Toast of the Town

Guests: --Lena Horne - ""Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man of Mine"" (from the musical ""Showboat"") --Robert Merrill and Mimi Benzell - ""Indian Love Call"" (from ""Rose Marie"") Additional guests (scheduled): --Robert Bramley --David Burns --Carol Bruce --Wally Cox --Nanci Crompton --George Hall --Judson Laire --Allen Shane --Bill Tabbert --Charles Winninger

Guests: --Jose Greco (Flamenco Dancer) - ""La Petenava"" --Michael Bentine (hyper British comedian) --Yul Brynner - ""Puzzlement"" from ""The King And I"" (Brynner not in costume) --Bobby Winters - comic Juggler --Gil McDougald, Yogi Berra & Phil Rizzuto - three baseball greats interviewed by Ed with film highlights --Humphrey Bogart - actor interviewed by Ed, talks about his life --Audience bow: Lauren Bacall --Annette Warren - ""Along Came Bill""

Scheduled guests: --Broderick Crawford (actor) --Constance Bennett (actress) --Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (actor) --April Stevens (singer) - ""I'm In Love Again"" --Guy Mitchell (singer) --Cliff Hall (actor) --Jack Pearl (radio & movie actor)

Scheduled guests: --The Will Mastin Trio (Vaudeville act with Will Mastin, Sammy Davis, Sr. and Sammy Davis, Jr.) --Dorothy Sarnoff --Nino Martini (tenor, movie actor) --Michael Bentine (British comedian) --Jewell and Warris (comedy team with Jimmy Jewell) --Three Bessies

Scheduled guests: --Dolores Gray --Michael Bentine --Nino Martini (tenor, movie actor) --The Princeton Triagle Club --The Salzburg Marionettes

Scheduled guests: --Gloria Swanson (actress) --Julie Harris (actress) --Ramon Novarro (actor) --St. Vincent Ferrer Boys Choir

""Tribute To Cole Porter"" Part 1 with guests --Mimi Benzell & Brian Sullivan - ""Wunderbar"" --Monty Wooley - ""Miss Otis Regrets"" (Yale classmate of Cole Porter) --Anna & Pierre D'Angelo - ""Old Fashioned Garden"" --Lisa Kirk - ""My Heart Belongs To Daddy --Pierre & Anna D'angelo - ""Love for Sale"" --Mimi Benzell - ""In The Still Of The Night"" --Helen Wood, William Gaxton & Delores Gray - ""Anything Goes"" & ""You're The Top"" --Delores Gray - ""Night and Day"" Audience bows: the Notre Dame basketball team; Tom Sanders (Temple University student). Film clip: Yale Bowl football game.

""Tribute To Cole Porter"" Part 2 --Dolores Gray - sings ""Blow Gabriel, Blow"" --Lisa Kirk - sings ""Always True to You Darling"" --Jane Froman - sings ""Just One of those Things"" --Audience bow: Captain John Curtis Brown (Froman's husband) --Nancy Comden (ballerina) with dancing chorus - dance to medley of Cole Porter's hits: ""You Do Something to Me,"" ""Let's Do It"" and ""I Get A Kick Out of You"" --Dolores Gray and William Gaxton (joined by Ed) - sing ""Friendship"" --Roberta Peters (opera singer) - sings ""I Love You"" and ""So In Love"" --Jane Froman - ""Begin the Beguine"" and ""I've Got You Under My Skin""

Scheduled guests: --Jackie Gleason --Tony Bennett --Senor Wences --The Redcaps

Scheduled guests: --Sophie Tucker --Sadler's Wells Ballet --Tuskegee Choir --Montez D'Oca

Scheduled guests: --Jackie Gleason --Jan Peerce --Dorothy Kirsten --Steve Gibson's Redcaps

Guests: --Dorothy Dandridge - ""Do What Ya Wanna Do"" & ""Just One Of Those Things"" --Errol Flynn & Paulette Goddard - Private Eye sketch --Sam Sneed (golf pro) - Snead joins Ed on stage & gives golf swing demonstration. --Moishe Oysher - Hebrew song (unknown title) & ""So In Love"" --Norman Evans (British stand-up comedian) --Roger Price (stand-up routine, draws pictures to illustrate his stories, Ed plays straight man) Audience bows: Ann Claire, Fred Corcharan, Eddie Lawry, Elmer Ward Note: According to TV listings, a film clip from Walt Disney's ""Robin Hood"" was scheduled to be shown on this program.

Guests (Ed Sullivan's 4th Anniversary show): --Bill Lawrence & Cindy Lord - ""Manhattan"" --Sinclair & Spaulding - dance to Rodgers & Hart song ""Here In My Heart"" --Richard Hayes - ""Blue Room"" (from ""The Girlfriend"") and ""When Or Where"" (from ""Babes In Arms"") --Toastettes, Pal Joey Chorus - ""The Girlfriend"" dance number --Jane Froman - ""With A Song In My Heart"" and ""My Heart Stood Still"" (2nd song from ""A Connecticut Yankee"") --William Gaxton & Jane Froman - ""Thou Swell"" (from ""A Connecticut Yankee"") --Lisa Kirk - ""10 Cents A Dance"" and ""The Lady Is A Tramp"" (2nd song from ""Babes In Arms"") --Bill Lawrence - ""This Can't Be Love"" (from ""The Boys from Syracuse"") --Cindy Lord - There's A Small Hotel"" (from ""On Your Toes"") --Richard Rodgers (on piano) - ""Lover"" --Vivienne Segal - Bewitched"" (from ""Pal Joey"") --Harold Lang & Norma Thorton - ""Happy Hunting Horn"" (from ""Pal Joey"") Audience bows: Sister Kenny, Bart Sullivan

Scheduled guests: --Will Rogers Jr. --Rise Stevens --Jack Carter --Ben Hogan --Sonny Howard --Trini Reyes

Scheduled guests: --Victor Borge --Ken Whitmer --Artie Auerbach --Rosemary O'Reilly

Scheduled guests: --Hal Leroy --The De Marco Sisters --Bobby Shantz