This Is Bob (For The First Time In Living Color) Hope' on NBC December 15th, 1965 With Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, Janet Leigh, and Nancy Wilson join Bob for this hour of Christmas entertainment.

Hosted by Jack Benny and Bing Crosby, as Bob Hope was unable to perform due to an eye surgery to remove a blood clot. Hope appeared in pre-recorded pieces with a Benny monologue and Crosby singing.

When television began to masquerade as the new electronic horizon, cynics pronounced radio dead, or at least moribund. The great names in radio—Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Red Skelton et al.—moved into view ...