--- title: Carol Burnett Show Lost Episodes: Watch an Exclusive Clip description: The first five seasons of the classic show are available on DVD for the first time on Sept. 15 canonical: https://time.com/4026471/carol-burnett-show-lost-episode/ author: Lily Rothman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-14T16:00:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T10:47:14.886Z article:section: History og:title: Watch a Clip From a Long-Lost 'The Carol Burnett Show' Episode og:description: The first 5 seasons of the classic show are available on DVD for the first time og:url: https://time.com/4026471/carol-burnett-show-lost-episode/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd70c388d65f462b8/698862b18e0601605e4623ec/screen-shot-2015-09-09-at-11-20-55-am.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Carol Burnett Show og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch a Clip From a Long-Lost 'The Carol Burnett Show' Episode twitter:description: The first 5 seasons of the classic show are available on DVD for the first time twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd70c388d65f462b8/698862b18e0601605e4623ec/screen-shot-2015-09-09-at-11-20-55-am.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch an Exclusive Clip From a Long-Lost Episode of _The Carol Burnett Show_  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Sep 14, 2015 4:00 PM UTC  TIME LIFE  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Sep 14, 2015 4:00 PM UTC _The Carol Burnett Show_ was one of the most influential TV shows of the 1960’s and ’70s_._ Yet unlike many other classic programs, the first five seasons of the sketch classic have never been available on DVD or in syndication. On Sept. 15, those “Lost Episodes”—which haven’t been seen for 40 years—will be[ available ](https://timelife.com/products/the-carol-burnett-show-the-lost-episodes-ultimate-collection)on DVD (from TIME/LIFE, which is no longer a sister company of TIME). The delay is the result of rights and release issues, or what Burnett calls in the notes that accompany the release, “legal mumbo jumbo.” In 1962, TIME described Burnett as the “biggest yuk to hit television since Sid Caesar’s salad wilted”—and now fans can be reminded of why. Watch an exclusive clip from season five, which aired in 1971, here. **_Read a 1962 article about Carol Burnett_** **_, here in the TIME Vault:_** [Carol the Clown](http://time.com/vault/issue/1962-06-22/page/58/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4026471/carol-burnett-show-lost-episode/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4026471/carol-burnett-show-lost-episode/"},"headline":"Watch an Exclusive Clip From a Long-Lost Episode of The Carol Burnett Show","datePublished":"2015-09-14T16:00:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T10:47:14.886Z","description":"The first five seasons of the classic show are available on DVD for the first time on Sept. 15","url":"https://time.com/4026471/carol-burnett-show-lost-episode/","keywords":["Television","Comedy"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd70c388d65f462b8/698862b18e0601605e4623ec/screen-shot-2015-09-09-at-11-20-55-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lily Rothman","jobTitle":"Rothman is managing editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd70c388d65f462b8/698862b18e0601605e4623ec/screen-shot-2015-09-09-at-11-20-55-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Carol Burnett Show","caption":"Carol Burnett Show","creditText":"TIME LIFE","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4026471/carol-burnett-show-lost-episode/","name":"Watch an Exclusive Clip From a Long-Lost Episode of The Carol Burnett Show"}}]}] ```