Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
7.6
1963
Drama
, Comedy
, Talk
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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- Cast:
- Bob Hope
Episode 25 : To Sleep, Perchance to Scream
May. 10,1967
In Hollywood, private eye Adam Steele investigates the murder of a colleague who was working for a ruthless business tycoon. Steele?s search for motive and murder leads up several blind alleys-but all are somehow connected with his friend's employer.
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Episode 24 : Wipeout
April. 26,1967
Surfer Greg Travis tries to cash in on his friendship with an aging film star-by stealing her multimillion-dollar jewel collection.
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Episode 23 : Don't Wait For Tomorrow
April. 19,1967
Newspaperman Matt Braid's search for an international criminal leads him to a lavish villa on a Greek island -- where a vicious beating convinces Braid that he's on the right track.
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Episode 22 : Dead Wrong
April. 05,1967
A tense drama about a hermit monk, whose isolated mountain cabin is invaded by a gun-wielding ex-convict, his younger brother and the girl they both love.
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Episode 21 : Verdict For Terror
March. 22,1967
Law student Darryl Cooper invites an ambitious D.A. to meet his fraternity brothers in 'the griddle,' a political question and answer session. The D.A. accepts, but soon wishes he hadn't, five years ago, he sent Darryl's brother to the gas chamber. Now, Darryl intends to use the griddle to prove his brother's innocence, and to destroy the D.A.'s career.
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Episode 20 : The Reason Nobody Hardly Ever Seen A Fat Outlaw in the Old West is as Follows
March. 08,1967
Comical Sheriff Tinsley is up against the Swine Gang and mighty frightened of Curly the Kid.
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Episode 19 : A Song Called Revenge
March. 01,1967
A singer gets caught up in a romantic triangle.
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Episode 18 : Blind Man's Bluff
February. 08,1967
While investigating a murder, involvements become an entangled mess when love happens.
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Episode 17 : The Lady is My Wife
February. 01,1967
Set in the post-Civil War Old West. A wealthy horse breeder hires the Bannisters, a genteel--and broke--Southern couple. The cowboy has more in mind than horses when he sets his sights on Mrs. Bannister.
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Episode 16 : Code Name: Heraclitus (2)
January. 25,1967
A man who dies on an operating table is brought back to life, but he has no memory of anything that happened before he wakes up. A government agent decides that he would make a perfect undercover operative.
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Episode 15 : Code Name: Heraclitus (1)
January. 18,1967
Frank G. Wheatley is a British spy who is investigating the past of Lydia Constantine, the widow of a secret agent. Constantine is suspected of selling Cold War secrets to the Communists. To ascertain the truth, it is necessary to ""rebuild"" Constantine and send his living counterpart behind the Iron Curtain.
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Episode 14 : A Time to Love
January. 11,1967
A tired doctor is renewed by a young protege while his wife finds her own distraction.
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Episode 13 : Free of Charge
December. 28,1966
This free-wheeling story about a composer named Harrybell, who swings around Los Angles seeking inspiration for a musical tribute to the city. Harrybell is also running from the police, who think he?s some kind of nut.
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Episode 12 : The Eighth Day
December. 21,1966
An embittered ex-athelete finds himself very much alone after stealing priceless jewels from a church on Christmas Eve.
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Episode 11 : Storm Crossing
December. 07,1966
Trapped by a severe storm, do they risk getting out.
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Episode 10 : The Fatal Mistake
November. 30,1966
Set in England, a respectable accountant and family man every month on the dot, he is visited by his ""friend"", who graciously bestows gifts upon his wife and children, then retires with his host into the den. Here he collects his monthly blackmail check--just as he does with all his other ""clients"". Tired of paying out extortion, he plans a neat little mishap for him.
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Episode 9 : The Blue-Eyed Horse
November. 23,1966
A beleaguered husband stands before the judge, trying to explain why his wife has disappeared. The police suspect foul play, offering as evidence the strained relationship of the couple and the debts incurred by her gambling. Only he knows (or thinks he knows) the incredible truth: his wife has been magically transformed into a horse!
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Episode 7 : Dear Deductible
November. 09,1966
A popular but improvident songwriter, after spending all of his royalties, agrees to marry an heiress, not because of her money, but because of her lack of money. You see, both plan to file a joint income tax return, thereby enjoying the bounty of the IRS' ""deductible"" system. This will keep them both solvent until they can recoup their fortunes.
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Episode 6 : Massacre at Fort Phil Kearny
October. 26,1966
On December 21, 1866 eighty men rode out of Fort Phil Kearny to support a wood-cutting expedition that had come under attack. The wood was necessary to build the fort. They were led out onto the Bozeman Trail and ambused in the pass by the Sioux and wiped out. The leader of the Sioux tribe was Chief Red Cloud.
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Episode 5 : Murder at N.B.C.
October. 19,1966
Fifteen fellow comedians join Bob in ""Murder at NBC"", a spy spoof. Bob plays a mad scientist with a nuclear chemical capable of shrinking the U.S.A. Spies are Don Adams, Milton Berle, Red Buttons, Johnny Carson, Jack Carter, Bill Cosby, Wally Cox, Bill Dana, Jimmy Durante, Don Rickles, Dan Rowan and Dick Martin, Soupy Sales, Dick Shawn and Jonathan Winters.
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Episode 4 : Crazier than Cotton
October. 12,1966
Matt, a 34-year-old sculptor who is spectacularly unsuccessful, knows he's hit rock bottom when he has to borrow money from his girlfriend in order to attend his father's funeral. As he stands at graveside, Matt vows to do something ""worthwhile"" with his life. Problem is, sculpting is all he knows.
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Episode 3 : And Baby Makes Five
October. 05,1966
A New York author fed up with the pressures of urban living, quits his job and moves with his pregnant wife to a small California town. Here he accepts an editor's position at a tiny weekly newspaper, inspiring both praise and wrath by using the publication as a pulpit for his crusading.
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Episode 1 : Nightmare
September. 14,1966
In her secluded mansion, crippled Isobel Cain receives loving care from her husband Morgan and her twin sister Vicky. But the two have more than Isobel's welfare at heart: they're planning to poison dear Isobel and live happily ever after on her money.
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