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The Dean Martin Show

The Dean Martin Show

★ 7.4/10•1965•1h 0m•Comedy
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The Dean Martin Show, also known as The Dean Martin Variety Show, is a TV variety-comedy series that ran from 1965 to 1974 for 264 episodes. It was broadcast by NBC and hosted by entertainer Dean Martin. The theme song to the series was his 1964 hit "Everybody Loves Somebody."

StatusEnded
Runtime1h 0m
LanguageEN
First Air DateSep 16, 1965

Episodes

E160m

Frank Sinatra / Diahann Carroll / Jan & Dean

Premiere Episode of The Dean Martin Show.Music:--Frank Sinatra sings ""Is It Love"" and ""September Song""--Dean Martin - ""Houston""--Jan & Dean - ""Little Old Lady From Pasadena""Also appearing:--Bob Newhart--Danny Thomas--Diahann Carroll--Steve Allen--Frankie Avalon--Joey HeathertonThe Sid and Marty Krofft puppets also appear.

Sep 16, 1965

E260m

Episode #2

Music: --John Wayne and Dean Martin - ""Don't Fence Me In"" and ""Everybody Loves Somebody"" --Dean Martin - ""Send Me the Pillow That You Dream On"" --Peggy Lee - ""When a Woman Loves a Man,"" ""I'm Just Wild About Harry,"" ""Bill"" and ""Alright, Okay, You Win"" --Dean Martin (with the Krofft Puppets) - ""I've Got Your Number"" --Jack Jones - 'Sound of Music' medley (""Sound of Music,"" ""My Favorite Things"" and ""Climb Every Mountain"") --Shari Lewis - ""The Name Game"" --The Krofft Puppets - ""Tweedlee Dee"" Also: Rudy Cardenas (juggler) Walker Dare Wahl (comedian)

Sep 23, 1965

E360m

Episode #3

--The Dave Clark Five - ""Catch Us If You Can"" and ""Having a Wild Weekend"" --Eddie Fisher - ""When I Was Young"" and ""Lady of Spain"" --Abbe Lane - ""Pass Me By,"" ""Let's Fall in Love"" and ""Hernando's Hideaway"" --Phyllis Diller --Dean Martin - ""Here Comes My Baby"" --Dean Martin (with the Krofft Puppets) - ""C'est Magnifique"" --Dean Martin, Eddie Fisher and John Bubbles - ""We Three"" --John Bubbles (singer-dancer) - ""Lady Be Good"" and ""When My Baby Smiles at Me"" --Kroft Puppets - ""I Enjoy Being a Girl""

Sep 30, 1965

E460m

Episode #4

--Dean Martin - ""Born to Lose"" --The Curtis Brothers (dancers) --Vic Damone - ""Someday"" and ""You Don't Know Me"" --Ferrante and Teicher (piano duo) - ""Brazilian Sleigh Bells"" --The Hardy Family (balancing act) --Gordon and Sheila MacRae - ""Where Would You Be Without Me?"" --Gordon MacRae - ""Who Can I Turn To?"" --Allan Sherman (comedian) - sings parodies of ""Secret Love,"" ""Old Black Magic"" and ""Heart"" --Shani Wallis (singer) - ""I'm a Girl"" and ""How Are Things in Glocca Morra?""

Oct 7, 1965

E560m

Episode #5

Music: --Dino, Desi and Billy (Dean Martin Jr., Desi Arnaz Jr. and Billy Hinsche) - ""I'm A Fool"" and ""Not the Lovin' Kind"" --Pearl Bailey - ""What Is a Man?"" and ""You Can't Make It Anywhere"" --Serendipity Singers - ""Sobbin' Women"" --Dean Martin - ""Take These Chains"" --Dean Martin, Pearl Bailey & George Gobel - ""In a Little Spanish Town"" and ""It Happened in Monterey"" --Gretchen Wyler - ""Bidin' My Time"" --Dukes of Dixieland - ""Muskrat Ramble"" and ""Exactly Like You""

Oct 14, 1965

E660m

Episode #6

--Dean Martin - ""King of the Road"" --Dean Martin and Louis Armstrong - medley: ""My Kind of Girl,"" ""Sweet Sue,"" ""Diane,"" ""Sweet Georgia Brown"" and ""Hello, Dolly"" --Louis Armstrong and band - ""A Lot of Livin' to Do"" and ""My Bucket's Got a Hole in It"" --Robert Goulet - ""Come Back to Me"" and ""Time After Time"" --Lainie Kazan - ""My Man's Gone Now"" and ""Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair"" --Kirby Stone Four (vocal group) --Brascia and Tybee (dance team) --Helene and Howard (comedic dancers) --The Trio Leema (comedic contortionists)

