Host: Bing Crosby --The Mamas & the Papas - ""Dancing Bear"" & ""Dancing in the Street"" --Bing Crosby - ""Strike Up the Band"" (with dancers) --George Burns - ""Pack Up Your Sins and Go to the Devil"" --Bing Crosby and George Burns - ""You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You"" --Sid Caesar --Lola Falana (singer-dancer) - ""Promise Her Anything"" --Jane Marsh (soprano) - ""Mi chiamano Mimi"" (aria from Puccini's ""La Boheme"") --Mickey Deems --Joyce Jameson --Mac Ronay (French comic magician) --The Rhodins (aerialists) Comedy: --Bing appears as a star visiting suburbia in a sketch with Sid Caesar, Mickey Deems and Joyce Jameson.
Host: Phil Silvers --Mr. and Mrs. Bob Top (roller skating couple) - perform stunts atop a 60-foot-high platform outside the theater --Polly Bergen - sings ""It's Today"" & ""If He Walked Into My Life""
Host: Elizabeth Montgomery --Elizabeth Montgomery - ""Bewitched"" theme. --Elizabeth Montgomery and Vic Damone - ""Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered"" duet --Vic Damone (singer) - ""Falling in Love with Love"" and ""I Cried for You"" --Paul Lynde (comedian) --Jackie Mason (comedian) --Morgana King (singer) --The Baja Marimba Band - ""Portuguese Washerwoman"" & ""Acapulco 1922"" --Paul Anthony's tigers --Sensational Parker (acrobatic act) --The Three Robertes (acrobats)
Host: Adam West
Host: Phyllis Diller --Herman's Hermits - ""Listen People"" & ""Dandy"" --Bob Newhart (comedian) - does a monologue about a policeman talking to a man who's threatening to commit suicide. --Tony Martin (singer) --Lada Edmund Jr. (dancer, formerly of ""Hullabaloo"") --Kirk Kirkham (magician) --Del Morals' acrobatic act --The Palace Duo (trapeze artists)
--Herb Alpert (host) and the Tijuana Brass - ""Tijuana Taxi"" --Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - ""Mame,"" medley of hits and ""Zorba the Greek"" --The Supremes - ""You Keep Me Hangin On"", ""Somewhere"" & ""What Now My Love"" --Shelley Berman (comedian) --Gilbert Bécaud (French singer-songwriter, wrote the original French version of ""What Now My Love"") --Hendra & Ullett (British comedy team) --Also: a clown act from Europe & a wire walker.
Host: Dale Robertson --Dale Robertson (from the ""Iron Horse"" TV series) - ""Gotta Travel On"" & ""I've Been Working on the Railroad"" --Barrie Chase (dancer-singer) - ""Possibilities"" --Jack Carter (comedian) --Morgana King (singer) - ""I Love Paris"" & ""Meditation"" --The Stoneman Family (country musicians) - ""Fire on the Mountain"" --The Geezinslaw Brothers (comedy bluegrass group) - ""On the Street Where You Live"" --Don Sanders (comedian) --The Hildalys (aerialists) --Novelle's Poodles (trained animal act)
--Phil Harris (guest host, singer) --The Flying Artons with David Nelson (trapeze act) --Szony and Claire (dance team) --George Jessel (comedian / actor) --Elizabeth and Collins (knife throwing act) --Jacques Ary (comic impressionist) --Abbe Lane (singer) --Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber (comedians)
Host: Vince Edwards (from ""Ben Casey"") --Opening number: Vince Edwards sings while women in ""mod"" clothing dance around him.
