbings' Boxers (a comic dog act from England)
Host: Frank Sinatra --Frank Sinatra - ""I've Got the World on a String"" --Frank Sinatra and Count Basie - ""Fly Me to the Moon,"" ""Everybody Has a Right to be Wrong,"" ""Please Be Kind,"" ""The Gal That Got Away"" and ""Too Marvelous for Words"" --Count Basie - ""Summertime"" --Jack E. Leonard (comedian, does a soft-shoe number & recalls former appearances with Sinatra) --Peter Gennaro (choreographer-dancer) - ""What's New Pussycat?"" production number --The Kessler Sisters (Alice and Ellen Kessler, singers from West Germany) - ""The Best is Yet to Come"" & ""Together Wherever We Go""
Host: Milton Berle --Sonny and Cher - ""Baby, Don't Go"" & ""Where Do You Go?"" --Sonny and Cher with Milton Berle - in a skit, perform a version of ""But You're Mine"" titled ""But You're Ours."" (Milton is portrayed as S&C's kid in the skit with long hair, fur vest, etc.) --Abbe Lane (singer) --Bill Dana (comedian, as Jose Jimenez talking about his jujitsu book) --Maury Wills (Los Angeles Dodger captain) - sings and plays banjo --Mike McGivney (quick-change actor doing an abbreviated version of ""Oliver Twist"") --The Rudas (Austrailian dancers) - ""This Must Be the Place""
--Ray Bolger (host) - ""Put on a Happy Face,"" ""Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries,"" ""Ida,"" ""Rosie O'Grady,"" ""Once in Love with Amy"" and ""Who?"" --Kay Starr - ""Never Dreamed I Could Love Someone New"" and ""Rockin' Chair"" --Ray Bolger and Kay Starr - ""Dearie"" --Lionel Hampton - ""How High the Moon"" --Jim Bradley (7-year-old drummer) and Lionel Hampton - ""Vibe Boogie"" --Norm Crosby (comedian) --Rich Little (impressionist-comedian) --Michael De La Vega (escape artist) --The Five Armandis (acrobats, teeterboard act)
Host: Judy Garland --Judy Garland sings ""Once in a While,"" I Loved Him"" and ""We're a Couple of Swells"" --Judy Garland sings ""Play the Palace"" then performs songs made famous by other singers at the Broadway Palace: ""Shine On, Harvest Moon"" (Nora Bayes); ""Some of These Days"" (Sophie Tucker); ""My Man"" (Fanny Brice) and ""I Don't Care"" (Eva Tanguay). --Judy Garland and Vic Damone - ""West Side Story"" medley: ""Maria,"" ""There's a Place for Us"" and ""Tonight"" --Vic Damone - ""Quiet Nights"" --Chita Rivera (singer-dancer) - ""Blue is the Color"" --Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber (comedy team) --Gene Baylos (comedian) --The Lyons Family (acrobats) --The Three Bragazzi (musical clowns from Italy)
Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby (host) - ""Them There Eyes"" --Diahann Carroll (singer) - ""It's Not Unusual"" and ""If I Ruled the World"" --John Bubbles (song-and-dance man) --Charlie Manna (comedian) --The Kessler Twins (singers Ellen and Alice Kessler) - ""Married I Can Always Get"" and ""Identical"" --Michael the Waiter (German juggler) --Desmond and Marks (English comedians) --The Black Theater of Prague (pantomimists)
Host: Janet Leigh --Janet Leigh and Allan Sherman - ""Sarah Jackman"" --Allan Sherman (comedy singer) - ""Peyton Place"" --Rowan & Martin (comedy team) --Andy Russell (singer) - ""Besame Mucho,"" ""Magic Is the Moonlight,"" ""What a Difference a Day Makes,"" ""Amor"" and ""The Second Time Around"" --Michel de la Vega (magician) --Bob Ashley and Erwin Klein (table tennis experts)
Host: Milton Berle --Milton Berle and Liberace - ""My Kind of Town"" --Liberace - ""More,"" ""Alley Cat"" and the theme from ""Exodus"" --Cesar Romero (actor) --Joey Heatherton (singer-dancer) - ""I'm All Smiles"" --The McGuire Sisters (singers) - ""Bye Bye, Blackbird,"" ""I Can't Give You Anything but Love,"" ""My Melancholy Baby"" and ""When My Baby smiles at Me"" --Johnny Puleo and his Harmonica Gang --The Peiro Brothers (jugglers from Argentina) --The Berosinis (acrobats, teeterboard act from Czechoslovakia) Comedy sketch (about the filming of a spy movie):
Host: Caterina Valente --Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - ""Whipped Cream"" & ""The Lonely Bull"" --Caterina Valente - sings ""Danke Schön,"" ""Don't Rain on My Parade,"" ""Falling in Love with Love"" & ""Till"" --Bill Cosby (from ""I Spy"") - does a stand-up monologue about shopping for a new car. --Bill Dana (comedian, appearing as flamenco dancer José Jimenez) --the Black Theatre of Prague (pantomimists) --Luiz Bonfa (Brazilian guitarist) - ""The Ski Song"" --Channing Pollock (magician) --The Fredonias (tumblers from Germany)
Host: Bing Crosby (1965 Christmas Show) --Bing Crosby - ""White World of Winter"" --Bob Crane, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Collins - ""We Wish You the Merriest"" --Bing Crosby and Dorothy Collins - ""Glow Worm"" --Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians - ""Twelve Days of Christmas"" --Robert Clary - ""French Christmas Song"" --Werner Klemperer and John Banner - ""Stille Nacht"" (""Silent Night"" in German) --Andre Tahon (puppeteer) --Bob Williams and Louie the Dog (humorous animal act) - overly enthusiastic man tries to get his dog to do tricks.
