Authors: Mark Bego
Songs: “A Little Help from My Friends,” “It’s Funny That Way” (Cher), “Your Wonderful Sweet, Sweet Love” (Supremes), “I Got You Babe” (Sonny & Cher).
15. Guest Stars: Robert Goulet, the Temptations
Songs: “On Our Way Home,” Temptations Medley “Smiling Faces Sometimes,” “Look Around,” “Superstar” (The Temptations), “Don’t Mess around with Jim”/“Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man of Mine” (Cher), “I Got You Babe” (Sonny & Cher).
16. Guest Stars: William Conrad, Rick Springfield
Songs: “With Love, from Me to You,” “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother” (Cher), “My Little Girl” (William Conrad), “What Will the Children Think” (Rick Springfield).
17. SONNY & CHER CHRISTMAS SHOW
Guest Star: William Conrad (as Santa Claus)
Songs: Various Christmas carols by Sonny & Cher: “Jingle Bells” etc., and a medley of songs: with Chastity.
18. Guest Stars: Jean Stapleton, Lyle Waggoner
Songs: “Love Grows” (opening).
19. Guest Stars: Mark Spitz, Jerry Lewis (cameo)
Songs: “All I Really Want to Do” (Sonny & Cher), “You’ve Got a Friend” (Cher), “I Can See Clearly Now” (Sonny & Cher).
20. Guest Star: Mike Connors
Songs: “Jackson,” “Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu,” “Bridge over Troubled Waters,” “Something.”
21. Guest Stars: Larry Storch, Merv Griffin
Songs: “Lodi,” “Happy Song” (Merv Griffin).
22. Guest Star: Jim Nabors
Songs: “Just For a Thrill,” “Listen to the Music” (Sonny & Cher).
23. SONNY & CHER VALENTINE’S DAY SHOW
Guest Stars: Joe Namath, Playboy Playmates
Songs: “On the Bayou,” “It Never Rains in Southern California,” “My Funny Valentine” (Cher), “I Got You Babe” (closing with Chastity).
24. Guest Stars: Danny Thomas, Miss Universe
Songs: “Put a Little Love in Your Heart” (opening), “Makin’ Music”/“Put Your Hand in the Hand.”
25. Guest Star: Don Adams
Songs: “Got to Get You into My Life” (opening), “I’ve Never Been in London” (Cher).
26. Guest Star: John Byner
Songs: “Personality” (opening), “Crocodile Rock” (Sonny & Cher), “Black & White” (video), “Alfie” (Cher).
27. Guest Stars: Carol Burnett, Lyle Waggoner
Cameos by William Conrad, Jean Stapleton, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Chad Everett
Songs: include “Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows.”
28. Guest Stars: Jack Palance, Ed McMahon
Songs: “Tie a Yellow Ribbon,” “Honky Tonk Woman.”
29. Guest Stars: Danny Thomas, Telly Savalas
Songs: “I Couldn’t Live without Your Love,” “Get Ready,” “Make It with You” (Cher).
30. THE SONNY & CHER YEARS, PART ONE (rock & roll show)
Guest Stars: Dick Clark, Ed Burns, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bobby Vinton, Franki Valli and the Four Seasons
Songs: “Rock & Roll Is Here to Stay,” “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going On,” “Sherry,” “Blue Velvet,” “Go Johnny Go,” two psychedelic 1960s medleys.
31. Guest Stars: Howard Cosell, Chuck Connors, Miss U.S.A., Miss Universe, Super Dave Osborne
Songs: “Games People Play,” “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” (animated), “Without Love Where Would We Be” (Sonny & Cher), “Half Breed” (Cher).
32. Guest Stars: Jim Nabors, Lassie, Telly Savalas (cameo)
Songs: “Everything Is Beautiful,” “Cry Me a River,” “Delta Dawn,” “Green Green Grass of Home” (Jim Nabors).
33. Guest Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Rita Coolidge, Kris Kristofferson
Songs: “Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose?” (Sonny & Cher), “That’ll Be the Day,” “All My Love and All My Kissin’,” “You’re Nobody ’Til Somebody Loves You.”
