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The Worst Episodes of The Sonny & Cher Show

Every episode of The Sonny & Cher Show ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of The Sonny & Cher Show!

Cher and Sonny Bono starred in this quintessentially '70's TV comedy/variety show. Sonny and Cher's hit songs featured prominently on the show, as they would...
Genre:Comedy
Network:CBS

Worst Episodes Summary

"Show 1" is the worst rated episode of "The Sonny & Cher Show". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Tim Kiley and written by N/A, it aired on 2/1/1976. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Show 2".

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    #1 - Show 1

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/1/1976

    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""

    Director: Tim Kiley

    Writer: N/A

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    #2 - Show 2

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/7/1976

    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""

    Director: Tim Kiley

    Writer: N/A

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    #3 - Show 4

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/22/1976

    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""

    Director: Tim Kiley

    Writer: N/A

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    #4 - Show 5

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/29/1976

    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

    Director: Tim Kiley

    Writer: N/A

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    #5 - Show 6

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/7/1976

    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

    Director: Tim Kiley

    Writer: N/A

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    #6 - Show 7

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/14/1976

    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

    Director: Tim Kiley

    Writer: N/A

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    #7 - Show 8

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/21/1976

    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""

    Director: Tim Kiley

    Writer: N/A

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    #8 - Show 9

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/28/1976

    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

    Director: Tim Kiley

    Writer: N/A

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    #9 - Show 10

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 4/4/1976

    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

    Director: Tim Kiley

    Writer: N/A

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    #10 - Show 11

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 4/11/1976

    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.

    Director: Tim Kiley

    Writer: N/A

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    #11 - Show 12

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1976

    1. Sonny and Cher, with a few of their closest friends, get ready to watch the show in bed. 2. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Silly Love Songs"" and banter about the birth of Cher's baby during their summer hiatus. In a comedy blackout, Alvin (Sonny) and Laverne (Cher) discuss the TV show at their local bar. 3. Sonny sings ""You're the Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me"" as film clips of him and daughter Chastity are shown. 4. Mimes Shields and Yarnell portray Sonny and Cher dolls on the set. 5. ""Beauty and the Beast"" -- Cher appears as King Kong's jealous sweetheart. 6. Tommy and Dick Smothers try to convince a stuffy bank employee (Barbara Eden) that they are heirs to the estate of the late Howard Hughes. 7. Gossip columnist Rona Barrett shares a Washington exclusive about a bionic Senator and his wife (Shields and Yarnell) who are entertaining a foreign dignitary (regular Ted Zeigler). 8. Cher sings ""Desperado"" 9. ""Football"" -- Sonny and George Gobel appear as a pair of easygoing

    Director: Tim Kiley

    Writer: N/A

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    #12 - Show 13

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1976

    1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel"" and banter about the candidate they'll each be endorsing in this November's Presidential race. In a comedy blackout, Alvin (Sonny) tells Laverne (Cher) and Herbie (regular Ted Zeigler) he read in a fan magazine that Sonny and Cher are really brother and sister. 2. ""Women Of Washington"" -- Cher and Barbara appear as a pair of hometown girls from Tallahassee and Iowa who make a name for themselves in Washington, D.C. 3. ""The Prisoner"" -- Rocko's girlfriend (Cher) tells Rocko (Sonny) about her ""hug therapy"" treatments with the psychiatrist. 4. Having announced that they'll be going their separate ways at the end of the year, Tommy Smothers starts looking for a replacement behind his brother's back. 5. Cher sings ""I'm Easy"" 6. ""Mother Goose"" -- Mother Goose (Cher) presents a series of sketches spoofing famous nursery rhymes. In comedy blackouts, Jack Sprat (Sonny) tries getting his obese wife (Cher) to curb her eating;

    Director: Tim Kiley

    Writer: N/A

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    #13 - Show 16

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1976

    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

    Director: Tim Kiley

    Writer: N/A

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    #14 - Show 18

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1976

    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

    Director: Tim Kiley

    Writer: N/A

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    #15 - Show 19

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1976

    1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""I Only Want To Be With You"" and banter about the science of numbers. 2. ""Sonny's Pizza Parlor"" -- Jack appears as a politician campaigning for votes at the pizzeria. 3. Cher sings ""I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good"" 4. ""Mother Goose"" -- Cher is cast as Mother Goose, revealing the candid secrets behind several popular nursery rhymes, including ""Rub-a-Dub-Dub"" and a tongue-twisting tale about a woodchuck. 5. Italian film director Vente Nove (Sonny) introduces a clip from his latest project, ""Husband Betrayed"", with voice-overs in English. 6. Steve sings ""All By Myself"" 7. The entire cast joins in the recollections of the Not-So-Grand Hotel. 8. Sonny and Cher close the show.

