Mr. Tudball (Tim) gets into trouble with a newly-installed door buzzer system, and Mrs. Wiggins (Carol) is no help; a filmmaker (guest Roddy McDowall) wreaks havoc while attempting to film a documentary about a live operation in a hospital; Vicki sings "Hollywood Seven"; two Brits (Carol, Roddy) have an encounter in a London elevator where they speak in one-word sentences; and Carol, Harvey and Roddy perform a musical salute to silent movie comedians. Carol gives another All My Children update in the opening chat of this tenth-season show, and tells the audience that her favorite character is the hard-luck Eunice. One of Carol's favorite guest starts, Roddy McDowall, appears as a pushy documentary director trying to film brilliant surgeon Harvey Korman's operation on resident cutup Tim Conway. Roddy returns for "The Lift," one of the word-play skits that he and Carol performed so expertly and charmingly. Vicki Lawrence sings "Hollywood Seven," and Tim is in fine exasperated form in a "Mrs. Wiggins" sketch about Mr. Tudball installing a buzzer on his office door. The finale, "Without a Word, Without a Sound," is a tribute to silent comedy, with Carol as Buster Keaton to Roddy and Harvey's Laurel and Hardy.
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