The BEST episodes of The Lucy Show

Every episode of The Lucy Show ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Lucy Show!

After a five season run on I Love Lucy, Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance return to the small screen in The Lucy Show. This time they play a pair of widows, Lucy Carmichael and Vivian Bagley, living together as best friends with their children Chris and Jerry Carmichael and Jerry Bagley in Danfield, N.Y.

Last Updated: 6/24/2025Network: CBSStatus: Ended
Lucy and Clint Walker
star
9.14
7 votes

#1 - Lucy and Clint Walker

Season 4 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/7/1966

Lucy takes her boyfriend Frank's measurements on the sly and stays up all night knitting him a red sweater. Come morning, she realizes it's big enough to cover a car and that he hates the color red. At the company picnic, she tries her best to ditch the gift rather than giving it to him, but it keeps finding its way back to her.

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Lucy and the Lost Star
star
8.75
8 votes

#2 - Lucy and the Lost Star

Season 6 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/26/1968

Lucy & Viv's car breaks down, so they visit the nearest house for help, which happens to belong to Joan Crawford. All of Crawford's furniture is away being redone, which lead the women to suspect she is broke, so they ask Mr. Mooney to help get her back to work.

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Lucy Builds a Rumpus Room
star
8.69
13 votes

#3 - Lucy Builds a Rumpus Room

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/10/1962

Lucy and Viv each sneak back home to fix meals for their dates after agreeing that neither would get the house to herself that night. Following the inevitable fight, the gals go to work on turning the basement into an extra room for entertaining. Unfortunately, they've underestimated the strength of the glue they're using on the walls.

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Lucy Makes a Pinch
star
8.67
6 votes

#4 - Lucy Makes a Pinch

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/9/1964

Meter maid Carmichael and handsome Detective Baker masquerade as a Lovers Lane couple to catch a crook. After scaring off the criminal on their first night by turning on the siren, Lucy talks Viv into masquerading as Green Scarf Louie the next evening, not expecting the real one to show up again.

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Lucy Gets Her Diploma
star
8.67
6 votes

#5 - Lucy Gets Her Diploma

Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/9/1967

Lucy is in trouble when a new bank policy requires all of its employees be high school graduates, and she reveals she was unable to complete her final year. So now it's back to school for Lucy, who ends up helping another man earn his diploma as well.

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Lucy Helps Ken Berry
star
8.60
5 votes

#6 - Lucy Helps Ken Berry

Season 6 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/19/1968

Ken is turned down by Mr. Mooney for a loan to open his dance studio. Lucy decides all he needs in a little publicity so she arranges for a bunch of truck drivers to sign up for lessons and wrangles some TV coverage.

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Lucy and Viv Are Volunteer Firemen
star
8.58
12 votes

#7 - Lucy and Viv Are Volunteer Firemen

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/14/1963

Lucy protests too loudly about Danfield needing a fire department; she's named Captain of an all-woman volunteer force. With Viv's help, the group practices to be ready for their first mission. When the alarm finally goes off, they set the firehouse ablaze.

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Lucy Goes to a Hollywood Premiere
star
8.57
7 votes

#8 - Lucy Goes to a Hollywood Premiere

Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/7/1966

Lucy, the world's biggest movie fan, manages to get into a big Hollywood movie premiere by filling-in as a theater usher. As the stars arrive, she disrupts proceedings on the red carpet by fawning over the celebrities and getting into a fight with a gorilla. Look for cameos from Kirk Douglas, Jimmy Durante, Edward G. Robinson, Vince Edwards, and the "Mayor of Hollywood" Johnny Grant.

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No More Double Dates
star
8.50
8 votes

#9 - No More Double Dates

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/18/1963

Tired of the weekly Saturday night debate with Viv and Eddie about what to do on their double-date, Lucy and Harry decided to have a quiet dinner alone. They pretend to have tickets to a Broadway show, but instead head to a new restaurant. When Viv and Eddie walk in, Lucy hides under their table and dines on their unwitting handouts.

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Lucy, the Choirmaster
star
8.50
6 votes

#10 - Lucy, the Choirmaster

Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/13/1965

Lucy Carmichael's 1st Christmas in California has Lucy expressing determination not to spend too much on presents & Christmas tree in a typical tete a tete with a dubious Mr. Mooney. She succeeds in mixing up all of Mr. Mooney's gift tags for his wrapped Christmas presents. Lucy shops for a Christmas tree with the scene ending with Lucy knocking lots of the inventory over with her new large tree. Lucy recruits Mr. Mooney to sing bass with the children's choir at a charity event at the bank.

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Lucy and Art Linkletter
star
8.50
6 votes

#11 - Lucy and Art Linkletter

Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/10/1966

As a contestant on Linkletter's television show, Lucy is offered $200 if she can shut up for 24 hours. Art sends along another audience member, Ruth, to see how she does. Ruth's a plant from the show who tries her best to make Lucy scream, as are the one-armed "fugitive" and cop who shoot it out in her apartment, and the guy in the gorilla suit that attacks her.

