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The Carol Burnett Show Season 3 Episodes

27 Episodes 1969 - 1970

Episode 1

Rock Hudson and Jim Nabors

Mon, Sep 22, 196960 mins

Jim Nabors, a Burnett good luck charm, helps Carol kick off the new season. Jim plays a bachelor dating neighbor Carol whose apartment is fortified with burglar alarms. Nabors also sings "Turn Around, Look at Me" and joins Carol and associates in "The First Day at School". Carol revives her Fireside girl, Alice Portnoy, and her Charwoman, and appears in a house-moving skit with Harvey Korman and Vicki Lawrence.

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Episode 2

Bernadette Peters, Nancy Wilson, & the Burgundy Street Singers

Mon, Sep 29, 196960 mins

Highlights include: "They Don't Make Them Like That Anymore", a spoof of 1930s films; musical performances by guests Nancy Wilson ("Can't Take My Eyes Off You"), Bernadette Peters ("Poor Butterfly") and the Burgundy Street Singers ("Marrakesh Express"); and Carol, Harvey, Vicki and Lyle in a satirical TV show from the California White House.

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Episode 3

Steve Lawrence and Edward Villella

Mon, Oct 6, 196960 mins

Ballet dancer Edward Villella performs to music from the opera "Prince Igor," after which Charwoman Carol comes on for a dream dance with her hero. Steve and Carol take off on a medley of songs with numbers in their titles and Steve sings "The Drifter" on his own. Other segments include a bit with Carol and Harvey as the old folks on the porch, and another with the two of them as the married couple who hire decorator Lyle Waggoner.

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Episode 4

Bobbie Gentry and Scoey Mitchell

Mon, Oct 13, 196960 mins

Comedy sketches concern the first Negro president, royalty, old folks and a "sample" family.

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Episode 5

Ken Berry, Tim Conway, and Kay Medford

Mon, Oct 20, 196960 mins

In a vaudeville segment, Tim Conway plays a bumbling acrobat. Carol is a dance hall Mom to daughter Vicki Lawrence in a tearful melodrama. Ken Berry dances to "Down By the Winegar Woiks". Also, Carol and Ken Berry play a computer-matched couple singing love songs. Tim and Harvey do a skit about a homesick truck driver. Kay Medford pops up as a sister-in-law in the weekly "Carol and Sis" routine.

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Episode 6

Pat Boone, Gwen Verdon

Mon, Nov 3, 196960 mins

Broadway legend Gwen Verdon and Pat Boone are Carol's guests in this episode, which features the pair in an installment of "As The Stomach Turns." Also: Carol plays a stage actress battling the flu.

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Episode 7

Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, and Rowan & Martin

Mon, Nov 10, 196960 mins

Highlights of this show with guests Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, and Rowan & Martin include: a salute to Paramount Pictures, with Bing recalling his days in "Road" movies, Carol as Marlene Dietrich, Dan Rowan and Carol reprising the sleeping bag scene from "For Whom the Bell Tolls", and a musical tribute to the Marx Brothers; and musical numbers including Ella singing "Get Ready", Bing and Carol performing "Flattery", Ella and Carol duetting on "I'll Never Fall in Love Again", Ella and Bing rendering "Moon River" and "Call Me Irresponsible", and Carol singing "Falling in Love Again"; plus a surprise cameo by Bob Hope.

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Episode 8

Merv Griffin and Andy Griffith

Mon, Nov 17, 196960 mins

Andy Griffith joins Carol in a musical hillbilly version of "Cinderella," handling the narration and appearing as Mr. Prince, and Harvey Korman is the Fairy Godfather. In other spots, Griffith becomes a cop who treats wife Carol like a suspect, and Miss Burnett recites a poem sent in by a youngster. In the "Carol and Sis" segment, Harvey Korman is the TV football fan who ignores his family during the weekend.

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Episode 9

Lucille Ball and George Carlin

Mon, Nov 24, 196960 mins

Highlights include: a stand-up routine from guest George Carlin criticizing the Emmy Awards' bias in favor of big-budget shows; a spoof of "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice"; two airline stewardesses (Carol and guest Lucille Ball) compete for a "best employee" award and end up foiling an airline hijacking; Lyle and Vicki perform "Try a Little Kindness"; and Carol and Lucy as two old-time vaudeville performers being invited by a disc jockey (George) to perform at a rock concert.

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Episode 10

Tim Conway and Martha Raye

Mon, Dec 8, 196960 mins

Highlights include a salute to 20th Century-Fox Studios.

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Episode 11

Durward Kirby and Garry Moore

Mon, Dec 15, 196960 mins

The accent is on the holiday season when Carol Burnett's old friends Garry Moore and Durward Kirby drop In for their annual visit. Carol and Harvey play the old folks as they reminisce about their marriage. Moore and Kirby play opposing attorneys in the courtroom trial of Mrs. Peter Piper, whose husband picked a peck of pickled peppers. Miss Burnett recites an original Christmas-poem and solos "Make Your Own Kind of Music" and later joins the Bob Mitchell Boys Choir in singing "Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown?" Garry Moore assists Durward Kirby in delivering some "commercials" merchandising gifts for kids. In the "Carol and Sis" sketch, Carol throws a tantrum when husband Korman hosts his poker club.

