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The Carol Burnett Show Season 7 Episodes
Season 7 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 1973 - 1975
Episode 0
The Family/Take My Drink
Fri, Feb 7, 1975
Tempers flare and voices shriek in another chapter of the Family when Eunice gets Ed and Mickey to play charades against her and Mama. A woman unloads her troubles on a bartender even though she might not be sober enough to benefit.
Episode 1
Jim Nabors
Sat, Sep 15, 197360 mins
Highlights include: "Yung Fool" (spoof of "Kung Fu" TV series); Jim Nabors performs "And I Love You So"; Carol performs "Come Back to Me"; 1920's production number "True Blue Lou."
Episode 2
Tim Conway, Charo
Sat, Sep 22, 197360 mins
Highlights include a man uncomfortable visiting a unisex salon; and a magazine interviewer attempts to get the story about a Spanish star's home life, but her mother gives him trouble.
Episode 3
Gloria Swanson
Sat, Sep 29, 197322 mins
Highlights of this show include: the Charwoman meets Charlie Chaplin (guest Gloria Swanson); an elevator operator in Carol and Roger's new apartment building has a crush on her in another "Carol & Sis" sketch; and a mistress (Vicki) tells all to a radio call-in show about a man (Lyle) with whom she's having an affair - while his unsuspecting wife (Carol) listens to every word.
Episode 4
John Byner and Helen Reddy
Sat, Oct 6, 197322 mins
This evening, Carol is joined by guests Helen Reddy and John Byner. Highlights include a sketch where Nora Desmond thinks she is dying; and "The Seventh Annual 'Carol Burnett Show' Awards for the Most Unforgettable Television Commercials of the Year", including spoofs of ad campaigns for Imperial margarine, Post Grape Nuts cereal (with Byner as naturalist Euell Gibbons), Minute Maid orange juice (with Byner as Bing Crosby), and Pledge cleaning spray (with Lyle Waggoner as George Montgomery).
Episode 5
Eydie Gorme and Paul Sand
Sat, Oct 13, 197322 mins
Highlights of this show with guests Eydie Gormé and Paul Sand include: a salute to movie series, with parodies of Tarzan, the Dead End Kids, Dr. Kildare, the Cisco Kid and "The Wolf Man"; Paul plays a nervous newlywed in "Honeymoon Sweet"; and Eydie sings "Take One Step".
Episode 6
Ken Berry, Tim Conway, and Jack Weston
Sat, Oct 20, 197360 mins
Highlights include: two people (Carol and guest Jack Weston) are set up for a blind date by a computer service; guest Ken Berry and the dancers perform "It's Not Where You Start"; a married doctor and nurse bicker in the middle of surgery on a patient (Ken); a man in a supper club (Jack) meets an Ethel Merman-type singer (Carol); Harvey, Carol, Lyle and Vicki swap personalities in "Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde"; and for the close, "New Elizabethan Rhythm".
Episode 7
John Byner
Sat, Oct 27, 197322 mins
Highlights include: guest John Byner joins in parodies of cowboy showdowns, courtroom dramas and the TV series "Girl in My Life"; a sketch about a group encounter session; Carol performs "I've Gotta Be Me"; and a musical salute to upbeat songs from World War I to the present.
Episode 8
Steve Lawrence and Paul Sand
Sat, Nov 3, 197322 mins
Carol's guests are Paul Sand and Steve Lawrence. Highlights include: "Double Calamity", a parody of "Double Indemnity" with Steve in the role played in the original by Fred MacMurray and Carol in the Barbara Stanwyck role; Steve sings "I've Got You Under My Skin"; a fat woman (Carol) attempts exercises to a TV exercise show hosted by Lyle; and a salute to Irving Berlin.
Episode 9
Petula Clark and Tim Conway
Sat, Nov 10, 197322 mins
Highlights of this edition with guests Petula Clark and Tim Conway include: another installment of "As the Stomach Turns" with Petula as Marian's long-lost sister; and ham actress Mundane (Carol) is barely able to perform on stage without her glasses, to Funt's (Harvey) ultimate dismay.
Episode 10
Tim Conway and Steve Lawrence
Sat, Nov 17, 197360 mins
Highlights include: Tim Conway plays a character who slowly begins to turn into a chimp upon meeting his girlfriend's father. Steve Lawrence sings "Maybe this Time". A scetch about an exchange between 3 business men (Tim, Harvey, and Lawrence) that resembles romance rather than business.
Episode 11
Carol & Sis; Back Alley
Sat, Dec 1, 197360 mins
Highlights of this "family show" include: Carol is stricken with the flu in "Carol and Sis"; fashion models act as though they're posing for everyday life; and Carol as a woman who is left by a lover who marries someone else and then returns to visit her every few years.
Episode 12
Lucette Aldous, Tim Conway, and Edward Villella
Sat, Dec 8, 197322 mins
Highlights of this edition taped in Australia (with guests Tim Conway, Edward Villella and Lucette Aldous) include: ham actress Mundane (Carol) is too drunk to go on stage, but performs anyway, wreaking havoc with her understudy (Vicki) and Funt (Harvey); Tim as the world's oldest living symphony orchestra conductor; and Carol performs "It's Today".
