Carpenters TV Show Appearances
Carpenters made 182 guest appearances on television programs around the world. You can sort the table by the name of the television show, the date it aired or by country.
| TV Show | Date Sort ascending | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Only Yesterday: the Carpenters Story | 2007-4-9 | |
| Living Famously | 2003-1-27 | |
| Close to You: the Story Of the Carpenters | 2002-8-28 | |
| Behind the Music | 1998-1-1 | |
| Biography | 1998-1-12 | The Carpenters: Harmony and Heartbreak |
| E! True Hollywood Story | 1997-4-13 | |
| Close to You: Remembering the Carpenters | 1997-12 | |
| Shitteru Tsumuri | 1996-2-25 | |
| Music Is the World | 1996-3-8 | |
| BBC | 1996 | Yesterday Once More. I Can Dream Can�t I (alternative clip) |
| Odoroki Momonoki 20th Century | 1994-12-23 | |
| BBC | 1994 | profile (Peluso)/Don�t Cry For Me Argentina (alternate version) |
| Karen Carpenter Story | 1989-1-1 | |
| Entertainment Tonight | 1989 | Lovelines |
| Entertainment Tonight | 1983-1-11 | Interview |
| People Magazine TV Commercial | 1983-2-21 | |
| Grammy Awards | 1983-2-23 | |
| Sayonara Carpenters | 1983-12-17 | |
| Health Beat #31 | 1983 | Hurting Each Other clip |
| News on Anorexia | 1983 | LA Channel 7 |
| Palmares | 1982-10-14 | Touch Me When We're Dancing |
| Generation 1980's | 1982 | Touch Me When We're Dancing |
| Show de Mes and Geracao 80 | 1982 | Medley: Close To You/We've Only Just Begun/Back In My Life |
| Julio Iglesias Numero Un | 1982 | Sing/Top of the World |
| Mie | 1982 | Touch Me When We're Dancing |
| Top Pop | 1982 | Touch Me When We're Dancing |
| America's Top 10 | 1981-7-11 | |
| Good Morning America | 1981-8-10 | Made in America interview |
| America's Top 10 | 1981-8-29 | |
| Merv Griffin Show | 1981-10-2 | I Want You Back in My Life Again, interview |
| Nationwide Interviews | 1981-10-22 | Record industry, anorexia |
| Multi-Coloured Swap Shop | 1981-10-24 | Karen appeared alone as Richard was ill |
| 1981-10 | Top of the World | |
| 1981 | We've Only Just Begun | |
| 1981 | Top of the World | |
| 1981 | Touch Me When We're Dancing | |
| De De Music Now | 1981 | |
| Japanese Telethon L.A. | 1981 | |
| Showexpress | 1981-10-29 | Top of the World/Beechwood 4-5789 |
| TopPop | 1981 | Touch Me When We're Dancing |
| 20/20 | 1980-3-13 | |
| Music Music Music | 1980-5-16 | ABC |
| Karen's wedding clips | 1980 | LA Channels 2, 5 |
| Music Music Music | 1980 | 2 commercials by ABC |
| Olivia Newton-John: Hollywood Nights | 1980-5-20 | Karen sings Heartache Tonight |
| People Magazine TV Commercial | 1980 | Karen's wedding |
| 20/20 | 1979-1-31 | |
| John Denver ProAm Ski Tournament (WABC-TV) | 1979-3-25 | |
| Drunk Driving PSA | 1979 | |
| Starparade | 1978-5-11 | Top of the World/Sweet Sweet Smile |
| Carpenters Space Encounters | 1978-6-17 | |
| Tonight Show | 1978-6-27 | Thank You for the Music/Superstar/Rainy Days and Mondays/Goodbye to Love interview |
| Mickey Mouse 50th Birthday Special | 1978-11-19 | We've Only Just Begun |