Second Anniversary show Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby - ""Let's Start the New Year Right"" and ""This Could be the Start of Something Big"" --Sonny and Cher with Bing Crosby - ""Resolutions""
Host: Kate Smith --Kate Smith - ""Fine and Dandy,"" ""When the Moon Comes over the Mountain,"" ""Who Cares?"" and ""Love Is a Many Splendored Thing"" --Juliet Prowse (dancer, star of the 1965-66 series ""Mona McCluskey"") - ""Dixie"" medley --Charles Aznavour (singer-composer) - ""Who?"" & ""The Comedians"" --Burns & Schreiber (comedy team doing a routine about a talking vending machine) --Albert T. Berry (comedy-novelty act, billed as a momologist) --Charles Cairoli and Company (pantomime group doing a routine about a bakery)
Host: Phil Harris --Alice Faye --Tim Conway --Georgie Kaye --Sergio Franchi --The Kim Sisters
Host: Fred Astaire --Barrie Chase (Astaire's dancing partner) --Petula Clark - ""My Love"" & ""My Fair Lady"" medley --Mickey Rooney --Bobby Van --Ray Hastings (comedian) --The Nitwits (British comedy troupe) - orchestra plays the second movement from ""Heidens symphony #94 in C"" and ""12th Street Rag."" --Astaire joins the Nitwits for ""Temptation.""
Host: Arthur Godfrey --Arthur Godfrey - ""The Wonderful Thing About Love,"" ""S' Wonderful,"" ""England Swings"" and ""Good Old Days"" --Arthur Godfrey with the Mamas and the Papas - ""Be My Valentine"" --The Mamas and the Papas - ""California Dreamin'""
Guests: --Vincent Edwards (host) - ""A Fellow Needs a Girl"" & medley: ""Lulu's Back in Town,"" ""Maria"" and ""Ida"" --Vincent Edwards and Liza Minnelli - ""Everything I've Got Belongs to You"" --Liza Minnelli - ""Where Did You Learn to Dance?"" & ""There Is a Time""
Host: Donald O'Connor --Donald O'Connor - ""Mother Goose"" --Donald O'Connor and Jane Morgan - ""Look at That Face"" --Edward G. Robinson - reads an excerpt from Aaron Copland's ""A Lincoln Portrait"" --Roger Williams (pianist) - ""Bach's Minuet in G Major"" & ""Flight of the Bumble Bee"" --Paul Anka - ""Oh, Such a Stranger"" & a medley of songs written by Anka --Jane Morgan - ""This Train"" & an Al Jolson medley --Shecky Greene (comedian) --The Three Bragazzis (acrobatic act) --The See Hee Troupe of Formose (acrobats)
Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby - ""Just the Way You Are"" --Rosemary Clooney - Blues medley --Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney - ""Hear That Band,"" ""New Vienna Woods,"" ""The Poor People of Paris"" and ""Molly Malone"" --Gary Crosby (Bing's son) - ""Who Can I Turn To?"" --Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy (ventriloquist act) --Hugh Lambert (dancer) - ""Gabriel"" --Roger Ray (comedy xyloponist) --The Fiji military band - ""Senikau-ni Bula"" & ""Krisimasi""
--Liberace (host) --Bob Newhart (comedian) - does a monologue about a night watchman encountering King Kong. --Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber (comedy team) - do a taxicab routine --John Davidson (singer) --Marni Nixon (singer) --Channing Pollock (magician) --Betty Pasco (trapeze artist)
Comedy: A comic book spoof with Milton Berle, Adam West, Henny Youngman, Martha Raye and Abdou Amin.
