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Laugh-In Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 1970 - 1971
Episode 1
Guest Starring Art Carney
Mon, Sep 14, 197052 mins
Sketches include Intro to Lily's tasteful lady and Ruth's friendly lady (hooker), Art's employment agency, Cocktail party, Tyrone F. Hornie and Gladys, Dick Martin swizzlers, Sneak a peek at stiffie, Art and the electric chair, News of the past, present, and future, and Jilly says goodnight. Featuring Art Carney, Chet Dowling, Jilly Rizzo, and Carol Ann Richards.
Episode 2
Guest Star Don Rickles
Mon, Sep 21, 197052 mins
Don Rickles returns and helps the cast look at showbiz, including a used joke lot. Ruth and Barbara sing the news theme as wooden soldiers.
Episode 3
Guest Starring Goldie Hawn
Mon, Sep 28, 197051 mins
Goldie Hawn returns. Ruth Buzzi, Lily Tomlin, Alan Sues, and Goldie sing a song regarding the rumors about Goldie's life. The cast takes a look at women's lib. Goldie as Sparkle Farkel brings her fiancee to meet the family.
Episode 4
Guest Starring Ken Berry
Mon, Oct 5, 197052 mins
Guest Ken Berry portrays a tap dancer, a stockbroker, and King Henry VIII at his worse in various skits. The entire cast takes a humorous look at the funeral business. The Department of Interior is awarded the Fickle Finger of Fate.
Episode 5
Guest Starring Tim Conway
Mon, Oct 12, 197060 mins
Guest Tim Conway plays a typist with wastebasket troubles in office runners, as well as a caveman, a ballet dancer, a hard hat, the gatekeeper at TV Show Heaven, and Flipper, the long-lost member of the Farkel family. Dan and Dick introduce Tim to new cast members; Alan Sues and Henry Gibson play Mounties; quickies; Dick describes his Uncle Luke the milkman; cocktail party; Tim discusses the cancellations of his various TV shows; new talent is the Ransohoff Twins from Gary, Indiana; Edith Ann samples beer; Henry recites his baked beans poem; Eskimo runners; Farkel family; a verbal address from the Resident of the U.S., who is actually Dick Martin; Tim and Ruth Buzzi dress as ballet dancers to introduce the news; busybody Buzzi dishes on Hollywood actors' insurance policies; a salute to the world of alcohol; and Dick closes the show by telling late comers who appeared on the show tonight. Jilly Rizzo says goodnight.
Episode 6
Guest Starring Zero Mostel
Mon, Oct 19, 197051 mins
Cocktail party; quickies; breakfast in bed runners; Arte plays a magician; Suzy Sorority makes an appearance; Dick Martin and Ruth Buzzi's Swizzlers characters return; Gladys Ormsby dishes on fashion trends and then places a belly dancer with Tyrone as her only audience member; director Dan Rowan auditions Zero Mostel to play Hamlet; Alan Sues takes a turn as Cinderella's fairy godmother; Zero and the female regulars dress as Russian dancers to introduce the news; Flying Fickle Finger of Fate Award goes to a senator's wife for blasting the education system; Dennis Allen plays a toothache patient in doorknob runners; Zero pantomimes a typical day in the life of a family man and breadwinner seeking peace and quiet; a look at the Mafia begins with Zero and the cast in formal wear performing the Naughty Mobster Tango; Barbara Sharma in toaster runners; Ernestine wants her pal Venetia to join her for cocktails with grabby Mr. Ziflanger; and a visit with the Big White House on the Hill and its current occupant. Don Ho and David Frost are featured.
Episode 7
Orson Welles
Mon, Oct 26, 197052 mins
Halloween special Boo-In sketches include Things that go bump in the night song, Ruth the fortune teller, Orson and Alan's monster sketch, Spooky cocktail party, Vincent on the joke wall, Trick or treat runners, Orson goes to the dry cleaner's, and Witch burning. Featuring Orson Welles, Billy Barnes, and Vincent Price.
Episode 8
Guest Star Carol Channing
Mon, Nov 2, 197052 mins
Carol Channing returns and helps the cast salute mothers. She also sings the news theme as Marlena Dietrich. Dan Rowan plays a psychiatrist trying to help cast members.
Episode 9
Guest Star Carl Reiner
Mon, Nov 9, 197052 mins
Guest Carl Reiner portrays William Shakespeare and the first occupant of a honeymoon suite. He appears as Marty Farkel in a Farkel family skit. The Mod Mod World looks at the news media.
Episode 10
Bob Newhart
Mon, Nov 16, 197052 mins
Bob Newhart comes on to play Adam to Ruth Buzzi's Eve and try to make a Burbank 12 Days of Christmas. Dick wears a skirt during the monologue and Mod Mod World looks at the weird world.
Episode 11
Guest Starring Desi Arnaz
Mon, Nov 23, 197052 mins
The show welcomes Desi Arnaz who plays a sky jacker and a bum. Arte Johnson tries to fix a sink which refuses to work. The cast features the world of brevity. Dennis as Eric Clarified discusses troop withdrawal.
