Carol Burnett & Company

Carol Burnett & Company
Genre	Comedy-Variety
Written by	Ann Elder Bob Arnott Kenny Solms Tim Conway Arnie Kogen Bill Richmond Gene Perret Dick Clair Jenna McMahon
Directed by	Roger Beatty
Starring	Carol Burnett Tim Conway Vicki Lawrence Craig Richard Nelson Kenneth Mars
Theme music composer	Peter Matz
Composer(s)	Peter Matz Artie Malvin Billy Barnes
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of episodes	4
Production
Producer(s)	Joe Hamilton
Location(s)	CBS Television City Hollywood, California
Running time	60 minutes
Production company(s)	Joe Hamilton Productions
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	August 18 – September 8, 1979
Chronology
Followed by	Eunice
Related shows	The Carol Burnett Show

Carol Burnett & Company is an American variety/sketch comedy television show starring Carol Burnett, Tim Conway, Vicki Lawrence, Craig Richard Nelson and Kenneth Mars that aired as a four-week summer series on ABC from August 18 to September 8, 1979.

In the spring of 1979, a year after The Carol Burnett Show had completed its eleven-season run on CBS, Carol Burnett and her then husband-manager Joe Hamilton were dining in a restaurant with friends (including Tim Conway from The Carol Burnett Show). At that gathering, Burnett started reminiscing about the old show and making suggestions to Conway of future comedy sketches that she wished they could create if the show was still running. Hamilton suggested to Burnett that she do a summer series; Conway immediately agreed.

Taking that idea, Burnett and Hamilton then approached CBS about doing a four-week program in the summer of 1979, but CBS already had their schedule filled for the summer months and rejected the idea. However, ABC was interested and as a result, four postscript episodes of The Carol Burnett Show were produced and most of Burnett's former staff and crew were on board for the new series.

Under the title Carol Burnett & Company, the new series continued the same format of The Carol Burnett Show which combined comedy sketches and musical numbers including favorite characters/sketches such as "Mrs. Wiggins", "The Family", "As the Stomach Turns", "The Charwoman" and Burnett's impersonation of Queen Elizabeth II. It also featured Conway and Vicki Lawrence back as regulars; due to the unavailability of Harvey Korman, comic actors Craig Richard Nelson and Kenneth Mars were added to the supporting cast; Ernie Flatt, who had been the choreographer on The Carol Burnett Show during its entire run, was replaced by the show's lead dancer Don Crichton. The guest stars during the four-week period were chronologically Cheryl Ladd, Alan Arkin, Penny Marshall and Sally Field.

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