Hotel Harris's guest appearances

Hotel Harris

The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show

Tom Sawyer

Phil Harris

Alice Faye

Robert Taylor

Elliott Lewis

George Henderson

Alice Broke

Phil Fasthorse

OwlTail

From October 5, 1952. Notes: The 1st episode of season 7. Jack Benny's show, on which the character of Frank Remley originated, had recently moved from NBC to CBS. The details of what followed are a bit unclear, but it seems there was a legal disagreement about which program had the rights to the "Frank Remley" name. Since the real Frank Remley, who the character was based on, worked for the Benny program (yet never voiced the character), the Remley name stayed with Benny, and remained a character that was always referenced and never heard on Jack's show. The writers of the Harris program therefore had to change the character's name from Frank Remley to Elliott Lewis (the real name of the actor who played him). This is explained in the show as Frank Remley being a stage name that Elliott has finally given up to appease his mother. Phil reacts with mild revulsion at the new name, perhaps reflecting audience's presumed feelings towards it as well. Frank Remley was known as Elliott Lewis for the remainder of the series. Lewis was later quoted as saying something along the lines of "It just didn't work as well as Frank Remley; Elliott Lewis just isn't a funny name."  https://archive.org/download/PhilHarris1952-54/521005%20Hotel%20Harris%20%28Remley%20is%20Elliott%29.mp3

From October 5, 1952. Notes: The 1st episode of season 7. Jack Benny's show, on which the character of Frank Remley originated, had recently moved from NBC to CBS. The details of what followed are a bit unclear, but it seems there was a legal disagreement about which program had the rights to the "Frank Remley" name. Since the real Frank Remley, who the character was based on, worked for the Benny program (yet never voiced the character), the Remley name stayed with Benny, and remained a character that was always referenced and never heard on Jack's show. The writers of the Harris program therefore had to change the character's name from Frank Remley to Elliott Lewis (the real name of the actor who played him). This is explained in the show as Frank Remley being a stage name that Elliott has finally given up to appease his mother. Phil reacts with mild revulsion at the new name, perhaps reflecting audience's presumed feelings towards it as well. Frank Remley was known as Elliott Lewis for the remainder of the series. Lewis was later quoted as saying something along the lines of "It just didn't work as well as Frank Remley; Elliott Lewis just isn't a funny name."<br/> <br/> <a href="https://archive.org/download/PhilHarris1952-54/521005%20Hotel%20Harris%20%28Remley%20is%20Elliott%29.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://archive.org/download/PhilHarris1952-54/521005%20Hotel%20Harris%20%28Remley%20is%20Elliott%29.mp3</a>

Hotel Harris (Remley Is Elliott)