The Carol Burnett Show

- Season 4

(1970)

A vain actor endures the doddering gaffes of a decrepit actress brought onstage as a last second replacement. A shy man injured in a car accident is too modest to disrobe for the nurse but she swoons over his hunky friend.

Guest stars include Cass Elliot, who sings "Glory of Love," and comedian Pat Paulsen, who airs a commercial aimed at making housewives more alluring to their husbands.

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).

Carol is joined by guests Eydie Gorme and Joan Rivers in a skit about a popular girls singing trio. Joan gives her opinion on women's lib.

A mousy, insecure secretary with a crush on her boss is threatened by all the secretaries sent by the agency to cover her 2 week vacation. A neurotic stewardess deals with crisis in flight with a drunken, failed doctor and a painted lady.

Carol and Lucy do a Roaring 20's segment where they run away from mobsters and end up auditioning as showgirls, dressed all in pink, and sing the Poof Poof song.

Highlights include "Salute to Hollywood Canteen".

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.

The cast and crew head to London for an episode that features guest Juliet Prowse performing "Put on a Happy Face" with the dancers. Carol and Harvey play an acting team whose play is sabotaged by her flu symptoms.

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Tonight's guests are Dyan Cannon and Paul Lynde! Lynde plays a smarmy insurance salesman, and later appears in Canoga Falls in Cannon on "As The Stomach Turns."

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".

Highlights include a musical salute to guest Don Rickles' mean-guy persona; guest Mel Torme sings; the cast presents a spoof of "Sesame Street" geared for adults, featuring cameos by Jim Nabors, Dick Martin and Tim Conway.

Guests Steve Lawrence and Durward Kirby get into the ring with Carol, Harvey, Vicki and Lyle for a spoof of the 1939 movie "Golden Boy"; Durward plays Harvey's accident prone boss, who pays a catastrophic visit to his and Carol's home. Guest Julie Budd sings "Where is Love?"

Carol welcomes Robert Goulet who sings "Without Love" then duets with Carol on "Have I Told You Lately." Rich Little does impressions of celebrities doing commercials. Goulet is a kissing bandit in a soap opera parody.

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.

Skits include Old Folks, who sit out on the porch during the day and the cute neighbor girl stops over, and an awkward young woman and man meet after being set up by their parents.

A spoof on the old method of discovering Hollywood stars. As Vanessa Vanilla, Carol is found dishing ice cream and becomes a star. Mel Torme plays her agent. Harvey Korman is the studio boss. Miss Lee plays a welfare worker inspecting the residence of the Tenth Avenue Family. Torme, Michele and Carol perform a medley of country-western tunes. Mel solos "Strike Up the Band" and "I Hear Music"; Miss Lee offers "In Times Like These".

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.

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 ...

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".

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.

Carol's guest include Tim Conway, Pat Carroll and Karen Wyman. Skits include The Lone Ranger, George and Zelda: World War I Flying Ace, Carol and Sis: Sisters Galore, and Dog's Life. Song: There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This.

Guest Mike Douglas sings the theme from "Love Story" and Bernadette Peters joins the dancers in "Tea for Two"; Mike and Carol offer a musical medley; a movie spoof entitled "The Most Happy Stella."

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 ...

Canoga Falls skit with Nanette; Lyle Waggoner model to Carol painter skit, and many old clips are shown, as Carol reminisces throughout the stage, then sings, as if it were the show's final episode.