Carol's series premiere guest is Jim Nabors. Highlights of this inaugural edition include: a "V.I.P." interview with Shirley Dimple; Jim and Carol as two misfit skiers in "The Ski Lodge"; the first "Carol and Sis" sketch; and a Broadway medley. Jim sings "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" in Italian, and Carol as the Charwoman sings "Georgy Girl". This episode is noted as Show #003 in the Lost Episodes DVD set.
A "V.I.P." interview sketch satirizing Luci Baines Johnson; Carol and Vicki do a "Sleeping Beauty" skit; guest Sid Caesar plays a father awaiting the birth of his child; Carol and Lyle do a "How Tall Is Your Announcer" segment; a parody of "Star Trek"; guest Liza Minnelli performs "The Debutante's Ball", and duets with Carol on a medley of songs including "Just In Time"; and Sid and the cast do a spoof of the Ziegfeld Follies.
Comic Winters mimics Jackie Gieason; Carol plays a movie star attempting a comeback and a model playing in her first jungle film; in a husband-and-wife routine Carol and Harvey can't seem to remember the names of their guests.
Two women (Carol and guest Lucille Ball) go to the "Café Argentine" whose staff includes a goose-stepping maitre d' (Harvey); Carol plays a housewife fighting off a recalcitrant washing machine and attacking pigeons, only to end up impaled by a medieval lance; "Carol and Sis" sing a rendition of "I Dig Rock and Roll Music"; guest Tim Conway plays a bumbling TV news anchor; two rent-a-car employees (Carol, Lucy) vie for the attentions of a traveler (Tim); guest Gloria Loring performs "Goin' Out of My Head" and "Try to Remember"; a woman (Carol) experiences the downside of marrying a superhero (Harvey); and Carol and Lucy sing and dance to a barroom medley. This episode is noted as Show #006 in the Lost Episodes DVD set.
A "V.I.P." sketch about Miss America; Carol, Harvey and guest Imogene Coca perform a coffee commercial sketch; guest Lainie Kazan performs a "Sunnyside"/"Silver Lining" medley, and duets with Carol on "Watch What Happens"; Carol and Harvey play "Bonnie and Clod"; a "Little Pianos" production number with the cast and dancers; and the Charwoman does a striptease pantomime and sings "There's No Business Like Show Business".
Carol plays the wife of a monster in "Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde"; a routine from guest Phyllis Diller; musical numbers from guests Gwen Verdon ("The 59th Street Bridge Song") and Bobbie Gentry ("The Look of Love"); Carol and Vicki in a foreign exchange sketch; and a "Sgt. Pepper" production number. This episode is noted as Show #008 in the Lost Episodes DVD set.
Carol and Lyle performing exercises; the Smothers Brothers doing a sketch, singing "John Henry" and joined by Carol on "Pretoria"; guest Richard Kiley sings "The Impossible Dream" (from "Man of La Mancha"); guest Diahann Carroll sings "The Rules of the Road" and "Where Am I Going?", and duets with Richard on "The Sweetest Sound I Never Heard"; and Carol and Diahann perform a haunted house production number.
A spoof of French, Polish and Japanese airline service; A "V.I.P." interview sketch with Carol as a nudist; an office triangle sketch; Carol and Nanette perform "Bosom Buddies"; Cher performs "You Better Sit Down Kids"; Sonny & Cher sing "Living for You"; and the whole cast performs "Take Me Along".
Carol and guest Richard Chamberlain attempt to make Lyle jealous; an airport interview with a "Mother of the Year"; musical numbers from Carol and the dancers ("Everybody's Gotta Be Someplace"), Richard with the dancers and singers ("Lazy Day"), and guest Gloria Loring ("A Taste of Honey" and "I've Gotta Be Me"); Carol and Vicki perform "Sisters Galore" sketch, and they and the dancers perform "Ballin' the Jack".
A "Sleeping Beauty" production number; a legs and mouth sketch; a "V.I.P." sketch satirizing Lynda Bird Johnson's wedding; musical numbers from guests Juliet Prowse ("The Fleet's In") and Martha Raye ("After You've Gone"); a sketch about ESP; and Carol as the Charwoman sings "Young and Foolish".
A "Jolly Green Thing" sketch; guest Lesley Ann Warren and the dancers perform "The Best Is Yet to Come"; a strike sketch parodying Joey Bishop's and Johnny Carson's talk shows; Harvey and guest Don Adams perform a "Two Feathers" sketch; Carol performs "Enter Laughing"; and a production number set to "All God's Children". This episode is noted as Show #013 in the Lost Episodes DVD set.
Guests Jonathan Winters and Barbara Eden join Carol for the opening question-and-answer segment; a "V.I.P." interview segment with Jonathan as Santa Claus; Carol and Vicki in a sketch about a surprise party; Barbara and dancers perform "Bend It"; guest Leonard Nimoy in a sketch about "Mrs. Invisible Man"; Carol and Barbara perform a duet about magic ("Prestidigitation"); Carol as the Charwoman in a playground sketch, and singing "I Believed It All".
A husband-wife sketch, with Carol and Mickey as a rich and bored twosome; a slapstick skit about a western filmed in Germany; Carol becomes a TV cooking expert high on wine; a spoof on "The Dating Game"; John Davidson sings "There's a Kind of Hush"; and the whole cast cavorts in a takeoff of old movie musicals.
Highlights of this Christmas edition include: guest Sid Caesar demonstrating self-defense; Carol and Sid as a couple who quarrel on Christmas night; Sid, Carol and Harvey in a sketch that takes place in ancient Rome; guest Ella Fitzgerald sings "A Foggy Day" and "Always True to You in My Fashion"; Carol performs "Bare Necessities", and as the Charwoman sings "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas; and a cameo by Jonathan Winters.
A sketch about a tourist couple at an airport; Carol and Vicki duetting on "Puppy Love"; Mike singing "On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)" and "Born Free"; and a Shakespeare production number.
Carol's guest Lana Turner sings "Heavenly Music" while dancing with the Lester Flatt troop. Frank Gorshin does impressions then becomes Bluebeard with Carol his 13th wife. Carol and Harvey are a bickering couple on a game show.
Highlights include: "The Swinging 6 O'Clock News"; a "V.I.P." interview with the wife of the Jolly Green Giant; and musical numbers from guests Trini López ("Sally Was a Good Old Girl" and "Sonny") and Ken Berry ("Mack the Knife"); and a takeoff of "Show Boat".
In a hospital sketch, Nurse Carol gives the heave-ho (again out a window) to her idol, entitled "international sex symbol" Harvey. Oscar winners Shirley Jones and George Chakiris offer classy musical interludes -- Shirley with a Broadway medley of "When Did I Fall in Love" and "Somebody Somewhere", and sleek George performing a smoldering Greek love dance.
Winters and Carol play television fans who talk like TV commercials. Recording star Dionne Warwick sings the theme from "Valley of the Dolls" and "This Little Light of Mine". A "Carol and Sis" sketch spoofs women's current hair-dos. In a hospital sketch, Korman interviews a medical administrator, looks in on a doctor-nurse romance and gets a report from a rare maternity case. In other musical numbers, Miss Warwick joins Miss Burnett in a duet, "T'morra, T'morra" and Miss Burnett solos "Come Rain or Come Shine".
In a musical sketch, Jack Palance plays a Svengali turning Trilby (Carol) into a star; in another skit, Jack presides over a Mafia meeting with Carol as his secretary; Liza Minnelli is co-featured in clown costume with Carol, singing and dancing to "Big Beautiful Ball"; in the "Carol and Sis" skit, Carol and Harvey Korman cope with a hippie caller.
Harvey interviews Queen Elizabeth (Carol) in another "V.I.P." segment; Betty performs "Hello, Dolly!" with the dancers in a barn dance motif; in the first episode of recurring "As the Stomach Turns" sketches, Betty plays an amnesiac and Martha is a widow about to marry the town athlete (Lyle); five finalists compete for the First Annual Beautiful Legs contest; "Carol and Sis" get a visit from Uncle Burt and Aunt Molly; Carol and Martha duet on "Just One of Those Things", and for the close they and Betty perform a musical number as members of the "Mobsters' Molls Society", with "That Old Gang of Mine" as the centerpiece and the dancers as policemen.
Carney plays a garbage collector who has a jealous wife (Burnett), with Nanette rounding out the triangle in one skit. In another, Carney and Carol play stunned parents when son Harvey Korman brings a mermaid home to meet the folks. In a musical number Burnett, Fabray and Carney scoot about on roller skates. Also, Carol and Nanette mimic child movie stars at the Academy Awards, Carol interviews Korman for a change, and Vicki Lawrence does a song and dance.
Gary sings "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World"; in "Science Fiction Playhouse," two Martians come to Earth to learn about the new "secret weapon" of television; in "That Wonderful Year", a reenactment of key moments from the year 1937; Gary sings "The Night is Young and You're So Beautiful"; the Broadway musical "Golden Boy" is parodied, featuring a powerful boxer with very poor aim; a parody of South-Sea island melodramas in which Burnett is a captured island native set to be sacrificed.
Carol and guest Imogene join together to portray Congressional wives, astronauts in space still dealing with earthly romances and Olympic athletes with different approaches concerning men. Korman is the neglectful husband Dracula. Mel solos "That's All"
Jack Jones and Lyle Waggoner try to subdue a couple of Amazons (Carol and Ruth Buzzi) with kisses. Jack sings "I Can't Get Started With You" and "Cause I Got So Much Lovin' In Me". Tim Conway and Carol play a computer-matched couple. The finale has Jones and Burnett in a bouncy production number titled "Hoe-down Time". This episode is noted as Show #016 in the Lost Episodes DVD set.
Newlywed sketch; Miss Loring sings "Little Girl Blue" and "Don’t Tie Me Down." Soupy Sales is featured in a musical comedy production number, built around "Real Live Girl".
In "Carol and Sis", the girls are panic-stricken after watching a horror movie late at night; Carol and Minnie play two country women visiting Paris; a spoof of "Bonnie and Clyde"; Carol plays a Mary Poppin's style mail order bride for an Amazon plantation owner; and a medley of songs from MGM musicals.
Conway plays an Apache chief, the first Indian president of the United States; Shani Wallis and Miss Burnett appear as bloomer girls in song-and-dance production "Good Enough for Grandma's Fancy"; Miss Wallis sings "It Had To Be You"; Miss Burnett sings "Meantime"; Burnett and Korman play a 90-year-old couple taking an after-dinner breather on their patio.
A feminine spoof of "I Spy"; Sid, Carol and Harvey play gypsies attempting to untangle various personal complications; Harvey interviews silent movie stars Pico and Rivera; Carol and Harvey play soap opera stars plagued by a drunken sound effects man; and musical numbers including Carol as the charwoman singing "If I Ruled the World", and Barbara performing "I've Grown Accustomed to Your Face" and "The Second Time Around".
Carol plays a housewife driven mad by TV commercials; Carol and Harvey carry on as the 90-year-old couple; Harvey plays an elegant bachelor in a musical comedy; a satire of a Rock 'n Roll band named the Banana Wristwatch.
Special guests Mickey Rooney and John Davidson join Carol and Vicki to tell the tale of "The Four Funns Of Broadway," a show-biz chronicle of a vaudeville family packed with songs and laughs.
Jim and Carol sketch the clumsy date of a couple too proud to wear their glasses. Then they team up for a musical-comedy graduation ceremony. Harvey Korman spoofs political candidates. Vicki Lawrence is back for the weekly "Carol and Sis" sketch.
Miss Channing sings and plays a gold digger out to nab wealthy old Harvey Korman while nurse Burnett looks on. Martin Landau plays a presidential nominee and his wife checking out Southern governor Korman and mate Carol Burnett for the vice presidential spot on the ticket. The whole cast appears in an astrology sketch on the sign of Taurus with Carol as movie-land's favorite authority.
Five-year-olds discuss their parents and the world in general; a Peyton Place spoof; Trini Lopez in production number of "Mountain Dew"; Lopez kids Western musicals and joins Carol in a fast-paced "Sunny Side of the Street".
The Duke and Duchess of Wormser are subjects of a "V.I.P." interview; a housewife chats with a neighbor about husbands and politics; in the "Carol and Sis" spot, Carol goes all out to malign her house when her husband tries to sell it to potential buyers; a colonial couple watches television in the year 1776 including a late-night talk show and a newscast offering gossip of the colonies; Bobbie Gentry solos "Sweet Peony", and duets "Little Green Apples" with George Gobel; Miss Burnett, as the charwoman, sings "I've Gotta Be Me".
