Carol Burnett Show- Phillip's Visit, Part 1

The famous and talented Phillip (Roddy McDowall) comes home to visit the Family. But they're too busy fighting each other and ignoring him to care. Part 1 of 2.

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Comedy

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• carol
• burnett
• show
• harvey
• korman
• vicki
• lawrence
• roddy
• mcdowall
• eunice
• ed
• higgins
• mama
• phillip
• harper
• family

[muscled57]

I am almost positive that this was the very first sketch with this family. Who knew at that time it would become a classic. I love these sketches, they were so funny, but so sad at the same time.

[Tabstarkin]

I also think this was the first one. If not I can't imagine which one was unless it's the one I call "Forgive Your Enemies." But I'm pretty sure you're right.

[MarnieReeves]

Yes, this was the very first sketch featuring what would eventually be called "The Family." I'm an old codger and watched the Carol Burnett Show throughout its original airing, and I remember watching this episode with my family...every one of us was just about in tears with laughter.

[wmbrown6]

Waggoner's intro of this sketch (which ended with him looking slyly into the camera) can be found on:

watch?v=Pvp0dxL9QAw

[wmbrown6]

@pgy001 - On the original episode that contained this show, this was immediately preceded by an introductory premise as laid out on-camera by Lyle Waggoner, dressed in a tux and set to a dark background.

This was not the only sketch meant as a one-shot but became a recurring series of sketches on the show. The soap spoof "As the Stomach Turns' " first appearance was as an intended one-shot on the Feb. 12, 1968 show, with Betty Grable as an amnesiac and Martha Raye as a gold-digging widow.

[rickram1961]

My advice to Phillip is to stay far away from his very dysfunctional family!

[DerekBayRoberts1]

I thought Ken Berry played Philliip (who eventualy turned into Vinton)

[psychoboysaz]

Roddy McDowall was such a friggin' hottie, I would have SO tapped that back in the day.

[ClassicsWEREandARE]

roddy mcdowall actually looks really handsome here....usually he's kinda weird looking but here he looks nice

[Robert4770]

I watched this on its first airing and its just as funny now, classic comedy.

[Pinkstonnaked]

@mcmlxvi yeah but Eunice Eunices husband and mickey were great characters to have on the show

[mcmlxvi]

@Tabstarkin This was the first sketch but not for Burnett's character, Eunice was created in 1973 in a 3 part sketch about Eunice and her siblings dealing with the death of their mother. It was such a success that she decided to spin it off into "The Family" . This sketch aired on march 16, 1974. Forgive Your Enemies (Brotherly Love) was the 2nd.

[mcmlxvi]

@Pinkstonnaked Because Burnett wantted Lawrence to have her own show, so she paid a lot of money to the network for the rights of the characters, some characters were not worth paying for, so they made new ones. That's why Burnett only did a few episodes in syndication, she didn't want to overshadow Lawrence, so she made Eunice kind of "fade" away during the second seasson.