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The Jerry Lewis Show Collection

The Jerry Lewis Show

The Jerry Lewis Show Collection

Infinity Entertainment (1967)
DVD
NR (Not Rated)
617742211290
TV Series | Comedy
USA | English & German | Color | 05:10

Jerry Lewis hosted the variety show that primarily consisted of skits often featuring characters he made known in his movies. Occasionally guests like the Osmond Brothers worked musical numbers into the show's stories.


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1 Lynn Redgrave / Sonny & Cher / Harold Sakata 60 min | Sep 12, 1967

Barbara Eden sings the song ""Beautiful Things"". Jerry Lewis plays a hillbilly named Jethro, and Barbara Eden plays his girlfriend Minnie, with Merv Griffin playing a wealthy city man. Jerry Lewis sings the song ""Smile"", his theme song for The Jerry Lewis Show.

2 Martha Raye / Jack Webb / Harry Morgan 60 min | Sep 12, 1967

Music: --Jerry Lewis - ""I Like You"" --Cher - ""You Better Sit Down, Kids"" --Sonny & Cher - ""What Now, My Love?"" --The Baja Marimba Band with Jerry Lewis - ""Comin' in the Back Door"" & ""What Now, My Love?""

3 Al Hirt / Nanette Fabray 60 min | Sep 26, 1967

Comedy Sketch: Jerry, as a poor soul character, gets a job as a hotel doorman. Jerry and Nanette play a husband and wife; he's a kleptomanic, she's a policewoman. Musical Highlights: Nanette sings "Stout Hearted Men" and joins Jerry in a madcap medley. Al Hirt is featured in two trumpet solos.

4 Janet Leigh / Ben Gazzara 60 min | Oct 03, 1967

Ben Gazzara makes his singing debut, and he and Janet Leigh join Jerry in two comedy sketches, one involving an exploratory trip through an ancient Egyptian tomb, the second about a comedy team named "The Mothers Brothers."

5 Barbara Feldon / The Doodletown Pipers 60 min | Oct 10, 1967

Comedy Sketch: Jerry portrays the timid son of a lumber tycoon forced to fire a ferocious foreman, and a delivery boy who tangles with a girl rebounding from a ruined romance. In "A Man from Chicken Yum Yum" sketch, Jerry portrays a chicken delivery boy who meets Miss Feldon and must contend with her ravenous appetite - for a husband!

6 Joey Heatherton / Laurence Harvey 60 min | Oct 17, 1967

Comedy Sketch: "The Low Chaparral," and Jerry plays a "poor soul" patient who finds that he shares a hospital room with a handsome film star. Also a sketch about the adventures of a grizzled prospector and a villainous gunslinger.

7 Don Rickles / Sergio Mendes 60 min | Oct 31, 1967

Comedy Sketch: In "Sidney of the Supermarket," Jerry is an incompetent clerk who is suddenly elevated to the position of manager. Musical Highlights: Sergio Mendes performs "Watch What Happens" and "The Frog".

10 Harold J. Stone / Roger Williams / Anna Moffo 60 min | Nov 21, 1967

Jerry's guests are Metropolitan Opera soprano Anna Moffo, pianist Roger Williams and Actor Harold J. Stone.

11 Frank Gorshin / The McGuire Sisters 60 min | Jan 09, 1986

Comedy Sketch: Frank Gorshin imitates famous personalities and joins host Jerry in a sketch about a haunted house inhabited by monsters.

13 Connie Stevens / Dick Shawn 60 min | Dec 26, 1967

Comedy Sketch: Jerry is an American tourist in France; a wallflower at a high school dance. An old-time medicine show with Shawn playing the barker, Connie his assistant and Jerry a stage struck sheriff who arrives to run the elixir peddlers out of town, but joins them when they offer to launch him in a show business career.

15 Anne Baxter / Jack Jones 60 min | Jan 09, 1968

Musical Highlights: Anne sings, "Horses" and "All I Do Is Dream of You". Jack sings, "Live for Life" and "Free Again". Comedy Sketch: Anne plays a socialite race horse owner at the track with her trainer (Jerry), and a seductive Honky-tonk girl with evil designs on Jerry's football hero (Jack). In vignettes, Jerry auditions to be a radio announcer, and explains the difference between sound and noise.

