TV Show

The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour

The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour is an American variety show starring American pop-singer Cher and her husband, Sonny Bono. The show ran on CBS in the United States, when it premiered in August 1971. The show was canceled May 1974, due to the couple's divorce, though the duo would reunite in 1976 for the identically-formatted The Sonny & Cher Show, which ran until 1977.

TV Show Stats +8%

4 seasons

90 episodes total

Status

Ended

First Aired

1971

Rating

TV Show

6.5/10

14 votes • HD

Season 1

19 episodes
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Show 1 - Series Premeire
Episode 1

Show 1 - Series Premeire

Episode 1 • Aug 01, 1971

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with a medley of ""The Beat Goes On"" and ""It Don't Come Easy"", followed by a monologue featuring banter from their nightclub act. 2. As the Bonos sing ""Close To You"", security guards keep Sonny away from Cher, who is wearing the 750-carat Star of Queensland, believed to be the world's largest black sapphire (provided by Kazanjiian Jewels of Beverly Hills). 3. Jimmy is featured in a production number of ""Mrs. Robinson"" and ""Some Of These Days"" 4. Sonny dresses as a penguin to look for his National Geographic magazine. 5. Cher sings ""You Made Me Love You"" 6. Sonny joins Cher on stage, claiming to be a fantastic swordsman who can rescue any fair damsel from the clutches of evil. 7. ""The Vamps"" -- Julius Caesar (Jimmy) comes to claim the hand of Cleopatra (Cher) in marriage; the father of Pocahontas (Jimmy) orders John Smith (Sonny) beheaded for his involvement with the lovely Indian princess (Cher); and Mata Hari (Cher) schemes to get the truth out of Jimmy.

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Show 2
Episode 2

Show 2

Episode 2 • Aug 08, 1971

1. As Sonny sings ""Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen"" at the piano, Ken comes up to him, claiming to know all about his troubled past. 2. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Joy To the World"" and banter about Sonny's Italian background. 3. Cher sings ""Greensleeves"" in a comedy blackout as Sonny and Ken each take one of her hands and walk off-camera. 4. Ken is featured in a musical production number of ""All I Need Is the Girl."" 5. Ken gets vocally carried away as he and Cher watch the film Love Story. 6. Sonny mimes a recording of Jim Nabors singing ""Gonna Build a Mountain"" as two mountain climbers struggle to get up to him. 7. Cher sings ""It Had To Be You"" 8. Ken is featured in a repetitive vaudeville routine about tap dancers whose top hats are taken by the previous performers. 9. Cher attempts to show Sonny what it is that he does best. 10. Sonny and Cher perform a medley of ""I Believe In Music"" and ""Put Your Hand In the Hand."" 11. Sonny, dressed as German composer Ludwig van Beethov

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Show 3
Episode 3

Show 3

Episode 3 • Aug 15, 1971

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""With a Little Help From My Friends"" and an opening dialogue. 2. Cher sings ""God Bless the Child"" 3. The rock group Gideon and Power perform ""In the Upper Room"" 4. Glen sings ""Today Is Mine"" 5. Glen is the musical commentator as Sonny and Cher do blackouts dealing with the future human condition. 6. Glen joins Sonny and Cher for a medley of ""Cry Like a Baby"" and ""Bad Moon Rising""

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Show 4
Episode 4

Show 4

Episode 4 • Aug 22, 1971

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Games People Play"" and banter about Sonny's logic that their show will become a mid-season replacement. 2. Merv sings ""Get Together"" as the competition at an unusual ping-pong game in the background gets out of hand. 3. Cher sings ""Stormy Weather"" 4. Sonny appears on-stage with Cher dressed as Superman, claiming that nothing can deter him from fighting crime in America except kryptonite. 5. Sonny proposes to bring a semi-classical spot into the show by singing ""Be My Love"" 6. Sonny is surprised to learn that their next guests will be the carpenters, not the brother-sister duo but a group of construction workers, who erect a frame structure around him. 7. Merv sings ""What Are You Doing the Rest Of Your Life?"" 8. Sonny is taken by a gypsy fortune teller (Cher). 9. Merv sets himself up to be cut down by Cher in the same style she does with Sonny. 10. Cher and the Jimmy Dale Orchestra capture the band sound in an elaborate production number, singing ""S

