The Danny Kaye Show

A spoof on bashful bachelors. Gwen Verdon sings and dances to "Downtown".

Danny and Phil do a skit recalling the old days of the burlesque theater. Barbara sings "When the Sun Comes Out" and "I Feel a Song Comin' On". Danny closes his show with a five-minute film of his visit to the Olympic site in Tokyo and a discussion with Japanese children.

Imogene and Danny do a skit about a man buying a birthday gift for his wife. Joe and Eddie sing "Lonesome Road". The Kinderspiel Light Opera Company also makes an appearance. [

Mary Tyler Moore - Singer Danny Cox (making his TV debut) Danny and Mary portray a married couple in a comedy sketch faced with the question "To Watch or Not to Watch TV". In another sketch, Mary plays Candy Doll, whose papa is Fat Daddy (Danny) and whose prospective husband is Gaylord Siss (Harvey Korman) an Old Southern family fop. Danny Cox (a burly ex-football player who signed with Columbia Records) sings both folk and pop tunes. Mary also appears in a dance routine titled "Ten Cents a Dance". Danny closes the show with a group of young dance students who improvise a dance to illustrate a story. [

Angela, Danny and John appear in an amusing spoof of Tennessee Williams' "Night of the Iguana". Angela is Anna the Piranha who has devoted her life to crushing men. Danny & Angela do a song-and-dance routine witg h "A Ruddy by the Name of You". John sings "This Is All I Ask" and "Danny Boy". [

In the opening comedy sketch, Kaye and Ferrer are applicants for the same post' tion with • paper clip company. Joyce Van Patten Is seen as the receptionist. Later In the show, in the setting of the famous British criminal court, the Old Bailey, Kaye and Ferrer are antagonists In a murder trial drama. Kaye is barrister for the defense, and Ferrer Is prosecutor for the crown. Harvey Korman Is th- judge. Miss Collins sings, and Joint Kaye aad the rest of the company In a musical presentation of "Rockla' Red Riding Hood." Jose Ferrer is the perfect foil for Danny playing Sir Percival Fopp in a courtroom sketch "Murder on the Mary Tyler Moors", Danny plays Sir Chauncy Burroughs. Dorothy joins Danny in a Beatle-like extravaganza musical called "Rocking' Red Riding Hood".

Miss Ball and Danny run amuck as two actors in a road company who had to play six parts. They also play a married couple with maid trouble n a sit-down bit, and later hop about during a balloon dance. _ NOTE: It may take a while for Lucille Ball to catch her breath. Her performance on Tuesday night's "Danny Kaye Show" (9 p. m., CBS-TV), taped a week ago in Hollywood, required the stamina of an Olympic track star and the dogged determination of a combat-ready Marine. In the interest of her art, Miss Ball was punched, pummeled, hurled through the air and sat upon during a long day of rehearsals and the final taping. In return, she elbowed Kaye in the ribs, stepped on his toes and strangled him. The last time such a performance was staged for television, Gorgeous George bested Killer Kowalski, two falls out of three.

Danny and Howard portray Italian street singers. Sketch with Shari as a ballerina and Lamb Chop hamming it up. And in spoof of James Bond, Danny is secret James Pond and Howard as Dr. Yes.

Don plays a shy shoe salesman, a research assistant and a prince in a square light opera.

Danny & Gwen are a husband and wife battling at breakfast. Gwen, Danny and Harvey do a parody in the movie musical style titled "The Elopement". Gwen sings "I've Got Rhythm".

Danny opens the show with little Laurie Ichino dancing to "If This Isn't Love". Art plays a loud, rude character who drives the car in a two-man car pool and Danny is his meek passenger. Art plays Big Joe Carrats in a three-part movie titled "Murder, Maestro, Murder". Danny is song 'n dance man Peter Piper. Pearl Bailey makes her debut with Danny singing two songs. Pearl sings "Who Cares?" and "Personality". Danny & Pearl duet on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" Danny closes the show with the Earl Brown singers in "Mother Goose Jumps".

Imogene makes a return visit and she brings her ballet slippers for the production number of "Swan Lake" with Danny. In a Kinderspiel Light Opera Company called "The Fleder-Mikado", Danny plays a handsome U.S. Naval Lieutenant and Miss Coca is his Japanese love. In a Christmas sketch Danny plays a cockney Englishman who has been fired from his job as a department store Santa, Imogene plays his wife. Tony Bennett sings three songs.

Skits include a show lampooning television documentaries with Pat Carroll interviews a German and English war hero in a TV sketch. Danny plays a shy bachelor who goes to dinner at a girlfriend's house and is badgered about marriage by her parents. The trio do a hillbilly number and Joe & Eddie sing folk songs.