Guests: --Bing Crosby (host) - ""Mame"" & ""Sunrise, Sunset"" --Vikki Carr - ""Bye, Bye, Blackbird"" & ""Cuando Caliente El Sol""
Host: Victor Borge --Petula Clark - ""Strangers In The Night"" & ""Without A Song"" --Allen & Rossi (comedy team) - routine about a Japanese baseball star --Steve Rossi - ""The Shadow of Your Smile"" --Jean Pierre Aumont & Marisa Pavan (husband & wife singing-dancing team) - ""All I Need Now is the Girl"" & ""C'est Si Bon"" --Claire Sombert & Michel Bruel (French ballet dancers) with Victor Borge - ""Claire de Lune"" --The Flying Cavarettas (teenage aerialists) --Dennis Breilein (escape artist) --Baby Sabu (performing elephant)
--Jimmy Durante (host) - ""One of Those Songs"" & ""A One-Room Home"" --The Turtles - ""Can I Get To Know You Better"" --George Carlin (comedian) - spoofs rock 'n' roll DJs
--Eddie Fisher - ""Games that Lovers Play"" and ""Mame"" --Eddie Fisher and the Young Americans - ""Hava Nagila"" --The Young Americans - ""Climp Every Mountain"" and ""Gonna Build a Mountain""
1966 Christmas Show hosted by Bing and Kathryn Crosby, with their children Harry, Mary Francis and Nathaniel.
Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby - ""Auld Lang Syne"" & ""Cabaret"" --Bing Crosby and the Mills Brothers - ""Paper Doll"" --The Mills Brothers - ""Don't Blame Me"" --Dorothy Collins (singer) - ""Feelin' Good"" --Charles Aznavour - ""Le Temps"" & ""Hier Encore"" --Skitch Henderson (pianist, formerly of ""The Tonight Show"") - ""Lover"" --Burns & Schreiber (comedy team) --Johnny Puleo and his Harmonica Gang
Host: Ray Bolger --Paul Revere and the Raiders - ""Great Airplane Strike of 1966"" --Ray Bolger - ""There Are Smiles"" & ""The Old Soft Shoe"" --Ray Bolger & the King Family children - ""If I Only Had a Brain"" & ""Follow the Yellow Brick Road"" (Bolger is dressed as his Scarecrow character from the ""Wizard of Oz."") --Audrey Meadows & Ray Bolger - perform a ""Honeymooners"" sketch. --Diahann Carroll - ""What the World Needs Now"" & ""Here's That Rainy Day"" --The King Family - ""I'm Old-Fashioned"" & ""The Men in My Little Girl's Life"" (these songs might be performed by only the King Sisters) --Adam Keefe (comic impressionist) - imitates Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and George Sanders --The Morgan Ashton Family (acrobats)
Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby - ""Put On a Happy Face"" & ""This Is a Great Country"" --Jimmy Durante - ""Nobody Wants My Money"" & ""Eagle Rock"" --Tim Conway (comedian) --Edie Adams - sings ""Lady Godiva"" --Everett Dirksen (Senator Minority Leader, Republican from Illinois) - a dramatic reading of ""The Gallant Men"" --Danny Sailor (high-pole climber and acrobat) Also: bloopers from the past 2 seasons and a film of the Palace Anniversary parade in Hollywood.
Host: Donald O'Connor --Donald O'Connor - ""Walking Happy"" --Sid Caesar (comedian) --Shari Lewis (singer-ventriloquist) and Lambchop - sings ""Fred Astaire"" --Don Ho - Pearly Shells"" & ""Tiny Bubbles"" --Ted Lewis (singer) - ""A Million Wonderful Songs"" --Donald O'Connor and Ted Lewis - ""Me and My Shadow"" --Marilyn Maye (singer) - ""Cabaret"" & ""You're Gonna Hear from Me"" --Bob Melvin (comedian) --Rudy Cardenas (juggler) Comedy sketch: On a muddy, rainy day, Sid Caesar finds himself inundated by a horde of visitors wanting to see his new white carpet.
Host: Jack Benny --Jack Benny appears with Gloria Chappell, his musical teacher, for a violin duet.
Host: Sammy Davis Jr. --Sammy Davis Jr. - ""Shake, Shake, Shake,"" ""The Lady Is a Tramp,"" ""What Kind of Fool am I?"" and ""The Birth of the Blues"" --Liberace - ""Malaguena"" --Mickey Rooney --Sammy Davis Jr. and Mickey Rooney - sing ""Two of a Kind"" and do impersonations of Clark Gable, James Cagney, Cary Grant and other screen stars.