Episode 12
Ricardo Montalbán
Mon, Nov 30, 197052 mins
Sketches include Bill and Flip visit Dick, Shoe store visit, Missing person, Personality cocktails, Ernestine calls Gore Vidal, Alan Sues as the frog Prince, Mod, Mod world of education, Tribute to William Buckley and Ruth at computer school. Featuring Ricardo Montalban, Vincent Price, Peter Lawford, Gore Vidal, Bill Cosby and Flip Wilson.
Episode 13
Phil Silvers
Mon, Dec 7, 197051 mins
Sketches include Rod's Twilight Zone visits Laugh-In, Phil intros catch phrases, the Mod, Mod world of comics, Visual comedy, Salute to mothers-in-law, Eskimo weather report, Mean nurse quickies, and Tyrone F. Horneigh visits Lily's proper lady. Featuring Phil Silvers, Rod Sterling, Jilly Rizzo and Don Ho.
Episode 14
Guest Starring Debbie Reynolds
Mon, Dec 14, 197051 mins
Guest Debbie Reynolds portrays Charlie Chaplin and a circus knife thrower. She plays a flight attendant for Burbank Airlines. The Farkel family welcomes Fifi the black sheep who's Debbie. The cast parodies old time movie stars.
Episode 15
William F. Buckley Jr.
Mon, Dec 28, 197051 mins
The cast does a year end review of 1970. Political conservative William F. Buckley offers commentary on women's lib and the population explosion.
Episode 16
Guest Star Sammy Davis Jr.
Mon, Jan 4, 197152 mins
Guest Sammy Davis Jr., who is diminutive, squares off against the extremely tall Wilt Chamberlain. The comedy troupe looks at ethnic humor with Johnny Brown and Sammy recreating their version of Amos n Andy.
Episode 17
So Long to Cigarette Commercials
Mon, Jan 11, 197151 mins
Sketches include Alan gives Dinah singing lessons, News of the future predicts a stock market collapse, Surviving pollution, Gore discusses political science very carefully, Return of the Swizzlers, Cameo one-liners, Ruth presents army quickies, Quickies with Sammy and Arte, and Gladys and Tyrone F. Hornie get romantic. Featuring Johnny Carson, Dinah Shore, Gore Vidal, and Phyllis Diller.
Episode 18
Joey Bishop
Mon, Jan 18, 197151 mins
Sketches include A spotlight falls on Joey Bishop, Dick Martin as Martino the Magician, Marathon dance stars, Shirley Temple blackouts, Joey rap quickies, Ali Baba runner, knitting runner, the Mod, Mod world of prisons, Electric chair runner, Prison visit, Parole board, Playground update, and Ruth's Hollywood news. Featuring Joey Bishop, David Steinberg, Ralph Edwards, Jilly Rizzo.
Episode 19
Guest Starring Andy Griffith
Mon, Jan 25, 197152 mins
Andy Griffith visits beautiful downtown Burbank and helps the cast look at big cities. Wilt Chamberlain also guests and gets a lot of tall jokes.
Episode 20
Claudine Longet, Marcello Mastroianni, Louis Nye
Mon, Feb 1, 197152 mins
Marcello Mastroianni, Claudine Longet and Louis Nye join the fun as the cast salutes air travel.
Episode 21
Dinah Shore
Mon, Feb 8, 197151 mins
Guest Dinah Shore makes fun of her image as a fan dancer. An comedy skit is built around Shore's smile. Laugh In cast looks at the working girl. Robinson Crusoe is "welcomed" home by his wife, portrayed by Dinah.
Episode 22
Truman Capote, Chuck Connors, Sam Yorty
Mon, Feb 15, 197152 mins
Truman Capote makes a rare appearance to be interviewed by Dan and Dick and ridicule Jacqueline Susann, while the cast leaves them laughing.
Episode 23
Peter Lawford
Mon, Feb 22, 197151 mins
Sketches include George Raft threatens the cast, Lily gets breakfast in bed while cheating on Dick with Dennis, Dick runs an adult bookstore, Hippie hitchhiker quickies, Alan in Cinderella runners, the Mod, Mod world of psychiatry, George Raft meets Lily's tasteful lady and Peter holds a press conference . Featuring Peter Lawford, George Raft, Jilly Rizzo and David Steinberg.
Episode 24
Guest Starring Richard Crenna
Mon, Mar 1, 197152 mins
Laugh In's Mod World puts the spotlight on religion. Guest Richard Crenna portrays a clergyman, a lion, then is an agency spokesman that has been housing the poor in ritzy hotels. Richard baptizes Dennis Allen then heads to the White House with Dan and Dick.
Episode 25
Jack Benny, Johnny Carson, Bill Cosby, Sammy Davis Jr., Rich Little, Roger Miller, Claudine Longet, Rod Serling, Jilly Rizzo, Gore Vidal
Mon, Mar 8, 197152 mins
The quickies center on psychiatry. Mod, Mod World looks at the F.B.I. The Farkels are reunited with long lost family member: French Fry. Jack Benny plugs his upcoming special. Gladys attempts to clean Tyrone's apartment.
Episode 26
Herschel Bernardi, Chuck Connors, Tim Conway, Phyllis Diller, Fernando Lamas, Louis Nye, George Raft
Mon, Mar 15, 197152 mins
The Mod World looks at the Cuckoo Laugh-In World with all of the cast's recurring characters. Many bloopers are interspersed with quickies and runners. Celebrity guests describe celebrity cocktails. A bunch of Durante's introduce the news.