The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour(1971–1974)

Show 20 - Series Premiere

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Let Me Down Easy"" and banter about their marriage and individual honors. 2. Sonny and Cher introduce Michael Jackson and talk to him about his accomplishments. 3. The Jackson Five perform ""Looking Through the Window"" 4. The Bonos present the first ""Sonny Bono Show Business Award"" to California's Governor Ronald Reagan, who in turn thanks them with one of his old dedication speeches. 5. Cher sings ""Say It Isn't So"" 6. Michael Jackson sings ""Ben"" 7. A gypsy fortune teller (Cher) warns Sonny that he is about to be attacked, strangled and robbed. 8. Sonny and Cher perform a medley of ""Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show"" and ""Mr. Tambourine Man"" 9. ""The Vamps"" -- Cleopatra (Cher) finds herself having to choose between Mark Anthony (Sonny) and Julius Caesar (Larry); and Sadie Thompson (Cher) and the preacher (Sonny) are visited by Sir Francis Winchester (Wilfrid), a famous yachtsman who is sailing around the world alone. 10. ""The Cultural Spot"" -- I

Show 21

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""With a Little Help From My Friends"" and banter about Sonny having been asked to perform at the White House. 2. Cher sings ""He's Funny That Way"" 3. Jerry is featured in a comedy sketch about the Three Musketeers. 4. ""The Vamps"" -- Snow White (Cher) has an affair with a woodsman (Jerry), who disguises himself as six of the seven dwarfs in an attempt to elude her husband, Prince Charming (regular Ted Zeigler); and the ghoulish Vampira (Cher) calls upon an unsuspecting TV repairman (Jerry) to fix her set. 5. The Supremes perform ""Your Wonderful, Sweet, Sweet Love"" 6. Jerry appears as a chess champion whose annoying habits distract his opponent (Sonny). 7. Sonny and Cher perform a medley of ""I Just Want To Celebrate"" and ""Take a Look Around"" 8. ""Headlines In the Papers"" -- Jerry joins the show's regulars in a series of blackouts and one-liners based on current events in the news, such as the disappearance of $5,000,000 that was dropped from a skyjacked

Show 22

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Happy Together"" and banter about their habit of poking fun at one another. 2. Bobby sings ""Marching To the Music"" 3. After a gypsy fortune teller (Cher) changes Chad and Bobby into the greatest song and dance team in the world, she makes Sonny sing ""like he's never sung before."" 4. Cher sings ""When the Sun Comes Out"" 5. ""The Vamps"" -- The love-starved Elizabeth Regina (Cher), daughter of the beheaded Anne Boleyn, desperately tries to get kissed by Sir Walter Raleigh (Bobby), Sir Francis Drake (Chad) and the royal messenger (Sonny); comic strip heroine Brenda Starr (Cher) longs to meet her mystery man, whom she only knows will be wearing a patch over one eye; and Tarzan (Sonny) becomes jealous of a doctor (Chad) who comes to the jungle to open a medical center and gets smitten with Jane (Cher). 6. Sonny and Cher perform a medley of ""Simple Song Of Freedom"" and ""Look What They've Done To My Song, Ma"" 7. ""The Cultural Spot"" -- Cher is featured as Lady

Show 23

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""For Once In My Life"" and banter about Sonny having been asked to pose for a nude centerfold. 2. Cher sings ""A Song For You"" 3. ""The Cultural Spot"" -- Detective Fat (Tony) is hired by Gangster Big, a rotund mobster (regular Ted Zeigler), to find out which one of his overweight gang has a contract out on him. The suspects include Penelope Plump, his moll (Cher); Sally Stout, a singer in his nightclub (Barbara); and Harry Obese, Mr. Big's driver (Sonny). 4. Barbara sings a medley of ""I Believe In Music"" and ""Without a Song"" 5. A gypsy fortune teller (Cher) grants Tony his dream of becoming a great cowboy. 6. Sonny and Cher sing ""A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done"" to an animated piece by cartoonist John Wilson. 7. Sonny joins Tony on an invisible bench in the park. 8. Sonny and Cher perform ""Thunder and Lightning"" 9. ""The Vamps"" -- Scheherazade (Cher) hopes to convince an Arabian sheik (Tony) to spare her life one more day by entertaining him with another

Show 24

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""There's a Kind Of Hush"" and an opening dialogue. 2. ""Raggedy Sonny and Raggedy Cher"" -- The Gingerbread Man (Jimmy) drops by to chat with the two rag dolls. 3. Cher sings ""Why Was I Born?"" 4. Sonny portrays a bullfighter in this blackout of a Spanish-Mexican musical. 5. Gilbert sings ""Clair"" 6. Jimmy and Cher are featured in a song-and-dance segment, poking fun at their noses. 7. Sonny and Cher sing ""The Candy Man"" to a cartoon animated by John Wilson. 8. Sonny and Cher perform ""Up On Cripple Creek"" 9. ""The Vamps"" -- Priscilla Mullens (Cher) has to choose between John Alden (Jimmy) and Miles Standish (Sonny); Anna (Cher) has to report to the King of Siam (Sonny) to receive her new teaching assignment; and Martha Washington (Cher) attempts to get husband George (Jimmy) to spend more time with her and less with Benjamin Franklin (Sonny). 10. Sonny and Cher, with daughter Chastity, close the show with ""I Got You Babe""

