Four Star Revue

This popular variety program of the era featured a rotation of top-drawer comedic hosts. Spike welcomes guests Billy Eckstine, Helen Grayco and Hugh Herbert and takes a musical trip around the world. From Alaska to Germany, Italy and Cuba, no culture is safe from the wacky Musical Depreciation Revue. Includes the Spike-tacular performance of "It's Tough to be a Girl Musician ... Especially if You Happen to be a Man."

In a live show from San Francisco's Presido, Hope and McMurray play waterfront fishermen, two shop owners in Chinatown, and prisoners breaking out of Alcatraz. The Bell Sisters perform "Wheel of Fortune" and a comedy number, "June Night", with Bob. Rich prospector Hope drops by a Barbary Coast bar where everyone wants his gold. Bob and Fred do "Small Fry." Alpaka sings "Beyond the Reef."

Invited to host again, Spike starts the show off to an uproariously frenzied pace that never slows. Though a bug spray symphony is a hard act to follow, Spike manages to do it with headless banjo strummers and jaw-dropping acrobatics by the lovely Hustrei Sisters! Guests include Jim Backus, a rare early performance by Liberace, Helen Grayco, Lenny Kent, Billy Reed, Ruth Foster and Peter James.