The BEST episodes of The Carol Burnett Show season 6
Every episode of The Carol Burnett Show season 6, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Carol Burnett Show season 6!
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 Ray Charles, Vincent Price
Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/22/1972
A salute to horror movies, with Harvey Korman as Frankenstein's monster and Lyle Waggoner as Count Dracula. In "Carol and Sis", Carol thinks Chrissy is pregnant; in "George and Zelda", George dreams he's a riverboat gambler. Ray Charles and the Raelettes sing "Every Saturday Night" and Ray plays piano in a cocktail lounge, singing tunes for a sentimental customer (Carol). Price plays Fagin in a bit from "Oliver" and the cast concludes with a production number, "The Transylvania Trot".
Watch Now:Amazon#2 - with Tim Conway, Valerie Harper
Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/17/1973
Skits include: a blind date sketch with Korman and Harper as swingers and Burnett and Conway as wallflowers; Conway as the world's oldest fireman; and another installment of "As the Stomach Turns". Valerie Harper solos "The Last Blues Song". Carol, Valerie and Vicki sing "The Ladies Who Lunch". The whole cast performs "The Good Old, Bad Old Days".
Watch Now:Amazon#3 - with Andy Griffith, Helen Reddy
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1972
Griffith plays a warden who welcomes a nervous wife coming to visit her imprisoned husband; Miss Reddy teaches Carol to sing "Australian"; the cast spoofs the movie "Rebecky"; Griffith and the Ernie Flatt dancers do "Turn Your Radio On"; Miss Reddy sings "I Am Woman".
Watch Now:Amazon#4 - with David Hartman, Paula Kelly
Season 6 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/10/1973
Skits in this show include: "This Is Your Lifetime" (a spoof of "This Is Your Life"); George is sick in "George and Zelda"; a political production number; and Carol ironically sings "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" but her car has many issues. Paula solos "Killing Me Softly with His Song" Other musical numbers include "I Ain't Down Yet" and "We Could Be Close".
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#5 - with Steve Lawrence, Lily Tomlin
Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/8/1972
Guests Steve Lawrence and Lily Tomlin take part in an opening musical number, "We're All in the Same Band"; Lily does a monologue as a woman abandoned by her boyfriend, and and portrays a divorcee seeking sympathy in the "Carol and Sis" skit; The Godfather (Steve) is trying to enjoy a quiet honeymoon; "Caged Dames", a spoof of 1950s women-in-prison movies; and musical performances from Steve (a medley of "I Can Get Along Without You" and "Without You") and Carol as the Charwoman ("If They Could See Me Now" and "Baby, Dream Your Dream").
#6 - with Steve Lawrence, Tim Conway
Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/23/1972
Steve Lawrence and Tim Conway do a spoof of "Columbo." Also, Steve plays a TV talk show host and Tim is a chicken-hearted paratrooper. Lawrence performs "The Good Life". The cast does a medley of bell songs.
#7 - with Jack Cassidy, Tim Conway
Season 6 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/6/1973
In skits, Conway is a new angel in Heaven whose roomie, Harvey Korman, can't stand him because he can't do anything right; Carol and Korman go to an adoption agency where one of the four eligible children is 36-year-old Conway. The cast takes part in a movie spoof, "Story of a Star", starring Carol as Esther Crotchett; Cassidy as Norman Swain; Conway as Miles Mogul; Korman as agent Glibby.
#8 - Family Show
Season 6 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/24/1973
A spoof of "Random Harvest" ("Rancid Harvest"). Carol and Harvey then become dolls put to bed by Vicki Lawrence, only to be joined by a soldier doll. Carol and the show's musicians offer their version of the dueling banjos from the movie "Deliverance", and she brings down the curtain as the Charwoman.
#9 - with Peggy Lee, William Conrad
Season 6 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/17/1973
Spoofs of TV shows such as "The Golddiggers", "Maude", "Sonny and Cher", and "Password". In "Carol and Sis", Roger gets mugged; Peggy Lee solos "When I Found You" and duets "It's a Good Day" with Carol. William Conrad performs "A Quiet Girl" and "A Married Man".
#10 - with Petula Clark, Jack Byner
Season 6 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/10/1973
The cast spoofs TV commercials featuring such subjects as hamburgers, stewardesses and detergents. A women's lib sketch and a kidnapping sketch. Guest John Byner plays a movie studio's star duck who is called in to be fired. Petula Clark sings "Without You" and duets "Turn Around" and "Without You" together with Miss Burnett.
#11 - Family Show
Season 6 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/3/1973
In a spoof of the 1940 film "Waterloo Bridge", Carol plays the showgirl who meets her upper class hero during a London air raid. In the "Carol and Sis" sketch, Carol's high school flame has her husband burning. Carol sings "I've Got You Under My Skin". Lawrence performs "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia". The cast closes with a hoedown dance number.
#12 - with Tim Conway, Kaye Ballard
Season 6 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/27/1973
Kay Ballard and Tim Conway appear for a salute to the old Palace Theater and a preview of Miss Ballard's forthcoming Broadway musical, "Molly's World". As Molly Goldberg, Kay sings the title song, then joins Carol and Vicki Lawrence in a spoof of "The Dating Game". Conway plays a too-attentive gas station attendant. Miss Ballard sings "Go in the Best of Health" and "I Love the Old Times. The whole cast performs "Tea for Two".