Show 25

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Two Of Us"" and banter featuring Cher teasing Sonny about everything from his singing to his mother. 2. ""Sonny's Pizza Parlor"" -- In an effort to draw more customers to the pizzeria, Sonny decides to hire a tall, dark and handsome singer (Robert), who immediately catches the eye of Sonny's girl (Cher). 3. The Temptations perform a medley of ""Smiling Faces Sometimes"", ""Take a Look Around"", and ""Superstar (Remember How You Got Where You Are)"". 4. Robert sings ""A House Is Not a Home"" 5. A gypsy fortune teller (Cher) predicts that if Robert would give her one dollar, his generosity will be returned twofold. 6. Sonny and Cher perform ""You Don't Mess Around With Jim"" 7. Cher sings ""Can't Help Lovin' That Man Of Mine"" 8. ""The Cultural Spot"" -- Robert appears as Captain Gorgeous in an operatic spoof of the French Foreign Legion, a haven for anyone who has something to forget, set to the tune of Hawaiian music. (Also featured are regular Ted Zeigler as the l

Show 26

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""From Me To You"" and banter about their daughter and child psychology. 2. Sonny consults a gypsy fortune teller (Cher) on how to make his life more exciting and winds up getting arrested for insulting the local sheriff (William). 3. Cher sings ""He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"" 4. ""Sonny's Pizza Parlor"" -- William plays his Cannon role for laughs as he comes to the pizzeria looking for six veterans of the Korean War. 5. William sings ""The Men In My Little Girl's Life"" 6. Rick makes his American network television debut, singing ""What Would the Children Think?"" 7. Sonny presents Rick with the Bono Award for bringing his great talent to the show. 8. Pool shark San Quentin Spats (William) is challenged by Minnesota Short (Sonny). 9. ""Headlines In the Papers"" -- William and Rick join the show's regulars for a montage of skits and one-liners poking fun at people and events in the news, such as the controversial land development plans in Yosemite National

Show 27

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""You Didn't Have To Be So Nice"" and an opening dialogue. 2. Lorne plays an overthrown Latin president facing a firing squad. 3. The Williams Brothers (Andy's nephews Andy and David) sing ""Falling, Falling, Gone"" 4. Sonny and Cher perform ""Ease Your Pain"" 5. Lorne sings ""M-O-T-H-E-R"" 6. Lorne recites a sports poem about slaves versus gladiators. 7. Cher sings ""The Man I Love"" 8. ""The Vamps"" -- Lorne is featured as Leonardo da Vinci and Prince Charming, opposite Cher's vamps of Mona Lisa and Cinderella

Show 28

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""I Need You"" and banter about Sonny's mother. 2. Bobby sings ""Sail Away"" 3. ""The Vamps"" -- Helen Of Troy (Cher) tries to come to the aid of her husband (Bobby) by seducing a Greek warrior (Sonny) in an effort to get him to tell her all about his plans for the invasion of Troy; Clark Kent (Bobby) allows ace reporter Lois Lane (Cher) to watch him change into Superman (Sonny) so that she'll give him her heart; and Sadie Thompson (Cher) and the preacher (Sonny) are joined by a pair of desperate criminals who've escaped from Devil's Island (Bobby and regular Freeman King). 4. Cher sings ""Willow Weep For Me"" 5. ""The Cultural Spot"" -- In a comedy sketch set to American college songs, King Richard the Lionhearted (Sonny) regains his throne and suggests that Robin Hood (series regular Bruce Tuthill) duel it out with the evil Sheriff of Nottingham (Bobby), who's come for his revenge against the merry men of Sherwood Forest by taking Maid Marian (Cher) to his

Show 29

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""You've Got Your Troubles"" and banter about Cher's habit of watching late-night monster movies on TV when she goes to bed. 2. Ken sings and tap dances to ""I Can't Be Bothered Now"", with Sonny and Cher appearing as his valet and maid, trying to give him an important message. 3. ""Sonny's Pizza Parlor"" -- Sonny mistakes the owner of another nearby restaurant (Ken) for the food inspector which Rosa (Cher) had warned him was coming to the pizzeria. 4. A disturbed woman (Cher) is asked by officers to identify the man who assaulted her. 5. Cher sings ""By Myself"" 6. The New Seekers sing ""Come Softly To Me"" 7. Ken appears as an executive producer to the stars, introducing a preview of Sonny and Cher's Broadway debut. 8. ""Sonny and Cher On Broadway"" -- Sonny and Cher dream about being big vaudeville stars on the live stage of Broadway back at the turn of the century. (Ken is cast as their lyricist, regular Ted Zeigler appears as their publisher, and regular B