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Episode 12

Donald O'Connor and Nancy Wilson

Mon, Dec 29, 196960 mins

Highlights include a salute to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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Episode 13

Audrey Meadows and Kaye Stevens

Mon, Jan 5, 197060 mins

Guest Kaye Stevens solos on the song "Eli's Coming." She is joined by Carol for "Games People Play." The cast does the skit As the Stomach Turns. They also spoof TV weddings.

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Episode 14

Nanette Fabray, Steve Lawrence, and Nancy Wilson

Mon, Jan 12, 197060 mins

Highlights: First "Mrs. Wiggins" sketch, Steve Lawrence sings "In The Still of the Night," tribute to Glenn Miller with "Moonlight Serenade" and "Pennsylvania 6-5000".

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Episode 15

Vikki Carr and Flip Wilson

Mon, Jan 19, 197060 mins

Highlights include: "Mission: Improbable" (a spoof of "Mission: Impossible").

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Episode 16

Ronald Reagan, Soupy Sales, and Mel Torme

Mon, Jan 26, 197060 mins

Features Carol as the overbearing money collector for the Fireside Girls harassing, then blackmailing, a man at the hospital, and as Mildred Fierce, a parody of Joan Crawford.

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Episode 17

Barbara Feldon and Joan Rivers

Mon, Feb 2, 197060 mins

Highlights include: Harvey as "Burt Sparks", host of the "Miss Globe" contest, with Carol and guests Barbara Feldon and Joan Rivers as the three finalists; "The Old Folks" sit around the porch and wonder about what different activities to do; Barbara performs "I've You've Got the Money (I've Got the Time)" and "Yakety Sax"; and Harvey and Carol as a dysfunctional couple celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary - and wanting to be alone away from their children (Lyle, Vicki).

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Episode 18

Tim Conway, Steve Lawrence, and Kay Medford

Mon, Feb 9, 197060 mins

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Episode 19

Family Show

Mon, Feb 16, 197060 mins

Carol and Harvey Korman play shy teachers who are uncomfortable reviewing the material for a sex ed course. Carol attempts to teach Lyle Waggoner to sing.

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Episode 20

Pat Carroll, Jack Jones

Mon, Feb 23, 197060 mins

Carol and Pat are women vying for attention from a golf teacher played by Lyle. Jack Jones sings "God Bless the Child." In a soap parody Carol and Harvey give advice to Pat. Harvey portray a hypochondriac with an unsympathetic wife.

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Episode 21

Jane Connell/Tim Conway

Mon, Mar 2, 197060 mins

Highlights include a salute to Universal Studios, with parodies of Doris Day and Abbott & Costello films.

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Episode 22

Nanette Fabray and Trini Lopez

Mon, Mar 9, 197060 mins

A husband brings home a briefcase full of cash that his drama-obsessed wife is sure he has embezzled intending to run off with the neighbor. Soap opera of a woman who has a soused friend she fears is an alcoholic and calls the doctor.

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Episode 23

Ronnie Schell and Nancy Wilson

Mon, Mar 16, 197060 mins

Nancy Wilson and Carol sing "Follow the Lamb." Ronnie Schell as a nightclub comic boring his wife Carol. Fireside Girl Carol and Vicki Lawrence badger Harvey Korman. A slapstick husband-wife routine with Carol locked In a ball and chain.

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Episode 24

Martha Raye and Mel Torme

Mon, Mar 23, 197021 mins

Highlights include: a salute to Walt Disney Studios, with spoofs of such films as "Fantasia" and "Mary Poppins"; musical performances by guests Martha Raye ("He Gives Me Love") and Mel Tormé ("You've Made Me So Very Happy" and "Spinning Wheel"); and Martha as the owner of a mongrel dog who has an encounter with the owner of a toy poodle (Carol).

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Episode 25

Tim Conway and Peggy Lee

Mon, Mar 30, 197060 mins

Highlights include: guests Peggy Lee and Tim Conway join Carol, Lyle and Vicki for a Swiss bell-ringing bit to "Applause"; Harvey and Carol, spoofing Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki, sing "No Two People"; and Tim as a misfit bachelor meets spinster Carol on a spring cruise. Also: Peggy sings "Love Story", and duets with Carol on "A Doodling Song".

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Episode 26

Nanette Fabray and Michele Lee

Mon, Apr 13, 197060 mins

Two women are part of a local censorship review board and struggle to control their passion at what they see. Edgy installment of faux soap opera "As the Stomach Turns."

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Episode 27

Family Sketch Show

Mon, Apr 27, 197060 mins

Season finale/Family show. A takeoff on home interior magazines. A husband-wife team struggle over their income tax forms. Carol plays an ingenue who ruins a big dramatic scene for great actor Harvey Korman.

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