The BEST episodes directed by Coby Ruskin
#1 - Lucy and Donny Osmond
Here's Lucy - Season 5 - Episode 11
Lucy and Kim attend a Donny Osmond concert with cousin Patricia (Eve Plumb), who is crazy for the 14 year old singer. Donny, spots Kim in the audience, and he falls in love at first sight. Kim believes the flowers and letters are for Patricia, but soon discovers the mix-up. Realizing Donny volunteered to perform at Kim's Charity function because of the mix-up, Kim feels obligated to set the record straight.
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Here's Lucy - Season 5 - Episode 12
A visiting Latin Prince falls for Lucy. Uncle Harry is promised a reward if Lucy agrees to marry the prince. Harry sees dollar signs and encourages her through various schemes to marry him. Lucy decides that she does not love the prince and so cannot get married.
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Here's Lucy - Season 4 - Episode 5
"Operation Redhead" is a result of Lucy helping Harry, who is photographing the splash down as part of the naval reserve. Space nut Lucy must go through decontamination with Astronauts when she makes physical contact with them after a landing.
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Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 3 - Episode 22
Sgt. Carter attempts to keep Gomer from re-enlisting.
Watch Now:Amazon#5 - Lucy's Big Break
Here's Lucy - Season 5 - Episode 1
Lucy Carter breaks her leg, and is in the hospital. She is attracted to a doctor, and attempts to get his affection.
#6 - Lucy and the Italian Bombshell
Here's Lucy - Season 4 - Episode 3
When Harry learns that a woman whom he knew many years ago in Italy is coming to see him. He says they vowed to wait for each other. He wants to look good for her so he asks Lucy and Kim to help him lose weight and learn Italian before she arrives.
#7 - Lucy Makes a Few Extra Dollars
Here's Lucy - Season 4 - Episode 6
Lucy and Kim attempt to make Uncle Harry guilty for not giving Lucy a pay raise.
#8 - Someone's On the Ski Lift with Dinah
Here's Lucy - Season 4 - Episode 7
Harry invites Lucy & Kim to join him at a friends ski lodge. Lucy encounters Dinah Shore while there. The two get stuck together on a ski lift, where Lucy proceeds to sing a medley of Dinah's hits to her, and otherwise annoy the singer.
#9 - Lucy and the Little Old Lady
Here's Lucy - Season 4 - Episode 17
When an old lady comes in the enployment agency looking for a job because she has nowhere to go, Lucy decides to let her stay at her house. When Mrs. Brady sells land to Harry, Kim tells them about a similar sounding scam which gives Lucy and Harry the idea to let the Mrs. Brady have a seance in which they dress up as Napoleon and Josephine to convince her to refund Harry his money.
#10 - A Home Is Not An Office
Here's Lucy - Season 5 - Episode 4
Amazingly, Harry is lost without Lucille, and after 4 failed replacements moves the office to her house while she is recovering. Lucy then uses a variety of schemes to get him out. Harry ends up being arrested for operating a business in a residential area
#11 - Ginger Rogers Comes to Tea
Here's Lucy - Season 4 - Episode 11
Lucille and Uncle Harry attend a Ginger Rogers film festival. Ms. Rogers attends in disguise, and is seated next to "you-know-who". When Lucille offends Ms. Rogers, she leaves the theater, but also leaves her purse. Discovering the true identity to the stranger, Harry and Lucy plot to return the purse to meet her again.
#12 - Lucy and Dirty Gertie
Here's Lucy - Season 5 - Episode 10
After cleaning her fireplace, Lucy takes a crate of apples down to a neighbor. She is mistaken for Dirty Gertie by a crook who enlists the homeless woman for good luck. Lucy is asked to go undercover to held apprehend the criminal.
#13 - Lucy and Petula Clark
Here's Lucy - Season 5 - Episode 8
Lucy tricks Harry into sending her to be Petula Clark's ""Girl Friday"" to assist with a recording session. Lucy's over protection of pregnant Clark nearly wrecks the entire session, but ends by becoming the new gimmick for her record, a human ""waa waa petal"".
#14 - Lucy in the Jungle
Here's Lucy - Season 4 - Episode 13
Stressed out Harry needs a vacation so Lucy arranges for a house swap with a family in the jungle of Africa. The episode centers on a variety of animals they encounter (chimps, parrot, lion, gorilla) plus a silly segment about a tse-tse fly.
