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The Jerry Lewis Show

All Episodes 1957 - 1969

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  • 1967-09-12T04:00:00Z
  • 45m
  • 23h 45m (31 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Teram Company + 5 more, Jerry Lewis Productions, Lewis-Teram, Peekskill Enterprises, Universal Television, NBC
  • Comedy, Music
Jerry Lewis hosted the variety show that primarily consisted of skits often featuring characters he made known in his movies. Occasionally guests like the Osmond Brothers worked musical numbers into the show's stories.

41 episodes

Series Premiere

1967-09-12T04:00:00Z

1x01 Lynn Redgrave / Sonny & Cher / Harold Sakata

Series Premiere

1x01 Lynn Redgrave / Sonny & Cher / Harold Sakata

  • 1967-09-12T04:00:00Z1h

Musical Highlights: Cher sings, "You Better Sit Down, Kids" Jerry sings, "I Like You" Sonny & Cher perform "What Now, My Love?" Jerry and the Baja Marimba Band perform "Comin' in the Back Door" and "What Now, My Love?". Sketches: A nervous husband (Jerry) finds his secret-agent wife (Lynn) being attacked by an assassin (Harold). Jerry also plays the trumpet and mimes a maintenance man who takes over a business meeting as chairman of the board.

Season Finale

1967-09-19T04:00:00Z

1x02 Martha Raye / Jack Webb / Harry Morgan

Season Finale

1x02 Martha Raye / Jack Webb / Harry Morgan

  • 1967-09-19T04:00:00Z1h

Comedy Sketch: Miss Raye sings and appears in a sketch as a USO entertainer sent to cheer a lone soldier at an Arctic outpost. Webb and Morgan join Jerry for an Orient-oriented talk-off on Dragnet.

1967-09-26T04:00:00Z

1x03 Al Hirt / Nanette Fabray

1x03 Al Hirt / Nanette Fabray

  • 1967-09-26T04:00:00Z45m

Comedy Sketch: Jerry, as a poor soul character, gets a job as a hotel doorman. Jerry and Nanette play a husband and wife; he's a kleptomanic, she's a policewoman. Musical Highlights: Nanette sings "Stout Hearted Men" and joins Jerry in a madcap medley. Al Hirt is featured in two trumpet solos.

1967-10-03T04:00:00Z

1x04 Janet Leigh / Ben Gazzara

1x04 Janet Leigh / Ben Gazzara

  • 1967-10-03T04:00:00Z45m

Ben Gazzara makes his singing debut, and he and Janet Leigh join Jerry in two comedy sketches, one involving an exploratory trip through an ancient Egyptian tomb, the second about a comedy team named "The Mothers Brothers."

Comedy Sketch: Jerry portrays the timid son of a lumber tycoon forced to fire a ferocious foreman, and a delivery boy who tangles with a girl rebounding from a ruined romance. In "A Man from Chicken Yum Yum" sketch, Jerry portrays a chicken delivery boy who meets Miss Feldon and must contend with her ravenous appetite - for a husband!

Comedy Sketch: "The Low Chaparral," and Jerry plays a "poor soul" patient who finds that he shares a hospital room with a handsome film star. Also a sketch about the adventures of a grizzled prospector and a villainous gunslinger.

1x07 Don Rickles / Sergio Mendes

  • 1967-10-31T05:00:00Z45m

Comedy Sketch: In "Sidney of the Supermarket," Jerry is an incompetent clerk who is suddenly elevated to the position of manager. Musical Highlights: Sergio Mendes performs "Watch What Happens" and "The Frog".

Jerry's guests are Metropolitan Opera soprano Anna Moffo, pianist Roger Williams and Actor Harold J. Stone.

Comedy Sketch: Frank Gorshin imitates famous personalities and joins host Jerry in a sketch about a haunted house inhabited by monsters.

1x13 Connie Stevens / Dick Shawn

  • 1967-12-26T05:00:00Z45m

Comedy Sketch: Jerry is an American tourist in France; a wallflower at a high school dance. An old-time medicine show with Shawn playing the barker, Connie his assistant and Jerry a stage struck sheriff who arrives to run the elixir peddlers out of town, but joins them when they offer to launch him in a show business career.

1968-01-09T05:00:00Z

1x15 Anne Baxter / Jack Jones

1x15 Anne Baxter / Jack Jones

  • 1968-01-09T05:00:00Z45m

Musical Highlights: Anne sings, "Horses" and "All I Do Is Dream of You". Jack sings, "Live for Life" and "Free Again". Comedy Sketch: Anne plays a socialite race horse owner at the track with her trainer (Jerry), and a seductive Honky-tonk girl with evil designs on Jerry's football hero (Jack). In vignettes, Jerry auditions to be a radio announcer, and explains the difference between sound and noise.

Comedy Sketches: The Osmonds play Boy Scouts who are learning survival skills from their troup leader, the Nutty Professor. A New Wave director (Ricardo Montalban) thinks he's found the perfect model for a hair spray commercial. His discovery is delivery boy Sidney (aka "The Man from Yum-Yum"). Musical Highlights: The Osmonds sing "Then I'll Be Happy." Ricardo Montalban sings "I Don't Think I'm in Love." The entire cast joins in on "A Banda" and "Before the Parade Passes By."

