An enjoyable bit of nostalgia. It says something about Bea Lillie's incredible popularity at the time that she was Hope's top-billed special guest in his first-ever TV special, and she reprises her famous "two dozen double damask dinner napkins" skit for the occasion. Perhaps even funnier: her turn in the British-make-a-Hopalong-Cassidy-Western parody. (The summary, from imdb, is for Ep. 2, Season 1 of the Bob Hope Show, not this.)

Old school TV special where Bob Hope and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and a few others do their best to entertain. A mixed bag, but I did enjoy their version of "Baby, It's Cold Outside", even if very little else made much of an impression.