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Bob Hope teams up with Bing Crosby, Jerry Colonna, and Frances Langford to host a weekly show featuring Hollywood's biggest stars, made specially for soldiers and military men. This week, funny man Lou Costello joins them as a special guest.

Bob Hope, with Bing Crosby, Jerry Colonna, and Frances Langford, leads a cast of top Hollywood stars in this weekly series for the men in the armed forces. This week's guest is comedian Lou Costello.

Command Performance was a radio program which originally aired between 1942 and 1949. The program was broadcast on the Armed Forces Radio Network (AFRS) and transmitted by shortwave to overseas troops — but with few exceptions, it was not broadcast over domestic U.S. radio stations.

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