17 Ricardo Montalban / The Osmond Brothers 60 min | Jan 30, 1968

Comedy Sketches: The Osmonds play Boy Scouts who are learning survival skills from their troup leader, the Nutty Professor. A New Wave director (Ricardo Montalban) thinks he's found the perfect model for a hair spray commercial. His discovery is delivery boy Sidney (aka "The Man from Yum-Yum"). Musical Highlights: The Osmonds sing "Then I'll Be Happy." Ricardo Montalban sings "I Don't Think I'm in Love." The entire cast joins in on "A Banda" and "Before the Parade Passes By."

19 Zsa Zsa Gabor / Peter Lawford 60 min | Jan 09, 1986

Comedy Sketches: Zsa Zsa plays a spy who tries to seduce two World World I pilots. In the Garden of Eden, the Nutty Professor lectures Adam and Eve (Zsa Zsa and Peter Lawford) on marriage. Jerry does a pantomime as Sidney, the operator of a rundown newsstand who faces competition by a superstand that employs beautiful women. Musical Highlights: Zsa Zsa and the Dancers perform "Oo La La." Peter Lawford sings "Music to Watch Girls By."

20 Tony Randall / Nancy Ames 60 min | Feb 20, 1968

Comedy Sketches: Tony hosts a TV game show that turns loving couples into greedy, bitter enemies. The Nutty Professor (Jerry) gives a speech on the history of dancing. Jerry works at a store where "The Salesman is Always Wrong." Musical Highlights: Nancy sings "Dear Hearts and Gentle People" and "See the Friendship There." Tony sings "They're Wearing Them Higher in Hawaii." Nancy & Jerry duet on "Meditation."

Guest stars: Tony Randall, Nancy Ames
21 Bobby Darin / Jane Powell 60 min | Feb 27, 1968

Comedy Sketches: Jerry plays a hapless handyman working at a senior citizens' center. In a parody of variety shows, Powell, Darin and Lewis play unusual musical instruments, attempt celebrity impressions and do an acrobatic routine. Also, Bobby Darin and Jerry Lewis play violinists whose duet turns into a duel. Musical Highlights: Bobby sings "Talk to the Animals" and "Sixteen Tons." Jane Powell sings "Chattanooga Choo Choo." Jane Powell, Bobby Darin and Jerry Lewis perform "Epicurean Delight."

22 Don Rickles / Michele Lee 60 min | Mar 12, 1968

Comedy Sketches: Don plays an abrasive talk show host whose guests are a fashion designer and a guru (both played by Jerry). Michele Lee and Don Rickles do a parody of daytime soap operas. An Adam and Eve sketch with Michele Lee and Jerry Lewis. Musical Highlights: Michele Lee sings "Yesterday" and "L. David Sloane." Jerry Lewis - "If You Could See Her Now." The George Wyle Singers and The Nick Castle Dancers join together in a "Time" production number.

23 Barbara Eden / Merv Griffin 60 min | Mar 19, 1968

Comedy Sketch: Jerry Lewis plays a hillbilly named Jethro, and Barbara Eden plays his girlfriend Minnie, with Merv Griffin playing a wealthy city man. Musical Highlights: Barbara Eden sings the song "Beautiful Things". Jerry Lewis sings the song "Smile", his theme song for The Jerry Lewis Show.

25 Nanette Fabray / Sergio Franchi 60 min | Apr 09, 1968

Comedy Sketches: A recently divorced man-about-town (Torme) hires Hari Kari (Jerry) to be his houseboy. At the urging of his wife (Nanette), a has-been safecracker attempts a comeback. But instead of safes, the husband resorts to robbing parking meters. Musical Highlights: Mel Torme - "We've Got a World That Swings" and "A Man and a Woman." Nanette Fabray - "House of Fire" (production number with dancers).

26 Count Basie / Mel Torme 60 min | Apr 16, 1968

Comedy Sketches: In a parody of Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts, Jerry "explains" the music of Count Basie's Orchestra. Musical Highlights: Mel Torme sings "Blusette" Mel Torme and Jerry Lewis sing "Bring Back the Bands" Count Basie and orchestra - "Splanky" Jerry Lewis - "Singing in the Rain" Jerry Lewis and the Count Basie Orchestra - "Nose Cone"

Edition details

Packaging Keep Case
Nr Discs 2
Distributor Infinity Entertainment
Layers Single side, Single layer
Regions Region 1

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