The BEST episodes of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In season 6
Every episode of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In season 6, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In season 6!
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 #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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - Episode #133
Season 6 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/22/1973
Fake commercial, Con man, Ancient Chinese crossover, Fortune cookie quickie, Cowboy blackouts, Headline news, Orgy quickie, Cannibal banquet, Kremlin wastebasket, Magicians, Garage show auto mechanic, Discovery of the week, Robert Broadway sketch, My husband blackout, Women liberationist quickie, Salute to people in business, and shoe store sketch. Featuring Robert Goulet.
#4 - Episode #140
Season 6 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/12/1973
Sketches include Beauty parlor, Girdle shop visit with Edith-Ann, Drunk quickies, Marriage counselor, Cannibal blackouts, Fickle finger of fate aware, Emission quickie, Plastic surgery, Study of wife swapping, Trading stamps, Noise line, Lily's stammering lady, Preview of upcoming shows, The Swizzlers, General Bullwright's report, and Clown closing. Featuring Sammy Davis, Jr.
#5 - Episode #139
Season 6 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/5/1973
Sketches include Opening monologue, Insurance, Magic quickies, Minister quickies, Nose job blackout, Topless crossovers, Con man, Bridget and Bernie runner, Proposal runner, Return of Simon & Garfarkle and the Farkle family, Convict runner, Salute to airlines and air travel, Minority news, The Swizzlers, Fickle Finger of Fate award, and a Look at Women's Lib. Featuring Meredith Baxter.
#6 - Episode #138
Season 6 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/26/1973
Sketches include Three monks, Drivers, Three musketeers, Celebrities montage, Godmother Capone, Visitors news, Three-headed man, Ring master, Airplane, Elephant, Big Top and Barker blackouts, Salute to the Circus, Cowpoke blackout, Three monks and the Burbank fire department, Psychiatrist quickies, and Joke wall close. Featuring Ruth Buzzi, and Charlie Callus.
#7 - Episode #136
Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/12/1973
Sketches include Judy parlor scene, Groucho cafe, News billboard, Business news, Sports news, Con man bit, John's rebuttal, Spy business blackout, Dan and John foxhole scene, Salute to California, Offshore drilling, Gambling blackout, Dan and Dick on Doris Day, Robot Theater, Indian smoke with John, and Dick's finale. Featuring Don Rickles, John Wayne, and Ruth Buzzi.
#8 - Episode #135
Season 6 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/5/1973
Sketches include Phyllis opens the show, Irish blackout, Baby blackout, Phyllis in marriage counselor, Mae West blackouts, Sloppy cook runner, Monster quickie, Nuns confessional, Salute to beautiful people, Face lift sketch, Politics blackout, Hollywood news, Pope's wastebasket, A look back to twenty-five years ago, and Bum quickie. Featuring Phyllis Diller.
#9 - Episode #134
Season 6 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/29/1973
Spoofing the Presidency; a mock Presidential conference a-la The Tonight Show; an outgoing President refusing to vacate The White House, and a vodka rehearsal for a trip to Moscow. Sketches include Here comes the judge opening, Sammy cowboy sketch, Edith-Ann meets Sammy, Ruth as Kathryn Kuhlman, Dungeon runner, Visit to W.C. Fields, Visit with Will Maston trio, General Bullwright song, Salute to the Fifties, Ed visits the show, Sammy little lost boy runner, and Equal rights blackout. Featuring Sammy Davis Jr., W.C. Fields, Ed Sullivan and the Will Maston Trio, Angie Dickinson, Totie Fields, Monty Hall.
#10 - Episode #132
Season 6 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/15/1973
Sketches include Christmas party, Two kings runner, Lily and Richard under the Mistletoe, Christmas shopper, Hillbilly Christmas, My Fair Lady sketch, Steve the know-it-all, Edith-Ann's Christmas, Military Christmas, Gladys and Steve Lawrence dream duet, Pilots in the cockpit, and Black reporter with Willie. Featuring Steve Lawrence, Peter Marshall, Steve Allen, Willie Lester.
#11 - Episode #131
Season 6 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/8/1973
Sketches include Howard opening, Three musketeers runner, Book store quickies, Kissing booth quickie, Fake commercial blackouts, Pole vault quickies, Dinner table blackout, The fabulous Farkle family says hello, Holdup blackout, Bedroom library, One tooth, Confessional booth, Adam Twelve runner, The Mod World of Sports, Hard of hearing blackouts, and Olympics crapshoot. Featuring Howard Cosell.
#12 - Episode #130
Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/18/1972
Sketches include Two monks, Marriage counselor, Pilot runner, Family fight blackout, Visit with the Farkle family, the Flying Fickle Finger of Fate award, Hijacked hearse, Two monkeys runner, William in quickies, Bug in the soup, Sound effects, News of the underworld, First president, Super bowl news. Featuring Lily Tomlin, Cody Fields, Monty Hall, and William Morris.
#13 - Episode #129
Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/11/1972
Spoofing the show's final Christmas show Steve Lawrence plays a ballet dancing Jack Frost and a singing Santa Claus; Steve also joins the cast in blackouts as Groucho Marx. Sketches include Lily's Tasteful lady, Marriage counselor, Henny con man sketch, Ruth dungeon runner, the Swizzlers, Sarah and Penn nun runners, Checkout counter, Show business news, Inside Washington, The deaf couple, Fortune teller, The Mod World of Salesmanship, Out of the bushes quickie, and Half-off black belt. Featuring Rich Little, Henny Youngman, and Jack Klugman.