    Director: Tim Kiley

    Writer: N/A

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    #16 - Show 21

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/1976

    1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Our Day Will Come"" and banter about Sonny wanting to make a statue of himself out of granite to be remembered by. In a comedy blackout, Laverne (Cher) tells Alvin (Sonny) and Herbie (regular Ted Zeigler) that she's looking for a job in show business. 2. ""The Battle Of the Sexes"" -- Cher plays a liberated working wife who upsets her husband (Sonny) when she brings her male secretary (Andy) home with her before they leave on a business trip to Acapulco. 3. Twiggy sings ""Pieces Of April"" 4. Andy portrays the President-elect Jimmy Carter's aide on his first trip to the White House. 5. Cher sings ""More Than You Know"" 6. Twiggy appears as an island queen delivering a farewell speech to her only subject. 7. ""In the Beginning"" -- Sonny and regular Ted Zeigler tell the story of how life insurance began. 8. Sonny and Cher perform a medley of ""Never Can Say Goodbye"" and ""Best Of My Love"" 9. ""Mother Goose"" -- Sherlock Holmes (Andy) and Dr. Watson (Sonny) solve

    Director: Tim Kiley

    Writer: N/A

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    #17 - Show 23

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/12/1976

    1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Don't Pull Your Love"" and banter about the Christmas presents they gave each other. 2. ""The Heartbreak Of Psoriasis"" -- Sonny and Cher are cast as a philandering pharaoh and his unfaithful queen in a soap opera spoof set in ancient Egypt, where the inhabitants speak in the modern idiom of TV commercials. In tonight's episode, Queen Psoriasis (Cher) has fallen out of love with her husband and is having a torrid love affair with the slave Eczema (Don), while the Pharaoh Neuritis (Sonny) is secretly seeing the queen's handmaid (Joey) behind her back. 3. Cher sings ""Yesterday"" 4. A nervous Don goes into a singles' bar to meet a girl and mistakenly thinks a female voice he overhears is talking to him. 5. Sonny and Cher perform a medley of ""We'll Sing In the Sunshine"" and ""You Are My Sunshine"" 6. Alvin (Sonny) asks Herbie (regular Ted Zeigler) to be the best man at his wedding and looks over travel brochures with Laverne (Cher) as they make plans for the

    Director: Tim Kiley

    Writer: N/A

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    #18 - Show 24

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/19/1976

    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

    Director: Tim Kiley

    Writer: N/A

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    #19 - Show 25

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/14/1977

    1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""All I Really Want To Do"" and banter about the network moving their show to a later time slot. 2. ""The Battle Of the Sexes"" -- Sonny and Cher spend the evening with an old school chum (Farrah) and her sniveling husband (Don). 3. ""The Wonderful World Of Barbara Nauseous"" -- Jim joins Sonny and Cher in a countrified parody of a Presidential inaugural. 4. Debbie performs ""Having a Party"" 5. Cher and Farrah portray two shipwrecked clotheshorses, stranded on a deserted island with only their wardrobes and cosmetics. 6. Italian film director Vente Nove (Sonny) shows a trailer for his new movie, ""Planet Of the Noseglasses"", which stars Cher, Debbie and Don. 7. Sonny and Cher introduce their former conductor, Harold Battiste, and reminisce about their early career together. They then perform ""Baby Don't Go"", their first hit song. 8. Sonny and Cher close the show.

