The Carol Burnett Show

Episode 0

Easy Openers/Fortune Cookies/Jacques Touteaux

Mon, Dec 30, 1974

Episode 1

Jim Nabors

Mon, Sep 14, 1970 60 mins

A vain actor endures the doddering gaffes of a decrepit actress brought onstage as a last second replacement. A shy man injured in a car accident is too modest to disrobe for the nurse but she swoons over his hunky friend.

Episode 2

Cass Elliot and Pat Paulsen

Mon, Sep 21, 1970 60 mins

Guest stars include Cass Elliot, who sings "Glory of Love," and comedian Pat Paulsen, who airs a commercial aimed at making housewives more alluring to their husbands.

Episode 3

Nanette Fabray and Steve Lawrence

Mon, Sep 28, 1970 60 mins

Highlights of this show include: a salute to Columbia Pictures, featuring the famous "Golda" (spoof of "Gilda") and also parodies of such films as "From Here to Eternity" and "Middle of the Night"; musical performances by guests Nanette Fabray ("Singing in the Rain" and "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head") and Steve Lawrence ("What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?"); and in "As the Stomach Turns", Marian's friend (Nanette) announces she has a hormone disturbance which she's afraid to discuss with her husband (Harvey).

Episode 4

Eydie Gormé, Joan Rivers

Mon, Oct 5, 1970 21 mins

Carol is joined by guests Eydie Gorme and Joan Rivers in a skit about a popular girls singing trio. Joan gives her opinion on women's lib.

Episode 5

Ken Berry and Nanette Fabray

Mon, Oct 12, 1970 60 mins

A mousy, insecure secretary with a crush on her boss is threatened by all the secretaries sent by the agency to cover her 2 week vacation. A neurotic stewardess deals with crisis in flight with a drunken, failed doctor and a painted lady.

Episode 6

Lucille Ball and Mel Torme

Mon, Oct 19, 1970 21 mins

Carol and Lucy do a Roaring 20's segment where they run away from mobsters and end up auditioning as showgirls, dressed all in pink, and sing the Poof Poof song.

Episode 7

Donald O'Connor and Bernadette Peters

Mon, Oct 26, 1970 60 mins

Highlights include "Salute to Hollywood Canteen".

Episode 8

Mama Cass Elliot, Emmett Kelley, & Ricardo Montalban

Mon, Nov 2, 1970 60 mins

Guests stars Cass Elliott and Ricardo Montalban. Highlights include a skit with George (Harvey) and Zelda (Carol) and how they came to be married; Cass sings "Good Times are Coming". Carol and Cass play homely, single girls at a dance; Cass, Vicki, and Carol sing "Tell us Where the Good Times are" and "They Paved Paradise and Put up a Parking Lot"; A spoof on Esther Williams movies with Ricardo Montalban; and the charwoman makes an appearance with Emmett Kelley.

Episode 9

Juliet Prowse

Mon, Nov 9, 1970 60 mins

The cast and crew head to London for an episode that features guest Juliet Prowse performing "Put on a Happy Face" with the dancers. Carol and Harvey play an acting team whose play is sabotaged by her flu symptoms.

Episode 10

Ross Martin and Martha Raye

Mon, Nov 16, 1970 60 mins

Sequestered Jury members, Carol and a drunk Martha Raye, have to spend the night in a hotel. Then "Flop Theater presents Storefront Hospital". Carol is Doctor Francis Hickey, Head Of The Whole Hospital, with Ross Martin and Martha Raye.

Episode 11

Dyan Cannon and Paul Lynde

Mon, Nov 23, 1970 21 mins

Tonight's guests are Dyan Cannon and Paul Lynde. Opens with a Thanksgiving-themed song and dance. Lynde plays a smarmy insurance salesman then appears with heiress Cannon on "As the Stomach Turns." Funt and Mundane's final performance.

Episode 12

John Davidson and Debbie Reynolds

Mon, Nov 30, 1970 22 mins

Highlights include: Carol and guest Debbie Reynolds play nurses in a spoof of the wartime movie "So Proudly We Hail!"; guest John Davidson performs a banjo medley which includes "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head", and joins the ladies on "Thank You Very Much" from "Scrooge"; and Debbie performs a musical number, "Look at Me".

Episode 13

Don Rickles and Mel Torme

Mon, Dec 7, 1970 22 mins

Highlights include a musical salute to guest Don Rickles' mean-guy persona; guest Mel Torme sings; the cast presents a spoof of "Sesame Street" geared for adults, featuring cameos by Jim Nabors, Dick Martin and Tim Conway.

Episode 14

Julie Budd, Durward Kirby, and Steve Lawrence

Mon, Dec 14, 1970 22 mins

Guests Steve Lawrence and Durward Kirby get into the ring with Carol, Harvey, Vicki and Lyle for a spoof of the 1939 movie "Golden Boy"; Durward plays Harvey's accident prone boss, who pays a catastrophic visit to his and Carol's home. Guest Julie Budd sings "Where is Love?"

Episode 15

Robert Goulet, Rich Little, Pat Carroll

Mon, Dec 28, 1970 60 mins

Carol welcomes Robert Goulet who sings "Without Love" then duets with Carol on "Have I Told You Lately." Rich Little does impressions of celebrities doing commercials. Goulet is a kissing bandit in a soap opera parody.

