TV Guide (September 25, 1954)

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ing his long-time second bananas, Carl Reiner and Howard Morris. As for Coca, she’s off to the Situation Comedy races, in a Saturday night show of her own. Saturday night will also offer on alternate weeks half-hour programs by Jimmy Durante and Donald O’Con¬ nor. A number—perhaps all—of the O’Connor opuses will be on film. Cel¬ luloid will also contain all future cavorting by comedian Eddie Cantor. There will be other changes, too. Martha Raye will share a Tuesday night spot with Milton Berle and Bob Hope, in a 10-20-six ratio of shows. ties.” And Arthur Godfrey, facing un¬ precedented competition, may use some big-name guests. No matter what they’re saying, the rambunctious redhead still has both his evening shows— Talent Scouts and Godfrey and His Friends —and many another favorite will be back at the usual time and station. That includes Jackie Gleason, pre¬ diet or post-diet; Jack Benny, Red Skelton (a half hour earlier), Eddie Fisher, Dinah Shore, Martha Wright, Jane Froman, Jo Stafford, Perry Como, Tony Martin, Dotty Mack, Peter Red Buttons, now pitching for NBC, will show up three Fridays out of four. Jack Carson’s slated for the fourth Friday. Arlene Francis’ GI tal¬ ent show has been re-dubbed Soldier Parade. Polly Bergen is substituting for Dorothy Collins on Your Hit Pa¬ rade. Fred Waring’s music will be doled out more sparingly, in special holi¬ day portions. ABC’s Let’s Dance will shuttle between Chicago and New York for the music of Art Mooney and Ralph Flanagan. Sherman Billingsley has revamped his Stork Club to stress more paid entertainers and fewer awkward conversations with “celebri- Potter and a peck of others. The Comedy Hour continues, three Sundays a month, with funnymen, new and old, and singer Gordon Mac- Rae as the show’s permanent host. Liberace, Toast of The Town, The Arthur Murray Party, Chance of a Lifetime and You Asked for It never really went away. Busiest man on the air—with the exception, of course, of Godfrey — probably will be Steve Allen. The be¬ spectacled comic will star in several Liebman “spectaculars” and, begin¬ ning Sept. 27, will be working two- and-a-half hours daily in Tonight, a nationalized version of his New York-based late-night show.