| Bruce Forsyth Show | 1978-12-16 | Interview with Karen. Richard was ill and did not make the British promotional tour. |
| Christmas Portrait | 1978-12-19 | |
| Bruce Forsyth Show | 1978-12-24 | Karen performed Please Mr. Postman/I Need To Be In Love/Merry Christmas Darling/White Christmas/Winter Wonderland |
| TopPop | 1978-8-5 | Sweet Sweet Smile |
| Tribute to Alan Freed | 1978-3-16 | Yesterday Once More |
| Tonight Show | 1977-1-27 | From This Moment On, interview |
| Dorothy Hamill Special | 1977-3-2 | From This Moment On |
| Top Of the Pops | 1977-10-20 | Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft |
| Top Of the Pops | 1977-11-3 | Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft |
| Carpenters At Christmas | 1977-12-9 | Sleigh Ride/Winter Wonderland/Silver Bells/White Christmas/Top Hat, White Tie and Tales/It�s Christmas Time/Christmas Alphabet/Christmas Song/We Are Jolly Fellows/Hello Kukla Hello/O Holy Night/Christmas Carol Medley/New Year�s Resolution/Christ Is Born/We�ve Only Just Begun |
| Suntory Pop commercials | 1977 | |
| American Bandstand's 25th Anniversary | 1977-2-4 | We've Only Just Begun |
| American Bandstand 25th Anniversary | 1976-2-11 | We've Only Just Begun |
| Live In Osaka | 1976-3-24 | |
| Top Of the Pops | 1976-4-8 | There's a Kind of Hush |
| Midnight Special | 1976-5-21 | Please Mr. Postman |
| Live at Jaap Eden Hal, Amsterdam | 1976-11-16 | There's a Kind of Hush/Jambalaya/I Need to Be In Love/Close to You (spike Jones version)/Yesterday Once More/Piano Picker/Warsaw Concerto/From This Moment On/Close to You-For All We Know-Top of the World-Ticket to Ride-Only Yesterday-I Won't Last a Day Without You-Hurting Each Other-Please Mr. Postman-Superstar/Rainy Days and Mondays-Goodbye to Love |
| Carpenters First TV Special | 1976-12-8 | |
| Live at the New London Theatre | 1976-12-3 | Overture/Piano Picker/Only Yesterday/There�s a Kind Of Hush/I Need to Be In Love/Close to You (Spike Jones version)/Piano Picker/Drum Solo |
| Top Of the Pops | 1975-1-23 | Please Mr. Postman |
| Crackerjack | 1975-2-7 | |
| Top Of the Pops | 1975-2-13 | Please Mr. Postman |
| American Music Awards | 1975-2-18 | Presenters |
| Grammy Awards | 1975-2-23 | Presenters |
| Disco | 1975-3-29 | Please Mr. Postman |
| Top Of the Pops | 1975-4-24 | Only Yesterday |
| Top Of the Pops | 1975-5-8 | Only Yesterday |
| Spotlight | 1975-6-15 | Please Mr. Postman |
| Rock Concert | 1974-1-18 | |
| Grammy Awards | 1974-3-2 | Presenters |
| Don Kirshner's Rock Concert | 1974-3-9 | Tribute to Jm Croce |
| Top Of the Pops | 1974-3-14 | Jambalaya |
| Top Of the Pops | 1974-3-28 | Jambalaya |
| Evening At Pops | 1974-8-4 | Close to You/Top of the World |
| Perry Como Christmas Special | 1974-12-18 | Carol of the Bells/Sleep Well Little Children/Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town |
| Live At Talk Of the Town | 1974-3-3 | Superstar/Rainy Days and Mondays/Goodbye to Love/Mr. Guder/Close to You/Jambalaya/Yesterday Once More/Little Honda/End Of the World/Runaway/Da Doo Ron Ron/Leader Of the Pack/Johnnny Angel/Book Of Love/Shh-Boom/Daddy�s Home/Johnny B. Goode/For All We Know |
