Sonny And Cher Christmas Special 1972

With William Conrad.

[@altoncrane9714]

Wow. I am 66 years old today in 2022. I loved those days, and my heart still flies when I see Cher. Those were such wonderful days, and the memories I have are so priceless. There was a feeling back then, and unless you were there, well,,,all I can say is that I would go back, in a heartbeat. Thank you.

[@willmack5909]

Ditto that Alton, even though I'm just a "kid" at age 56. Fond memories of my parents watching this and other shows in our living room. How I miss them (both my parents and how the times seemed to me back then).

[@DaisyAnnabelle65]

Me too!

[@eddieharrison3801]

Me to

[@tinamccuien9560]

Yes love 💘 sonny and cher music is great 👍 she is so pretty great old days im.61 my sister is 50 😅😅😅

[@altoncrane9714]

@@tinamccuien9560 Merry Christmas from Northern B.C.

[@elizabethmencia6027]

I watched this with my Grandmother. We were roomies. Great times!! 🎉🎉

[@hurdygurdyguy1]

I remember when our family watched this my mom said disapprovingly "I don't think Cher's wearing a bra!!" I was 17 and boy did I sit up and pay attention! 🤣

[@baylorsailor]

🤣

[@donnalombardo1135]

It was a good show

[@rhondabitler5474]

I noticed that too.

[@kurtb8474]

I never missed a show. Much respect for Sonny. A success in the music and entertainment industry. He was talented and funny. He wrote songs. When all of that crashed, he re-invented himself. He became a successful businessman and restaurateur. Then he became Mayor of Palm Springs. And finally, he became a U.S. Congressman.

[@donnalombardo1135]

I liked them better together

[@schallrd1]

Sonny should have stayed off those skis.

[@jeffreyevans9431]

I guess Cher is just chopped liver .

[@nadogrl]

@@jeffreyevans9431 - The point is, Sonny didn’t get as much recognition as Cher. ❤

[@katherinemonk8174]

@@nadogrl good reason, she was more talented.

[@TheNancypoo]

I wish I could go back to the 70s for one day!!

[@plicketyplunk]

Me too. I would buy IBM stock😂

[@altoncrane9714]

I would gladly go for all time, like forever.

[@jerseytomato100]

I remember being a small child, sitting on my Daddy's lap with a snack in my hand and watching Sonny and Cher. Precious memories.

[@Butterflylace]

Cher was so beautiful back then, and Sonny was so adorably cute. Every Girl wanted Cher Hair.

[@lisawentworth6831]

Cher is still beautiful!

[@susanelliott6445]

I can’t believe that this was almost 50 years ago! So much history has happened since then. Sonny has been gone a long time. Cher still looks great. I wish they still made variety shows like that. The music was great and the costumes were fantastic. Now we have a jillion cable and internet channels and most of them are garbage.

[@cayetanotirado5907]

@Susan Ellliot: A lot of the show original cast is also gone, Ted Ziegler died in 1999, Billy Van died in 2003, Freeman King in 2002. Murray Langstone (The Unknown comic) and Terri Garr who became an actress are still living, though Terri Garr (who is about Cher's age, maybe a year older) suffers from multiple sclerosis and is on a wheelchair.

[@donnalombardo1135]

I wish they had stayed together

[@taylahcarvolthvideos01]

@@cayetanotirado5907u forget Sonny Bono died 1998

[@MariaGarcia-eg4wk]

I agree with you l remember them and know what it is entertainments it's not worthy😢

[@hollynelson543]

I always say there are no good variety shows today if any. CHRISTMAS SPECIALS TOO.😮😢

[@lauraharris6987]

Loved this show remember clearly watching this in the early 70's

[@brianmclaughlin5209]

These were the best days of television. Cher is amazing and Sonny was funny too

[@cayetanotirado5907]

@Brian McLaughlin: True! but let's not forget that Sonny was the mastermind of their success, Even Cher had said during comments and interviews through the years that she learned a lot from ex-husband Sonny Bono. He was also managing them both so she never had to deal with rough trade in the business, at least during their 11 year marriage and partnership.

[@richardlawson6787]

Back when the whole family gathered round the TV in the evenings....because there wasn't anything else to watch...the 70s will go down as the decade of television

[@lliamjurdom9505]

In 1976 we would watch this show religiously !!!

