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Legendary long-running television variety show featuring skits and songs by Carol Burnett, her comedy troupe, and their celebrity guests. Stars Carol Burnett, Vicki Lawrence, Harvey Korman, Lyle Waggoner, and Tim Conway.

A Wild West cow town is starving for entertainment, and it falls upon Calamity Jane, a rowdy, gun-toting, jeans-wearing tomboy, to go to Chicago to bring back a famed stage actress. She brings instead the star's maid, who settles in the town, but Jane's love interest falls for her.

A fabulous collection of sketches and songs. Zero Mostel performs If I Were a Rich Man from Fiddler on the Roof. The program was written by Nat Hiken (Sgt. Bilko, Car 54 Where Are You)

Carol's series premiere guest is Jim Nabors. Highlights of this inaugural edition include: a "V.I.P." interview with Shirley Dimple; Jim and Carol as two misfit skiers in "The Ski Lodge"; the first "Carol and Sis" sketch; and a Broadway medley. Jim sings "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" in Italian, and Carol as the Charwoman sings "Georgy Girl".

Guests Jonathan Winters and Barbara Eden join Carol in this show; a "V.I.P." interview segment with Jonathan as Santa Claus; Carol and Vicki in a sketch about a surprise party; guest Leonard Nimoy in a sketch about "Mrs. Invisible Man.

Highlights of this show with guests Mickey Rooney and John Davidson include: "The Rat Race" (a spoof of "The Dating Game"); and "The Funn Family".

Highlights of this Christmas edition include: guest Sid Caesar demonstrating self-defense; Carol and Sid as a couple who quarrel on Christmas night; Sid, Carol and Harvey in a sketch that takes place in ancient Rome; guest Ella Fitzgerald sings "A Foggy Day" and "Always True to You in My Fashion"; Carol performs "Bare Necessities", and as the Charwoman sings "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas; and a cameo by Jonathan Winters.

Carol's guest Lana Turner sings "Heavenly Music" while dancing with the Ernie Flatt troop. Frank Gorshin does impressions then becomes Bluebeard with Carol his 13th wife. Carol and Harvey are a bickering couple on a game show.

Highlights include: "The Swinging 6 O'Clock News"; a "V.I.P." interview with the wife of the Jolly Green Giant; and musical numbers from guests Trini López ("Sally Was a Good Old Girl" and "Sonny") and Ken Berry ("Mack the Knife"); and a takeoff of "Show Boat".

Guest, Shirley Jones and George Chakiris

Jonathan Winters joins with Carol in a couple of skits while Dionne Warwick performs the theme from the Valley of the Dolls.

Highlights include: a "V.I.P." interview sketch satirizing Luci Baines Johnson; Carol and Vicki do a "Sleeping Beauty" skit; guest Sid Caesar as a father awaiting the birth of his child; Carol and Lyle do a "How Tall Is Your Announcer" segment; a parody of "Star Trek"; guest Liza Minnelli performs "The Debutante's Ball", and duets with Carol on a medley of songs including "Just In Time"; and Sid and the cast in a spoof of the Ziegfeld Follies.

Highlights include Liza Minnelli singing "Butterfly McHeart" and "The Happy Time"; Carol, Liza, and the dancers perform "Big Beautiful Ball" with all dressed as clowns.

Reporter interviews "Queen Elizabeth"; Betty performs "Hello, Dolly!" in barn dance motif; "As the Stomach Turns"; "Carol and Sis" visited by aunt and uncle; Carol and Martha duet on "Just One of Those Things" "That Old Gang of Mine"

Martha Raye and Betty Grable guest in the soap opera spoof "As The Stomach Turns." And a "Beautiful Legs" contest reveals stiff completion from an unlikely competitor. All this, and Carol's Q&A too.

Highlights include: Gary singing "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World"; in "Science Fiction Playhouse," two Martians come to Earth to learn about the new "secret weapon" of television; "That Wonderful Year," reenacting key moments from the year 1937; Gary sings "The Night is Young and You're So Beautiful"; the Broadway musical "Golden Boy" is parodied, featuring a powerful boxer with very poor aim; a parody of South-Sea island melodramas in which Burnett is a captured island native set to be sacrificed.

Carol and guest Imogene join together to portray Congressional wives, astronauts in space still dealing with earthly romances and Olympic athletes with different approaches concerning men. Korman is the neglectful husband Dracula. Mel solos "That's All"

Newlywed sketch; Miss Loring sings "Little Girl Blue" and "Don't Tie Me Down." Soupy Sales is featured in a musical comedy production number, built around "Real Live Girl".

Highlights include Conway playing an Apache chief, the first Indian president of the United States; Shani Wallis and Miss Burnett appear as bloomer girls in song-and-dance production "Good Enough for Grandma's Fancy"; Miss Wallis sings "It Had To Be You"; Miss Burnett sings "Meantime"; Burnett and Korman play a 90-year-old couple taking an after-dinner breather on their patio.

Highlights of this edition with guests Sid Caesar and Barbara McNair include: a feminine spoof of "I Spy"; Sid, Carol and Harvey as gypsies attempting to untangle various personal complications; Harvey interviewing silent movie stars Pico and Rivera; Carol and Harvey as soap opera stars plagued by a drunken sound effects man; and musical numbers including Carol as the charwoman singing "If I Ruled the World", and Barbara performing "I've Grown Accustomed to Your Face" and "The Second Time Around".

Carol and Sis sketch centers around Roger and Carol having surprise visitors - old friends whose names they cannot remember.

Highlights include: two women (Carol and guest Lucille Ball) go to the "Café Argentine" whose staff includes a goose-stepping maitre d' (Harvey); Carol as a housewife fighting off a recalcitrant washing machine and attacking pigeons, only to end up impaled by a medieval lance; "Carol and Sis" sing a rendition of "I Dig Rock and Roll Music"; guest Tim Conway plays a bumbling TV news anchor; two rent-a-car employees (Carol, Lucy) vie for the attentions of a traveler (Tim); guest Gloria Loring performs "Goin' Out of My Head" and "Try to Remember"; a woman (Carol) experiences the downside of marrying a superhero (Harvey); and Carol and Lucy sing and dance to a barroom medley.