The Carol Burnett Show
Legendary long-running television variety show featuring skits and songs by Carol Burnett, her comedy troupe, and their celebrity guests.
- 1967-1978
- 11 seasons
- CBS
- Comedy, Family
- TV-G
Legendary long-running television variety show featuring skits and songs by Carol Burnett, her comedy troupe, and their celebrity guests.
Season 5 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 1971 - 1972
Episode 1
Jim Nabors
Wed, Sep 15, 1971 60 mins
Jim Nabors, as he has for the past five years, joins Carol on her opening show. They do a song and dance salute to his home town of Sylacauga, Alabama. Nabors also sings "Help Me Make It Through the Night". Comedy spots: In a spoof of King Henry VIII, Korman plays the monarch and Carol is Anne Boleyn; Carol plays a child actress who upstages a ham actor (Korman); Carol plays a mother who chaperones her daughter (Vicki) on a date. In her feature number, elegantly attired Carol sings "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out".
Episode 2
The Carpenters and Tim Conway
Wed, Sep 22, 1971 60 mins
Highlights of this show with guests Tim Conway and the Carpenters include: a salute to old radio shows, and Carol and the Carpenters performing "Do You Know the Way to San José".
Episode 3
Carol Channing/Steve Lawrence
Wed, Oct 6, 1971 60 mins
Highlights of this edition with guests Steve Lawrence and Carol Channing include: parodies of "The African Queen" and "Sorry, Wrong Number"; a salute to silent movie comedians; and the two Carols duet on a medley of "Button Up Your Overcoat", "Ain't Misbehavin'", and "You're the Cream in My Coffee".
Episode 4
Ken Berry/Cass Elliot
Wed, Oct 13, 1971 60 mins
Highlights of this show with guests Ken Berry and 'Mama' Cass Elliot include: more spoofs of TV commercials, including Carol as Mother Nature and Cass as a child using toothpaste; Carol impersonating Sonia Henie in a parody of the late skater/actress' movie musicals; Cass sings "There's a Lull in My Life" and duets with Carol on a "Love Medley"; and Ken performs "Razz-Ma-Tazz" with the dancers.
Episode 5
Peggy Lee and Dom DeLuise
Wed, Oct 20, 1971 60 mins
Peggy Lee and Carol sing "Is That All There Is" with Carol taking a fall at the end. Dom DeLuise breaks a lot of glass.
Episode 6
Diahann Carroll and Tim Conway
Wed, Oct 27, 1971 22 mins
Highlights of this edition with guests Diahann Carroll and Tim Conway include: a spoof of the film "Summertime"; sketches involving a singles dance, water beds, jewel robbery, and bit players upstaging stars; and musical numbers from Diahann ("A Song for You"), Carol and Diahann ("Chutzpah"), and Carol and the dancers ("Saturday Morning Confusion").
Episode 7
Bing Crosby/Paul Lynde
Wed, Nov 3, 1971 22 mins
Highlights include: a melodrama spoof, "The Drunkard", with guest Bing Crosby in the title role and Carol as his wife; guest Paul Lynde plays the town masochist and Harvey is Mother Marcus in "As the Stomach Turns"; Bing performs a "love medley" of "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" and "Love Thy Neighbor", and duets with Carol on "Get Happy" and "Sing".
Episode 8
Bernadette Peters/Cass Elliot
Wed, Nov 10, 1971 60 mins
Includes The Look of Love, The Sound Man, Cherish/It Had to Be You, As the Stomach Turns.
Episode 9
Nanette Fabray and Mel Torme
Wed, Nov 17, 1971 60 mins
Guest Mel Torme sings "We've Only Just Begun" and joins Carol for a duet of Sammy Cahn lyrics; guest Nanette Fabray sings "It's Not Easy Being Green;" the cast joins for a musical spoof of the film "42nd Street."
Episode 10
Eydie Gormé/Shecky Greene
Wed, Nov 24, 1971 60 mins
Carol, Harvey, Edie and Harvey read bogus, humorous TV Guide listings. A housewife is determined to prevent her husband from watching football instead of fulfilling his promise to help with heavy housework until a surprise visitor arrives.
Episode 11
Tim Conway and Mama Cass Elliott
Wed, Dec 1, 1971 60 mins
A director holds auditions for the part of Stanley in a community theater production of A Streetcar Named Desire and sees the extreme in applicants. A couple of bourgeois women are titillated by a racy book they find at a bookstore.
Episode 12
Andy Griffith and Barbara McNair
Wed, Dec 8, 1971 60 mins
Andy plays a football coach who uses wife Carol for living room scrimmages. The "Carol and Sis" skit flashes back to the first time Carol went to Roger's (Harvey Korman) apartment. Barbara solos "It Only Takes a Moment", and duets "Rainy Days and Mondays" with carol. The finale is a salute to Smokey the Bear.
Episode 13
Ken Berry and Dionne Warwick
Wed, Dec 15, 1971 21 mins
Highlights of this show with guests Dionne Warwicke, Ken Berry and Jackie Joseph include: a spoof of Western entertainers on the road to stardom; and musical performances including Dionne singing "Always Something There to Remind Me" and "One Less Bell to Answer", Ken singing "I Want to Be Happy", Carol performing "The Doll Song", and Dionne and Carol duetting on "When in the Course of Human Events".
