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Now playingSeason 1, Episode 1
Watching1. Premiere with guest stars Peter Lorre, Joan Edwards
Jack Carter stars with guests singer Joan Edwards, actor Peter Lorre, bird whistlers The Arnauts, comedy team McCarthy and Farrell, and acrobats The Fontaines. Lorre does a recitation of "The Telltale Heart" and joins Carter in a mad scientist sketch. Edwards performs at the piano and teams with Carter for "You're Adorable."
2. Ella Logan, Maurice Rocco
3. Marilyn Maxwell
4. Mimi Benzell
5. Vivian Blaine, Mata & Hari
6. Kay Starr
7. Pearl Bailey
8. Kitty Kallen, The Four Step Brothers
9. Victor Borge, Thelma Carpenter
10. Henny Youngman, Ethel Smith
11. Janet Blair, Zero Mostel
12. Gladys Swarthout, the Dunhills, Mimi Benzell, Cabot & Dresden, Professor Irwin Corey
13. Vivian Blaine. Georgia Gibbs, Phil Foster, the Treniers
14. Luba Malina, Ray Malone
15. Paul Winchell, Donald Richards, Joan Edwards, the Clark Brothers
16. Hazel Scott, Jackie Miles
17. Connee Boswell, Carlos Ramirez
18. Kitty Carlisle, Tito Guizar, Jean Carroll
19. Cab Calloway, Marie McDonald, Gil Lamb
20. Carol Bruce, Josh White, Alice Pearce
21. Bert Lahr, Mata & Hari, the DeCastro Sisters
22. Vivian Blaine, Zero Mostel
23. Gali-Gali Luxor, Milt Douglas, Willie Shore
24. Kitty Kallen, Bert Wheeler, Donald Richards, Rudy Cardenas
25. Jackie Coogan, Hal LeRoy, Lina Romay
26. Pinky Lee, Ilona Massey
27. Vera Vague, Joan Merrill
28. Smith & Dale, the DeMarco Sisters
29. Monica Lewis, Jack Durant
30. Paul Winchell & Jerry Mahoney, Hazel Scott
31. Jean Carroll
32. Chico Marx
33. Frances Langford, The Four Step Brothers
34. Mindy Carson, Leo DeLyon
35. Robert Merrill, The Mello-Larks, Jack E. Leonard
36. Andy Russell, Della Russell, Patricia Bowman, Stan Freeman
37. Jane Pickens, Buck & Bubbles
38. Guest Host: Bert Wheeler; Guest Star: Johnny Coy
39. Guest Host: Jackie Miles; Guest Star: Betty Bruce
40. Jerry Lester debut as host; guest stars: Janis Paige, Dorothy Jarnac, Baccaloni
41. Connie Haines, Maurice Rocco
42. Janet Blair
43. Chester Morris, Kyle MacDonnell, Dizzy Gillespie
44. John Loder, Gertrude Niesen, Bert Gordon
45. Kyle MacDonnell, Bert Wheeler, Jerry Wayne
46. J. Carrol Naish, Kyle MacDonnell, Louis Nye, Carl Reiner
47. Jackie Robinson, Kyle MacDonnell, Johnny Johnston, Gali-Gali
Lester as a clown called Arthur Clodfrey (takeoff on Arthur Godfrey), magician Galli-Galli make baby chicks appear under cups, MacDonnell sings "The Boy Next Door", and Jackie Robinson appears in a sketch visiting a kid in a wheelchair.
48. Sam Levenson, Kyle MacDonnell
49. Smith & Dale, the Four Step Brothers, Mimi Benzell, Leonard Sues
50. Jack Pearl & Cliff Hall, Joan Edwards, Elsa & Waldo
51. Jackie Robinson, Mindy Carson
52. Keye Luke, Ray Malone, Susan Miller, Carl Ravazza
53. John Garfield, Kim Stanley, Paul Winchell & Jerry Mahoney
54. Kitty Kallen, Larry Storch
55. Vivian Blaine, Carlos Ramirez, Jackie Miles
56. Anna Maria Alberghetti, Wally Brown, Beatrice Kay, Leonard Sues
57. Georgia Gibbs
58. Jackie Gleason debut as host; guest stars: Rose Marie, the DeCastro Sisters
Jackie Gleason debuts as host with Rose Marie, comic Hank Ladd, acrobat Ladd Lyon, singing DeCastro Sisters, and dancer Evelyn Farney. Gleason duets with Rose and in a sketch at a hat check counter. DeCastros sing a Latin-American number.
59. Gloria DeHaven, Eddie Fisher
60. Ella Fitzgerald, Kate Murtagh, Mary Raye & Naldi
61. The Modernaires, Evelyn Farney
62. Bert Wheeler, Dorothy Clare, Billy Daniels
63. Andy and Della Russell, Clarence Stroud
64. Victor Borge, Frances Langford
65. Richard Tucker
66. Smith & Dale, Gracie Barrie & the Beachcombers
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