Show 30

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Bad Moon Rising"" and an opening dialogue. 2. Jim and Bobby appear in a football sketch about astrology on the gridiron. 3. Cher sings ""Here's That Rainy Day"" 4. Cher plays a female quarterback in a wacky spoof of football. 5. Bobby sings ""Sealed With a Kiss"" 6. Sonny and Cher perform ""Together Let's Find Love"" 7. Jim and Bobby join Sonny and Cher for ""Yes, No, Maybe"" 8. ""Way Down Upon the Mississippi Mud"" -- The entire cast takes part in an opera takeoff about an evil plantation owner (Bobby), a cool gambler (Jim) and a riverboat belle (Cher).

Show 31

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Do You Believe In Magic?"" and an opening dialogue. 2. Cher performs a medley of Al Jolson favorites, including ""Sonny Boy"", ""My Mammy"" and ""Rock-a-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody."" 3. ""The Vamps"" -- Cher is featured in comedy segments as Helen Gurley Brown, Amber (of Forever Amber) and Sadie Thompson. 4. Andy sings ""Somebody Bigger Than You and I"" 5. Andy joins Sonny and Cher in a spoof of Bridget Loves Bernie. 6. Sonny and Cher perform ""Baby, Don't Get Hooked On Me""

Show 32 - Christmas Episode

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Jingle Bells"" and banter about their new time slot on Wednesday nights and Sonny's present to Cher. 2. Two street Santas (William and regular Freeman King) fight over the same corner. 3. Sonny and Cher sing ""Black and White"" to an animated interpretation of the song by cartoonist John Wilson. 4. ""Sonny's Pizza Parlor"" -- As the gang at the pizzeria are working on Christmas Eve, a Jewish bill collector sent from the Department of Water and Power (William) comes to turn off their electricity. 5. Sonny and Cher reminisce about last year's Christmas at home with daughter Chastity and join the show's regulars for an old-fashioned medley of Christmas carols. Featured songs include: ""A Gift Of Song"" (Cher), ""O Come, All Ye Faithful"" (The Earl Brown Singers), ""The First Noel"" (William), ""Deck the Halls"" (All), ""O, Holy Night"" (Cher), ""Joy To the World"" (All), and ""We Wish You a Merry Christmas"" (All). 6. ""Sonny and Cher On Vacation"" -- William is cast as t

Show 33

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Love Grows"" and banter about why their marriage is so successful. 2. ""Sonny's Pizza Parlor"" -- Jean appears as an Italian signora determined to marry Sonny, following his proposal to her on New Year's Eve. 3. ""The Second Annual Bono Awards"" -- Lyle Perfect (Waggoner) hosts the ceremony, with the statuettes being presented to such reluctant winners as ""the most embarrassing couple on The Newlywed Game"" (Sonny and Cher); musical director Johnny Mann (regular Billy Van), leading his Stand Up and Cheer singers; entertainers Julie Andrews (Jean) and Carol Burnett (Cher) for having had the favorite variety show; and a special humanitarian award presented to the director and founder of the ""Home For Elderly Television Performers"" in Anaheim (Jean). 4. Jean gives a confusing lecture on the Chinese science of acupuncture. 5. Cher sings ""Love Song"" 6. ""The Gloria Majestic Story"" -- Jean is cast as the ingenue in a musical spoof of All About Eve, with Cher pl

Show 34

1. Cher comes out with Olympic great Mark Spitz, hoping to pass him off as Sonny. 2. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""All I Really Want To Do"" and banter about how Sonny feels Cher's weekly barbs are destroying his image. 3. ""The Vamps"" -- While going through the woods to get to her grandmother's house, Little Red Riding Hood (Cher) is approached by the Big Bad Wolf (Sonny) and his new replacement (Mark); King Arthur (Sonny) asks Sir Lancelot (Mark) to keep a watchful eye over Queen Guinevere (Cher) while he is off dragon hunting; and Sadie Thompson (Cher) and the preacher (Sonny) are visited by an English Channel swimmer who has gotten off course (Mark). 4. A gypsy fortune teller (Cher) gives Mark seven gypsy gold medals, which he sells to Sonny for $100. 5. Sonny and Cher perform ""I Can See Clearly Now"" 6. A woman (Cher) complains to her sexual therapy doctor (regular Ted Zeigler) that her husband (Sonny) doesn't want to have any fun. 7. Cher sings ""You've Got a Friend"" 8. ""Headlin

