Sonny & Cher

[ltm1997]

Does anyone have the following episodes from Sonny & Cher's 1976-77 series in really good quality?:

SHOW 1 -- PREMIERE
Cameo appearances by: Carol Burnett, Tony Orlando, Jerry Lewis, Rona Barrett, Raymond Burr, Paul Michael Glaser, Richard Thomas, Jim Nabors and Don Meredith

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with banter about their getting back together and a duet of "Love Will Keep Us Together."
2. "Teams" -- Sonny and Cher appear in a series of comedy sketches about famous duos, including Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, and George and Martha Washington.
3. "The Sonnytone News" -- Numerous headlines in the news are satirized in a montage of blackouts and animated sequences.
4. Cher sings "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do"
5. "The CIA Follies" -- The members gather to discuss their organization's public image.
6. Sonny and Cher perform a medley of "You've Got a Friend" and "Where You Lead"
7. Sonny and Cher close the show with "I Got You Babe"

SHOW 4
Guest: Jim Nabors

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with "Got To Get You Into My Life" and a comedy dialogue.
2. "The Vamps" -- Cher appears in comedy sketches as the sneaky Mata Hari, the willing-to-please Minnie Mouse, and the sinful Sadie Thompson.
3. Britain's King George III (Jim) offers a rebuttal to a Bicentennial Minute.
4. Sonny and Cher perform "Baby, Don't Get Hooked On Me"
5. Jim is cast as a foreign legionnaire about to abandon the fort.
6. Cher sings "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)"
7. "The Walnuts" -- Jim, playing the part of Jim-Boy, joins Sonny and Cher in a musical-comedy takeoff on "The Waltons."
8. Sonny and Cher close the show with "I Got You Babe"

SHOW 5
Guests: Don Knotts and Chastity Bono

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with "Take Life a Little Easier" and banter about Sonny having negotiated a deal with a major studio to do a movie about his life with Cher.
2. "The Battle Of the Sexes" -- Cher plays a liberated woman coming home after a hard day's work to find Sonny so wrapped up in his card game with the boys that he forgot to have dinner ready and Don devastated that his wife walked out on him the night before.
3. Sonny and Cher perform a medley of "United We Stand" and "Without You"
4. "The Sonnytone News" -- A TV newscaster (Don) demonstrates a gimmick that allows him to deliver the news with a steady, sincere stare; all three major TV networks clear time for the great political debate; the world's oldest taxicab driver (regular Gailard Sartain) speaks out at his retirement party; the youngest pitchman in TV history (Chastity) tapes a spot on her used tricycle lot; and the ever-popular Laverne (Cher) is named the first woman ambassador to Great Britain.
5. A heartbroken romantic (Cher) is convinced that a stranger she just met (Don) plans to jump from a bridge and agrees to spend the evening with him at her place.
6. Cher sings "Solitaire"
7. "The Prisoner" -- Rocko (Sonny) looks forward to a visit from his girl (Cher), who's been living high off the money he stole.
8. Chastity presents her ideas for a new TV network, which would include "Monday Night Hopscotch" and a Sunday evening lineup of "The Pinocchio (Cher) and Gepetto (Sonny) Show" and "Koquak", a detective show starring Don as Lt. Koquak, with appearances by Mickey Mouse (regular Ted Zeigler), Superman (regular Billy Van), Porky Pig (regular Gailard Sartain), Sylvester the Cat (Sonny), and Tweety Pie (Cher and Chastity).
9. Sonny and Cher, with daughter Chastity, close the show with "I Got You Babe"

SHOW 9
Guests: Diahann Carroll and Tony Randall

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with "The Beat Goes On" and banter with Sonny being concerned about Cher performing in her condition.
2. "Dolls In the Navy" -- Cher and Diahann are featured in a musical spoof of the film "On the Town", appearing as two sailors on a ten-minute leave in New York City looking on men, with Tony and Sonny cast as a pair of dancers they meet and fall in love with. Featured songs include: "New York, New York", "The Fleet's In", "Hey, Big Spender", "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", "Ten Bucks a Dance" and "Wearing Navy Blue and Fourteen-Carat Gold."
3. Diahann sings "God Bless the Child"
4. "The Prisoner" -- Rocko (Sonny) finds out that his girl (Cher) has been cheating on him with the judge who will be deciding his case.
5. "The Vamps" -- Silent movie queen Theda Bara (Cher) invites two eager suitors (Sonny and Tony) to join her in the bath; the mighty Caesar (Tony) is warned by his soothsayer (Sonny) that Cleopatra (Cher) will try to vamp him; and Sadie Thompson and the preacher (Sonny and Cher) each prepare for their much-needed vacations by getting substitutes (Tony and Diahann) to replace them while they're away.
6. "The Sonnytone News" -- Blackouts based on headlines in the news include a marathon runner (Sonny) who's carrying the Olympic torch from Greece to Montreal, prison inmates revolting over the poor quality of their food, the abrupt firing of the NBC peacock (Tony) after twenty years of faithful service to the network, and King Kong's move from New York to Miami Beach.
7. Cher joins Diahann for a musical salute to "The Wiz" with a medley of "I Was Born On the Day Before Yesterday" and "Ease On Down the Road"
8. Sonny and Cher close the show with "I Got You Babe"

