The BEST episodes of The Carol Burnett Show season 5
Every episode of The Carol Burnett Show season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Carol Burnett Show season 5!
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 Cass Elliot, Bernadette Peters
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/10/1971
In a spoof on soap operas, Cass plays a high-fashion model and Bernadette a tap-dancing nun. Cass performs "The Look of Love". Miss Peters sings "Cherish" and "It Had to Be You". This episode is noted as Show #503 in the Lost Episodes DVD set.
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#2 - with Bing Crosby, Paul Lynde
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/3/1971
The main sketch is an old-fashioned melodrama spoof, in which Crosby plays Carol's booze-soaked father, with Lynde and Harvey Korman portraying twin mustache-twirling bankers. In "As the Stomach Turns", Paul Lynde plays the town masochist and Harvey is Mother Marcus. Crosby solos "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" and "Love Thy Neighbor", and teams with Miss Burnett on "Get Happy" and "Sing". This episode is noted as Show #510 in the Lost Episodes DVD set.
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#3 - with Ken Berry, Nanette Fabray, The Carpenters
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/19/1972
Carol and Berry play Dotty and Dick, "America's Darlings", whose singing and ballet careers are backed by patron Nanette and Broadway producer Harvey Korman. Carol and the Carpenters duet on a medley of "Hurting Each Other"/"An Old Fashioned Love Song"/"We've Only Just Begun"/"Let Me Be the One"/"I Kept on Loving You". Ken Berry and Nanette Fabray perform "Coffee in a Cardboard Cup" with the dancers. Carol sings "The Empty Ballad" and duets "I'm Not Complete Without My Sweetie" with Ken.
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Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/1/1971
Racy novel sketch. Conway as a doddering dentist. Elliot sings "Cherries Jubilee". Lawrence performs "Moonglow". Burnett and Elliot duet a medley of children's songs.
#5 - with Jack Klugman, Tony Randall
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/8/1972
A spoof of "Lady in the Dark", with Randall playing Carol's playboy boss and Klugman the billionaire. Then in a spoof of "This Is Your Life", Carol portrays drama coach Stella Toddler telling the story of her life on TV. Carol and company salute Broadway musicals. Musical numbers include: "Adelaide's Lament", "You'll Never Get Away from Me", and "Brush Up Your Shakespeare".
#6 - with Steve Lawrence, Dick Martin
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/29/1971
In a salute to Hollywood's Academy Awards, parodies of "Tea and Sympathy", "Some Like It Hot" and "Sunset Boulevard". Other sketches include Steve as a Presidential adviser, and a salute to Disney (with Carol as Peter Pan). Musical numbers include: "Losing My Mind", "They Can't Take That Away From Me", "I've Got You Under My Skin", and "The Tender Trap".
#7 - with Tim Conway, The Carpenters
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1971
Carol and the cast spoof the early days of radio. Conway plays an old surgeon who falls asleep during operations. Carol and the Carpenters sing a Burt Bacharach medley.
#8 - with Andy Griffith, Barbara McNair
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/8/1971
Andy plays a football coach who uses wife Carol for living room scrimmages. The "Carol and Sis" skit flashes back to the first time Carol went to Roger's (Harvey Korman) apartment. Barbara solos "It Only Takes a Moment", and duets "Rainy Days and Mondays" with carol. The finale is a salute to Smokey the Bear.
#9 - with Steve Lawrence, Carol Channing
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/1971
Parodies of "The African Queen" and "Sorry, Wrong Number"; a salute to silent movie comedians; and the two Carols duet on a medley of "Button Up Your Overcoat", "Ain't Misbehavin'", and "You're the Cream in My Coffee". This episode is noted as Show #506 in the Lost Episodes DVD set.
#10 - with Burt Reynolds, Nanette Fabray
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/23/1972
Carol and company spoof TV commercials and do the parody "The Lavender Pimpernel". In another skit, "George and Zelda" go camping, and the henpecked George imagines himself at the opening of the transcontinental railroad. Reynolds sings "As Time Goes By". Nanette with the dancers perform "It's a Musical World". Carol, as the librarian, sings a lament to her husband Al, who's doing time upstate. This episode is noted as Show #521 in the Lost Episodes DVD set.
#11 - with Tim Conway, Eydie Gorme
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/1/1972
The feature skit finds Tim playing James Blond, who tangles with Passion Plenty (Carol) and Dr. Nose (Harvey Korman). In other sketches, two cops in drag (Harvey and guest Tim Conway) try to catch muggers; and Carol as a child who's jealous of a new baby. Eydie sings "A House Is Not a Home" and the cast performs "Angel Child". This episode is noted as Show #522 in the Lost Episodes DVD set.
#12 - with Tim Conway, Ray Charles
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/26/1972
Sketches include a country singer facing death row; Tim and Harvey as clumsy billboard hangers; Carol as an awkward teenager. Ray performs "Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma", and Carol (as the Charwoman) joins Ray and the dancers in a medley of "You Are My Sunshine", "St. Louis Blues", "Yesterday", "God Bless the Child" and "What'd I Say?".
