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Your Show of Shows

Season 5

26 listed hours · 1950–1954 · NBC

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How this season is filed

Filed by Rex Fontaine · Golden Age Dispatch

Your Show of Shows is live ninety-minute sketch at factory voltage: Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, and a writers' room that later filled American comedy. Watch it in 2026 as the founding faculty meeting — Brooks, Simon, Reiner, and Caesar's elastic faces proving vaudeville could become appointment TV.

TV Flash files Season 5 of Your Show of Shows (1950–1954) on NBC as the last listed season of 5 — 26 listed hours, 1953-09-12–1954-06-05 from “Episode 1” (S05E01) to “Episode 26” (S05E26). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.

Desk essentials in this season

  1. S05E01 Episode 1

    Final-season ignition — the revue still live, the alumni already scattering into the sitcoms they would invent.

  2. S05E26 Episode 26

    June 1954 closer: the last factory Saturday before live sketch-revue became a legend with kinescope holes.

  1. S05E01

    Episode 1

    Episode 1 — Season 5, Episode 1 of Your Show of Shows. Aired 1953-09-12. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  2. S05E02

    Episode 2

    Episode 2 — Season 5, Episode 2 of Your Show of Shows. Aired 1953-09-19. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  3. S05E03

    Episode 3

    Episode 3 — Season 5, Episode 3 of Your Show of Shows. Aired 1953-09-26. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  4. S05E04

    Episode 4

    Episode 4 — Season 5, Episode 4 of Your Show of Shows. Aired 1953-10-10. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  5. S05E05

    Episode 5

    Episode 5 — Season 5, Episode 5 of Your Show of Shows. Aired 1953-10-17. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  6. S05E06

    Episode 6

    Episode 6 — Season 5, Episode 6 of Your Show of Shows. Aired 1953-10-24. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  7. S05E07

    Episode 7

    Episode 7 — Season 5, Episode 7 of Your Show of Shows. Aired 1953-11-07. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  8. S05E08

    Episode 8

    Episode 8 — Season 5, Episode 8 of Your Show of Shows. Aired 1953-11-14. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  9. S05E09

    Episode 9

    Episode 9 — Season 5, Episode 9 of Your Show of Shows. Aired 1953-11-21. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  10. S05E10

    Episode 10

    Episode 10 — Season 5, Episode 10 of Your Show of Shows. Aired 1953-12-05. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  11. S05E11

    Episode 11

    Episode 11 — Season 5, Episode 11 of Your Show of Shows. Aired 1953-12-12. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  12. S05E12

    Episode 12

    Episode 12 — Season 5, Episode 12 of Your Show of Shows. Aired 1954-01-02. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  13. S05E13

    Episode 13

    Episode 13 — Season 5, Episode 13 of Your Show of Shows. Aired 1954-01-09. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  14. S05E14

    Episode 14

    Episode 14 — Season 5, Episode 14 of Your Show of Shows. Aired 1954-01-16. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  15. S05E15

    Episode 15

    Episode 15 — Season 5, Episode 15 of Your Show of Shows. Aired 1954-01-30. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  16. S05E16

    Episode 16

    Episode 16 — Season 5, Episode 16 of Your Show of Shows. Aired 1954-02-06. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  17. S05E17

    Episode 17

    Episode 17 — Season 5, Episode 17 of Your Show of Shows. Aired 1954-02-13. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  18. S05E18

    Episode 18

    Episode 18 — Season 5, Episode 18 of Your Show of Shows. Aired 1954-02-27. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  19. S05E19

    Episode 19

    Episode 19 — Season 5, Episode 19 of Your Show of Shows. Aired 1954-03-06. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  20. S05E20

    Episode 20

    Episode 20 — Season 5, Episode 20 of Your Show of Shows. Aired 1954-03-27. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  21. S05E21

    Episode 21

    Episode 21 — Season 5, Episode 21 of Your Show of Shows. Aired 1954-04-03. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  22. S05E22

    Episode 22

    Episode 22 — Season 5, Episode 22 of Your Show of Shows. Aired 1954-04-24. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  23. S05E23

    Episode 23

    Episode 23 — Season 5, Episode 23 of Your Show of Shows. Aired 1954-05-01. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  24. S05E24

    Episode 24

    Episode 24 — Season 5, Episode 24 of Your Show of Shows. Aired 1954-05-08. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  25. S05E25

    Episode 25

    Episode 25 — Season 5, Episode 25 of Your Show of Shows. Aired 1954-05-29. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  26. S05E26

    Episode 26

    Episode 26 — Season 5, Episode 26 of Your Show of Shows. Aired 1954-06-05. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

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