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Best Episodes of The Sonny and Cher Show
Show 34 - Series Finale
S2 Ep23
5.0
29th Aug 1977
Sonny and Cher spoof themselves in ""The Sonny and Cher Show Awards Show"", presenting highlights -- and low points -- of the season. Included are: the Overacting Award with guest nominees, Chastity's Nepotism Award, Sonny's Repetition and Dancing Awards, and regular Ted Zeigler's Humility Award. Also featured in the presentation are film clips of Cher modeling designer Bob Mackie's wildest creations, clips of Sonny as the famed Italian film director Vente Nove, and a tribute to the show's songwriters. Musical highlights include Sonny and Cher opening the program with ""The Beat Goes On"" and performing a medley of ""All I Really Want To Do"", ""Laugh At Me"" and ""I Got You Babe.""
Show 33
S2 Ep22
5.0
11th Mar 1977
1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Teach Me Tonight"" and banter about their solo attempts to headline a nighttime TV series and the first time they met.
2. ""The Lovers"" -- Italian film director Vente Nove (Sonny) stars Shields and Yarnell as robots in love on their wedding night.
3. ""The Prisoner"" -- Cher tells Sonny about her plans to adopt a 32-year-old ""son.""
4. Cher sings ""Danny's Song""
5. David portrays a psychiatrist who is driving his patient (Sonny) crazy.
6. Tina performs ""Watch Closely Now""
7. Cher joins Tina for a medley of ""Music Makin'"", ""I Got the Music In Me"" and ""Mr. Melody""
8. ""Sonny's Pizza Parlor"" -- A tempera mental French chef that Sonny hired to give the pizzeria a new image (David) is immediately smitten with Rosa (Cher) and challenges Sonny to a cook-off. (Tina and regular Jack Harrell appear as the diners who are asked to sample the dishes.)
9. Sonny and Cher close the show.
Show 27
S2 Ep16
4.0
28th Jan 1977
1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Steppin' Out"" and banter with Sonny trying to convince Cher of how much she needs him.
2. Reporter Barbara Nauseous (Cher) presents a sketch showing how today's women are finding employment in areas that were previously closed to them -- including crime. A female cat burglar (Ruth) and her air-headed accomplice (Cher) break into the home of a sleeping couple (Sonny and Barbi) and are surprised by a male prowler (William) doing the same thing.
3. Engelbert sings ""After the Lovin'""
4. ""The Heartbreak Of Psoriasis"" -- In another episode of the ancient Egyptian soap opera, Queen Psoriasis (Cher) is carrying on with the slave driver Gastronitis (William) while her husband, the Pharaoh Neuritis (Sonny), is getting to know Dermatitis, the newest concubine (Barbi). (Ruth appears as Madame Bursitis, the keeper of the concubines, and Engelbert plays the magician.)
5. Cher sings ""Didn't We?""
6. ""The Battle Of the Sexes"" -- Cher's meddling parents (William and
Show 16
S2 Ep5
3.5
24th Oct 1976
1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""That'll Be the Day"" and banter about the Presidential candidates. In a comedy blackout, Alvin (Sonny) confides to Laverne (Cher) that he has feelings for her.
2. Italian film director Vente Nove (Sonny) shows his four-minute original disaster movie, ""The Towering Poseidon Quake Port Hinden Jaws Follies '78.""
3. Sonny and Cher perform ""Silly Love Songs"" with Donny and Marie.
4. ""The Battle Of the Sexes"" -- Cher plays a liberated wife who's accused of seducing her neighbor's (Ruth's) husband (Alex) and breaking his heart.
5. Cher sings ""It Had To Be You""
6. ""The Channel 86 Cutesy News"" -- Sonny and Cher co-anchor the news program with Ruth, Alex and regular Ted Zeigler. In comedy sketches, West Point's first female cadet commander (Ruth) inspects the barracks; tennis pros Jimmy Connors (Sonny) and Chrissy Evert (Cher) break off their relationship while dining out; and Monty Hall (Alex) gets his first situation comedy.