Edie Adams livens and lovelies up The Carol Burnett Show, appearing with the star as two mothers-in-law contemplating their kiddies' wedding. They also team up for a bouncy "Those Were The Good Old Days," and Miss Adams solos "So Long At The Fair." Tim Conway is also featured in several skits and is particularly good as the nervous holdup man on his first job.
Harvey and Carol in "The Old Folks" skit; Nancy sings "The Folks Who Live on the Hill"; Roger brings home his new boss, a health fanatic, and forces Carol to act like she exercises; Eddie sings "Father of Girls"; in "As the Stomach Turns", Carol and Lucy are popular funeral attendees, Eddie is an undertaker, and Nancy integrates Canoga Falls; Nancy teams with Carol for "The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener"; the finale is a tribute to the astrological sign Leo. This episode is noted as Show #108 in the Lost Episodes DVD set.
The entire cast performs a musical spoof titled "The Tin Pan Alley Story". In other sketches, Rickles plays a quick-tempered shoe salesman who assails indecisive customer Fabray with a barrage of insults; Carol joins Nanette in a skit about two pregnant wives who meet at the doctor's office. Miss Fabray performs "Listen to Your Momma". Mel Torme's solo is "Take a letter, Miss Jones". This episode is noted as Show #107 in the Lost Episodes DVD set.
Carol demonstrates how not to record a hit record, and teams with Caesar in "Mrs. Magnificent," a sketch satirizing a classic British movie set in World War II London, and later, the duo, as a Japanese movie-star couple, are interviewed by Harvey Korman.
Miss Burnett welcomes two old friends, Garry Moore and Durward Kirby, for a nostalgic (and funny) repetition of some of the comedy sketches that made them all famous. In one sequence Moore interviews Carol who's playing a dignified princess rehearsing a television toast to a noted humanitarian.
Carol's into practically everything tonight. She's a sexy Hollywood star one moment, a drab spinster who loses her date to roommate Michele Lee in the next. She's handcuffed to a Southern Sheriff in a sketch that's interrupted by outer-space visitor Flip Wilson. She tries the housewife routine again talking to her neighbor in the next window. Michele dances and sings with Carol and Vicki Lawrence. Flip Wilson slips in a monologue.
Carol and Imogene pose as a married couple to get an airline family rate; a diner sketch with Korman as the head of a motorcycle gang; an "Old Folks" sketch; and commercials on taboo subjects.
Harvey Korman delivers a presidential fireside chat with his family; Eileen Farrell sings "Kiss Him Now"; Carol plays an awkward newswoman interviewing her matinee idol; Marilyn Horne performs the page's song from the opera "Les Huguenots"; an operatic version of "The Three Little Pigs"; a musical production of "Big Spender"; and for the finale, a Christmas carol medley.
Nancy and Carol get their parts confused during an audition; Carol, as the outgoing First Lady, gives her successor a tour of the White House; a "Boys' Town" sketch with Rooney; amnesia victim Carol doesn't remember husband Harvey.
A "V.I.P." interview of fried chicken tycoon Colonol Flanders; Tim Conway plays a shy comic; in a "Carol and Sis" skit, Carol's husband can't sleep when Sis is out late on a date; Vicki sings and dances to "American Boys"; incompetent house painters sketch; and for the finale a burlesque musical production. This episode is noted as Show #112 in the Lost Episodes DVD set.
Carol plays a lovesick patient who tries the patience of a handsome doctor (Lyle Waggoner). Tim plays a drunken prison warden on New Year's Eve, and courts rich spinster Burnett, undergoing tests arranged by a careful father. Perry Como sings "Sunshine Wine" and "Here's That Rainy Day." With Miss Burnett, he offers a love-song medley. Astrologer Sydney Omarr makes some predictions for the year 1969. Omarr joins the entire company in a "What's in the Stars?" segment, focusing on the astrological sign of Aquarius. Miss Burnett and Como sing "Aquarius".
The cast presents awards for the worst TV commercials of the year; Carol and guest Martha Raye do a pantomime as sloppy Sunday painters; guest Mel Torme sings "Ridin' High" and "What's New Pussycat?"; in "Carol and Sis", Carol fears the worst when Roger talks in his sleep; and Carol, Martha and the dancers perform a medley of "Chickery Chick", "Mairzy Doats", "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo", "Three Little Fishies", "The Hut-Sut Song", "Flat Foot Floogie", "Tain't What You Do, It's the Way That Cha Do It" and "Dream".
Carol plays a rich, unattractive spinster who meets matinee idol Vince Edwards on a ship voyage; an inhibited botany teacher turns into a ham on a TV show; the Charwoman sings "Young at Heart"; Edwards sings "I Got the World To Hold Me Up" and joins Burnett and Rivera in a production number, "I Love To Cry at Weddings".
A daytime soap-opera spoof; Miss Burnett does an interview with a fashion designer about his annual worst-dressed list; a social chat between two housewives doing their weekly wash in an automatic laundry room; a "Carol and Sis" sketch finds Carol under a lingering hypnotic spell, which causes her to act amorously toward any man who says the word "February" -- this proves somewhat embarrassing when her husband invites an accountant over to help figure his income tax; Berry performs "Feather in My Shoe"; Berry joins Miss Burnett in a three-song duet, "Home," "Way Back Home" and "Love in a Home." Miss Jones sings "I Gotta Be Me" in her solo spot.
Miss Burnett and Sales teamed as opposite ends of a dancing horse on the small-time vaudeville circuit perform "Where Would You Be Without Me?", when an agent (Korman) offers only one of them a chance to hit the big-time. In another comedy sketch, Miss Burnett and Sales play a couple of shy customers who lose their inhibitions while testing the potent perfumes at a department store with two persuasive salesclerks. Miss McNair sings "Windows of the World" and "What the World Needs Now" in a solo spot, then joins Miss Burnett in a big production number, "Lido de Paris." The entire cast joins in a musical comedy sketch inspired by the classic "Our Gang" films.
Guest Tim Conway introduces his onetime comic partner (and future series announcer) Ernie Anderson in the audience during the opening question-and-answer segment; Tim plays a rookie dentist who gets into a series of misadventures while attempting to treat a patient (Harvey); Carol, Vicki and guest Ethel Merman do a backstage sketch about an understudy attempting to sabotage the star before a performance; Tim, Carol, Vicki and Lyle are among relatives gathered at a haunted house for the reading of a will, and dead bodies show up everywhere; Vicki performs with the dancers; and Ethel sings "Elusive Butterfly", and for the close duets with Carol on a medley which includes "Everything's Coming Up Roses" and "I Get a Kick Out of You".
"The Helen Feibelbaum Story" spoofs celebrity biopics chronicling the rise and fall of a singing star; Harvey plays a go-go bachelor whose romance is ruined by a moppet (Carol); and musical performances by guests John Davidson ("Both Sides Now" and "I Will Wait for You") and Ross Martin ("The Man in the Looking Glass"), as well as by Carol ("Look at That Face", "Nine Cents a Dance") and a number by Vicki and the dancers ("'Tain't No Sin").
Carol and guest Martha Raye appear as dance marathon contestants while crooner Mike Douglas sings "Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries". Miss Burnett and Douglas try an Irish medley; Carol becomes a lady jockey; Martha Ray and Carol play housewives visiting a topless waiter place; Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence and Burnett try to get out of their snowbound cabin in the final sketch.
In a satire of show business family acts, the cast masquerades as a hillbilly clan singing and dancing to "What Now My Love". Miss Burnett serenades her frowzy husband (Korman) with "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" and "Goin' Out of My Head". Korman and Burnett play three different couples whose lives are changed when the Irish Sweepstakes winners are announced. In a game-show spoof, emcee Korman quizzes the contestants on the subject of kissing. Miss Chase performs a romantic dance to the tune of "MacArthur Park".
Housewife Carol tries to cure husband Korman of gambling. In another sketch, Carol plays an apprentice actress who steals the show from Broadway ham Korman without uttering a line of dialogue. In other spots, guest Ronnie Schell is an inebriated lawyer in a "Carol and Sis" routine, and Vikki Carr sings her latest hit "With Pen in Hand," before joining her hostess in a scarecrow dance number.
Imogene Coca and Miss Burnett play American school teachers in Rome, rhapsodizing to "If Love were All". The main sketch is a fairy tale spoof with Carol Burnett as Cinderumplewhite. Imogene Coca is the wicked witch and Robert Goulet is the handsome prince. Harvey Korman and Lyle Waggoner play the two-headed dragon that Goulet battles. Goulet solos "Didn't We" and Miss Cora sings "If Love Were All".
Exerpts from the Carol Burnett show dubbed for Spanish speaking audiences are shown with Mexican actors Yolanda Merido and Sergio Bustamante demonstrating how they do the voices of Miss Burnett and Korman. Harvey Korman masquerades as a mayor running for reelection in a sketch satirizing a "spontaneous, unrehearsed" political broadcast. Korman does a serious production number to "They Call The Wind Maria". Waggoner sings "I'm Just A Country Boy" and Vicki sings "When I Die". Carol closes the show and the season with her Charwoman playing to an empty theater.
A newly taped segment is inserted into this repeat of the October 21, 1968 episode, where Rodgers sings his new hit record, "Today," and discusses his new series, "Carol Burnett Presents the Jimmie Rodgers Show," which premiered Monday, June 16, 1969.
On tonight's episode, Carol introduces the actors who dub her and Harvey's voices for Spanish language audiences, using a classic "Carol & Sis" sketch to demonstrate their talents.
Jim Nabors, a Burnett good luck charm, helps Carol kick off the new season. Jim plays a bachelor dating neighbor Carol whose apartment is fortified with burglar alarms. Nabors also sings "Turn Around, Look at Me" and joins Carol and associates in "The First Day at School". Carol revives her Fireside girl, Alice Portnoy, and her Charwoman, and appears in a house-moving skit with Harvey Korman and Vicki Lawrence.
"They Don't Make Them Like That Anymore" spoofs 1930s films; musical performances by guests Nancy Wilson ("Can't Take My Eyes Off You"), Bernadette Peters ("Poor Butterfly") and the Burgundy Street Singers ("Marrakesh Express"); and Carol, Harvey, Vicki and Lyle in a satirical TV show from the California White House.
Ballet dancer Edward Villella performs to music from the opera "Prince Igor," after which Charwoman Carol comes on for a dream dance with her hero. Steve and Carol take off on a medley of songs with numbers in their titles and Steve sings "The Drifter" on his own. Other segments include a bit with Carol and Harvey as the old folks on the porch, and another with the two of them as the married couple who hire decorator Lyle Waggoner.
Comedy sketches concern the first Negro president, royalty, old folks and a "sample" family. The show was originally scheduled for October 13, 1969 but was preempted, and aired on October 19, 1969.
In a vaudeville segment, Tim Conway plays a bumbling acrobat. Carol is a dance hall Mom to daughter Vicki Lawrence in a tearful melodrama. Ken Berry dances to "Down By the Winegar Woiks". Also, Carol and Ken Berry play a computer-matched couple singing love songs. Tim and Harvey do a skit about a homesick truck driver. Kay Medford pops up as a sister-in-law in the weekly "Carol and Sis" routine.
Miss Verdon's feature number is a production of "Hurry On Down". Pat Boone duets "Real True Lovin' " with Carol and then joins Gwen and the entire company in a spoof on TV commercials.
A salute to Paramount Pictures, with Bing recalling his days in "Road" movies, Carol as Marlene Dietrich, Dan Rowan and Carol reprising the sleeping bag scene from "For Whom the Bell Tolls". A musical tribute to the Marx Brothers. Musical numbers including Ella singing "Get Ready", Bing and Carol performing "Flattery", Ella and Carol duetting on "I'll Never Fall in Love Again", Ella and Bing rendering "Moon River" and "Call Me Irresponsible", and Carol singing "Falling in Love Again". Plus a surprise cameo by Bob Hope.
Andy Griffith joins Carol in a musical hillbilly version of "Cinderella", handling the narration and appearing as Mr. Prince, and Harvey Korman is the Fairy Godfather. In other spots, Griffith becomes a cop who treats wife Carol like a suspect, and Miss Burnett recites a poem sent in by a youngster. In the "Carol and Sis" segment, Harvey Korman is the TV football fan who ignores his family during the weekend. Carol sings "I Believed It All". Vicki and cast perform "Mah-Na-Mah-Na". This episode is noted as Show #309 in the Lost Episodes DVD set.
