About this season
Carol & Company is a comedy program airing on NBC-TV in the United States during 1990 and 1991. Carol & Company applied an unusual repertory approach to television comedy. Every week, Carol Burnett and her fellow players, Peter Krause, Jeremy Piven, Meagen Fay, Terry Kiser, Anita Barone, and Richard Kind, performed a different half-hour comedy playlet. Only the performers remained the same from week to week; there were no ongoing characters or plots, although there were guest stars from time to time; Betty White was one who made an appearance. In 1991, Carol's cohort, Tim Conway made a cameo appearance as audience member in an episode, "That Little Extra Something." Carol & Company began as a midseason replacement in January 1990, and was subsequently picked up for a full season and ran until July 1991. In 1990 Swoosie Kurtz won an Emmy for her appearance in the episode titled Reunion.
Episodes (9)
1. Bump in the Night
Aired 31 March 1990 • 30 min
Lois is the perfect wife, but she's just discovered that her husband, Paul, is having yet another affair. At the urging of her neighbor, Lois hires a hitman to kill Paul, but the plan goes amok when Lois finds that Paul named his mistress as the beneficiary of his insurance policy.
2. Reunion
Aired 7 April 1990 • 30 min
3. Mother from Hell
Aired 14 April 1990 • 30 min
4. In-Laws Should Be Outlawed
Aired 21 April 1990 • 30 min
5. Battle of the Exes
Aired 28 April 1990 • 30 min
Dr. Elaine Daniels learns that her ex-husband/coworker, Dr. Arthur Daniels (guest star Alex Rocco) has been dating a much younger woman. To make him jealous, Elaine flaunts a younger man under Arthur's nose. Meanwhile, the Daniels' coworkers make a bet on who will have sex first: the Daniels or the lab rats.
6. Soap Gets in Your Eyes
Aired 5 May 1990 • 30 min
7. Myna and the Messenger
Aired 12 May 1990 • 30 min
8. The Fabulous Bricker Girls
Aired 26 May 1990 • 30 min
9. Kruber Alert
Aired 2 June 1990 • 30 min
Guest-star Glenda Jackson portrays Dr. Doris Kruber, a talk radio psychiatrist who's taken hostage by Sally Trickleson, a Brooklyn woman who accuses Kruber's book of ruining her life.