#13 - with Eydie Gorme, Shecky Green
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/24/1971
Spoof of TV detective shows: "Ironstreet and Wife". Burnett and Korman as hammy actors Funt and Mundane. Gorme sings "How About Me?" Burnett and Gorme duet a Rodgers and Hart medley.
#14 - with Peggy Lee, Dom DeLuise
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1971
Carol and Peggy, as two New Orleans ladies of the night, sing "Hard-Hearted Hannah" and "Louisville Lou". DeLuise plays the sadistic host of the ultimate game show. Miss Lee solos "I Feel the Earth Move".
#15 - with Jim Nabors
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1971
Jim Nabors, as he has for the past five years, joins Carol on her opening show. They do a song and dance salute to his home town of Sylacauga, Alabama. Nabors also sings "Help Me Make It Through the Night". Comedy spots: In a spoof of King Henry VIII, Korman plays the monarch and Carol is Anne Boleyn; Carol plays a child actress who upstages a ham actor (Korman); Carol plays a mother who chaperones her daughter (Vicki) on a date. In her feature number, elegantly attired Carol sings "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out".
#16 - with Tim Conway, Diahann Carroll
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/1971
Diahann and Carol play two girls at a singles dance; Conway and Miss Burnett portray department store browsers who discover water beds; a spoof of the film "Summertime"; Diahann solos "A Song for You", Carol and Diahann duet "Chutzpah", and Carol offers "Saturday Morning Confusion".
#17 - with Eydie Gorme, Vincent Price
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/9/1972
In the "House of Terror" skit, Price lures his new Cockney bride (Carol) into his lab. Price does a 17th century reading, "Desiderata". Eydie sings "The Way of Love". Eydie and Carol duet on "Gypsy Number", and together with Vicki perform "Perfect Young Ladies". Also, a salute to the 1920's.
#18 - with Ken Berry, Cass Elliot
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/1971
Spoofs of TV commercials, including Carol as Mother Nature and Cass as a child using toothpaste; Carol impersonates Sonia Henie in a parody of the late skater/actress' movie musicals; Cass sings "There's a Lull in My Life" and duets with Carol on a "Love Medley"; and Ken performs "Razz-Ma-Tazz" with the dancers.
#19 - with Steve Lawrence, Kaye Ballard
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/16/1972
The whole cast hams it up in Italian war movie spoof "Operation Minestrone". Musical numbers include Miss Ballard soloing to "Cabaret" and "Don't Tell Mama"; Steve Lawrence sings "Ain't No Sunshine" and "You Are My Sunshine". In a tribute to Cole Porter in the form of an off-Broadway 1930's revue, tunes include "Easy to Love," "Just One of Those Things," and "Begin the Beguine".
#20 - with Paul Lynde, Karen Black
Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/22/1972
In skits, Paul plays a con man home builder and an interior decorator. Miss Black makes her TV singing debut with "Flowers in the Morning" and with Carol and Vicki Lawrence, are girls about to go out on the town with their dates. Carol, as the charwoman at an exclusive health spa, sings "I Don't Care" and is a depressed housewife in the "Carol & Sis" segment.
#21 - with Nanette Fabray, Mel Tormé
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/17/1971
In a spoof of the Busby Berkeley movie "42nd Street", Carol plays an unknown chorus girl who gets her big chance on Broadway. Nanette and Carol play very expectant mothers at a laundry. Torme sings "We've Only Just Begun".
#22 - with Ken Berry, Dionne Warwick
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/15/1971
In a western spoof, Carol and Ken play entertainers who alternately hit the heights and depths in Hollywood. Dionne sings "Always Something There to Remind Me" and "One Less Bell to Answer". Ken sings "I Want to Be Happy" and Carol performs "The Doll Song". Dionne and Carol set Thomas Jefferson's words from the Declaration of Independence to music in "When in the Course of Human Events".
#23 - with Paul Lynde, Peggy Lee
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/5/1972
In a movie spoof of "The Seventh Veil", Harvey Korman plays a cruel man who drives his piano protege (Carol) to success. A snobbish husband and wife argue. Peggy sings "I Can Sing a Rainbow", and duets with Carol on "Happy New Year"/"Something's Coming"/"Great Day". For the finale, a medley of such circus numbers as "Here Come the Clowns", "Clown Alley", and "Be a Clown".
#24 - Family Show
Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/29/1972
In the movie musical spoof of "The Doily Sisters" Carol and Vicki play singing waitresses who make it to the big time on Broadway; Carol sings "Happiness Belongs to My Friends" and "I've Seen That Face"; Harvey performs "Hey, Mr. Moon"; Carol and Vicki duet on "Budapest" and "When You Get Home" and perform "Two Natural Beauties" with the dancers.