7. Sonny and Cher close the show
Show 14
S2 Ep3
3.5
10th Oct 1976
1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""You Won't See Me"" and banter with Bob Hope about politics and their lives. In a comedy blackout, Laverne (Cher) voices her objection of a woman hanging around in a bar, taking advantage of unsuspecting men.
2. ""Lovers"" -- Having taken over the Red Baron's (Sonny's) headquarters, an American spy (regular Jack Harrell) disguises himself as Marlene Dietrich (Cher) to elude the German pilot; and King Arthur (Sonny) calls upon the services of Sir Lancelot (Bob) to help him find out which of his knights Dame Guinevere (Cher) has been cheating with.
3. The Jacksons perform ""Enjoy Yourself""
4. Cher sings ""I Honestly Love You""
5. Laverne (Cher) and Alvin (Sonny) discuss Sonny and Cher's outfits.
6. Bob signs ""Autumn Leaves"" as leaves begin to fall all over the set.
7. ""The Bozo Of the Year Awards"" -- Bob joins hosts Steve Star (Sonny) and Farrah Fetching (Cher) as they present awards to the biggest Bozos of the year. In comedy sketches, a Congressman (regul
Worst Episodes of The Sonny and Cher Show
Show 1
S1 Ep1
1.0
1st Feb 1976
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 18
S2 Ep7
1.0
7th Nov 1976
1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Right Back Where We Started From"" and banter about Jimmy Carter having won the Presidential election. In a comedy blackout, Alvin (Sonny) tells Laverne (Cher) that he's finally left his wife.
2. ""Video Tape a Date"" -- The manager of a video dating service (Ed) tries to help a lonely man (Sonny) select the girl he'd like to go out with. The two prospects are an unattractive Playboy bunny who does everything in the nude (regular Ted Zeigler) and a klutzy, untalented loser (Cher) being pushed by her persistent mother (Betty) to get married off.
3. The Sylvers perform a medley of ""Boogie Fever"" and ""Hot Line""
4. ""The Case Book Of Sam Spade"" -- Elderly detective Sam Spade (Sonny) recalls ""the case of the night train caper to Munich."" His assignment was to deliver two million dollars to a secret agent, who would be cleverly disguised as W. C. Fields. (Ed and Betty portray two of the seven Fields impersonators aboard the train, and Cher appears as a Mae W
Show 24
S2 Ep13
1.0
19th Dec 1976
1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""You Gotta Make Your Own Sunshine"" and an opening dialogue about how their private lives have changed since their divorce. In a comedy blackout, Alvin (Sonny) reveals to Herbie (regular Ted Zeigler) that he and Laverne have invited Sonny and Cher to their wedding.
2. ""The Channel 86 Cutesy News"" -- Sonny and Cher co-anchor the news program with John, Karen and regular Ted Zeigler. Comedy sketches have Karen, as a woman reporter, interviewing the winning football team inside their locker room, and John playing Lou Shyster, the first criminal lawyer to advertise on TV.
3. Sonny and Cher spoof ""Gone With the Wind"" with a sixty-second takeoff on the film.
4. Cher sings ""As Time Goes By""
5. Alvin and Laverne (Sonny and Cher) tie the knot by publicly exchanging their own wedding vows. John is cast as the minister hired to marry them, regular Jack Harrell plays the admiral of the seventh fleet who's brought Laverne a gift from the ""boys"", and Karen appears
Show 26
S2 Ep15
1.0
21st Jan 1977
1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""My Cherie Amour"" and banter about how they don't kiss on-stage anymore and some of the weird things that Sonny has done.
2. ""Salt and Pepper"" -- Pepper's understudy (Ken) hits Pepper (Sonny) over the head with a glass bottle in order to take his place on stage with Salt (Betty) to sing ""You Were Meant For Me.""
3. Cher sings ""The Way We Were""
4. ""The Channel 86 Cutesy News"" -- Flip, Betty, Ken and regular Ted Zeigler join Sonny and Cher for a series of sketches and one-liners about the newly elected President Carter. In comedy blackouts, a construction worker (Sonny) is brought in to remodel the Carters' bathroom; Geraldine Jones (Flip), in her new job as the President's appointment secretary, tests the new country-style hot line that was put in the White House; and a member from President Carter's personal staff (Betty) tries to break down the language barrier that now exists in the White House by teaching a stuffy administration secretary (Cher) ""
Show 5
S1 Ep5
3.0
29th Feb 1976
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 heartb
The Sonny and Cher Show Episode Guide
Show 1
S1 Ep1
1.0
1st Feb 1976
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 2
S1 Ep2
7th Feb 1976
1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""It Takes Two"" and banter about Sonny asking Cher for a little constructive criticism.
