Cavalcade of Stars – Season 1

Premiere with guest stars Peter Lorre, Joan Edwards

Jack Carter stars with guests singer Joan Edwards, actor Peter Lorre, bird whistlers The Arnauts, comedy team McCarthy and Farrell, and acrobats The Fontaines. Lorre does a recitation of "The Telltale Heart" and joins Carter in a mad scientist sketch. Edwards performs at the piano and teams with Carter for "You're Adorable."

Ella Logan, Maurice Rocco

Marilyn Maxwell

Mimi Benzell

Vivian Blaine, Mata & Hari

Kay Starr

Pearl Bailey

Kitty Kallen, The Four Step Brothers

Victor Borge, Thelma Carpenter

Henny Youngman, Ethel Smith

Janet Blair, Zero Mostel

Gladys Swarthout, the Dunhills, Mimi Benzell, Cabot & Dresden, Professor Irwin Corey

Vivian Blaine. Georgia Gibbs, Phil Foster, the Treniers

Luba Malina, Ray Malone

Paul Winchell, Donald Richards, Joan Edwards, the Clark Brothers

Hazel Scott, Jackie Miles

Connee Boswell, Carlos Ramirez

Kitty Carlisle, Tito Guizar, Jean Carroll

Cab Calloway, Marie McDonald, Gil Lamb

Carol Bruce, Josh White, Alice Pearce

Bert Lahr, Mata & Hari, the DeCastro Sisters

Vivian Blaine, Zero Mostel

Gali-Gali Luxor, Milt Douglas, Willie Shore

Kitty Kallen, Bert Wheeler, Donald Richards, Rudy Cardenas

Jackie Coogan, Hal LeRoy, Lina Romay

Pinky Lee, Ilona Massey

Vera Vague, Joan Merrill

Smith & Dale, the DeMarco Sisters

Monica Lewis, Jack Durant

Paul Winchell & Jerry Mahoney, Hazel Scott

Jean Carroll

Chico Marx

Frances Langford, The Four Step Brothers

Mindy Carson, Leo DeLyon

Robert Merrill, The Mello-Larks, Jack E. Leonard

Andy Russell, Della Russell, Patricia Bowman, Stan Freeman

Jane Pickens, Buck & Bubbles

Guest Host: Bert Wheeler; Guest Star: Johnny Coy

Guest Host: Jackie Miles; Guest Star: Betty Bruce

Jerry Lester debut as host; guest stars: Janis Paige, Dorothy Jarnac, Baccaloni

Connie Haines, Maurice Rocco

Janet Blair

Chester Morris, Kyle MacDonnell, Dizzy Gillespie

John Loder, Gertrude Niesen, Bert Gordon

Kyle MacDonnell, Bert Wheeler, Jerry Wayne

J. Carrol Naish, Kyle MacDonnell, Louis Nye, Carl Reiner

Jackie Robinson, Kyle MacDonnell, Johnny Johnston, Gali-Gali

Lester as a clown called Arthur Clodfrey (takeoff on Arthur Godfrey), magician Galli-Galli make baby chicks appear under cups, MacDonnell sings "The Boy Next Door", and Jackie Robinson appears in a sketch visiting a kid in a wheelchair.

Sam Levenson, Kyle MacDonnell

Smith & Dale, the Four Step Brothers, Mimi Benzell, Leonard Sues

Jack Pearl & Cliff Hall, Joan Edwards, Elsa & Waldo

Jackie Robinson, Mindy Carson

Keye Luke, Ray Malone, Susan Miller, Carl Ravazza

John Garfield, Kim Stanley, Paul Winchell & Jerry Mahoney

Kitty Kallen, Larry Storch

Vivian Blaine, Carlos Ramirez, Jackie Miles

Anna Maria Alberghetti, Wally Brown, Beatrice Kay, Leonard Sues

Georgia Gibbs

Jackie Gleason debut as host; guest stars: Rose Marie, the DeCastro Sisters

Jackie Gleason debuts as host with Rose Marie, comic Hank Ladd, acrobat Ladd Lyon, singing DeCastro Sisters, and dancer Evelyn Farney. Gleason duets with Rose and in a sketch at a hat check counter. DeCastros sing a Latin-American number.

Gloria DeHaven, Eddie Fisher

Ella Fitzgerald, Kate Murtagh, Mary Raye & Naldi

The Modernaires, Evelyn Farney

Bert Wheeler, Dorothy Clare, Billy Daniels

Andy and Della Russell, Clarence Stroud

Victor Borge, Frances Langford

Richard Tucker

Smith & Dale, Gracie Barrie & the Beachcombers