#13 - with Ruth Buzzi, Jack Gilford
Season 6 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/20/1973
Ruth Buzzi in a Las Vegas sketch plays the slot machines before turning into a sexy Vegas lounge entertainer. Jack Gilford is seen as the nervous father of bride Carol Burnett, attempting to remain calm before the ceremony. Harvey Korman's hen-pecked husband George is pursued once again by Miss Burnett's "Zelda the Nudge", and a big salute to Al Jolson, led by Carol, Gilford and Ruth Buzzi, caps the hour.
#14 - with Anthony Newley, Bernadette Peters
Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/16/1972
In "The Englishman" skit, we see how a man's accent affects women. In another skit, Carol is the mother of an invisible man. The musical saga of "Little Miss Showbiz" has a child star of the 1930s going from an orphanage to stardom. Newley and Carol sing "Where Is Love?". Newley solos "Overchewer".
#15 - with Carl Reiner, Melba Moore
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/29/1972
Carol and cast do another installment of "Terminal Hospital", spoof non-violent TV in "The Plot To Hurt Hitler", and take part in musical production "The Rip-Off". Miss Moore sings "You've Got a Friend".
#16 - with Ruth Buzzi, John Davidson
Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/15/1972
A musical comedy salute to the great Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movies, including "Lust for Life", "National Velvet" and "Camille". In another skit, two women are members of the studio audience in a taping of "The Carol Burnett Show". Also, Miss Buzzi appears as a retiring beauty queen who is making her last appearance before relinquishing her crown and, much to the embarrassment of the emcee, she tells it like it is.
#17 - with Peggy Lee, Jerry Stiller, and Anne Meara
Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/1/1972
Carol presents a new character, a do-gooder named Mary Worthless; Peggy Lee sings "A Song for You"; Stiller & Meara play Mr. and Mrs. Chou En-lai; Carol and Peggy duet on "Girl Talk"; a circus-themed episode of "As the Stomach Turns"; examples of the different ways men and women react to car accidents; and a wealthy couple meet their low-class soon-to-be in-laws in "Street Wedding".
#18 - with Tim Conway, Pearl Bailey
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/25/1972
Nora Desmond is offered a bug spray TV commercial in a sequel to last season's "Sunset Boulevard" parody; guest Tim Conway as rabbit attorney F. Lee Bunny is asked to defend a woman accused of murder; Pearl Bailey performs "A Nightingale Song" and, in a duet, Pearl and Carol sing "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"; Pearl plays a talky psychiatrist; the oldest living galley slave (Tim) creates trouble for his partner (Harvey); and a salute to 20th Century-Fox including Carol as Carmen Miranda, and Pearl as the Ingrid Bergman character in a spoof of "Anastasia".
#19 - with Carol Channing, Marty Feldman
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/1972
Feldman plays a slightly mad plastic surgeon whose patients include Harvey Korman and the two Carols. Carol and guests spoof TV commercials. In a "Carol and Sis" segment, a "girly" magazine is found in Roger's briefcase. The cast takes part in a musical salute to Johnny Mercer.
#20 - with Eydie Gorme, Ken Berry
Season 6 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/24/1973
A salute to RKO Studios includes spoofs of "Pride of the Yankees", "Notorious", "The Outlaw" and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". Ken delivers a dancing tribute to his hero, Fred Astaire. In "Carol and Sis", Roger needs peace and quiet to do his taxes. Miss Burnett joins Harvey Korman and Berry for a slapstick Three Stooges routine. Eydie sings "I Am Woman"; Ken performs "Love Me Blues".
#21 - with Eydie Gorme, Jack Gilford
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/1972
A henpecked man buys a hat; an installment of "Terminal Hospital" where the head nurse has her hands full with a singer who lost her voice; in "Carol and Sis", Carol assumes Chrissy has been abducted and held for ransom; and a sketch about a writer who changes his plots faster than his characters can act them out; Eydie Gorme sings "But Not For Me"; Carol and Eydie sing a Harold Arlen medley.
#22 - with Steve Lawrence, Paul Sand
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/1972
A man (Paul) listens to a record on how to win friends; a sketch about a friendly news team; Steve sings "In the Wee Small Hours"; in "Carol and Sis", Carol thinks Chrissy is going away for a wild weekend; and "The Putrified Forest" (a spoof of "The Petrified Forest").
#23 - with Joel Grey, Cass Elliott
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/1972
A political candidate's wife speaks for him while he's afflicted with laryngitis on the campaign trail; in "Mary McClusky", a woman mistakes a total stranger for an old high-school chum; Joel and Lyle Waggoner masquerade as puppies in a pet shop window vying for customers' attention; and a salute to foreign films with spoofs of such flicks as "The Bicycle Thief", "And God Created Woman" and "Seven Samurai".
#24 - with Jim Nabors
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1972
The sixth season begins with Jim Nabors, as in past seasons, being Carol's first guest. Carol and Harvey introduce two new characters, Fred and Marge -- "just plain folks" -- who sit in the audience and talk about contemporary life. Nabors sings "The Way of Love"; Carol and Nabors duet "The Maggie Blues"; Carol solos "If I Could Write a Song"; the finale is "Star Spangled Jive", a take-off on World War II movie musicals.