Entire cast spoofs a modern folk-pop-rock-soul concert; Carol and Lucille portray airline stewardesses competing for the good-service bonus; Miss Burnett sings "Just Talkin'".
A salute to 20th Century Fox, highlighted by musical spoofs of Shirley Temple movies and such films as "Fantastic Voyage" and "Doctor Doolittle". Miss Raye solos "Is That All There Is?"
The accent is on the holiday season when Carol Burnett's old friends Garry Moore and Durward Kirby drop in for their annual visit. Carol and Harvey play the old folks as they reminisce about their marriage. Moore and Kirby play opposing attorneys in the courtroom trial of Mrs. Peter Piper, whose husband picked a peck of pickled peppers. Miss Burnett recites an original Christmas poem and solos "Make Your Own Kind of Music" and later joins the Bob Mitchell Boys Choir in singing "Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown?" Garry Moore assists Durward Kirby in delivering some "commercials" merchandising gifts for kids. In the "Carol and Sis" sketch, Carol throws a tantrum when husband Korman hosts his poker club.
The entire company joins in for a salute to MGM; O'Connor sings and dances to "Without a Song"; Miss Wilson solos "The Girl's a Woman Now"; Carol portrays a housewife haunted by characters from TV commercials.
Miss Stevens solos "Eli's Coming" and joins Carol for "Games People Play"; a daytime serial spoof; cast regulars satirize television weddings.
Nancy Wilson solos "Spinning Wheel"; Carol and guests explore the generation gap in song and dance; Miss Burnett stars in the show's recurring daytime soap opera spoof.
Carol and Harvey Korman portray two wallflowers who discover each other in a TV commerical satire. Later, the cast does a spoof of "Mission: Impossible". Miss Carr solos "Go". Vicki dances and sings to "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head". The cast performs "There's Enough to Go Around" for the finale. This episode is noted as Show #316 in the Lost Episodes DVD set.
Gov. Reagan helps Carol field questions from the studio audience; Miss Burnett and guests salute Warner Bros. Studios; Torme sings "Hurry On Down" and joins Carol for "Within You"; Sales portrays a phony accident victim blackmailed by precocious Fireside Girl Alice Portnoy (Carol).
Miss Burnett and guests spoof beauty contests and portray success-seeking sisters in New York; Miss Feldon sings and dances "If You've Got the Money" and "Yakety Sax"; Miss Rivers delivers a comedy monologue; Carol (as the Charwoman) sings "Where Did My Childhood Go?".
The entire cast take part in a vaudeville spoof; Miss Burnett and Berry play a mismatched couple and perform a love-song medley.
Non-guest edition spotlights show regulars in comedy and song. Miss Burnett and Harvey Korman play shy school teachers reviewing the material for a sex-education class; Carol teaches Lyle Waggoner to sing.
Pat and Carol portray TV commercial actresses and housewives who flirt with their golf instructor (Lyle Waggoner); Jones sings "I Love You More Today Than I Did Yesterday" and "God Bless the Child". The soap opera chapter focuses on a housewife (Pat) with a weight problem, who takes advice from best friend Burnett and divorce lawyer Harvey Korman. Harvey later returns as a hypochondriac dealing with wife Carol.
Cast salute to Universal Studios; Miss Connell appears in a "Thoroughly Modern Millie" number and sings "Pollution"; Vicki Lawrence offers "Leaving on a Jet Plane"; Conway and Harvey Korman portray tipsy pals trying to sober up, and Burnett and Korman appear as the Old Folks chatting on the back porch. Carol and Lyle Waggoner mimic Doris Day and Rock Hudson.
Lopez sings "Lemon Tree" with Carol and solos "Yesterday I Heard the Rain"; Miss Fabray performs "Good Old Sounds" and dances the soft shoe with Carol and Trini. She also plays a secret drinker who outwits Carol in the soap opera chapter of the show. Carol and Harvey Korman celebrate a 70th wedding anniversary in the Old Folks sketch, and Carol comes close to hysteria suspecting husband Korman of running off with another woman in the "Carol and Sis" portion.
Miss Wilson solos and joins Carol and the dancers in production numbers; Schell portrays a nightclub comic with a wife who's out of laughs; Miss Burnett recites "Being Alone", a poem by a 13-year-old fan, and follows up by singing "Where Is Love?". Carol and sister Vicki Lawrence badger a hung-over Harvey Korman, and Carol returns for a slapstick husband-and-wife routine, becoming locked in a ball and chain.
A special salute to Walt Disney Studios. A spoof of "Fantasia"; Torme and Lyle Waggoner join the dancers for "Dance of the Hours"; medley of Disney songs; Miss Raye sings "He Gives Me Love"; Torme solos "You've Made Me So Very Happy" and "Spinning Wheel".
Skits feature Conway as a misfit bachelor on a vacation cruise, and as an imbibing office worker asking for a raise; Miss Lee solos "Love Story" and joins Carol for "Doodling Song".
A movie censor sketch; TV commercial spoofs; and another episode of "As the Stomach Turns". Fabray performs "One Little Brick at a Time". Lee performs "What about Today?" A musical finale where the cast brings comic strip characters to life, with Burnett as Olive Oyl, Lawrence as Little Iodine and Korman as Superman.
A husband-wife team struggle over their income tax forms. In a takeoff on home interior magazines, Carol and Harvey Korman lead photographer Waggoner around their immaculate house. A comparison of movies to real life with the song "Cheek to Cheek". Carol plays an ingenue who ruins a big dramatic scene for great actor Harvey Korman.
Nabors sings "Mama, a Rainbow" and joins Carol for a medley; Miss Burnett portrays the charwoman and "The Nudge", who does nothing to discourage her husband's suicide dive.
Mama Cass sings "Glory of Love" and joins Carol for a "smile" medley; Paulsen tells how to become a sensuous female; Harvey Korman and Vicki Lawrence team with Miss Burnett for a fireside chat at "San Clemente by the Sea"; Carol, Vicki, guests and dancers perform the finale, "Mr. Tambourine Man".
A salute to Columbia Pictures, featuring the famous "Golda" (spoof of "Gilda") and also parodies of such films as "From Here to Eternity" and "Middle of the Night"; musical performances by guests Nanette Fabray ("Singing in the Rain" and "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head") and Steve Lawrence ("What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?"); and in "As the Stomach Turns", Marian's friend (Nanette) announces she has a hormone disturbance which she's afraid to discuss with her husband (Harvey).
Carol is joined by guests Eydie Gorme and Joan Rivers in a skit about a popular girls singing trio; Joan gives her opinion on women's lib; an interview with Mrs. King Kong; Gorme sings "You Can Have Him"; Gorme and the cast perform a medley about men and love.
Ken dances to "Mr. Bojangles", then portrays a Civil War hero with two sweethearts, Carol and Nanette; Miss Burnett solos "Nice People"; the entire cast spoofs aviation movies.
Ball and Burnett portray stage mothers pushing their precocious offspring in an audition, and star in a spoof of "Some Like It Hot"; Torme solos "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?".
A spoof of 1940s "Hollywood Canteen" movies; Miss Peters offers "Come Saturday Morning"; O'Connor performs "Somethin's Coming Over Me".
Montalban joins Carol in a spoof of aquacade movies and the dancers for "A Man and A Woman"; Miss Elliott sings "Good Times Are Coming" and joins Carol in a wallflower skit.
Highlights of this episode, which was taped earlier in the year in London, include a flamboyant star (Harvey Korman) battling the respiratory ailments of his co-star (Carol) during a stage production; the "Old Folks" on a honeymoon voyage to England; and Carol's charwoman pantomiming a striptease.
Martin, as Carl Sandburg, recites the poet's "Love"; guests and cast regulars spoof a popular musical series.
Main comedy sketch spoofs soap operas; Miss Burnett (as the Charwoman) sings "Try To Remember"; entire cast salutes Thanksgiving.
Carol and guest Debbie Reynolds play nurses in a spoof of the wartime movie "So Proudly We Hail!"; guest John Davidson performs a banjo medley which includes "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head", and joins the ladies on "Thank You Very Much" from "Scrooge"; and Debbie performs a musical number, "Look at Me".
The entire cast offers a salute to Rickles' "charm"; an adult version of Sesame Street; Torme sings "Into Something" and joins Carol for a medley of tunes by Jule Styne.
A Christmas edition of the show. The entire cast joins in a musical salute to the movie "Scrooge"; Lawrence solos "One Day" and Miss Budd sings "Where Is Love".
A salute to the new year. Entire cast performs "Call Me Back" and "Auld Lang Syne"; Goulet plays the kissing bandit in a soap opera spoof "As the Stomach Turns"; Little offers his impressions of celebrities giving TV commercials; Goulet sings "Without Love" and joins Carol for "Have I Told You Lately".
The show starts with a holiday salute, but the holiday is the Fourth of July. Carol plays a Fireside Girl, using blackmail to sell cookies to Harvey Korman and Pat Carroll. In another sketch, Carney is an exterminator who lost his nerve and needs reassurance from his wife. In another chapter of "As The Stomach Turns", Carol is a Women's Libber and Carney is a pro football scout who has his eye on Pat Carroll.
Lewis portrays a janitor to Carol's charwoman character; Miss Uggams sings "This Is Your Life" and "Help". Comedy spots feature Jerry and Carol as two unlikely marriage prospects and Harvey Korman as a ham actor upstaged by Carol.
A spoof on the old method of discovering Hollywood stars. As Vanessa Vanilla, Carol is found dishing ice cream and becomes a star. Mel Torme plays her agent. Harvey Korman is the studio boss. Miss Lee plays a welfare worker inspecting the residence of the Tenth Avenue Family. Torme, Michele and Carol perform a medley of country-western tunes. Mel solos "Strike Up the Band" and "I Hear Music"; Miss Lee offers "In Times Like These".
"Goose Pond Ballet" spoof spotlights Villella and Miss Burnett; Martha portrays an Irish housekeeper who doesn't live up to her employment agency's description; Carol and Martha offer a medley of three songs.
Guest Rita Hayworth is pestered by two celebrity seekers (Carol, Vicki); Jim Bailey impersonates the likes of Phyllis Diller, Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland, and performs "Don't Rain on My Parade" and "Happy Days Are Here Again" with Carol; Vicki performs "When You've Got Good Friends" with the dancers; a "Tearjerker Theater" presentation of "Lovely Story" with Carol in the Ali MacGraw role and Harvey as the character played by Ryan O'Neal; Carol and Rita sing "Mutual Admiration Society", with clips from some of Rita's old films being shown; and Rita appears as another charwoman.
Totie Fields, as the author of "The Desirable Woman" confides in a TV talk show hostess played by Carol. Guest Ken Berry plays a golfing priest and Harvey Korman is his rabbi partner. Totie plays a woman who thinks she's a werewolf. Ken demonstrates his terpsichorean talents in "Let's Have a Party"; the entire cast offers "Put On Your Sunday Best"; Miss Burnett solos "Make a Rainbow".
Carol and Roger fight when his accountant brings over his sexy blonde wife. Obnoxious Fireside Girl Alice Portnoy badgers the hung-over Harvey for a donation. Chita performs a production number to Lucretia Mac Evil. The musical finale, "Naughty Rosemarie," sends up the Eddy/MacDonald Mountie movies. This episode is noted as Show #422 in the Lost Episodes DVD set.
Conway accidentally gets his dog's inoculations and takes on canine characteristics; Miss Wyman solos "Close to Me"; Carol, as the charwoman, offers "Easy Come, Easy Go" and "MacArthur Park". Pat Carroll is back as Roger's protective sister in the Carol and Sis segment, pushing Carol and Chris around.
Douglas solos "Theme From Love Story" and Miss Peters joins the dancers in "Tea for Two"; Mike and Carol offer a musical medley; a movie spoof titled "Most Happy Stella".
A show taped in New York at the Ed Sullivan theater. Frost plays a snobbish English car salesman hustling wealthy Americans Harvey Korman and Carol. Other skits include Harvey as a henpecked husband who dreams himself a Roman gladiator and Vicki a temptress; an Italian opera spoof of Cinderella. Musical performances of the works of Puccini by Eileen, Rossini by Marilyn, and Sondheim by Carol, Eileen and Marilyn.