Show 35

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Jackson"" and banter about how Sonny believes he has been blessed with good luck. 2. Mike offers a confusing explanation of the government's rapid transit system. 3. Sonny and Cher perform ""Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu"" 4. ""Sonny and Cher At the White House"" -- Mike joins the Bonos in a musical production about a new, fresh candidate for the Senate (Sonny) who marries a chic women's lib reporter (Cher) and their rise to the Presidency. 5. ""Mr. and Ms."" -- Househusband Sonny goes into a jealous rage when Cher comes home late from the office. 6. Cher sings ""Bridge Over Troubled Water"" 7. ""The Villains"" -- Mike, who often played the bad guy before he became Mannix on TV, turns nasty again in a takeoff on the ""Vamp"" segment. In comedy sketches, a tough gangster boss (Mike) orders two of his goons to put the feet of the Federal agent they caught (Sonny) in wet cement; a Gestapo captain (Mike) interrogates his prisoner (Sonny), in an effort

Show 36

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Lodi"" and banter about Sonny's top movie picks of the year. 2. ""Sonny's Pizza Parlor"" -- Merv is cast as a detective who comes to the pizzeria to investigate a series of holdups in the area, with Larry appearing as a suspected gangster (a la Marlon Brando in The Godfather). 3. Merv joins The Mike Curb Congregation for ""Happy To Know You"" 4. ""Headlines In the Papers"" -- Merv and Larry join the show's regulars for a montage of skits and one-liners poking fun at individuals and topics currently in the news, such as how some police officers (in their battle against mugging) are dressing as women, the doctor shortage across the country, comedian Bob Hope's announcement that this year could be his last Christmas show for our soldiers stationed overseas, the debate of government pressure affecting TV programming, and the sale of outdated space equipment from the Apollo project. 5. Two seagulls (Sonny and Merv) discuss how much their lives have changed sin

Show 37

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""I'll Follow the Sun"" and banter about Sonny's hopes that his memoirs could be made into a movie. 2. ""The Vamps"" -- Tokyo Rose (Cher) seduces a captured American soldier (Jim) to get him to tell her who his general is; Mary Poppins (Cher) offers to help a beleaguered father (Jim) control his two obnoxious children (Sonny and regular Teri Garr); and Klondike Annie (Cher) persuades Sergeant Preston of the Mounties (Jim) to abandon his plan to have her arrested for stealing gold and driving the miners crazy. 3. Cher sings ""Just For a Thrill"" 4. ""The Cultural Spot"" -- In a Canadian-Indian opera set to rock and roll music, the beautiful Princess Running Home (Cher) turns down the marriage proposal of the local witch doctor (Jim) so that she can be free to marry the real love of her life, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Sonny). 5. A gypsy fortune teller (Cher) cuts in on Sonny's performance of ""My Way"", causing him to vow that he'll never

Show 38 - Valentine's Day Episode

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Jambalaya"" and banter about Valentine's Day. 2. Cher sings ""My Funny Valentine"" 3. Joe highlights the show with his reading of calendar poetry, which features twelve Playboy centerfold Playmates dressed as the twelve months of the year. 4. ""Sonny's Pizza Parlor"" -- Joe comes to the pizzeria and makes a big impression on Sonny and Rosa (Cher). 5. Sonny and Cher perform ""It Never Rains In Southern California"" 6. Joe joins Sonny and Cher in a musical finale showing the ways to a girl's heart. 7. Sonny and Cher, with daughter Chastity, close the show with ""I Got You Babe""

Show 39

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Put a Little Love In Your Heart"" and banter about Sonny's new plan to make an adult movie. 2. ""The Vamps"" -- Dr. Frankenstein (Danny) creates a bride (Cher) for his monster (regular Ted Zeigler); the notorious Lucrezia Borgia (Cher) is poisoned by the kingdom's pizza delivery man (Sonny), with Danny appearing as an Italian piano player; and Sadie Thompson (Cher) gets a surprise visit from Big Louie (Danny), her old childhood sweetheart who is now a crime boss. 3. A gypsy fortune teller (Cher) predicts that Sonny will meet Miss Universe and that he'll make quite an impression on her. 4. Sonny and Cher perform a medley of ""I Believe In Music"" and ""Put Your Hand In the Hand"" 5. ""Mr. and Ms."" -- Sonny flies into a jealous rage when Cher pays too much attention to the new French maid he's interviewing (Danny). 6. ""Sonny and Cher On the Road To Sirocco"" -- Danny is cast as an Arabian sheik who persuades Cher to join his harem in a musical takeoff on the

Show 40

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Got To Get You Into My Life"" and banter about Sonny's dream of being the President Of the United States. 2. ""The Vamps"" -- Swimming queen Esther Williams (Cher) falls hook, line and sinker for a fisherman (Sonny), an act that doesn't particularly impress her underwater father, King Neptune (Don); Sandra, the fictitious woman from Shangri-La (Cher), informs her father (Sonny) that she would like to share the secret of eternal life with Ronald Colman (Don); and Superman (Sonny), Batman (Don) and Wonder Woman (Cher) enter the same public phone booth to change into their super hero outfits and rescue a stranger on the street (regular Ted Zeigler) who's being attacked by a wild gorilla. 3. ""Headlines In the Papers"" -- Don joins the show's regulars for a montage of skits and one-liners based on current events and people in the news, such as the Vietnam War, inflation, female jockeys and the prison system's new conjugal visits. 4. Sonny and Cher perform ""

