The BEST episodes of The Carol Burnett Show season 3
Every episode of The Carol Burnett Show season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Carol Burnett Show season 3!
A variety / sketch comedy show starring Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner, and Tim Conway. It originally ran on CBS from September 11, 1967 to March 29, 1978 for 278 episodes, and originated from CBS Television City's Studio 33 (known today as the Bob Barker Studio). The series won 25 prime time Emmy Awards, and in 2007 was listed as one of Time magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All Time."
#1 - with Ken Berry, Tim Conway, Kay Medford
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1969
In a vaudeville segment, Tim Conway plays a bumbling acrobat. Carol is a dance hall Mom to daughter Vicki Lawrence in a tearful melodrama. Ken Berry dances to "Down By the Winegar Woiks". Also, Carol and Ken Berry play a computer-matched couple singing love songs. Tim and Harvey do a skit about a homesick truck driver. Kay Medford pops up as a sister-in-law in the weekly "Carol and Sis" routine.
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#2 - with Steve Lawrence, Edward Villella
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/1969
Ballet dancer Edward Villella performs to music from the opera "Prince Igor," after which Charwoman Carol comes on for a dream dance with her hero. Steve and Carol take off on a medley of songs with numbers in their titles and Steve sings "The Drifter" on his own. Other segments include a bit with Carol and Harvey as the old folks on the porch, and another with the two of them as the married couple who hire decorator Lyle Waggoner.
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#3 - with Andy Griffith, Merv Griffin
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/17/1969
Andy Griffith joins Carol in a musical hillbilly version of "Cinderella", handling the narration and appearing as Mr. Prince, and Harvey Korman is the Fairy Godfather. In other spots, Griffith becomes a cop who treats wife Carol like a suspect, and Miss Burnett recites a poem sent in by a youngster. In the "Carol and Sis" segment, Harvey Korman is the TV football fan who ignores his family during the weekend. Carol sings "I Believed It All". Vicki and cast perform "Mah-Na-Mah-Na". This episode is noted as Show #309 in the Lost Episodes DVD set.
#4 - with Soupy Sales, Mel Tormé, and Ronald Reagan
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/26/1970
Gov. Reagan helps Carol field questions from the studio audience; Miss Burnett and guests salute Warner Bros. Studios; Torme sings "Hurry On Down" and joins Carol for "Within You"; Sales portrays a phony accident victim blackmailed by precocious Fireside Girl Alice Portnoy (Carol).
#5 - Family Show
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/16/1970
Non-guest edition spotlights show regulars in comedy and song. Miss Burnett and Harvey Korman play shy school teachers reviewing the material for a sex-education class; Carol teaches Lyle Waggoner to sing.
#6 - with Scoey Mitchell, Bobbie Gentry
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/1969
Comedy sketches concern the first Negro president, royalty, old folks and a "sample" family. The show was originally scheduled for October 13, 1969 but was preempted, and aired on October 19, 1969.
#7 - with Nanette Fabray, Nancy Wilson
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/12/1970
Nancy Wilson solos "Spinning Wheel"; Carol and guests explore the generation gap in song and dance; Miss Burnett stars in the show's recurring daytime soap opera spoof.
#8 - with Martha Raye and Tim Conway
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/8/1969
A salute to 20th Century Fox, highlighted by musical spoofs of Shirley Temple movies and such films as "Fantastic Voyage" and "Doctor Doolittle". Miss Raye solos "Is That All There Is?"
#9 - With Donald O'Connor, Nancy Wilson
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/29/1969
The entire company joins in for a salute to MGM; O'Connor sings and dances to "Without a Song"; Miss Wilson solos "The Girl's a Woman Now"; Carol portrays a housewife haunted by characters from TV commercials.
#10 - with Steve Lawrence, Tim Conway, Kay Medford
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/9/1970
The entire cast take part in a vaudeville spoof; Miss Burnett and Berry play a mismatched couple and perform a love-song medley.
#11 - with Ronnie Schell, Nancy Wilson
Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/16/1970
Miss Wilson solos and joins Carol and the dancers in production numbers; Schell portrays a nightclub comic with a wife who's out of laughs; Miss Burnett recites "Being Alone", a poem by a 13-year-old fan, and follows up by singing "Where Is Love?". Carol and sister Vicki Lawrence badger a hung-over Harvey Korman, and Carol returns for a slapstick husband-and-wife routine, becoming locked in a ball and chain.
#12 - Family Show
Season 3 - Episode 27 - Aired 5/4/1970
A husband-wife team struggle over their income tax forms. In a takeoff on home interior magazines, Carol and Harvey Korman lead photographer Waggoner around their immaculate house. A comparison of movies to real life with the song "Cheek to Cheek". Carol plays an ingenue who ruins a big dramatic scene for great actor Harvey Korman.