#14 - Episode #128
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/4/1972
Jack Klugman as Filthy Farkle, the black sheep of the Farkle family, and a floppy-eared dog reporting the news from the animal world. A dream sequence finds Gladys Ormphby married to Jack - who turns out to be as sloppy as his Odd Couple character Oscar. Sketches include Firing squad runners, Visit with the nuns, Drinking quickie, Running jokes with Godfather, Headline news, Book reviews, News from London, Ireland, and China, News of the First Lady, Salute to old comedians, Vaudeville, Jewish slept here blackouts, Garage show pilot, Vietnam visit, Return of the nuns, Gladiator bits, The Swizzlers, and Senator comments. Featuring Wilt Chamberlain.
#15 - Episode #127
Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/1972
Sketches include James in Vaudeville wall; A look at bad manners; A look at eternal youth; Ruth in Kathryn Kuhlman sketch, Bob convict runner, Salute to Thanksgiving, A look at pop culture, Two busy guys, Visit with the Farkle family, The King and I, Sculptor blackout, Etiquette rimshots montage, Hippies and hip news, and Ruth's book review. Featuring Jim Khan, Nanette Fabray, and Bob Crane
#16 - Episode #123
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/23/1972
Sketches include Dick firing squad runner, Roller derby, Boarding house sketch, Visit with W.C. Fields, Jack Benny crossover, Jack explains show business, Confidentiality blackouts, Ruth shops for shoes, President news by Dick, News from Heaven with Lily, Discovery of the week, Vaudeville joke wall, and Swinging singles. Featuring Lily Tomlin, Richard Dawson, W.C. Fields, Jack Benny.
#17 - Episode #121
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/9/1972
Sketches include Steve the hillbilly runners, Michael with the stagecoach, the Laugh-In Boom boom room, Whoopee award, Priest confessional booth, Cass in operating room runners, The Mod World of Commercials, Ruth and cast girdle blackout, A look back at the swinging sixties, and Silent majority. Featuring Lily Tomlin, Michael Landon, Cass Elliot, Steve Allen and Angie Dickinson.
#18 - Episode #118
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/18/1972
Sketches include Laugh-In looks at the News, News of the Past, Present, and Future, Cocktail party, Umpire blackouts, Lifeboat runners with Abbe and Julie, Caveman couples, Astronaut on the moon, Congressmen, Nun runners, Dyan visits the fabulous Farkle family, Salute to guns, and the Joke wall. Featuring Bob Hope, Dyan Cannon, Julie London, Abbe Lane, and Sammy Davis.
#19 - Episode #117
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/11/1972
John Wayne camps it up as a floppy ear bunny & parodies his movie roles, The salute to the summer of '72. Isaac Hayes, Kent McCord, Martin Milner. Sketches include Laugh-In girls cheerleader opening, Intro to new cast members, Laugh-In Salutes the Summer of '72, Edith Ann's stories of school, All in the Ghetto, and Joke wall. Featuring John Wayne, Jill St. John, and the Keystone Cops, Isaac Hayes, Kent McCord, Martin Milner.
#20 - Episode #119
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/25/1972
Sketches include Lily and William in marriage counselor, Captain Amazing, Senator blackouts, Small town news, Indian tradition, Burbank beauties, Lily and Ruth innocent bystanders, Kids' letters, Dan and Dick Tarzan sketch, funeral blackouts, Dan and Dick firing squad, Return of the Swizzlers, and edited speech exposé. Featuring William Conrad, Henry Mancini, and Dan and Mary Rowan.
#21 - Episode #120
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/2/1972
Sketches include Salute to law and order, Miss America, Lucy tennis blackouts, Madame Curie, Blind date, Lucy on Italian-Jewish life, Laugh-In girls cheerleading squad, Nanette want ads, China/Russia border, Marine news, Laugh-In salutes adult books, Stripper bit with Dick and Ruth, Lucy Roller derby, and Dan, Dick and Lucie production number. Featuring Lucie Arnaz and Nanette Fabray.
#22 - Episode #122
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/16/1972
Sketches include Two nuns, Burbank Fire department runners, Jean Very Elegant song, King of the Jungle runners, Sports news covers the cannonball catch, Jean, Ruth, and Dennis marriage counselor, Salute to the family, Laugh-In Joggers, Bikini beach, Fake record commercial, Dick in boxing ring blackouts, and Joke wall. Featuring Jean Stapleton, Jack Carter, Henny Youngman.
#23 - Episode #125
Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/13/1972
Sketches include Don faith healer runner, Lily at the checkout counter, Don and the Three Musketeers, Two kids runner, Don as a cowboy, The Farkle family says hello, Mean nurse, Tribute to W.C Fields, Quickies, Spanking baby movie, Lily's Stammering lady, Salute to good manners, Don visits the moon, Visit with Captain Bly, Headline news, and Special events of the week. Featuring Don Rickles.
#24 - Episode #137
Season 6 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/19/1973
Sketches include Dan and Dick opening monologue, Con man crossover, Two old men, Godmother, Cowboy runner, Gladys' comments, Garage show auto mechanic, A look back at W.C. Fields, Dungeon blackout, Nude scene blackout, Standing room blackout, Salute to the actor, News of Al Capone, Senior citizens' news, Minority report, Military map runner, and Mother nature scene. Featuring Dom DeLuise.