The BEST episodes of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Every episode of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In!
Comedy duo Dan Rowan and Dick Martin host this fast-moving comedy series. Characters include Lily Tomlin's Ernestine the Operator, Arte Johnson's German soldier who finds everything "verrrrrry interesting" and Ruth Buzzi's feisty little old lady. Recurring sketches include Laugh-In Looks at the News and The Mod, Mod World.
#1 - Episode #73
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/1970
Halloween special Boo-In sketches include Things that go bump in the night song, Ruth the fortune teller, Orson and Alan's monster sketch, Spooky cocktail party, Vincent on the joke wall, Trick or treat runners, Orson goes to the dry cleaner's, and Witch burning. Featuring Orson Welles, Billy Barnes, and Vincent Price.
#2 - Episode #109
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/24/1972
Sketches include Sally intro, Gladys' dream, Carl blackouts, Tattoo runner, The Mod World of Television, Isolation booth, Carl and Lily soap opera, Ruth fortune teller, Partridge family takeoff, Dick and Carl duel, Lily entertainment editor, Lily answers the telephone, and Alan and Ruth beauty contest. Featuring Sally Struthers, Carl Reiner, Slappy White, and Sue Ann Langdon.
#3 - Episode #64
Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/2/1970
Sketches including Danny meets Tyrone F. Hornie, Quickies, Scandinavian storyteller, Goldie explains overpopulation, News of the past, present, & future, and The Mod World of the Generation Gap. Featuring Danny Kaye and Zsa Zsa Gabor.
#4 - Episode #9
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/25/1968
Sketches include Cocktail Party, News of the past, present, and future, Russian Submarine sinks American fishing boat, Laugh-In Girls fan dance news, Sammy introduces Here Comes The Judge, Joey's News From The Harem, Bull fighters, and the Mod World of the Olympics. Featuring Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop, Regis Philbin, John Wayne and Goldie Hawn.
#5 - Episode #15
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1968
Sketches including Here comes the Judge, Fickle Finger of Fate, Salute to Higher Education, and John Wayne visits the Joke Wall. Featuring Richard Nixon, John Wayne, Hugh Hefner, Goldie Hawn and Zsa Zsa Gabor.
#6 - Episode #32
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/3/1969
Sketches include Don on the joke wall, Tyrone F. Hornie and Gladys Orphby on the park bench, Laugh-In girls and Don present the circus news, High school principal, Big Al's sports segment, Cocktail party, Stranger than truth, Bird calls, and the Mod World of the United Nations. Features Don Rickles, Liberace, and Carol Worthington, George Jessel
#7 - Episode #55
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/29/1969
Sketches including Introduction to Lily Tomlin, Ernestine phone call, The Farkle family revisited, Jo Anne's song, Visitors from space, Moon landing, The Mod World of the Sixties, and Joke wall. Featuring Lily Tomlin, Frank Sinatra, Jr., and Nancy Sinatra.
#8 - Episode #58
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/19/1970
Sketches including Quickies, Ernestine calls Millhouse Nixon, Big Al, Flying fickle finger of fate award, Here comes the judge, The Mod World of Women, Cocktail party with Bing, and Fritz Fogel & the Farkles. Featuring Sammy Davis Jr. and Bing Crosby.
#9 - Episode #65
Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/9/1970
Sketches including Tyrone's bachelor party, Goldie explains time zones, Milton & Mickey encounter, Joke wall, and Farkle family adoptions. Featuring Milton Berle, Mickey Rooney, Jill St. John, Andy Williams, Buddy Hackett, and Nancy Sinatra.
#10 - Episode #74
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/1970
Sketches include Fake cigarette commercial, Rosemenko and Carol runner, Quickies with Carol, Priest quickies, Carol presents Stranger than truth, Broadway cocktail party, Salute to mothers, Adam and Eve revisited, Whistler's mother, Lily and Susie's sorority, Hollywood news of the Future, and modern mothers' song. Featuring Carol Channing, Jilly Rizzo, and Carl Reiner.