Oct 21, 1965

E760m

Episode #7

--Dean Martin - ""They'll Never Believe Me"" --Dean Martin (with the Krofft Puppets) - ""Give Me a Little Kiss"" --Dean Martin, Jane Powell and Jonathan Winters - medley of songs from vintage movie musicals. --John Gary - ""How Deep Is the Ocean?"" and ""Possum Song"" --Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five - ""Caledonia"" and ""Honey Bee"" --Jane Powell - ""Do I Hear a Waltz?"" --Jonathan Winters (comedian) --The Krofft Puppets - ""What's New Pussycat?""

Oct 28, 1965

E860m

Episode #8

Music: --Dean Martin - ""Where Or When"" --Ethel Merman - ""All Alone"" and ""All by Myself"" --Dean Martin and Ethel Merman - Broadway medley (see ""Recap"" for song titles) --Leslie Uggams - ""Keep Your Head on the Plow,"" ""He's Got the Whole World in His Hands"" and ""Sermonette"" --Joey Heatherton (singer-dancer) - ""Looking for a Boy"" --The New Christy Minstrels - ""Wimoweh"" Also: --Jack Carter (comedian) --Leonard Barr (comic dancer, Dean Martin's uncle) --The Carlssons (balancing act)

Nov 4, 1965

E960m

Episode #9

Show #9 Guests: --Mickey Rooney --Tammy Grimes --Kate Smith --Corbett Monica --Elaine Dunn --The Amin Brothers (acrobats)

Nov 11, 1965

E1060m

Episode #10

Show # 10 Music: --Dean Martin (with chorus) - ""Things"" --Dean Martin and Ken Lane - ""Nevertheless"" --Dean Martin, Milton Berle and Lisa Kirk - ""Enjoy Yourself,"" ""Happy Talk"" and ""Sunny Side Up"" --Milton Berle - ""Mad Dogs and Englishmen"" --Charo (with Xavier Cugat and his orchestra) - ""Oh Lonesome Me"" --Xavier Cugat (with orchestra) - ""El Cumbanchero"" --Ronnie Demarco (dancer) - ""Ronnie's Stomp"" --Lisa Kirk - ""Consider Yourself"" and ""Have I Stayed Too Long at the Fair?"" --The Windsor Boys Choral Group - ""Chim Chim Cheree"" Also: --Phil Ford and Mimi Hines (comedy team)

Nov 25, 1965

E1160m

Tony Bennett / Nanette Fabray / Barbara McNair

Show #11 Music: --Dean Martin - ""Blue, Blue Day"" --Dean Martin and Tony Bennett - medley: ""San Francisco,"" ""Houston,"" ""I Love Paris,"" Foggy Day in London Town"" and ""My Kind of Town"" --Tony Bennett - ""Who Can I Turn To?"" and ""Moment of Truth"" --Dean Martin and Barbara McNair - ""The Best Things in Life Are Free"" --Barbara McNair - ""Daddy"" and ""Don't Rain on My Parade"" --Dean Martin and Ken Lane - ""If You Were the Only Girl"" --Dean Martin (with the Krofft Puppets) - ""The Darktown Strutters' Ball"" --Nanette Fabray - ""It's a Most Unusual Day"" Also: --Guy Marks (comedian) --Yonely (musical-comedian) - plays a piano by using a baseball bat.

Dec 2, 1965

E1260m

Louis Armstrong / Andrews Sisters / Carol Lawrence

Music: --Dean Martin - ""Singing the Blues"" --The Andrews Sisters and Dean Martin - medley: ""Don't Fence Me In"" and ""Apple Blossom time"" --Louis Armstrong - ""Someday"" and ""So Long, Dearie"" --Carol Lawrence and Dean Martin - ""Baby Face"" --Carol Lawrence - ""Funny Face"" --Line Renaud (French singer) - ""Lui et Moi"" (""Side by Side"") Also: --Gene Baylos (comedian) --Rich Little NBC repeated this show on May 12, 1966.

