The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater – Season 1
Episodes
Now in Rehearsal
Eddie stars in a warmhearted comedy of errors, playing the inventor of a remote control TV popcorn machine and the baby-sitting uncle portrayed by Brian Aherne.
Nearly Normal
Newlyweds are promised $1000 if they stop quarreling ... which is all they've been doing during three weeks of marriage.
The Big Bargain
A sketch about a bargain-hunting wife who makes life miserable for her poor husband
The Hypochondriac
Hypochondriac Harold Clinker decides to spend his last four hours heroically.
A Hunting We Will Go
Lizabeth Scott plays a prim secretary who decides to get married and uses big-game hunting techniques to snare a man.
The Suspicious Husband
When his wife talks him into buying a life-insurance policy, Mike Applegate thinks she wants to murder him.
Garage
Romance Wrecker
The Atomic Brain
Hypochondriac Herman Fergle mistakes the world's smallest A-bomb ... for a pill.
The Critics
Eddie tries to change the opinions of three critics who were less than enthusiastic about his show.
The Helper
The Wizard
A mathematical wizard has a weakness for figures.
The Mink Coat
Through an error, a wife receives a mink coat from her husband. She resists all his frantic efforts to return the fur to the store.
The Finer Point
In order to find favor with the wealthy owner of a mining company two "muscle men" take lessons in etiquette.
The Sure Cure
Ambrose Dodson's sinister appearance helps him succeed as a complaint clerk, but it sure doesn't do much for his love life.
Commercially Ever After
A former TV Celebrity tries to regain his position.
The Practical Joker
A joker's victims get fed up and decide that the day of reckoning must come.
Always the Butler
A butler appeals for his maligned profession which always gets blamed for the crime.
A Night at the Follies
V for Victoria
How Much for Van Such
A trio of not-so-tough kidnappers holds a man for a million dollar ransom.
Dying to Love
Bombshell Goes to College
An ex-chorus girl marries a college professor, turning a staid campus upside down
Call Me Irving
To get a part in a play, timid Teddy Binks must completely reverse his personality.
Ten Thousand Years from Now
To immortalize 20th-century humor, Eddie presents songs and sketches prepared for a time capsule.
What Do You Want in a Show
Three dimwitted crooks break into a bank but end up, by mistake, in the U.S. Mint.
The Playboy
To get the approval of his sweetheart's father, a wealthy playboy must hold down a job for a week.
Man Who Liked Little People
Tall Mrs. Bullit refuses to vacate an apartment when her landlord protests that he only rents to people under 5-feet tall
The Lieutenant Was No Gentleman
The Song Pluggers
Elmo Dilling is a song plugger desperate for a hit.
Four Strikes
Square World of Pennyworth
Triplets
Three Navy men fight for the same girl, not realizing that they love triplets.
Unknown Title
The Marine Went to Town
A marine's sister and her fiance plan to relieve him of the $20,000 he won in the Irish Sweepstakes.
The Hollywood Story
A Pentagon mix-up puts a lovely Wac (Ann Sheridan) in charge of an Army combat platoon.
The Tester
Strange Little Stranger
A shy travel agent's fantasies start coming true.
And Now from the Audience
A furniture tycoon sets up a production line in prison. Convict R.J. Banning turns the prison workshop into a factory to compete with his ex-partner.