The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater
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The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater

1955
1 season
39 episodes

Sketch comedy starring Eddie Cantor as host

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Cast

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  • Ep 1

    1.Now in Rehearsal

    23-01-1955

    Eddie stars in a warmhearted comedy of errors, playing the inventor of a remote control TV popcorn machine and the baby-sitting uncle portrayed by Brian Aherne.

  • Ep 2

    2.Nearly Normal

    30-01-195530m

    Newlyweds are promised $1000 if they stop quarreling ... which is all they've been doing during three weeks of marriage.

  • Ep 3

    3.The Big Bargain

    07-02-1955

    A sketch about a bargain-hunting wife who makes life miserable for her poor husband

  • Ep 4

    4.The Hypochondriac

    14-02-1955

    Hypochondriac Harold Clinker decides to spend his last four hours heroically.

  • Ep 5

    5.A Hunting We Will Go

    21-02-1955

    Lizabeth Scott plays a prim secretary who decides to get married and uses big-game hunting techniques to snare a man.

  • Ep 6

    6.The Suspicious Husband

    28-02-1955

    When his wife talks him into buying a life-insurance policy, Mike Applegate thinks she wants to murder him.

  • Ep 7

    7.Garage

    07-03-1955
  • Ep 8

    8.Romance Wrecker

    14-03-1955
  • Ep 9

    9.The Atomic Brain

    21-03-1955

    Hypochondriac Herman Fergle mistakes the world's smallest A-bomb ... for a pill.

  • Ep 10

    10.The Critics

    28-03-1955

    Eddie tries to change the opinions of three critics who were less than enthusiastic about his show.

  • Ep 11

    11.The Helper

    04-04-1955
  • Ep 12

    12.The Wizard

    11-04-1955

    A mathematical wizard has a weakness for figures.

  • Ep 13

    13.The Mink Coat

    18-04-1955

    Through an error, a wife receives a mink coat from her husband. She resists all his frantic efforts to return the fur to the store.

  • Ep 14

    14.The Finer Point

    25-04-1955

    In order to find favor with the wealthy owner of a mining company two "muscle men" take lessons in etiquette.

  • Ep 15

    15.The Sure Cure

    02-05-1955

    Ambrose Dodson's sinister appearance helps him succeed as a complaint clerk, but it sure doesn't do much for his love life.

  • Ep 16

    16.Commercially Ever After

    09-05-1955

    A former TV Celebrity tries to regain his position.

  • Ep 17

    17.The Practical Joker

    16-05-1955

    A joker's victims get fed up and decide that the day of reckoning must come.

  • Ep 18

    18.Always the Butler

    23-05-1955

    A butler appeals for his maligned profession which always gets blamed for the crime.

  • Ep 19

    19.A Night at the Follies

    30-05-1955
  • Ep 20

    20.V for Victoria

    06-06-1955
  • Ep 21

    21.How Much for Van Such

    13-06-1955

    A trio of not-so-tough kidnappers holds a man for a million dollar ransom.

  • Ep 22

    22.Dying to Love

    20-06-1955
  • Ep 23

    23.Bombshell Goes to College

    27-06-1955

    An ex-chorus girl marries a college professor, turning a staid campus upside down

  • Ep 24

    24.Call Me Irving

    04-07-1955

    To get a part in a play, timid Teddy Binks must completely reverse his personality.

  • Ep 25

    25.Ten Thousand Years from Now

    11-07-1955

    To immortalize 20th-century humor, Eddie presents songs and sketches prepared for a time capsule.

  • Ep 26

    26.What Do You Want in a Show

    18-07-1955

    Three dimwitted crooks break into a bank but end up, by mistake, in the U.S. Mint.

  • Ep 27

    27.The Playboy

    25-07-1955

    To get the approval of his sweetheart's father, a wealthy playboy must hold down a job for a week.

  • Ep 28

    28.Man Who Liked Little People

    01-08-1955

    Tall Mrs. Bullit refuses to vacate an apartment when her landlord protests that he only rents to people under 5-feet tall

  • Ep 29

    29.The Lieutenant Was No Gentleman

    08-08-1955
  • Ep 30

    30.The Song Pluggers

    15-08-1955

    Elmo Dilling is a song plugger desperate for a hit.

  • Ep 31

    31.Four Strikes

    22-08-1955
  • Ep 32

    32.Square World of Pennyworth

    29-08-1955
  • Ep 33

    33.Triplets

    05-09-1955

    Three Navy men fight for the same girl, not realizing that they love triplets.

  • Ep 34

    34.Unknown Title

    12-09-1955
  • Ep 35

    35.The Marine Went to Town

    19-09-1955

    A marine's sister and her fiance plan to relieve him of the $20,000 he won in the Irish Sweepstakes.

  • Ep 36

    36.The Hollywood Story

    26-09-1955

    A Pentagon mix-up puts a lovely Wac (Ann Sheridan) in charge of an Army combat platoon.

  • Ep 37

    37.The Tester

    03-10-1955
  • Ep 38

    38.Strange Little Stranger

    10-10-1955

    A shy travel agent's fantasies start coming true.

  • Ep 39

    39.And Now from the Audience

    17-10-1955

    A furniture tycoon sets up a production line in prison. Convict R.J. Banning turns the prison workshop into a factory to compete with his ex-partner.

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