34. Guest Stars: Andy Griffith, Bob Guccione,
Penthouse
magazine Pet of the Year
Songs: “Yesterday,” Rockin’ Down the Highway.”
35. THE SONNY & CHER YEARS, PART TWO (rock & roll show)
Guest Stars: Wolfman Jack, Paul Anka, the Coasters, Neil Sedaka, Peter Noone (Herman’s Hermits)
Songs: “Rock & Roll Is Here to Stay,” “Breakin’ Up Is Hard to Do,” “Diana,” “Charlie Brown,” “Gypsys, Tramps and Thieves,” “Calendar Girl,” “Something Good,” “Baby,” “Yakety Yak,” “Happy Birthday Sweet 16,” “I Got You Babe.”
36. Guest Stars: Danny Thomas, George Foreman, Ken Berry
Songs: “Heartbreak,” “Dark Lady” (Cher), closing number with Chastity.
37. Guest Stars: Merv Griffin, the Supremes, Miss World U.S.A.
Songs: “I Couldn’t Live without Your Love,” “On My Own” (Cher), “All I Really Want” (Supremes).
38. Guest Stars: Sally Struthers, the Jackson Five, Tennessee Ernie Ford
Songs: “Make Life a Little Easier,” “Dancing Machine” (the Jackson Five).
39. Guest Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Jeanette Nolan, the DeFranco Family
Songs: “Hey, What about Me,” “Abracadabra” (the De Franco Family), “Midnight Hour,” “Dark Lady” (animated).
THE SONNY & CHER SHOW
February 1976 to August 1977
40. Guest Stars: Joe Namath, the Righteous Brothers
Songs: “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,” “Lupe Lu” medley (Righteous Brothers), “Brother Louie” (Cher), “Didn’t We Almost Make It This Time” (closing).
41. Guest Stars: Joel Grey
Songs: “Beautiful Day” (opening), “Mockingbird,” “Energy Shortage”/“I Got You Babe” (closing, with Chastity).
42. Guest Star: Raymond Burr
Songs: “You Make Me Feel Brand New,” “I Can See Clearly Now,” “Windmills of Your Mind” (Raymond Burr).
43. Guest Stars: Neil Sedaka, Evil Kneivel
Songs: “I Love You More Today Than Yesterday”; Neil Sedaka medley “Hungry Years,” “Breakin’ Up Is Hard to Do,” “Sad Eyes,” “Calendar Girl,” “Laughter in the Rain,” “The Music Takes Me” (with Sonny & Cher); “I Got You Babe” (closing).
44. Guest Star: Don Knotts
Songs: “Make Life a Little Easier,” “United We Stand,” “King of Hearts” (Cher).
45. Guest Star: McLean Stevenson
Songs: “You Are the Sunshine of My Life,” “Hang on in There Baby,” “How Long Has This Been Goin’ On?” (Cher), “I Got You Babe” (closing).
46. Guest Stars: Gabriel Kaplan, Frankie Avalon
Songs: “Venus” (Frankie Avalon), “How Sweet It Is to Be Loved by You,” “We’re on Our Way Home”/“Try to See It My Way,” “Say It Isn’t So.”
47. Guest Stars: Debbie Reynolds, the Smothers Brothers
Songs: “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You” (with Tommy Smothers), “I Write the Songs” (Sonny with the Smothers Brothers), “I’m Gonna Make You Love Me.”
48. Guest Stars: Diahann Carroll, Tony Randall
Songs: include “God Bless the Child” (Diahann Carroll).
49. Guest Stars: Barbara Eden, the Smothers Brothers
Songs: include “Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel.”
50. Guest Stars: Bob Hope, the Jacksons, Bernadette Peters, Jim Nabors
Songs: include “Enjoy Yourself” (Jacksons).
51. Guest Stars: Shields and Yarnell, Charo, Barbara Eden, the Smothers Brothers, Bob Hope, Don Knotts, Ruth Buzzi
Songs: include “I Love You” (Sonny & Cher), “Desperado” (Cher).
