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Laugh-In Season 6 Episodes
Season 6 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 1972 - 1973
Episode 1
John Wayne
Mon, Sep 11, 197250 mins
Laugh-In girls cheerleader opening; introduction of new cast members; greatest vocalist of all time; Dick's new suit and socks; cocktail party; Jill St. John drags the men to a swingers' party; Ernestine calls Wayne Newton; Jud Strunk in the hospital; Ruth plans for the future; duck impressions; a salute to the summer of 1972; Dennis visits a massage parlor; Dennis and Jud in Foreign Legion skit; Dennis visits The Godfather; barroom quickies with John, Dan, and Dick; Moosie Drier and his new friend Todd Bass write an advice column; Howard Cosell's sound-alike mother; Edith Ann's school story; foxhole runners with John; All in the Ghetto Family; animal farm scene; Reed and Malloy from Adam-12 revisit; Monsignor Dan escorts Dennis into the confessional; clumsy Ruth's home dance lessons; ladies dress as woodland sprites to introduce the news; Hawaiian island elder Richard crowns Dennis as a new king; Jud takes over the sports segment; minority point of view from Willie Tyler and Lester; unscrupulous TV network news editors alter a tape of John; senior citizens report from Ruth and Richard; Chinese-Russian border skit with Dennis and Richard; Lily waits tables at a greasy spoon; Q and A feature with audience debuts; safety in an Italian neighborhood; and Joke Wall finale. Featuring the Keystone Cops.
Episode 2
Dyan Cannon
Mon, Sep 18, 197251 mins
Sketches include Laugh-In looks at the News, News of the Past, Present, and Future, Cocktail party, Umpire blackouts, Lifeboat runners with Abbe and Julie, Caveman couples, Astronaut on the moon, Congressmen, Nun runners, Dyan visits the fabulous Farkel family, Salute to guns, and the Joke wall. Featuring Bob Hope, Dyan Cannon, Julie London, Abbe Lane, and Sammy Davis.
Episode 3
William Conrad
Mon, Sep 25, 197252 mins
Sketches include Lily and William in marriage counselor, Captain Amazing, Salute to the press, Good news, Senator blackouts, Staged news stories, Declassified news, Small town news, Indian tradition, Burbank beauties, Lily and Ruth innocent bystanders, Dan looks at politics, Return of the Swizzlers and edited speech exposé. Featuring William Conrad, Henry Mancini and Dan and Mary Rowan.
Episode 4
Lucie Arnaz
Mon, Oct 2, 197251 mins
Jud unites a couple in marriage; Richard as a tipsy airline pilot; astronaut blackouts on the moon; Rich Little does impressions; Swingers in the laundry room; will Lucie Arnaz go on a date with Willie Tyler's dummy Lester?; Dennis in a deodorant advertisement; Dan and Dick discuss ideas for new game shows; nuns have a chat; birdie in the news; Lucie sits in the bathtub waiting for her prince to come; Ruth's stripper act; Dennis goes to the dentist; talk show host enrages guests; Dan and Dick peep through a hole in the fence; the cast salutes the Mod, Mod World of adult books and magazines; ladies dress like Sally Bowles to introduce the news; political antics with Dennis and Richard at the Chinese-Russian border; Jud provides the small town report; cameo appearance runners with Ross Martin as Julius Caesar at the coliseum; audience members' Q and A; Dick takes a whack at beekeeping; Hollywood fruits; General Bull Wright introduces his son U. S. Wright; Lucie, Dan, and Dick sing a trio on "I Can Better Than"; Moosie and Todd in the tree house; cocktail party; Ruth's fortune teller; Lucie as a tax consultant meets with Old McDonald the farmer, a roller derby recruit's first day on the job; a baby bird is afraid to leave the nest; Joke Wall finale.
Episode 5
Michael Landon
Mon, Oct 9, 197251 mins
Sketches include Lyle Waggoner as Dick Martin's double, Dan and Steve Allen as Hillbillies Barlow and Zeke, Laugh-In salutes Commercials and Frank Welker's animal impressions. Jud Strunk drives everybody away from the Party by telling a long story. The News segment is introduced by the girls as horse race jockeys and includes Dan and Dick as Pat and Mike from the Shambrock Network. Featuring Michael Landon, Mama Cass, Della Reese, Steve Allen, Frank Welker and Henny Youngman.
