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- Mama's Family originated with Thelma "Mama" Harper, and her younger sister Fran living together in Mama's house.
- Television show featuring skits by Carol Burnett and her comedy troupe.
- Comedian Red Skelton hosts a variety show of comedic sketches, and a range of stars, to speak to an entire generation.
- Contestants guess the correctness of celebrities' answers in order to win spaces in a tic-tac-toe game.
- A group of celebrities would be given a sentence with a missing word, which they would then have to fill in. The contestants would then give their own answer, and scored points according to how many celebrities gave the same answer.
- Mary Tyler Moore hosted a Sunday night comedy-variety show featuring comedic sketches and musical performances.
- Beloved sitcom star Mary Tyler Moore hosts an American variety show that aired on CBS during the spring of 1979.
- Tim Conway's sketch comedy show from the 70s!
- Based on characters from "The Carol Burnett Show," this was the film which led to the series "Mama's Family."
- Travelers stumble across a village that they can't find on any map. They discover that this tiny hamlet is called Brigadoon, a special village in Scotland that is never found on a map. Once every 100 years this wonderful village appears, and anyone who happens upon it will have a wonderful, fun-filled, unforgettable day filled with dancing, food, and fellowship. As the day closes, so does the village, to appear somewhere else in 100 years.
- Tim Conway hosted a variety show so closely modeled on the successful Carol Burnett Show, even using some of the same sketches. Interpersed were dance routines where all the performers were youngsters and musical numbers.
- Syndicated show which debuted in the USA in September 1987, and ran until 1989. Two teams of three men and three women competed, one person from a team was given the name of a famous person and had to communicate the name to the rest of the team by drawing pictures.
- CBS Daytime game show where a contestant has a chance to win the $25,000 grand prize. Two teams (each with one Celebrity Guest and one Contestant) play 2 games where though 6 categories, the winner of each game goes to the winners circle for a chance to win the grand prize.
- For Gobel's half-hour series, he used a successful comedy format of a monologue segment, followed by a story set up segment, then a musical interlude with the show's girl singer, then the main skit with the guest performers.
- 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)
- Television's first treatment of "Charades" as played by Hollywood celebrities. The giveaway was the use of gestures that defined "film", "TV show", "book" or "song" as well as "small word (a, an, the)" and gestures for syllables, number of words, and expand or stretch.
- Two contestants attempt to correctly guess words based on definitions given by children ages five to nine.
- The cast of "Your Show Of Shows" is reunited in several skits that keep true to the style of the show's best material. First, an encounter at a market that leaves Sid battered amid the debris, then Sid and Imogene as tourists in Paris, then Sid, Carl and Howie as incompatible shipmates in a submarine experiment. Next, an hilarious take-off on "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolf", then an updated visit from "The Haircuts", and lastly, all engage in a classic Caesar version of an Italian opera.
- Lily Tomlin plays familiar characters like young Edith Ann, housewife Judy Beasley, and phone operator Ernestine, while debuting a new character, Wanda V. Wilford.
- George Burns fakes a cough as a ruse to get other celebrities to perform at his one-man-show.
- The Lily Tomlin special showcases Tomlin's most iconic characters, Ma Belle's Ernestine, the prim tasteful Lady, the grimy little kid Edith Ann, and a new creation, Bobbi Jeanine, a hammy cocktail lounge organist talking in song titles.
- Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Carol Burnett's classic, award-winning comedy series with a new two-hour star-studded event featuring Burnett, original cast members and special guests.