Cavalcade of Stars

Seasons

1949

7.7

An hour of live variety, in the classic sense of television's Golden Age.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Episode #1.1

Jack Carter stars with guests singer Joan Edwards, actor Peter Lorre, bird whistlers The Arnauts, comedy team McCarthy and Farrell, and acrobats The Fontaines. Lorre does a recitation of "The Telltale Heart" and joins Carter in a mad scientist sketch. Edwards performs at the piano and teams with Carter for "You're Adorable."

S1 • E2

Episode #1.2

S1 • E3

Episode #1.3

S1 • E4

Episode #1.4

S1 • E5

Episode #1.5

S1 • E6

Episode #1.6

S1 • E7

Episode #1.7

S1 • E8

Episode #1.8

S1 • E9

Episode #1.9

S1 • E10

Episode #1.10

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Episode #1.11

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Episode #1.12

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Episode #1.13

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Episode #1.16

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Episode #1.17

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Episode #1.20

S1 • E21

Episode #1.21

S1 • E22

Vivian Blaine, Zero Mostel

Gali-Gali Luxor, Milt Douglas, Willie Shore

S1 • E23

Gali-Gali Luxor, Milt Douglas, Willie Shore

Kitty Kallen, Bert Wheeler, Donald Richards, Rudy Cardenas

S1 • E24

Kitty Kallen, Bert Wheeler, Donald Richards, Rudy Cardenas

S1 • E25

Jackie Coogan, Hal LeRoy, Lina Romay

S1 • E26

Episode #1.26

S1 • E27

Episode #1.27

S1 • E28

Episode #1.28

Smith and Dale perform their famous "Dr. Kronkheit" skit.

S1 • E29

Episode #1.29

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Episode #1.30

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Episode #1.31

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Episode #1.32

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Episode #1.33

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Episode #1.34

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Episode #1.36

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Episode #1.38

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Episode #1.39

S1 • E40

Episode #1.40

S1 • E41

Episode #1.41

S1 • E42

Janet Blair

S1 • E43

Episode #1.43

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Episode #1.46

S1 • E47

Episode #1.47

Lester as a clown called Arthur Clodfrey (takeoff on Arthur Godfrey), magician Galli-Galli make baby chicks appear under cups, MacDonnell sings "The Boy Next Door", and Jackie Robinson appears in a sketch visiting a kid in a wheelchair.

S1 • E48

Episode #1.48

S1 • E49

Episode #1.49

S1 • E50

Episode #1.50

Jerry Lester's guests include comics Jack Pearl and Cliff Hall, comedy dancers Elsa and Waldo, singer Joan Edwards, the Kurt Jons Dancers, with Dick Bernie and Herbie Faye. Edwards does voice impressions of several singers including Lena Horne, and a comedy number on how TV has ruined her love life. Jons' company performs an East India dance. Pearl, with usual straight-man Hall, plus Bernie and Faye, does a comedy bit based on the shell game.

S1 • E51

Episode #1.51

In one sketch, Jackie Robinson and his son visit Lester and his son. Clips from the new film "The Jackie Robinson Story" are shown.

S1 • E52

Episode #1.52

John Garfield, Kim Stanley, Paul Winchell & Jerry Mahoney

S1 • E53

John Garfield, Kim Stanley, Paul Winchell & Jerry Mahoney

Jerry Lester hosts the series' first anniversary. Guests include ventriloquist Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney, Jane Pickens and the Escourtiers, rumba dancers Horatio and Lana, and actors Kim Stanley and John Garfield. Winchell tries to get Mahoney to go to sleep; when he does, the dummy dreams about the two trading places. Pickens and her six Escourtiers' songs include "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and "St. Louis Blues." Lester is a greedy contestant on the radio quiz show "Take It or Lump It." Garfield and Stanley perform a dramatic scene from Clifford Odets' "Golden Boy". Lester also juggles.

S1 • E54

Kitty Kallen, Larry Storch

S1 • E55

Episode #1.55

S1 • E56

Episode #1.56

S1 • E57

Episode #1.57

S1 • E58

Episode #1.58

Jackie Gleason debuts as host with Rose Marie, comic Hank Ladd, acrobat Ladd Lyon, singing DeCastro Sisters, and dancer Evelyn Farney. Gleason duets with Rose and in a sketch at a hat check counter. DeCastros sing a Latin-American number.