The BEST episodes of The Carol Burnett Show season 2

#1 - with Ross Martin, John Davidson

Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/10/1969

"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").

#2 - with Eileen Farrell, Marilyn Horne

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/16/1968

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.

#3 - with Tim Conway, Perry Como, Sydney Omarr

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/20/1969

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".

#4 - with Michele Lee, Flip Wilson, Vivian Blondell

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1968

Carol's into practically everything tonight. She's a sexy Hollywood star one moment, a drab spinster who loses her date to roommate Michele Lee in the next. She's handcuffed to a Southern Sheriff in a sketch that's interrupted by outer-space visitor Flip Wilson. She tries the housewife routine again talking to her neighbor in the next window. Michele dances and sings with Carol and Vicki Lawrence. Flip Wilson slips in a monologue.

#5 - with Martha Raye, Mel Tormé

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/27/1969

The cast presents awards for the worst TV commercials of the year; Carol and guest Martha Raye do a pantomime as sloppy Sunday painters; guest Mel Torme sings "Ridin' High" and "What's New Pussycat?"; in "Carol and Sis", Carol fears the worst when Roger talks in his sleep; and Carol, Martha and the dancers perform a medley of "Chickery Chick", "Mairzy Doats", "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo", "Three Little Fishies", "The Hut-Sut Song", "Flat Foot Floogie", "Tain't What You Do, It's the Way That Cha Do It" and "Dream".

#6 - with Ethel Merman, Tim Conway

Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/3/1969

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".

#7 - with Ken Berry, Shirley Jones

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/17/1969

A daytime soap-opera spoof; Miss Burnett does an interview with a fashion designer about his annual worst-dressed list; a social chat between two housewives doing their weekly wash in an automatic laundry room; a "Carol and Sis" sketch finds Carol under a lingering hypnotic spell, which causes her to act amorously toward any man who says the word "February" -- this proves somewhat embarrassing when her husband invites an accountant over to help figure his income tax; Berry performs "Feather in My Shoe"; Berry joins Miss Burnett in a three-song duet, "Home," "Way Back Home" and "Love in a Home." Miss Jones sings "I Gotta Be Me" in her solo spot.

#8 - with Lucille Ball, Eddie Albert, and Nancy Wilson

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1968

Harvey and Carol in "The Old Folks" skit; Nancy sings "The Folks Who Live on the Hill"; Roger brings home his new boss, a health fanatic, and forces Carol to act like she exercises; Eddie sings "Father of Girls"; in "As the Stomach Turns", Carol and Lucy are popular funeral attendees, Eddie is an undertaker, and Nancy integrates Canoga Falls; Nancy teams with Carol for "The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener"; the finale is a tribute to the astrological sign Leo. This episode is noted as Show #108 in the Lost Episodes DVD set.

#9 - with Nanette Fabray, Mel Tormé, and Don Rickles

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1968

The entire cast performs a musical spoof titled "The Tin Pan Alley Story". In other sketches, Rickles plays a quick-tempered shoe salesman who assails indecisive customer Fabray with a barrage of insults; Carol joins Nanette in a skit about two pregnant wives who meet at the doctor's office. Miss Fabray performs "Listen to Your Momma". Mel Torme's solo is "Take a letter, Miss Jones". This episode is noted as Show #107 in the Lost Episodes DVD set.

#10 - with Sid Caesar, Ella Fitzgerald

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/1968

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.

#11 - with Edie Adams, Tim Conway, Jimmie Rodgers

Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 6/9/1969

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.

#12 - with Imogene Coca

Season 2 - Episode 28 - Aired 5/12/1969

#13 - with Vince Edwards, Chita Rivera

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/3/1969

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".

#14 - with Imogene Coca, Vic Damone

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/9/1968

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.

#15 - with Nanette Fabray, Trini Lopez

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/1968

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".

#16 - with Martha Raye, Mike Douglas

Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/17/1969

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.

#17 - with Soupy Sales, Barbara McNair

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/24/1969

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.

#18 - with George Gobel, Bobbie Gentry

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/1968

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".

#19 - with Tim Conway

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/6/1969

A "V.I.P." interview of fried chicken tycoon Colonol Flanders; Tim Conway plays a shy comic; in a "Carol and Sis" skit, Carol's husband can't sleep when Sis is out late on a date; Vicki sings and dances to "American Boys"; incompetent house painters sketch; and for the finale a burlesque musical production. This episode is noted as Show #112 in the Lost Episodes DVD set.

#20 - with Barrie Chase, Larry Hovis

Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/24/1969

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".

#21 - with Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Carol Channing

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/1968

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.

#22 - with Edie Adams, Tim Conway

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/1968

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.

#23 - with Garry Moore, Durward Kirby

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/1968

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.

#24 - with Ronnie Schell, Vikki Carr

Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/31/1969

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.

#25 - with Yolanda Merido, Sergio Bustamante

Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/28/1969

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.