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Jack Benny, Pearl Bailey
The Best of Flip Wilson - S3 - E1
Jack Benny plays a gypsy violinist and an unwelcome boarder in the home of an arguing couple (Flip & Pearl).
The Best of Flip Wilson: Season 3 - 23 Episode s
3x1 - Jack Benny, Pearl Bailey
September 14, 1972
Jack Benny plays a gypsy violinist and an unwelcome boarder in the home of an arguing couple (Flip & Pearl).
3x2 - Tim Conway, The Fifth Dimension
September 21, 1972
The Fifth Dimension tell their (sort of) origin story and the Pink Pirate (Conway) accosts Flip & Florence LaRue in Central Park.
3x3 - Don Knotts, Melba Moore
September 28, 1972
Don Knotts does a medical convention monologue and disrupts officer Freddie Johnson’s date with Melba Moore.
3x4 - Ruth Buzzi, Burns & Schreiber, The Surpremes
October 5, 1972
Flip & cast do park bench skits; Burns & Schreiber do their taxi routine and Buzzi & The Supremes compete to rent Flip a car.
3x5 - Stiller & Meara, Bill Russell
October 12, 1972
Flip & Bill Russell give a clinic on billiards; Stiller & Meara have a lunchroom romance and a courtroom scene features the whole cast.
3x6 - The Jackson 5, David Steinberg, Diana Sands
October 19, 1972
Flip pushes ice cream and tries to join the Jackson 5; Michael gives a math lesson; Steinberg burglarizes Flip & Diana Sands.
3x7 - Ed Asner, Carol Channing
October 26, 1972
Ed Asner plays a ship's captain, cheats at cards (w/Flip, Channing & George Wyle) and gets fixed up with Carol at a resort.
3x8 - Don Adams, Roscoe Lee Browne, The Staple Singers
November 9, 1972
Flip is guru Jiva Koolit; Freddie Johnson's girlfriend's away; three guys do jury duty and Rev. Leroy tries off-track betting.
3x9 - Tim Conway, Burt Reynolds
November 16, 1972
Burt & Flip have a western shootout; Tim is the Pink Pirate; all do audience Q&A and Geraldine makes a movie with Burt.
3x10 - Joan Rivers, Frank Gorshin, The Temptations
November 23, 1972
Joan does seated stand-up; a Godfather spoof shows off Gorshin’s many voices and The Temptations join Rev. Leroy’s church.
3x11 - Dom DeLuise, Gladys Knight, Raymond Burr
November 30, 1972
Flip shows how to switch up a joke; cast does wacky soap opera; Q&A with Raymond who also visits Charley’s Diner.
3x12 - Tony Randall, Burns & Schreiber
December 7, 1972
Window washer (Flip) advises corporate execs; Burns & Schreiber do their taxi routine and Tony's a Chinese football doctor.
3x13 - Bill Russell, Johnny Cash, June Carter
December 14, 1972
Flip plays Bill Russell in a game of 1-on-1 (chess, that is) and Geraldine square dances with Johnny Cash.
3x14 - Slappy White, Tim Conway
December 21, 1972
Slappy does stand-up; sketches include Pink Pirate (Conway) w/castaways (Flip & Slappy) and a convoluted con game.
3x15 - James Coco, Barbara McNair, Jim Nabors
January 4, 1973
Coco, Nabors & Flip do theater parody; Freddie Johnson shops for a card and Geraldine battles McNair to be queen of a parade.
3x16 - Andy Griffith, Roscoe Lee Browne
January 11, 1973
Andy Griffith and Tony Award winner Roscoe Lee Browne join Flip for a game show parody called Buzz Off and a lighthouse sketch.
3x17 - Marty Feldman, Howard Cosell, Sandy Duncan
January 18, 1973
Marty Feldman battles the Beast In The Basket and Howard Cosell judges Sandy & Flip's cakes in the county fair bake off.
3x19 - Phyllis Diller, The Committee
February 1, 1973
Flip seeks a loan; Phyllis does her classic stand-up and comedy troupe The Committee do hilarious sketches.
3x20 - The Amazing Kreskin, Diana Sands, Dom DeLuise
February 8, 1973
Kreskin performs magic and acts in a sketch w/Flip & Diana Sands; Dom DeLuise battles Geraldine in the grocery store.
3x21 - Della Reese, George Carlin, Roy Clark
February 15, 1973
Carlin & Flip report the news; Carlin does monologue on race & society and the cast does a comic courtroom scene.
3x22 - Rich Little, Ed McMahon, Cicely Tyson
February 22, 1973
Cast does a Tonight Show spoof with Rich as Johnny Carson; Flip & Cicely’s honeymoon gets disrupted by dentists.
3x23 - Tim Conway, Joe Namath
March 1, 1973
Legendary New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath holds his own with sketch comedy pros Tim & Flip incl. a Geraldine bit.
3x24 - Richard Pryor, Don Knotts
March 15, 1973
Fresh from acting in Lady Sings The Blues, Richard Pryor does brilliant stand-up and skits with veteran funnyman Don Knotts.