#11 - Episode #106
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/27/1971
Sketches include Joe intro, Petula crossovers, Missing husband, Charo billboard song, Lily and Richard the painter, Joe and Lily supermarket runners, The Mod World of Leisure, Trying hard to do nothing, Dan & Dick brain surgery, Lily's phone call to Russia, Full cast plays aging game, and Alan becomes Jo Anne. Featuring Joe Namath, Petula Clark, Billy Barnes, Charo, and Janice Pennington.
#12 - Episode #126
Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/1972
Sketches include Opening billboard, Salute to fatties, Visit with Chubby Checkers, Just married, Beach blanket, Visit with Mr. Know-it-all, Fight manager, Superman's mother, Class medal winner, Military man, Jack in Lone Ranger monologue, Fabulous Farkle family visit, W.C. Fields sketch, Japanese news, and Bird watchers. Featuring Sally Struthers, Steve Allen, W.C. Fields, and Jack Benny.
#13 - Episode #124
Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/30/1972
Sketches include Prize fighter, Nude women crossovers, World's quickest movies, Nurse purse snatcher, Astronaut on the moon, News of Cuba, Cocktail party, Lion tamer, Ruth and Dennis Honeymoon quickie, Confidential magazine, Flying Fickle Finger of Fate, Lawyer blackout, No more guns, Robin hood blackouts, Kiss of death, and Return of the Swizzlers. Featuring Mike Connors and Carol Burnett.
#14 - Episode #57
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/12/1970
Sketches including Jonathan as Maudie Frickett, Arrest of the Farkle family, Ernestine calls Gore Vidal, Cocktail party, Flying fickle finger of fate award, and The Mod World of American Tourists. Featuring Frank Sinatra and Jonathan Winters.
#15 - Episode #72
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/19/1970
Sketches include Hawaii update with Don, Dick and Lily's breakfast in bed, Dick Martin as gay ballerina, David Frost's British update, Scuba diving film, Lily and Susie's sorority comments, Dick & Ruth Swizzlers, News of the past, present, and future, Burbank searchable research center, Naughty monster, White House on the hill, and Zero Mostel Finale. Featuring David Frost and Don Ho.
#16 - Episode #56
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/5/1970
Sketches including Tasteful lady, Jim Garner as one of the Farkles, Return of General Bullwright, Intro to tricycle rider, Quickies, Goldie nun runner, The stammer girl, and The Mod World of Indians. Featuring James Garner and Englebert Humperdinck.
#17 - Episode #5
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/19/1968
Sketches include: The Party; Sock It To Me’s, The News; I've Got A Secret; Henry Gibson’s poem; New Talent Time; Richard Dawson as a bird caller; Kaye Ballard as a protest singer; Mod World of Fashion and Glamour; Classified Ads; Rosmenko presents an act from behind the Iron Curtain; the Holyecki sisters (Eileen, Judy, Goldie and Pam); Salute to the Mother-In-Laws featuring Kaye as the Mother-In-Law of the Year; Joke Wall. Featuring: Kaye Ballard, Douglas Fairbanks, Peter Lawford, Dinah Shore, Walter Slezak, Pamela Austin
#18 - Episode #3
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/5/1968
Sketches include Introduction of Goldie Hawn, Cher as Pocahontas, Cocktail Party, Tim and Cher's mountie duet, Laugh-In does Shakespeare, Salute to censorship, Tim in Olympic athlete blackouts, and the famous Joke Wall. Featuring Ilene Brennan, Flip Wilson, Tiny Tim, and Lorne Green.
