All episodes Season 1 S01E04 1967-10-02 60 min 1960s CBS

The Carol Burnett Show

with Lucille Ball, Tim Conway, Gloria Loring

TV Flash files “with Lucille Ball, Tim Conway, Gloria Loring” as a desk essential hour — The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1978) on CBS, season 1, episode 4, aired 1967-10-02, 60 min.

From the desk

How this hour is filed

This leaf is S01E04: listed hour 4 of 279 in the The Carol Burnett Show guide, hour 4 of 30 in season 1. It aired 1967-10-02 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “with Jonathan Winters, Eddie Albert” (S01E03). Next is “with Imogene Coca, Lainie Kazan” (S01E05).

Essential hour

Essential hour: “with Lucille Ball, Tim Conway, Gloria Loring”. Lucille Ball and Tim Conway share the hour: movie-parody DNA meeting the corpse-making ad-lib that later became house style.

The Carol Burnett Show — with Lucille Ball, Tim Conway, Gloria Loring (S01E04)

Catalog log

Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.

Two women (Carol and guest Lucille Ball) go to the "Café Argentine" whose staff includes a goose-stepping maitre d' (Harvey); Carol plays 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. This episode is noted as Show #006 in the Lost Episodes DVD set.

Viewer FAQ

Where does with Lucille Ball, Tim Conway, Gloria Loring sit in the The Carol Burnett Show guide?

S01E04 is listed hour 4 of 279 — hour 4 of 30 in season 1, season 1 episode 4.

When did The Carol Burnett Show S01E04 air?

with Lucille Ball, Tim Conway, Gloria Loring aired 1967-10-02 and is listed at 60 minutes.

Where should I start?

A movie-parody night plus a Conway/Korman sketch is the tuition. The audience Q&A at the top is the warmth; the charwoman is the signature silhouette. You do not need a serialized order.

In the series

Why this series still plays

Carol Burnett opened with a Q&A, then detonated sketches with Harvey Korman, Tim Conway, Vicki Lawrence, and Lyle Waggoner. Movie parodies, the charwoman, and Conway's corpse-making ad-libs made eleven CBS seasons feel like a master class with a curtain. Sketch variety at its warmest — the spoofs alone justify the tuition.

Carol Burnett opened with a Q&A, then detonated sketches — **eleven CBS seasons, 279 hours**, 1967–1978 — with Harvey Korman, Tim Conway, Vicki Lawrence, and Lyle Waggoner in the last great network variety fortress before the format thinned out. Movie parodies, the charwoman, Conway's corpse-making ad-libs: ensemble sketch variety that outlived the variety-show era. Joe Hamilton was among the key production figures. Rex will call it a temple. It was a weekly window with a curtain. Guest stars treated the stage…

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