2. A sorrowful Raymond returns his ""pet rock"", claiming that it died on him.
3. ""The Case Book Of Sam Spade"" -- Elderly detective Sam Spade (Sonny) recalls ""the case of the missing case"" he solved in Morocco, with Cher cast as ""the lady in red"" who is dressed in yellow.
4. Cher sings ""You Make Me Feel Brand New""
5. ""Teams"" -- In a series of sketches spotlighting famous duos, Charlie McCarthy (Sonny) tells Edgar Bergen (Raymond) why he didn't get a good report card, and the Lone Ranger (Sonny) finds out that Tonto (Cher) is really a girl.
6. Sonny and Cher perform ""I Can See Clearly Now""
7. Raymond delivers his rendition of ""The Windmills Of Your Mind""
8. ""The Sonny and Cher Monstrel Show"" -- Raymond is featured as the ghoulish emcee of a monster-ridden vaudeville show.
9. Sonny and Cher close the show with ""I Got You Babe""
Show 3
S1 Ep3
14th Feb 1976
1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""More Today Than Yesterday"" and banter about Sonny attempting to deliver his recitation of ""Fly, Robin, Fly""
2. ""The Sonnytone News"" -- In comedy blackouts, the people of China celebrate chairman Mao Tse-tung's birthday by honoring him with a new national anthem; King Kong's latest love interest (Cher) talks to the ape about the subject of marriage; the president of a famous western nation gives skiing lessons to world leaders assembled in Vail, Colorado; and daredevil Evel Knievel tries to get approved for accident insurance coverage.
3. ""Musical Murder On the Oriental Choo Choo"" -- Neil is cast as the train conductor in a musical takeoff of the film ""Murder On the Orient Express."" (Sonny plays the Belgian sleuth who's brought in to find out who killed a wealthy Texan on the train, and Cher portrays a Russian countess in whose compartment the dead man was found.)
4. Neil joins Sonny and Cher for a medley of his greatest hits, including: ""The Hungry
Show 4
S1 Ep4
22nd Feb 1976
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
S1 Ep5
3.0
29th Feb 1976
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 heartb
Show 6
S1 Ep6
7th Mar 1976
1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""You Are the Sunshine Of My Life"" and banter about a lecture Sonny attended that taught him how to get power.
2. ""A Woman Behind Every Man"" -- Sonny plays Punch, who's receiving the blows from Judy (Cher) and another puppet (McLean); the great Hannibal (McLean) takes his wife (Cher) and their two obnoxious brats (regulars Ted Zeigler and Billy Van) on a three-year elephant ride across the Swiss Alps in search of an Italian dinner; and Robert Fulton (Sonny) gets some ideas from his wife (Cher) when he isn't sure what his invention of the steam engine can be used for.
3. Sonny and Cher perform a medley of ""Love Song"" and ""Hang On In There, Baby""
4. ""The Case Book Of Sam Spade"" -- Elderly detective Sam Spade (Sonny) recalls ""the case of the jade wiener"", which had been stolen from the Frankfort Museum. (McLean appears as the mysterious stranger who's tailing Spade throughout the skit and Cher plays Shanghai Susie, the prime suspect who has a monkey on
Show 7
S1 Ep7
14th Mar 1976
1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)"" and banter about how they haven't had one argument since they've started working together again.
2. Laverne (Cher) and Frankie recall fond memories of life in the '50s, when they tried to help Arnold (Gabriel) save his malt shop by putting on a rock and roll show with Bonzie (Sonny) in a takeoff on ""Happy Days."" Featured oldies in the closing medley include: ""Yesterday Once More"" (Cher and Frankie), ""Rock Around the Clock"" (everyone), ""Jailhouse Rock"" (regular Gailard Sartain), ""Little Darlin'"" (Sonny, backed by the show's regulars), ""Venus"" (Frankie), and ""Rock and Roll Is Here To Stay"" (all).
