The BEST episodes of The Carol Burnett Show season 4
Every episode of The Carol Burnett Show season 4, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Carol Burnett Show season 4!
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 Dyan Cannon, Paul Lynde
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/23/1970
Main comedy sketch spoofs soap operas; Miss Burnett (as the Charwoman) sings "Try To Remember"; entire cast salutes Thanksgiving.
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#2 - with Pat Carroll, Karen Wyman, and Tim Conway
Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/1/1971
Conway accidentally gets his dog's inoculations and takes on canine characteristics; Miss Wyman solos "Close to Me"; Carol, as the charwoman, offers "Easy Come, Easy Go" and "MacArthur Park". Pat Carroll is back as Roger's protective sister in the Carol and Sis segment, pushing Carol and Chris around.
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#3 - with Nanette Fabray, Ken Berry
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/1970
Ken dances to "Mr. Bojangles", then portrays a Civil War hero with two sweethearts, Carol and Nanette; Miss Burnett solos "Nice People"; the entire cast spoofs aviation movies.
#4 - with Pat Carroll, Robert Goulet, Rich Little
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/28/1970
A salute to the new year. Entire cast performs "Call Me Back" and "Auld Lang Syne"; Goulet plays the kissing bandit in a soap opera spoof "As the Stomach Turns"; Little offers his impressions of celebrities giving TV commercials; Goulet sings "Without Love" and joins Carol for "Have I Told You Lately".
#5 - with Jerry Lewis, Lesley Uggams
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/11/1971
Lewis portrays a janitor to Carol's charwoman character; Miss Uggams sings "This Is Your Life" and "Help". Comedy spots feature Jerry and Carol as two unlikely marriage prospects and Harvey Korman as a ham actor upstaged by Carol.
#6 - with Martha Raye, Edward Villella, and Violette Verdy
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/25/1971
"Goose Pond Ballet" spoof spotlights Villella and Miss Burnett; Martha portrays an Irish housekeeper who doesn't live up to her employment agency's description; Carol and Martha offer a medley of three songs.
#7 - with Mike Douglas, Bernadette Peters
Season 4 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/8/1971
Douglas solos "Theme From Love Story" and Miss Peters joins the dancers in "Tea for Two"; Mike and Carol offer a musical medley; a movie spoof titled "Most Happy Stella".
#8 - with Debbie Reynolds, John Davidson
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/30/1970
Carol and guest Debbie Reynolds play nurses in a spoof of the wartime movie "So Proudly We Hail!"; guest John Davidson performs a banjo medley which includes "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head", and joins the ladies on "Thank You Very Much" from "Scrooge"; and Debbie performs a musical number, "Look at Me".
#9 - with Mel Torme, Don Rickles
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/7/1970
The entire cast offers a salute to Rickles' "charm"; an adult version of Sesame Street; Torme sings "Into Something" and joins Carol for a medley of tunes by Jule Styne.
#10 - with Chita Rivera, Bob Newhart
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/22/1971
Carol and Roger fight when his accountant brings over his sexy blonde wife. Obnoxious Fireside Girl Alice Portnoy badgers the hung-over Harvey for a donation. Chita performs a production number to Lucretia Mac Evil. The musical finale, "Naughty Rosemarie," sends up the Eddy/MacDonald Mountie movies. This episode is noted as Show #422 in the Lost Episodes DVD set.
#11 - with Ricardo Montalbán, Cass Elliot
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/1970
Montalban joins Carol in a spoof of aquacade movies and the dancers for "A Man and A Woman"; Miss Elliott sings "Good Times Are Coming" and joins Carol in a wallflower skit.
#12 - with Michele Lee, Mel Torme
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/18/1971
A spoof on the old method of discovering Hollywood stars. As Vanessa Vanilla, Carol is found dishing ice cream and becomes a star. Mel Torme plays her agent. Harvey Korman is the studio boss. Miss Lee plays a welfare worker inspecting the residence of the Tenth Avenue Family. Torme, Michele and Carol perform a medley of country-western tunes. Mel solos "Strike Up the Band" and "I Hear Music"; Miss Lee offers "In Times Like These".
#13 - with Nanette Fabray, Steve Lawrence
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1970
A salute to Columbia Pictures, featuring the famous "Golda" (spoof of "Gilda") and also parodies of such films as "From Here to Eternity" and "Middle of the Night"; musical performances by guests Nanette Fabray ("Singing in the Rain" and "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head") and Steve Lawrence ("What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?"); and in "As the Stomach Turns", Marian's friend (Nanette) announces she has a hormone disturbance which she's afraid to discuss with her husband (Harvey).
