with Jim Nabors

The opening number of this eighth-season episode is called "With An A,B,C." Dancers hold up large cards with letters, forming one word after another until they spell out, "Carol Burnett Show ." It's appropriate because the appeal of The Carol Burnett Show was indeed as simple as A-B-C. Do I need to spell it out for you, each week, staged the equivalent of a Broadway musical-comedy revue. Carol's good buddy Jim Nabors sings "One Life," returning to appear with Carol, Harvey Korman and Vicki Lawrence in the "Gunslinger" comedy sketch and the song-and-dance finale, "Rimshot." Carol, Vicki and Harvey also appears in what was only the second "Family" sketch, with Eunice,, Ed and Mama trying to maintain a loving spirit after returning home from church.