3. ""The Prisoner"" -- Rocko (Sonny) learns that his footloose wife (Cher) has a roommate named Bernie who's promised to put her in the movies.
4. Sonny and Cher perform a medley of ""Two Of Us"" and ""We Can Work It Out""
5. Gabriel speaks at a Jokeaholics Anonymous meeting, reminiscing about the time he was home in his apart
Show 8
S1 Ep8
3.0
21st Mar 1976
1. Tommy Smothers tries to fill Sonny's shoes in an opening number with Cher.
2. Sonny and Cher sing ""Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You""
3. ""The Sunshine Girls"" -- Debbie and Cher perform in a distaff version of ""The Sunshine Boys.""
4. The Smothers Brothers bring Sonny into their act, singing ""I Write the Songs""
5. Cher sings ""The Way Of Love""
6. ""The Battle Of the Sexes"" -- Debbie comes to dinner at the home of Cher and househusband Sonny.
7. Sonny and Cher perform a medley of ""I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"" and ""My World Is Empty Without You""
8. ""The 28th Annual Bozo Awards"" -- Sonny and Cher are featured in a takeoff of awards shows.
9. Sonny and Cher close the show with ""I Got You Babe""
Show 9
S1 Ep9
28th Mar 1976
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 Thom
Show 10
S1 Ep10
4th Apr 1976
1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Put a Little Love In Your Heart"" and show a film clip of the numerous takes it took for them to tape an introduction for Raymond Burr on their second show.
2. George appears as a monk whose spirits are lifted by a bit of brew.
3. Cher sings ""Gypsys, Tramps and Thieves""
4. ""A Woman Behind Every Man"" -- A tipsy Sir Isaac Newton (George) invents the screwdriver and gets hammered on by his wife (Cher); and John Dillinger (Sonny) is disrupted by his whining wife (Cher) during a holdup.
5. ""Alfredo and the Bull and the Bell"" -- George narrates the tale of a novice bullfighter (Sonny) who fights the bull to win the money to fix the clapper on the town's bell.
6. Sonny appears as a window-washer in this dramatization of the selling of ""The Sonny and Cher Show"" to a TV executive (Cher).
7. Sonny and Cher perform ""Dancin' In the Street""
8. ""The Sonnytone News"" -- Among the items featured, Chastity Bono is nominated as a Presidential candidate by the 70 milli
Show 11
S1 Ep11
3.0
11th Apr 1976
1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""There's a Kind Of Hush"" and an opening dialogue.
2. ""Sonny's Pizza Parlor"" -- Restaurateur Sherman attempts to do in competitor Sonny.
3. ""The Sonnytone News"" -- Sketches taking a comedic look at some of the current headlines in the news include reports on the televised coverage of Congressional sessions, a bankrupt city's efforts to get out of debt, and the adventures of an unemployed King Kong.
4. Sonny and Cher perform a medley of ""December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)"" and ""Lonely Nights (Angel Face)""
5. ""The Battle Of the Sexes"" -- A liberated male (Andy) gives advice to apron-bound Sonny.
6. Cher sings ""Feelings""
7. Bono the Bold (Sonny) tries to prove himself worthy of becoming one of King Arthur's square knights of the round table.
8. Sonny and Cher close the show.
The best rated episodes of The Sonny and Cher Show are:
Show 34 - Series Finale S2E23 rated 5.0
Show 33 S2E22 rated 5.0
Show 27 S2E16 rated 4.0
Show 16 S2E5 rated 3.5
Show 14 S2E3 rated 3.5
The lowest rated episodes of The Sonny and Cher Show are:
Show 1 S1E1 rated 1.0
Show 18 S2E7 rated 1.0
Show 24 S2E13 rated 1.0
Show 26 S2E15 rated 1.0
Show 5 S1E5 rated 3.0
The first episode of The Sonny and Cher Show aired on February 01, 1976.
The last episode of The Sonny and Cher Show aired on August 29, 1977.