Episode 16

Art Carney, Pat Carroll

Mon, Jan 4, 1971 60 mins

A holiday salute to the Fourth of July. Carol plays a Fireside Girl, using blackmail to sell cookies to Harvey Korman and Pat Carroll. In another sketch, Carney is an exterminator who lost his nerve and needs reassurance from his wife. In another chapter of "As The Stomach Turns", Carol is a Women's Libber and Carney is a pro football scout who has his eye on Pat Carroll.

Episode 17

Jerry Lewis and Leslie Uggams

Mon, Jan 11, 1971 60 mins

Skits include Old Folks, who sit out on the porch during the day and the cute neighbor girl stops over, and an awkward young woman and man meet after being set up by their parents.

Episode 18

Michele Lee and Mel Torme

Mon, Jan 18, 1971 60 mins

In questions and answers, an audience member teaches Lyle and Harvey how to hula. In a spoof of Hollywood talent scouting, Vanessa Vanilla (Carol) is found dishing ice cream and becomes a star, with Mel Torme as her agent and Harvey Korman as the studio boss. Michele Lee plays a welfare worker inspecting the residence of a Tenth Avenue Family. Torme, Michele and Carol perform a medley of country-western tunes. Mel solos "Strike Up the Band" and "I Hear Music"; Michele offers "In Times Like These."

Episode 19

Martha Raye, Violette Verdy, & Edward Villella

Mon, Jan 25, 1971 60 mins

Martha Raye joins Carol in a snappy medley of songs. Burnett's at her nasally, nagging best playing Zelda, who drives George into a bit of Walter Mitty-like escapism. Ballet stars Edward Villella and Violette Verdy provide Carol's Charwoman with her greatest challenge yet-dancing Swan Lake while wearing army boots.

Episode 20

Rita Hayworth, Jim Bailey, Glen Campbell

Mon, Feb 1, 1971 60 mins

Highlights include: guest Rita Hayworth, as herself, being pestered by two celebrity seekers (Carol, Vicki); guest Jim Bailey impersonates the likes of Phyllis Diller, Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland, and performs "Don't Rain on My Parade" and "Happy Days Are Here Again" with Carol; Vicki performs "When You've Got Good Friends" with the dancers; a "Tearjerker Theater" presentation of "Lovely Story" with Carol in the Ali MacGraw role and Harvey as the character played by Ryan O'Neal; Carol and Rita sing "Mutual Admiration Society", with clips from some of Rita's old films being shown; and Rita appears as another charwoman.

Episode 21

Totie Fields, Ken Berry

Mon, Feb 15, 1971 21 mins

Totie Fields, as the author of "The Desirable Woman" confides in a TV talk show hostess played by Carol. Guest Ken Berry plays a golfing priest and Harvey Korman is his rabbi partner. Totie plays a woman who thinks she's a werewolf. Ken demonstrates his terpsichorean talents in "Let's Have a Party"; the entire cast offers "Put On Your Sunday Best"; Miss Burnett solos "Make a Rainbow".

Episode 22

Chita Rivera, Bob Newhart

Mon, Feb 22, 1971 60 mins

Carol's guests are Bob Newhart and Chita Rivera. Carol and Roger fight when his accountant brings over his sexy blonde wife. Obnoxious Fireside Girl Alice Portnoy badgers the hung-over Harvey for a donation. Chita performs a production number to Lucretia Mac Evil. The musical finale, "Naughty Rosemarie," sends up the Eddy/MacDonald Mountie movies.

Episode 23

Tim Conway, Pat Carroll, Karen Wyman

Mon, Mar 1, 1971 60 mins

Carol's guest include Tim Conway, Pat Carroll and Karen Wyman. Skits include The Lone Ranger, George and Zelda: World War I Flying Ace, Carol and Sis: Sisters Galore, and Dog's Life. Song: There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This.

Episode 24

Mike Douglas and Bernadette Peters

Mon, Mar 8, 1971 60 mins

Guest Mike Douglas sings the theme from "Love Story" and Bernadette Peters joins the dancers in "Tea for Two"; Mike and Carol offer a musical medley; a movie spoof entitled "The Most Happy Stella."

Episode 25

Eileen Farrell, David Frost, & Marilyn Horne

Mon, Mar 22, 1971 22 mins

Highlights of this edition, which was taped in New York and with guests David Frost, Eileen Farrell and Marilyn Horne, include: Carol and Harvey as a loud American couple trying to purchase a Rolls-Royce from a polished, genteel British salesman (David); Harvey as a henpecked husband who dreams himself a Roman gladiator and Vicki a temptress; an Italian opera spoof "Chinderella" with David as narrator, Carol as the title character, Eileen and Marilyn as the wicked stepsisters, Harvey as the fairy godmother and Lyle as the prince; and musical performances of the works of Puccini by Eileen, Rossini by Marilyn, and Sondheim by Carol, Eileen and Marilyn.

Episode 26

Paul Lynde/Nanette Fabray

Mon, Mar 29, 1971 60 mins

Canoga Falls skit with Nanette; Lyle Waggoner model to Carol painter skit, and many old clips are shown, as Carol reminisces throughout the stage, then sings. This closes the season's final episode.