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HOLLYWOOD PALACE, THE

Air Date/Released Saturday, March 22, 1969
Station/Studio ABC
Host/Star Don Rickles and Phyllis Diller
Featuring Joe Besser (Solo)

ABC's Saturday night, big-name, big-budget variety series. Guest hosts were featured each week, several on a recurring basis... Bing Crosby, Milton Berle, Jimmy Durante, Sammy Davis Jr. and Don Adams among them. Acts ranged from The Rolling Stones to Groucho Marx, and PALACE became well-known for its annual Bing Crosby Christmas special.

Co-hosts Don Rickles and Phyllis Diller provide samplings of their stand-up comedy, and then begin the episode's theme, a series of musical numbers and skits chronicling the misadventures of a honeymoon couple. Terry-Thomas provides comic support in a variety of roles: best man, British desk clerk of a run-down Mexican hotel and the pilot of a Florida-bound jet hijacked to Australia. Musical numbers by The Baja Marimba Band, The King Family, country singer & political satirist Jack Walker, and dances by ballet artists Sony & Claire. Joe Besser makes a surprise gag appearance in the hijack sketch.


Cast: Don Rickles (Host), Phyllis Diller (Host), Dick Tufeld (Announcer), Terry-Thomas, The Baja Marimba Band, The King Family, Tina Cole, Sony & Claire, Jack Walker, Joe Besser (Sydney), Mitchell Ayres and The Orchestra

Crew: Nick Vanoff (Executive Producer), William O. Harbach (Producer), Grey Lockwood (Director), Joe Bigelow, Jay Burton, George Bloom (Writers)
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