[@vintagelady1]

THis was by no means one of their best shows, but what's amazing is that they did these multiple musical numbers for each show every week. Incredible.

[@bsota8513]

It was one of their worst. And for a Christmas show yet.

[@bonniespruin6369]

I remember seeing these shows when I was a kid. Brings me back.

[@garycarpenter6433]

This was one of the best shows in my day I'm still got a crush on Cher

[@lisawentworth6831]

I love that cartoon at the beginning...far out! And this was a old time variety show being done by then young people...too bad we don't have stuff like this anymore

[@freespirit21newyork]

I remember when I was a 7 year old girl watching the Sonny & Cher show I adored that show, and to my surprise in this Christmas 🎁 show I saw that " bugs Bunny" stuffed 🧸 toy on the shelf when William Conrad first was performing, I couldn't believe it! Because I remember I did get that bugs Bunny 🐰 doll that Christmas 🎄🎁🐰 I absolutely loved that stuffed bugs Bunny and it talked too❗ lol 😆 I think when you squeezed the carrot 🥕 piece it talked like certain phrases bugs Bunny made ohh whatta happy Christmas 🎄🎁 I had as a kid, loved this era in life wish I could rewind the decades back to the late 1960s & and early 70s glad I was born in 1965🩷💕🕊️

[@carlosmilla7326]

Great, light, simple American comedy. Loved it!

[@googleuser8211]

Watching this Christmas Day at 7 pm.... 2023. I was 3 when this first aired.

[@freespirit21newyork]

I was 7 🎄🎁🧸

[@christophermyers3758]

Don't remember if I saw this 1972?! Hard to believe it was an hour show, but only 35 minutes long?! 🤔 Met Cher years ago at a book signing in Santa Monica, was just like you see her on tv. Very pleasant and made jokes. I told her that it was a shame that a local radio station had changed format, as her album/CD had just been released, and would have received airplay. She agreed, and said thanks for listening to it! Later saw her in concert at Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim. What a show... 'Wild Orchid' opened, followed by 'Cyndi Laupner' and finally 'Cher'! Massive sing-a-long to her hit "Believe"! 😃🤗 Also met Chastity at her book signing in WeHo, when she had openly come out... long before she became Chaz. 🤗 As for Sonny, have visited his gravesite in Palm Springs. 😢 The headstone reads... "And the beat goes on"... It still does... Thank you Sonny & Cher for those great variety shows of the '70's, and my memories of you two! 😁

[@adabee]

I loved watching their shows! This was when Cher still looked Armenian.

[@BlackwoodCompany]

This is better than watching the same things on TV over and over again.

[@wellston2826]

Better than watching most of the crap they put on TV nowadays.

[@bonnielucas153]

They had so much fun together

[@georgereynolds3422]

It's so great to see this. I remember watching their T.V. show in the Seventies. Also great to see William Conrad, a very talented actor and director. Thank you!

[@ohmeowzer1]

Loved sonny RIP..he was so funny 😆

[@estellacoggins715]

They were so hip! As a teen,I loved this show.

[@DaisyAnnabelle65]

Cher looks gorgeous!❤

[@sheilagravely5621]

Loved to watch them , but man they tortured the jingle bell song. Merry Christmas everyone 2021.👍🏻🎅🤶🍭🎄❄☃️⛄🌲🙏🙏

[@markymark903]

Agree...They opened with the same song in other years too

[@rhondabitler5474]

I agree. Too slow and bad musical arrangement.

[@Barnabas45]

I remember watching this every Sunday night when I was a young lad!

[@ednarosado8415]

Loved their show it was awesome.

[@bsota8513]

Not this one.

[@sherryaleshire9187]

I can remember this 😊 Watched all of their shows 😍 Didn't have remote but then there were only 13 channels 🤤😪😪 😂😂

[@freespirit21newyork]

Yes I remember that at 7 years old in 1972 we had to get up to change the channel or the volume

[@AlwaysPrisms]

wish we could go back in time every boudy was watching sunny and CHER

[@drlock978]

Great TV that year, Sonny and Cher, Kung FU , Love American Style, The Mod Squad. Love their album of 72 has A Cowboys work is never done on it.Remember one show vividly,the night Three Dog Night did the song ,Black and White.50 years ago . Merry Christmas!🎁 Everyone.2022 a week away.Still here. Shout out to the Indian with the teardrop rolling down his cheek that year.