"Old Folks" salutes the senior generation; Lynde and Miss Fabray join the cast regulars for a soap opera spoof and for takeoffs on TV commercials; Carol (as the charwoman) sings "Carol's Theme". In the Carol & Sis segment, Carol and Chris (Vicki Lawrence) discover that Roger (Harvey Korman) is minus an office secretary when they drop in. Carol, clad in hot pants, then makes a mess of office procedures but scores a hit with the company's suave salesman (Lyle Waggoner).
Jim Nabors, as he has for the past five years, joins Carol on her opening show. They do a song and dance salute to his home town of Sylacauga, Alabama. Nabors also sings "Help Me Make It Through the Night". Comedy spots: In a spoof of King Henry VIII, Korman plays the monarch and Carol is Anne Boleyn; Carol plays a child actress who upstages a ham actor (Korman); Carol plays a mother who chaperones her daughter (Vicki) on a date. In her feature number, elegantly attired Carol sings "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out".
Carol and the cast spoof the early days of radio. Conway plays an old surgeon who falls asleep during operations. Carol and the Carpenters sing a Burt Bacharach medley.
Parodies of "The African Queen" and "Sorry, Wrong Number"; a salute to silent movie comedians; and the two Carols duet on a medley of "Button Up Your Overcoat", "Ain't Misbehavin'", and "You're the Cream in My Coffee". This episode is noted as Show #506 in the Lost Episodes DVD set.
Spoofs of TV commercials, including Carol as Mother Nature and Cass as a child using toothpaste; Carol impersonates Sonia Henie in a parody of the late skater/actress' movie musicals; Cass sings "There's a Lull in My Life" and duets with Carol on a "Love Medley"; and Ken performs "Razz-Ma-Tazz" with the dancers.
Carol and Peggy, as two New Orleans ladies of the night, sing "Hard-Hearted Hannah" and "Louisville Lou". DeLuise plays the sadistic host of the ultimate game show. Miss Lee solos "I Feel the Earth Move".
Diahann and Carol play two girls at a singles dance; Conway and Miss Burnett portray department store browsers who discover water beds; a spoof of the film "Summertime"; Diahann solos "A Song for You", Carol and Diahann duet "Chutzpah", and Carol offers "Saturday Morning Confusion".
The main sketch is an old-fashioned melodrama spoof, in which Crosby plays Carol's booze-soaked father, with Lynde and Harvey Korman portraying twin mustache-twirling bankers. In "As the Stomach Turns", Paul Lynde plays the town masochist and Harvey is Mother Marcus. Crosby solos "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" and "Love Thy Neighbor", and teams with Miss Burnett on "Get Happy" and "Sing". This episode is noted as Show #510 in the Lost Episodes DVD set.
In a spoof on soap operas, Cass plays a high-fashion model and Bernadette a tap-dancing nun. Cass performs "The Look of Love". Miss Peters sings "Cherish" and "It Had to Be You". This episode is noted as Show #503 in the Lost Episodes DVD set.
In a spoof of the Busby Berkeley movie "42nd Street", Carol plays an unknown chorus girl who gets her big chance on Broadway. Nanette and Carol play very expectant mothers at a laundry. Torme sings "We've Only Just Begun".
Spoof of TV detective shows: "Ironstreet and Wife". Burnett and Korman as hammy actors Funt and Mundane. Gorme sings "How About Me?" Burnett and Gorme duet a Rodgers and Hart medley.
Racy novel sketch. Conway as a doddering dentist. Elliot sings "Cherries Jubilee". Lawrence performs "Moonglow". Burnett and Elliot duet a medley of children's songs.
Andy plays a football coach who uses wife Carol for living room scrimmages. The "Carol and Sis" skit flashes back to the first time Carol went to Roger's (Harvey Korman) apartment. Barbara solos "It Only Takes a Moment", and duets "Rainy Days and Mondays" with carol. The finale is a salute to Smokey the Bear.
In a western spoof, Carol and Ken play entertainers who alternately hit the heights and depths in Hollywood. Dionne sings "Always Something There to Remind Me" and "One Less Bell to Answer". Ken sings "I Want to Be Happy" and Carol performs "The Doll Song". Dionne and Carol set Thomas Jefferson's words from the Declaration of Independence to music in "When in the Course of Human Events".
In a salute to Hollywood's Academy Awards, parodies of "Tea and Sympathy", "Some Like It Hot" and "Sunset Boulevard". Other sketches include Steve as a Presidential adviser, and a salute to Disney (with Carol as Peter Pan). Musical numbers include: "Losing My Mind", "They Can't Take That Away From Me", "I've Got You Under My Skin", and "The Tender Trap".
In a movie spoof of "The Seventh Veil", Harvey Korman plays a cruel man who drives his piano protege (Carol) to success. A snobbish husband and wife argue. Peggy sings "I Can Sing a Rainbow", and duets with Carol on "Happy New Year"/"Something's Coming"/"Great Day". For the finale, a medley of such circus numbers as "Here Come the Clowns", "Clown Alley", and "Be a Clown".
Carol and Berry play Dotty and Dick, "America's Darlings", whose singing and ballet careers are backed by patron Nanette and Broadway producer Harvey Korman. Carol and the Carpenters duet on a medley of "Hurting Each Other"/"An Old Fashioned Love Song"/"We've Only Just Begun"/"Let Me Be the One"/"I Kept on Loving You". Ken Berry and Nanette Fabray perform "Coffee in a Cardboard Cup" with the dancers. Carol sings "The Empty Ballad" and duets "I'm Not Complete Without My Sweetie" with Ken.
Sketches include a country singer facing death row; Tim and Harvey as clumsy billboard hangers; Carol as an awkward teenager. Ray performs "Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma", and Carol (as the Charwoman) joins Ray and the dancers in a medley of "You Are My Sunshine", "St. Louis Blues", "Yesterday", "God Bless the Child" and "What'd I Say?".
In the "House of Terror" skit, Price lures his new Cockney bride (Carol) into his lab. Price does a 17th century reading, "Desiderata". Eydie sings "The Way of Love". Eydie and Carol duet on "Gypsy Number", and together with Vicki perform "Perfect Young Ladies". Also, a salute to the 1920's.
The whole cast hams it up in Italian war movie spoof "Operation Minestrone". Musical numbers include Miss Ballard soloing to "Cabaret" and "Don't Tell Mama"; Steve Lawrence sings "Ain't No Sunshine" and "You Are My Sunshine". In a tribute to Cole Porter in the form of an off-Broadway 1930's revue, tunes include "Easy to Love," "Just One of Those Things," and "Begin the Beguine".
Carol and company spoof TV commercials and do the parody "The Lavender Pimpernel". In another skit, "George and Zelda" go camping, and the henpecked George imagines himself at the opening of the transcontinental railroad. Reynolds sings "As Time Goes By". Nanette with the dancers perform "It's a Musical World". Carol, as the librarian, sings a lament to her husband Al, who's doing time upstate. This episode is noted as Show #521 in the Lost Episodes DVD set.
The feature skit finds Tim playing James Blond, who tangles with Passion Plenty (Carol) and Dr. Nose (Harvey Korman). In other sketches, two cops in drag (Harvey and guest Tim Conway) try to catch muggers; and Carol as a child who's jealous of a new baby. Eydie sings "A House Is Not a Home" and the cast performs "Angel Child". This episode is noted as Show #522 in the Lost Episodes DVD set.
A spoof of "Lady in the Dark", with Randall playing Carol's playboy boss and Klugman the billionaire. Then in a spoof of "This Is Your Life", Carol portrays drama coach Stella Toddler telling the story of her life on TV. Carol and company salute Broadway musicals. Musical numbers include: "Adelaide's Lament", "You'll Never Get Away from Me", and "Brush Up Your Shakespeare".
In skits, Paul plays a con man home builder and an interior decorator. Miss Black makes her TV singing debut with "Flowers in the Morning" and with Carol and Vicki Lawrence, are girls about to go out on the town with their dates. Carol, as the charwoman at an exclusive health spa, sings "I Don't Care" and is a depressed housewife in the "Carol & Sis" segment.
In the movie musical spoof of "The Doily Sisters" Carol and Vicki play singing waitresses who make it to the big time on Broadway; Carol sings "Happiness Belongs to My Friends" and "I've Seen That Face"; Harvey performs "Hey, Mr. Moon"; Carol and Vicki duet on "Budapest" and "When You Get Home" and perform "Two Natural Beauties" with the dancers.
The sixth season begins with Jim Nabors, as in past seasons, being Carol's first guest. Carol and Harvey introduce two new characters, Fred and Marge -- "just plain folks" -- who sit in the audience and talk about contemporary life. Nabors sings "The Way of Love"; Carol and Nabors duet "The Maggie Blues"; Carol solos "If I Could Write a Song"; the finale is "Star Spangled Jive", a take-off on World War II movie musicals.
Feldman plays a slightly mad plastic surgeon whose patients include Harvey Korman and the two Carols. Carol and guests spoof TV commercials. In a "Carol and Sis" segment, a "girly" magazine is found in Roger's briefcase. The cast takes part in a musical salute to Johnny Mercer.
Griffith plays a warden who welcomes a nervous wife coming to visit her imprisoned husband; Miss Reddy teaches Carol to sing "Australian"; the cast spoofs the movie "Rebecky"; Griffith and the Ernie Flatt dancers do "Turn Your Radio On"; Miss Reddy sings "I Am Woman".
A man (Paul) listens to a record on how to win friends; a sketch about a friendly news team; Steve sings "In the Wee Small Hours"; in "Carol and Sis", Carol thinks Chrissy is going away for a wild weekend; and "The Putrified Forest" (a spoof of "The Petrified Forest").
A henpecked man buys a hat; an installment of "Terminal Hospital" where the head nurse has her hands full with a singer who lost her voice; in "Carol and Sis", Carol assumes Chrissy has been abducted and held for ransom; and a sketch about a writer who changes his plots faster than his characters can act them out; Eydie Gorme sings "But Not For Me"; Carol and Eydie sing a Harold Arlen medley.
A political candidate's wife speaks for him while he's afflicted with laryngitis on the campaign trail; in "Mary McClusky", a woman mistakes a total stranger for an old high-school chum; Joel and Lyle Waggoner masquerade as puppies in a pet shop window vying for customers' attention; and a salute to foreign films with spoofs of such flicks as "The Bicycle Thief", "And God Created Woman" and "Seven Samurai".
Nora Desmond is offered a bug spray TV commercial in a sequel to last season's "Sunset Boulevard" parody; guest Tim Conway as rabbit attorney F. Lee Bunny is asked to defend a woman accused of murder; Pearl Bailey performs "A Nightingale Song" and, in a duet, Pearl and Carol sing "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"; Pearl plays a talky psychiatrist; the oldest living galley slave (Tim) creates trouble for his partner (Harvey); and a salute to 20th Century-Fox including Carol as Carmen Miranda, and Pearl as the Ingrid Bergman character in a spoof of "Anastasia".
Carol presents a new character, a do-gooder named Mary Worthless; Peggy Lee sings "A Song for You"; Stiller & Meara play Mr. and Mrs. Chou En-lai; Carol and Peggy duet on "Girl Talk"; a circus-themed episode of "As the Stomach Turns"; examples of the different ways men and women react to car accidents; and a wealthy couple meet their low-class soon-to-be in-laws in "Street Wedding".
Guests Steve Lawrence and Lily Tomlin take part in an opening musical number, "We're All in the Same Band"; Lily does a monologue as a woman abandoned by her boyfriend, and and portrays a divorcee seeking sympathy in the "Carol and Sis" skit; The Godfather (Steve) is trying to enjoy a quiet honeymoon; "Caged Dames", a spoof of 1950s women-in-prison movies; and musical performances from Steve (a medley of "I Can Get Along Without You" and "Without You") and Carol as the Charwoman ("If They Could See Me Now" and "Baby, Dream Your Dream").
A musical comedy salute to the great Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movies, including "Lust for Life", "National Velvet" and "Camille". In another skit, two women are members of the studio audience in a taping of "The Carol Burnett Show". Also, Miss Buzzi appears as a retiring beauty queen who is making her last appearance before relinquishing her crown and, much to the embarrassment of the emcee, she tells it like it is.
A salute to horror movies, with Harvey Korman as Frankenstein's monster and Lyle Waggoner as Count Dracula. In "Carol and Sis", Carol thinks Chrissy is pregnant; in "George and Zelda", George dreams he's a riverboat gambler. Ray Charles and the Raelettes sing "Every Saturday Night" and Ray plays piano in a cocktail lounge, singing tunes for a sentimental customer (Carol). Price plays Fagin in a bit from "Oliver" and the cast concludes with a production number, "The Transylvania Trot".