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Show 5
Episode 5

Show 5

Episode 5 • Aug 29, 1971

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Proud Mary"" and banter about Sonny's horoscope having him think that he can't do anything wrong. 2. ""The Cultural Spot"" -- Cher is featured as ""the princess who couldn't smile"", with Phyllis playing a court jester who tries to get her to laugh and Sonny as a peasant with a song. 3. Cher, who is singing ""We'll Meet Again"" while waiting for a romantic movie star to come and sweep her off her feet, jumps from a bridge when Sonny shows up instead. 4. The all-girl rock group Fanny performs ""Charity Ball"" 5. Phyllis and Cher talk about their husbands. 6. Sonny comes on-stage singing ""Puppet Man"", until Cher pulls his strings. 7. ""Cliff House"" -- The master of the house (Sonny) brings his new wife (Cher) home to the eerie mansion, much to the dismay of his housekeeper (Phyllis). 8. Sonny and Cher perform a medley of ""Two Of Us"" and ""We Can Work It Out"" 9. Sonny seeks advice from a gypsy fortune teller (Cher). 10. Cher sings ""Georgia On My Mind"" 11. Phylli

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Show 6 - Summer Replacement Series Finale
Episode 6

Show 6 - Summer Replacement Series Finale

Episode 6 • Sep 05, 1971

1. Sonny and Cher perform ""Something"" and ""Maybe I'm Amazed"" 2. ""The Vamps"" -- Cher is featured in comedy blackouts as Helen of Troy, Catherine the Great and Sadie Thompson. 3. Sonny and Cher appear in a soap opera spoof called ""Cliff House"", a Gothic melodrama complete with crashing thunder and eerie organ music.

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Season 2

24 episodes
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Show 20 - Series Premiere
Episode 1

Show 20 - Series Premiere

Episode 1 • Sep 15, 1972

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Let Me Down Easy"" and banter about their marriage and individual honors. 2. Sonny and Cher introduce Michael Jackson and talk to him about his accomplishments. 3. The Jackson Five perform ""Looking Through the Window"" 4. The Bonos present the first ""Sonny Bono Show Business Award"" to California's Governor Ronald Reagan, who in turn thanks them with one of his old dedication speeches. 5. Cher sings ""Say It Isn't So"" 6. Michael Jackson sings ""Ben"" 7. A gypsy fortune teller (Cher) warns Sonny that he is about to be attacked, strangled and robbed. 8. Sonny and Cher perform a medley of ""Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show"" and ""Mr. Tambourine Man"" 9. ""The Vamps"" -- Cleopatra (Cher) finds herself having to choose between Mark Anthony (Sonny) and Julius Caesar (Larry); and Sadie Thompson (Cher) and the preacher (Sonny) are visited by Sir Francis Winchester (Wilfrid), a famous yachtsman who is sailing around the world alone. 10. ""The Cultural Spot"" -- I

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Show 21
Episode 2

Show 21

Episode 2 • Sep 22, 1972

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""With a Little Help From My Friends"" and banter about Sonny having been asked to perform at the White House. 2. Cher sings ""He's Funny That Way"" 3. Jerry is featured in a comedy sketch about the Three Musketeers. 4. ""The Vamps"" -- Snow White (Cher) has an affair with a woodsman (Jerry), who disguises himself as six of the seven dwarfs in an attempt to elude her husband, Prince Charming (regular Ted Zeigler); and the ghoulish Vampira (Cher) calls upon an unsuspecting TV repairman (Jerry) to fix her set. 5. The Supremes perform ""Your Wonderful, Sweet, Sweet Love"" 6. Jerry appears as a chess champion whose annoying habits distract his opponent (Sonny). 7. Sonny and Cher perform a medley of ""I Just Want To Celebrate"" and ""Take a Look Around"" 8. ""Headlines In the Papers"" -- Jerry joins the show's regulars in a series of blackouts and one-liners based on current events in the news, such as the disappearance of $5,000,000 that was dropped from a skyjacked