--Bing Crosby (host) - ""The Good Old Days"" --Ella Fitzgerald - ""Jazz Samba"" and ""How Long Has This Been Going On?"" --Bing Crosby and Ella Fitzerald - ""jazz up"" children's songs in a medley. --Alice Faye - ""Mame"" --Phil Harris - ""It Was a Very Good Year"" --Alice Faye and Phil Harris (husband and wife) join Bing for a medley of songs from Alice's film musicals. --Dom DeLuise (comedian) --Hendra & Ullett (British comedy team) - routine spoofing the British R.A.F. --The Nitwits (British music-hall clowns) --The Medini Brothers (acrobats)
--Van Johnson (host) - ""Wilkommen"" --Liza Minnelli - ""Cabaret"" & ""I Will Wait for You"" --Liza Minnelli, Mickey Rooney and Van Johnson - ""Let's Make A Movie"" --Mickey Rooney - appears in a baseball sketch --George Carlin (comedian) --Chris Noel (actress) - talks about her recent visit to Vietnam. --The Palace Duo (acrobats) --Milo and Roger (comic illusionists) --On film: The Beatles - ""Penny Lane"" & ""Strawberry Fields Forever"" promotional videos
--Steve Lawrence (host) - ""She Loves Me,"" ""On a Clear Day"" and ""The Impossible Dream"" --Florence Henderson - ""My Love"" --Steve Lawrence and Florence Henderson - ""Wouldn't It Be Loverly?"" --Phyllis Diller and Steve Lawrence - ""I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face"" --The Fuller Brothers - ""You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You"" and ""I'm in Love for the Very First Time"" --Bill Dana (comedian, in character as Jose Jimenez) - plays a sky-diving instructor. --Russ Lewis (vetriloquist) --The Rhodins (aerialists) --Pat Anthony's wild-animal act.
--Kate Smith (host) - ""Somewhere My Love,"" ""Deep Purple,"" ""Don't Take Your Love From Me"" & ""Seems Like Old Times""
Host: George Burns --George Burns - ""A Well-Known Fact"" --George Burns - sings ""It Was a Very Good Year"" while talking about his early vaudeville career. --Lainie Kazan (singer) - ""Goin' Out of My Head"" --George Burns, Lainie Kazan, and the King Family - ""Some of These Days"" --The King Family - ""You're Gonna Hear from Me,"" ""We Taught Them Everything They Know,"" ""Malaguena"" & Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. --Enzo Stuarti (operatic tenor) - ""Yesterday,"" ""Catari,"" ""The Shadow of Your Smile"" & ""Strangers in the Night"" --Desmond & Marks (English music-hall comics) - ""Frivolous Feet"" --Baby Sabu (performing elephant)
--Bing Crosby - ""This Is The Life"" --Bing Crosby with the The Good Time Washboard Three - ""Oh! By Jingo! Oh! By Gee!"" --Nanette Fabray - ""I'm The First Girl In The Second Row"" --Red Buttons - ""Sam, You Made The Pants Too Long"" --‘Joe The Bartender' sketch with Bing, Red Buttons and Nanette Fabray. --Louis Armstrong - ""(My Girl Loves) Cheesecake"" --Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong - medley: ""Let's Sing Like A Dixieland Band""/""Muskrat Ramble""/""Let's Sing Like A Dixieland Band"" (Reprise)
Guests: --Cyd Charisse & Tony Martin (co-hosts) - ""Walking Happy"" --Danny Sailor (Canadian lumberjack - high-pole acrobat) - balances on top of 80 foot pole outside of theater --The Kim Sisters (3 sisters from Korea) - the trio sings ""Goin' Out of My Head"" and ""Caramba,"" then plays ""La Bamba"" and ""The Peanut Vendor"" on the xylophone.
Music: --Milton Berle (host) - ""That's Entertainment"" --Roy Rogers & Dale Evans - ""What the World Needs Now,"" ""Love Makes the World Go Round,"" ""True Love"" and ""That's Amore"" --Marilyn King - ""Sunny"" --Buddy Rich and his band - ""Bugle Call Rag"" --The Dunhills (tap dancers)
--Joan Crawford (host) - performs a dramatic scene titled ""The Dreamer"" about an imaginative little girl.
--Gene Barry (host) - sings ""Charm, Style and ""Sex"" and ""Sunrise, Sunset"" Gene Barry also does a dramatic reading about a father's farewell to his soldier son.