Carol and cast do another installment of "Terminal Hospital", spoof non-violent TV in "The Plot To Hurt Hitler", and take part in musical production "The Rip-Off". Miss Moore sings "You've Got a Friend".
In "The Englishman" skit, we see how a man's accent affects women. In another skit, Carol is the mother of an invisible man. The musical saga of "Little Miss Showbiz" has a child star of the 1930s going from an orphanage to stardom. Newley and Carol sing "Where Is Love?". Newley solos "Overchewer".
Steve Lawrence and Tim Conway do a spoof of "Columbo." Also, Steve plays a TV talk show host and Tim is a chicken-hearted paratrooper. Lawrence performs "The Good Life". The cast does a medley of bell songs.
In skits, Conway is a new angel in Heaven whose roomie, Harvey Korman, can't stand him because he can't do anything right; Carol and Korman go to an adoption agency where one of the four eligible children is 36-year-old Conway. The cast takes part in a movie spoof, "Story of a Star", starring Carol as Esther Crotchett; Cassidy as Norman Swain; Conway as Miles Mogul; Korman as agent Glibby.
Ruth Buzzi in a Las Vegas sketch plays the slot machines before turning into a sexy Vegas lounge entertainer. Jack Gilford is seen as the nervous father of bride Carol Burnett, attempting to remain calm before the ceremony. Harvey Korman's hen-pecked husband George is pursued once again by Miss Burnett's "Zelda the Nudge", and a big salute to Al Jolson, led by Carol, Gilford and Ruth Buzzi, caps the hour.
Kay Ballard and Tim Conway appear for a salute to the old Palace Theater and a preview of Miss Ballard's forthcoming Broadway musical, "Molly's World". As Molly Goldberg, Kay sings the title song, then joins Carol and Vicki Lawrence in a spoof of "The Dating Game". Conway plays a too-attentive gas station attendant. Miss Ballard sings "Go in the Best of Health" and "I Love the Old Times. The whole cast performs "Tea for Two".
In a spoof of the 1940 film "Waterloo Bridge", Carol plays the showgirl who meets her upper class hero during a London air raid. In the "Carol and Sis" sketch, Carol's high school flame has her husband burning. Carol sings "I've Got You Under My Skin". Lawrence performs "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia". The cast closes with a hoedown dance number.
The cast spoofs TV commercials featuring such subjects as hamburgers, stewardesses and detergents. A women's lib sketch and a kidnapping sketch. Guest John Byner plays a movie studio's star duck who is called in to be fired. Petula Clark sings "Without You" and duets "Turn Around" and "Without You" together with Miss Burnett.
Skits include: a blind date sketch with Korman and Harper as swingers and Burnett and Conway as wallflowers; Conway as the world's oldest fireman; and another installment of "As the Stomach Turns". Valerie Harper solos "The Last Blues Song". Carol, Valerie and Vicki sing "The Ladies Who Lunch". The whole cast performs "The Good Old, Bad Old Days".
A salute to RKO Studios includes spoofs of "Pride of the Yankees", "Notorious", "The Outlaw" and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". Ken delivers a dancing tribute to his hero, Fred Astaire. In "Carol and Sis", Roger needs peace and quiet to do his taxes. Miss Burnett joins Harvey Korman and Berry for a slapstick Three Stooges routine. Eydie sings "I Am Woman"; Ken performs "Love Me Blues".
Skits in this show include: "This Is Your Lifetime" (a spoof of "This Is Your Life"); George is sick in "George and Zelda"; a political production number; and Carol ironically sings "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" but her car has many issues. Paula solos "Killing Me Softly with His Song" Other musical numbers include "I Ain't Down Yet" and "We Could Be Close".
Spoofs of TV shows such as "The Golddiggers", "Maude", "Sonny and Cher", and "Password". In "Carol and Sis", Roger gets mugged; Peggy Lee solos "When I Found You" and duets "It's a Good Day" with Carol. William Conrad performs "A Quiet Girl" and "A Married Man".
A spoof of "Random Harvest" ("Rancid Harvest"). Carol and Harvey then become dolls put to bed by Vicki Lawrence, only to be joined by a soldier doll. Carol and the show's musicians offer their version of the dueling banjos from the movie "Deliverance", and she brings down the curtain as the Charwoman.
Once again Jim Nabors is Carol's first guest for the season. In skits, Carol and Roger (Harvey Korman) move into a new high-rise apartment; Nabors joins in spoofs of TV series "Yung Fool" and "Black Archie". Carol sings "True Blue You". Nabors sings "And I Love You So". The cast performs "Come Back to Me".
A man is uncomfortable visiting a unisex beauty salon; a magazine interviewer attempts to get the story about a Spanish star's home life, but her mother gives him trouble. Charo performs "Midnight Guitar" and joins other cast members in "Luck Be a Lady".
The Charwoman meets Charlie Chaplin (guest Gloria Swanson); in another "Carol & Sis" sketch, an elevator operator in Carol and Roger's new apartment building has a crush on her; a mistress (Vicki) tells all to a radio call-in show about a man (Lyle) with whom she's having an affair, while his unsuspecting wife (Carol) listens to every word; and an "Old Folks" sketch. Gloria Swanson performs "A New-Fangled Tango" and Carol sings "Without a Word, Without a Sound".
Spoofs of the "The Most Unforgettable Television Commercials of the Year", including Imperial margarine, Post Grape Nuts cereal, Minute Maid orange juice, and Pledge cleaning spray. Another episode of "Nora Desmond", silent film star, who plans her own funeral with the aid of an "instant-eulogy" expert. Helen Reddy performs "Don't Mess with a Woman" and joins Carol for "A Little Bit of Sunday" and "Dixieland Firehouse".
A salute to old movie serials, with parodies of the "Cisco Kid", "Tarzan", "The Wolfman" and "Young Dr. Kildare". Paul plays a nervous newlywed in "Honeymoon Sweet". Eydie sings "Take One Step". Harvey and the dancers perform "Royalty" and "The Glamorous Life".
Jack and Carol are matched up for a blind date by a computer service; a doctor and nurse, married to each other, bicker in the middle of a surgery; a man in a supper club meets an Ethel Merman-type singer; Harvey, Carol, Lyle and Vicki swap personalities in "Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde"; Berry and the dancers perform "It's Not Where You Start"; Carol performs "The Lady Is a Tramp"; and for the close, "New Elizabethan Rhythm".
Parodies of cowboy showdowns, courtroom dramas and the TV series "Girl in My Life"; a sketch about a group encounter session; Carol as a court stenographer sings "I've Gotta Be Me"; and a musical salute to upbeat songs from World War I to the present.
Highlights include: "Double Calamity", a parody of "Double Indemnity" with Steve in the role played in the original by Fred MacMurray and Carol in the Barbara Stanwyck role; Steve sings "I've Got You Under My Skin"; a fat woman (Carol) attempts exercises to a TV exercise show hosted by Lyle; and a salute to Irving Berlin's 85th birthday.
Sketches include: "As The Stomach Turns" where Petula portrays Marian's long-lost twin sister; an airport security guard skit; Carol as a myopic actress on stage without glasses; and a satirical salute to pre-1970 rock music. Petula Clark sings "Silver Spoon" and duets "Yesterday Once More" with Carol.
With Steve, Carol is a liberated woman and with Tim it's another scene. Carol also does her Shirley Temple character, Rhoda Dimple, the young businesswoman, in a Civil War film. The finale, "Those Were the Days" pays tribute to Thanksgiving. Note: this originally scheduled episode was preempted and appears to have never aired.
Sketches include: a spoof of TV commercials; fashion models act as though they're posing for everyday life; in "Carol and Sis", Carol has the flu and Roger won't come near her; Carol is left by her lover (Harvey Korman) on his wedding day, and he comes back to visit her every few years. Musical numbers include: "The Shape of Things", "Ships in the Night" and "Those Were the Days".
Taped in Australia at the Sydney Opera House. Tim Conway, as the world's oldest conductor, leads the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Ballet star Edward Villella dances with Australia's Lucette Aldous in a parody of "Swan Lake". Harvey Korman and Carol render an alcoholic version of the great Funt and Mundane acting team. Carol performs "For All We Know" and "It's Today". The dancers do "Waltzing Matilda".
A salute to movie bad girls with spoofs of such films as "Mrs. Robinson", "All About Eve", and "Born to Be Bad". Other sketches include Burnett and Crenna as a husband-and-wife cop team; a game show parody called "Celebrities and Peasants"; a production number about the mimeograph machine and women's voting rights. Ruth Buzzi performs "Oh, You Beautiful Doll".
A salute to movie detectives including Sherlock Holmes and Sam Spade; sketch about a stuffy Englishman (Newley) meeting a wino (Martin); a production number of Newley songs. Newley solos "What Did You Do in the Great War, Daddy?", and duets "The People Tree" with Carol.
Carol and cast satirize the intense competition between clients and agents in the ad business; Conway plays a man displaying simian symptoms after being bitten by a chimp; Carol plays an elderly actress putting her footprints into Cement; Steve Lawrence solos "Maybe This Time" and performs "In Buddy's Eyes" together with Carol.
Sketches include Miss Burnett and Sand as newlyweds arguing before they leave the church; Korman and Sand as odd-couple astronauts on their way to Mars; and Eydie, Carol, Harvey and Lyle Waggoner as estranged mates planning new marriages. Miss Gorme and Miss Burnett offer a musical salute to great ladies of the musical theater.
A musical version of "Little Red Riding Hood" performed in the manner of a Mexican folk story for children. In another skit, an accident-prone woman (Carol) and her husband (Carl) attempt to buy insurance before her next accident. Also, Burnett as a spoiled child star, and a supermarket checkout sketch. Miss Burnett performs "I Wonder What Became of Me" and "Send in the Clowns".
The oldest living wardrobe man (Tim) has problems helping an actor (Harvey Korman) perform a quick change between acts of a play; the night before his wedding, a bachelor (Steve) asks his fiancee's sister (Carol) on a date. Steve performs "Here's That Rainy Day" and "Rainy Days and Mondays". And a salute to George and Ira Gershwin.
In "Carol and Sis", Chrissy's new boyfriend isn't as wild as he appears to be; a hotel operator (Carol) listens in on guests' calls; Carol, as a spoiled child star tangles with a tyrannical German film director; guest Vincent Price recalls the humorous side of Abraham Lincoln; Grey emcees a musical, "Comedia Del Arte".
In "As the Stomach Turns" Marian's possessed niece (Bernadette) is exorcised by priest Tim Conway; two Japanese soldiers (Tim and Harvey) argue underwater; and a salute to musicals of the 1930's. Bernadette performs "I Can't Get Started with You" and "Blame It on My Youth".
A brutal Nazi interrogator (guest Tim Conway) tortures a POW (Lyle) with a Hitler hand puppet; guest Eydie Gorme performs "The Way We Were" and "How About Me"; a spoof of "The Thin Man" with Lyle and Vicki as Nick and Nora; and Vicki Lawrence plays a fortune teller giving Carol a lively reading.
PTA mothers argue over who's the best singer; Houdini's daughter (Carol) has some trouble with her escape attempts; a woman orders a hit on her boring husband, but then wants to call it off; and a production number about drifters.
Carol and Roddy sing a duet, with him in his "Planet of the Apes" make-up. In "The Family" sketch, Eunice, Ed and Mama don't appreciate the accomplishments of Eunice's brother, Nobel Prize-winning writer Philip (Roddy). In other segments, two chauvinist carpenters give a new co-worker (Carol) a hard time; an argument breaks out at a bus stop when a radio contest calls a nearby pay phone; two Brits at a café speak in one-word sentences; The Jackson Five perform "Dancin' Machine"; Carol is a music teacher with The Jackson Five as her students perform "This Old Man" and "ABC".
Carol and Harvey come in to rob a diner, but end up working there instead. In the final sketch of the "Carol and Sis" series, a pushy neighbor invites herself to Roger and Carol's anniversary dinner. Vicki Lawrence sings her hit, "Mama's Gonna Make It All Better". Two scientists build female robots. For the finale, a spoof of country-western award shows.
Show segments include: the perennial loser in a bar scene; "Old Folks" sketch about the energy crisis; a spoof of women's sob story game shows; and a circus mini-musical production number. Carol sings "Al" and the cast performs "Apache Talk".
