The BEST episodes of Here's Lucy season 5
Every episode of Here's Lucy season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Here's Lucy season 5!
Lucille Ball stars as Lucille Carter along with her real life children, Desi Arnaz, Jr. as son Craig and Lucie Arnaz as daughter Kim. Lucy works at the Unique Employment Agency which is run by her brother-in-law Harry Carter, and the show featured a special guest star each episode who usually played themselves.
#1 - Lucy and Donny Osmond
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/20/1972
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.
#2 - Lucy and Her Prince Charming
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/27/1972
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.
#3 - My Fair Buzzi
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/11/1972
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.
#4 - Lucy and Harry's Memoirs
Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/5/1973
Lucy and Harry are packing up the office, and they reminisce on some of the (mis)adventures they've had together, via clips from previous episodes. While they are talking about their memories, and Harry retiring, Lucy opens up a bottle of Champagne that she got as a gift, that she's been chilling, and not knowing what to do with it, drink the whole magnum themselves.
Watch Now:Amazon#5 - Goodbye, Mrs. Hips
Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/26/1973
Lucy, Mary Jane and Vanda all stay in Lucy's house together while they are on a diet so they can support each other. After Harry leaves a gourmet feast in her refrigerator, the three are so tempted that they have to chain the fridge shut. This results in a heck of a funny episode.
Watch Now:Amazon#6 - Lucy Is Really In a Pickle
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/1/1973
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.
#7 - Lucy and the Group Encounter
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/18/1972
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.
#8 - Lucy and Dirty Gertie
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/13/1972
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.
#9 - Lucy and Jim Bailey
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/6/1972
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.
#10 - Lucy and Petula Clark
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/30/1972
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"".
#11 - Lucy, the Other Woman
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/23/1972
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.
#12 - The Case of the Wreckless Wheelchair Driver
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/16/1972
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.
#13 - Lucy and Joe Namath
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/9/1972
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?
#14 - A Home Is Not An Office
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/2/1972
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
#15 - Harrison Carter, Male Nurse
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/25/1972
Harry plays 24hr home-nurse when Lucy arrives home from the hospital after the others (Kim; Vanda & Mary Jane) all fail to help due to other commitments.
#16 - Lucy and Eva Gabor Are Hospital Roomies
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/18/1972
Lucy's new hospital roommate has broken her foot, and steals the attention from Lucy. Lucy being Lucy torments Eva for the entire stay.
#17 - Lucy's Big Break
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/11/1972
Lucy Carter breaks her leg, and is in the hospital. She is attracted to a doctor, and attempts to get his affection.
#18 - Lucy and Harry's Pot
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/12/1973
Lucy makes a new pot for Harry after she accidentally breaks one made for him by a previous secretary.
#19 - Lucy Goes on Her Last Blind Date
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/8/1973
Uncle Harry tries to marry off Lucy to a rich relative, cousin Ben. Ben proves to be as nutty as a fruit cake so Lucy schemes to scare Ben away despite his new found wealth.
#20 - Lucy and Her Genuine Twimby
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/15/1973
While antique shopping, Lucy purchases an antique reproduction. The dealer, however, has made a mistake and sold Lucy an original, rare antique, and romances Lucy in hopes of retrieving the chair.
#21 - Lucy Goes to Prison
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/22/1973
Lucy goes undercover again, this time to prison. Lucy attempts to get needed information from a cell mate, but has little luck until Lucy fills her with alcohol.
#22 - Lucy and the Professor
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/29/1973
Kim is dating a young professor, but mistakenly, Lucy thinks he is an old man and makes a date with him herself to prove that he is a cheater.
#23 - Lucy and the Franchise Fiasco
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/5/1973
Lucy gets the business: a soft ice cream franchise near the zoo. As owner of the proud penguin Lucy serves custard and leads baby penguins from the zoo.
#24 - The Not So Popular Mechanics
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/19/1973
Lucy and Mary Jane are attending auto-repair classes, and Lucy is dating the professor. Uncle Harry buys an antique car and is going to enter it in a classic car show. Unfortunately, it needs work, and Uncle Harry goes out of town for the weekend, and relies on Lucy to call the repairman and keep it at her house. But she forgets to call, so Lucy and Mary Jane decide to repair the car themselves, but they end up destroying it.