Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Ernest Borgnine, Arthur Godfrey, Don Rickles, John Wayne, Slappy White
TV Flash files “Ernest Borgnine, Arthur Godfrey, Don Rickles, John Wayne, Slappy White” as hour 137 of 141 in the TV Flash guide — Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968–1973) on NBC, season 6, episode 20, aired 1973-02-12, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E20: listed hour 137 of 141 in the Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In guide, hour 20 of 24 in season 6. It aired 1973-02-12 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Phyllis Diller, Oral Roberts, Paul Gilbert” (S06E19). Next is “David Birney, Meredith Baxter-Birney, Rip Taylor, Slappy White, Jo Anne Worley” (S06E21).
Viewer FAQ
Where does Ernest Borgnine, Arthur Godfrey, Don Rickles, John Wayne, Slappy White sit in the Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In guide?
S06E20 is listed hour 137 of 141 — hour 20 of 24 in season 6, season 6 episode 20.
When did Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In S06E20 air?
Ernest Borgnine, Arthur Godfrey, Don Rickles, John Wayne, Slappy White aired 1973-02-12 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Do I watch Laugh-In in order, or hop?
Hop. It is a sketch variety hour, not a serial. Guest lists are the chapter titles. Start with the 1967 pilot special or a season-2 guest stack if you want the velocity at full boil.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Watch the after-party that got a timeslot: catchphrases as national sport, guest-star politics in a bikini-joke machine, and the hour a presidential candidate walked into a punchline. Sketch velocity with velvet-rope heat — still the template for treating celebrity as a blackout gag.
The hand was on the joke wall for exactly one blackout, then gone — sock it to me, beautiful downtown Burbank, a bikini with graffiti that the censors negotiated like a treaty. Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In did not wait for an after-party. It was the after-party, 1968 on NBC, a Monday-night crime scene of catchphrases, guest-star cameos, and a pace that treated the remote like a cocktail shaker. If you only watched the hosts' tuxedos, you missed the show. The heat was in the cutaways, the Tramp, the telephone…
Filed against
- Dan Rowan as Host
Dan Rowan co-hosted Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, the rapid-fire sketch explosion that made catchphrases a national sport. Straight-man cool opposite Dick Martin’s chaos helped sell counterculture on network prime time. On TV Flash he’s…
- Dick Martin as Host
Dick Martin co-hosted Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In as the chaos half of the velvet rope — rapid-fire sketch, catchphrases as national sport, guest-star politics in a bikini-joke factory. Straight man Dan Rowan sold the timeslot; Martin shook…
- Goldie Hawn as Regular
Goldie Hawn was a Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In regular — bikini-joke factory, catchphrases as national sport, a red carpet with a laugh track. TV Flash files her as 1960s variety voltage: the giggle the blackout needed, guest-star politics…
- Lily Tomlin as Regular
Lily Tomlin’s Laugh-In arrival was a second heat check — characters that outlive the timeslot in Rowan and Martin’s catchphrase factory. Telephone-operator cutaways, bikini-joke velocity, a Monday-night afterparty that sold rebellion…
- Arte Johnson as Regular
Arte Johnson was a Laugh-In regular whose catchphrases and character bits helped make rapid-fire sketch chaos a national sport. “Very interesting…” still echoes in variety-history rewatches. TV Flash files him as 1960s counterculture…
Also in season 6
- S06E01 Isaac Hayes, Kent McCord, Martin Milner, Jill St. John, John Wayne
- S06E02 Sebastian Cabot, Dyan Cannon, Janet Leigh, Julie London
- S06E03 William Conrad, Bob Crane, Nanette Fabray, Henry Mancini
- S06E04 Lucie Arnaz, Rich Little, Ross Martin
- S06E05 Steve Allen, Mama Cass Elliott, Michael Landon, Della Reese, Henny Youngman
- S06E06 Jack Benny, James Farentino, Michele Lee, Peter Marshall, Hugh O'Brian, Charles Nelson Reilly