52. Sonny & Cher HALLOWEEN/ELECTION DAY EPISODE
Guest Stars: The Hudson Brothers, Shields and Yarnell, Jim Nabors
Songs: “Still the One” (opening), “Things That Go Bump in the Night.”
53. Guest Stars: Ruth Buzzi, Donny & Marie Osmond
Songs: “That’ll Be the Day,” “I Love You” (Sonny & Cher, Donny & Marie), “It Had to Be You” (Cher).
54. Guest Stars: Ed McMahon, the Silvers, Betty White
Songs: “Get Right Back” (open), “Boogie Fever”/“Hotline” (Silvers).
55. Sonny & Cher CHRISTMAS EPISODE
Guest Stars: Bernadette Peters, Captain Kangaroo, Shields and Yarnell
Songs: “Jingle Bells,” “Send in the Clowns”/“Be a Clown” (Bernadette Peters), Christmas medley closing number.
56. Guest Stars: John Davidson, Karen Valentine
Songs: “Make Your Own Sunshine”; “As Time Goes By” (Cher); medley/parody of 1970s TV show theme songs: “Movin’ on Up,” “Welcome Back Kotter,” “Maude,” “Chico and the Man,” “Laverne & Shirley,” “Happy Days,” “Baretta,” “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “The Carol Burnett Show.”
57. Guest Stars: Joey Heatherton, Don Knotts, Karen Valentine
Songs: “Don’t Pull Your Love Out on Me,” “Yesterday” (Cher), “What I Did for Love.”
58. Guest Stars: Andy Griffith, Twiggy
Songs: “More Than You’ll Ever Know,” “Never Can Say Goodbye.”
59. Guest Stars: Charo, George Gobel
Songs: “You Are the Sunshine of My Life,” “Come Rain or Come Shine,” “Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown.”
60. Guest Stars: Farrah Fawcett, Debbie Reynolds, Don Knotts, Jim Nabors
Songs: “All I Want to Do” (opening), “He & She” (with Farrah Fawcett and Don Knotts), “Dance to the Music” (with Debbie Reynolds), “Don’t Go” (the couple’s first song recorded as Sonny & Cher).
61. Guest Stars: Barbi Benton, William Conrad, Ruth Buzzi, Englebert Humperdinck
Songs: “Come On Step Out with Me” (opening), “After the Lovin’ ” (Englebert Humperdinck), “We Almost Made It” (Cher), “Nights on Broadway” (Sonny, Cher, Barbi Benton, and Englebert Humperdinck).
62. Guest Stars: Betty White, Ken Berry, Flip Wilson
Songs: include “Let It Be Me.”
63. Guest Stars: Farrah Fawcett, Don Knotts, Glen Campbell
Songs: “You Make Me Feel Like Dancing” (Sonny & Cher), “What a Difference” (Glen Campbell and Cher).
64. Guest Stars: Lyle Waggoner, Muhammad Ali, Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr.
Songs: “Ain’t That Peculiar”; “You Don’t Have to Be a Star”/“Your Love” (Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr.); Medley “It Takes Two,” Where Is the Love,” “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’,” “Ain’t Nothin’ Like the Real Thing” (Sonny & Cher, Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr.); “I Got You Babe.”
65. Guest Stars: Tina Turner, David Steinberg, Shields & Yarnell
Songs: include “Teach Me Tonight” (Sonny & Cher).
COSTUME CHANGES ON THE
1999–2000 “BELIEVE” TOUR
1. Bronze-colored Viking outfit and headdress; red curly wig
2. Pirate hat and coat with body stocking; Louise Brooks bobbed hair
3. White sheer dress with mesh front for “The Way of Love”
4. Bugle-beaded dress and beaded skull cap for “Take Me Home”
5. Black pants; silver top
6. Nuevo Flamenco dress and train for
“Dov’è L’Amore”
7. Black lace pants; red hair for “Strong Enough”
8. Silver pants; moon boots; wig with clear plastic tubing for “Believe”
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