Late for his TV show, Jack gets lost on the subway and ends up in Brooklyn. All along the way, he encounters a steady parade of kookie characters.
Jimmy Durante's guest include comedian Fred Allen and Eddie Cantor, Eddie Jackson, Jack Roth, Milton Frome, Al Norman, and Jules Buffano. Allen plays clarinet badly with Durante on "(If You've Got) Personality." Jimmy goes to Bali where he's fawned over by the island girls. Fred invites Jimmy to his Maine cabin where they appear on a local TV show with too many sponsors. At Club Durant, Durante does "She's a Little Bit This." Cantor enters when Jackson is introduced and sings "Waiting For the Robert E. Lee". Jackson sings "Is It True What They Say About Dixie?"
This popular variety program of the era featured a rotation of top-drawer comedic hosts. Spike welcomes guests Billy Eckstine, Helen Grayco and Hugh Herbert and takes a musical trip around the world. From Alaska to Germany, Italy and Cuba, no culture is safe from the wacky Musical Depreciation Revue. Includes the Spike-tacular performance of "It's Tough to be a Girl Musician ... Especially if You Happen to be a Man."
Olsen and Johnson terrorize a saloon in a travesty of Westerns. Their acting school production of Shakespeare turns into an extended commercial for Snow Crop orange juice. Young Chet Allen sings "You'll Never Walk Alone." Sight gags rule in their classical play "Marie Antoinette" featuring a cameo by Berle. At O & J's dance, a man from the audience is crowned the party queen.
Guests with Olsen and Johnson include regulars J. C. Olsen, Marty May, June Johnson, plus the Ben Yost Trio and dance team Patrice Helene and Jan Howard. The jokes and non sequiturs fly when O & J rent a fleabag room and when they play Martin and Kane, private detectives. Chic is mistaken for a ritzy customer when he wanders into a fashion designers salon to use the phone. In the Party in the Round segment, child dancer Errol Smith performs and a serviceman from the audience plays along in a silly quiz.
Jimmy Durante sings his own songs "The Durante Flip" and "One in a Million." Edward Arnold presents Ed' Wynn's grandsons Ned and Tracy with a plaque for Ed from Actors Equity commemorating the comedian's 50 years in show business. As Ed retires to his bed, Jimmy and the cast surprise him with a 50th anniversary cake.
In a live show from San Francisco's Presido, Hope and McMurray play waterfront fishermen, two shop owners in Chinatown, and prisoners breaking out of Alcatraz. The Bell Sisters perform "Wheel of Fortune" and a comedy number, "June Night", with Bob. Rich prospector Hope drops by a Barbary Coast bar where everyone wants his gold. Bob and Fred do "Small Fry." Alpaka sings "Beyond the Reef."
Danny plays a frustrated husband whose movie-crazed wife imagines everyone she sees is a star. Eleanor Powell performs two dance production numbers. June Havoc portrays self-absorbed vaudeville diva Cushions La Fay. A production number with the cast looks at the then-crazy idea of a woman president.
The Ritz Brothers perform a song and dance dressed as Revolutionary War soldiers, and another impersonating French vocalists. In an extended Snow Crop commercial, the boys are runners at a track meet. Evelyn Knight sings "Just One of Those Things" and "Dark Eyes." Jack Webb narrates a "Dragnet" take-off as the brothers investigate a murder. The three play Gypsy fortune tellers.
Invited to host again, Spike starts the show off to an uproariously frenzied pace that never slows. Though a bug spray symphony is a hard act to follow, Spike manages to do it with headless banjo strummers and jaw-dropping acrobatics by the lovely Hustrei Sisters! Guests include Jim Backus, a rare early performance by Liberace, Helen Grayco, Lenny Kent, Billy Reed, Ruth Foster and Peter James.