Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In - Season 3 (1969)

This week's show features the final television appearance of The Monkees, by this time reduced to a trio.

Jack E. Leonard joins the cast in exercising and tap dances to the News song. Laugh-In looks at the younger generation's vocabulary and jokes about hospital visits. Lana Wood appears on a boat and her name is joked about.

Organized crime is saluted while the news looks at Ben Franklin's invention of the printing press. Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, and Romy Schneider guest.

Flip Wilson guests and helps the cast look at the presidency with additional aid from Jack Riley as LBJ.

Buddy Hackett returns and helps the cast look at other countries around the world.

Guest Carol Channing plays a child actress now UN representative. She teams with Goldie Hawn in a song and dance number. Carol also portrays one half of the richest couple.

The female cast members dress up as Bette Davis and do their best impressions of the star. Sid Caesar as a galley slave makes wisecracks to Henry Gibson. A look at the news is comical and far reaching. Burbank jokes continue.

Sammy Davis Jr., Arte Johnson, and Henry Gibson sing a song about being short. Dan Rowan plays a psychiatrist with different cast members as patients. Various performers take on Sammy who portrays a western gunslinger.

The main theme of the show is privacy or the lack thereof. Jo Anne Worley and Dan Rowan repeat a skit where he is homeless person asking for a cigarette. Jokes are made about Englebert Humperdinck's name.

The guys perform a song about the importance of truth. At one point most of the cast dresses in a polka dot, wide middle outfits, tell jokes and run into each other.

Greer Garson guests as the Farkle Family makes its debut. Also, the cast takes a look at extremism and the news is presented by the ladies dressed as Mae West.

Nancy Sinatra joins the cast to take a look at the Sexy Sixties. Lily Tomlin makes her series debut.

Guest James Garner appears as a police officer, an Indian, and someone thrown into jail. The cast finds the voice of the "Silent Majority." Mod World focuses on the American Indian.

Jonathan Winters becomes Maude Prickett who visits the Farkle family. Later Maudie is on the park bench with Arte's old man and Buzzi's purse woman. Mod, Mod World looks at the American tourist. Arte addresses militant Eskimos.

Peter Lawford appears as a telegraph messenger who is sent th the Farkle household. He then portrays George Washington and a British Colonial Officer. General Bull Right expresses his opinion on today's youth.

Tony Curtis stops by to help the cast salute show business and play Grandfather Farkle who has a new baby.

Jack Benny is rushed through several bits that don't happen, while Ernestine calls President 'Milhouse' and Mod Mod World looks at work.

Carl Reiner helps the cast look at a Russian version of Laugh-In while Tyrone tries to propose to Gladys and the Farkle Family debuts their dance.

Dan Blocker helps the cast look at the weird, weird world and plays a Native American chief who meets the Founding Farkel Family. Also, the girls sing the news theme as the Marx Brothers.

Ringo Starr is forefront in a number of skits. Arte Johnson as little old man buys a wedding ring for Gladys Ormsby played by Ruth Buzzi. Henry Gibson is an inept skyjacker. The Pentagon wins Fickle Finger of Fate for the third time.

Guest Danny Kaye is a rival chef to Arte Johnson in the Italian king's kitchen. Then Kaye is the bride's father to Ruth Buzzi's Gladys. The cast looks at the generation gap. Ernestine places a call to LA mayor Sam Yorty.

Milton Berle takes a lot of abuse from the cast while also hosting Tyrone's bachelor party. Goldie turns into General Bull Wright during the news and the Farkel Family find foundlings on their doorstep.

The wedding of Tyrone and Gladys arrives and Carol Channing gives the bride away. She also sings with Teresa Graves, plays the maid hired to help the Farkle Family, and dances the news theme with the girls.