The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour

tv show

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90 total episodes

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4 seasons

First Aired August 01, 1971

Genres:

Overview

The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour is an American variety show starring American pop-singer Cher and her husband, Sonny Bono. The show ran on CBS in the United States, when it premiered in August 1971. The show was canceled May 1974, due to the couple's divorce, though the duo would reunite in 1976 for the identically-formatted The Sonny & Cher Show, which ran until 1977.

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Show 37

Season 2 - Episode 18 - 1h 0m

Air Date

February 07, 1973

Overview

1. Sonny and Cher open the show with ""I'll Follow the Sun"" and banter about Sonny's hopes that his memoirs could be made into a movie. 2. ""The Vamps"" -- Tokyo Rose (Cher) seduces a captured American soldier (Jim) to get him to tell her who his general is; Mary Poppins (Cher) offers to help a beleaguered father (Jim) control his two obnoxious children (Sonny and regular Teri Garr); and Klondike Annie (Cher) persuades Sergeant Preston of the Mounties (Jim) to abandon his plan to have her arrested for stealing gold and driving the miners crazy. 3. Cher sings ""Just For a Thrill"" 4. ""The Cultural Spot"" -- In a Canadian-Indian opera set to rock and roll music, the beautiful Princess Running Home (Cher) turns down the marriage proposal of the local witch doctor (Jim) so that she can be free to marry the real love of her life, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Sonny). 5. A gypsy fortune teller (Cher) cuts in on Sonny's performance of ""My Way"", causing him to vow that he'll never