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The Hollywood Palace
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The Hollywood Palace

4.5 / 10
1964
7 seasons
194 episodes
Comedy

The Hollywood Palace is an hour-long American television variety show that was broadcast weekly on ABC from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970. Originally titled The Saturday Night Hollywood Palace, it began as a mid-season replacement for The Jerry Lewis Show, another variety show which had lasted only three months. It was staged in Hollywood at the former Hollywood Playhouse on Vine Street, which was renamed The Hollywood Palace during the show's duration and is today known as Avalon Hollywood. A little-known starlet named Raquel Welch was cast during the first season as the "Billboard Girl", who placed the names of the acts on a placard.

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Cast

Carl Reiner

Jack Carter

Shecky Greene

Phyllis Diller

Tim Conway

Louis Armstrong

Gene Barry

Liza Minnelli

George Carlin

Paul Lynde

Ben Blue

Sid Caesar

Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Host: Bing Crosby

    04-01-196460m

    Host: Bing Crosby Scheduled guests: --Gary Crosby --Bob Newhart (comedian) --Mickey Rooney and Bobby Van - ""If We Felt Any Better"" --Nancy Wilson (singer) --The Young A...

  • Ep 2

    2.Host: Bob Cummings / Rosemary Clooney

    11-01-196460m

    Host: Bob Cummings --Rosemary Clooney --Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks (comedians) --Anthony Newley --Dave King

  • Ep 3

    3.Host: Hugh O'Brian

    18-01-196460m

    Host: Hugh O'Brian Scheduled guests: --Johnny Mathis --Ginger Rogers --Marty Ingels (comedian) --Joanie Sommers (singer) --Johnny Puleo (harmonica player) --Les Cha...

  • Ep 4

    4.Host: Ernest Borgnine

    25-01-196460m

    Host: Ernest Borgnine Other guests: --Carl Ballantine (comedian, from ""McHale's Navy"") --Joe Flynn (comedian, from ""McHale's Navy"") --Tony Bennett --Eleanor Powell...

  • Ep 5

    5.Host: Donald O'Connor

    01-02-196460m

    Host: Donald O'Connor --Donald O'Connor dances with the Louis DaPron dancers --Don Knotts (comedian) - appears, in a comedy sketch, as a bashful after-dinner speaker --Buddy...

  • Ep 6

    6.Host: Gig Young

    08-02-196460m

    Host: Gig Young Other guests: --Yma Sumac (singer) --The Mills Brothers (vocal group) --Buddy Hackett (comedian, whose appearance was postponed last week) --Dorothy C...

  • Ep 7

    7.Host: Dale Robertson

    15-02-196460m

    Host: Dale Robertson --Red Buttons (comedian) --The Smothers Brothers (comedy folk singers) --Vic Damone (singer) - ""On the Street Where You Live"" & ""You and the Night a...

  • Ep 8

    8.Host: Gene Kelly

    22-02-196460m

    --Gene Kelly opens the show by singing a few lines from ""Singin' in the Rain"" --Gene Kelly (and two other dancers, Dick Humphries and Alex Plaschheart) do a tribute to precisi...

  • Ep 9

    9.Host: Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

    29-02-196460m

    Host: Efrem Zimbalist Jr. --Louis Quinn (appeared with Zimbalist on ""77 Sunset Strip"") --Kate Smith --Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Trigger and the Sons of the Pioneers --C...

  • Ep 10

    10.Host: Dean Martin

    07-03-196460m

    Host: Dean Martin Other guests: --Jackie Mason (comedian) --Barrie Chase (dancer) --Vikki Carr (singer) --Piccola Pupa (12-year-old singer from Italy) --Leonard B...

  • Ep 11

    11.Host: Groucho Marx

    14-03-196460m

    Guests: --Groucho Marx (host) --Morey Amsterdam & Rose Marie (comedians, from ""The Dick Van Dyke Show"") --Jose Greco (flamenco dancer with his dance troupe) --Jennie...