Episode 13
Ruth Buzzi/Richard Crenna
Sat, Dec 15, 197322 mins
Highlights of this show with guests Ruth Buzzi and Richard Crenna include: a "Salute to Movie Bad Girls" with spoofs of such films as "Mrs. Robinson", "All About Eve" and "Born to Be Bad"; and "Adam and Eve 12".
Episode 14
Dick Martin and Anthony Newley
Sat, Dec 22, 197360 mins
Highlights include a wine-tasting session that gets out of hand; and a salute to movie detectives including Sherlock Holmes and Sam Spade.
Episode 15
Monkey Man/The Ad Men
Sat, Jan 5, 197422 mins
Highlights include: guest Tim Conway as a man displaying simian symptoms after being bitten by a chimp; guest Steve Lawrence performs "Maybe This Time"; Stella Toddler (Carol) is immortalized in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre; and three advertising executives (Harvey, Tim, Steve) act like lovers caught in a romantic triangle.
Episode 16
Eydie Gorme and Paul Sand
Sat, Jan 12, 197460 mins
Highlights of this edition with guests Eydie Gormé and Paul Sand include: a newlywed bride (Carol) wants to continue dating in "After the Wedding"; a series of sketches dealing with the energy crisis; a pair of astronauts bicker while on a flight to Mars; Eydie performs "I'll Take Romance", and the dancers perform "End of Summer"; and a salute to the great ladies of the musical theatre.
Episode 17
Carl Reiner
Sat, Jan 19, 197452 mins
Highlights of this program include: guest Carl Reiner as a marriage counselor who tries a form of shock therapy on a stand-up comic (Carol) to get her to refrain from using one-liners on her husband (Harvey); a sketch about a husband purchasing insurance for his accident-prone wife before her next accident; and "La Caperucita Roja", a Mexican-themed retelling of the "Little Red Riding Hood" story.
Episode 18
Tim Conway/Steve Lawrence
Sat, Feb 2, 197422 mins
Highlights include: the world's oldest living dresser (guest Tim Conway) and his misadventures in attempting to help an actor (Harvey) perform a quick change between acts in a play; a bachelor (guest Steve Lawrence) puts the moves on his fiancée's sister (Carol) the night before he is to be married; Steve performs "Rainy Days and Mondays"; and a salute to George Gershwin.
Episode 19
Vincent Price, Joel Grey
Sat, Feb 9, 197460 mins
Highlights include: Chrissy's new boyfriend (guest Joel Grey) isn't as wild and swinging as he's assumed to be in "Carol and Sis"; long-in-the-tooth moppet Rhoda Dimple (Carol) tangles with a tyrannical German film director (Harvey); guest Vincent Price recalls the humorous side of Abraham Lincoln; a hotel switchboard operator (Carol) listens in on the calls of various patrons (Vincent, Joel, Lyle and Vicki); and for the close, a "Commedia Dell'Arte" with Joel and Carol as Punch and Judy dolls.
Episode 20
Bernadette Peters, Tim Conway
Sat, Feb 16, 197460 mins
Highlights include: an installment of "As the Stomach Turns" with guest Bernadette Peters as Marian's possessed niece Raven and guest Tim Conway as the priest who arrives to exorcise her; Tim and Harvey as two Japanese soldiers who argue underwater; and a salute to musicals of the 1930's.
Episode 21
Tim Conway and Eydie Gorme
Sat, Feb 23, 197460 mins
Highlights include: a "brutal" Nazi interrogator (guest Tim Conway) tortures a POW (Lyle) with a Hitler hand puppet; guest Eydie Gormé performs "The Way We Were" and "How About Me"; a spoof of "The Thin Man" with Lyle as Nick and Vicki as Nora; and a fortune teller (Vicki) gives a customer (Carol) a reading.
Episode 22
Steve Lawrence
Sat, Mar 9, 197422 mins
Highlights of this edition with guest Steve Lawrence include: a group of PTA mothers argue as to who's the best singer at a PTA audition; Harry Houdini's daughter (Carol) has some trouble with her escape attempts; and a woman orders a hit on her boring husband, but then wants to call it off.
Episode 23
The Jackson Five and Roddy McDowell
Sat, Mar 16, 197460 mins
Highlights include the first "Family" sketch, where Eunice's brother Phillip (guest Roddy McDowall) pays a visit. Also featured: Carol and Roddy sing a duet (with him wearing his "Planet of the Apes" makeup); two chauvinist carpenters (Harvey, Lyle) give a new co-worker (Carol) a hard time; an argument breaks out at a bus stop when a radio contest calls a nearby pay phone; two Brits at a café speak in one-word sentences; musical guests The Jackson 5 perform "Dancing Machine"; and Carol as a music teacher with the dancers and The Jackson 5 comprising her class.
Episode 24
Francine Beers and John Byner
Sat, Mar 23, 197460 mins
Highlights of this show with guests John Byner and Francine Beers include: a pushy neighbor invites herself to Carol and Roger's anniversary dinner in "Carol and Sis" (the last sketch in the series); and two scientists build female robot "Humanoids".
Episode 25
TV Commercials/Friends/Lucky Lady/The Old Folks
Sat, Apr 6, 197460 mins
Highlights include "Lucky Lady", a takeoff of women's sob-story game shows.