Legendary entertainer Bob Hope hosted and occasionally starred in this NBC series for four seasons – one of the last major anthology series on American network television.
Dramatic and comedy shows were presented, featuring many of Hollywood’s top names, including Roddy McDowall, Bing Crosby, Cliff Robertson, Robert Stack, John Cassavetes, Ricardo Montalban, Jack Klugman, Michael Rennie, Don Rickles, Jack Lord, Milton Berle, Leslie Nielsen, William Shatner, Shirley Jones, Broderick Crawford, Peter Falk, Juliet Mills, Walter Matthau, Fred Astaire, Angie Dickinson, Jill St. John, Groucho Marx, Darren McGavin, Don Adams, Telly Savalas, Maximilian Schell, Robert Duvall, The Osmonds, Victor Buono, Jane Wyman, Robert Wagner, Stanley Baker, James Franciscus, Burgess Meredith, Lauren Bacall, Laurence Naismith, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Ernest Borgnine, Werner Klemperer, Donald O’Connor, Wilfrid Hyde-White, and Connie Francis.
Notable episodes included “One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich” with Jason Robards; “The Seven Little Foys” starring Mickey Rooney, Eddie Foy Jr and the Osmonds, and “Think Pretty”, a musical starring Fred Astaire and Barrie Chase.
Hope sporadically hosted a variety special in the show’s timeslot. The show was titled Chrysler Presents a Bob Hope Comedy Special on those occasions.
Broadcast in some markets as Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre.
Episodes
A Killing at Sundial | Something About Lee Wiley | Seven Miles of Bad Road | Four Kings | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | The House Next Door | The Fifth Passenger | The Candidate | It’s Mental Work | Corridor 400 | War of Nerves | Runaway | The Seven Little Foys | Two Is the Number | A Wind of Hurricane Force | Wake Up, Darling | The Meal Ticket | The Square Peg | White Snow, Red Ice | Her School for Bachelors | A Slow Fade to Black | A Case of Armed Robbery | Time for Elizabeth | The Game with Glass Pieces | The Command | The Sojourner | Echoes of Evil || Think Pretty | Murder in the First | Have Girls, Will Travel | The Turncoat | The Timothy Heist | Out on the Outskirts of Town | Parties to the Crime | Mr Biddle’s Crime Wave | The Shattered Glass | Clash of Cymbals | Double Jeopardy | Exit from a Plane in Flight | The Loving Cup | The Fliers | Cops and Robbers | Terror Island | The War and Eric Kurtz | In Any Language | Perilous Times | Memorandum for a Spy: Part 1 | Memorandum for a Spy: Part 2 | A Time for Killing | Escape into Jeopardy | Simon Says Get Married || The Game | The Crime | March from Camp Tyler | Kicks | Back to Back | Mr Governess | Russian Roulette | Highest Fall of All | The Betrayal | The Admiral | The Enemy on the Beach | After the Lion, Jackals | When Hell Froze | A Small Rebellion | Wind Fever | Guilty or Not Guilty | Tell Them The Streets Are Dancing | Brilliant Benjamin Boggs | The Sister and the Savage | The Faceless Man | Holloway’s Daughters | One Embezzlement and Two Margaritas | Runaway Boy | Shipwrecked | In Pursuit of Excellence || Nightmare | Time of Flight | And Baby Makes Five | Crazier Than Cotton | Murder at NBC | Massacre at Fort Phil Kearny | Dear Deductible | The Big Stomach | The Blue-Eyed Horse | The Fatal Mistake | Storm Crossing | The Eighth Day | Code Name: Heraclitus – Part 1 | Code Name: Heraclitus – Part 2 | A Time to Love | The Lady Is My Wife | Blind Man’s Bluff | A Song Called Revenge | The Reason Nobody Hardly Ever Seen a Fat Outlaw in the Old West Is as Follows | Free of Charge | Verdict for Terror | Dead Wrong | Don’t Wait for Tomorrow | Wipeout | To Sleep, Perchance to Scream | Deadlock