Show 41

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Personality"" and banter about Sonny's latest idea of opening his own music school. 2. John is featured in a repetitive vaudeville routine about tap dancers whose top hats are taken by the previous performers. 3. Sonny and Cher perform ""Crocodile Rock"" 4. ""The Cultural Spot"" -- John appears as Clyde Heavy, a hip disc jockey, in ""The Big Hit Parade"", a musical satire of rock and roll flicks from the '50s. Cher has the role of Brenda Starfilter, the poor little rich girl, and Sonny is cast as a down-and-out rock singer who is waiting for his big break. Songs featured in the oldies finale include: ""Tweedle Dee"", ""Rockin' Robin"", ""Reelin' and Rockin'"", ""Do Ya Wanna Dance"", ""Your Mama Don't Dance"" and ""Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu."" 5. In response to viewer requests, Sonny and Cher once again show animator John Wilson's interpretation of the song ""Black and White."" 6. ""Mr. and Ms."" -- Sonny comes home to tell Cher that he's just been assau

Show 42

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Oh, Babe, What Would You Say?"" and an opening monologue. 2. Cher sings ""Am I Blue?"" 3. ""Sonny's Pizza Parlor"" -- Ernie plays a flimflam artist trying to persuade Sonny to franchise his pizza parlor. 4. Ernie sings ""Printers' Alley Stars"" 5. Sonny and Cher perform ""Dancing In the Moonlight"" 6. Ernie cuts up as a sword-waving samurai in a Japanese opera set to Irish music

Show 1 - Series Premeire

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with a medley of ""The Beat Goes On"" and ""It Don't Come Easy"", followed by a monologue featuring banter from their nightclub act. 2. As the Bonos sing ""Close To You"", security guards keep Sonny away from Cher, who is wearing the 750-carat Star of Queensland, believed to be the world's largest black sapphire (provided by Kazanjiian Jewels of Beverly Hills). 3. Jimmy is featured in a production number of ""Mrs. Robinson"" and ""Some Of These Days"" 4. Sonny dresses as a penguin to look for his National Geographic magazine. 5. Cher sings ""You Made Me Love You"" 6. Sonny joins Cher on stage, claiming to be a fantastic swordsman who can rescue any fair damsel from the clutches of evil. 7. ""The Vamps"" -- Julius Caesar (Jimmy) comes to claim the hand of Cleopatra (Cher) in marriage; the father of Pocahontas (Jimmy) orders John Smith (Sonny) beheaded for his involvement with the lovely Indian princess (Cher); and Mata Hari (Cher) schemes to get the truth out of Jimmy.

Show 2

1. As Sonny sings ""Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen"" at the piano, Ken comes up to him, claiming to know all about his troubled past. 2. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Joy To the World"" and banter about Sonny's Italian background. 3. Cher sings ""Greensleeves"" in a comedy blackout as Sonny and Ken each take one of her hands and walk off-camera. 4. Ken is featured in a musical production number of ""All I Need Is the Girl."" 5. Ken gets vocally carried away as he and Cher watch the film Love Story. 6. Sonny mimes a recording of Jim Nabors singing ""Gonna Build a Mountain"" as two mountain climbers struggle to get up to him. 7. Cher sings ""It Had To Be You"" 8. Ken is featured in a repetitive vaudeville routine about tap dancers whose top hats are taken by the previous performers. 9. Cher attempts to show Sonny what it is that he does best. 10. Sonny and Cher perform a medley of ""I Believe In Music"" and ""Put Your Hand In the Hand."" 11. Sonny, dressed as German composer Ludwig van Beethov

Show 3

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""With a Little Help From My Friends"" and an opening dialogue. 2. Cher sings ""God Bless the Child"" 3. The rock group Gideon and Power perform ""In the Upper Room"" 4. Glen sings ""Today Is Mine"" 5. Glen is the musical commentator as Sonny and Cher do blackouts dealing with the future human condition. 6. Glen joins Sonny and Cher for a medley of ""Cry Like a Baby"" and ""Bad Moon Rising""

Show 4

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Games People Play"" and banter about Sonny's logic that their show will become a mid-season replacement. 2. Merv sings ""Get Together"" as the competition at an unusual ping-pong game in the background gets out of hand. 3. Cher sings ""Stormy Weather"" 4. Sonny appears on-stage with Cher dressed as Superman, claiming that nothing can deter him from fighting crime in America except kryptonite. 5. Sonny proposes to bring a semi-classical spot into the show by singing ""Be My Love"" 6. Sonny is surprised to learn that their next guests will be the carpenters, not the brother-sister duo but a group of construction workers, who erect a frame structure around him. 7. Merv sings ""What Are You Doing the Rest Of Your Life?"" 8. Sonny is taken by a gypsy fortune teller (Cher). 9. Merv sets himself up to be cut down by Cher in the same style she does with Sonny. 10. Cher and the Jimmy Dale Orchestra capture the band sound in an elaborate production number, singing ""S

