Lucille Ball would appear on "The Dick Cavett Show" again on March 7, 1974 to promote her appearance in the film "Mame."
In his opening monologue, Cavett talks about going to see the boxing match between Mohamed Ali and Joe Frazier at Madison Square Garden the previous evening. Cavett introduces Ferdie Pacheco, Ali's personal doctor, who is there to assure America that Ali does not have a broken jaw, as was rumored.
Lucie laments that as a child she never got introduced to Paul Newman or Marlon Brando. She says instead she got to meet people like Mary Wickes and Wally Cox.
Carol Burnett was in New York to tape an episode of the fourth season of "The Carol Burnett Show" that would air on March 22 as well as to entertain at an awards ceremony for Lucille Ball. The evening before this interview, Carol's show aired on CBS with guest stars Mike Douglas and Bernadette Peters. The band plays her show's theme song. This is the first time Cavett and Burnett have met.
Lucille Ball tells the story of how she was fired by Flo Ziegfeld. Lucy says at age 16 she auditioned at the Ziegfeld Theatre for a third road show of the Broadway musical of "Rio Rita." Lucy was fired after five days. She was so despondent she tried to commit suicide.