| Live at the Budokan | 1974 | Superstar/Rainy Days and Mondays/Goodbye to Love/Top Of the World/Help/Mr. Guder/Close to You/Jambalaya/Yesterday Once More/Little Honda/End Of the World/Da Doo Ron Ron/Leader Of the Pack/Johnny Angel/Book Of Love/Sing/Sometimes. We�ve Only Just Begun/For All We Know |
| TopPop | 1974-2-15 | Close to You (They Long to Be) |
| TopPop | 1974-2-15 | Jambalaya |
| TopPop | 1974-2-15 | Jambalaya/Close to You/Top of the World/Yesterday Once More/Oldies Medley (Little Honda/End of the World/Runaway/Da Doo Ron Ron/Johnny B. Goode) |
| TopPop | 1974-2-15 | Oldies Medley (Little Honda/End of the World/Runaway/Da Doo Ron Ron/Johnny B. Goode) |
| TopPop | 1974-2-15 | Top of the World |
| TopPop | 1974-2-15 | Yesterday Once More |
| Live at the White House | 1973-5-1 | |
| Robert Young with the Young | 1973-5-6 | Saturday/Sometimes |
| Top Of the Pops | 1973-7-20 | Yesterday Once More |
| Top Of the Pops | 1973-8-3 | Yesterday Once More |
| Top Of the Pops | 1973-8-17 | Yesterday Once More |
| Top Of the Pops | 1973-11-1 | Top of the World |
| Tonight Show | 1973-11-6 | Superstar/Goodbye to Love/Mr. Guder |
| Perry Como Christmas Special | 1973-11-13 | |
| Lulu's Party | 1972-2-17 | |
| Ed Sullivan Show | 1972-1-14 | |
| Carol Burnett Show | 1972-1-19 | Hurting Each Other/Old Fashioned Love Song/We've Only Just Begun/Let Me Be the One/I Kept on Loving You |
| Jerry Dunphy Visits the Carpenters | 1972-2-21 | Hurting Each Other |
| Grammy Awards | 1972-3-24 | Superstar |
| Get to Know | 1972-4-5 | |
| Academy Awards | 1972-4-9 | Bless the Beasts and Children |
| Tom Jones London Bridge Special | 1972-5-7 | For All We Know/Love Is Surrender/For All We Know |
| Get to Know | 1972-5-15 | |
| Bob Hope Show | 1972-10-5 | A Song for You/Top Of the World |
| Top Of the Pops | 1972-10-12 | Goodbye to Love |
| Top Of the Pops | 1972-11-9 | Goodbye to Love |
| Live at the Budokan | 1972 | |
| Top Of the Pops | 1971-1-14 | We've Only Just Begun |
| Peggy Fleming Special | 1971-1-24 | Help |
| Andy Williams Special | 1971-2-13 | For All We Know/Ticket to Ride-I'll Never Fall In Love Again |
| This Is Your Life | 1971-2-18 | Herb Alpert, Burt Bacharach |
| Grammy Awards | 1971-3-16 | We've Only Just Begun |
| Johnny Cash Special | 1971-3-24 | For All We Know/Close to You/Rainy Days and Mondays |
| Merv Griffin Show | 1971-4-26 | |
| Get to Know | 1971-6-22 | |
| Tonight Show | 1971-6-30 | Interview on group name |
| Mike Douglas Show | 1971-7-1 | Bless the Beasts and Children |
| Make Your Own Kind Of Music | 1971-7-20 | Make Your Own Kind of Music/We've Only Just Begun/Rainy Days and Mondays/Close To You/Good Day Sunshine |
| Mike Douglas Show | 1971-7-22 | Rainy Days and Mondays/Maybe It's You/Love Is Surrender |
| Make Your Own Kind Of Music | 1971-7-27 | Help, For All We Know/Mr. Guder/I Kept on Loving You/Wishin' and Hopin' |
| Mike Douglas Show | 1971-7-29 | |
| Today Show | 1971-7-29 | |