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    #20 - Show 27

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/28/1977

    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

    Director: Tim Kiley

    Writer: N/A

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    #21 - Show 29

    Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/11/1977

    1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""For Once In My Life"" and an opening dialogue. 2. ""The Wonderful World Of Barbara Nauseous"" -- Cher and Debbie are featured in a parody of a Russian variety show. 3. ""The Heartbreak Of Psoriasis"" -- Debbie and Jim plot against Queen Psoriasis (Cher) in this episode of the ancient Egyptian soap opera. 4. Sonny and Cher introduce their second hit recording, ""Just You."" 5. ""The Prisoner"" -- Cher stuns Sonny with her announcement that she's moved into a new apartment with four football stars. 6. Debbie sings ""Gee, But It's Good To Be Here"" 7. ""Lovers"" -- In sketches based on famous lovers of the past, Debbie plays Dulcinea to Sonny's Don Quixote, and Jim portrays the legendary Caruso, with Cher cast as his nagging wife. 8. Sonny and Cher close the show with ""I Got You Babe""

    Director: Tim Kiley

    Writer: N/A

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    #22 - Show 30

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/18/1977

    1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Ain't That Peculiar"" and banter about Sonny being interested in Cher's sleeping habits. 2. ""Sonny's Pizza Parlor"" -- An angry Muhammad Ali comes to kill Sonny for having given him a free pizza with everything on it back when he was a young, struggling interior decorator, which caused him to take up boxing. 3. Marilyn and Billy perform a medley of ""You Don't Have To Be a Star (To Be In My Show)"" and ""Your Love"" 4. ""The Battle Of the Sexes"" -- An irate nudist (Lyle) accuses his neighbor (Cher) of being a peeping Jane. 5. Marilyn and Billy join Sonny and Cher for a medley of ""It Takes Two"", ""Where Is the Love"", ""You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling"" and ""Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing."" 6. ""The Wide World Of Poetry"" -- Cher and Ali meet in the ring for a poetry bout, with Sonny acting as the referee. 7. Italian film director Vente Nove (Sonny) shows a private screening of his new classic film, ""Gone With the Wine"", with Marilyn and Billy cast as Scarlet

    Director: Tim Kiley

    Writer: N/A

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    #23 - Show 31

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/25/1977

    1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""Swearin' To God"" and banter about their early years together. 2. ""The Sonnytone News"" -- Sonny and Anne portray two vacationers determined to enjoy the sunny beaches of Florida despite a cold wave; Cher accompanies a depressed King Kong as he meets with Dr. Joyce Brothers; and Peter reveals what it's like to be off java at a coffeeholics' meeting. 3. ""The Supermarket"" -- Shields and Yarnell appear as two robots encountering problems at a grocery store. 4. Sonny and Cher perform their latest release, ""You're Not Right For Me"" 5. ""The Prisoner"" -- Cher tells Sonny about her new job as a police decoy. 6. Cher sings ""Reason To Believe"" 7. ""Rootless"" -- Cher is featured in a production number that supposedly traces her lineage with the American Indians and Armenian gypsys. 8. Sonny and Cher close the show.

    Director: Tim Kiley

    Writer: N/A

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    #24 - Show 32

    Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 3/4/1977

    1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""You Are the Sunshine Of My Life"" and banter about Cher's sister playing a wicked character on the daytime soap opera ""General Hospital"" and the women's rights movement. 2. Italian film director Vente Nove (Sonny) introduces his latest project, ""Another Movie"", a unique version of ""Madame Butterfly"" blended with a classic American Western -- starring Charo, George, Cher and regular Ted Zeigler. 3. Charo performs ""Concerto de Aranjuez"" 4. George appears as a despondent citizen trying to have himself arrested for ripping the tag that says ""DO NOT REMOVE UNDER PENALTY OF LAW"" off of his pillow, cheating the phone company by calling person-to-person and asking for himself, squeezing the Charmin at the supermarket, and sneaking through the six-item line with seven items. 5. Cher sings ""Come Rain Or Come Shine"" 6. Charo presents a tribute to William Shakespeare with a dramatic reading of ""Hamlet's Advice To His Players."" 7. Sonny and Cher perform ""Bad, Ba

    Director: Tim Kiley

    Writer: N/A

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    Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 3/11/1977

    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.

    Director: Tim Kiley

    Writer: N/A