The Carol Burnett Show (1961)
The Carol Burnett Show (1961)
The Carol Burnett Show is an American variety/sketch comedy television show starring Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner, and Tim Conway. It originally ran on CBS from September 11, 1967, to March 29, 1978, for 278 episodes and originated from CBS Television City's Studio 33. The series won 25 prime time Emmy Awards, was ranked No. 16 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time in 2002 and in 2007 was listed as one of Time magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All Time."

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4x01 with Jim Nabors

14 September, 1970 8:00 am
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.

4x02 with Cass Elliott, Pat Paulsen

21 September, 1970 8:00 am
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".

4x03 with Nanette Fabray, Steve Lawrence

28 September, 1970 8:00 am
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).

4x04 with Eydie Gorme, Joan Rivers

05 October, 1970 8:00 am
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.

4x05 with Nanette Fabray, Ken Berry

12 October, 1970 8:00 am
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.

4x06 with Lucille Ball, Mel Tormé

19 October, 1970 8:00 am
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?".

4x07 with Donald O'Connor, Bernadette Peters

26 October, 1970 9:00 am
A spoof of 1940s "Hollywood Canteen" movies; Miss Peters offers "Come Saturday Morning"; O'Connor performs "Somethin's Coming Over Me".

4x08 with Ricardo Montalbán, Cass Elliot

02 November, 1970 9:00 am
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.

4x09 with Juliet Prowse

09 November, 1970 9:00 am
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.

4x10 with Martha Raye, Ross Martin

16 November, 1970 9:00 am
Martin, as Carl Sandburg, recites the poet's "Love"; guests and cast regulars spoof a popular musical series.

4x11 with Dyan Cannon, Paul Lynde

23 November, 1970 9:00 am
Main comedy sketch spoofs soap operas; Miss Burnett (as the Charwoman) sings "Try To Remember"; entire cast salutes Thanksgiving.

4x12 with Debbie Reynolds, John Davidson

30 November, 1970 9:00 am
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".

4x13 with Mel Torme, Don Rickles

07 December, 1970 9:00 am
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.

4x14 with Steve Lawrence, Julie Budd, and Durward Kirby

14 December, 1970 9:00 am
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".

4x15 with Pat Carroll, Robert Goulet, Rich Little

28 December, 1970 9:00 am
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".

4x16 with Art Carney, Pat Carroll

04 January, 1971 9:00 am
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.

4x17 with Jerry Lewis, Lesley Uggams

11 January, 1971 9:00 am
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.

4x18 with Michele Lee, Mel Torme

18 January, 1971 9:00 am
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".

4x19 with Martha Raye, Edward Villella, and Violette Verdy

25 January, 1971 9:00 am
"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.

4x20 with Rita Hayworth, Jim Bailey

01 February, 1971 9:00 am
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.

4x21 with Ken Berry, Totie Fields

15 February, 1971 9:00 am
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".

4x22 with Chita Rivera, Bob Newhart

22 February, 1971 9:00 am
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.

4x23 with Pat Carroll, Karen Wyman, and Tim Conway

01 March, 1971 9:00 am
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.

4x24 with Mike Douglas, Bernadette Peters

08 March, 1971 9:00 am
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".

4x25 with David Frost, Eileen Farrell, Marilyn Horne

22 March, 1971 9:00 am
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.

4x26 with Paul Lynde, Nanette Fabray

29 March, 1971 9:00 am
"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).

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