Cher

On The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, Cher is the host in Mackie armor who treats a variety stage as a marriage and a fashion house. Sonny's grin, marital digs that stopped feeling like a bit, a couple brand with a public divorce waiting in the wings. She plays deadpan as a weapon and a gown as plot. 1970s CBS variety that made her a comedy force beyond radio.

TV Flash files her as the reason the hour is still a file, not a clip. The marriage imploded in prime time; the look outlived the bit. On this desk Cher is 1970s variety craft — a woman who photographs as sequins and plays as the host who turned a duet into a career and a breakup into television.

First listed hour: s01e01. Show 1 is the couple-brand open. Sonny's bobblehead grin, Cher's Mackie armor: variety as a marriage, the digs still billed as a bit. The 1970s run is The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour on CBS (1971–1974), and that is the only map this page draws. She is not the logo. She is the host chair, a host with consequences. When the series is fluent, the code is s02e01. Show 20, billed as a series premiere, is the brand restated. Marital digs still the liturgy: the public divorce plot twist not yet the plot.

Landmark after the handshake: s01e14. Show 14 is first-season variety muscle. Sibling-to-nobody, couple-to-franchise: the hour still sequins and putdowns, radio fame already smaller than the television marriage. Cher photographs as The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour billing and plays as the host chair — a host with consequences, not a poster. When you want the other temperature, s02e01 is it. Show 20, billed as a series premiere, is the brand restated. Marital digs still the liturgy. Come for the brand; stay because the host chair will not flatten.