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Here's Lucy - Season 5 - Episode 7
The milkman's wife thinks Lucy is having an affair with her husband. After she throws him out Lucy, Kim & Harry work to get the two back together.
#16 - Kim Finally Cuts You-Know-Who's Apron Strings
Here's Lucy - Season 4 - Episode 24
Kim moves into her own apartment (one managed by Lucy's brother) and deals with neighbors and lecherous men.
#17 - Lucy Sublets the Office
Here's Lucy - Season 4 - Episode 21
Lucy is promoted to office manager, and looks for ways to save money. Her solution is to sublet half the office to a toy maker.
#18 - Lucy's Replacement
Here's Lucy - Season 4 - Episode 19
Harry gets a new office computer, leading Lucy to get a new job at an insurance company, so she schemes to make the computer obsolete and get her job back.
#19 - Lucy's Lucky Day
Here's Lucy - Season 4 - Episode 15
Lucy is a game show contestant on her lucky day. She can win $1000 if she can train Jackie the chimp to do a trick in a week.
#20 - Lucy Is Really In a Pickle
Here's Lucy - Season 5 - Episode 15
Uncle Harry recruits Lucy and Kim to don pickle costumes and perform in a television commercial, but as filming is about to begin, Lucy is nowhere to be found, as she finds herself caught up in yet another Lucy-style mishap.
#21 - Won't You Calm Down Dan Dailey?
Here's Lucy - Season 4 - Episode 9
Lucy goes to work for movie star Dan Dailey, and star struck Lucy drives him crazy. Dan pleads with Harry to take her back at the Unique Employment Agency.
#22 - Lucy Helps David Frost Go Night-Night
Here's Lucy - Season 4 - Episode 12
David Frost needs help on an airplane to England to make sure he gets a good nights sleep but hires Lucy which is never a good thing. She has to stay awake during the whole flight to keep visitors away. Once on the plane Lucy's constant distracting keeps him awake. After creating an international incident Lucy then falls asleep while appearing on David Frost's TV show to explain it.
#23 - Lucy and the Mountain Climber
Here's Lucy - Season 4 - Episode 2
Harry takes on a new partner who tries to add youth to the agency. In an effort to keep her job Lucy bets Harry's business partner that she can beat him at mountain climbing.
#24 - Lucy's Bonus Bounces
Here's Lucy - Season 4 - Episode 16
Harry takes his psychiatrists advice to give Lucy a raise. Lucy is so shocked by the raise that she thinks he is hiding something and decides to keep a close eye on Harry which leads to paranoia as he tries to get away from those following him.
#25 - Kim Moves Out
Here's Lucy - Season 4 - Episode 20
Kim has decided it is time for her to move out of the house, but Lucy becomes an annoying mother hen. Ultimately, Kim plans to teach Mother a lesson.
#26 - Lucy and Flip Go Legit
Here's Lucy - Season 4 - Episode 1
After working for him as a secretary Lucy convinces Flip Wilson to play the part of Prissy in a local production of Gone With the Wind, with Harry as Rhett Butler, Lucy as Scarlett O'Hara, and Kim as Melanie.
#27 - Lucy and Jim Bailey
Here's Lucy - Season 5 - Episode 9
Lucy & Harry organize a fund raiser for the Chamber of Commerce (which the mayor attends). The guest star is Phyllis Diller until she loses her voice. A resourceful Kim finds a replacement as the show must go on. Jim Bailey impersonates Phyllis Diller and does a great number (Fever) with Lucie Arnaz.
#28 - My Fair Buzzi
Here's Lucy - Season 5 - Episode 13
In preparation for an audition, Kim's friend Ruth get a makeover from Lucy and Kim. Unfortunately, the director wants a less attractive actress, much like Ruth before the makeover. Nonetheless, all three get hired for a 1920's style production.
#29 - Lucy and Candid Camera
Here's Lucy - Season 4 - Episode 14
The family believes they are on Candid Camera, but in actuality, the are assisting a robbery. Allen Funt plays a dual role as himself and an evil look-a-like.
#30 - Lucy and the Group Encounter
Here's Lucy - Season 5 - Episode 14
Mary Jane suggests Lucy and Harry go to group therapy to improve their working relationship. Once in therapy, the psychiatrist suggest the two reverse roles to see how the other one feels. Lucy takes charge and lands the agency a big account.
