Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre: Season 4
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre Season 3.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
Nightmare
Sep 14, 1966
In her secluded mansion, crippled Isobel Cain receives loving care from her husband Morgan and her twin sister Vicky. But the two have more than Isobel's welfare at heart: they're
Time of Flight
Sep 21, 1966
Private detective Al Packer had his legs broken by two hoods after he put their friend behind bars. Now, barely able to hobble around his apartment, Packer receives an attractive
And Baby Makes Five
Oct 5, 1966
A New York author fed up with the pressures of urban living, quits his job and moves with his pregnant wife to a small California town. Here he accepts an editor's position at a ti
Crazier than Cotton
Oct 12, 1966
Matt, a 34-year-old sculptor who is spectacularly unsuccessful, knows he's hit rock bottom when he has to borrow money from his girlfriend in order to attend his father's funeral.
Murder at N.B.C.
Oct 19, 1966
Fifteen fellow comedians join Bob in ""Murder at NBC"", a spy spoof. Bob plays a mad scientist with a nuclear chemical capable of shrinking the U.S.A. Spies are Don Adams, Milton B
Massacre at Fort Phil Kearny
Oct 26, 1966
On December 21, 1866 eighty men rode out of Fort Phil Kearny to support a wood-cutting expedition that had come under attack. The wood was necessary to build the fort. They were le
Dear Deductible
Nov 9, 1966
A popular but improvident songwriter, after spending all of his royalties, agrees to marry an heiress, not because of her money, but because of her lack of money. You see, both pla
Bing and Me
Nov 16, 1966
Where there's Hope, there's often Bing. And when Bing and Bob get together you'll invariably find pretty scenery - almost all of it female! Bob introduces Bach Yen (White Swallow),
The Blue-Eyed Horse
Nov 23, 1966
A beleaguered husband stands before the judge, trying to explain why his wife has disappeared. The police suspect foul play, offering as evidence the strained relationship of the c
The Fatal Mistake
Nov 30, 1966
Set in England, a respectable accountant and family man every month on the dot, he is visited by his ""friend"", who graciously bestows gifts upon his wife and children, then retir
The Eighth Day
Dec 21, 1966
An embittered ex-athelete finds himself very much alone after stealing priceless jewels from a church on Christmas Eve.
Free of Charge
Dec 28, 1966
This free-wheeling story about a composer named Harrybell, who swings around Los Angles seeking inspiration for a musical tribute to the city. Harrybell is also running from the po
A Time to Love
Jan 11, 1967
A tired doctor is renewed by a young protege while his wife finds her own distraction.
Code Name: Heraclitus (1)
Jan 18, 1967
Frank G. Wheatley is a British spy who is investigating the past of Lydia Constantine, the widow of a secret agent. Constantine is suspected of selling Cold War secrets to the Comm
Code Name: Heraclitus (2)
Jan 25, 1967
A man who dies on an operating table is brought back to life, but he has no memory of anything that happened before he wakes up. A government agent decides that he would make a per
The Lady is My Wife
Feb 1, 1967
Set in the post-Civil War Old West. A wealthy horse breeder hires the Bannisters, a genteel--and broke--Southern couple. The cowboy has more in mind than horses when he sets his si
Blind Man's Bluff
Feb 8, 1967
While investigating a murder, involvements become an entangled mess when love happens.
The Reason Nobody Hardly Ever Seen A Fat Outlaw in the Old West is as Follows
Mar 8, 1967
Comical Sheriff Tinsley is up against the Swine Gang and mighty frightened of Curly the Kid.
Verdict For Terror
Mar 22, 1967
Law student Darryl Cooper invites an ambitious D.A. to meet his fraternity brothers in 'the griddle,' a political question and answer session. The D.A. accepts, but soon wishes he
Dead Wrong
Apr 5, 1967
A tense drama about a hermit monk, whose isolated mountain cabin is invaded by a gun-wielding ex-convict, his younger brother and the girl they both love.
Don't Wait For Tomorrow
Apr 19, 1967
Newspaperman Matt Braid's search for an international criminal leads him to a lavish villa on a Greek island -- where a vicious beating convinces Braid that he's on the right track
Wipeout
Apr 26, 1967
Surfer Greg Travis tries to cash in on his friendship with an aging film star-by stealing her multimillion-dollar jewel collection.
To Sleep, Perchance to Scream
May 10, 1967
In Hollywood, private eye Adam Steele investigates the murder of a colleague who was working for a ruthless business tycoon. Steele?s search for motive and murder leads up several
Deadlock
May 17, 1967
Virginia Cloyd is the widow of a notorious criminal. Early one morning, Virginia calmly walks into a police precinct office--armed with a pistol and vial of nitroglycerine. In a me