Episode 6
Jean Stapleton
Mon, Oct 16, 197252 mins
Prize fighter Dick takes a dive in runners; Valkyrie ladies; Dennis visits the doctor about a head cold; What makes All in the Family so popular?; Dick buys half interest in a race car; plumber Jean tries to repair Ruth's kitchen sink; psychiatrist Richard tries to diagnose patient Jean's auditory hallucinations; cocktail party; Mack Sennett bathing beauties introduce the news; Jud reports on a new sport called the cannonball catch; Q and A with the audience; Dick as a shepherd with a big crook; Richard plays Santa Claus; Jean and Jud duet on the song Basically; the Mod, Mod World salutes the family; Jean as a poor-performing marriage counselor trying to help volatile married couple Dennis and Ruth; Jean's meeting parliamentarian goes overboard enforcing Robert's Rules of Order; Jud looks into a budget trip to visit Hawaii; Jean has breakfast with Lance and Trisha Proudfoot; Joke Wall finale.
Episode 7
Jack Benny
Mon, Oct 23, 197252 mins
Dennis and Ruth locked in a pillory; Dick does some sculpting; Michelle Lee and James Farentino cameo in hospital runners with him as an ill patient; Richard and Hugh O'Brian as benched players in football runners; Dick tries reading lips; Edith Anne; school busing; Dan and Dick face a firing squad; stressed lion tamer Charles Nelson Reilly comes home to wife Ruth; "Clown It Up" number is reprise; Moosie Drier and Todd Bass; Lily Tomlin's Dot the redhead grocery store clerk runners; the cast salutes the Revolutionary War in colonial-era costumes; the ladies dress as matadors to introduce the news; Lily plays Angel Good with the news from the Pearly Gates; a remote segment from the Florida Everglades; islanders Dennis and Richard discuss their way of life; Patti Deutsch introduces Foonman Food Products' latest entree and appears in Boom-Boom Room auditions; matchmaking for senior citizens; Dick and Ruth as the Swizzlers; Dennis and Ruth in a strip poker game; Richard plays W. C. Fields in Dan's tavern; three nuns discussion; Dick explains how his dog saved his life; Willie Tyler's mannequin Lester encounters a white Bill Cosby while Jack Benny wanders around looking for the Dean Martin Show.
Episode 8
Mike Connors
Mon, Oct 30, 197252 mins
Mike Connors auditions for a new cop show. Gladys dreams she's Mannix's secretary. The Party is set during the Roaring Twenties. Sketches include gangster funeral, cowboy saloon, spies beneath a lamppost, Dick and Dan on a deserted island with Totie Fields, Flying Fickle Finger of Fate, Dick dresses up as a woman for Halloween, Return of the Swizzlers and Laugh-In salutes Law and Order.
Episode 9
Sally Struthers
Mon, Nov 13, 197252 mins
Two cannibals prepare a pot of stew; Sarah Kennedy as an Indian squaw; Dick as a prize fighter; Dick and Dan try to fly a plane; Sally Struthers does animal impressions; Jack Benny performs jokes that were written for other celebrities; Dan's wife gets tied up; nuns gossip; Cocktail party; two witches discuss eating lunch; Dennis and Ruth as a bloated aged Tarzan and Jane; Richard's W C Fields visits Dan's saloon; salute to the Mod, Mod World of the Overweight; Q and A with the audience; Dick seeks a new way to attract girls; Mountie Dennis rescues Sarah in Little Nell blackouts; the Farkel family is revisited; expression confessional for Roman Catholics; Dick dresses as a chicken; the Pentagon gets another Flying Fickle Finger of Fate Award, this time for buying $15,000 trucks that sit in warehouses with numerous defects; Swizzlers at Dan's tavern; Sarah visits Ruth's fortuneteller; Joke Wall finale.
