The BEST episodes directed by Coby Ruskin
#1 - Gomer, the Welsh Rarebit Fiend
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 3 - Episode 24
Gomer's love for Welsh rarebit causes him to sleepwalk -- and to tell off Carter.
#2 - The Price of Tomatoes
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 4 - Episode 25
Gomer befriends a couple who claim Camp Henderson is on their land.
#3 - 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.
#4 - Lucy and Her Prince Charming
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.
#5 - Lucy and the Astronauts
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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - Crazy Legs Gomer
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 3 - Episode 2
Carter plans to use Gomer to win the inter-squad competition.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - A Date for the Colonel's Daughter
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 1 - Episode 10
Gomer escorts the Colonel's daughter to the enlisted men's dance.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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"".
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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
#18 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#21 - A Visit from Aunt Bee
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 4 - Episode 1
Aunt Bee objects to Carter's attitude toward Gomer.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - The Great Talent Hunt
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 4 - Episode 6
Gomer represents his platoon in a talent contest.
#26 - 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.
#27 - 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.
#28 - 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.
#29 - 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.
#30 - 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.
#31 - Lucy, the Other Woman
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.
#32 - 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.
#33 - 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.
#34 - 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.
#35 - 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.
#36 - 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?
#37 - 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.
#38 - Gomer and the Queen of Burlesque
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 4 - Episode 21
Sgt. Carter gets Gomer a date with an exotic dancer.
#39 - 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.
#40 - 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.
#41 - 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.
#42 - 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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#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 - 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.
#45 - Barney's Sidecar
The Andy Griffith Show - Season 4 - Episode 16
Barney buys an antique motorcycle in order to set a speed trap for speeding truckers on Highway 6. After Barney makes a complete nuisance of himself to all of Mayberry, Andy realizes that the answer may be to make the motorcycle more valuable to the town than to Barney.
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Here's Lucy - Season 5 - Episode 21
Lucy makes a new pot for Harry after she accidentally breaks one made for him by a previous secretary.
#47 - Captain Ironpants
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 1 - Episode 4
After a straight-laced lady Marine officer reports him for not saluting her, Gomer attempts to help transform her into an attractive woman.
#48 - The Rumor
The Andy Griffith Show - Season 4 - Episode 29
After Barney sees Andy and Helen kissing in a jewelery store, he becomes convinced they are secretly engaged and decides to throw a surprise engagement party, much to the chagrin of the un-engaged Andy and Helen.
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Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 1 - Episode 6
Gomer is convinced he has been a "goldbrick" and stubbornly refuses to accept part of his paycheck -- even when the Pentagon orders him to do so.
#50 - Gomer and the Dragon Lady
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - Season 1 - Episode 8
Carter sets Gomer up with a beautiful but unkissable Dragon Lady.