The Carol Burnett Show

- Season 2

(1968)

Jim and Carol sketch the clumsy date of a couple too proud to wear their glasses. Then they team up for a musical-comedy graduation ceremony. Harvey Korman spoofs political candidates. Vicki is back for the weekly "Carol and Sis" sketch.

Miss Channing sings and plays a gold digger out to nab wealthy old Harvey Korman while nurse Burnett looks on. Martin Landau plays a presidential nominee and his wife checking out Southern governor Korman and mate Carol Burnett for the vice presidential spot on the ticket. The whole cast appears in an astrology sketch on the sign of Taurus with Carol as movie-land's favorite authority.

Highlights include: Five-year-olds discussing their parents and the world in general; Peyton Place spoof; Trini Lopez in production number of "Mountain Dew"; Lopez kids Western musicals and joins Carol in a fast-paced "Sunny Side of the Street".

Gobel and Miss Burnett, posing as the Duke and Duchess of Wormser, are subjects of a "V.I.P." interview conducted by Harvey Korman. In another sketch, a housewife chats with a neighbor about husbands and politics. In the" "Carol and Sis" spot, Carol goes all out to downgrade her house when husband Roger (Korman) tries to sell it to a couple of potential buyers. In another sketch, a colonial couple watches television in the year 1776. Their selections include a late-night talk show and a newscast offering gossip of the colonies. Bobbie Gentry solos "Sweet Peony", and ...

Edie Adams livens and lovelies up The Carol Burnett Show, appearing with the star as two mothers-in-law contemplating their kiddies' wedding. They also team up for a bouncy "Those Were The Good Old Days," and Miss Adams solos "So Long At The Fair." Tim Conway is also featured in several skits and is particularly good as the nervous holdup man on his first job.

Carol's guests are Lucille Ball, Eddie Albert, and Nancy Wilson. Harvey joins her for "The Old Folks." Roger brings home his new boss, a health fanatic, and forces Carol to act like she exercises. Carol and Lucy are popular funeral attendees in "As the Stomach Turns," Eddie is an undertaker, and Nancy integrates Canoga Falls. Nancy sings "The Folks Who Live on the Hill," teams with Carol for "The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener," and Eddie sings "Father of Girls." The finale is a tribute to the astrological sign Leo.

Highlights include a salute to Tin Pan Alley.

Skits: "Carol and Sis: PTA Show"; "Classic Movie Theatre: Mrs. Magnificent." Songs: Day In, Day Out; Skylark and The Trolley Song.

Miss Burnett welcomes two old friends, Garry Moore and Durward Kirby, for a nostalgic (and funny) repetition of some of the comedy sketches that made them all famous. In one sequence Moore interviews Carol who's playing a dignified princess rehearsing a television toast to a noted humanitarian.

Carol's into practically everything tonight. She's a sexy Hollywood star one moment, a drab spinster who loses her date to roommate Michele Lee in the next. She's handcuffed to a Southern Sheriff in a sketch that's interrupted by outer-space visitor Flip Wilson. She tries the housewife routine again talking to her neighbor in the next window. Michele dances and sings with Carol and Vicki Lawrence. Flip Wilson slips in a monologue.

Imogene Coca and Vic Damone guest tonight as Carol spoofs airline family rates, motorcycle gangs, and commercials on taboo subjects.

Segments include: Q and A; a presidential fireside chat with his family (and look for Isabel Sanford); a song by Eileen Farrell; a skit with Carol as an interviewer interviewing Lyle Wagonner as a famous actor; an operatic song (in Italian) by Marilyn Horne; a musical skit based on The Three Little Pigs; another musical skit with Eileen, Marilyn and Carol singing "Big Spender" and ending with a Christmas carol medley.

Nancy Wilson and Mickey Rooney join in the music and comedy. Nancy and Carol get their parts confused during an audition. Carol, as the outgoing First Lady, gives her successor a tour of the White House. "Boys' Town" sketch with Rooney. Amnesia victim Carol doesn't remember husband Harvey.

Includes VIP Colonel Flanders, American Boys, The Painters, The Night They Raided Rimsky's.

Highlights include Carol and guest Perry Como singing "My Funny Valentine" and "They Didn't Believe Me".

