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YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS {FINAL EPISODE} (TV)

Summary

The final episode in this series of comedy/variety programs, with guest host Faye Emerson. This program reviews several of the highlights of the seriesÕ history: First, in a sketch about the first home-cooked meal of the newlywed Hickenloopers, Imogene Coca plays wife Doris, who excitedly prepares an unpalatable meal--which her loving husband Charles, played by Sid Caesar, is forced to struggle through. Then the Hamilton Trio, accompanied by the vocals of Bill Hayes, performs a modern dance to the song "Rock the Joint." Next the sketch "Au Revoir Ma Cherie" or "Toot Toot Tootsie, So Long" is a parody of a post-World-War-I French film, in which a young woman engages in long melodramatic farewell scenes with her two fiances, both soldiers headed for the Front. Caesar and Coca then perform a pantomime in which two symphony-orchestra percussionists compete to play the scant percussion parts in TchaikovskyÕs 1812 Overture. The Billy Williams Quartet follows with a rendition of the song "Mad About You." Next, "Sewing Machine Girl" is a spoof of an early silent film; Coca plays a sickly woman working with her sweetheart in a sweatshop run by a villainous boss, who tries to seduce the heroine and eventually works her to death. Next, against the backdrop of a wine festival in a rustic Italian village, Bill Hayes sings "Anema E Core" ("Anima e Cuore") with Pauline Goddard. Coca then plays a genial hobo who sings "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams" as she attempts spread cheer to an uppity doorman played by James Starbuck. Marguerite Piazza also sings a medley of popular tunes, including "IÕve Got You Under My Skin," "Falling In Love With Love," and "It Might As Well Be Spring." Next Howard Morris, Caesar, Coca, and Reiner perform their second "English Sketch," playing four stuffy upper-class English characters who attend a formal soiree one stormy night and are soaked by the numerous leaks in their hostessÕs roof. Rod Alexander and Bambi Linn then perform a romantic dance vignette, "Younger Than Springtime," about a young couple forced to part. The program concludes as the entire cast perfoms "Stars Over Broadway"; and Caesar and Coca, along with NBC president Pat Weaver, deliver a farewell speech and comment on their new projects with NBC. Includes commercials.

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Details

  • NETWORK: NBC
  • DATE: June 5, 1954 9:00 PM
  • RUNNING TIME: 1:29:00
  • COLOR/B&W: B&W
  • CATALOG ID: T:33900
  • GENRE: Comedy/Variety
  • SUBJECT HEADING: Comedy; Pantomime; Music, popular (songs, etc.); Dance
  • SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1950-1954
  • COMMERCIALS:
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CREDITS

  • Max Liebman … Producer, Director
  • Bill Hobin … Director
  • Mel Tolkin … Writer
  • Lucille Kallen … Writer
  • Mel Brooks … Writer
  • Tony Webster … Writer
  • Joe Stein … Writer
  • Charles Sanford … Music (Misc. Credits), Musical Director
  • Clay Warnick … Choral Director
  • Irwin Kostal … Music (Misc. Credits), Orchestrations by
  • James Starbuck … Choreographer
  • Faye Emerson … Host
  • Billy Williams Quartet, The … Music Group, Singers
  • Bill Hayes … Singer
  • Marguerite Piazza … Singer
  • Pauline Goddard … Singer
  • Sylvia Michaels … Singer
  • Keith Textor … Singer
  • Jack Russell … Singer
  • Bob Hamilton Trio, The … Dance Group
  • Rod Alexander … Dancer
  • Joan Holloway … Dancer
  • Bambi Linn … Dancer
  • Wallace Seibert … Dancer
  • Sid Caesar … Cast
  • Imogene Coca … Cast
  • Virginia Curtis … Cast
  • Carl Reiner … Cast
  • Howard Morris … Cast
  • James Starbuck … Cast
  • Claire Chatwin
  • Ray Drakeley
  • Joan Walker
  • Weaver, Sylvester "Pat"