The Best of Flip Wilson

Name: The Best of Flip Wilson
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1974-01-01
Cast: Flip Wilson

1974 · 1 Season

TV-PG

This series showcases the best of the Flip Wilson Show, which debuted in 1970 and became an immediate hit with its who's who of TV and film stars.

Subtitles: English

S01:E02 - The Best of Flip Wilson: S1 E2 - Bobby Darin, Denise Nicholas, Stanley Myron Handelman, Roy Clark

Flip & Stanley each do monologues; the cast does a taxi skit and a western parody Butch Cassidy & The Suntan Kid.

Lily & Flip do saloon and computer dating bits; Redd gives an English lesson and Rev. Leroy preaches with the Temptations.

Perry demonstrates the use of a stool; Freddie the Bachelor juggles two dates (Denise and Lola) and Callas does hilarious stand-up.

Flip visits Lola at the unemployment office; Klein does his classic Broadway audition routine and Dean Martin drops by.

Flip does mind-reading bit; Byner & Brown do competing impersonations and the entire cast does a Sherlock Holmes send-up.

Tony & Lena want to leave NYC by cab; Tony & Flip are an odd couple of inmates: Lena gets food & philosophy at Charley's Diner.

Sid plays a hip musician, Jekyll & Hyde and a slot machine; Bobby & Flip offer a vaudeville routine and the cast does a silent movie.

Santa Claus (Ives) drops by the gas station; Gaillard & Ives do The Night Before Christmas and Rev. Leroy tells ShaNaNa about Scrooge.

Bing teaches golf; The Supremes help Freddie Johnson do holiday shopping; David does monologue and Geraldine's a bunny waitress.

Mostel portrays a painter and a ledge-jumper; Flip defends his singing ability and Charley's Diner serves Mostel and Lawrence.

Carlin does his Indian Sergeant routine; Abbey dates Freddie Johnson; Flip & Mathis compare dogs and Geraldine works at Namath's gym.

Cast parodies Mission Impossible; Flip chats with Hal; sketches incl. a gangster at the veterinarian and bowling night.

Cast spoofs panel show & secret agent movies; Callas does stand-up and Aretha joins the Church Of What's Happening Now.

Flip promotes his latest LP; Uggams rents Freddie Johnson a friend (Rickles) in NYC; Geraldine fawns over Ray Charles.

Flip & Tim teach poker; Freddie Johnson meets Diahann at a society party and Klein does Borscht Belt routine.

Carlin does monologue on NYC cops; Flip fixes Ray Stevens' TV set; Rev. Leroy visits Lena Horne at a nightclub.

Lily does her famous Ernestine character; Camp & Tomlin have a blind date and Freddie Johnson lands in court.

Flip & Tim play pool; Sandy sells books to Freddie Johnson; Brown does impressions and Conway is a school headmaster.

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