Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
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.
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.
Private detective Al Packer had his legs broken by two hoods after he put their friend behind bars. Now, barely able to hobble around his apartment, Packer receives an attractive offer for a routine job: $300 a week to protect a small-time thief named Markos. But the new case is anything but routine: At a seedy hotel hideout, Packer sees Markos gunned down -- or does he? The ""corpse"" comes alive, fires Packer and leaves the hotel.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Where there's Hope, there's often Bing. And when Bing and Bob get together you'll invariably find pretty scenery - almost all of it female! Bob introduces Bach Yen (White Swallow), a 23-year old Vietnamese singer, and his own selection of promising Hollywood starlets. Bach Yen sings ""What Now My Love?"" (in French & English) and ""Dem Dong"", a Vietnamese folk song. Bing offers ""In the Cool, Cool of the Evening"" and ""Pennies From Heaven"". Sketches include, a wealthy Texan (Bob) and a snooty Englishman (Bing) enter their prize ponies in the Grand National. And ""Fantastic Stomach"" a parody of the movie ""Fantastic Voyage"" which finds a miniaturized Bob and Bing penetrating the Vast Waistline to find out what's ailing Jackie Gleason. Les Brown conducts the orchestra.
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!
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.
Trapped by a severe storm, do they risk getting out.
An embittered ex-athelete finds himself very much alone after stealing priceless jewels from a church on Christmas Eve.
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.
A tired doctor is renewed by a young protege while his wife finds her own distraction.
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.
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.
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.
While investigating a murder, involvements become an entangled mess when love happens.
A singer gets caught up in a romantic triangle.
Comical Sheriff Tinsley is up against the Swine Gang and mighty frightened of Curly the Kid.
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.
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.
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.
Surfer Greg Travis tries to cash in on his friendship with an aging film star-by stealing her multimillion-dollar jewel collection.
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.
Virginia Cloyd is the widow of a notorious criminal. Early one morning, Virginia calmly walks into a police precinct office--armed with a pistol and vial of nitroglycerine. In a measured voice, she announces that she intends to wait for detective James Lassiter, the man responsible for the death of her husband. She also declares that she intends to kill Lassiter, in full view of the other cops.
After being invited for a big hunt, he soon realizes he is the game.
A pair of illicit lovers have been murdered, and prosecuting attorney Abe Perez is going all out to get a conviction against the dead man's wife, a wealthy socialite who used to date Perez.
Hostilities arise between Cavalryman and Native Americans in this western episode.
Troublemaking is his past time, as police close in on his hoaxes.
After an unhappy marriage she seeks happiness in the arms of a married man.
An unlikely male governess turns the family upside down.
Comedy about an inadequate spy.
An actress comes between a man and his wife while on holiday.
Two friends are betrayed by the woman they love.
Korean Kittens sing What'd I say. Vic Damone sings More and Strangers in the night for wounded soldier. Hope and Joey Heatherton do a song and dance. Joey sings Spanish Flea. Billy Graham gives pep talk to soldiers. Diane Shelton does acrobatic act. Appearances by Johnny Grant, Diane McBain. Tippi Hedren makes a short appearance. Skit with girls protesting Hope's treatment of them. Anita Bryant sings Silent night. Troupe visits wounded. Hope asks General Leo Wald why we must win. Other participants are Rita Feria (Miss World), Les Brown and his Band of Reknown, Phyllis Diller.
The admiral's wife dies, he tries to begin again and get along with his son.
Enemy on the Beach is set on the coast of Ireland during World War II. Two German mines wash up on shore, posing a hazard to everyone within miles. The UXB squad dispatched to disarm the bombs consists of a cocksure merchant marine officer and a martinet British commander. It's a toss-up as to which will explode first: the bombs or the hostility between the two men.
Adrian Harris takes a job in Sicily as secretary to cynical novelist C.C. Conover, whom she falls for and soon marries. But Conover turns out to be anything but a good husband, and a handsome Sicilian soon enters the picture.
In 1919, housewife Addie Joslin's act of kindness to a wandering war veteran forms the basis of a cruel misunderstanding.
An angry young man of the theatre, who has written a play that could be a hit, if actress Sara Lescaut agrees to play the lead. Kolinos, however, is determined not to alter one word of his script to make it a more commercial vehicle.
Diagnosed with an illness, an eccentric millionaire finds out the true meaning of family.
Andrew Dixon, a New York assistant DA. disgusted by the crime rate and the court's revolving door policy regarding street criminals, Dixon organizes a citizen's protection committee in his own neighborhood.
Coroner Dr. Steve Wojeck investigated the death by caisson disease of an Italian worker, and his inquiry led him to examine the conditions of the victim's workplace, a tunnel under construction.
Benjamin Boggs, a brilliant but acutely unlucky research scientist is persude by a world-renowned big game hunter who sets her romantic sights on Mr. Boggs. She is determined to ""bag"" him for her own, and never mind that he's already married.
Sister Mary Clare, formerly a singer and now a nurse at St. Jerome's Hospital, tries to convince a young rock 'n' roll singer to go through with a needed operation.
Sketches include “Pagoda Place,†after remarrying a wealthy Japanese woman learns that her husband is still alive; “The Putrid Six†stars Bob as a sinister bandit chief and Lee as a sissy gangster with Johnine Lee as Chiquita; and a police lieutenant (Bob) investigates Oscar nominee Rock Surly (Jonathan), who is suspected of murdering the other contenders.
Agent Don Owens goes undercover in a counterfeit operation to find a killer. One of the services performed by BOSS is to help behind the Iron Curtain, but the service hasn?t been too good of late: Four defecting seamen have been found murdered, and two BOSS agents have been lost while investigating the crimes. Agent Don Ownes? assignment: Infiltrate the waterfront and find out who is behind the murders.