Show 5

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Proud Mary"" and banter about Sonny's horoscope having him think that he can't do anything wrong. 2. ""The Cultural Spot"" -- Cher is featured as ""the princess who couldn't smile"", with Phyllis playing a court jester who tries to get her to laugh and Sonny as a peasant with a song. 3. Cher, who is singing ""We'll Meet Again"" while waiting for a romantic movie star to come and sweep her off her feet, jumps from a bridge when Sonny shows up instead. 4. The all-girl rock group Fanny performs ""Charity Ball"" 5. Phyllis and Cher talk about their husbands. 6. Sonny comes on-stage singing ""Puppet Man"", until Cher pulls his strings. 7. ""Cliff House"" -- The master of the house (Sonny) brings his new wife (Cher) home to the eerie mansion, much to the dismay of his housekeeper (Phyllis). 8. Sonny and Cher perform a medley of ""Two Of Us"" and ""We Can Work It Out"" 9. Sonny seeks advice from a gypsy fortune teller (Cher). 10. Cher sings ""Georgia On My Mind"" 11. Phylli

Show 6 - Summer Replacement Series Finale

1. Sonny and Cher perform ""Something"" and ""Maybe I'm Amazed"" 2. ""The Vamps"" -- Cher is featured in comedy blackouts as Helen of Troy, Catherine the Great and Sadie Thompson. 3. Sonny and Cher appear in a soap opera spoof called ""Cliff House"", a Gothic melodrama complete with crashing thunder and eerie organ music.

Show 7 - Midseason Premiere

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""All I Ever Need Is You"" and banter about their summer show and Christmas holiday together. 2. As Sonny recites his new poem, ""What Is Life?"", the choir members behind him fall asleep. 3. Cher sings ""Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves"" 4. Sonny, dressed as Henry VIII, is given a citation for overacting by Glenn. 5. ""The Vamps"" -- Cher appears as Nefertiti, one of the best-known Egyptian queens, with Harvey cast as King Tut and Sonny as the official taster for the king; the German songstress Lili Marlene (Cher) faces execution by a firing squad, until she gets kissed by a German sergeant (Harvey) who ends up riddled with bullets instead; and Sadie Thompson (Cher) agrees to help a preacher (Sonny) save a drunken bum (Harvey) from the demon rum. 6. Sonny and Cher perform a medley of ""Love Grows"" and ""Where You Lead"" 7. Sonny turns to Harvey for tips on how to handle Cher's put-downs. 8. Cher sings ""One Tin Soldier"", an anti-war song illustrated by cartoonist

Show 8

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Sooner Or Later"" and banter about what makes their marriage such a solid success. 2. Sonny sings ""Whispering"" until he's distracted by everyone whispering behind his back. 3. Cher sings ""Come Rain Or Come Shine"" 4. Sonny plans a special memorial surprise honoring Tony on the 20th anniversary of his film The Prince Who Was a Thief. 5. Dinah tells Cher how her marriage to Sonny is an inspiration to other couples. 6. Dinah sings ""The Song Is Love"" 7. ""Detective Fat"" -- Everyone is overweight in this spoof of the ""Cannon"" series, starring Tony in the title role, Sonny and Cher as the couple who find a dead man in their living room, and Dinah as the maid. 8. ""Sonny and Cher At Home"" -- The Bonos parody the glamorous Hollywood lifestyle. 9. Tony shares fashion tips with Sonny about the benefits of wearing a ""sit-down suit."" 10. Sonny and Cher perform ""Mr. Tambourine Man"" and (with Dinah) ""Joy To the World"" 11. ""Headlines In the Papers"" -- Tony and Dinah

Show 9

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Good Day Sunshine"" and banter about how Sonny sets Cher up for the big laughs. 2. ""Information Please"" -- The Presidential assistant to Marketing, Research and Economic Stability (Carroll) attempts to explain President Nixon's wage and price freeze. 3. Cher sings ""What a Difference a Day Makes"" 4. Sonny, dressed in a costume of feathers, announces that he's been studying birds and plans to be the first man to fly. 5. ""The Vamps"" -- Napoleon (Carroll) returns home to an unfaithful Josephine (Cher) after his war with the Russians, and Delilah (Cher) learns that the secret of Samson's (Carroll's) strength lies in his hair. 6. Cher sings ""Mountain Greenery"" and ""Big Yellow Taxi"", while showing an animated satire on pollution by cartoonist John Wilson. 7. Carroll proves to a skeptical Sonny that his singing voice can shatter wood. 8. Carroll sings his own lyrics to ""Remembering You"", the closing theme song heard at the end of each ""All In the Family"" sh