#14 - with Paul Lynde, Nanette Fabray
Season 4 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/29/1971
"Old Folks" salutes the senior generation; Lynde and Miss Fabray join the cast regulars for a soap opera spoof and for takeoffs on TV commercials; Carol (as the charwoman) sings "Carol's Theme". In the Carol & Sis segment, Carol and Chris (Vicki Lawrence) discover that Roger (Harvey Korman) is minus an office secretary when they drop in. Carol, clad in hot pants, then makes a mess of office procedures but scores a hit with the company's suave salesman (Lyle Waggoner).
#15 - with Donald O'Connor, Bernadette Peters
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/1970
A spoof of 1940s "Hollywood Canteen" movies; Miss Peters offers "Come Saturday Morning"; O'Connor performs "Somethin's Coming Over Me".
#16 - with Jim Nabors
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1970
Nabors sings "Mama, a Rainbow" and joins Carol for a medley; Miss Burnett portrays the charwoman and "The Nudge", who does nothing to discourage her husband's suicide dive.
#17 - with Cass Elliott, Pat Paulsen
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1970
Mama Cass sings "Glory of Love" and joins Carol for a "smile" medley; Paulsen tells how to become a sensuous female; Harvey Korman and Vicki Lawrence team with Miss Burnett for a fireside chat at "San Clemente by the Sea"; Carol, Vicki, guests and dancers perform the finale, "Mr. Tambourine Man".
#18 - with Eydie Gorme, Joan Rivers
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1970
Carol is joined by guests Eydie Gorme and Joan Rivers in a skit about a popular girls singing trio; Joan gives her opinion on women's lib; an interview with Mrs. King Kong; Gorme sings "You Can Have Him"; Gorme and the cast perform a medley about men and love.
#19 - with Juliet Prowse
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/9/1970
Highlights of this episode, which was taped earlier in the year in London, include a flamboyant star (Harvey Korman) battling the respiratory ailments of his co-star (Carol) during a stage production; the "Old Folks" on a honeymoon voyage to England; and Carol's charwoman pantomiming a striptease.
#20 - with Rita Hayworth, Jim Bailey
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/1/1971
Guest Rita Hayworth is pestered by two celebrity seekers (Carol, Vicki); Jim Bailey impersonates the likes of Phyllis Diller, Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland, and performs "Don't Rain on My Parade" and "Happy Days Are Here Again" with Carol; Vicki performs "When You've Got Good Friends" with the dancers; a "Tearjerker Theater" presentation of "Lovely Story" with Carol in the Ali MacGraw role and Harvey as the character played by Ryan O'Neal; Carol and Rita sing "Mutual Admiration Society", with clips from some of Rita's old films being shown; and Rita appears as another charwoman.
#21 - with David Frost, Eileen Farrell, Marilyn Horne
Season 4 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/22/1971
A show taped in New York at the Ed Sullivan theater. Frost plays a snobbish English car salesman hustling wealthy Americans Harvey Korman and Carol. Other skits include Harvey as a henpecked husband who dreams himself a Roman gladiator and Vicki a temptress; an Italian opera spoof of Cinderella. Musical performances of the works of Puccini by Eileen, Rossini by Marilyn, and Sondheim by Carol, Eileen and Marilyn.
#22 - with Ken Berry, Totie Fields
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/15/1971
Totie Fields, as the author of "The Desirable Woman" confides in a TV talk show hostess played by Carol. Guest Ken Berry plays a golfing priest and Harvey Korman is his rabbi partner. Totie plays a woman who thinks she's a werewolf. Ken demonstrates his terpsichorean talents in "Let's Have a Party"; the entire cast offers "Put On Your Sunday Best"; Miss Burnett solos "Make a Rainbow".
#23 - with Steve Lawrence, Julie Budd, and Durward Kirby
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/14/1970
A Christmas edition of the show. The entire cast joins in a musical salute to the movie "Scrooge"; Lawrence solos "One Day" and Miss Budd sings "Where Is Love".
#24 - with Art Carney, Pat Carroll
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/4/1971
The show starts with a holiday salute, but the holiday is the Fourth of July. Carol plays a Fireside Girl, using blackmail to sell cookies to Harvey Korman and Pat Carroll. In another sketch, Carney is an exterminator who lost his nerve and needs reassurance from his wife. In another chapter of "As The Stomach Turns", Carol is a Women's Libber and Carney is a pro football scout who has his eye on Pat Carroll.
#25 - with Lucille Ball, Mel Tormé
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/19/1970
Ball and Burnett portray stage mothers pushing their precocious offspring in an audition, and star in a spoof of "Some Like It Hot"; Torme solos "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?".