THE GEORGE GOBEL SHOW--Volume 1
(approx 60 min)
From the gag-laden opening credits to the usually abrupt sign-off (sketches often ran long), this live comedy/variety program was one of the funniest and most intelligent series of its period.
These two early shows include special guests Angela Lansbury (playing Gobel's wife, tied to a chair by their son) in a sketch) and boxer-turned-actor Buddy Baer (uncle of Max Baer Jr., of The Beverly Hillbillies), along with regulars Peggy King and orchestra leader John Scott Trotter.
Peggy King sings "Mountain Greenery" and "Mambo In the Moonlight" in these two programs, and Buddy Baer gets to toss Gobel around as part of a sketch.
THE GEORGE GOBEL SHOW--Volume 2
(approx 60 min)
Guests include screen actress Faye Emerson and monologist Julius Tannen, who plays a stuffy interior decorator who gets the best of Gobel in the opening sketch. Peggy King performs "Teach Me Tonight" and Faye Emerson does a sketch with Gobel.
The second show features Gobel using a guitar as a prop for almost 10 minutes of comedy, as he starts to sing a song ("I Just Can't Ride Old Paint Tonight, Because He's Shellacked Again").
Peggy King performs "Somebody Loves Me" in a sketch, made up as a marionette and joined by a toy elephant.
THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM
(approx 60 min)
Two classic episodes from years apart: In the October 25, 1953 show, Humphrey Bogart is the special guest in a sketch that parodies the stage and movie hit "Detective Story," with Benny as a somewhat less-than-tough cop trying to interrogate Bogart as the wanted killer "Babyface."
Don Wilson and Benny Rubin are in the sketch as well. The late Dorothy Collins of "Your Hit Parade" shows up singing a commercial jingle, and football coach Lou Little plugs Lucky Strike as well. In the second show, musical guests the Kingston Trio (Dave Guard, Bob Shane, Nick Reynolds) show up singing their hit "Tijuana Jail" in a sketch involving--you guessed it--a Tijuana Jail, with Vito Scotti and Benny Rubin in supporting roles and Mel Blanc repising his "Sy/Si" comedy bit."
RED SKELTON: CHRISTMAS SPIRIT
JACK BENNY SHOW
(approx 50 min)
RED SKELTON: CHRISTMAS SPIRIT (approx 25 min)
A mid-1960's Christmas show in fragmentary form with Red Skelton as Freddie the Freeloader and Greer Garson as a friend and admirer of Freddie, who is doing good deeds to help out the needy over the holidays.
Through an accident, he overhears a plan by an attorney and some unscrupulous clients plotting to take over The Greer Garson Theater, and tries to warn his friend.
They're interrupted by a group of photographers, however, and she decides to masquerade as the "Flower Lady" and meet Freddie at the his residence, the city dump, and together the two work out a plan to save the theater.
THE JACK BENNY SHOW (approx 25 min)
Bobby Rydell is the special guest on this 1966 show, which opens with a Jack Benny monolog and a performance of two songs by Rydell ("Just Singing My Song," "Toot Toot Tootsie"), who tells Benny that his own timing is off when it comes to jokes.
Benny goes home, where he thinks he's being followed--Rochester is little help as the mysterious stranger closes in on his frightened boss. Co-starring Don Wilson and Dennis Day.
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THE GEORGE GOBEL SHOW--Volume 2 (approx 60 min)
Guests include screen actress Faye Emerson and monologist Julius Tannen, who plays a stuffy interior decorator who gets the best of Gobel in the opening sketch. Peggy King performs "Teach Me Tonight" and Faye Emerson does a sketch with Gobel.
THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM (approx 60 min)
Two classic episodes from years apart: In the October 25, 1953 show, Humphrey Bogart is the special guest in a sketch that parodies the stage and movie hit "Detective Story," with Benny as a somewhat less-than-tough cop trying to interrogate Bogart as the wanted killer "Babyface."
RED SKELTON: CHRISTMAS SPIRIT JACK BENNY SHOW (approx 50 min)
RED SKELTON: CHRISTMAS SPIRIT (approx 25 min)
A mid-1960's Christmas show in fragmentary form with Red Skelton as Freddie the Freeloader and Greer Garson as a friend and admirer of Freddie, who is doing good deeds to help out the needy over the holidays.
THE JACK BENNY SHOW (approx 25 min)
Bobby Rydell is the special guest on this 1966 show, which opens with a Jack Benny monolog and a performance of two songs by Rydell ("Just Singing My Song," "Toot Toot Tootsie"), who tells Benny that his own timing is off when it comes to jokes.