The Hollywood Palace
1964
📺 7 Seasons
🎬 194 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 60 min/episode
Comedy
The Hollywood Palace is an hour-long American television variety show that was broadcast weekly on ABC from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970. Originally titled The Saturday Night Hollywood Palace, it began as a mid-season replacement for The Jerry Lewis Show, another variety show which had lasted only three months. It was staged in Hollywood at the former Hollywood Playhouse on Vine Street, which was renamed The Hollywood Palace during the show's duration and is today known as Avalon Hollywood. A little-known starlet named Raquel Welch was cast during the first season as the "Billboard Girl", who placed the names of the acts on a placard.
Seasons
Season 1
Host: Bing Crosby
Scheduled guests: --Gary Crosby --Bob Newhart (comedian)
--Mickey Rooney and Bobby Van - ""If We Felt Any Better"" --Nancy Wilson (singer)
--The Young Americans (singing group) - ""Green, Green,"" ""Saturday Night"" and ""If I Had A Hammer"" --Silvan (illusionist) --The Andre Tahon puppets --The Hardy Family (acrobats) --Les Salvadori (musical clowns)
Season 2
Second season premiere Host: Debbie Reynolds --Buddy Hackett (comedian) --Liberace --Rich Little (comedian-impressionist) --Astrud Gilberto (singer) & Stan Getz --Nine gymnasts from the U.S. Olympic team appear in a sketch with Debbie Reynolds. --The 44-member Arirang Korean ballet troupe
Season 3
Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby - ""The Hollywood Palace Song"" --Caterina Valente (singer) - ""Meditation"" --Bing Crosby and Caterina Valente - ""Slow Boat to China,"" ""Hindustan,"" ""Fancy Meeting You Here"" and ""It Happened in Monterrey"" --Tim Conway (comedian, from ""McHale's Navy"") --Avery Schreiber and Jack Burns (comedy team) --The Nitwits (comedy music group) --The Rudas (Australian dancers) --The Black Theater of Prague --Bertha the Elephant and her daughter Tina
Season 4
Host: Bing Crosby --The Mamas & the Papas - ""Dancing Bear"" & ""Dancing in the Street"" --Bing Crosby - ""Strike Up the Band"" (with dancers) --George Burns - ""Pack Up Your Sins and Go to the Devil"" --Bing Crosby and George Burns - ""You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You"" --Sid Caesar --Lola Falana (singer-dancer) - ""Promise Her Anything"" --Jane Marsh (soprano) - ""Mi chiamano Mimi"" (aria from Puccini's ""La Boheme"") --Mickey Deems --Joyce Jameson --Mac Ronay (French comic magician) --The Rhodins (aerialists) Comedy: --Bing appears as a star visiting suburbia in a sketch with Sid Caesar, Mickey Deems and Joyce Jameson.
Season 5
Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby - ""When We All Get Together"" --The Association - ""Never My Love"" --Ravi Shankar - ""Raga"" --Milton Berle, Jimmy Durante and Bing Crosby - ""Good Old Days"" medley --Joey Heatherton, Bing Crosby and Diahann Carroll - ""Girl Talk"" --Diahann Carroll - ""I Only Miss Him When I Think of Him""
Season 6
Songs: --Bing Crosby with chorus - ""If You're Looking For A Man"" --Bobby Goldsboro - ""Honey"" and ""The Straight Life"" --Jeannie C. Riley - ""Harper Valley PTA"" --Bing with Jeannie C. Riley & Bobby Goldsboro - medley: ""Nashville Cats,"" ""Gentle On My Mind,"" ""Little Green Apples"" and ""Hold Me Tight""
Also appearing: --Sid Caesar --Abbey Lincoln --Bob Gibson (of the St. Louis Cardinals) --Milton Berle --The Four Robertis --The Iriston Horsemen
--According to one source, a rock group from the off-Broadway hippie musical ""Your Own Thing"" also appeared on this show.
Season 7
Host: Bing Crosby --Bing Crosby sings about Hollywood Palace's new season --Gwen Verdon (sings and dances) - song about a new dance, the ""…Psychedelic Stomp"" (very long title, abbreviated). Western bar set with male dancers) --Sweetwater (rock group) - ""Motherless Child"" --Dick Shawn (stand-up comedian) --Bobbie Gentry - ""You've Made Me So Very Happy"" --Bobby Gentry and Bing Crosby - ""Put A Little Love in Your Heart"" duet --The Rodriguez Brothers (high wire act) --Engelbert Humperdinck - ""I Could Have Danced All Night"" (with dancers) & ""I'm A Better Man"" --Medley of Beatles' songs: ""Yellow Submarine"" (Crosby & Humperdinck); ""Can't Buy Me Love"" (Verdon, Crosby, Humperdinck); ""Fool on the Hill"" (Gentry); ""Yesterday"" (Humperdinck); ""With A Little Help from My Friends"" (Dick Shaun, Gentry & Verdon); ""And I Love Her"" (Crosby); and ""Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"" (Bing, Engelbert & cast) --Bing Crosby sings ""Love's Been Good to Me"" (correct song title?) --Throughout the
Crew
Producer
Nick Vanoff, William O. Harbach
Network
ABC