Show 10

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""It Takes Two"" and banter about Sonny's new interest in body language. 2. ""I Got You Babe"" -- Sonny is featured in a recurring skit as a struggling writer named Eddie Farber, whose wife (Holly) adds to his frustrations with her shocking confession that she's had an affair. 3. Kate sings ""If He Walked Into My Life Today"" 4. A gypsy fortune teller (Cher) predicts that a rich eccentric Texan will give Sonny one million tax-free dollars. 5. Sonny appears as a motorist whose car has run out of gas in an ecology satire. 6. Cher sings ""How Long Has This Been Going On?"" 7. Sonny, dressed as Thor, the god of lightning and thunder, attempts to bring a big bolt out of the sky with his hammer. 8. A gypsy fortune teller (Cher) predicts that Kate will have lunch with a tall, dark and handsome stranger with a mustache. 9. An overly enthusiastic waitress (Kate) serving two lovebirds (Sonny and Cher) in a tea room has every line Sonny sings about in ""Tea For Two"" br

Show 11

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Put a Little Love In Your Heart"" and an opening dialogue. 2. ""The Vamps"" -- Cher appears in comedy sketches as Scarlett O'Hara of Gone With the Wind, Greta Garbo and Queen Alexandra. 3. Chad sings ""Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone"" 4. Lorne recites Shakespeare to Sonny's version of the gunfight at the OK Corral. 5. Cher sings ""I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good"" 6. Chad tries to get a nude shot of his model (Cher) despite Sonny's objections. 7. Sonny and Cher perform a medley of ""Ain't No Mountain High Enough"" and ""Suspicious Minds""

Show 12

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""More Today Than Yesterday"" and banter about Sonny's new organic health food diet. 2. Cher sings ""The Way Of Love"" 3. Tony leads the cast in a sing-along of ""Heart Of My Heart"" at the piano bar of a 747. 4. ""The Vamps"" -- Lady Chatterley (Cher) turns to her gardener (Tony) for affection after Lord Chatterley (Sonny) seems to have neglected her; Sadie Thompson and the preacher (Sonny and Cher) anticipate the arrival of a man sent from headquarters (Tony), who is coming to review the preacher's progress on the island; and Maid Marion (Cher) confesses to Robin Hood (Sonny) that she's been seeing Little John (Tony) behind his back. 5. The female rock group Honey Cone performs ""One Monkey Don't Stop No Show"" 6. A gypsy fortune teller (Cher) predicts great opportunity in Tony's future. 7. Cher sings ""Brand New Key"" to John Wilson's animated satire of the hit song. 8. Sonny and Cher perform a medley of ""We'll Sing In the Sunshine"" and ""You Are My Sunshine""

Show 13

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""People Got To Be Free"" and banter about the art of self-control. 2. Sonny and Cher are joined on-stage by Mike and Jean, who only seem to have compliments for each other. 3. Jean shows Cher a secondhand pair of magic dancing shoes that she's just bought. 4. Cher sings ""Body and Soul"" 5. A gypsy fortune teller (Cher) predicts good news and bad news for Mike. 6. ""Meet the Candidate"" -- A televised at-home interview with a Presidential candidate (Mike) is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of his tipsy wife (Jean) and a ""surprise"" visit from his close friend and black neighbor (regular Freeman King), whom Jean reveals on the air is actually the couple's butler. 7. Mike and Jean are featured in ""The First Annual Daytime TV Academy Awards"", a takeoff on awards shows, spoofing everything from daytime soap operas like General Hospital to instructional cooking shows like The Galloping Gourmet. The coveted awards are presented in such silly categories as

Show 14

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Cry Like a Baby"" and banter about Sonny's start in the music business. 2. Sonny gets Burt to re-create one of the breathtaking stunts he's so famous for. 3. Cher sings ""Am I Blue?"" 4. Burt appears with Sonny and regular Ted Zeigler as Americans during the Revolutionary War in a comedy blackout about ""Yankee Doodle Dandy."" 5. Raggedy Cher breaks the news to Raggedy Sonny that she's knitting them a baby. 6. Sonny encourages Cher to help Burt get over his nervousness about meeting her. 7. Sonny's recitation of a soliloquy from Hamlet causes Shakespeare to turn over in his grave. 8. ""The Vamps"" -- The serpent (Burt) tries to tempt Eve (Cher) to get Adam (Sonny) to take a bite of the forbidden apple in the Garden Of Eden; Wild Bill Hickok (Burt) rides into town to challenge pioneer crusader Calamity Jane (Cher) when he hears that she's been claiming to be his equal; and, in a comic spoof of A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche Dubois (Cher) forces her affe