Highlights include: the cast presenting awards for the worst TV commercials of the year; Carol and guest Martha Raye in a pantomime as sloppy Sunday painters; guest Mel Tormé sings "Ridin' High" and "What's New Pussycat?"; in "Carol and Sis", Carol fears the worst when Roger talks in his sleep; and Carol, Martha and the dancers perform a medley of "Chickery Chick", "Mairzy Doats", "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo", "Three Little Fishies", "The Hut-Sut Song", "Flat Foot Floogie", "Tain't What You Do, It's the Way That Cha Do It" and "Dream".

Highlights include "A Woman's Picture" (a spoof of 1930s and '40s tear-jerkers).

Highlights include: a daytime soap-opera spoof; Miss Burnett does an interview with a fashion designer about his annual worst-dressed list; a social chat between two housewives doing their weekly wash in an automatic laundry room; a "Carol and Sis" sketch finds Carol under a lingering hypnotic spell, which causes her to act amorously toward any man who says the word "February" -- this proves somewhat embarrassing when her husband invites an accountant over to help figure his income tax; Berry performs "Feather in My Shoe"; Berry joins Miss Burnett in a three-song duet...

Miss Burnett and Sales teamed as opposite ends of a dancing horse on the small-time vaudeville circuit perform "Where Would You Be Without Me?", when an agent (Korman) offers only one of them a chance to hit the big-time. In another comedy sketch, Miss Burnett and Sales play a couple of shy customers who lose their inhibitions while testing the potent perfumes at a department store with two persuasive salesclerks. Miss McNair sings "Windows of the World" and "What the World Needs Now" in a solo spot, then joins Miss Burnett in a big production number, "Lido de Paris."...

Highlights include: guest Tim Conway introduces his onetime comic partner (and future series announcer) Ernie Anderson in the audience during the opening question-and-answer segment; Tim as a rookie dentist who gets into a series of misadventures while attempting to treat a patient (Harvey); Carol, Vicki and guest Ethel Merman in a backstage sketch about an understudy attempting to sabotage the star before a performance; Tim, Carol, Vicki and Lyle are among relatives gathered at a haunted house for the reading of a will, and dead bodies show up everywhere; Vicki ...

Highlights include: "The Helen Feibelbaum Story", a spoof of celebrity biopics chronicling the rise and fall of a singing star; Harvey as a go-go bachelor whose romance is ruined by a moppet (Carol); and musical performances by guests John Davidson ("Both Sides Now" and "I Will Wait for You") and Ross Martin ("The Man in the Looking Glass"), as well as by Carol ("Look at That Face", "Nine Cents a Dance") and a number by Vicki and the dancers ("'Tain't No Sin");

Carol and guest Martha Raye appear as dance marathon contestants while crooner Mike Douglas sings "Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries". Miss Burnett and Douglas try an Irish medley; Carol becomes a lady jockey; Martha Ray and Carol play housewives visiting a topless waiter place; Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence and Burnett try to get out of their snowbound cabin in the final sketch.

In a satire of show business family acts, the cast masquerades as a hillbilly clan singing and dancing to "What Now My Love". Miss Burnett serenades her frowzy husband (Korman) with "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" and "Goin' Out of My Head". Korman and Burnett play three different couples whose lives are changed when the Irish Sweepstakes winners are announced. In a game-show spoof, emcee Korman quizzes the contestants on the subject of kissing. Miss Chase performs a romantic dance to the tune of "MacArthur Park".

Housewife Carol tries to cure husband Korman of gambling. In another sketch, Carol plays an apprentice actress who steals the show from Broadway ham Korman without uttering a line of dialogue. In other spots, Ronnie Schell is an inebriated lawyer in a "Carol and Sis" routine, and Vikki Carr sings her latest hit "With Pen in Hand," before joining her hostess in a scarecrow dance number.

Imogene Coca and Miss Burnett play American school teachers in Rome, rhapsodizing to "If Love were All". The main sketch is a fairy tale spoof with Carol Burnett as Cinderumplewhite. Imogene Coca is the wicked witch and Robert Goulet is the handsome prince. Harvey Korman and Lyle Waggoner play the two-headed dragon that Goulet battles. Goulet solos "Didn't We" and Miss Cora sings "If Love Were All".

Highlights include Harvey singing a comic version of "They Call The Wind Maria."

A newly taped segment is inserted into this repeat of the October 21, 1968 episode, where Rodgers sings his new hit record, "Today," and discusses his new series, "Carol Burnett Presents the Jimmie Rodgers Show," which premiered Monday, June 16, 1969.

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