Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In: Season 4
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In Season 3.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
Episode 1
Sep 14, 1970 · 51 min
Sketches include Intro to Lily's tasteful lady and Ruth's friendly lady (hooker), Art's employment agency, Cocktail party, Tyrone F. Hornie and Gladys, Dick Martin swizzlers, Sneak
Episode 2
Sep 21, 1970 · 51 min
Sketches include Return of Ruth's friendly lady, "Bob, Carol, Ted, and Alice" movie runner, Don visits the cocktail party, Comments from David, Ernestine the operator runner, Recru
Episode 3
Sep 28, 1970 · 51 min
Sketches include Goldie's return, Fake commercial, Fake Maude's world, Gladys and Tyrone F. Hornie, Salute to the fabulous Farkle family, Diving rod, Ruth and Lily dropout, Women's
Guest Starring Ken Berry
Oct 5, 1970 · 51 min
Sketches include Lily and Ken introduce Mervin the Magnificent, Goldie returns, Tim Conway runner, Wolfgang with Jilly Rizzo, Ruth's friendly lady quickie, Priest and nun runner, E
Episode 5
Oct 12, 1970 · 51 min
Sketches include Tim meets Lily's proper lady, Quickies, Tim, Ruth, and Arte caveman runner, Cocktail party, Eskimo runner, the Farkle family, Edith Ann comments, Tim fights with a
Episode 6
Oct 19, 1970 · 51 min
Sketches include Hawaii update with Don, Dick and Lily's breakfast in bed, Dick Martin as gay ballerina, David Frost's British update, Scuba diving film, Lily and Susie's sorority
Episode 7
Oct 26, 1970 · 52 min
Halloween special Boo-In sketches include Things that go bump in the night song, Ruth the fortune teller, Orson and Alan's monster sketch, Spooky cocktail party, Vincent on the jok
Episode 8
Nov 2, 1970 · 52 min
Sketches include Fake cigarette commercial, Rosemenko and Carol runner, Quickies with Carol, Priest quickies, Carol presents Stranger than truth, Broadway cocktail party, Salute to
Episode 9
Nov 9, 1970 · 52 min
Sketches include Carl's honeymoon runner, Shakespeare cocktail party, Spiro Agneau news, Big Al's sports desk, Underground want ads, Maude's world of the news media, Truth in news,
Episode 10
Nov 16, 1970 · 52 min
Sketches include Fake commercial, Purse snatcher, Dick and Ruth Swizzlers, Dan and Dick's middle-age monologue, Bob and Ruth as Adam and Eve, Army intelligence, Football with Big A
Episode 11
Nov 23, 1970 · 52 min
Sketches include Phyllis' dating tips, Jilly's language lesson, Lily visits with Edith-Ann, Desi presents news of the future, Lily and Arte Avon calling, Alan in Missing Cinderella
Episode 12
Nov 30, 1970 · 52 min
Sketches include Bill and Flip visit Dick, Ernestine comments, Shoe store visit, Missing person, Here comes the judge, Racquel Welsh visits Peter, Personality cocktails, Ernestine
Episode 13
Dec 7, 1970 · 52 min
Sketches include Rod's Twilight Zone visits Laugh-In, Phil intros catch phrases, Maude's world of comics, Visual comedy, Salute to mothers-in-law, Lily does vaudeville,Eskimo weath
Episode 14
Dec 14, 1970 · 52 min
Sketches include Ernestine welcomes Phyllis and Rich, Debbie and Ruth fake commercial, Bill Cosby crossovers, Auto safety, Funny nuns, Dick's obscene phone call.
Episode 15
Dec 28, 1970 · 52 min
Sketches include Johnny opens Laugh-In, William visits Ernestine, Laugh-In looks at the70s, Salute to Ronald Reagan, Rich salutes politicians, Test tube babies, Zero as Papa Gepett
Episode 16
Jan 4, 1971 · 52 min
Sketches include Sammy in here comes the judge, Circus monologue, Sammy at the cocktail party, Mexican-American song, A look at show business, Ernestine continues her attack on the
Episode 17
Jan 11, 1971 · 52 min
Sketches include Alan gives Dinah singing lessons, News of the future predicts a stock market collapse, Surviving pollution, Gore discusses political science very carefully, Return
Episode 18
Jan 18, 1971 · 52 min
Sketches include David opens the show, Graffiti tattoos, Marathon dance stars, Shirley Temple blackouts, Joey rap quickies, Ali Baba runner, knitting runner, Maude's world of priso
Episode 19
Jan 25, 1971 · 52 min
Sketches include Andy escapes from Mayberry, Cocktail party, Alan visits a confessional, Arte tries to climb Wilt, Maude's world of big cities, Tyrone F. Hornie and Gladys almost g
Episode 20
Feb 1, 1971 · 52 min
Sketches include Marcello explains Richard Nixon stories to Gladys and Tyrone F. Hornie, Maude's world of aviation, Supersonic situations and unusual stewardesses, Edith-Ann meets
Episode 21
Feb 8, 1971 · 52 min
Sketches include Dinah opens Laugh-In, Ernestine meets Peter, Tyrone F. Hornie and Gladys get it on, Lily confuses Truman, Dinah clown production number, Lily sex education quickie
Episode 22
Feb 15, 1971 · 52 min
Sketches include Always Keep 'Em Laughin' song, Firing squad runner, Planned Parenthood explained, Laugh-In fable, Money quickie, Truman meets the Laugh-In cast,Movie cliches, Base
Episode 23
Feb 22, 1971 · 52 min
Sketches include George threatens the cast, Dick, Lily, and Dennis have breakfast in bed, Dick visits the adult bookstore, Hippie hitchhiker quickies, Alan in Cinderella runners, B
Episode 24
Mar 1, 1971 · 52 min
Sketches include Animal production number, Meter maid film, Miss USA visits the show,Laugh-In fable, Fernando visits Lily's friendly lady, Laugh-In looks at Nixon's first hundred d
Episode 25
Mar 8, 1971 · 52 min
Past guest stars visit Laugh-In cast for another bow, report the latest news and Burbank, and visit with the fabulous, friendly Farkle family, and Johnny takes one last bow. Featur
Episode 26
Mar 15, 1971 · 52 min
Sketches include Laugh-In greeting from Cupid, Maude's world looks at friendly ladies, Cocktail party salutes Burbank, Wedding runners, Joke wall, Edith-Ann introduces Laugh-In new