Laugh-In
This show popularized a rapid style of vignette comedy show where comedy sketches, punch-lines and gags are edited together in a rapid and almost random format. Regular trademark elements included the joke wall, the dancing women painted with one-liners and the fickle finger of fate award. This series inspired such shows as Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969) and Sesame Street (1969).
- 1967-1973
- 6 seasons
- NBC
- Comedy, Music
- TV-PG
This show popularized a rapid style of vignette comedy show where comedy sketches, punch-lines and gags are edited together in a rapid and almost random format. Regular trademark elements included the joke wall, the dancing women painted with one-liners and the fickle finger of fate award. This series inspired such shows as Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969) and Sesame Street (1969).
Season 1 Episode Guide
15 Episodes 1967 - 1968
Episode 0
Pilot
Sat, Sep 9, 1967 53 mins
Dan Rowan and Dick Martin host a Laugh-In. Along with Barbara Feldon, Pamela Austin, Judy Carne, Ken Berry, Henry Gibson, Larry Hovis and others. With segments like "The Cocktail Party", "New Talent Department", "Mod Mod Mod Mod World", "The News From 1987" and a little history. With the success of the special, it made a hit show in 1968.
Episode 1
Premiere - Barbara Feldon, Flip Wilson, Leo G. Carroll, Lorne Greene, Buddy Hackett, Sheldon Leonard, Tiny Tim, The Strawberry Alarm Clock
Mon, Jan 22, 1968 52 mins
Tiny Tim makes his network TV debut. Arte Johnson debuts his spunky senior citizen Tyrone Horneigh character; Laugh-In news of the past, present, and future - normally introduced by the ladies in costumes; body graffiti on dancing ladies; caveman Flip Wilson auctioning off the Kentucky Colonel; Sock It To Me debuts; the Mod World looks at Higher Education; and a Joke Wall finale.
Episode 2
Robert Culp, Flip Wilson, The First Edition, Leo G. Carroll, Sheldon Leonard, Tommy Smothers
Mon, Jan 29, 1968 52 mins
Judy Carne doesn't recognize Robert Culp when she sees him at the cocktail party; Eileen Brennan sings a crossing guard song; a sequel to Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; the cast performs a salute to smoking; election update; crazy elevator blackouts; Henry Gibson reads a poem, which will become his weekly trademark; Flip Wilson on the neighborhood news; tribute to obesity song; and the Joke Wall. Goldie Hawn's first series appearance in a short cameo. The First Edition performs.
Episode 3
Tim Conway, Cher, Lorne Greene, Sheldon Leonard, Tiny Tim, Flip Wilson
Mon, Feb 5, 1968 52 mins
Goldie Hawn joins the cast as a regular performer. Cher plays Pocahontas; cocktail party; Tim Conway and Cher's Canadian Mountie duet; Laugh-In does Shakespeare; a salute to censorship; Tim Conway appears in Olympic athlete blackouts; and Joke Wall finale.
Episode 4
Pamela Austin, Don Adams, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Mon, Feb 12, 1968 52 mins
Sketches include Mod Mod World of medicine, Hospital germ sketch, Introduction of classified ads, Wet weather report, Lady Godiva Interview, Paul Gilbert juggling, First intestinal microscopic camera, the girls sing a pill song, and the Joke Wall. Featuring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Walter Slezak, Don Adams, and Pam Austin.
Episode 5
Dinah Shore, Walter Slezak, Peter Lawford, Kaye Ballard, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Mon, Feb 19, 1968 52 mins
Mod, Mod World of Fashion and Glamour, Cocktail Party, Goldie body graffiti, Tribute to mothers-in-law, Glamour Song, Protest Song (I hate everything), Jungle blackouts and the Little Girl News of the past, present, and future. Featuring Dinah Shore, Walter Slazak, Peter Lawford, Kay Ballard and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Episode 6
Larry Storch, Connie Stevens, Nancy Ames, Buddy Hackett, Jerry Lewis, Leonard Nimoy, Ed Platt, Dinah Shore, The Temptations
Mon, Feb 26, 1968 52 mins
Mod, Mod World looks at vacations.
Episode 7
Sally Field, Terry-Thomas, Joby Baker, Godfrey Cambridge, Jerry Lewis, John Wayne
Mon, Mar 4, 1968 52 mins
Terry-Thomas impersonates Moses in the news of the past while Sally Field performs the news song with the other girls, all dressed as French maids. John Wayne finally appears in person, to Dick's disbelief. England's present is contrasted with it's glorious history in the regular feature Mod Mod World.
Episode 8
Barbara Feldon, Sonny Bono, Cher, Pat Morita, Paul Winchell, Anissa Jones, Jerry Lewis, Dinah Shore, John Wayne
Mon, Mar 11, 1968 52 mins
Sketches include Cocktail Party, Sonny and Seal, Paul dummy disaster, Paul Revere, Military News Song, News of the past, present, and future, Leprechaun interview, Undertaker production, Maude's world of the hereafter, and Fortune teller. Featuring Pat Morita, John Wayne, Barbara Feldon, Jerry Lewis, Cher, and Sonny.
Episode 9
Joey Bishop & Sammy Davis, Jr.
Mon, Mar 25, 1968 52 mins
Laugh-In salutes the Olympics.
Episode 10
Barbara Feldon, Flip Wilson, The Bee Gees
Mon, Apr 1, 1968 52 mins
Mod, Mod World looks at communication.
Episode 11
Flip Wilson, Hugh Downs, James Garner, John Wayne
Mon, Apr 8, 1968 52 mins
Sketches include Cocktail Party, Telephone Player David Lipp is the new talent, Lucky Pierre and the Dying Dummy, USO dancers under attack, First Astronaut comes back and a salute to the female Spirit of Adventure. Featuring Paul Winchell as Lucky Pierre, Flip Wilson, Hugh Downs and cameos by James Garner and John Wayne.
Episode 12
Kaye Ballard, Harry Belafonte, Shelley Berman, James Garner, John Wayne, Flip Wilson
Mon, Apr 15, 1968 52 mins
Mod, Mod World looks at law and justice.
Episode 13
Barbara Feldon, Tim Conway, Shelley Berman, Johnny Carson, Hugh Downs, John Wayne, Flip Wilson
Mon, Apr 22, 1968 52 mins
Gladys Ormphby tells Dick to forget about her, then meets meets Tyrone for the first time. Lucky Pierre makes tries to get his dummy act right for the third time. "Tributes to Great Men" focuses on the life of Dr. Elias Nobel.
Episode 14
Pamela Austin, Milton Berle, Shelley Berman, Joey Bishop, Jill St. John, Tiny Tim, John Wayne, Flip Wilson
Mon, Apr 29, 1968 52 mins
Tiny Tim makes his triumphant return.