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Show 22
Episode 3

Show 22

Episode 3 • Sep 29, 1972

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Happy Together"" and banter about their habit of poking fun at one another. 2. Bobby sings ""Marching To the Music"" 3. After a gypsy fortune teller (Cher) changes Chad and Bobby into the greatest song and dance team in the world, she makes Sonny sing ""like he's never sung before."" 4. Cher sings ""When the Sun Comes Out"" 5. ""The Vamps"" -- The love-starved Elizabeth Regina (Cher), daughter of the beheaded Anne Boleyn, desperately tries to get kissed by Sir Walter Raleigh (Bobby), Sir Francis Drake (Chad) and the royal messenger (Sonny); comic strip heroine Brenda Starr (Cher) longs to meet her mystery man, whom she only knows will be wearing a patch over one eye; and Tarzan (Sonny) becomes jealous of a doctor (Chad) who comes to the jungle to open a medical center and gets smitten with Jane (Cher). 6. Sonny and Cher perform a medley of ""Simple Song Of Freedom"" and ""Look What They've Done To My Song, Ma"" 7. ""The Cultural Spot"" -- Cher is featured as Lady

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Show 23
Episode 4

Show 23

Episode 4 • Oct 06, 1972

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""For Once In My Life"" and banter about Sonny having been asked to pose for a nude centerfold. 2. Cher sings ""A Song For You"" 3. ""The Cultural Spot"" -- Detective Fat (Tony) is hired by Gangster Big, a rotund mobster (regular Ted Zeigler), to find out which one of his overweight gang has a contract out on him. The suspects include Penelope Plump, his moll (Cher); Sally Stout, a singer in his nightclub (Barbara); and Harry Obese, Mr. Big's driver (Sonny). 4. Barbara sings a medley of ""I Believe In Music"" and ""Without a Song"" 5. A gypsy fortune teller (Cher) grants Tony his dream of becoming a great cowboy. 6. Sonny and Cher sing ""A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done"" to an animated piece by cartoonist John Wilson. 7. Sonny joins Tony on an invisible bench in the park. 8. Sonny and Cher perform ""Thunder and Lightning"" 9. ""The Vamps"" -- Scheherazade (Cher) hopes to convince an Arabian sheik (Tony) to spare her life one more day by entertaining him with another

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Show 24
Episode 5

Show 24

Episode 5 • Oct 13, 1972

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""There's a Kind Of Hush"" and an opening dialogue. 2. ""Raggedy Sonny and Raggedy Cher"" -- The Gingerbread Man (Jimmy) drops by to chat with the two rag dolls. 3. Cher sings ""Why Was I Born?"" 4. Sonny portrays a bullfighter in this blackout of a Spanish-Mexican musical. 5. Gilbert sings ""Clair"" 6. Jimmy and Cher are featured in a song-and-dance segment, poking fun at their noses. 7. Sonny and Cher sing ""The Candy Man"" to a cartoon animated by John Wilson. 8. Sonny and Cher perform ""Up On Cripple Creek"" 9. ""The Vamps"" -- Priscilla Mullens (Cher) has to choose between John Alden (Jimmy) and Miles Standish (Sonny); Anna (Cher) has to report to the King of Siam (Sonny) to receive her new teaching assignment; and Martha Washington (Cher) attempts to get husband George (Jimmy) to spend more time with her and less with Benjamin Franklin (Sonny). 10. Sonny and Cher, with daughter Chastity, close the show with ""I Got You Babe""

