{"id":21500,"date":"2016-09-11T04:31:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T08:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=21500"},"modified":"2016-10-24T04:53:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T08:53:39","slug":"september-11-1967-the-carol-burnett-show-debuts-on-cbsafter-leaving-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=21500","title":{"rendered":"September 11, 1967…”The Carol Burnett Show” Debuts on CBS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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September 11, 1967…”The Carol Burnett Show” Debuts on CBS<\/p>\n

After leaving the “Garry Moore Show” in 1962, Burnett signed a 10 year contract with CBS with 2 options. Option 1 required her to do two guest appearances and a special each year, which she did for the first five years.<\/p>\n

Option 2 gave her 30 weeks in her own show. After discussion with her husband Joe Hamilton, in the fifth year of the contract, Burnett decided to call CBS and exercise Option 2 of the contract. Mike Dann of CBS Programming, explaining that the variety show Carroll wanted to do was a “man’s genre”, offered Burnett a sitcom called “Here’s Agnes”. Burnett had no interest in doing a sitcom and because of the contract, CBS was obliged to give Burnett her own variety show. The rest as they say is history!<\/p>\n

The original show ran on CBS from September 11, 1967, to March 29, 1978, for 278 episodes and originated in CBS Television City’s Studio 33. It won 25 prime-time Emmy Awards, was ranked No. 16 on TV Guide’s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time in 2002, and in 2007 was listed as one of Time magazine’s “100 Best TV Shows of All Time.” Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n

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