The episode, directed by Dave Powers and written by a large number of collaborators, was videotaped in front of a live audience on March 17, 1978 at CBS Television City's Studio 33 in Hollywood, California.
[1] Carol Burnett, Tim Conway and Vicki Lawrence reminisce about past shows and introduce excerpts spanning eleven seasons of The Carol Burnett Show which include the following highlights: Burnett does her Tarzan yell and performs in duets with such guests as Liza Minnelli, Ella Fitzgerald, Perry Como, Ray Charles, Bing Crosby, Rock Hudson, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé; in comic skits, Burt Reynolds sings "As Time Goes By"; Harvey Korman sings "They Call the Wind Maria"; and Burnett sings "Come Rain or Come Shine," "The Lady Is a Tramp," and "You Light Up My Life"; movie parodies include The African Queen and The Postman Always Rings Twice.
Additional highlights include Lawrence singing "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" and "S-P-L-I-T", a spoof of a country-and-western song; Bing Crosby and Bob Hope appear in a restaurant skit; Conway performs the role of a sports commentator in his very first sketch on the series; a Columbo parody titled "Cobumble" is featured and Dick Van Dyke appears with Burnett in the comic sketch "Hand Insurance"; a series of bloopers and outtakes are included from previous shows featuring the regular cast.
In "Mrs. Wiggins" sketch titled Flashbacks, Mr. Tudball (Conway) is moving his office to a new location and has a flashback to the first time he interviewed Mrs. Wiggins (Burnett); and in "The Family" sketch The Psychiatrist, Eunice (Burnett) and Mama (Lawrence) visit a psychiatrist (Craig Richard Nelson) as Eunice is trying to figure out what went wrong with her life.
The celebrities in the audience for the final episode included Lillian Gish, Bernadette Peters, Betty White and husband Allen Ludden, Roddy McDowall and Jim Nabors.