Episode 10
James Caan
Mon, Nov 20, 197252 mins
After playing violent scenes in Francis Ford Coppolla's The Godfather, James Caan tries to remain calm in a stressful situation; vaudeville opener; Cathy does brief bits from the Sunny Bottom nudist colony; Dick collects famous quotations; cocktail party; Jim explains why he loves the opera; Nanette Fabray tells jokes in sign language for hearing-impaired friends and relatives; customs officer Jim orders a body cavity search with help from a matron; Dick does more sculpting; Jim as a fey florist; Dennis and Ruth in pillory blackouts; Willie Tyler reveals the secret of eternal youth; Dennis as a penniless bank robber; soldiers in a foxhole roll call; Jim addresses tabloid rumors about him and plays a soldier who volunteers for a dangerous mission; Q and A with the audience; the cast salutes the Mod, Mod World of Thanksgiving; Dennis as a teenager with very little to be thankful for while Dick finds something to be thankful for; Jim wears a bald cap to spoof The King and I with Dick; the ladies dress as flappers to introduce the news; Ruth does a book review; combat runaway film production; Jim as a long-term cave dweller; Moosie and Todd give advice; talent agent tries to merge two different acts into one for a talent show with Dick and Dan as directors; visit with the Farkel family; Joke Wall finale. Cameos include Bob Crane, Nanette Fabray and Della Reese.
Episode 11
Carol Burnett
Mon, Nov 27, 197252 mins
Sketches include Firing squad, Female Firefighters runners, Visit with the nuns, Drinking quickie, Headline news, Russian/China border, Book reviews, Salute to old comedians, the World's Greatest Plate Juggler, Return of the nuns, Gladiator bits, The Swizzlers, and Senator comments.
Episode 12
Jack Klugman
Mon, Dec 4, 197250 mins
Lily plays both the Tasteful Lady and brash redhead grocery clerk Dot; Jack Klugman and Willie Tyler as hobos on a bench; marriage counselor quickie; Moosie Drier and Todd Bass; Dick invests in minks; waiter Jud waits on Richard's Groucho; Gladys daydreams that she's married to Jack, who is just as messy as his Oscar Madison character from The Odd Couple; Mrs. Paul Revere; the Mod, Mod World of Sales Persons; Jack plays Filthy Farkel in a Farkel family skit and a dog delivering news from the animal world; Joke Wall finale.
Episode 13
Steve Lawrence
Mon, Dec 11, 197251 mins
Steve Lawrence and Steve Allen guest in the program's final Christmas episode. Lawrence quickly learns to watch what he says; Ruth and Dennis at the office holiday party; Jud works at the gift return center; Dennis shops for a gift for his wife; Lily tempts Richard under the mistletoe; Dick brings his secretary to the cocktail party; Gary Owens discusses holiday safety; Ernestine contacts Jacques Cousteau about an underwater phone line; Dan and Steve Allen reprise their Zeke and Barlow hillbillies; an Indian raids the fort; Moosie and Todd discuss holiday dinner and letters to God; hearing aid interventions; Steve Lawrence and Richard as dueling Groucho's; brash redhead grocery clerk Dot waits on supermarket shoppers; Steve Allen answers questions as Mr. Know It All; Gladys Ormphsby exchanges a pair of shoes and dreams of being married to Steve Lawrence; Edith Ann bathes her dog; Patti Deutsch plays both Betsy Ross and a marriage counselor; Willie Tyler and Lester as The Brownstones; a My Fair Lady spoof with Steve Lawrence as Professor Higgins to Sarah Kennedy's Eliza Dolittle; Steve Lawrence plays Santa Claus and dresses as Jack Frost with the ladies dressed as snowflake fairies to introduce the news; Lily's fast-talker explains the true meaning of Christmas; Angel Good presents the news from Heaven; Steve Lawrence rhapsodizes on video about his marriage to Eydie Gorme and an unscrupulous editor edits the tape; Dick as a wrestler; Ruth calls a help line to report a peeping Tom; Jud and Lily as senior citizens learning how to use hearing aids; Steve Lawrence brings a carp to a fine restaurant as entertainment; General Bull Wright's son comes home for Christmas; Willie Tyler in boxer runners.