SHOW 12 -- SEASON PREMIERE
Cameo appearances by: Wayne Rogers, Barbara Eden, The Smothers Brothers, Ruth Buzzi, Bob Hope, George Gobel, Charo, Don Knotts, Rona Barrett, and Shields and Yarnell

1. Sonny and Cher, with a few of their closest friends, get ready to watch the show in bed.
2. Sonny and Cher open the show with "Silly Love Songs" and banter about the birth of Cher's baby during their summer hiatus. In a comedy blackout, Alvin (Sonny) and Laverne (Cher) discuss the TV show at their local bar.
3. Sonny sings "You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me" as film clips of him and daughter Chastity are shown.
4. Mimes Shields and Yarnell portray Sonny and Cher dolls on the set.
5. "Beauty and the Beast" -- Cher appears as King Kong's jealous sweetheart.
6. Tommy and Dick Smothers try to convince a stuffy bank employee (Barbara Eden) that they are heirs to the estate of the late Howard Hughes.
7. Gossip columnist Rona Barrett shares a Washington exclusive about a bionic Senator and his wife (Shields and Yarnell) who are entertaining a foreign dignitary (regular Ted Zeigler).
8. Cher sings "Desperado"
9. "Football" -- Sonny and George Gobel appear as a pair of easygoing announcers who exchange small talk during the game; a wedding gets held up when the guys stop the ceremony to catch the instant replays; and a desperate agent (Don Knotts) tries to help Sonny get signed to a big contract.
10. "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" -- Cher is featured as the nervous hypochondriac in a musical spoof of the popular nighttime soap opera, with Sonny playing her alcoholic husband, regular Ted Zeigler appearing as her flashing grandfather, and Ruth Buzzi cast as her next-door neighbor.
11. Sonny and Cher close the show with "I Got You Babe"

[siblis]

I have these, plus I am taping the ones from GETTV


SONNY & CHER SHOW:
1) 1976 w/Glen Campbell, Farah Fawcett, Don Knotts 60 min Color VG- #321A
2) 1976 w/Raymond Burr 60 min Color VG+ #572A
3) 1977 w/Bob Hope, The Jacksons 60 min Color EXC #1116B
4) 1977 w/Donny Osmond, Marie Osmond, Ruth Buzzi, Alex Karras 60 min Color EXC- #925B
5) 1977 w/Bernadette Peters, Shields & Yarnell, Bob Keeshan 60 min Color EXC #1118A
6) 1977 w/John Davidson, Karen Valentine 60 min Color EXC #1118B
7) 1977 w/Betty White, Flip Wilson, Ken Berry 60 min Color EXC- #924A
8) 1977 w/Lyle Wagner, Muhammed Ali, Marilyn MacCoo & Billy Davis Jr. 60 min Color EXC- #923B
9) 1977 w/George Gobel, Charo 60 min Color EXC- #924B
10) 1977 w/Tina Turner, David Steinberg, Shields & Yarnell 60 min Color EXC- #923A
11)11/28/76 w/Andy Griffith, Twiggy 60 min Color VG DVD
12)1/28/77 w/William Conrad, Ruth Buzzi, Engelbert Humperdinck, Bobbi Benton 60 min Color VG+ DVD

[ltm1997]

Originally Posted by siblis

I have these, plus I am taping the ones from GETTV


SONNY & CHER SHOW:
1) 1976 w/Glen Campbell, Farah Fawcett, Don Knotts 60 min Color VG- #321A
2) 1976 w/Raymond Burr 60 min Color VG+ #572A
3) 1977 w/Bob Hope, The Jacksons 60 min Color EXC #1116B
4) 1977 w/Donny Osmond, Marie Osmond, Ruth Buzzi, Alex Karras 60 min Color EXC- #925B
5) 1977 w/Bernadette Peters, Shields & Yarnell, Bob Keeshan 60 min Color EXC #1118A
6) 1977 w/John Davidson, Karen Valentine 60 min Color EXC #1118B
7) 1977 w/Betty White, Flip Wilson, Ken Berry 60 min Color EXC- #924A
8) 1977 w/Lyle Wagner, Muhammed Ali, Marilyn MacCoo & Billy Davis Jr. 60 min Color EXC- #923B
9) 1977 w/George Gobel, Charo 60 min Color EXC- #924B
10) 1977 w/Tina Turner, David Steinberg, Shields & Yarnell 60 min Color EXC- #923A
11)11/28/76 w/Andy Griffith, Twiggy 60 min Color VG DVD
12)1/28/77 w/William Conrad, Ruth Buzzi, Engelbert Humperdinck, Bobbi Benton 60 min Color VG+ DVD

For the GetTV airing of the one with Don Knotts, Glen Campbell, and Farrah Fawcett, did they do "I Got You Babe" at the end and if they did was it the full version without any interruptions?? Also was it the same for the 11/28/76 episode?

[siblis]

For the GetTV airing of the one with Don Knotts, Glen Campbell, and Farrah Fawcett, did they do "I Got You Babe" at the end and if they did was it the full version without any interruptions?? Also was it the same for the 11/28/76 episode?...................I'll have to check that for you.

[Silver]

I'd love to get Sonny and Cher episodes as well as the Cher episodes I missed. I have a lot of the Get tv airings on my dvr. The Farrah Fawcett one does not have I got you babe. Just a simple goodnight