Host: Fred Astaire --Fred Astaire - sings ""Fascinatin' Rhythm"" & ""Lady Be Good."" Astaire also dances to ""Bugle Call Rag."" --Ethel Merman - ""Some People"" --Fred Astaire and Ethel Merman sing a duet. Medley: ""I Got Rhythm"" (Astaire), ""Everything's Coming Up Roses"" (Merman), ""Let's Face the Music and Dance"" (Astaire/Merman), ""I Get A Kick Out Of You"" (Merman), ""Cheek To Cheek"" (Astaire), ""Putting on the Ritz"" (Merman), ""They Say it's Wonderful"" (Astaire & Merman), ""Anything Goes"" (Astaire/Merman), ""I've Got Rhythm"" reprise. (During medley, Merman tries to get Astaire to sing like her and project his voice.) --Jack Jones (singer) - ""The Shadow of Your Smile"" & ""What Now, My Love"" --Marcel Marceau (mime) - pantomimes ""The Butterfly Collector"" and ""Bip the Lion Tamer"" --Pat Morita (comedian) --The Rogge Sisters (French balancing act) --The Hardy Family (tumbling acrobats)
--Robert Goulet - ""Moment of Truth"" & ""Soliloguy"" --Nancy Sinatra - ""These Boots Are Made For Walkin'"" & ""As Tears Go By"" --Robert Goulet and Nancy Sinatra - Shoe medley
Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby - ""Bye, Bye, Blackbird,"" ""Red, Red Robin"" & ""The Men in My Little Girl's Life"" --Bing Crosby and Tammy Grimes - ""Typically English"" --Tammy Grimes - ""Feeling Good"" --Bing Crosby and Nanette Fabray - medley: ""Greensleeves,"" ""Tell Me, Pretty Maiden,"" ""Country Garden,"" ""Indian Love Call"" and ""Baby, It's Cold Outside"" --Nanette Fabray - ""American Patrol"" --Jackie Mason (comedian) --David Frost (satirist) --Cully Richards (comedy pantomimist) --The Harris Nelson family (play unusual musical instruments)
Host: Martha Raye --Martha Raye - ""Lover"" & ""Little Girl Blue"" --Chad and Jeremy - ""Distant Shores"" --Martha Raye, Chad and Jeremy - ""The Stately Homes of England"" --Sgt. Barry Sadler - ""The Ballad of the Green Berets"" & ""The 'A' Team"" --Ann Miller (singer-dancer) - ""Slap That Bass"" --George Carlin (comedian) --Allen and Rossi (comedy team of Marty Allen & Steve Rossi) --Bela Kremo (juggler) Comedy sketch: ""The Hair Dresser"" - Martha Raye styles Marty Allen's hair using the ingredients from a box of cake mix.
Host: Gene Barry --Gene Barry - ""A Real Live Girl,"" ""What Am I?"" and ""All I Need Now Is a Girl"" --The Mamas and the Papas - ""Monday, Monday"" --Wally Cox (comedian) --Tim Conway (comedian) - portrays the inventor of the matchmaking machine --The McGuire Sisters (singers) - ""Blue Skies"" & medley (""Yesterday,"" ""Bye Bye Blues"" & ""Night and Day"") --Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale (Dodger pitchers) - join Milton Berle in a comedy sketch. --The Hildalys (high-wire motorcycle act from France) --The Lenz Chimps (trained animal act)
Hosts: Tony Martin & Cyd Charisse (husband & wife) --Tony Martin (singer) - ""Singing in the Rain,"" ""I'll Only Miss Her,"" ""Who Can I Turn To?"" and ""A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening"" --Cyd Charisse (dancer) --Cesar Romero (actor) - appears in the sketch ""At Home with the Martins"" --Rowan & Martin (comedy team) --Norm Crosby (comedian) --Vikki Carr (singer) - ""Them There Eyes"" --Bobby Winters (juggler) --The Suns Family (acrobats)
Host: Victor Borge --Victor Borge - ""The Viennese Waltz"" and does a routine about phonetic punctuation. --Jane Powell (singer) - ""I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy"" & ""On a Wonderful Day Like Today"" --Peter Gennaro (choreographer-dancer) - ""Ol' Man River"" --The Kim Sisters (singing-musicians) - ""Birth of the Blues"" & ""Bill Bailey"" --The Brothers Kim (instrumentalists) --The Kim Sisters and the Brothers Kim - ""Fingers of Fire,"" ""Steel Guitar Rag,"" ""You'll Never Walk Alone"" & ""Violin Hoedown""