Jim Nabors helps Carol launch her eighth season as guest star. Nabors plays the dumb wide-eyed attendant at a shooting gallery, watching Carol shoot it out with the Ringo Kid (Harvey Korman). Mama, Eunice and Ed come back home from church "The Family". Cabaret singer Carol wails "Just a Gigolo" to ex-boyfriend Korman with his new girl, Vicki Lawrence. The finale salutes old time vaudeville.
Steve Lawrence is back to honor songwriter Frank Loesser. In a Las Vegas setting, the cast sings Loesser tunes led by that old favorite "Lucky in Love". Harvey Korman has fun intoning "Moon of Mankura"; Carol, Steve and company make the most of such oldies as "Slow Boat to China", "When I Fall in Love" and "Luck Be a Lady Tonight". Also stay around for Carol as Nora Desmond, silent screen star being roasted by Hollywood cronies Lawrence and Korman.
Star-crossed lovers meet on a Pacific cruise in a spoof of the movie "One-Way Passage"; a woman argues with her tub of margarine in a parody of Parkay commercials; a man (James) is nervous about a blind date and gets advice from Harvey Korman; a spoof of "Kojak". Musical numbers include guests The Pointer Sisters performing "Steam Heat", and joined by Carol on "Salt Peanuts".
A tribute to composer Stephen Sondheim with songs performed by Carol and guest star Michele Lee. As for the skits of the show, guest Jack Weston plays a patient who believes he is going to die in a soap opera bit; Carol becomes a lady of the evening; and Miss Burnett teams with Weston to play a couple giving marriage a bad name.
In a spoof of "Algiers", Savalas plays a great lover at the Casbah, facing Carol, the world’s most beautiful woman. In "The Family" skit, Eunice, Ed and Mama visit brother Jack (Tom Smothers) in the hospital. Also, Savalas and Korman play two men discussing a business merger as if it were a love affair. Savalas croons "Rubber Bands and Bits of String" and the Smothers Brothers perform "Love Me with All Your Heart".
Guest Rich Little impersonates Alfred Hitchcock in a salute to the legendary director; a married couple (Carol, Harvey), no longer on speaking terms after a night out, argue through actions; guest Eydie Gorme sings "You'll Remember Me"; and for the finale, a musical salute to composer Jerome Kern.
Guest Alan King plays a baseball fan who is being pestered by a woman who has more interest in him than in the game; two former silent screen stars (Carol, Harvey) are reunited at the Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard; a woman claims a package that she found at a bus stop; guest Lena Zavaroni performs "If They Could See Me Now"; and for the close, a salute to the music of DeSylva, Brown and Henderson.
Carol plays a soap-opera addict; John appears in a parody of TV record commercials where he impersonates top pop singers as well as being the announcer; Vicki performs "Rolling Down the Hills"; a woman (Carol) creates a scene in an elegant restaurant while breaking up with her boyfriend (John); a married couple each has dreams of being with other people; and for the close, the "Mr. Globe" contest.
Two men attempt to pick up women at a singles bar; in "The Family", pandemonium breaks out when Eunice, Ed and Mama play the board game "Sorry"; and a musical salute to women songwriters.
A couple (Carol and Harvey) is visited by an old college chum who has become famous; and a spoof of "Born Free" with guest Tim Conway as a lion who doesn't want to go back to the wild; Carol performs "You Oughta Be in Pictures" and "Oh, to Be a Movie Star"; Carol and guest Maggie Smith duet on "You're So London".
Tim plays a man who has the surprise of his life when he visits a woman who is actually a cop on a stakeout; Steve plays a blackmailer in "As the Stomach Turns"; and for the finale, a salute to the music of Lerner and Loewe. Lawrence performs "On a Clear Day" and Warner performs "Why Is the Desert So Lovely to See?"
In a spoof of "Airport 1975" Carol is the brave stewardess, Ken Berry is a passenger on his way to a nose transplant and Carl Reiner is Carol's jealous boyfriend. Ken Berry performs "Razzle-Dazzle". For the finale, a musical spoof of Hamlet.
Alda plays "Morton of the Movies", who courts his girl with movie lines. In "The Family" sketch, long-lost son Alan Alda is home for Christmas. Carol and Alan duet on "Nobody Does It Like Me" in the midst of a department store Christmas rush. For the close the entire cast performs a salute to New York City.
Carol plays Alice Portnoy, who blackmails people into giving money to the Fireside Girls; ham actors Funt and Mundane are sabotaged by ambitious understudies; a spoof of TV show "The Waltons". For the finale, the cast and dancers do a young people's concert, "Sarah and the Moose".
Tim Conway plays a bumbling waiter in a Japanese restaurant; in a boxing sketch, Conway is in a match with first woman boxer Carol; Bert tries to convince Molly to see an X-rated movie in "The Old Folks"; a spoof of "The Pirates of Penzance". Carol sings "All of Me", and the whole cast performs "Mack the Black".
The Jackson Five perform "The Life of the Party," returning for the musical finale, a rousing salute to such musical groups as The Mills Brothers, The Andrews Sisters, The Coasters, And The Supreme's. Guest William Conrad shows his versatility by singing a "Movies Were Movies" tribute to silent-comedy stars, then slipping into a mime routine as Oliver Hardy. He next shows his flair for comedy in a sketch with Harvey (they're doctors and golfing buddies). But the highlight is his portrayal of Willy, the widowed Mama's wealthy suitor in the "Family" sketch titled "The Gentleman Caller."
Conway tries to become silent screen star Nora Desmond's new servant; a TV hobby show host perseveres despite the bungling of his badly hung over assistant; The Sisters take part in a TV game show skit featuring Burnett as a doddering contestant; Carol and the Pointer Sisters sing "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More". The Pointer Sisters solo with "Love In Them There Hills".
Another look at the most memorable TV commercials of the year; a spoof of the 1948 musical "When My Baby Smiles at Me"; Korman plays a ventriloquist who wants to break up with his dummy; Rock and Nancy duet on "Mine".
Mama is recovering from a broken leg after a fall in "The Family", and guest Tim Conway appears in a sketch as the "Old Man"; Carol and Vicki duet on "If Mama Was Married", with Harvey appearing as "Mother Marcus"; and a musical finale about Cleopatra with Carol in the title role, and featuring such songs as "Up a Lazy River" and "Row, Row, Row Your Boat".
Spoofs of war movies (including "War Is Heck"); sketches with "The Old Folks" and Carol as the perpetually accident-prone wife; Buddy hoofs to "Rendezvous", for which he wrote the lyrics; and the guests join the cast for the musical finale, "County Fair".
Eunice, Ed and Mama visit accomplished younger brother Phillip (guest Roddy McDowall) in his California home in "The Family"; Carol and guest Bernadette Peters play two synchronized secretarial typists who do everything in unison; and "The Lady Heir" (a spoof of the 1949 film "The Heiress"). This episode is noted as Show #821 in the This Time Together DVD set.
In a spoof of the 1939 gangster film "The Roaring Twenties", Steve Lawrence plays the bootlegger, Sally Struthers a chorus girl and Burnett as the often jilted speakeasy operator. Burnett also pantomimes a moviegoer with an upset stomach. Lawrence sings "Make It Easy on Yourself" and "No Sunshine" and Struthers is the principal in a production number of "Next to Livin'".
Sketches include: Carol doing a parody of Cher; a mismatched couple in adjacent apartments; Spoofs of TV commercials including Mr. Coffee, sleeping pills and life insurance; an "Old Folks" bit about wedding anniversaries; and a feminist (Jean) argues with a man (Harvey Korman) who holds a door open for her. Stapleton solos Stephen Sondheim's "Losing My Mind" and duets "Flings" with Miss Burnett. For the finale, Phil Silvers re-creates his famous Sgt. Bilko in a musical production.
Eunice and Mama visit Ed at the hardware store in "The Family". As a mother of three, Carol gives advice to expectant Vicki Lawrence in a skit, and the two dust off a medley of old-fashioned lullabies. Conway plays the world's oldest living clock maker. "When Your Lover Has Gone" is Carol's main vocal number, and she closes the season with "The Charwoman".
Eunice leaves Ed after she catches him going into a massage parlor in "The Family"; an eccentric military hero does not want his latest commendation; and a Bicentennial salute to America's cities and towns. Nabors sings a medley of saloon songs, and duets "I Feel at Home with You" together with Carol.
Guest Sammy Davis Jr. plays a star returning to his hometown and encountering a childhood friend who is somewhat of a racist. Harvey and Tim do a sketch about an airline whose treatment of regular and no-frills passengers is radically different. Sammy appears in a Western skit as a deputy with hurt feelings after getting dumped by the Marshall. Sammy performs a medley of his old hits. The Caribbean-themed finale is a salute to composer Harold Arlen. This episode is noted as Show #901 in the This Time Together DVD set.
A husband has trouble deciding between his glamorous wife and his homely mistress in "The Not So Eternal Triangle"; the 9th Annual "Carol Burnett Show" Awards for the most unforgettable commercials of the year; in "As the Stomach Turns", Cher is the town's half-breed and Tim is the town's beautician; two classical pianists (Harvey and Tim) prepare for a duet; guest Cher sings "Just This One Time" and duets with Carol on "Variety"; for the finale, a spoof of '70s rock music.
Carol and guest Shirley MacLaine sing about the problems with fan mail, and play little-league mothers who argue with the team's coach; in "The Family", Eunice and Ed recall via flashbacks when they were dating; a hollow palace guard (Tim) refuses to let the King and Queen (Harvey, Carol) in without a password; Harvey and Tim team for "200 Years Ago Today," a spoof of the Bicentennial spots then airing constantly during commercial breaks.
Guest Bernadette Peters sings and dances to "He's the Wizard"; two nurses refuse to aid a snake-bite victim unless an overbearing doctor apologizes; a housewife (Carol) recounts her most traumatic childhood experience to a psychiatrist (Harvey); a timid mugging victim tries to report the incident to a tough police sergeant; and for the close, a salute to the music of Irving Berlin.
Carol plays a queen who attempts to christen a ship in honor of a hollow hero with his girlfriend in attendance; ham actress Mundane finds out about husband Funt's affair with another actress just as they're about to go on stage; Vicki sings "The Other Woman"; a sewer shark in a parody of "Jaws"; and a salute to Alan Jay Lerner.
The Pointer Sisters sing "How Long", perform with Korman in a disc-jockey comedy sketch, and team up with Miss Burnett and Miss Lawrence for an all-girl musical number, "Get Me to the Church on Time". Other comedy highlights include Miss Burnett as a romantic dropout telling her troubles to a bartender (Korman) who would rather dwell on his own problems; Mickey Hart (Tim) joins "The Family" for a game of charades; Carol and Tim in a silent sketch as a hungry couple.
Vicki and Tim perform a musical comedy routine to the tune of "For Once in My Life"; Carol and Roddy perform a tongue-twisting number that leads into "Moses Supposes", then play a bickering couple who work at an assembly line; Harvey and Tim as truck drivers dealing with divorce; and a spoof of "The Little Foxes" with Carol in the Bette Davis role and Roddy in the role of the invalid whom she's plotting to kill.
Guest Helen Reddy sings "Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady", joins the cast in a series of musical blackouts, and participates in a sketch about an extramarital affair endangered by a surprise call on a futuristic TV phone. Also: a woman struggles with so-called "easy openers" on household appliances; fortune cookie messages start a battle between friends; and a French marine explorer sends his assistant out on a hunt for a deadly white squid.
Guest Maggie Smith gives Carol a musical lesson in talking with a Cockney accent, and then appears in "The Family" sketch as a teacher concerned about Bubba, the academically challenged son of Eunice and Ed. In other skits, a consumer protection official doesn't notice that his own kitchen is crumbling around him; and Tim as the world's oldest living doctor, attempts to make a house call. The big "Show Biz" finale includes such tunes as "Comedy Tonight," "Be a Clown," "Let Met Entertain You" and "There's No Business Like Show Business."
Eunice's snooty sister Ellen (guest Betty White) comes for a visit for Mama's birthday in "The Family"; a bug wreaks havoc on a second honeymoon; a German car salesmen get pointers in pushing sales; and a salute to marching bands, with a performance by the Locke High School Band of Los Angeles.
Comedy sketches include "The Noisy Speech," with Harvey Korman trying to overcome the noise made by his friend (Tim Conway), and "Miss Nobody," with Carol as a meek woman having lunch with her friend (Vicki Lawrence). The Pointer Sisters sing "Save the Bones for Henry Jones," returning for a rock retelling of the Cinderella story.
