Two days before this program aired, "The Lucy Show" presented "Lucy the Bean Queen" (S5;E3) on CBS.
Hope's first joke in his monologue is about "The Man from U.N.C.L.E". Two days later the spy series presented the third show of their third season, which coincidentally also starred Joan Collins.
Hope jokes that the title of this show is "15 of My Leading Ladies" or "Richard Burton Eat Your Heart Out".
Hope says that he will be appearing on Lucy's show in exchange. He actually had already done so, doing a walk-on cameo in a 1964 episode of "The Lucy Show" starring Jack Benny. Reciprocal appearances by Hope and Ball were common and date back to the early 1950s.
Hope talks about the new TV shows like "How The West Was Won," linking it to discussion of California politics talking about Governor Pat Brown and Ronald Reagan, who ran against Brown and won, becoming Governor in January 1967. Hope jokes about First Lady Lady Bird Johnson's visit to California on a "Beauty and Conservation Tour" in early September 1966.