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Episode 6

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Episode 6 • Oct 20, 1972

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Two Of Us"" and banter featuring Cher teasing Sonny about everything from his singing to his mother. 2. ""Sonny's Pizza Parlor"" -- In an effort to draw more customers to the pizzeria, Sonny decides to hire a tall, dark and handsome singer (Robert), who immediately catches the eye of Sonny's girl (Cher). 3. The Temptations perform a medley of ""Smiling Faces Sometimes"", ""Take a Look Around"", and ""Superstar (Remember How You Got Where You Are)"". 4. Robert sings ""A House Is Not a Home"" 5. A gypsy fortune teller (Cher) predicts that if Robert would give her one dollar, his generosity will be returned twofold. 6. Sonny and Cher perform ""You Don't Mess Around With Jim"" 7. Cher sings ""Can't Help Lovin' That Man Of Mine"" 8. ""The Cultural Spot"" -- Robert appears as Captain Gorgeous in an operatic spoof of the French Foreign Legion, a haven for anyone who has something to forget, set to the tune of Hawaiian music. (Also featured are regular Ted Zeigler as the l

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Season 3

24 episodes
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Show 44 - Season Premiere
Episode 1

Show 44 - Season Premiere

Episode 1 • TBA

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Games People Play"" and banter about Sonny having performed this summer at the White House for the President of the United States, as well as making a dramatic guest appearance on Marcus Welby with Robert Young. In comedy blackouts, a couple (Sonny and Cher) arrive at the front porch of the lady's home after an evening out; and Sonny gets to meet Miss USA and Miss Universe. 2. ""Lady Luck"" -- A disgruntled suitor (Chuck) complains to his companion (Cher) about always having to meet her in secluded places; a married woman (Cher) decides to enter into an adulterous affair with a man she met at the train station (Chuck); and a depressed man sitting at a bar (Sonny) tells why he thinks he's a jinx to anyone who comes near him. 3. ""At the Launderette"" -- Obnoxious housewife Laverne (Cher) offers fashion advice to frumpy friend Olivia (regular Teri Garr) and airs her dirty laundry about husband Harry. 4. Sonny and Cher sing ""Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"" to an ani

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Show 45
Episode 2

Show 45

Episode 2 • TBA

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""I Couldn't Live Without Your Love"" and banter about Sonny having his family traced. In comedy blackouts, the chief undercover spy for the Confederacy (Cher) leaves home on a dangerous assignment deep behind enemy lines; and reporter Barbara Nauseous (Cher) interviews Telly about having been approached to be a nude centerfold in Women's Lib magazine. 2. ""Lady Luck"" -- A masked stranger (Sonny) tries to rescue Cher from the evil Count of Los Angeles (Danny); an elderly woman (Cher) approaches two men in the park (Sonny and Telly), hoping she might get one of them to walk her dog; and a distressed man (Telly) gets even more bad news from his jinxed wife (Cher). 3. ""Sonny's Pizza Parlor"" -- Danny appears as the owner of the next-door pet store, who comes to the pizzeria complaining about the smell. 4. Sonny and Cher perform ""Get Ready"" 5. ""A Story About Love"" -- Sonny plays a poor student in a takeoff on Love Story, with Cher cast as his wealthy (but v

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Show 46 - The Sonny & Cher Years (Part 1)
Episode 3

Show 46 - The Sonny & Cher Years (Part 1)

Episode 3 • TBA

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Episode 4

Show 47

Episode 4 • TBA

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Show 48
Episode 5

Show 48

Episode 5 • TBA

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Show 49
Episode 6

Show 49

Episode 6 • TBA

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Season 4

23 episodes
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Show 44
Episode 1

Show 44

Episode 1 • Sep 12, 1973

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Episode 2

Show 45

Episode 2 • Sep 19, 1973

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Show 46 - The Sonny & Cher Years (1)
Episode 3

Show 46 - The Sonny & Cher Years (1)

Episode 3 • Sep 26, 1973

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Show 47
Episode 4

Show 47

Episode 4 • Oct 03, 1973

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Show 48
Episode 5

Show 48

Episode 5 • Oct 10, 1973

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Show 49
Episode 6

Show 49

Episode 6 • Oct 17, 1973

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