#31 - Lucy and Joe Namath
Here's Lucy - Season 5 - Episode 5
Craig is home from college. While playing tennis, a football coach suspects he may also make a great quarterback. But can even Joe Namath convince Lucy this is best for Craig?
#32 - The Case of the Wreckless Wheelchair Driver
Here's Lucy - Season 5 - Episode 6
Lucy is involved in a lawsuit when a young man is flattened by Lucy's wheelchair. A con man (Jesse White) seeks to get $100,000 from Lucy based on an injury lawsuit. Kim proves the guy is faking by offering him a job to sing and dance at a club.
#33 - Lucy's Punctured Romance
Here's Lucy - Season 4 - Episode 22
Lucy has a new boyfriend Bob Collins, but Kim and Uncle Harry are worried. The milkman doesn't help matters when he informs the pair the Lucy's boyfriend is a playboy. Kim & Harry cook up all kinds of crazy stunts to scare off Bob.
#34 - Lucy and Eva Gabor Are Hospital Roomies
Here's Lucy - Season 5 - Episode 2
Lucy's new hospital roommate has broken her foot, and steals the attention from Lucy. Lucy being Lucy torments Eva for the entire stay.
#35 - Lucy and the Chinese Curse
Here's Lucy - Season 4 - Episode 18
Lucy saves a man's life, and according to Chinese custom, he is indebted to her. Lucy and Kim scheme to correct the situation once they learn that others in town have the same problem.
#36 - Lucy and Her All-Nun Band
Here's Lucy - Season 4 - Episode 8
Lucy books an all Nun band to help Harry's sister who is a sister with a benefit. Lucy takes saxophone lessons from Freddy Martin to join the band when the saxophone player becomes ill.
#37 - Sue the Pants Off 'Em
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 3 - Episode 20
Two shyster lawyers try to get Gomer and Carter to file a false damage suit after a near miss from an automobile.
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Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 3 - Episode 30
When Lou-Ann is about to be fired from her job as a nightclub singer, Gomer finds her a job as a salesgirl.
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#39 - Back to Nature
The Andy Griffith Show - Season 4 - Episode 31
While on a camping trip with Opie and his friends, Barney brags to Gomer about his outdoor skills and promptly gets them lost in the woods. When Andy finally does find them, he and Gomer hatch a plan to save Barney the embarrassment and prove to everyone what a mountain man he really is.
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Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 4 - Episode 25
Gomer befriends a couple who claim Camp Henderson is on their land.
Watch Now:Amazon#41 - Gomer Pyle, POW
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 2 - Episode 15
On maneuvers, Carter gives Gomer false information---hoping he'll be captured by the enemy camp.
Watch Now:Amazon#42 - Crazy Legs Gomer
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 3 - Episode 2
Carter plans to use Gomer to win the inter-squad competition.
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#43 - We Were Robbed
Sanford and Son - Season 1 - Episode 6
After knocking over Lamont's glass figurine collection, Fred pretends the house was robbed and is treated as a hero.
#44 - Whither the Weather
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 3 - Episode 14
Gomer can predict the weather better than the weather bureau.
Watch Now:Amazon#45 - Gomer and the Little Men From Outer Space
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 3 - Episode 7
Carter sends Gomer to a psychiatrist when he claims he has seen men from outer space.
Watch Now:Amazon#46 - A Visit from Aunt Bee
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 4 - Episode 1
Aunt Bee objects to Carter's attitude toward Gomer.
Watch Now:Amazon#47 - Lucy and Mannix Are Held Hostage
Here's Lucy - Season 4 - Episode 4
Lucy, using binoculars to view a building across the street, thinks she has seen two criminals commit a burglary. The criminals spot her. The next day, before Lucy comes into work, the crooks force Harry to tell them where Lucy is. Harry spills his guts and the hoodlums lock him in the closet. After Harry is freed, he first tells Lucy what happened and she should leave home. He then calls private detective Joe Mannix to protect Lucy.
#48 - The Show Must Go On
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 4 - Episode 9
Gomer has stage fright and loses his voice just before a Washington show.
Watch Now:Amazon#49 - Gomer Goes Home
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 4 - Episode 18
Gomer goes home to Mayberry and becomes involved in the search for a bank robber.
Watch Now:Amazon#50 - Gomer, The Card Shark
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 3 - Episode 21
Carter and Duke use Gomer to expose a card cheat.
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