Gwen & Danny open with a Christmas Waltz. Danny & Gwen portray rejected dolls in a fantasy dance that takes place in a child's room. Gwen sings "There's a Lull in My Life" and "The Song Is Ended". Jo sings a medley of Christmas songs. Danny & Jo duet with ""Jingle Journey" and "It's Almost Like Being in Love". Danny recreates a character from last season as Giovanni the old Italian expecting a call from his son in America. Danny, Harvey and Gwen appear in an espionage and counter-espionage comedy sketch titled "The Spy Who Got a Cold".

Danny & Buddy do a dance number to "Bidin' My Time". Pat appears an a trouble-making department store shopper skit with Danny and Howard. Buddy & Danny do a Western skit involving an Indian scout.

Peter Falk returns for a "Mr. Novak" takeoff with Danny. Danny plays a shabby teacher who works in at an ESSO gas station at night and Peter plays the father who wonders why his son is failing. Dorothy Collins and Danny relive the old Hit Parade days. Peter joins Danny for a bandit movie bit as El Producto to Danny's El Ringle.

Danny does a dentist sketch with Vincent Price as the Dentist. Diahann sings. Danny, Vincent and Harvey do a costume spoof about Viennese Prince Rudolf (Danny) and a handyman looalike with Vincent as the Prime Minister and Harvey as the General.

Imogene and Danny play a couple of circus acrobats in on sketch. Imogene plays a wife who brings home an expensive wig. Danny illustrates how the Russians might do "Cinderella". Nancy Wilson sings. Four-year-old Victoria Page Meyerink appears in a sitdown with Danny at the end. News article Jan20/64. "Appleface" was comedian Danny Kaye and the object of his affection was four-year-old Victoria Meyerink who if she likes you will nickname you after her favorite fruits and vegetables. They met shortly before her first appearance on December 31, 1963 when she starred with Danny and dancer Gwen Verdon in a Christmas sketch on the show. The response was so favorable to the child's performance that Danny brought her back to share his final "sit-down spot" on two succeeding shows. She appears for her fourth time on this episode.

Irene Ryan as Granny goes avisitin' with Danny as Grandpa the oldest couple in West Virginia. Irene also does a medicine sketch about hillbillies and blackouts about mothers and sons with Danny.

Fred plays a slipping Broadway stage director who tells a shy Danny how to act. A wild nightcourt sketch with Danny, Fred and Joyce Van Patten over a restaurant brawl.

Danny presents a three-act comedy entitled "Top Hat, White Tie and Green Socks". Harve, Gwen and Danny do a sketch about a temperamental musical comedy star who looks for a leading man to star in her next stage show and decides on an accident-prone delivery boy (Danny). Gwen and Danny do a sketch about a couple discussing the husband's quest for a raise at the office.

Danny opens with little Laurie Ichino. Elke & Danny duet with some folk songs. In a sketch Elke plays an actress with Danny as the shy shoe salesman. Pat Carroll plays a variety of mothers-in-law all of them pushy. NOTE: This was Elke Sommers television debut.

In a comedy sketch Danny portrays British secret service agent James Blonde who is assigned to stop the evil racketeer Ringfinger (Paul Ford). Shirley belts out "The Lady is a Tramp". Danny & Shirley do a duet. Paul Ford plays a sour father who can't stand his son-in-law (Danny).

Danny Kaye is joined by singer/comic actor Jim Nabors and jazz pianist Oscar Peterson and his combo. In one sketch Jim plays a Marine to Danny's pesky drill-sergeant. And a Western sketch titled "Labanza" with Danny as Fat Daddy and Jim his clumsy son. Danny does a soft show and dance. Jim as his famous "Gomer Pyle" character takes on a "Roosian Spy". Danny plays Maestro Bruno Walnut, a Viennses symphony conductor, in a ribbing of Leonard Bernstein's concerts for young people. The Oscar Peterson Jazz Trio perform.

Danny celebrates St. Patrick's Day. "The Irish Traveler" is a sketch about a leprechaun and an unladylike Irish girl. Enzo Stuarti sings "Irish Rose". Imogene plays a health faddist.

Danny & Jason portray two expectant fathers waiting in a bar for the births of their heirs. Lauren & Jason join Danny for a medley of songs. Lauren plays a movie star on a quiz show paired with timid amateur Danny Kaye.

Danny and Imogene take on a sketch about a poker game. They also present a series of commercials as they might have been written by William Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams. [RF]

Danny plays Giovanni the tailor and Howard Morris plays an irate Italian father arguing about their children's wedding plans. Kit Smythe sings "Some People" and "The Party's Over". Harvey & Danny do a sketch about an old lawyer and a reformed crook. Danny, Howard and Kit close the show with "Pleasure".