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The Carol Burnett Show
StarringCarol Burnett
Harvey Korman (1967-77)
Vicki Lawrence
Lyle Waggoner (1967-74)
Tim Conway (1975-78)
Dick Van Dyke (1977)
Country of origin United States
Production
Executive producer(s)Joe Hamilton
Producer(s)Punkin' Productions, Inc. (1967-1976)
Whacko, Inc. (1976-1978)
Running time60 mins.
Broadcast
Original channelCBS
Original runSeptember 11, 1967 – March 29, 1978
External links
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The original cast in 1967.
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The cast in 1991.
The Carol Burnett Show is a sketch comedy television show starring Carol Burnett, Tim Conway, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, and Lyle Waggoner. It originally ran on CBS from September 11, 1967 to March 29, 1978 for 278 episodes, and originated from CBS Television City's Studio 33 (now the Bob Barker studio).

The popular variety show made the stars household names with such sketches as "As the Stomach Turns", "Went with the Wind" (a parody of Gone with the Wind featuring a scene with Burnett as Scarlett O'Hara in the dress made from a window curtain, complete with rod), "Carol & Sis", "Mrs. Wiggins", "The Family" (which would later become a show, called Mama's Family), "Nora Desmond" (Burnett's send-up of Gloria Swanson's character in Sunset Boulevard), and "Stella Toddler." With such guest stars as Alan Alda, Rock Hudson, Lucille Ball, Jim Nabors, Shirley MacLaine, Lily Tomlin, Liza Minnelli, Bernadette Peters, Cher, Vincent Price, Dinah Shore, the Jackson 5, Gloria Swanson, and many more (see below) appearing weekly, the long-running show was nominated for and awarded several Emmys.

Vicki Lawrence is the only cast member, other than Burnett, to remain with the series for its entire run. Tim Conway, though well remembered for his appearances on the show, didn't become a full-time cast member until 1975. Harvey Korman left the show prior to its final season; he was temporarily replaced in the fall of 1977 by Dick Van Dyke. Original cast member Lyle Waggoner left the series in 1974 to pursue a dramatic acting career and the next year was cast in Wonder Woman.

Burnett went on to star in movies, write a Broadway play, and continues to make appearances. Conway and Korman travel to do comedy routines all over the country. Vicki Lawrence had a U.S. #1 hit record in 1973 ("The Night The Lights Went Out in Georgia") and went on to star in several shows of her own (Mama's Family, the NBC daytime edition of Win, Lose or Draw, and her short-lived talk show, Vicki) and continues to perform around America doing comedy sketches of her own.

Continuations and revivals

The comedy sketches of the show were reedited into freestanding programs; the resulting show enjoyed success for many years in syndicated reruns (as Carol Burnett and Friends). In the early 2000s, certain full-length episodes of The Carol Burnett Show were released on VHS and DVD by Columbia House on a subscription basis (now discontinued).

Following repeats of The Carol Burnett Show on CBS from June to August 1978, 4 new shows were aired between August and September 1979 on ABC as Carol Burnett & Company, just prior to the beginning of the regular fall season and plans were announced for this to become an annual event but it did not. NBC aired a comedy anthology called Carol & Company between March 1990 and July 1991.

CBS brought back The Carol Burnett Show for another run in the fall of 1991; new regulars included Meagen Fay and Richard Kind (brought over from the NBC show), and Chris Barnes, Roger Kabler and Jessica Lundy. Only nine episodes of this revival were aired.

In the fall of 2001, the cast of The Carol Burnett Show reunited for a special broadcast entitled , which consisted mostly of bloopers and outtakes from the series. The program was a major ratings success; the media credited its timing, being broadcast not long after the September 11, 2001 attacks, with contributing to its success.

In 2004 Carol Burnett, Tim Conway, Vicki Lawrence, Harvey Korman and Lyle Waggoner made another reunion special featuring one of Carol's favorite ongoing bits, turning up the house lights and then taking questions from members of the studio audience.

Guest stars

Season 1 (1967-1968)

Season 2 (1968-1969)

Season 3 (1969-1970)

Season 4 (1970-1971)

Season 5 (1971-1972)

Season 6 (1972-1973)

Season 7 (1973-1974)

Season 8 (1974-1975)

Season 9 (1975-1976)

Season 10 (1976-1977)

Season 11 (1977-1978)

References

Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows

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Carol Burnett

Birth name Carol Creighton Burnett
Born March 26 1933 (1933--) (age 74)
San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
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Harvey Herschel Korman, professionally known as Harvey Korman (b. February 15, 1927) is an American actor born in Chicago, Illinois. He has performed in television and movie productions in the U.S. since 1960.
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Vicki Lawrence (born Victoria Ann Axelrad on March 26, 1949 in Inglewood, California) is an Emmy Award-winning actress, frequent game show panelist of the 1970s and 1980s, and also a comedian and singer.
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Lyle Waggoner (born April 13 1935 in Kansas City, Kansas) is a tall (6'4" (1.93 m)) American actor best known for his television work in the 1970s.

Waggoner was an announcer and performer on The Carol Burnett Show
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Tim Conway (born December 15, 1933) is an American comedic actor. Conway was born Thomas Daniel Conway, but changed his first name to "Tim" to avoid confusion with actor Tom Conway. He was born in the Cleveland, Ohio suburb Willoughby and grew up in nearby Chagrin Falls.
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Motto
"In God We Trust"   (since 1956)
"E Pluribus Unum"   ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
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Joe Hamilton

Birth name Joseph Henry Hamilton Jr
Born January 6, 1929
Los Angeles, California
Died June 9 1991
Los Angeles, California

Other name(s) Pops

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Sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes, or 'sketches', commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comedic actors, either on stage or through an audio or/and visual medium such as broadcasting.
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A television program (US), television programme (UK) or simply television show is a segment of programming in television broadcasting.
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Carol Burnett

Birth name Carol Creighton Burnett
Born March 26 1933 (1933--) (age 74)
San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
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Tim Conway (born December 15, 1933) is an American comedic actor. Conway was born Thomas Daniel Conway, but changed his first name to "Tim" to avoid confusion with actor Tom Conway. He was born in the Cleveland, Ohio suburb Willoughby and grew up in nearby Chagrin Falls.
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Harvey Herschel Korman, professionally known as Harvey Korman (b. February 15, 1927) is an American actor born in Chicago, Illinois. He has performed in television and movie productions in the U.S. since 1960.
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Vicki Lawrence (born Victoria Ann Axelrad on March 26, 1949 in Inglewood, California) is an Emmy Award-winning actress, frequent game show panelist of the 1970s and 1980s, and also a comedian and singer.
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Lyle Waggoner (born April 13 1935 in Kansas City, Kansas) is a tall (6'4" (1.93 m)) American actor best known for his television work in the 1970s.

Waggoner was an announcer and performer on The Carol Burnett Show
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CBS Broadcasting, Inc. (CBS)

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Robert William "Bob" Barker (born December 12 1923) is a nineteen-time Emmy Award-winning former American television game show host. He is best known for hosting CBS's The Price Is Right
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A variety show on television is an entertainment made up of a variety of acts, especially musical performances and comedy skits, and normally introduced by a compère or host.

History

The format is basically television's version of the music hall.
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As the Stomach Turns was a parody of soap operas, most notably a play on the title of a very popular soap at the time, As the World Turns, and was featured on The Carol Burnett Show.
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George Cukor
Sam Wood
Produced by David O. Selznick
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Margaret Mitchell
Screenplay:
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