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- This show, devoted to the Fab Four's writing talents, is entitled "The Beatles Songbook". The guest cast have turns singing various numbers and medleys, including a trio of Dionne Warwick, Peggy Lee and a superimposure of John Lennon from a 1964 (Black and White) appearance. An all out costume version of "Sgt. Pepper" is performed.
- 1962–19921h 30mTV-GTV EpisodeLucy brings rehearsal footage of Johnny and Ed's guest appearance on her show, Nye plays a too cool hippie TV actor, Ozzie talks about his first break in vaudeville, and his band's first big venue.
- Episode: (1972)1962–1992TV-G6.6 (20)TV EpisodeCoco hasn't much to say, Dangerfield talks about his wife, Lorne Greene talks about the demise of "Bonanza" and experiences in parades and his upcoming job hosting the Macy's Thanksgiving parade. Ed coaxes Johnny into doing "The King Lives" spit-take routine.
- A dull witted young labourer from a criminal family is sent to gaol for a minor crime, leaving his pregnant girlfriend unmarried. But while there he is talked into attacking a guard, who later dies, so he's then sentenced to hang for his crime, despite a protest and newspaper campaign for leniency.
- A tough, ex-con and son of another convict is given a rehabilitation job- assisting Locke on the police ambulance. His old gang sees this position as an opportunity for cover in a get away out of a big heist they're planning. Feeling unappreciated, he agrees to help, dragging Locke into it.
- College football player (Phillips Holmes)is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother(Lew Cody).He refuses, but they player is doped anyway,and collapses and dies. A Detective (David Landau) has the whole game re-enacted to find important clues.
- No-account son-in-law of a wealthy drug dealer steals a car one day with a valuable shipment and his naive wife. They crash, and he must escape the hospital with the shipment in a suitcase, his father-in-law and the mob's wrath, as Dr. Locke tries to intervene.
- A wife plots to keep her husband at home.
- Tweedledum is a farm hand that wants to elope with the farmer's daughter, but the family is violently against it, and chase him off. So he gets revenge on them by pranks like throwing bricks at them from the roof, setting fire to the mother sleeping on the porch. He and his love eventually escape by using a an old iron bath tub as a boat.
- An obnoxious little toddler boy scares and hits a whimpering puppy in his charge until his mother comes in and puts him to bed and scolds him for his cruelty. Asleep, the boy dreams that the puppy has grown to dinosaur size, bursting through walls, chasing down the brat until retribution looks nigh.
- Stock broker Albert Lowden is in danger of losing his business if he can't soon pay his creditors. His wife throws a party for her socialite friends, where a greedy maid steals a guest's necklace and hides it in a tin of soft soap on her mistress's vanity desk.The mistress herself, now aware of the missing jewelry, suspects her husband took it when she finds a letter dunning him.
- A gravely ill foreign dictator is in town for some important diplomatic talks, along with his overbearing security detail. Locke wants to put him in hospital, but he won't leave a hotel where he feels safe, until a plot to assassinate him there almost succeeds.
- A teacher begins a school in the Tennessee mountains. His prize student is a charming but uneducated young woman named June. Their relationship turns to love, but a bullying, jealous rival tries to break them up by telling her that the teacher's sister and niece are actually his wife and daughter.
- A mean and miserly proprietor of a counting house in 1840's London is taken by ghosts to Christmas scenes of his youth, contemporary ones involving his family and employee, and lastly, a possible future holiday where he might be dead and forgotten, if he doesn't change his ways.
- Alice and Phil's happy home is disrupted when their furniture is being repossessed by a huge bullying workman. To placate him, they try being nice and inviting him to dine with them, but fighting breaks out and the bully pretends to be murdered when a cop shows up, and Phil is sent to jail.
- You are happily invited for "A Date with Debbie." That would be Debbie Reynolds. Debbie the singer. Debbie the dancer. Debbie the all-around talent. You don't dare stand her up!
