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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.
"They Don't Make Them Like That Anymore" spoofs 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.
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.
Comedy sketches concern the first Negro president, royalty, old folks and a "sample" family.
The show was originally scheduled for October 13, 1969 but was preempted, and aired on October 19, 1969.
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.
Miss Verdon's feature number is a production of "Hurry On Down". Pat Boone duets "Real True Lovin' " with Carol and then joins Gwen and the entire company in a spoof on TV commercials.
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". A musical tribute to the Marx Brothers. 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.
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. Carol sings "I Believed It All". Vicki and cast perform "Mah-Na-Mah-Na". This episode is noted as Show #309 in the Lost Episodes DVD set.
Entire cast spoofs a modern folk-pop-rock-soul concert; Carol and Lucille portray airline stewardesses competing for the good-service bonus; Miss Burnett sings "Just Talkin'".
A salute to 20th Century Fox, highlighted by musical spoofs of Shirley Temple movies and such films as "Fantastic Voyage" and "Doctor Doolittle". Miss Raye solos "Is That All There Is?"
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.
The entire company joins in for a salute to MGM; O'Connor sings and dances to "Without a Song"; Miss Wilson solos "The Girl's a Woman Now"; Carol portrays a housewife haunted by characters from TV commercials.
Miss Stevens solos "Eli's Coming" and joins Carol for "Games People Play"; a daytime serial spoof; cast regulars satirize television weddings.
Nancy Wilson solos "Spinning Wheel"; Carol and guests explore the generation gap in song and dance; Miss Burnett stars in the show's recurring daytime soap opera spoof.
Carol and Harvey Korman portray two wallflowers who discover each other in a TV commerical satire. Later, the cast does a spoof of "Mission: Impossible". Miss Carr solos "Go". Vicki dances and sings to "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head". The cast performs "There's Enough to Go Around" for the finale. This episode is noted as Show #316 in the Lost Episodes DVD set.
Gov. Reagan helps Carol field questions from the studio audience; Miss Burnett and guests salute Warner Bros. Studios; Torme sings "Hurry On Down" and joins Carol for "Within You"; Sales portrays a phony accident victim blackmailed by precocious Fireside Girl Alice Portnoy (Carol).
Miss Burnett and guests spoof beauty contests and portray success-seeking sisters in New York; Miss Feldon sings and dances "If You've Got the Money" and "Yakety Sax"; Miss Rivers delivers a comedy monologue; Carol (as the Charwoman) sings "Where Did My Childhood Go?".
The entire cast take part in a vaudeville spoof; Miss Burnett and Berry play a mismatched couple and perform a love-song medley.
Non-guest edition spotlights show regulars in comedy and song. Miss Burnett and Harvey Korman play shy school teachers reviewing the material for a sex-education class; Carol teaches Lyle Waggoner to sing.
Pat and Carol portray TV commercial actresses and housewives who flirt with their golf instructor (Lyle Waggoner); Jones sings "I Love You More Today Than I Did Yesterday" and "God Bless the Child". The soap opera chapter focuses on a housewife (Pat) with a weight problem, who takes advice from best friend Burnett and divorce lawyer Harvey Korman. Harvey later returns as a hypochondriac dealing with wife Carol.
Cast salute to Universal Studios; Miss Connell appears in a "Thoroughly Modern Millie" number and sings "Pollution"; Vicki Lawrence offers "Leaving on a Jet Plane"; Conway and Harvey Korman portray tipsy pals trying to sober up, and Burnett and Korman appear as the Old Folks chatting on the back porch. Carol and Lyle Waggoner mimic Doris Day and Rock Hudson.
Lopez sings "Lemon Tree" with Carol and solos "Yesterday I Heard the Rain"; Miss Fabray performs "Good Old Sounds" and dances the soft shoe with Carol and Trini. She also plays a secret drinker who outwits Carol in the soap opera chapter of the show. Carol and Harvey Korman celebrate a 70th wedding anniversary in the Old Folks sketch, and Carol comes close to hysteria suspecting husband Korman of running off with another woman in the "Carol and Sis" portion.
Miss Wilson solos and joins Carol and the dancers in production numbers; Schell portrays a nightclub comic with a wife who's out of laughs; Miss Burnett recites "Being Alone", a poem by a 13-year-old fan, and follows up by singing "Where Is Love?". Carol and sister Vicki Lawrence badger a hung-over Harvey Korman, and Carol returns for a slapstick husband-and-wife routine, becoming locked in a ball and chain.
A special salute to Walt Disney Studios. A spoof of "Fantasia"; Torme and Lyle Waggoner join the dancers for "Dance of the Hours"; medley of Disney songs; Miss Raye sings "He Gives Me Love"; Torme solos "You've Made Me So Very Happy" and "Spinning Wheel".
Skits feature Conway as a misfit bachelor on a vacation cruise, and as an imbibing office worker asking for a raise; Miss Lee solos "Love Story" and joins Carol for "Doodling Song".
A movie censor sketch; TV commercial spoofs; and another episode of "As the Stomach Turns". Fabray performs "One Little Brick at a Time". Lee performs "What about Today?" A musical finale where the cast brings comic strip characters to life, with Burnett as Olive Oyl, Lawrence as Little Iodine and Korman as Superman.
A husband-wife team struggle over their income tax forms. In a takeoff on home interior magazines, Carol and Harvey Korman lead photographer Waggoner around their immaculate house. A comparison of movies to real life with the song "Cheek to Cheek". Carol plays an ingenue who ruins a big dramatic scene for great actor Harvey Korman.
