Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre - Season 4
Season 4
Network
Episodes26
DatesSep 14, 1966 - May 17, 1967
Episodes
Season 4Episode 160 min
Nightmare
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.
Sep 14, 1966
Season 4Episode 260 min
Time of Flight
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.
Sep 21, 1966
Season 4Episode 360 min
And Baby Makes Five
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.
Oct 5, 1966
Season 4Episode 460 min
Crazier Than Cotton
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.
Oct 12, 1966
Season 4Episode 560 min
Murder at N.B.C.
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.
Oct 19, 1966
Season 4Episode 660 min
Massacre at Fort Phil Kearny
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.
Oct 26, 1966
Season 4Episode 760 min
Dear Deductible
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.
Nov 9, 1966
Season 4Episode 860 min
Bing and Me
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.
Nov 16, 1966
Season 4Episode 960 min
The Blue-Eyed Horse
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!
Nov 23, 1966
Season 4Episode 1060 min
The Fatal Mistake
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.
Nov 30, 1966
Season 4Episode 1160 min
Storm Crossing
Trapped by a severe storm, do they risk getting out.
Dec 7, 1966
Season 4Episode 1260 min
The Eighth Day
An embittered ex-athelete finds himself very much alone after stealing priceless jewels from a church on Christmas Eve.
Dec 21, 1966
Season 4Episode 1360 min
Free of Charge
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.
Dec 28, 1966
Season 4Episode 1460 min
A Time to Love
A tired doctor is renewed by a young protege while his wife finds her own distraction.
Jan 11, 1967
Season 4Episode 1560 min
Code Name: Heraclitus (1)
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.
Jan 18, 1967
Season 4Episode 1660 min
Code Name: Heraclitus (2)
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.
Jan 25, 1967
Season 4Episode 1760 min
The Lady is My Wife
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.
Feb 1, 1967
Season 4Episode 1860 min
Blind Man's Bluff
While investigating a murder, involvements become an entangled mess when love happens.
Feb 8, 1967
Season 4Episode 1960 min
A Song Called Revenge
A singer gets caught up in a romantic triangle.
Mar 1, 1967
Season 4Episode 2060 min
The Reason Nobody Hardly Ever Seen a Fat Outlaw in the Old West is as Follows
Comical Sheriff Tinsley is up against the Swine Gang and mighty frightened of Curly the Kid.
Mar 8, 1967
Season 4Episode 2160 min
Verdict for Terror
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.
Mar 22, 1967
Season 4Episode 2260 min
Dead Wrong
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.
Apr 5, 1967
Season 4Episode 2360 min
Don't Wait for Tomorrow
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.
Apr 19, 1967
Season 4Episode 2460 min
Wipeout
Surfer Greg Travis tries to cash in on his friendship with an aging film star-by stealing her multimillion-dollar jewel collection.
Apr 26, 1967
Season 4Episode 2560 min
To Sleep, Perchance to Scream
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.
May 10, 1967
Season 4Episode 2660 min
Deadlock
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.
May 17, 1967
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