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Lucy's Contact Lenses
star
8.44
9 votes

#12 - Lucy's Contact Lenses

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/23/1964

One of Lucy's new contact lenses pops out when she's icing a chocolate fudge cake for a bake sale. After buying and searching through fifteen gooey cakes, she learns Mooney bought hers. She can't tell him she lost an expensive contact, so she and Viv sneak into his house in the middle of the night to pull a dessert switch.

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Lucy and the Safe Cracker
star
8.38
8 votes

#13 - Lucy and the Safe Cracker

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/1963

Lucy accidentally locks Mr. Mooney in the bank vault and finds a "can opener" turned candy store owner to open the vault. Once he opens the vault, he goes back to his old ways and steals several bags full of money and locks Viv and Lucy in his candy shop.

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My Fair Lucy
star
8.33
9 votes

#14 - My Fair Lucy

Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/8/1965

To get the financing to open a charm school, the Countess seeks to impress the snobbish Mrs. Dunbar and her henpecked husband. Lucy masquerades as a ratty scrub woman whom she molds into a sparkling debutante. Things turn sour at Liza's coming out party when Lucy's allergy to caviar kicks in. On the up side, the mousy husband finally speaks up.

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Lucy Dates Dean Martin
star
8.33
6 votes

#15 - Lucy Dates Dean Martin

Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/14/1966

Lucy is set up on a date with Dean Martin's stunt double. When the double can't make it, Dean himself substitutes on the date. During the date Lucy keeps telling him how bad it is that Dean Martin is stealing all of his glory.

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Lucy Meets Mickey Rooney
star
8.33
6 votes

#16 - Lucy Meets Mickey Rooney

Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/24/1966

Mickey's getting a loan from the bank to buy an acting school. To his eventual regret, he also gets Mr. Mooney and Lucy as his students. The three of them star in a take-off on silent movie comedies with Lucy impersonating Charlie Chaplin, Mickey as a "kid", Mooney as a store proprietor, and lots of crazy cops.

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Lucy and the Old Mansion
star
8.33
9 votes

#17 - Lucy and the Old Mansion

Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/1/1965

The Countess doesn't want her foreign visitors to know she's broke. Lucy's solution is to borrow a dilapidated mansion and get Viv to help her do a quick fix-up on the place. As the Countess hosts a party for her guests, the ladies' temporary improvements begin to fall apart.

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Lucy and the Countess Lose Weight
star
8.33
9 votes

#18 - Lucy and the Countess Lose Weight

Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/15/1965

Mr. Mooney's made a bad investment in a "fat farm". Lucy and the Countess volunteer to attend to generate some needed publicity. In no time, the brutal regime has the two plotting an escape.

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Lucy Buys a Boat
star
8.30
10 votes

#19 - Lucy Buys a Boat

Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/29/1963

Lucy talks Viv into buying a "fixer upper" boat that's barely seaworthy. When they finally get it on the lake, it slips away from it's moorings, trapping a sea sick Viv and a bossy Capt'n Lucy without a sail. Then, the leaks start springing up.

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Lucy and the Plumber
star
8.30
10 votes

#20 - Lucy and the Plumber

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1964

Mr. Mooney approves of Lucy hiring a plumber to fix her kitchen, and the one who shows up looks exactly like Jack Benny (and his assistant bears resemblance to Bob Hope).

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Lucy and Winter Sports
star
8.29
7 votes

#21 - Lucy and Winter Sports

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1964

To impress her athletic boyfriend, Lucy exaggerates her ability to play any sport. In reality, she stinks at all of them. When he invites her on a ski trip, she talks Mr Mooney into giving her lessons at the house. Mooney suffers at the hands of the redhead who's armed with sharp poles and long skis suitable for whacking him on his rear.

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Lucy Puts Up a TV Antenna
star
8.27
15 votes

#22 - Lucy Puts Up a TV Antenna

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/1962

To save money, Lucy talks Vivian into helping her install a new TV antenna on the roof. The do-it-yourself project costs a small fortune thanks to Lucy's general klutziness, Viv's fear of heights, broken windows, new holes in the roof, and smoke damage caused by clogging the chimney with Lucy's bottom.

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Lucy Goes to Art Class
star
8.25
8 votes

#23 - Lucy Goes to Art Class

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/13/1964

When both Lucy and Viv enroll in an art class to win the affections of handsome John Brooks III, Vivian tricks Lucy into posing for the class so she can get a date with Brooks.

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Lucy, the Superwoman
star
8.25
8 votes

#24 - Lucy, the Superwoman

Season 4 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/21/1966

When a heavy computer falls on Mooney's foot, Lucy's adrenaline kicks in, allowing her to lift the huge machine by herself. Strangely, her adrenal gland stays "on," giving her superhuman strength. This new power causes Lucy to destroy everything she touches, ripping doors from their frames and leaving wrecked furniture in her wake. While the doctors gawk in amazement, the product endorsements pour in.

Lucy, the Meter Maid
star
8.25
8 votes

#25 - Lucy, the Meter Maid

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/2/1964

When Lucy's new job as a meter maid goes to her head, she accuses Viv of many violations and takes her to traffic court.