The BEST episodes of The Carol Burnett Show season 7
Every episode of The Carol Burnett Show season 7, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Carol Burnett Show season 7!
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 Tim Conway, Bernadette Peters
Season 7 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/16/1974
In "As the Stomach Turns" Marian's possessed niece (Bernadette) is exorcised by priest Tim Conway; two Japanese soldiers (Tim and Harvey) argue underwater; and a salute to musicals of the 1930's. Bernadette performs "I Can't Get Started with You" and "Blame It on My Youth".
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#2 - with Carl Reiner
Season 7 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/19/1974
A musical version of "Little Red Riding Hood" performed in the manner of a Mexican folk story for children. In another skit, an accident-prone woman (Carol) and her husband (Carl) attempt to buy insurance before her next accident. Also, Burnett as a spoiled child star, and a supermarket checkout sketch. Miss Burnett performs "I Wonder What Became of Me" and "Send in the Clowns".
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#3 - with Ruth Buzzi, Richard Crenna
Season 7 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/15/1973
A salute to movie bad girls with spoofs of such films as "Mrs. Robinson", "All About Eve", and "Born to Be Bad". Other sketches include Burnett and Crenna as a husband-and-wife cop team; a game show parody called "Celebrities and Peasants"; a production number about the mimeograph machine and women's voting rights. Ruth Buzzi performs "Oh, You Beautiful Doll".
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#4 - with Tim Conway, Steve Lawrence
Season 7 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/2/1974
The oldest living wardrobe man (Tim) has problems helping an actor (Harvey Korman) perform a quick change between acts of a play; the night before his wedding, a bachelor (Steve) asks his fiancee's sister (Carol) on a date. Steve performs "Here's That Rainy Day" and "Rainy Days and Mondays". And a salute to George and Ira Gershwin.
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#5 - with Vincent Price, Joel Grey
Season 7 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/9/1974
In "Carol and Sis", Chrissy's new boyfriend isn't as wild as he appears to be; a hotel operator (Carol) listens in on guests' calls; Carol, as a spoiled child star tangles with a tyrannical German film director; guest Vincent Price recalls the humorous side of Abraham Lincoln; Grey emcees a musical, "Comedia Del Arte".
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Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1973
Sketches include: "As The Stomach Turns" where Petula portrays Marian's long-lost twin sister; an airport security guard skit; Carol as a myopic actress on stage without glasses; and a satirical salute to pre-1970 rock music. Petula Clark sings "Silver Spoon" and duets "Yesterday Once More" with Carol.
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Season 7 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/5/1974
Carol and cast satirize the intense competition between clients and agents in the ad business; Conway plays a man displaying simian symptoms after being bitten by a chimp; Carol plays an elderly actress putting her footprints into Cement; Steve Lawrence solos "Maybe This Time" and performs "In Buddy's Eyes" together with Carol.
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Season 7 - Episode 25 - Aired 4/6/1974
Show segments include: the perennial loser in a bar scene; "Old Folks" sketch about the energy crisis; a spoof of women's sob story game shows; and a circus mini-musical production number. Carol sings "Al" and the cast performs "Apache Talk".
Watch Now:Amazon#9 - with John Byner, Francine Beers
Season 7 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/23/1974
Carol and Harvey come in to rob a diner, but end up working there instead. In the final sketch of the "Carol and Sis" series, a pushy neighbor invites herself to Roger and Carol's anniversary dinner. Vicki Lawrence sings her hit, "Mama's Gonna Make It All Better". Two scientists build female robots. For the finale, a spoof of country-western award shows.
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Season 7 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/9/1974
PTA mothers argue over who's the best singer; Houdini's daughter (Carol) has some trouble with her escape attempts; a woman orders a hit on her boring husband, but then wants to call it off; and a production number about drifters.
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#11 - with Eydie Gorme, Tim Conway
Season 7 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/23/1974
A brutal Nazi interrogator (guest Tim Conway) tortures a POW (Lyle) with a Hitler hand puppet; guest Eydie Gorme performs "The Way We Were" and "How About Me"; a spoof of "The Thin Man" with Lyle and Vicki as Nick and Nora; and Vicki Lawrence plays a fortune teller giving Carol a lively reading.
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#12 - with Eydie Gorme, Paul Sand
Season 7 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/12/1974
Sketches include Miss Burnett and Sand as newlyweds arguing before they leave the church; Korman and Sand as odd-couple astronauts on their way to Mars; and Eydie, Carol, Harvey and Lyle Waggoner as estranged mates planning new marriages. Miss Gorme and Miss Burnett offer a musical salute to great ladies of the musical theater.
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Season 7 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/22/1973
A salute to movie detectives including Sherlock Holmes and Sam Spade; sketch about a stuffy Englishman (Newley) meeting a wino (Martin); a production number of Newley songs. Newley solos "What Did You Do in the Great War, Daddy?", and duets "The People Tree" with Carol.
