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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6x01 with Jim Nabors

15 September, 1972 8:00 am
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.

6x02 with Carol Channing, Marty Feldman

20 September, 1972 8:00 am
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.

6x03 with Andy Griffith, Helen Reddy

27 September, 1972 8:00 am
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".

6x04 with Steve Lawrence, Paul Sand

04 October, 1972 8:00 am
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").

6x05 with Eydie Gorme, Jack Gilford

11 October, 1972 8:00 am
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.

6x06 with Joel Grey, Cass Elliott

18 October, 1972 8:00 am
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".

6x07 with Tim Conway, Pearl Bailey

25 October, 1972 8:00 am
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".

6x08 with Peggy Lee, Jerry Stiller, and Anne Meara

01 November, 1972 8:00 am
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".

6x09 with Steve Lawrence, Lily Tomlin

08 November, 1972 8:00 am
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").

6x10 with Ruth Buzzi, John Davidson

15 November, 1972 8:00 am
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.

6x11 with Ray Charles, Vincent Price

22 November, 1972 8:00 am
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".

6x12 with Carl Reiner, Melba Moore

29 November, 1972 8:00 am
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".

6x13 with Anthony Newley, Bernadette Peters

16 December, 1972 8:00 am
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".

6x14 with Steve Lawrence, Tim Conway

23 December, 1972 8:00 am
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.

6x15 with Jack Cassidy, Tim Conway

06 January, 1973 8:00 am
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.

6x16 with Ruth Buzzi, Jack Gilford

20 January, 1973 8:00 am
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.

6x17 with Tim Conway, Kaye Ballard

27 January, 1973 8:00 am
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".

6x18 Family Show

03 February, 1973 8:00 am
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.

6x19 with Petula Clark, Jack Byner

10 February, 1973 8:00 am
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.

6x20 with Tim Conway, Valerie Harper

17 February, 1973 8:00 am
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".

6x21 with Eydie Gorme, Ken Berry

24 February, 1973 8:00 am
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".

6x22 with David Hartman, Paula Kelly

10 March, 1973 8:00 am
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".

6x23 with Peggy Lee, William Conrad

17 March, 1973 8:00 am
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".

6x24 Family Show

24 March, 1973 9:00 am
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.

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