- One of Channing's oldest students is Don Burroughs, who's nearly thirty and never graduates. He and his wife and child live on her salary as the Dean's secretary, but he can't keep a job either. He seems like a charming eternal boy, always forgiven, but deep inside, he resents it.
- The Judge needs a present for his wife's birthday, so Harry suggests a new corset. They go to the shop, but he's so embarrassed to ask the saleslady he hides in a phone booth.Harry goes in, but finds a GUY wearing one, and runs out.They both dress as women to get back in, but Mrs. Rummy gets there and chases him out.
- 1959–196130m7.4 (13)TV EpisodeAt a small California college, with a great job, fiancée and peer honors, everything is going Professor Brent's way until one day when an old man drops in, angry for stealing his identity years earlier, and demanding he expose this to everyone.
- A young doctor settles in a small but healthy town. No patients. He hires a "tough guy" to scatter banana peels throughout the neighborhood. This brings comedy and patients.
- Chuck is recruited by the police to talk his old street gang, "The Gladiators", out of engaging in a ramble. He gets too involved and another former gang member that's made a successful career in crime with a bookie joint fronting as a laundry, must intervene.
- When World War One pulls the U.S. in, builder Jim Baker goes enthusiastically. The misery of life in the trenches seems to take any romantic edge off, until adventure seeking general's daughter Patricia Hunter is caught foolishly wandering around the front line. At length, they fall in love and marry. When he is reported dead, she becomes irresponsible and turns her family's mansion into a wild party site, one which Jim eventually comes to.
- In a semi-comedic tale of frontier times, a woman named "Chris Mathews" is sworn in as a pro tempore sheriff, but she decides she'll run for the office in an upcoming election. The men of the town decide to show her up with a fake robbery, but the robber double crosses them.
- A young man that Is born into the hateful, ignorant world of family feuding in the old south, rebels against it by leaving it, and becomes an educated man, a famed neurosurgeon. The conflict of the story comes when he must operate on the brain of grandson of his childhood enemy from the feuding clan.
- Debbie gave Jim a new set of golf clubs, but she didn't tell him that she was given the set for a publicity arrangement. She didn't fulfill her part of the bargain, and now the company demands she return them or face charges. Now she must give them back without her husband getting wise.
- Did the nurse commit euthanasia?
- When nightclub insult comedian Joey Kent is arrested on a narcotics charge at the airport, Sam's partner Hank Tabor takes the case. Kent is obnoxious and often drunk, hindering his case. A sleazy "Confidential"-type magazine publisher will try anything to get Sam to represent him, and a Judge's young daughter is apparently guilty of a hit-and-run accident.
- After being beaten and dumped in the harbor, left for dead, the young man who takes the name Michael Alden can only remember the words: "Coronet Blue".
- After completing his income tax form, he decides he's so happy with his new country, he'll add a tip to show his appreciation. However, such an unheard of gesture puts the IRS in a state of turmoil, and they beg him to take it back. In desperation, they even persuade Mr. Phillips to do an amateur psychoanalysis on him.
- An American has been selling sunny Caribbean housing lots that turn out to be under muddy water, leaving angry buyers and Carlos with prefab houses that can't be built. He works out a plan to convince the greedy land dealer that the lots are worth buying back.
- After a desperate man steals Richard's horse, the squire of Fitzgeorge castle takes him in. He can't see the man's son though he served gallantly in a crusade with him. The serving maid tells of a plot, where it was actually a serf that fought alongside the King, and the real scion of Fitzgeorge hid back in England.
- 1956–196130mTV EpisodeHiram learns that spies have kidnapped a scientist's daughter in order to wrest atomic secrets from the old man.
- 1960–196130m6.0 (36)TV EpisodeAs countless old and sick people are forced to leave Red China, they seek medical help from a small free clinic run by an American in Hong Kong. He's running out of needed medicine, but a wealthy friend secures some through her black market contact, but he double crosses them when the bottles are switched.
- Young Victor Liebig returns from the theatre with his eccentric Aunt, when he receives a call summoning them to the flat of his Uncle's suicidal mistress.She's a young, bohemian type and Victor is smitten. She leads him on and he takes her out, but after meeting her friends, realises she's not for him.