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Season 7 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/1/1973
Sketches include: a spoof of TV commercials; fashion models act as though they're posing for everyday life; in "Carol and Sis", Carol has the flu and Roger won't come near her; Carol is left by her lover (Harvey Korman) on his wedding day, and he comes back to visit her every few years. Musical numbers include: "The Shape of Things", "Ships in the Night" and "Those Were the Days".
Watch Now:Amazon#15 - with Tim Conway, Steve Lawrence
Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1973
With Steve, Carol is a liberated woman and with Tim it's another scene. Carol also does her Shirley Temple character, Rhoda Dimple, the young businesswoman, in a Civil War film. The finale, "Those Were the Days" pays tribute to Thanksgiving. Note: this originally scheduled episode was preempted and appears to have never aired.
Watch Now:Amazon#16 - with John Byner
Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1973
Parodies of cowboy showdowns, courtroom dramas and the TV series "Girl in My Life"; a sketch about a group encounter session; Carol as a court stenographer sings "I've Gotta Be Me"; and a musical salute to upbeat songs from World War I to the present.
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Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1973
A salute to old movie serials, with parodies of the "Cisco Kid", "Tarzan", "The Wolfman" and "Young Dr. Kildare". Paul plays a nervous newlywed in "Honeymoon Sweet". Eydie sings "Take One Step". Harvey and the dancers perform "Royalty" and "The Glamorous Life".
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Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1973
Once again Jim Nabors is Carol's first guest for the season. In skits, Carol and Roger (Harvey Korman) move into a new high-rise apartment; Nabors joins in spoofs of TV series "Yung Fool" and "Black Archie". Carol sings "True Blue You". Nabors sings "And I Love You So". The cast performs "Come Back to Me".
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#19 - with Gloria Swanson
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1973
The Charwoman meets Charlie Chaplin (guest Gloria Swanson); in another "Carol & Sis" sketch, an elevator operator in Carol and Roger's new apartment building has a crush on her; a mistress (Vicki) tells all to a radio call-in show about a man (Lyle) with whom she's having an affair, while his unsuspecting wife (Carol) listens to every word; and an "Old Folks" sketch. Gloria Swanson performs "A New-Fangled Tango" and Carol sings "Without a Word, Without a Sound".
#20 - with Ken Berry, Jack Weston, and Tim Conway
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1973
Jack and Carol are matched up for a blind date by a computer service; a doctor and nurse, married to each other, bicker in the middle of a surgery; a man in a supper club meets an Ethel Merman-type singer; Harvey, Carol, Lyle and Vicki swap personalities in "Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde"; Berry and the dancers perform "It's Not Where You Start"; Carol performs "The Lady Is a Tramp"; and for the close, "New Elizabethan Rhythm".
#21 - with Steve Lawrence, Paul Sand
Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1973
Highlights include: "Double Calamity", a parody of "Double Indemnity" with Steve in the role played in the original by Fred MacMurray and Carol in the Barbara Stanwyck role; Steve sings "I've Got You Under My Skin"; a fat woman (Carol) attempts exercises to a TV exercise show hosted by Lyle; and a salute to Irving Berlin's 85th birthday.
#22 - with Tim Conway, Charo, Petula Clark
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1973
A man is uncomfortable visiting a unisex beauty salon; a magazine interviewer attempts to get the story about a Spanish star's home life, but her mother gives him trouble. Charo performs "Midnight Guitar" and joins other cast members in "Luck Be a Lady".
#23 - with Helen Reddy, John Byner
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1973
Spoofs of the "The Most Unforgettable Television Commercials of the Year", including Imperial margarine, Post Grape Nuts cereal, Minute Maid orange juice, and Pledge cleaning spray. Another episode of "Nora Desmond", silent film star, who plans her own funeral with the aid of an "instant-eulogy" expert. Helen Reddy performs "Don't Mess with a Woman" and joins Carol for "A Little Bit of Sunday" and "Dixieland Firehouse".
#24 - with Roddy McDowall, The Jackson 5
Season 7 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/16/1974
Carol and Roddy sing a duet, with him in his "Planet of the Apes" make-up. In "The Family" sketch, Eunice, Ed and Mama don't appreciate the accomplishments of Eunice's brother, Nobel Prize-winning writer Philip (Roddy). In other segments, two chauvinist carpenters give a new co-worker (Carol) a hard time; an argument breaks out at a bus stop when a radio contest calls a nearby pay phone; two Brits at a café speak in one-word sentences; The Jackson Five perform "Dancin' Machine"; Carol is a music teacher with The Jackson Five as her students perform "This Old Man" and "ABC".
#25 - The Australia Show
Season 7 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/8/1973
Taped in Australia at the Sydney Opera House. Tim Conway, as the world's oldest conductor, leads the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Ballet star Edward Villella dances with Australia's Lucette Aldous in a parody of "Swan Lake". Harvey Korman and Carol render an alcoholic version of the great Funt and Mundane acting team. Carol performs "For All We Know" and "It's Today". The dancers do "Waltzing Matilda".