Admiral Holloway has one big problem, his daughters! When suitors come knocking, they usually end up running.
After embezzling a large amount of money two drifters end up in Mexico seeking a new life, when a sweet senorita tries to swindle them out of their money.
After being treated like a deserter, Brophy has to confront many demons.
During a storm a couple end up on an island.
When the senatorial race comes to a small glitch health issues need to be resolved.
A dancing record executive who is trying to sign up a star comedian.
Brad Kubec, who was a first year law student went to work as a live-in gardener for the the Hartley family, one of the richest families in the state. Brad was shy, had a shuttering problem and was a little unstable. He finds himself falling in love with Carol Hartley.Carol was a spoiled housewife who seemed to have everything but was desperate for Brad's attention. She led him on and let Brad take her out on a date to the county fair while her husband was away on business. This only fed Brad's obsession with her. When she broke off the affair, something snapped in Brad and it was ""Murder In The First"".
Old west marriage broker Horatio Lovelace travels from town to town matching lassies to prospective husbands.
The turncoat is young Peter Thornton, a defector to the Chinese during the Korean War. Now, with forged credentials, he's en route to a missile plant to do the job of espionage he was groomed for.
The scam became the scammed and the heist that was never was.
Tough girl Faye has her way with a disapproving husband.
Stinson comes to terms with the help of a Sister.
Eccentric research chemist Arthur Biddle isn't a safe man to be around: he's caused two plants to burn down and done extensive damage to another, managed to break a few traffic regulations, wrecked a policeman's motorcycle and has accidentally broken the arm of police chief Sinclair—who also happens to be his fiancee's father.
After her alcoholism devastates her life, her marriage ends and new love is found.
Aspiring concert pianist Laura Macon is one of three finalists in a scholarship competition, and her romantic involvement with a flamboyant conductor who's also one of the judges has her teacher worried.
Fred Piper, a jet-setting private eye who takes on cases no one else can solve. Right now he's trying to find out what happened to a missing millionaire, a task made difficult by the millionaire's wife. For some reason, she doesn't want Piper to question her identical twin sister (note the title ""Double Jeopardy"").
Bob Hope's annual tour overseas: this time he hits Southeast Asia--Korea, Guam, the Philippines, Okinawa, Vietnam.
After their plane is shot down, the recovery mentally and physically is challenging for three men.
When the Senator's wife is caught in bed with another man, his career is jeopardized.
After being captured the fliers resort to all kinds of mischief to disrupt the plans of the enemy.
When a bungling group of crooks get messed up with a bunch of incompetent cops you know the outcome.
Newlyweds Mark and Carol visit Mark's old island home, where his foster mother and her embittered, crippled daughter live in seclusion--and where the memory of Mark's first wife still lingers.
After being a prisoner of war Eric has to come to grips with his deeds and overcome his mental breakdown.
Hannah King has two reasons for being in Rome: to win back her husband, who's courting an Arabian princess; and to land a role in Italian director Aldo Carmenelli's new art film.
A Hungarian photographer is sad when she discovers that her handsome lover no longer cares for her.
James Congers, a CIA agent who becomes an alcoholic, believing himself responsible for the death of two close friends. The Russians believe that he would be useful in fingering potential soviet defectors. The Americans plans to use Conger's inebriated state to get him into a mental hospital, and there locate an enemy spy. His girl friend merely wants to get him to pull himself together.
James Congers, a CIA agent who becomes an alcoholic, believing himself responsible for the death of two close friends. The Russians believe that he would be useful in fingering potential soviet defectors. The Americans plans to use Conger's inebriated state to get him into a mental hospital, and there locate an enemy spy. His girl friend merely wants to get him to pull himself together.
During Wartime several heroes emerge.
The Nazi want to get their hands on a set of counterfeit plates which they plan to use to flood neutral countries with phony dollars, but U.S. Intelligence plans to beat them to the punch with the help of convict Larry Martin, the only man who knows where the plates are hidden.
Girl-shy scientist Charles Fenton has decided that it?s time he married-scientifically, by letting a computer play cupid.
A young interloper comes between a disgruntled wife and her older husband.
The story of jazz singer Lee Wiley, her failed marriage to bandleader Jess Stacy.
In a small southern town, the sheriff's wife is attracted to handsome Gabe Flanders, who is hitchhiking to California. Trouble ensues.
Also appearing in this variety special are Beryl Davis and and Los Angeles Dodger stars Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale and Tommy Davis.
Four 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.
Under 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 exposà 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.
Easterner 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.
A British Intelligence Officer suspects a Naval War Hero of giving secret information to the Soviets.
Things 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.
Ernie 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.
Anita 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.
Two suitors drive a beautiful woman crazy with their pursuit of her.
When 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.
The 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.
Hoodlum 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.
During a terrible storm in Mexico two men come to heads for the treasure they both seek.
Polly 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.
Eddie a fly by night kind of guy, finds romance with a wealthy woman.
Comedy about a gangster who hires a ""personnel psychologist"" to evaluate the aptitudes of his gang.
Secret agent Piper finds beauty and brains intriguing and disruptive to his assignment.
Miss Westcott runs her agency with the finese of the best businessmen and runs several clients ragged with her demands.
Mike 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.
Montrose 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.
The 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.
After 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.
A deadly game of cat and mouse, where everything isn't what it seems to be.
Major Morgan holds his Commander as coward and attempts to overtake his command.
Called home because of his father's failing health, foreign correspondent John Ferris recalls the events that led to the collapse of his marriage.
Ex-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.
| Location | United States of America |
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| Language | English |
| Release | 1963-10-04 |
| Producer | Universal Television |