Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963)
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy.
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Episode 1 - A Killing At Sundial
Release Date: 1963-10-04A young interloper comes between a disgruntled wife and her older husband.
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Episode 2 - Something About Lee Wiley
Release Date: 1963-10-11The story of jazz singer Lee Wiley, her failed marriage to bandleader Jess Stacy.
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Episode 3 - Seven Miles of Bad Road
Release Date: 1963-10-18In a small southern town, the sheriff's wife is attracted to handsome Gabe Flanders, who is hitchhiking to California. Trouble ensues.
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Episode 4 - Bob Hope Variety Special
Release Date: 1963-10-25Also appearing in this variety special are Beryl Davis and and Los Angeles Dodger stars Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale and Tommy Davis.
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Episode 5 - Four Kings
Release Date: 1963-11-01Four Kings is a World War II drama where four prisoners are serving life sentences. They are pulled out of jail by the US military and given an opportunity for a pardon. The ""brass"" isn't asking for much: all the four lifers are expected to do is sneak into Germany and steal the secret plans for the V2 missile.
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Episode 6 - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Release Date: 1963-11-08Under Stalin, it was inconceivable that anyone could publish a book attacking Soviet injustice. But under Khrushchev, a limited but distinct thaw has taken place. Prime evidence of this change was open publication of One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich, an exposé of Stalin's labor camps where the author, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, himself did time. Tonight's adaptation of the novel is set in 1951 in Siberia. A group of prisoners persuade the authorities to transfer them to warmer work by promising to top the previous work record on the first day. But if they fail, it's back to laying barbed wire in the snow. One officer, Lieutenant Volkovoi, would like nothing better.
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Episode 7 - The House Next Door
Release Date: 1963-11-15Easterner George Warren thinks he has made quite a steal when he purchases a home in fashionable Waverly Hills, Cal. George is unaware that his next-door neighbor is mobster Ernie Santee.
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Episode 8 - The Fifth Passenger
Release Date: 1963-11-29A British Intelligence Officer suspects a Naval War Hero of giving secret information to the Soviets.
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Episode 9 - The Candidate
Release Date: 1963-12-06Things seem to be closing in on campaign manager Parker Hite: he can't get any supporters for his candidate, and his marriage is beginning to collapse.
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Episode 10 - It's Mental Work
Release Date: 1963-12-20Ernie Wigman is tired of the bar he owns and wants to get rid of it. Rich, his bartender, might be a good customer for it, only Rich doesn't seem to have the cash.
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Episode 11 - Corridor 400
Release Date: 1963-12-27Anita King, an undercover FBI agent. Posing as a nightclub singer, Anita gets a job in a nightclub owned by Ralph Traven. He takes quite a fancy to her; she wants to prove that he's a kingpin in a narcotics ring.
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Episode 12 - War of Nerves
Release Date: 1964-01-03Two suitors drive a beautiful woman crazy with their pursuit of her.
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Episode 13 - Runaway
Release Date: 1964-01-10When folksinger Richie Darden fails to show up for a performance, his girlfriend Cress thinks club owner Mig Semple should put Richie's expensive guitar in his safe. And Cress has the right idea--two customers are planning to steal the instrument.
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Episode 14 - The Seven Little Foys
Release Date: 1964-01-24The story of vaudeville performer Eddie Foy, widowed father of a brood of good-natured but exasperating children who are trying to get an education while at the same time continuing to perform with him on stage.
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Episode 15 - Two is the Number
Release Date: 1964-01-31Hoodlum Joey Rome is electrocuted in his home, and police suspect that middle-aged spinster Jenny Dworak is responsible. The murder investigation brings together two lonely people: Jenny Dworak, who runs a pawnshop, and a police investigator who is a widower.
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Episode 16 - A Wind of Hurricane Force
Release Date: 1964-02-07During a terrible storm in Mexico two men come to heads for the treasure they both seek.
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Episode 17 - Wake Up Darling
Release Date: 1964-02-21Polly Emerson, has aspirations to be an actress. Her husband, Don, is a successful advertising man, who yearns to be a playwright, and has a shelf of unproduced plays to his credit. Don, understandably, isn't too happy when Polly comes home with Deerfield Prescott, a very young man who has written Broadway's next musical hit - or so he tells Polly and Don.
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Episode 18 - The Meal Ticket
Release Date: 1964-02-28Eddie a fly by night kind of guy, finds romance with a wealthy woman.
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Episode 19 - The Square Peg
Release Date: 1964-03-06Comedy about a gangster who hires a ""personnel psychologist"" to evaluate the aptitudes of his gang.
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Episode 20 - White Snow, Red Ice
Release Date: 1964-03-13Secret agent Piper finds beauty and brains intriguing and disruptive to his assignment.
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Episode 21 - Her School For Bachelors
Release Date: 1964-03-20Miss Westcott runs her agency with the finese of the best businessmen and runs several clients ragged with her demands.
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Episode 22 - A Slow Fade to Black
Release Date: 1964-03-27Mike Kirsch built his studio from nothing in the 1920s; now, four decades later, he is on the way out, the victim of a corporate takeover. We follow Kirsch as he exercises his waning authority on a temperamental movie star, browbeats his alcoholic wife, rebellious daughter and longtime yes-man associate Landers, and vainly attempts to push through an outdated pet movie project. Finally he is wrenched off his throne by a former assistant, who is now in cahoots with the conglomerate buying the studio. Kirsch is left alone to weep in his projection room as one of his past hits plays upon the screen.
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Episode 23 - A Case of Armed Robbery
Release Date: 1964-04-03Montrose is an angry young man whose bitterness alienates him from his father, Alfred, his girlfriend, Jean, and his work foreman. He blames his ex-wife, Carol, for their marriage failure and clumsily attempts to show love for his son Danny. In his resentment he plans to rob a gas station, ends up getting involved with unsavory characters and doing worse.
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Episode 24 - Bob Hope Comedy Special
Release Date: 1964-04-17The first 45 minutes is all entertainment, opening with a Hope monolog. Martha and Bob team up for a spoof of the movie Tom Jones, and Tony and Jack join in to present a new act--The Japanese Beatles. In the awards portion, TV Guide publisher James T. Quirk and Bob make the presentations in Hollywood.
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Episode 25 - Time For Elizabeth
Release Date: 1964-04-24After enduring a pompous and tyrannical boss for 28 years, Ed Davis has a brief argument with him, gets fired, and decides to retire to Florida with his wife.
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Episode 26 - The Game with Glass Pieces
Release Date: 1964-05-01A deadly game of cat and mouse, where everything isn't what it seems to be.
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Episode 27 - The Command
Release Date: 1964-05-22Major Morgan holds his Commander as coward and attempts to overtake his command.
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Episode 28 - The Sojourner
Release Date: 1964-05-29Called home because of his father's failing health, foreign correspondent John Ferris recalls the events that led to the collapse of his marriage.
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Episode 29 - Echo of Evil
Release Date: 1964-06-05Ex-crime boss Oscar Teckla, now out of the rackets and involved with respectable enterprise, Teckla would like nothing more than to bury the past. But the district attorney is anxious to break up Teckla's old mob. To do this, he must get Teckla on the stand--any way he can.