Episode guide
The Ed Sullivan Show: Season 5
53 episodes · premiered Sep 9, 1951
Season 5 is on the ""Toast of the Town"" guide.
- Episode 1: The Oscar Hammerstein Story featuring Lena Horne, Wally Cox, Mimi Benzell, Robert Merrill, Charles Winninger Sep 9, 1951 · 1h
- Episode 2: Oscar Hammerstein Story Part 2 (Rodgers & Hammerstein tribute) Sep 16, 1951 · 1h
- Episode 3: Elsa Lanchester; Evelyn Knight; Susan Meyer; Gil Hodges Sep 23, 1951 · 1h
- Episode 4: The Helen Hayes Story with Mary Scott; Raymond Boyle; Bethel Leslie Sep 30, 1951 · 1h
- Episode 5: Dick Haymes; Allie Reynolds; Sal Maglie; Bobby Thomson; Eddie Stanky Oct 7, 1951 · 1h
- Episode 6: Humphrey Bogart / Yul Brynner / Yogi Berra / Phil Rizzuto Oct 14, 1951 · 1h
- Episode 7: Broderick Crawford; Constance Bennett; Douglas Fairbanks Jr; April Stevens; Guy Mitchell Oct 21, 1951 · 1h
- Episode 8: Rocky Marciano / Anne Jeffreys / Morton Downey Sr. / Mrs. Al Jolson (cameo) Oct 28, 1951 · 1h
- Episode 9: Will Mastin Trio; Dorothy Sarnoff; Nino Martini; Michael Bentine Nov 4, 1951 · 1h
- Episode 10: Dane Clark; Martha Scott; Helen Gallagher; Peter Lind Hayes & Mary Healy Nov 11, 1951 · 1h
- Episode 11: The Robert E. Sherwood Story Nov 18, 1951 · 1h
- Episode 12: Evelyn Knight; James Barton; Brani & Valenti Nov 25, 1951 · 1h
- Episode 13: Joe E. Lewis; Roberta Peters; Robert Merrill; Jimmy Nelson Dec 2, 1951 · 1h
- Episode 14: Dolores Gray; Michael Bentine; Nino Martini; Princeton Triagle Club Dec 9, 1951 · 1h
- Episode 15: Sophie Tucker; Helen Gallagher; Harold Lang; Ferruccio Tagliavini Dec 16, 1951 · 1h
- Episode 16: Gloria Swanson; Julie Harris; Ramon Novarro Dec 23, 1951 · 1h
- Episode 17: Sugar Ray Robinson; Oscar Hammerstein II; Jeanette MacDonald; Helen Hayes; Alfred Lunt Dec 30, 1951 · 1h
- Episode 18: Margaret O'Brien; Joe E. Lewis; Eddie Dowling; Willie Mosconi Jan 6, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 19: George White tribute Jan 13, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 20: New York Critics Awards / Mahalia Jackson / Phil Spitalny Jan 20, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 21: Jessica Tandy; Hume Cronyn; Ted Lewis; Bert Wheeler Jan 27, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 22: The Beatrice Lillie Story Feb 3, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 23: Audrey Hepburn & Michael Evans / Roberta Peters / Ralph Branca / Bobby Thompson Feb 10, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 24: George White Scandals Feb 17, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 25: Cole Porter Story Part 1 (Tribute to Cole Porter) Feb 24, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 26: Cole Porter Story Part 2 Mar 2, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 27: Nancy Walker; Lew Parker & Virginia Grey Mar 9, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 28: Ted Lewis; Eddie Dowling; The Dublin Players Mar 16, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 29: Eddie Fisher / Rex Harrison & Lilli Palmer / Virginia Grey & Lou Partier Mar 23, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 30: Jackie Gleason & Art Carney / Tony Bennett / Senor Wences Mar 30, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 31: Sophie Tucker; Montez O'Oca; Tuskeegee Choir Apr 6, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 32: Marian Anderson; Jane Morgan; Cornelia Otis Skinner Apr 13, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 33: Billy Eckstine; Evelyn Knight; Beatrice Lillie; Nancy Walker Apr 20, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 34: Jackie Gleason; Jan Peerce; Dorothy Kirsten Apr 27, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 35: Jackie Gleason; Pearl Bailey; Linon May 4, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 36: Georgia Gibbs; Errol Flynn; Paulette Goddard May 11, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 37: Dorothy Dandridge / Errol Flynn & Paulette Goddard / Sam Snead May 18, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 38: Audrey Hepburn & Rex Harrison / Jack Smith May 25, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 39: Eartha Kitt; Robert Merrill; Roberta Peters; Yehudi Menuhin Jun 1, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 40: Tony Martin; Blanche Thebom; Willie Hoppe Jun 8, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 41: Richard Rodgers Story Part 1 (Rodgers & Hart tribute) Jun 15, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 42: Richard Rodgers Story Part 2 Jun 22, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 43: Peter Lind Hayes & Mary Healy; Nanci Crompton; Bill Lawrence Jun 29, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 44: Broadway cast of "Wish You Were Here" / Billy Daniels Jul 6, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 45: Teresa Brewer; Orson Bean; Sir Cedric Hardwicke; Bobby Feller Jul 13, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 46: Will Rogers Jr.; Rise Stevens; Jack Carter; Ben Hogan Jul 20, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 47: Roger Price; Ken Whittmer; Mena Marucci Jul 27, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 48: Tony Martin; Joel Gray; Ben Dova; the Amin Brothers Aug 3, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 49: Jack Carter; Pearl Bailey; Anna Maria Alberghetti Aug 10, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 50: Victor Borge; Ken Whitmer; Artie Auerbach; Rosemary O'Reilly Aug 17, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 51: William Bendix; Patti Page; Nicoli Lemeni Aug 24, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 52: Hal Leroy; the De Marco Sisters; Bobby Shantz Aug 31, 1952 · 1h
- Episode 53: Phil Silvers & "Top Banana" cast / Mary Small Sep 7, 1952 · 1h