Mon, Sep 28, 1970
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).
Mon, Nov 2, 1970
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.
Mon, Nov 30, 1970
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".
Mon, Jan 4, 1971
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.
Mon, Jan 18, 1971
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."
Mon, Jan 25, 1971
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.
Top-rated
Mon, Feb 1, 1971
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.
Mon, Feb 15, 1971
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".
Mon, Feb 22, 1971
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.
Mon, Mar 22, 1971
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.