| Make Your Own Kind Of Music | 1971-8-3 | Bacharach-David Medley/One Love/Druscilla Penny/House Is Not a Home |
| Get to Know | 1971-8-10 | |
| Make Your Own Kind Of Music | 1971-8-10 | Don't Be Afraid/Hideaway/I Kept on Loving You/What's the Use |
| Make Your Own Kind Of Music | 1971-8-17 | Love Is Surrender/Rainy Days and Mondays/Baby It's You |
| 5th Dimension Traveling Show | 1971-8-18 | Reason to Believe/Superstar |
| Tonight Show | 1971-8-19 | |
| Make Your Own Kind Of Music | 1971-8-24 | All I Can Do/Let Me Be the One/Maybe It's You/Trains and Boats and Planes |
| Make Your Own Kind Of Music | 1971-8-31 | Your Wonderful Parade/Bless the Beasts and Children/Ticket to Ride/I Want to Be Free |
| Carol Burnett Show | 1971-9-6 | Superstar/Bacharach-David Medley |
| Make Your Own Kind Of Music | 1971-9-7 | Close To You/Reason to Believe/We've Only Just Begun/There's a New World Coming/Make Your Own Kind of Music |
| Carol Burnett Show | 1971-9-22 | Bacharach-David Medley |
| Top Of the Pops | 1971-9-23 | Help/Superstar |
| In Concert | 1971-10-2 | Close to You |
| Top Of the Pops | 1971-10-14 | Superstar |
| Tonight Show | 1971-11-5 | |
| Live at the BBC | 1971-11-6 | Help/Love Is Surrender/Superstar/And When He Smiles/Rainy Days and Mondays//I Fell in Love with You/Bacharach-David Medley/For All We Know/Sometimes/Close to You/We've Only Just Begun |
| Get to Know | 1971-11-18 | |
| Morton's Potato Chips Commercial | 1971 | |
| Rollin' on the River | 1971 | |
| Harry Secombe Show | 1971-10-9 | Bacharach-David Medley |
| Dating Game | 1970-7-20 | Karen chooses, Richard chosen |
| Virginia Graham Show | 1970-7-24 | |
| Get It Together | 1970-8-8 | Close to You/I Kept on Loving You |
| Don Knotts Show | 1970-9-18 | Close to You |
| Tonight Show | 1970-9-18 | Close To You/We've Only Just Begun |
| Top Of the Pops | 1970-10-1 | Close to You |
| David Frost Show | 1970-10-2 | Close To You (live) |
| Top Of the Pops | 1970-10-15 | Close to You |
| Ed Sullivan Show | 1970-10-18 | Close To You/We've Only Just Begun (live) |
| Ed Sullivan Show | 1970-11-8 | Close to You/Bacharach-David Medley |
| Tonight Show | 1970-11-13 | |
| American Bandstand | 1970-11-14 | |
| American Bandstand | 1970-12-5 | We've Only Just Begun/Close to You |
| All American College Show | 1969-2-2 | |
| Virginia Graham Show | 1969-6-24 | |
| Your All American College Show | 1969-9-9 | |
| Your All American College Show | 1969-11-23 | Karen only |
| Your All American College Show | 1969-12-1 | Ticket to Ride |
| Della Reese Special | 1969-12-4 | |
| All American College Show | 1968-6-22 | |
| Time Machine | ||
| Unique Lives, Different Views | Close to the Carpenters | |
| Ed Sullivan Awards | Winner Outstanding New Group | |
| Foster Parent TV Commercial | Bless the Beasts and Children used | |
| High Crown Milk Chocolate commercial | ||
| Instant Recall | ||
| Japanese TV Commercials | Soda, No Crown | |
| John Davidson | Superstar/Rainy Days and Mondays/Goodbye to Love medley | |
| Sesame Street | ||
| Show Express | Yesterday Once More clip |
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