[@susanb2015]

They should've sang more Christmas songs. I love the matching fur hats! There's Chastity at the end.

[@bsota8513]

I wondered about that. It sucked.

[@lancedukel3436]

Omg they look and sound fantastic, love it!

[@shopsshire9282]

Cher looks as beautiful as she did back then now as now in 2021

[@donnalombardo1135]

I think she looked better then

[@bonnielucas153]

I can't imagine having such a great figure!

[@howtubeable]

I know! Very lean and muscular! And Cher is cute too!

[@katherinemonk8174]

Cher is the best 💕

[@rick5793]

Blast from the past, same year I graduated.

[@barbaraperfetti-vn1sm]

Loved this show

[@jenniferbarnes4647]

I adore these guys

[@lisawentworth6831]

20:40, seeing Cher with her hair up, tenderly reading to her little girl Chastity shows a softer side of her...

[@Jane_hopper.]

Rip sonny Cher I love youu

[@delitasmith8744]

There you go they just said joy to the world and peace on earth this was the most neatest show back then to watch.you might not think so!

[@manofmanyinterests]

Actually, I wish this WAS the episode with Captain Kangaroo. This is one of the two Christmas episodes with William Conrad.

[@taylahcarvolthvideos01]

I like how Sonny say is blue my favourite colour when they do the Sonny and Cher on vacation I know that Sonny loves blue cause his wears a lot of blue stuff on their show

[@plicketyplunk]

Cher is a goddess. Always was and always will be. It is too bad she messed with her face but that is entirely her choice.

[@lisawentworth6831]

she looks fabulous now...and what praytell would be the alternative? She look like an old woman in her 70s! I think she looked best in Burlesque a few years ago...very tastefully done

[@plicketyplunk]

@@lisawentworth6831 And what, pray tell, is wrong with looking like an "old woman"? It seems you have just insulted a great part of the population. Getting plastic surgery does not make you look younger. It makes you look your age but very strange IMHO. I said it is her choice what she does with herself. My opinion is she looks weird. That is just my opinion which means nothing to her. She doesn't need defending, she is Cher.

[@audreyleonard8756]

I was born on dec 9 1972…. I wonder when this aired. Such a great piece of history!

[@WhenImBackInChicago]

🎄"The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour" Episode 32, Season 3 CBS air date: December 20, 1972

[@jrnumex9286]

share once said sunny "is the oak tree in my life"

[@choossuck7653]

Cher had a nice little set

[@alinevollmer9693]

I love this great Sonny And cher Christmas Special

[@frankcolasanto2519]

RIP Sonny

[@kingdoc3262]

Very conscious. Nice. For a variety of American Culture. Well done

[@sloburnjo]

Murray Langston AKA The Unknown Comic regular of The Gong Show.

[@tvshows3174]

Great upload. FYI: The video is their Christmas show from 1972, not 1976. The still image is from their 1976 show.

[@bonnielucas153]

Last few minutes are focused on Jesus . How nice, how surprising. Wow

[@donnalombardo1135]

Amen

[@jeffc8242]

Remember this was in the 70s before religion was hijacked into a political cult🤷🏼‍♂️

[@dixierae3442]

Bills story of the Life of Jesus was a perfect ending to a lovely Christmas special. Thank you so much Clarke. Wishing you and your viewers a blessed Christmas.😊

[@hollynelson543]

😂I know my grandma 😎she couldn't 😊😅 believe tv let her show here belly button probably the 70's.

[@jaminova_1969]

Now imagine what it must have been like to have been a 4 year-old watching these hippies in this groovy show! Sonny breaking on Cher about being an Indian was pretty funny!

[@robinhood480]

@Jibba Jabba What is a “ real Native American ? “.

[@donnalombardo1135]

@Jibba Jabba no sense of humor

[@cayetanotirado5907]

@Jami Nova: He always made funny jokes about her partly American Indian heritage.

[@donnalombardo1135]

Chastity must have been around that age then or three whatever

[@katherinemonk8174]

You're old enough for the hippie age

[@buckbuchanan4902]

That song "The world is black, the world is white" is exactly what we need today. We are all brothers and sisters under our Father God! Acts 17:26 "And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth..."

[@KingdomComeClark]

Amen my brother.🙏🏻

[@bsota8513]

Oh please.

[@buckbuchanan4902]

@@bsota8513 Please what?