#19 - Episode #96
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/1971
Karen Valentine of Room 222 plugs songs for unpleasant occasions; plays a Southern belle in a light-opera spoof; and plays Dr. Samantha ironsides in a sketch that borrows something from a variety of TV series. Gladys Ormphby (Ruth Buzzi) dreams she's married to Howard Hughes. Colonel Claude interviews a dog and Sara the Singer wheels into a swinging-singles complex. Sketches include Sunbathers quickie, Jacqueline meets Johnny, All-girl band production, Karen fake commercial, Stretcher running joke, Man-eating woman runner, Supermarket with Lily, Nudist camp runner, Nun runner, Ruth's gladiator dream, Dan and the swingers, Karate runner, and Gladys' dream. Featuring Karen Valentine, Jacqueline Susann, Mae West, Pat Morita, Johnny Carson, and Moosie Drier.
#20 - Episode #97
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/1971
Sketches include Ruth as fortune teller, Alan in Nudist camp, Tough guy Edward, Frank explains Laugh-In, Tony explains Frank, Johnny and Ruth as hippies, Discovery of the week, Galley slaves, Rita and Dennis in mean nurse, Ruth and Alan Tarzan sketch, Hollywood news, and Underground film. Featuring Tony Curtis, Glen Ford, Edward G. Robinson, Frank Gorshin, and Johnny Carson.
#21 - Episode #98
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/1971
Sketches include Janet meets Alan as Toulouse Lautrec, Richard fake commercial, New talent, Edith Ann explains Laugh-In, Dennis, Janet and Richard in Vaudeville suicide, The Mod World of Toys and Games, Dennis and Lily pretend, Alan on educational toys, Hobo bits, Future news presents moon rover interview, Human cannonball, and Ruth goes to the dentist. Featuring Richard Crenna and Janet Leigh.
#22 - Episode #99
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/25/1971
Emmy-winner Lee Grant takes a rare fling at comedy, playing a participant of a This is Your Life spoof; an absent-minded wife; a survival instuctor for senior citizens; and a fashion spy. Miss Grant joins Alan Sues in a production number, "You've Got It". Sketches include Gorilla runner, Prison blackout, Lily record store, Ruth the fortune teller, Edith Ann explains life, Willie explains the Grand Prix, Dick and Lee in This is your life, Fact or Fiction, Lee Grant as Queen dubbing the Laugh-In Cast, Celebrity news, Lily the cheerleader, and Marcel talks. Featuring Lee Grant, Marcel Marceau, Willie Shoemaker, Tiny Tim and Jill St. John.
#23 - Episode #100
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/1/1971
Sketches include Vaudeville opening, Return of Judy, Henry, Teresa, Arte, and Jo Anne, Dan appears as General Bullwright, Tyrone and Gladys listen as Edith Ann explains Laugh-In, Pregnant lady, Arte and Judy's robot theater, John's poem, Lily cheerleader, Russian Dan and the full cast, Tiny Tim and his harem, and Jo Anne's song. Featuring John Wayne, Tiny Tim, and past Laugh-In cast members.
#24 - Episode #101
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/8/1971
Liza Minnelli plays a bored circus star throwing knives at her husband; plays a Southern belle bidding wacky farewells to her soldier boy; joins in a Mod Mod World look at the family; and does a song-and-dance number with Barbara Sharma called, "Bring Back The Thirties". Sketches include Hip hugger blackouts, Alan and Barbara in Bride & groom quickies, The birds and the bees, Vaudeville sketch, Jill in Partridge family blackout, The Mod World of Families, Liza reading of the will sketch, Liza and Barbara song of the 30s, Divorce lawyer, and Breakfast with governor's family. Featuring Liza Minelli, Edward G. Robinson, Ralph Edwards, and Jill St. John.
#25 - Episode #102
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/1971
Sketches include Alan and Dennis present the Flying Fickle Finger of fate, Secretary quickies, Auctioneer runner, James' suave Romeo runner, Kids' news, Lily's stammering lady, Ruth's Hollywood news, The Mod World of Politics, Seating in the senate, Gladys' dream, Lily's cheerleader, Galley slaves with Tony, and Pentagon sketch. Featuring James Coco, Tony Curtis, and Moosie Drier.
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