Guest Eydie Gorme plays a hospitalized TV star with Carol as Stella Toddler for an old lady roommate. There's also a mini-musical revolving around the music of Richard Rodgers. In other skits, Carol is a plant shop owner with Tim Conway as a customer who wants to return a plant that hates him; spoofs of TV commercials; and a foppish prince tries to torture a woman into marrying him. Gorme sings "As Time Goes By".
Miss Walter sings "Could It Be Magic?", and then joins the entire cast in a musical salute to lyricist Dorothy Fields. In another visit to "The Family", Eunice and Ed take Mama to her sister's funeral. In other comedy sketches, Korman and Conway portray turn-of-the-century Russian and Japanese diplomats negotiating a peace treaty; and Korman and Miss Walter skillfully lie about how they park their cars.
Steve plays a slick city detective; a takeoff on "Laura" with Carol as Gene Tierney; Tim as the oldest living shoe salesman; a salute to Sammy Cahn with hits such as "My Kind of Town", "The Tender Trap" and "Call Me Irresponsible".
Guest Rita Moreno sings "Some Cats Know", plays an accident causing nurse to formerly accident-prone Carol, and teams with Carol and Vicki Lawrence as waitresses in the song-and-dance finale "There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This". Tim and Harvey in the military "Dishonorable Discharge" sketch. Tim returns as the Hollow Hero, a palace guard with no insides since swallowing a live grenade. This time, the Princess (Vicki) wants to marry him.
A salute to Universal Studios with parodies of such films as "Freud" and "Rooster Cogburn"; Carol as an old-fashioned woman; Mr. Tudball (Tim) has a time teaching Mrs. Wiggins (Carol) how to use the office's new intercom system; guest Steve Lawrence sings "In the Still of the Night"; a woman (Carol) is driven crazy by riddles; and for the close, a salute to Glenn Miller.
A spoof of "A Stolen Life", a movie about twins, one naughty, one nice; a political sketch with Harvey as a senator, Carol as his unpredictable wife, and Tim as his campaign manager; guests The Jackson Five perform "Forever Came Today", and are joined by Vicki on "Body Language"; and Carol as the Charwoman in a three-ring circus, pantomiming with guest Emmett Kelly and singing "It's Only a Paper Moon" and "Look for the Silver Lining".
A female clown gives Carol a doctorate in Clown Humanities during the open; Carol plays a deranged bag lady who feeds pigeons in the park "for peace"; guests The Pointer Sisters perform "That's A-Plenty"; a robber sneaks into a hospital demanding treatment at gunpoint; Carol, Vicki and the Pointers perform a medley of "Fats" Waller songs; Tim plays a pharmacist who has problems filling a prescription; and for the close, a musical number with the lyrics consisting of the Declaration of Independence.
In another installment of "The Family", Ed, Eunice and Mama go to a fancy restaurant on a free pass. In other skits, Carol plays Mrs. Wiggins, Tim Conway's inefficient secretary; and Harvey Korman is at the DMV with Vicki Lawrence as a very efficient clerk. The finale is a musical western.
Guest Joanne Woodward plays an old school chum of Eunice's in "The Family"; a wealthy couple (Vicki, Harvey) have an argument through their servants (Carol, Tim); Mr. Tudball again has a time teaching his secretary Mrs. Wiggins the workings of the office intercom; two wallflowers (Carol, Joanne) at a dance sing "Let's Be Buddies" and "Why Can't I?"; and for the finale, Carol, Vicki and Joanne perform "Everything Old Is New Again", wearing turn-of-the-century dresses and sun hats.
A traveling encyclopedia salesman (guest Dick Van Dyke) tries to peddle his wares at the home of a bickering couple (Carol, Harvey); guest Tony Randall performs "Madeira, M'Dear?"; two men (Tony, Dick) argue over a $10 loan while on vacation in Hawaii; Dick performs "Ballin' the Jack" with the dancers; a couple (Carol, Tony) have an argument over body signals; and a mini-musical based on the lyrics of Ira Gershwin.
A new employee is welcomed to an extremely cramped office; in a battle-of-the-sexes duet, Jack and Carol sing "Where Were You?"; Jack Klugman plays a skeptic in a sketch about an amateur clairvoyant; a clumsy cat burglar (Tim) tries to steal the world's largest diamond; for the finale the cast performs "The Country's in the Very Best of Hands", with Jack playing a southern politician on the campaign trail.
Ed takes flak from Eunice and Mama after he tries to sneak his assistant along on a business trip to Chicago in "The Family"; Mr. Tudball attempts to surprise Mrs. Wiggins on her birthday; a married couple takes to pinpointing each other's physical defects; and the dancers perform to "Baby Face" dressed in children's clothing.
Jim Nabors once again joins Carol on her opening show and they look back at his very first appearance; a spoof of "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" with Carol in the title role; Jim solos "Let Me Be There"; Conway plays an exhausted businessman in a noisy motel; "The Family" sits down for a game of "Monopoly" that ends up anything but friendly; and for the finale, a musical number, "Shipwreck in Tahiti".
Sammy plays a loan shark attempting to collect from uppity royalty, and in another skit is an oarsman on a slave ship. The company satirizes kitchen commercials, and Carol plays a spoiled socialite having her latest nervous breakdown. Sammy sings "What Became of Me?" and joins the cast for a medley of Broadway show tunes.
The major skit is a spoof of the 1944 film "National Velvet" with Carol as the girl who loves horses and Tim Conway as a trainer. Burnett and Lawrence do the musical numbers "I'm Not at All in Love", "A Wonderful Guy", and "I'm Not Getting Married Today". For the finale, a salute to Las Vegas with Carol as a snooty Hollywood actress, Harvey Korman a famous pianist, and Tim Conway as a bumbling escape artist.
Guest Madeline Kahn plays a director/actress rehearsing with Eunice for a part in a play in another installment of "The Family"; Mr. Tudball does battle with a recalcitrant coffee vending machine; Carol and Madeline duet on "Friend", and take part in the "That's Showbiz" parody of "That's Entertainment".
Steve Lawrence plays an unfunny nightclub comic with Carol as his wife, heckling him into being funny. Steve also sings "I Write the Songs." The finale is a medley comparing old standards (Carol and Steve) with new hits (Vicki Lawrence and a rock group).
Mr. Tudball (Tim) gets into trouble with a newly-installed door buzzer system, and Mrs. Wiggins (Carol) is no help; a filmmaker (guest Roddy McDowall) wreaks havoc while attempting to film a documentary about a live operation in a hospital; Vicki sings "Hollywood Seven"; two Brits (Carol, Roddy) have an encounter in a London elevator where they speak in one-word sentences; and Carol, Harvey and Roddy perform a musical salute to silent movie comedians.
A distraught driver visits the man she'd backed over in a parking lot. Kay performs "Boys and Girls Like You and Me". In "The Family" sketch, Mickey celebrates five years working with Ed by inviting everyone to his apartment for a Chinese dinner. Carol and Kay sing a medley of songs about rain.
Business professionals (Carol and Harvey) discuss his marriage proposal in the style of a business meeting. Dinah Shore sings "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover". Tim's plays the oldest living butcher with Harvey as an impatient customer. "Went With The Wind," a "Gone With The Wind" spoof features Carol as Starlet O'Hara, Vicki as Sissy, Tim as Brashley Wilkes, Dinah as Melody, and Harvey as Capt. Rat Butler. A musical salute to New Orleans with "Basin Street Blues" as the centerpiece.
Tim plays the world's oldest hot dog vendor; Ken Berry sings "Love Stolen"; Carol plays "Mildred Fierce" (a takeoff on the 1945 Joan Crawford film "Mildred Pierce"), with Vicki as her daughter and Harvey as her suitor; for the finale, a musical salute to Johnny Mercer.
Sketches include: a love-triangle set in England; a Mrs. Wiggins sketch; Tim Conway plays a doddering violin repairman. The Pointer Sisters perform "Havin' a Party". For the finale, a salute to Ray Charles.
The opening sketch, "Sleep No More My Lady", casts Tim Conway as a klutzy husband trying to keep the kitchen quiet for his sleep-deprived wife (Carol). Then Carol returns for "The Session" with Alan King playing her psychiatrist. The episode's grand finale is a musical-comedy salute to Warner Bros. films and choreographer Busby Berkeley.
In another installment of "The Family", Betty White plays Eunice's snooty sister who comes to help clean out the attic and ends up telling Eunice what became of her beloved pet rabbit, Fluffy. Betty also appears with Carol in a sketch abut two former cheerleaders attending a "Class of '32" reunion. She then joins the cast in a tribute to the Ziegfeld Follies.
Tim Conway plays a "tough" police detective interrogating a couple of suspects (Harvey and Vicki Lawrence). Carol, dressed completely in white, then sings "My Coloring Book," with Dick Van Dyke sloshing paint on her as she mentions an emotion and its appropriate color. The highlight of the show is "Little Miss Show Biz," a song-and-dance parody of 20th Century Fox musicals with Shirley Temple.
Mr. Tudball treats Mrs. Wiggins to a lunch in honor of National Secretary Week; Harvey tries to pick up a chick in a swinging singles bar, and Carol is looking for a man in the same bar; miniseries parody "Rich Lady, Broke Lady"; the musical highlight is a special lyrics version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas".
A takeoff on the Barbra Streisand/Kris Kristofferson version of "A Star Is Born"; a group of scientists working on a vaccine for swine flu; and a sketch about a marriage with no romance left; Campbell sings "Southern Nights".
A couple bicker over a late-night "wrong number" phone call; a woman tries to liven up her life as a party is going on at the next apartment; the dancers perform a ballet to the music of "Nadia's Theme"; an inept, out-of-tune trio of musicians accompany an opera singer at a recital; a vacuum-cleaner salesman tries to peddle his wares to a housewife; and a "Late Late Late Show" presentation of "Torchy Song" (a spoof of the 1953 Joan Crawford film "Torch Song").
Mrs. Wiggins (Carol) has a millionaire date (guest Rock Hudson) for lunch, but she wants to dump him; Steve Lawrence sings "You Take My Heart Away"; a husband-and-wife news team bicker while anchoring a newscast; and a salute to the music of composer Jule Styne including including "People", "Together", "Small World" and "Everything's Coming up Roses".
In a "Tudball and Wiggins" skit, jealous Mrs. Tudball pays a surprise visit to her husband at the office; a man takes his wife out to dinner too soon after her recent nervous breakdown; two small-town girls arrive in the big city by bus and meet swingers posing as Hollywood moguls at the depot; Helen Reddy sings "Feelin' Too Good Today Blues" and does a medley of 1960s pop tunes with the cast.
Eunice prepares for an appearance on "The Gong Show" and bickers with Ed and Mama over the clothes she should wear for her appearance; Mr. Tudball tries to teach Mrs. Wiggins the ropes about Las Vegas gambling; a wealthy woman whose husband has been kidnapped is coached by a TV reporter who is interviewing her about the abduction; guest Eydie Gorme sings "What I Did for Love" and, for the finale, participates in a medley of movie music featuring such numbers as "Hooray for Hollywood", "Over the Rainbow", "San Francisco", "Born Free", "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" and "The Way We Were".
Guest Ben Vereen introduces his family during the opening question-and-answer segment; plays a divorce lawyer being courted in a restaurant by a bickering couple (Carol, Harvey); performs a musical number, "If You Believe"; and participates with the cast in a salute to composer Harold Arlen.
Ham actors Funt and Mundane's latest play is such a success that they're booked into larger and larger venues until they wind up in the massive "Astro-Bowl"; Tim plays the world's oldest ship skipper whose vessel crashes into everything; Hal performs "I Won't Last a Day Without You"; and a musical takeoff of "Show Boat".
Neil Sedaka takes part in another sketch of "kitchen commercials"; Tim plays the world's oldest-living airline baggage handler; a businessman summoned to an IRS meeting brags about how he outsmarted the government; and a sleepy housewife tries to get rid of late-staying guests.
Mr. Tudball has a hard time coordinating a fire-safety plan with Mrs. Wiggins before an inspector arrives; Tim plays a soldier stranded in a desert with a commanding officer who has a militant approach toward mirages; guest Ken Berry taps his way through "I Got Rhythm", and joins the cast in "Babes in Barns", a parody of 1930s Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland musicals.