[@toyman9642]

A late Canadian comedic actor worked as an extra on the Sonny & Cher show. He said in an interview that both of them were first class arrogant as*holes.

[@TEACHERSSEES]

Remember this... ??? ENJOY, 2022...

[@TheKingMAC]

ENJOY, 2022... LOVE IT...

[@hdvette64]

My Grandma cried when they got divorced

[@TAllyn-qr3io]

I was born in the early 60’s and remember that…it seemed to me as a kid anyway, that during the 70’s at least, every popular singer/group would end up getting a variety show. From “The Captain and Tennille Show, Engelbert Humperdinck, The Jackson’s, Tony Orlando, etc., could you imagine the horrible acts now…lack anything if value and autotuned…having variety shows? Oh man, that would truly destroy the country! 🤭🙈🙉🙊

[@wadeboyful]

Nice 👍

[@wezie13]

Always loved their straight men!

[@user-wi6sh6vh8u]

My mistake, William Conrad tells the story of the nativity in this one because the following year he tells the story of Virginia O’Hanlan.

[@user-xt4bf1vt4r]

Lyrics: Dashing through the snow In a one-horse open sleigh O'er the fields we go Laughing all the way Bells on bobtails ring Making spirits bright What fun it is to ride and sing A sleighing song tonight, oh! Jingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all the way Oh, what fun it is to ride In a one-horse open sleigh, hey! Jingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all the way Oh what fun it is to ride In a one-horse open sleigh

[@dougl945]

Gawd. He was lucky to be at the right place at the right time and ride her talent.

[@donnalombardo1135]

No buster he made her he wrote the songs produced them and if it wasn't for him she wouldn't be anything she even said it herself she didn't even want to sing without him plus she was a lot better with him her daughter was better then too

[@katherinemonk8174]

@@donnalombardo1135 he couldn't have done it without her.

[@donnalombardo1135]

@@katherinemonk8174 neither would she be here now as well

[@donnalombardo1135]

@@katherinemonk8174 I liked them better together

[@edgardagosto1917]

Wish I got a new Quad 8track stereo with 8track tapes for Christmas again today..

[@wellston2826]

William Conrad played Matt Dillon on the radio version of Gunsmoke, but he did NOT play Captain Kangaroo.

[@zefallafez]

Captain Cannonroo

[@brianr7726]

Anyone notice Teri Garr around the 25:55 mark? I think she got her start on the sonny and Cher show. Whatever happened to Teri Garr anyway?

[@WhenImBackInChicago]

Debilatated by MS.

[@gracemadej5564]

😊

[@arottie4097]

W0W!

[@donnalombardo1135]

That's what u need on tv now but probably won't see in this crummy world today they don't want to mention God at all that's why this world right now is going hell

[@malcolmjawohowelll2892]

These shows look so schmaltzy. But times have changed so much

[@ks2xgaks2xga]

Even then there was a lot of commercial time for a 60 minute show! There was only 35 minutes of actual show time.

[@donnalombardo1135]

Not as much as today that's for sure

[@donnalombardo1135]

They just cut it out here

[@dianamarie1652]

Speaks for today! We need to live harmony

[@RavnerRavner]

Gene Klein saw this and said..... 'yeah... Why not.'

[@elifoust7664]

Before Cher went to sleep.

[@donnalombardo1135]

Say what?

[@donnalombardo1135]

Don't like her now she was a lot better then

[@jamesconnolly1201]

Cher Wears Wigs, Just Like Dolly Parton. .😰😰😰😰😢😢😢😢 I Never Knew That.

[@kathleencreamer6648]

She didn't for a long, long time. That long hair back then was real and her trademark. Now she definitely wears wigs.

[@TheKingMAC]

MICHAEL, SAYS... HELLO.."

[@davidmitchell6873]

Something seems a bit different about Chaz. I can't seem to figure it out though.

[@suziecreamcheese211]

Lmao

[@freespirit21newyork]

I never liked her/ him I think it ruined Sonny and chers marriage to be honest

[@SusanLlewellyn-pp2xn]

No fake hair, all natural..no tattoos....all real..all.the time. No 'apologies' God is God. Jesus is Lord and Christmas is Christmas..

[@kathleencreamer6648]

Cher has a massive tattoo on her bum.

[@ohmeowzer1]

I liked Cher back then ,,,as she got older her personality changed ,,,don’t care much for her now

[@dougl945]

She got wiser

[@donnalombardo1135]

Not better she was better then

[@donnalombardo1135]

So was her daughter

[@williamdunphy352]

Introduced by Peter Cullen.