Dec 9, 1965

E1360m

Ella Fitzgerald / Barrie Chase / Gordon & Sheila MacRae

Music: --Dean Martin - ""Bumming Around"" & ""Thank Heaven for Little Girls"" --Dean Martin & George Gobel - ""Take These Chains"" --Dean Martin & Ken Lane - ""I'm Confessin'"" --Dean Martin, Ella Fitzgerald & Gordon MacRae - medley: ""You Are My Sunshine,"" ""Red River Valley"" and ""Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie"" --Ella Fitzgerald - ""Can't Buy Me Love"" --Barrie Chase - ""Who Can I Turn To"" --Gordon and Sheila MacRae - medley: ""Desert Song,"" ""Fly Me to the Moon"" and ""Dark Town Strutters Ball""

Dec 16, 1965

E1460m

Stanley Holloway / Louis Prima, Gia Maione & Sam Butera

Music:--Dean Martin - ""Everybody but Me"" --Dean Martin and Ken Lane - ""Blue Moon""--Dean Martin, Stanley Holloway and Louis Prima - medley: ""The Girl That I Marry,"" ""Aba-Daba Honeymoon"" & ""Love and Marriage""--Janis Paige - ""Downtown""--Joanie Sommers - ""Something's Coming""--Stanley Holloway - ""Thank You So Much, Missus Lowsborough-Goodbye""--Louis Prima, Gia Maione, Sam Butera and the Witnesses - ""Las Vegas Woman""--Homer and Jethro - ""Red Roses for a Blue Lady"" --Dean Martin with Homer and Jethro - ""She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain""

Dec 30, 1965

E1560m

Peggy Lee / Frankie Avalon / Rose Marie

Show #15 Music: --Dean Martin - ""Bye Bye, Blackbird"" --Dean Martin and Ken Lane - ""I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now"" --Peggy Lee - ""It's a Wonderful World"" and ""When the World Was Young"" --Frankie Avalon - ""Standing on the Corner,"" ""Making Whoopee"" and ""There Is Nothing Like a Dame"" --Rose Marie - ""Little Girl Blue"" --Rose Marie and Dean Martin - ""Smile"" --Allan Sherman - ""It's a Most Unusual Play"" --The Kelly Sisters - ""The Grass Is Greener"" Also: --Guy Marks

Jan 6, 1966

E1660m

Mahalia Jackson / Kay Starr / Soupy Sales

Music: --Dean Martin - ""Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter"" --Dean Martin and Ken Lane - ""S'posin'"" --Vic Dana - ""Ramona,"" ""Down by the Riverside"" --Mahalia Jackson - ""Just a Closer Walk with Thee"" --Kay Starr - ""Rock and Roll Waltz,"" ""My Favorite Things"" and ""Bluesette"" --Key Star and Dean Martin - medley: ""Silver Dollar,"" ""Money Burns a Hole in My Pocket"" and ""Wheel of Fortune"" --Soupy Sales - ""The Rain in Spain"" --The Swingle Singers - Bach's ""Salfeggletto"" and ""La Marche de Limoges"" Also: --Yonely (musical comedian) --Davis and Reese (comedy team) --John Byner (comedian)

Jan 13, 1966

E1760m

Episode #17

Guests: Gisele MacKenzie, Shari Lewis, Tommy Sands, The McGuire Sisters, and The Treniers.

Jan 20, 1966

E1860m

Episode #18

Show #18 Music: --Dean Martin - ""Slow Boat to China"" --Dean Martin and Ken Lane - ""Pennies from Heaven"" --Polly Bergen - medley: ""Who Can I Turn To?"" ""Remember?"" ""I Can't Give You Anything but Love"" and ""Paper Moon"" --Buddy Greco - ""Falling in Love with Love"" and ""Girl from Ipanema"" --Stanley Holloway - ""Mrs. Worthington"" and ""Comedy Tonight"" Also: --Bill Dana (comedian, in character as Jose Jimenez, ""the world's greatest movie director"") --Dan Rowan and Dick Martin (comedy team)

Jan 27, 1966

E1960m

Episode #19

Show #19 Music: --Dean Martin - ""C'est Si Bon"" --Dean Martin and Ken Lane - ""Home"" --Dean Martin and the Lively Set - ""Get Happy"" --Joel Grey - ""Shine on My Shoes"" --Juliet Prowse - ""Blue Prelude"" --Pete Fountain (jazz clarinetist with band) - ""Basin Street Blues"" --The Lively Set - ""Try to Remember"" Also: --Bob Hope --Donna Butterworth (8-year-old singer)

Feb 3, 1966

E2060m

Lucille Ball / Bill Cosby / Kate Smith

Music: --Dean Martin - ""Where or When"" --Dean Martin and Ken Lane - ""Melancholy Baby"" --Bill Cosby and Dean Martin - ""You Gotta Be a Football Hero""--Lucille Ball, Kate Smith and Dean Martin - Vaudeville medley: ""Give My Regards to Broadway,"" ""Wait till the Sun Shines Nellie"" and ""Yankee Doodle Boy"" (and possibly ""In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree"" and ""I Don't Care"")--Kate Smith - ""Climb Every Mountain"" and ""I Left My Heart in San Francisco"" --Big Tiny Little (pianist, with his band) - ""Caledonia""Also appearing: --Rowan & Martin

