Season 2

1968–1969

Sep 23, 1968 · 54m

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 Lawrence is back for the weekly "Carol and Sis" sketch.

E2. Barbara Bain, Carol Channing, and Martin Landau

Sep 30, 1968 · 54m

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.

E3. Nanette Fabray, Trini Lopez

Oct 7, 1968 · 54m

Five-year-olds discuss their parents and the world in general; a 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".

E4. Bobbie Gentry and George Gobel

Oct 14, 1968 · 54m

The Duke and Duchess of Wormser are subjects of a "V.I.P." interview; a housewife chats with a neighbor about husbands and politics; in the "Carol and Sis" spot, Carol goes all out to malign her house when her husband tries to sell it to potential buyers; a colonial couple watches television in the year 1776 including a late-night talk show and a newscast offering gossip of the colonies; Bobbie Gentry solos "Sweet Peony", and duets "Little Green Apples" with George Gobel; Miss Burnett, as the charwoman, sings "I've Gotta Be Me".

E5. Edie Adams and Tim Conway

Oct 21, 1968 · 54m

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.

E6. Eddie Albert, Lucille Ball, and Nancy Wilson

Nov 4, 1968 · 54m

The Old Folks; The Folks Who Live on the Hill; Carol and Sis; Father of Girls; As the Stomach Turns; What's in the Stars

E7. Nanette Fabray, Don Rickles, and Mel Torme

Nov 11, 1968 · 54m

Doctor's Office; Take a Letter Miss Jones; The Shoe Store; The Tin Pan Alley Story

E8. Sid Caesar and Ella Fitzgerald

Nov 18, 1968 · 54m

Carol demonstrates how not to record a hit record, and teams with Caesar in "Mrs. Magnificent," a sketch satirizing a classic British movie set in World War II London, and later, the duo, as a Japanese movie-star couple, are interviewed by Harvey Korman.

E9. Durward Kirby and Garry Moore

Nov 25, 1968 · 54m

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.

E10. Michele Lee and Flip Wilson

Dec 2, 1968 · 54m

A tribute to composer Stephen Sondheim with songs performed by Carol and guest star Michele Lee. As for the skits of the show, guest Jack Weston plays a patient who believes he is going to die in a soap opera bit; Carol becomes a lady of the evening; and Miss Burnett teams with Weston to play a couple giving marriage a bad name.

E11. Imogene Coca and Vic Damone

Dec 9, 1968 · 54m

Carol and Imogene pose as a married couple to get an airline family rate; a diner sketch with Korman as the head of a motorcycle gang; an "Old Folks" sketch; and commercials on taboo subjects.

E12. Eileen Farrell, Bob Hope, and Marilyn Horne

Dec 16, 1968 · 54m

Harvey Korman delivers a presidential fireside chat with his family; Eileen Farrell sings "Kiss Him Now"; Carol plays an awkward newswoman interviewing her matinee idol; Marilyn Horne performs the page's song from the opera "Les Huguenots"; an operatic version of "The Three Little Pigs"; a musical production of "Big Spender"; and for the finale, a Christmas carol medley.

E13. Mickey Rooney and Nancy Wilson

Dec 30, 1968 · 54m

with Mickey Rooney, Nancy Wilson, Emmaline Henry, Roland Winters

E14. Tim Conway and Inga Neilsen

Jan 6, 1969 · 54m

V.I.P.: Colonel Flanders; Comedy Spot; Carol and Sis; American Boys; The Painters; The Night They Raided Rimsky's

E15. Perry Como, Tim Conway, and Sidney Omar

Jan 20, 1969 · 54m

Carol plays a lovesick patient who tries the patience of a handsome doctor (Lyle Waggoner). Tim plays a drunken prison warden on New Year's Eve, and courts rich spinster Burnett, undergoing tests arranged by a careful father. Perry Como sings "Sunshine Wine" and "Here's That Rainy Day." With Miss Burnett, he offers a love-song medley. Astrologer Sydney Omarr makes some predictions for the year 1969. Omarr joins the entire company in a "What's in the Stars?" segment, focusing on the astrological sign of Aquarius. Miss Burnett and Como sing "Aquarius".

E16. Martha Raye and Mel Torme

Jan 27, 1969 · 54m

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".

E17. Vince Edwards and Chita Rivera

Feb 3, 1969 · 54m

Carol plays a rich, unattractive spinster who meets matinee idol Vince Edwards on a ship voyage; an inhibited botany teacher turns into a ham on a TV show; the Charwoman sings "Young at Heart"; Edwards sings "I Got the World To Hold Me Up" and joins Burnett and Rivera in a production number, "I Love To Cry at Weddings".

E18. Shirley Jones, Ken Berry

Feb 17, 1969 · 54m

A salute to Warner Bros., with parodies of such films as "Mr. Skeffington" and "Yankee Doodle Dandy"; a woman can't get an immigrant store clerk to understand she needs an antidote for a poison; Indians trap two Revolutionary War soldiers in a log cabin; Carol sings "The Shortest Love Song", and duets with Ken on "The Singles Bar".

E19. Barbara McNair and Soupy Sales

Feb 24, 1969 · 54m

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." The entire cast joins in a musical comedy sketch inspired by the classic "Our Gang" films.

E20. Tim Conway and Ethel Merman

Mar 3, 1969 · 54m

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 plays a rookie dentist who gets into a series of misadventures while attempting to treat a patient (Harvey); Carol, Vicki and guest Ethel Merman do 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 performs with the dancers; and Ethel sings "Elusive Butterfly", and for the close duets with Carol on a medley which includes "Everything's Coming Up Roses" and "I Get a Kick Out of You".

E21. John Davidson and Ross Martin

Mar 10, 1969 · 54m

"The Helen Feibelbaum Story" spoofs celebrity biopics chronicling the rise and fall of a singing star; Harvey plays 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").

E22. Martha Raye, Mike Douglas

Mar 17, 1969 · 54m

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.

E23. Barrie Chase and Larry Hovis

Mar 24, 1969 · 54m

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".

E24. Ronnie Schell and Vikki Carr

Mar 31, 1969 · 54m

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, guest 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.

E25. Imogene Coca and Robert Goulet

Apr 7, 1969 · 54m

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".

E26. Sergio Bustamante and Yolanda Merida

Apr 28, 1969 · 54m

Exerpts from the Carol Burnett show dubbed for Spanish speaking audiences are shown with Mexican actors Yolanda Merido and Sergio Bustamante demonstrating how they do the voices of Miss Burnett and Korman. Harvey Korman masquerades as a mayor running for reelection in a sketch satirizing a "spontaneous, unrehearsed" political broadcast. Korman does a serious production number to "They Call The Wind Maria". Waggoner sings "I'm Just A Country Boy" and Vicki sings "When I Die". Carol closes the show and the season with her Charwoman playing to an empty theater.

E27. Edie Adams, Tim Conway, and Jimmie Rodgers

Jun 9, 1969 · 54m

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.