  • Ep 12

    12.Host: Nat King Cole

    21-03-196460m

    --Nat King Cole - ""My True Carrie Love,"" ""Paper Moon,"" ""Unforgettable"" and ""Day In, Day Out"" --Nat King Cole and the Young Souls - ""Get on Board!"" --Diahann Carroll...

  • Ep 13

    13.Host: George Burns

    28-03-196460m

    Host: George Burns --George Burns - ""Don't Take Me Home"" & ""I'll Buy the Ring"" --Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks --Patti Page - ""Call Me Irresponsible"" & ""Sweetest Sound...

  • Ep 14

    14.Co-hosts: Tony Martin and Cyd Charisse

    04-04-196460m

    Co-hosts: Tony Martin and Cyd Charisse --Tony Martin and Cyd Charisse (husband & wife) - ""The Old Soft Shoe"" --Tony Martin - ""The Best Things in Life Are Free,"" ""Wives and...

  • Ep 15

    15.Host: Donald O'Connor

    11-04-196460m

    Host: Donald O'Connor --Donald O'Connor - ""Tea for Two"" --Donald O'Connor and the Four Little Angels - sing ""Old MacDonald"" --Jack E. Leonard (comedian) --Jarry Van D...

  • Ep 16

    16.Host: Jimmy Durante

    18-04-196460m

    Host: Jimmy Durante --Jimmy Durante - ""Words,"" ""I Could Have Danced All Night,"" ""What a Day"" & ""This is All I Ask"" --Jimmy Durante & Liberace - ""When a Real Piano Pl...

  • Ep 17

    17.Host: Ken Murray / Chad and Jeremy

    25-04-196460m

    Host: Ken Murray --Ken Murray (shows some of his Hollywood home movies) --Chad & Jeremy --Rowan and Martin (comedy team) --Eddie Albert --The Step Brothers (tap dancers)...

  • Ep 18

    18.Host: Louis Jourdan

    02-05-196460m

    Host: Louis Jourdan --Anna Maria Alberghetti (singer) - ""Irma La Douce"" --Henny Youngman (comedian) --The King Sisters (singers) - ""Me and My Shadow"" and a medley of old...

  • Ep 19

    19.Host: Dale Robertson / The Womenfolk

    09-05-196460m

    Host: Dale Robertson --Betty Hutton - ""It Had To Be You"" --Paul Lynde and Carole Cook perform a dramatic scene. They then do the same scene again...as a comedy. --The Wom...

  • Ep 20

    20.Host: Fred MacMurray

    16-05-196460m

    Host: Fred MacMurray --George Gobel (comedian) --Dorothy Collins (singer) --Trini Lopez (singer) --Guy Marks (comedian) --Augie and Margo (adagio dancers) Military...

  • Ep 21

    21.Host: Victor Borge

    23-05-196460m

    Host: Victor Borge --Victor Borge and Caterina Valente - ""The Girl from Ipanema"" --Caterina Valente - ""Cute"" and ""Hindustan"" --Drummers Louis Bellson, Shelly Manne, Ir...

  • Ep 22

    22.Host: Phil Harris

    30-05-196460m

    Host: Phil Harris --Louis Armstrong --Louis Nye (comedian) --Mary Costa (soprano) --Peter Gennaro (dancer-choreographer) --Pete Barbuti (comedian) --The Jubilee F...

  • Ep 23

    23.Host: Gene Barry / Buster Keaton & Gloria Swanson

    06-06-196460m

    Host: Gene Barry (from ""Burke's Law"") --Gene Barry - sings ""Just In Time,"" ""Day In, Day Out"" & ""Perfect Paris Night"" --Buster Keaton and Gloria Swanson - (1) perform...

  • Ep 24

    24.Host: Dean Martin / The Rolling Stones

    13-06-196460m

    Host: Dean Martin --Dean Martin - ""Smile,"" ""Take These Chains"" & ""Everybody Loves Somebody"" --The Rolling Stones - ""I Just Wanna Make Love To You"" --Joey Forman (c...

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