Episode 14
Howard Cosell, Alex Karras, Vin Scully, Mark Spitz
Mon, Dec 18, 197251 mins
Officers Malloy and Reed from Adam 12 again patrol beautiful downtown Burbank; Broadway talent agent recruits Dennis; Dennis shops for a new suit and sells life insurance; Dick confesses his World War 2 spy past; cocktail party; the Farkel's expect a visit from the stork; Be a Good Sport song leads into Laugh-In salutes the Mod, Mod World of Sports; Dick in prizefighter blackouts; father Rich waits for son Dennis to return from baseball practice for dinner; Dennis wrestles the Invisible Marvel; Vin Scully reprimands an all-girl football team; desperate Dick visits Dan's pawn shop; three nuns gossip; Dick discusses his jazz combo; Dennis visits Dr. Groucho; Monsignor Dan at the confessional; pharmacist Willy; Gladys participates in an amateur striptease contest; Crime Stoppers Notebook; harem girls introduce the news; Dennis interviews a Japanese female karate expert; Dennis and Ruth revive Robot Theatre; the return of the Swizzlers at Dan's tavern; thief Dennis testifies in court before Judge Dan.
Episode 15
Don Rickles
Mon, Jan 8, 197352 mins
Sketches include Don faith healer runner, Lily at the checkout counter, Mean nurse, Quickies, Lily's stammering lady, Salute to good manners, and a look at etiquette, Dick dresses as the Lone Ranger, Patti pretends to be Don Rickles' mother, a visit with Captain Bly and Headline news. Featuring Don Rickles and Charlie Callas.
Episode 16
Robert Goulet
Mon, Jan 15, 197351 mins
Robert Goulet apologizes to everyone for getting song lyrics wrong; Rich's Groucho runs an auto repair shop with Patti Deutsch having issues in blackouts; window jumper and firefighter runners; Patti Deutsch gives manicure advice to Ruth; glass-jawed fighter; Dick explains the plaster cast on his left foot; Sarah receives grief counseling from Ruth; Ruth as a fortune teller; Bob plays Sir Lancelot to Dick Martin's Guinevere in a spoof of Lerner and Loewe's Broadway musical Camelot; pilot Dan's plane is out of gas at high-altitude; Scout Dennis helps elderly Ruth cross a busy street in runners; discovery of the week is Charles Fleischer playing various musical instruments; Dennis delivers packages to Rich; Rich catches his lover cheating; cannibals prepare lunch; Bob as Bert Barks hosts the Miss Galaxy beauty pageant; the Mod, Mod World of People on the Job; Dick as a Martian; Ruth interviews job applicant Dennis; broken TV tube; Rich's Groucho sells shoes; Dick and Dan as tramps on a park bench; Donna reports neighborhood orgies to a cop; Dazzle soap sales are down; bored factory worker; a pretzel company executive retires; drunk Dick faces Judge Richard in court; Bob as a Greek folk dancer leading the ladies in introducing the news; Israeli hog caller; Ruth as Al Capone's Godmother; Bob has breakfast with Lance and Tina Proudfoot; Sarah as Heavy Helen the hippy dippy; magician Bob's wife Ruth begs him to let her take part in his act; pillory runners; Dan's tavern gets robbed more than once; saloon spat; Swizzlers Doris and Leonard in Dan's tavern; Joke Wall finale.
Episode 17
Sammy Davis Jr.
Mon, Jan 22, 197352 mins
Sammy Davis Jr.'s The Judge character returns to dispense justice in rhyming runners; Dan and Dick as tramps on a park bench; Jud begs Sarah for food; Moosie Driver's allowance and sore feet; brash redhead grocery clerk Dot strikes again and again; Dick wants to dance with Sammy in Dan's bar; Dick displays his new invention, titled The Trick Stick; Edith Ann doesn't want to say anything; General Richard launches an Army offensive with an unusual map; Sammy as a lost child wandering the streets; Willie in the dentist chair; Lily as a chemist's assistant; Jud and Ruth as hard-of-hearing restaurant customers with Sammy as their waiter; Willie in boxing runners; the Mod, Mod World of the 1950's; spies converse under a lamppost; pilot Dan; nuns consider new attire; Dick as a parachute jumper; Edith Ann's dog Buster got sick; Dick as a boxer; we find out how Sammy joined his father's act The Will Mastin Trio with the help of Willie Tyler and Lester; Ernestine telephones Burt Reynolds; Doris and Leonard as The Swizzlers in Dan's tavern; Joke Wall finale.