[@TheVCRTimeMachine]

Entertainment standards were largely low back then and haven't gotten much higher in the last 50 years.

[@donnalombardo1135]

Meaning what this was a good show a lot better than anything today that's for sure everything stinks today and its not even funny Cher definitely was better then too God was actually mentioned something u would never hear today

[@brendtoconnell6119]

1976 was a good birth year for me. That year I came into this wicked world by two hippy farmers. But who's Sonny and Cher?

[@donnalombardo1135]

This was actually 72 or 73 chastity was still little here

[@WhenImBackInChicago]

​@@donnalombardo1135 🎄 The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour Season 3, Episode 32 CBS air date: December 20, 1972

[@michaelmcgee8543]

The last credits read 1972. What a statement song by two people who were politically conservative or maybe they would become the way when they possibly got mad at their child when they discovered that they were different from what Sonny and Chere thought. I hope the ex Chasity is doing okay. My mother has never excepted what I am neither, but, I don't care. in spite of their politics, I enjoyed Sonny and Cher's art . This was right before they broke up and she would become the top solo performer with hits like," half breed. Then would become a top actress, also. In films like Moon Struck. Sonny would end up being a Mayor. I remember when they were interviewing his now second widow when he died.

[@donnalombardo1135]

Liked them better back then together it was a lot better they should have together

[@choossuck7653]

Thats not politics. Thats just reality.

[@choossuck7653]

Btw, Sonny was a US congressman. Much more distinguished than the plastic mannequin.

[@choossuck7653]

Im not trying to be a jerk either. I am an ally. We all sin.

[@michaelmcgee8543]

@@choossuck7653 your reality.

[@dalesworld1308]

Billy Van was Canadian and I used to see him on CHCH TV's Party Game and later a kid's show called The Hilarious House of Frightenstein. He's really wasted here, and I don't mean in the good way.

[@donnalombardo1135]

I don't think so he was good on here and he wasn't wasted this was a good show she's a lot better here than she is now that's for sure so was her daughter

[@kingdoc3262]

I'm looking at this in light of Cher leaving Sonny heartbroken. He really loved her. I'm trying to see where she is at here. After the first song she is looking at him like what is in his left hand. Now with the kiss scene he had garlic in his left hand 🧤. Her reluctance to his kiss and other affections may have been a previous Discussion and sign of separation eventually.

[@suziecreamcheese211]

Sonny was a serial cheater.

[@kingdoc3262]

@@suziecreamcheese211 Never heard that from him nor her. She was a flirt and I wonder if your describing her and as many women close your eyes to her wrongs?

[@logann7942]

It’s a Ringo and Shelly Long Christmas.

[@CommonSense-iu6wz]

Looks like Cher would rather be somewhere else

[@donnalombardo1135]

I don't see that and she was a lot better then too so was her daughter too bad those were better days for sure

[@Susieq26754]

Imagine fighting with your spouse, then you have to go out and perform for millions of people on TV and a studio audience. That's why cocaine was readily available backstage.

[@msunderstood1100]

So, this show was a "thing" back in the 70's?? I like watching old retro shows from that era, but I must say, the Sonny & Cher Shows are by far the most corny, cheesy, god-awful shows I have ever seen. And for some reason, I love it! But, I HATE it! But.....I looooove it!

[@taylahcarvolthvideos01]

Why do Sonny sound so different in half the show like when his sung his sounded like his was sick or voice crack or something 😢

[@choossuck7653]

When was this og broadcast?

[@bsota8513]

1972

[@WhenImBackInChicago]

🎄The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour Season 3, Episode 32 CBS air date: December 20, 1972

[@choossuck7653]

@@WhenImBackInChicago thanks pal Merry Christmas 🙏

[@WhenImBackInChicago]

@@choossuck7653 ❤️. You're welcome, c.❣️ 🎅🤶🧑‍🎄 Merry Christmas!

[@buckbuchanan4902]

This was great, but by far, the best part of this was from 32:30 onward. Jesus is the reason for the season!

[@TralfazConstruction]

I remember being slightly annoyed with Sonny and Cher for altering the classic "Jingle Bells" but now it feels so quaint and a little poignant.

[@trentaccid2177]

This was horrible give me Bing Crosby any time.