- Jeff and his friends start a club using their walkie talkies to communicate. One day, another voice intrudes on their conversations, a girl who won't give her name. This drives him to find out who she might be, anxiously looking around at school, but no luck. Eventually, Jeff and Smitty use a radio wave locator to find her.
- 1967–19711hTV EpisodeAlan king talks about recent New Year's parties and some past ones that went badly. Frye offers a skit where President Nixon wants to make new year's calls to New York Governor Rockefeller, writer Truman Capote and the astronauts on the Moon. "Doctor Zodiak" offers vacation advice by way of horoscope. Michelle sings "Something", all join in on "What A Year!".
- The latest addition to the wax museum is the Green Hornet and Kato. But The Scarf feels threatened as he was their most famous occupant and he is a jealous tenant.
- An old friend of Adams, Floyd Blaylock, who was his sergeant from the Korean War, is in town and making trouble. Though he is a decorated hero for saving Adams's life, he's deeply scarred from his experiences psychologically and seeks to assuage imagined guilt by committing dangerous acts.
- In 1890's San Fransisco, saloon keeper Trixie is reunited with an old lover, a returning prisoner of war. She finds his ardor cooled when he finds her partners with a notorious hijacker. After shooting a detective, the crook hides in Trixie's house-but will she protect him?
- Katy and Mr. Devery find a girl named April living at the hotel who ran away from a fancy boarding school so she could come to New York and become an actress, much against the will of her parents, two stars of the Broadway stage who retired years ago to a Vermont farm.
- Jack devotes the entire half-hour to an amateur talent contest - of sorts. George Jessel pays a surprise visit.
- When a stranger to a small town is beaten up by a locals, upright residents gather, inexplicably, against their will to the town hall. Once assembled, they find they can't leave and time has stopped. All talk about the stranger, (also present). Some express rage for his views and reveal their misguided ideas of American patriotism, which are really prejudices against freedom of thought and free speech.
- An honest and respected veteran who's been elected to the city council in part due to Steve's favorable press coverage, now looks like he's betrayed everyone by taking a bribe to vote for an unwanted race track to be built that will be run by a gangster.
- A war hero who played a critical part in preparing an atom bomb that was dropped on Japan eighteen years before, now suffers from a massive guilt complex, that causes an old wound to reopen, and strains his relationship with his Japanese wife, who was caught in the blast.
- In the last show of the season, Ernie acknowledges two of "The Top Twenty" celebrating birthdays. His guest Andrè Previn, plays music from his album,:"Like Young". An intrusive, long winded sound man interrupts a keyboard duet with Ernie and Previn.
- Taking the cameras backstage, Ernie runs into a mob from Dean Martin's spectacular and Wagon Train blocking the coffee vending machine, and gets caught in an apple dispenser.Andy Devine tries everything down to begging and blubbering a sad song to get Ernie to buy a broken down horse named Lightning.
- At the library, Mike encounters a famous ballerina trying to make a telephone call to her boyfriend in Waco, Texas. His attempts at helping her lead to a budding romance, but her highly public life of fame in the public eye leads to unwanted complications for the more reserved Professor.
- Among the demimonde of Paris, Krazy and Kitty entertain in a dive as apache dancers.A huge tiger character kidnaps her right off the dance floor. After a hot pursuit, Krazy descends to the sewers to locate the villain's claustrophobic hideaway to rescue her. There, he engages in a bloodless sword fight with the crook to settle things.
- After embarrassing her at the movies during a showing of "The Blob", Mrs. Appleby decides to teach George a lesson by tricking him into believing she's turned into a bird with the help of a borrowed parrot. He takes her (the bird) to a psychiatrist for help.
- George is an amateur inventor working out of his garage. He invents a gas additive that will eliminate smog, but his shrewish wife destroyed his lab in a fit of rage. While trying to remember the exact mixture, Mrs. Appleby accidentally drinks one of his experiments and becomes invisible.