Synopsis
Versatile Hal Linden, who spent eight ABC seasons in Barney Miller (1975-82), guest stars in this tenth-year show, reminding viewers of his Broadway experience in such musicals as Bells Are Ringing and the Rothschilds. After a rendition of "I Wont Last a Day Without You," he returns to play the aptly named Snakey in "Riverboat," a mini-musical takeoff on Show Boat (with Carol as Ruby Lee, Harvey Korman as the Captain's daughter). Tim Conway plays his Oldest Man character as a ship's shakey skipper, crashing through scenery and breaking up Harvey. And Carol and Harvey chew up the scenery as Funt and Mundane in a "Ham Actor" sketch about the stage couple taking their smash-hit play to increasingly larger venues- until they're booked to play the Astro-Bowl.