Feb 10, 1966

E2160m

Julie London / Phyllis Diller / Eddie Albert / Mahalia Jackson

Music:--Dean Martin - ""I Will"" --Dean Martin and Ken Lane - ""True Love"" --Julie London - ""Girl Talk"" and ""Never on Sunday"" --Julie London and Dean Martin - ""Two Sleepy People"" --Mahalia Jackson - ""The House I Love In"" --Eddie Albert - ""Ya Got Trouble"" --Guy Marks, Eddie Albert and Dean Martin - ""Style"" --Phyllis Diller and Dean Martin - ""I Hate Men"" and ""You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby"" --The Swingle Singers - Bach's Prelude No. 9

Feb 17, 1966

E2260m

Eddie Fisher / Don Adams / Kate Smith

Music:--Dean Martin - ""Here Comes My Baby""--Dean Martin and Ken Lane (pianist) - ""You Made Me Love You"" --Eddie Fisher - medley of Jolson songs (""Baby Face,"" ""Liza,"" ""Rockabye Your Baby"")--Dean & Eddie - ""Back In Your Own Backyard"" & ""My Baby Just Cares For Me""--Kate Smith - ""More"" & ""If Ever I Would Leave You""--Dean Martin and Kate Smith - medley (""Shine On, Harvest Moon,"" ""Moonlight and Roses"" & ""Alexander's Ragtime Band"") Comedy:--Don Adams, Agent 86 from ""Get Smart,"" talks about the spy business. --Rich Little does impressions of celebrities.Also appearing: The Piero Brothers (jugglers). Van Alexander (orchestra conductor)

Feb 24, 1966

E2360m

Episode #23

Guests: Abbe Lane, Marguerite Piazza, The Lettermen, David & Goliath

Mar 3, 1966

E2460m

Episode #24

Guests: Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Mathis, The Young Americans, Shelley Berman, Gene Shelson

Mar 10, 1966

E2560m

Episode #25

Guests: Godfrey Cambridge, Frankie Randall, Hal LeRoy, The Tangiers.

Mar 17, 1966

E2660m

The Supremes / Herb Alpert / Imogene Coca

Music: Diana Ross and the Supremes - ""Mother Dear""Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - ""Winds of Barcelona"" & ""Bittersweet Samba""Jane Morgan - ""Downtown"" Dean Martin - ""I'm Gonna Change Everything""Dean Martin and Ken Lane - ""I Don't Know Why""Dean Martin and Imogene Coca - ""When You're Smiling""Imogene Coca - ""People""Dean Martin and the Kroft Puppets - ""Side by Side""Also appearing: --The Step Brothers

Mar 24, 1966

E2760m

Sid Caesar / Bob Newhart / Paul Anka / Pat Suzuki

Show #27 Music: --Dean Martin - ""Somewhere There's a Someone"" and ""Pretty Baby"" --Dean Martin and Ken Lane -""It's the Talk of the Town"" --Paul Anka - ""It Only Takes a Moment"" and ""Red Roses for a Blue Lady"" --Morgana King - ""Mountain High, Valley Low"" --Morgana King and Dean Martin - ""Loch Lomond"" and ""Goodnight, Irene"" --Dean Martin and Pat Suzuki - ""Sole, Sole, Sole"" --Pat Suzuki - ""Sunday Kind of Love"" and ""Hooray for Hollywood"" --Dean Martin, Bob Newhart and Sid Caesar - medley: ""My Heart Sings"" and ""Singin' in the Rain"" Comedy: (Please see ""Recap"")

Mar 31, 1966

E2860m

Righteous Brothers / Lainie Kazan / George Jessel

Music: Dean Martin - ""Born to Lose""Dean Martin & George Jessel - ""Carolina in the Morning""Dean Martin & Ken Lane - ""Imagination"" The Righteous Brothers - ""(You're My) Soul and Inspiration""Lainie Kazan - ""I Cried for You""The Swingin' Lads - ""Hand Clappin'""

Apr 7, 1966

E2960m

Patti Page / Chita Rivera / Jack Jones

Guests: Gene Baylos, Jack Jones, Gordon MacRae, Sheila MacRae, Roger Miller, Patti Page, Chita Rivera

Apr 21, 1966

E3060m

Episode #30

Guests: Bill Cosby, Liberace, Guy Marks, Dorothy Loudon

May 5, 1966

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Dean Martin

Dean Martin

Self - Host

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