Season 8

E1. The Darryl F. Zanuck Story

Sep 12, 1954 · 60m

Season 8 is on the ""Toast of the Town"" guide.

E2. A Salute to the U.S. Navy (with All-Navy talent)

Sep 19, 1954 · 60m

E3. Salute to the Cleveland Indians; Los Chavales De Espagna; Happy Wanderers

Sep 26, 1954 · 60m

E4. Salute to Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz

Oct 3, 1954 · 60m

Lucy & Desi sketch: Ed Sullivan calls Desi at home to arrange interview, but Lucy thinks Edward Morrow is coming. (Sketch runs approx. 12 minutes) Other guests: --Yogi Berra (Ed interviews baseball player Berra) --Gisele MacKenzie - sings ""Delightful To Be Married"" & ""Canadian Sunset"" --Sal Maglie (Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher talks about baseball) --Joyce Grenfell (stand-up comedian: nursery school routine & tells jokes about cocktail parties) --Stockholm Gosskor - ""Goethewaltz"" & ""Swedish Marching Song"" (boys choir from Sweden) --Lilly Yokoi (Bicycle Acrobatics) Cameos: Baseball Managers & Players: Hank Aaron, Frank Torre --Benson Ford (Ford family member promoting United Charity Work) --President Dwight D. Eisenhower (on film, promoting charity work) Audience bow: Dr. Albert Jorgensen

E5. Patti Page; Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane. Plus: "A Star Is Born" preview

Oct 10, 1954 · 60m

E6. Bing Crosby (on film); Irving Berlin; Liberace; Orson Bean

Oct 17, 1954 · 60m

E7. Pearl Bailey; Robert Merrill; Carol Haney; the Treniers

Oct 24, 1954 · 60m

E8. Grantland Rice tribute / Nat King Cole / Bert Lahr & Art Carney / D. Fairbanks Jr.

Oct 31, 1954 · 60m

E9. The Mills Brothers; Eddie Fisher; Kitty Kallen; Dane Clark

Nov 7, 1954 · 60m

E10. Elaine Stritch / Julius LaRosa / Elizabeth Taylor & Van Johnson interview

Nov 14, 1954 · 60m

E11. Roberta Peters; Jimmy Boyd / Gregory Peck (on film)

Nov 21, 1954 · 60m

E12. Florence Henderson; Josh Logan; Teresa Brewer

Nov 28, 1954 · 60m

E13. Kirk Douglas; Eartha Kitt; Ames Brothers; Jackie Miles; Carol Haney

Dec 5, 1954 · 60m

E14. The Crew-Cuts ("Sh-Boom"); Virginia Mayo; Sophie Tucker

Dec 12, 1954 · 60m

E15. The Chordettes / Patti Page / On film: Frank Sinatra, Robert Michum & other stars

Dec 19, 1954 · 60m

E16. Cab Calloway / Carl Ballantine / Hermione Gingold / Billy DeWolfe

Dec 26, 1954 · 60m

E17. Pearl Bailey; Ted Lewis; June Valli; Sam Levenson; Maria Neglia

Jan 2, 1955 · 60m

E18. Grace Kelly; James Michener; Guy Mitchell; Forrest Tucker; Jose Greco

Jan 9, 1955 · 60m

E19. Esther Williams; Alice Pearce; Hermione Gingold; Gloria Lane

Jan 16, 1955 · 60m

E20. Robert Taylor; Roberta Peters; William Warfield; Viveca Lindfors

Jan 23, 1955 · 60m

E21. A Cavalcade of Radio, 1920 - 1955 (with many stars from radio)

Jan 30, 1955 · 60m

E22. The Columbia Pictures Story with Kim Novak; Eddie Fisher; Maureen O'Hara

Feb 6, 1955 · 60m

E23. Les Paul & Mary Ford; Pearl Bailey & her brother Bill

Feb 13, 1955 · 60m

E24. Tribute to Gertrude Lawrence with Sarah Churchill; Helen Hayes; Dorothy Sarnoff

Feb 20, 1955 · 60m

E25. Eartha Kitt; the DeJohn Sisters; Shirl Conway; Nancy Andrews; etc.

Feb 27, 1955 · 60m

E26. Lillian Roth; the Fontane Sisters; Roy Franklin; Mata & Hari; etc.

Mar 6, 1955 · 60m

E27. Broadcast from Chicago: The Ice Capades; Victor Borge; Peg Leg Bates

Mar 13, 1955 · 60m

E28. Sarah Vaughan / Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane / Sam Levenson

Mar 20, 1955 · 60m

Broadcast from Toronto, Canada: --Connie Francis - ""Days of Wine and Roses,"" ""Exodus,"" ""If My Pillow Could Talk"" & ""Hava Nagila"" --Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane - Latin medley: ""Perfidia,"" ""Besame Mucho"" and ""Blame It On the Bossa Nova"" --Jan Peerce - ""Maria"" (song from ""West Side Story""), ""The Sweetest Sounds"" & ""Flower Song"" (from ""Carmen"") --Wayne and Shuster (comedy team) - sketch with reporter having a difficult time interviewing hep-cat jazz musician --Jack Carter (comedian) --Les Jerolas (two French speaking Canadians singing ""Little Darlin'"" and doing impressions) --The 48th Highlanders of Canada (bagpipe band) Audience bows: Tim Horton, Carl Brewer, Bob Fulford, Bob Nevin, Allen Stanley & Harold Ballard (all of the Toronto Maple Leaf team).

E29. Tribute to Rodgers & Hammerstein w/Celeste Holm; John Raitt; Florence Henderson

Mar 27, 1955 · 60m

E30. Fred Astaire / Dorothy Dandridge / Sammy Davis Jr. / Julius LaRosa

Apr 3, 1955 · 60m