1x19 Zsa Zsa Gabor / Peter Lawford

  • 1968-02-13T05:00:00Z45m

Comedy Sketches: Zsa Zsa plays a spy who tries to seduce two World World I pilots. In the Garden of Eden, the Nutty Professor lectures Adam and Eve (Zsa Zsa and Peter Lawford) on marriage. Jerry does a pantomime as Sidney, the operator of a rundown newsstand who faces competition by a superstand that employs beautiful women. Musical Highlights: Zsa Zsa and the Dancers perform "Oo La La." Peter Lawford sings "Music to Watch Girls By."

1968-02-20T05:00:00Z

1x20 Tony Randall / Nancy Ames

1x20 Tony Randall / Nancy Ames

  • 1968-02-20T05:00:00Z45m

Comedy Sketches: Tony hosts a TV game show that turns loving couples into greedy, bitter enemies. The Nutty Professor (Jerry) gives a speech on the history of dancing. Jerry works at a store where "The Salesman is Always Wrong." Musical Highlights: Nancy sings "Dear Hearts and Gentle People" and "See the Friendship There." Tony sings "They're Wearing Them Higher in Hawaii." Nancy & Jerry duet on "Meditation."

1968-02-27T05:00:00Z

1x21 Bobby Darin / Jane Powell

1x21 Bobby Darin / Jane Powell

  • 1968-02-27T05:00:00Z45m

Comedy Sketches: Jerry plays a hapless handyman working at a senior citizens' center. In a parody of variety shows, Powell, Darin and Lewis play unusual musical instruments, attempt celebrity impressions and do an acrobatic routine. Also, Bobby Darin and Jerry Lewis play violinists whose duet turns into a duel. Musical Highlights: Bobby sings "Talk to the Animals" and "Sixteen Tons." Jane Powell sings "Chattanooga Choo Choo." Jane Powell, Bobby Darin and Jerry Lewis perform "Epicurean Delight."

1968-03-12T05:00:00Z

1x22 Don Rickles / Michele Lee

1x22 Don Rickles / Michele Lee

  • 1968-03-12T05:00:00Z45m

Comedy Sketches: Don plays an abrasive talk show host whose guests are a fashion designer and a guru (both played by Jerry). Michele Lee and Don Rickles do a parody of daytime soap operas. An Adam and Eve sketch with Michele Lee and Jerry Lewis. Musical Highlights: Michele Lee sings "Yesterday" and "L. David Sloane." Jerry Lewis - "If You Could See Her Now." The George Wyle Singers and The Nick Castle Dancers join together in a "Time" production number.

1x23 Barbara Eden / Merv Griffin

  • 1968-03-19T05:00:00Z45m

Comedy Sketch: Jerry Lewis plays a hillbilly named Jethro, and Barbara Eden plays his girlfriend Minnie, with Merv Griffin playing a wealthy city man. Musical Highlights: Barbara Eden sings the song "Beautiful Things". Jerry Lewis sings the song "Smile", his theme song for The Jerry Lewis Show.

Comedy Sketches: A recently divorced man-about-town (Torme) hires Hari Kari (Jerry) to be his houseboy. At the urging of his wife (Nanette), a has-been safecracker attempts a comeback. But instead of safes, the husband resorts to robbing parking meters. Musical Highlights: Mel Torme - "We've Got a World That Swings" and "A Man and a Woman." Nanette Fabray - "House of Fire" (production number with dancers).

1968-04-16T05:00:00Z

1x26 Count Basie / Mel Torme

1x26 Count Basie / Mel Torme

  • 1968-04-16T05:00:00Z45m

Comedy Sketches: In a parody of Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts, Jerry "explains" the music of Count Basie's Orchestra. Musical Highlights: Mel Torme sings "Blusette" Mel Torme and Jerry Lewis sing "Bring Back the Bands" Count Basie and orchestra - "Splanky" Jerry Lewis - "Singing in the Rain" Jerry Lewis and the Count Basie Orchestra - "Nose Cone"

Comedy Sketches: Jerry and guest Michael Landon make satirical comments to clips from Landon's 1957 flick "I Was a Teenage Werewolf." Jerry, Michael Landon, and Kaye Ballard do parodies of current TV commercials. Ralph Rotten (Jerry), a self-described "Master Masquerader," pretends to be the fiancée of an heiress (Kaye Ballard). Music: Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 perform "Fool on the Hill" and "The Look of Love." Kaye Ballard sings "Remember" and "Rags."

Jerry's guests are actors Jack Webb and Harry Morgan, actress Michele Lee, and Ray Charles & The Raelettes.

Guests Bobby Darin, Paul Lynde, and musical guest Moby Grape appear with Jerry Lewis.

2x09 Barbara Feldon / Dean Jones

  • 1968-11-19T05:00:00Z45m

Jerry's guests are Gary Lewis and the Playboys, and TV's Lassie. Semi-regulars The Osmond Brothers also appear.

2x16 Raymond Burr / Rich Little

  • 1969-01-21T05:00:00Z45m

Jerry's guest are actor Raymond Burr & comedian Rich Little.

2x18 James Brown / Nanette Fabray

  • 1969-02-11T05:00:00Z45m

Jerry's guests are singer James Brown and actress Nanette Fabray.

1969-02-18T05:00:00Z

2x19 Paul Lynde / Totie Fields

2x19 Paul Lynde / Totie Fields

  • 1969-02-18T05:00:00Z45m

Jerry's guests are comedians Paul Lynde and Totie Fields.

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