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".