Episode 18
Angie Dickinson, Totie Fields, Monty Hall, Frank Welker
Mon, Jan 29, 197352 mins
Angie Dickinson, Totie Fields, Monty Hall, and Frank Welker all make cameo appearances. Angie talks about her marriage to Burt Bacharach; Dan and Dick as desert island castaways with Totie Fields in runners; expectant bride; Sarah butters up her boss; Armed Forces Commander Dan dresses down soldiers for not looking like men; Dennis demands stuffed mushrooms for dinner; Dick considers computer dating; astrology forecast; Totie is on Dr. Stillman's diet; Lisa is down on the farm; Dennis and Ruth play a married couple who are always arguing; Fanny Farkel is pregnant; astronaut collects rocks on the moon; Frank Welker shows off his chops as a sound effects expert trying out for a movie; Scout Dennis helps elderly Ruth cross a busy street in runners; the Mod, Mod World of the American Presidency with the president practicing drinking vodka before a trip to Russia; a press conference handled like an evening television talk show; President Dennis stays in the White House long after losing the re-election bid to Jud; fortune teller Ruth predicts trouble for Willie; ladies dress as Mexican hat dancers to introduce the news; the Flying Fickle Finger of Fate Award goes to an overzealous Baltimore, Maryland traffic cop for having a hearse towed away; Gary Owens presents rules for attending a performance of the opera; more discussions of nun wardrobe; Willie's dummy Lester goes missing; General Bull Wright's son composes songs; the Swizzlers Doris and Leonard return to Dan's tavern; Joke Wall finale.
Episode 19
Phyllis Diller
Mon, Feb 5, 197352 mins
Bell-ringing monks runners; a message from Oral Roberts; survey among the Whoopie Indians; lifeboat skit; wife Phyllis serves bad food to husband Dan in blackouts; Willie Tyler in the dentist chair; Dennis changes the baby; Phyllis' lovely orange outfit; Dick's first public exhibition; Dennis and Ruth in the pillory again; Michael Greer impersonates Bette Davis; monastery census; Phyllis as a kidnapped hostage; consolidated sins in church; faded actress Laverne Blossom meets Phyllis and asks advice on how to be a nightclub comic; the Mod, Mod World of the Jet Set; Phyllis dances the French can-can with the ladies to introduce the news; Lance and Tina Proudfoot's breakfast with Phyllis; Ruth's book review; Dennis' news from Hell; Sarah's sports news from Japan; what Dan and Dick do when they're not taping; Dick prepares to go to court; Monsignor Dan visits Dennis in a prison cell; new medical program debuts on TV; Gary Owens' obesity research center; Phyllis plays classical piano with Bach's 8th invention on piano but goes ignored; women's favorite sport; Ruth cooks with sherry; Phyllis does stand-up about her recent face lift, and appears as a chicken.
Episode 20
Ernest Borgnine, Arthur Godfrey, Don Rickles, John Wayne, Slappy White
Mon, Feb 12, 197351 mins
Ernest Borgnine plays Dr. Watson to Dennis Allen's Sherlock Holmes. Sketches include Groucho's cafe, Spy business blackout, Dan and John foxhole scene, Salute to California, Offshore drilling, Gambling blackout, Robot Theatre, Indian smoke and Dick's finale. Featuring Don Rickles, Arhur Godfrey, John Wayne and Slappy White.
