Season 5

1971–1972

Sep 15, 1971 · 54m

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".

E2. The Carpenters and Tim Conway

Sep 22, 1971 · 54m

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.

E3. Carol Channing/Steve Lawrence

Oct 6, 1971 · 54m

In My Own Lifetime; Carol and Sis; Ain't Misbehavin' / You're the Cream in My Coffee / Button Up Your Overcoat; As the Stomach Turns; Salute to Oscar; Without a Word, Without a Sound

E4. Ken Berry/Cass Elliot

Oct 13, 1971 · 54m

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.

E5. Peggy Lee and Dom DeLuise

Oct 20, 1971 · 54m

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".

E6. Diahann Carroll and Tim Conway

Oct 27, 1971 · 54m

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".

E7. Bing Crosby/Paul Lynde

Nov 3, 1971 · 54m

The Old Folks; Love Thy Neighbor / Put a Little Love in Your Heart; As the Stomach Turns; Sing / Get Happy; Dance Challenge; The Drunkard's Daughter

E8. Bernadette Peters/Cass Elliot

Nov 10, 1971 · 54m

Carol and Sis; The Look of Love; The Sound Man; Cherish / It Had to Be You; As the Stomach Turns; You've Got a Friend

E9. Nanette Fabray and Mel Torme

Nov 17, 1971 · 54m

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".

E10. Eydie Gormé/Shecky Greene

Nov 24, 1971 · 54m

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.

E11. Tim Conway and Mama Cass Elliott

Dec 1, 1971 · 54m

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.

E12. Andy Griffith and Barbara McNair

Dec 8, 1971 · 54m

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.

E13. Ken Berry and Dionne Warwick

Dec 15, 1971 · 54m

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".

E14. Steve Lawrence and Dick Martin

Dec 29, 1971 · 54m

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".

E15. Paul Lynde and Peggy Lee

Jan 19, 1972 · 54m

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".

E16. Ken Berry, The Carpenters, and Nanette Fabray

Jan 19, 1972 · 54m

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.

E17. Ray Charles and Tim Conway

Jan 26, 1972 · 54m

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?".

E18. Eydie Gorme and Vincent Price

Feb 9, 1972 · 54m

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.

E19. Steve Lawrence, Kaye Ballard

Feb 16, 1972 · 54m

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".

E20. Nanette Fabray/Burt Reynolds

Feb 23, 1972 · 54m

Fly Me; As Time Goes By; Chromo-Seltzer; Scoop Mouthwash; George and Zelda; Nite-Nite; Hair and Shoulders Shampoo; It's A Musical World; Cool Power; Transcontinental Airlines; AI; Wednesday Night Adventure Movie: The Lavender Pimpernel; She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain

E21. Tim Conway, Eydie Gormé

Mar 1, 1972 · 54m

Carol and Sis; A House is Not a Home; Undercover Cops; Midnight Theatre: Dr. Nose; Angel Child

E22. Jack Klugman, Tony Randall

Mar 8, 1972 · 54m

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".

E23. Karen Black and Paul Lynne

Mar 22, 1972 · 54m

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.

E24. Episode #5.24

Mar 29, 1972 · 54m

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.