Theater of the Mind
Bob Hope
Cast, Host, Announcer, Writer
Born May 29, 1903.
204 episodes in 26 shows · 1938–1956
Radio Hall of Fame inductee.
Bob Hope began performing on radio in 1934, mostly on NBC, and landed his first regular series there in 1937 with the Woodbury Soap Hour. A year later came The Pepsodent Show Starring Bob Hope, with Jerry Colonna and Barbara Jo Allen as Vera Vague among the regulars, and it became the top radio program in the country. He also made 57 USO tours entertaining troops and starred in 54 feature films.
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The Bob Hope Show95 · Cast
1938
- The First Pepsodent Show
- Guest: Olivia de Havilland
- Guest: Martha Raye
- Guest: Chico Marx
- Guests: Blondie and Dagwood
1939
1941
- Guest: Basil Rathbone
- Guest: Dizzy Dean
- Guest: Kate Smith
- Guest: Hedda Hopper
- Guest: Humphrey Bogart
1942
1943
1944
- Guest: Gary Cooper
- Guest: Ginger Rogers
- From the Santa Ana Classification Center (Guest: Bing Crosby)
- Guests: Lum and Abner
- Jacksonville Training Camp
- From Camp Borden, Canada
- From Stockton Air Base
1945
- Guest: The Andrews Sisters
- Guest: Edward G. Robinson
- From the Naval Air Technical Center, Memphis
- From Muroc Air Field
- Guest: Frank Sinatra (1945)
- Guest: Shirley Temple
- From the Sampson Naval Training Center
- Guests: Herbert Marshall and Bing Crosby
- From Sedalia Army Air Field
- Guest: Robert Montgomery (1945)
- From the Battleship South Dakota
- From the Santa Ana Separation Center
- Guest: Joe E. Brown
- From USC (Guests: Red Skelton and Peggy Ryan)
- Guest: Jimmy Durante
- From Phoenix (Guest: Herbert Marshall)
- Christmas Show from San Francisco
1946
- Guest: Frank Sinatra (1946)
- Guest: Tyrone Power
- Guest: David Niven (1946)
- From Tucson, with Sonny Tufts
- From Cleveland
- Guest: Sydney Greenstreet
- Guest: Carol Richards
- Guests: Bob Crosby and Carol Richards
- Guests: Fred Allen and Minerva Pious
- Guest: Lucille Ball
- Guests: Bing Crosby, Doris Day and General Omar Bradley
1947
1948
1950
- Guest: Fred Allen (1950)
- Guest: Bing Crosby (1950)
- Guest: Arthur Godfrey
- Doris Day and the Last Lever Brothers Show
1951
- From Carswell Air Force Base
- From March Field (Guest: Judy Garland)
- From Edwards Air Force Base
- From London
- From Long Beach Naval Air Station
- Bob Is Remodeling His House
- Guest: Virginia Mayo
- Christmas Show from Long Beach (1951)
1952
- The New 1952 Cars (Guest: Tyrone Power)
- From Palm Springs (Guests: Bing Crosby and Charles Farrell)
- From San Diego Naval Training Station (Guest: Gracie Allen)
- From the Marine Corps Supply Depot (Guest: Claudette Colbert)
- Guest: William Holden
- From San Diego Naval Air Station (Guests: Roy Rogers and Dale Evans)
1953
- From Fort Ord (Guests: Terry Moore and Bing Crosby)
- Eisenhower's Inauguration (Guest: Zsa Zsa Gabor)
- The Road to Cactus Gulch (Guest: Jimmy Stewart)
- The Flu Epidemic (Guest: Jack Webb)
- A Nightclub Act (Guest: Jane Wyman)
- Guest: William Bendix
- The Atom Bomb Test (Guest: Mickey Rooney)
- The Kentucky Derby (Guest: Victor Mature)
- Coming Home from England (Guest: Anne Baxter)
- Burt Lancaster Gives Bob a Job at the Circus
- Christmas Show from Long Beach (1953)
1954
1955
Command Performance19 · Cast, Host
- Program 21: Bob Hope, Lena Horne
- Christmas Special, 1942
- Program 49: Bob Hope, Joan Blondell, Lena Horne, Ginny Simms
- Program 61: Bob Hope, Lee Sweetland, Judy Garland, Johnny Mercer
- Program 86: Bob Hope, Bing Crosby
- Program 90: Bob Hope, Jimmy Cash, Carole Landis, Shirley Ross
- Program 96: Bob Hope, Frances Langford, Martha Raye, Carole Landis
- Program 102: Bob Hope, Deanna Durbin, Dennis Day
- Program 118: Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton
- Program 123: Connie Haines, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra
- Program 126: Bob Hope, Andrews Sisters
- Program 138: Bob Hope, Johnny Mercer, June Allyson
- Program 154: Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Lauren Bacall
- Program 162: Dick Tracy in B Flat
- Program 168: Bob Hope, Ingrid Bergman, Ella Mae Morse, William Bendix
- Program 179: Gloria DeHaven, Bob Hope, King Sisters
- Program 195: Ralph Edwards, Connie Haines, Bob Hope
- Program 238: Bob Hope, Bela Lugosi
- Christmas Special, 1946
Screen Directors Playhouse18 · Cast, Writer
The Big Show12 · Cast
- Eddie Cantor, Mindy Carson
- Fred Allen, Phil Silvers
- Fred Allen, Robert Cummings
- Groucho Marx, Judy Garland
- Jack Haley, Paul Kelly
- Fred Allen, Clive Brook
- Bob Burns, Jimmy Durante
- Judy Holliday, Carmen Miranda
- Groucho Marx, Bob Hope
- Eddie Cantor, Jack Carson
- Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa
- Jimmy Durante, Milton Berle
Lux Radio Theatre10 · Cast, Writer
The Screen Guild Theater9 · Cast
The Man Called X7 · Cast
Family Theater6 · Cast, Host
Kraft Music Hall4 · Cast
The Jack Benny Program3 · Cast
Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons2 · Cast
The Bing Crosby Show2 · Cast
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