Highlights of this 10th anniversary retrospective include: clips from prior shows, including the question-and-answer session of Carol's first show in 1967; her numerous array of characters including the Charwoman and Zelda; and vintage movie parodies and musical numbers with such guest stars as Mel Torme, Don Rickles, Vince Edwards, Steve Lawrence, Rock Hudson, Ken Berry, Mickey Rooney and Jim Nabors.
Guest Jim Nabors sings "After the Lovin'", and he and Carol play a married country music singing duo announcing their impending divorce; new regular Dick Van Dyke plays Ed's old Army buddy in "The Family"; Dick and Tim do a pantomime as two bumbling workmen installing a plate-glass window in a boutique; and for the finale, a spoof of TV all-star specials.
Tim plays beer-swilling private eye "Danny Draft", who has trouble believing a woman's claim that someone is out to murder her; guest Steve Lawrence sings "Every Time I Sing a Love Song", duets with Dick on "I Could Never Really Sing", and participates in skits about star holdouts on TV series; and a "Late, Late Movie" presentation of "Fran Sancisco" (a spoof of the 1936 film "San Francisco").
The wife of a busy company man takes drastic action in order to get his attention; Carol and Vicki sing "They Don't Make 'Em Like That Anymore"; a loser in life relates 26 years of woe to a total stranger; a favorite uncle gets an airport farewell; a steelworker gets ideas from the local newspaper on how to "accidentally" do in his wife; Dick and the dancers perform "Once in Love with Amy".
Mama drops in on a newly-divorced Eunice in "The Family"; Mr. Tudball offers to pay for the funeral of Mrs. Wiggins' deceased canary and then regrets it; a calvary officer and an Indian write a peace treaty that ends up anything but peaceful; and guest Nancy Dussault sings "And I Love You So", and joins Carol in a finale of tunes popularized by Ethel Merman and Mary Martin.
In a skit with no dialogue, a peeping Tom looks into a motel room; full-service vs. self-service gas station; a customer has a hard time with the electric company; foot musicians bare their soles; two circus acrobat couples with cheating hearts plan their exit strategies between turns on the trapeze; and for the finale, a musical salute to celebrity gossip magazines.
Mr. Tudball tries to paint the office with the help of his secretary Mrs. Wiggins; Ken Berry sings and dances to "Girls" and "Emily"; Dick Van Dyke plays an inept pianist; movie spoof "Stolen Serenade".
"The Family" gets into a tiff over a word game; Dick performs a medley of love songs, and appears as a TV announcer who is forced to fill in for the entire late movie; and Carol and Vicki sing "At the Ballet".
Invisible dogs attend obedience class; Carol and Dick play mirror image clowns in the musical number "It All Depends on You"; an insurance agent tries to sell a malpractice policy to a doctor; two uglies turn beautiful in "Enchanted Hovel", a spoof of the 1945 film "The Enchanted Cottage"; and for the finale, a musical salute to comic strips. This episode is noted as Show #1102 in the This Time Together DVD set.
Spoofs of the most unforgettable television commercials of the year; Mrs. Wiggins goes to Hawaii for a convention with Mr. and Mrs. Tudball; a divorced couple get together to reminisce about the bad old days; and Tim Conway and Dick Van Dyke play legendary baseball hall-of-fame players from the turn of the century. In the musical finale, Miss Burnett, Dick Van Dyke, and Ben Vereen sing songs of "Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow".
A salute to MGM, with spoofs of such films as "Boys Town", "Gigi", "Singin' in the Rain" and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"; a follow-up to a series of sketches about a construction worker seeking to do in his wife; and more kitchen commercials. Miss Burnett performs "Blue Moon" and "Better Luck Next Time".
Guest Bernadette Peters sings "You Never Done It Like That"; Mr. Tudball nudges Mrs. Wiggins to clean up her desk before a prospective client arrives; an office girl introduces her two best friends to one another during a lunch; a series of skits about doctors advertising on TV; Carol and Dick pantomime a candlelight dinner where they can't open the wine bottle; and a salute to Betty Comden and Adolph Green.
Guest Rock Hudson plays a smooth operator attempting to pick up a sexpot in a bar; a television crew fine-tunes the microphones during a news announcement; Carol and Rock play a slovenly couple who sing "What Do the Simple Folks Do?"; Eunice and Mickey try to coax Mama out of her house and into a retirement home in "The Family"; and for the finale, the cast sings and dances to "Ragging the Scale".
Mr. Tudball and Mrs. Wiggins enjoy a champagne-laden Christmas Eve; guest Helen Reddy sings "Blue"; a water department inspector causes a married couple to feud; Ken Berry and the dancers perform "Song and Dance Man"; and a "Persons Weekly" magazine sketch.
A World War II spy caper; a robber has trouble communicating his demands to a Romanian-speaking storekeeper; Steve sings "We're All Alone", Carol performs "You Light Up My Life", and Carol, Steve and Vicki perform a medley of hit songs from the past 11 years.
Eunice's brother Phillip, a world-renowned writer, stays over with "The Family" while in town; a silent sketch involving a championship pool game from 1908 between two players; and "High Hat", a spoof of 1930's Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers musicals.
Carol and Tim mime changes in characters as they are developed by an author; a vice-president of sales demonstrates a new safety lid for medicine bottles; a park sketch about an old woman and invalid; guest Eydie Gorme sings "Come In from the Rain"; and for the close, a salute to the Big Band era.
A reunion between a long-separated brother and sister; spoofs of current TV commercials; and a voiceover-based sketch about the real thoughts about a boss and his secretary during an after-hours session. Musical performances from guests Steve Lawrence ("By Myself") and The Captain & Tennille ("Gentle Stranger").
Guests Ken Berry and Natalie Cole appear in vignettes about television's influence on viewers; a pantomimed tiff between a married couple; and a salute to the "mean and evil ladies" of popular songs. Musical performances from guest Natalie Cole ("Our Love"), Ken Berry ("Savin' the Best for You"), and the cast gets together for "Tall People".
A salute to Warner Bros., with parodies of such films as "Mr. Skeffington" and "Yankee Doodle Dandy"; a woman can't get an immigrant store clerk to understand she needs an antidote for a poison; Indians trap two Revolutionary War soldiers in a log cabin; Carol sings "The Shortest Love Song", and duets with Ken on "The Singles Bar".
A couple, thinking the plane they're in is in danger of crashing, own up to marital infidelities; a Broadway star fears she will be recognized in a greasy spoon; guest Steve Lawrence sings "Isn't She Lovely"; and Mr. Tudball takes a call from Mrs. Wiggins' car repairman, thinking it's her doctor.
An installment of "As the Stomach Turns" with a close encounter of a different kind; guest Steve Martin attempts to perform a comic act for dogs; a deranged bag lady (Carol) gets an older middle-class man (Tim) into trouble; Mama and Eunice visit Ellen (guest Betty White) and wreak havoc there in another "Family" sketch; and a "Late, Late Movie" presentation of "Beach Blanket Boo-Boo" (a spoof of 1960's "Beach Party" movies with Steve in the Frankie Avalon role and Carol as Annette Funicello).
A doctor about to take a trip to Hawaii gets a going-away gift from his patients, but their neuroses ruin the festivities; guest George Carlin spoofs record offer advertisements; a recurring series of sketches of a construction worker seeking several ways to try to get rid of his wife; Ken and Vicki perform "My Cutie's Due at Two-to-Two Today" with the dancers; a dentist wreaks revenge on her ex-husband who's her patient; and for the close, a musical finale about two penniless bums.
A pantomime about a doughboy saying goodbye to his sweetheart; musical performances from guests Steve Lawrence ("Weekend in New England", "Here's That Rainy Day") and Bernadette Peters ("Jump Shout Boogie"; and for the close, a salute to composer Cole Porter.
Clips from prior shows; a question-and-answer session involving the cast; new sketches where Mr. Tudball is moving his office but does not give Mrs. Wiggins the new address; in "The Family" Eunice and Mama see a psychiatrist; a surprise cameo by Jimmy Stewart; and the Charwoman closes up shop for the last time.
Enjoy this incredible laugh-filled reunion featuring bloopers from the classic sketch-comedy show. Join Carol, Harvey, Vicki and Tim as they reminisce with the audience on out-takes and "leave-ins", and feature a special salute to the series' wardrobe designer Bob Mackey.
For 11 smash-hit seasons Carol's cry, "Let's Bump Up The Lights!" was the signal for something unexpected to begin. Now you can enjoy a sensational hour of spontaneous moments captured in the legendary Question and Answer segment of every Carol Burnett Show. Here, Carol Burnett and her incredibly talented cast of Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Tim Conway and Lyle Waggoner are reunited before a live audience to relive, recount and remember their favorite moments from interacting with the show's studio audiences.
Featurette with the exasperated Mr. Tudball and Mrs. Whiggins.
Reunion with Carol, Vicki Lawrence, Tim Conway, Lyle Waggoner
Cast reunion with Carol Burnett, Vicki Lawrence, Tim Conway and Lyle Waggoner.
Carol and Company Return to Studio 33
Uncut "Q&A" segment from Show #003.
From show #411 with Don Rickels as a frustrated house painter.
from show #301 featuring the first appearance of Tim Conway's "Oldest Man" character.
Featuring the "Home Beautiful" sketch
Featuring Carol Burnett in the 'Cinderella' sketch--with Carol as Cinderella.
Episode featuring Carol Burnett's last appearance as a member of the cast.
Garry has a brief intro then Alan King does a stand up routine about dog ownership. Durward Kirby plays a cautious matador. Carol Burnett portrays "Supergirl" which was Carol's first Tarzan yell on television. The show salutes 1921 in the year that was.
Interview with Harvey Korman, reminiscing about The Carol Burnett Show and other career highlights. (Taped in Los Angeles)
Featurette: Leading Lady - Carol Burnett as a Television Pioneer
From Show #120 With Tim Conway and Harvey Korman.
A rare interview with Harvey Korman and Tim Conway, talking about their 10 years together on the Carol Burnett Show.
A fabulous collection of sketches and songs. Zero Mostel performs If I Were a Rich Man from Fiddler on the Roof. The program was written by Nat Hiken (Sgt. Bilko, Car 54 Where Are You)
With Lucille Ball
With Bing Crosby and cameo by Bob Hope
The Ensemble Chemistry and Famous "Break-Ups" on The Carol Burnett Show.
A Celebration of the Movie Parodies
Society Marriage with Jerry Lewis
Additional Interview continued from earlier. Included on Exclusive Bonus Features!
Talks about characters he would like to do again.
Second Part of Harvey Korman Remembers. Recorded in LA
Parody of Sunset Boulevard with Carol and Harvey Korman
About the TV Parodies
A virtual tour through the season, with Carol's guests.
The Carol Burnett Show turns 50 and to celebrate the momentous occasion, CBS honors the groundbreaking comedy series with The Carol Burnett 50th Anniversary Special. This one-night event, which filmed at the series' original soundstage at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, features Burnett, original cast members Vicki Lawrence and Lyle Waggoner, costume designer Bob Mackie, and a slew of special guests, including Jim Carrey, Kristin Chenoweth, Stephen Colbert, Harry Connick Jr., Bill Hader, Jay Leno, Jane Lynch, Bernadette Peters, Maya Rudolph, and Martin Short.
Cast reunion with Carol Burnett, Vicki Lawrence, Tim Conway and Lyle Waggoner
Interview with Harvey Korman, Reminiscing about The Carol Burnett Show and Other Career Highlights (taped in Los Angeles, April, 2004)
Interview with Harvey Korman, reminiscing about his career (taped in Los Angeles, April, 2004)
The first time Carol does "The Tarzan" yell.
Bonus Feature on The Final Show
Carol Burnett joins Dolly Parton for a night of music and comedy at The Grand Ole Opry. Includes a couple of original songs ("What Am I Doing Up Here?," "No One Picks Like a Nashville Picker Picks"), a gospel medley, a heart-song medley, and a sketch featuring Burnett's real-life daughter, Erin Hamilton.
Julie & Carol unite for a third television special at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood.
Compilation of moments from Carol Burnett’s specials dating back to 1962.
Carol Burnett satirizes movies: Double Indemnity, & Remains of the Day. Plus a melodious tribute to MGM musicals.
Carol Burnett interviewed by Regis Philbin, Whoopi Goldberg, Charles Osgood, David Letterman & Rosie O'Donnell
It showcases Carol's close friends, colleagues, and admirers for a night of musical performances and tributes.