Episode 14
Steve Lawrence and Dick Martin
Wed, Dec 29, 1971 22 mins
Steve Lawrence and Dick Martin are Carol's guests this evening. Highlights include a salute to Disney (with Carol as Peter Pan); Steve as a Presidential advisor; and parodies of "Tea and Sympathy", "Some Like It Hot" and "Sunset Blvd." (with the first of many times Carol would play the demented Nora Desmond, and Harvey as her butler Max).
Episode 15
Paul Lynde and Peggy Lee
Wed, Jan 5, 1972 60 mins
Highlights of this edition with guests Paul Lynde and Peggy Lee include: a spoof of "The Seventh Veil"; a snobbish husband and wife argue; Peggy sings "I Can Sing a Rainbow", and duets with Carol on "Happy New Year"/"Something's Coming"/"Great Day"; and for the finale, a medley of such circus numbers as "Here Come the Clowns", "Clown Alley", and "Be a Clown".
Episode 16
Ken Berry, The Carpenters, and Nanette Fabray
Wed, Jan 19, 1972 60 mins
Highlights include: Carol and guests the Carpenters duet on a medley of "Hurting Each Other"/"An Old Fashioned Love Song"/"We've Only Just Begun"/"Let Me Be the One"/"I Kept on Loving You"; guests Ken Berry and Nanette Fabray perform "Coffee in a Cardboard Cup" with the dancers; Carol sings "The Empty Ballad" and performs "I'm Not Complete Without My Sweetie" with Ken; and a production number, "The Ballad of Broadway".
Episode 17
Ray Charles and Tim Conway
Wed, Jan 26, 1972 22 mins
Highlights of this show with guests Tim Conway and Ray Charles include: a country singer facing death row; Tim and Harvey as clumsy billboard hangers; Ray performs "Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma"; and Carol (as the Charwoman), Ray and the dancers perform a medley of "You Are My Sunshine", "St. Louis Blues", "Yesterday", "God Bless the Child" and "What'd I Say?".
Episode 18
Eydie Gorme and Vincent Price
Wed, Feb 9, 1972 60 mins
Highlights include: guest Vincent Price recites "Desiderata"; guest Eydie Gormé sings "The Way of Love", Eydie and Carol duet on "Gypsy Number", and they and Vicki perform "Perfect Young Ladies"; a horror movie spoof, "The House of Terror"; and a salute to the 1920's.
Episode 19
Steve Lawrence, Kaye Ballard
Wed, Feb 16, 1972 60 mins
Highlights of this edition with guests Steve Lawrence and Kaye Ballard include: "Operation Minestrone" (a spoof of World War II films); musical performances from Steve (Sunshine Medley: "Ain't No Sunshine"/"You Are My Sunshine"), Kaye and the dancers ("Don't Tell Mama"), and Carol ("If I Could Write a Song"); and a salute to Cole Porter.
Episode 20
Nanette Fabray/Burt Reynolds
Wed, Feb 23, 1972 60 mins
Highlights of this show with guests Nanette Fabray and Burt Reynolds include: a spoof of "The Scarlet Pimpernel"; "George and Zelda" go camping, and the henpecked George imagines himself at the meeting of East and West during the opening of the transcontinental railroad; musical numbers from Carol ("Al") and Nanette with the dancers ("It's a Musical World"); and a salute to music of the world.
Episode 21
Tim Conway, Eydie Gormé
Wed, Mar 1, 1972 51 mins
Highlights include: a James Bond parody, "Doctor Nose"; two cops in drag (Harvey and guest Tim Conway) try to catch muggers; Carol as a child who's jealous of a new baby; guest Eydie Gormé sings "A House Is Not a Home"; and the cast performs "Angel Child".
Episode 22
Jack Klugman, Tony Randall
Wed, Mar 8, 1972 22 mins
Highlights of this edition with guests Jack Klugman and Tony Randall include: spoofs of "Lady in the Dark" and "This Is Your Life"; and a salute to Broadway with Carol singing "Adelaide's Lament", Jack and Carol duetting on "You'll Never Get Away from Me", and Harvey, Jack and Tony performing "Brush Up Your Shakespeare".
Episode 23
Karen Black and Paul Lynne
Wed, Mar 22, 1972 60 mins
Paul Lynde and Karen Black guest-star in this episode. Paul plays a conniving Interior decorator. Vicki solos on "Too Late Now." Karen, Carol, and Vicki partner with Lyle, Harvey, and Paul for a Jazz Age song-and-dance sequence.
Episode 24
The Doily Sisters
Wed, Mar 29, 1972 51 mins
Highlights of this end-of-season "family show" include: "The Doily Sisters" (a spoof on "The Dolly Sisters"); and musical numbers including Carol singing "Happiness Belongs to My Friends" and "I've Seen That Face", Harvey performing "Hey, Mr. Moon", and Carol and Vicki duetting on "Budapest, When You Get Home" and performing "Two Natural Beauties" with the dancers.