#13 - with Nancy Wilson, Bernadette Peters, and The Burgundy Street Singers
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/1969
"They Don't Make Them Like That Anymore" spoofs 1930s films; musical performances by guests Nancy Wilson ("Can't Take My Eyes Off You"), Bernadette Peters ("Poor Butterfly") and the Burgundy Street Singers ("Marrakesh Express"); and Carol, Harvey, Vicki and Lyle in a satirical TV show from the California White House.
#14 - with Gwen Verdon, Pat Boone
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/1969
Miss Verdon's feature number is a production of "Hurry On Down". Pat Boone duets "Real True Lovin' " with Carol and then joins Gwen and the entire company in a spoof on TV commercials.
#15 - with Pat Carroll, Jack Jones
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/23/1970
Pat and Carol portray TV commercial actresses and housewives who flirt with their golf instructor (Lyle Waggoner); Jones sings "I Love You More Today Than I Did Yesterday" and "God Bless the Child". The soap opera chapter focuses on a housewife (Pat) with a weight problem, who takes advice from best friend Burnett and divorce lawyer Harvey Korman. Harvey later returns as a hypochondriac dealing with wife Carol.
#16 - with Nanette Fabray, Trini Lopez
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/9/1970
Lopez sings "Lemon Tree" with Carol and solos "Yesterday I Heard the Rain"; Miss Fabray performs "Good Old Sounds" and dances the soft shoe with Carol and Trini. She also plays a secret drinker who outwits Carol in the soap opera chapter of the show. Carol and Harvey Korman celebrate a 70th wedding anniversary in the Old Folks sketch, and Carol comes close to hysteria suspecting husband Korman of running off with another woman in the "Carol and Sis" portion.
#17 - with Martha Raye, Mel Torme
Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/23/1970
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".
#18 - with Nanette Fabray, Michele Lee
Season 3 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/13/1970
A movie censor sketch; TV commercial spoofs; and another episode of "As the Stomach Turns". Fabray performs "One Little Brick at a Time". Lee performs "What about Today?" A musical finale where the cast brings comic strip characters to life, with Burnett as Olive Oyl, Lawrence as Little Iodine and Korman as Superman.
#19 - with Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, Dan Rowan, Dick Martin
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/1969
A salute to Paramount Pictures, with Bing recalling his days in "Road" movies, Carol as Marlene Dietrich, Dan Rowan and Carol reprising the sleeping bag scene from "For Whom the Bell Tolls". A musical tribute to the Marx Brothers. Musical numbers including Ella singing "Get Ready", Bing and Carol performing "Flattery", Ella and Carol duetting on "I'll Never Fall in Love Again", Ella and Bing rendering "Moon River" and "Call Me Irresponsible", and Carol singing "Falling in Love Again". Plus a surprise cameo by Bob Hope.
#20 - with Flip Wilson, Vikki Carr
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/19/1970
Carol and Harvey Korman portray two wallflowers who discover each other in a TV commerical satire. Later, the cast does a spoof of "Mission: Impossible". Miss Carr solos "Go". Vicki dances and sings to "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head". The cast performs "There's Enough to Go Around" for the finale. This episode is noted as Show #316 in the Lost Episodes DVD set.
#21 - with Barbara Feldon, Joan Rivers
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/2/1970
Miss Burnett and guests spoof beauty contests and portray success-seeking sisters in New York; Miss Feldon sings and dances "If You've Got the Money" and "Yakety Sax"; Miss Rivers delivers a comedy monologue; Carol (as the Charwoman) sings "Where Did My Childhood Go?".
#22 - with Lucille Ball, George Carlin
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/1969
Entire cast spoofs a modern folk-pop-rock-soul concert; Carol and Lucille portray airline stewardesses competing for the good-service bonus; Miss Burnett sings "Just Talkin'".
#23 - with Kaye Stevens, Audrey Meadows
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/5/1970
Miss Stevens solos "Eli's Coming" and joins Carol for "Games People Play"; a daytime serial spoof; cast regulars satirize television weddings.
#24 - with Tim Conway, Peggy Lee
Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/30/1970
Skits feature Conway as a misfit bachelor on a vacation cruise, and as an imbibing office worker asking for a raise; Miss Lee solos "Love Story" and joins Carol for "Doodling Song".
#25 - with Tim Conway, Jane Connell
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/2/1970
Cast salute to Universal Studios; Miss Connell appears in a "Thoroughly Modern Millie" number and sings "Pollution"; Vicki Lawrence offers "Leaving on a Jet Plane"; Conway and Harvey Korman portray tipsy pals trying to sober up, and Burnett and Korman appear as the Old Folks chatting on the back porch. Carol and Lyle Waggoner mimic Doris Day and Rock Hudson.