Episode 21
Meredith Baxter & David Birney
Mon, Feb 19, 197352 mins
Dan and Dick in prison runners; disappearing playing card; Dick ponders getting a nose job; bistro runners with cigarette girl Joanne Worley badmouthing Dick's date; sleeping aid ad; Rip Taylor displays his new hairpiece; Dick refills the zoo; Patti's jackhammer sneeze; nuns have a chat; Rich's W. C. Fields plays tennis; sculptor Dick; a special word about spinach; Mr. Bojangles and his mother; kids' allowance; the ladies dress as Arabian whirling dervishes to introduce the news; Patti buys shoes from Rich's Groucho; South Dakota citizens asks whether carrots really improve vision; Dennis insures Dick for $1 million; the U.S. President's valet sets out his wardrobe; secretary of transportation goes to lunch; the police talk about a missing highway; Groucho at the opera; Jud proposes marriage to gal pal Sarah; household safety tips; Dick discourses on whaling; Meredith and David as an angry wife and her drunk husband; cast looks at the Mod, Mod World of air travel; Jud performs his hit song "Daisy a Day"; airport traffic controller brings work home; fear of flying; Patti as a stewardess wife to David; the Flying Fickle Finger of Fate Award goes to a Maryland cop for having a car crushed illegally; Dan and Dick as bums on a park bench; David applies for a newspaper job after seeing a classified ad; Ruth and Patti march for equal rights; Joke Wall finale.
Episode 22
Johnny Carson, Sandy Duncan, Arthur Godfrey, Charlie Callas
Mon, Feb 26, 197351 mins
Johnny Carson discloses his favorite thing; why Charlie Callas makes odd noises; Dan and Dick as duck hunters; sympathy for atheists; life raft passengers worry about possible shark sightings; Moosie and Todd talk about being bulled at school, kissed by girls, and about history; Dick starts a television repair service; a New Year's Eve promise; motorist Ruth has a flat tire; Three Musketeers quickies; bell-ringing monks blackouts; nuns chat; Charlie talks of his childhood; plus-sized Ruth visits Dr. Richard; Ruth interviews Fidel Castro; Willie Tyler checks into Groucho's hotel; ladies dress as Carmen Miranda to introduce the news; Hollywood couple Lance and Tina Proudfoot; Sandy describes a Western movie she saw; Sandy as an eccentric art appraiser and dealer; a look at the Mod, Mod World of Circuses; Dick as an honorary General; Jack Benny accepts a phone call; Lisa Farringer at the Metro-Goldwyn Meier Whoopee party; Fanny Farkel's baby gets delivered; Jud visits the division of motor vehicles to apply for personalized license plates; the Swizzlers Doris and Leonard at Dan's bar; Joke Wall.
Episode 23
Dom DeLuise
Mon, Mar 5, 197352 mins
Riddles at the Joke Wall; Richard as Groucho runs an auto repair shop with Patti as a customer; track team; bad luck with an umbrella; Dom tries to help a man who fell down a well; Dick talks to his echo; Patti demonstrates another special sneeze; Hit the road with Lisa Farringer; Ruth and Jud hunt for bear; Dick as a prize fighter with Dan as his trainer; Dom wants a haircut; Dear John and Dear Jane letters; waiter Dom complies with a customer's odd request; Godfather spoof with Ruth aping Marlon Brando as the God Mother, and Dom facing the Kiss of Death in runners; General Rich plots a military coup; waiter Groucho serves customer Dan; Scotch tape and peanut butter companies merge; Frank Welker impersonates both Dick Cavett and Peter Falk talking to each other; dental patient Dennis has bleeding gums; Dom and the ladies dress as French dancers to introduce the news; home economist Donna Jean Young prepares a meal of stewed prunes and brandy; soon-to-be-released prisoner Dick plans his future; Dick describes his Uncle Rollo as a prelude to the cast saluting the Mod, Mod World of Actors; actors perform a stage play with the backstage crew on strike; Willie Tyler in boxing blackouts; Dom as amazing juggler Dominick the Great, a magician, and fraud.
Episode 24
Ernest Borgnine, Sammy Davis Jr., Robert Goulet, Rip Taylor, Jo Anne Worley
Mon, Mar 12, 197351 mins
Sketches include Beauty parlor, Girdle shop visit, Drunk quickies, Marriage counselor, Cannibal blackouts, Fickle finger of fate award goes to Rowan and Martin themselves, Plastic surgery, Study of wife swapping, Lily's stammering lady and General Bullwright's son is getting married. Featuring Sammy Davis, Jr., Ernest Borgnine, Robert Goulet, Rip Taylor and Jo Anne Worley.