The Marx Brothers

Marx Brothers: TV Collection is a fantastic treasure trove of TV & some rare performances & appearances. In this episode, Jewel thieves Chico and Harpo Marx disguised as Groucho plan the perfect crime. Groucho appears as himself at the end in a police line up.

Marx Brothers: TV Collection is a fantastic treasure trove of TV & some rare performances & appearances. In this episode, a silent two-reel comedy with Harpo and Chico that could have been produced thirty years earlier - features only the briefest unadvertised appearance by Groucho.

In Harpo Marx's last TV appearance, Senator Smith mistakes Harpo for a famous French pianist and invites him to play at the White House.

Marx Brothers: TV Collection is a fantastic treasure trove of TV & some rare performances & appearances. When it was announced in the summer of 1950 that Chico would star in his own series that fall, the show was called Ravelli's Sugar Bowl. He played Chico Ravelli, and looked very much like he'd just strayed from the set of a Marx Brothers picture.

Marx Brothers: TV Collection is a fantastic treasure trove of TV & some rare performances & appearances. The premiere of Red Skelton's new one-hour show was a tour-de-force for Harpo, who was on camera almost as much as Skelton. In an extended sketch, he's Red's inept guardian angel, and plays his own composition, Guardian Angels, in a solo harp spot.

Marx Brothers: TV Collection is a fantastic treasure trove of TV & some rare performances & appearances. Harpo was a serious golfer and jumped at the chance to travel to Las Vegas to take on the legendary Sam Snead. He claimed a 21-stroke handicap and clowned his way through the match, but occasionally displayed a pretty good swing.

Marx Brothers: TV Collection is a fantastic treasure trove of TV & some rare performances & appearances. There's something fitting about Chico making one of his last public appearances with a deck of cards in his hands.

Marx Brothers: TV Collection is a fantastic treasure trove of TV & some rare performances & appearances. You Bet Your Life had been off the air for four years when Groucho accepted an offer to do a new version of the show in England. Simply called Groucho, the show utilized essentially the same format as the American show.

Marx Brothers: TV Collection is a fantastic treasure trove of TV & some rare performances & appearances. With You Bet Your Life consistently among the top-rated shows on television, NBC frequently called upon Groucho to liven up the proceedings on some of the network's other shows.

Harpo only made one television appearance during the 1961-1962 season - this special in which he and Carol Burnett walk through New York's Central Park looking at toys. Among the toys, they found Audrey Meadows, Mitch Miller, Eva Gabor, Elsa Maxwell and Milton Berle.

Celebrity panelists - on this episode, June Lockhart, Bob Considine, Quincy Howe and Groucho - were read quotations from the news of the day by host John Daly, and asked who had originally spoken them. Panelists Groucho alternates between insightful and disruptive.