Show 15

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You"" and banter about Sonny's new interest in exercising and staying in shape. 2. Art joins Sonny and Cher on stage, complimenting Cher and searching for small talk with Sonny. 3. Sonny attempts to perform one of the old songs on the piano, despite Cher's warning that Art doesn't like his voice. 4. Cher sings ""Ain't Misbehavin'"" 5. Sonny invites Art to play an impromptu piece on the piano before the show's audience, and then can't get him to stop. 6. ""Army Life"" -- Cher heads a chorus line of dancers introducing an elaborate salute to life in the US Army. In comedy blackouts, a World War II Field commander (Art) has difficulty persuading his infantrymen to follow him to the battlefront; Patti Andrews (Cher) is willing to do whatever it takes to please the GI's while working at the U.S.O. During World War II, and a sergeant (Art) brings a tough new recruit into the undisciplined barracks of today's army. 7. ""I Got You Babe""

Show 16

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Eight Days a Week"" and an opening dialogue. 2. Ralph Edwards surprises Sonny with his This Is Your Life presentation. 3. Cher sings ""As Time Goes By"" 4. ""The Vamps"" -- Cher appears in comedy blackouts as Salome, Marie Antoinette and Sadie Thompson. 5. Sonny and Cher perform ""Dancing In the Streets"" 6. Ken joins Sonny and Cher in a Viking opera, country-western style.

Show 17

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Got To Get You Into My Life"" and banter with Sonny comparing himself to a finely tuned Italian race car. 2. Sandy joins Sonny and Cher on stage, asking for Cher's permission to name her kitten after her. 3. Cher and Sandy are approached by a Hollywood prince (Burt) in the park. 4. Cher sings ""The Man That Got Away"" 5. Sandy sings and dances through an elaborate commercial spot for McTavish Aspirin. 6. ""I Got You Babe"" -- A struggling young couple (Sonny and Cher) offers to keep Sandy's pet sheep dog while she's out of town modeling in a ski show. 7. Sonny and Cher perform a medley of ""I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"" and ""My World Is Empty Without You"" 8. ""The Cultural Spot"" -- In The Gypsy Doodle, an opera set to music from the Roaring Twenties, two sisters (Sandy and Cher) compete for the gypsy king's hand in marriage, despite the frantic warnings from an old gypsy crone (regular Ted Zeigler) that an evil curse will come upon everyone in the camp if t

Show 18

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with a medley of ""The Beat Goes On"" and ""It Don't Come Easy"" and banter about Cher being named one of the ten best dressed women in America. 2. Sonny shares the stage with George, who delivers his own style of standup comedy. 3. Cher sings ""You Made Me Love You"" 4. ""The Vamps"" -- King Ferdinand of Spain (George) sends Christopher Columbus (Sonny) off to discover the New World after he catches him making love with Queen Isabella (Cher); and while attempting to help his best friend (George) win the affections of the lovely Roxanne (Cher), Cyrano de Bergerac (Sonny) ends up getting the girl himself. 5. Singer David Clayton Thomas (former with the group Blood, Sweat and Tears) makes his television debut as a soloist with ""Magnificent Sanctuary Band."" 6. George appears as a bartender offering advice on life and love to Sonny and Cher. 7. Sonny and Cher perform a medley of ""Two Of Us"" and ""We Can Work It Out"" 8. ""The Cultural Spot"" -- Sonny and Cher are joined

Show 44 - Season Premiere

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Games People Play"" and banter about Sonny having performed this summer at the White House for the President of the United States, as well as making a dramatic guest appearance on Marcus Welby with Robert Young. In comedy blackouts, a couple (Sonny and Cher) arrive at the front porch of the lady's home after an evening out; and Sonny gets to meet Miss USA and Miss Universe. 2. ""Lady Luck"" -- A disgruntled suitor (Chuck) complains to his companion (Cher) about always having to meet her in secluded places; a married woman (Cher) decides to enter into an adulterous affair with a man she met at the train station (Chuck); and a depressed man sitting at a bar (Sonny) tells why he thinks he's a jinx to anyone who comes near him. 3. ""At the Launderette"" -- Obnoxious housewife Laverne (Cher) offers fashion advice to frumpy friend Olivia (regular Teri Garr) and airs her dirty laundry about husband Harry. 4. Sonny and Cher sing ""Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"" to an ani

Show 45

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""I Couldn't Live Without Your Love"" and banter about Sonny having his family traced. In comedy blackouts, the chief undercover spy for the Confederacy (Cher) leaves home on a dangerous assignment deep behind enemy lines; and reporter Barbara Nauseous (Cher) interviews Telly about having been approached to be a nude centerfold in Women's Lib magazine. 2. ""Lady Luck"" -- A masked stranger (Sonny) tries to rescue Cher from the evil Count of Los Angeles (Danny); an elderly woman (Cher) approaches two men in the park (Sonny and Telly), hoping she might get one of them to walk her dog; and a distressed man (Telly) gets even more bad news from his jinxed wife (Cher). 3. ""Sonny's Pizza Parlor"" -- Danny appears as the owner of the next-door pet store, who comes to the pizzeria complaining about the smell. 4. Sonny and Cher perform ""Get Ready"" 5. ""A Story About Love"" -- Sonny plays a poor student in a takeoff on Love Story, with Cher cast as his wealthy (but v

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