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.
#1 - 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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#2 - 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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#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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#4 - 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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#5 - 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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#6 - 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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#7 - 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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#8 - 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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#9 - 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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#10 - 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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#12 - 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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#15 - Lucy Becomes a Father
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/16/1964
Lucy goes with Jerry on a father-son camping trip. The other fathers don't like having a woman "dad" around, so they conspire to make things so tough she'll go running home. Their plans start fall apart when Lucy cleans them out at poker and isn't afraid of a wild bear.
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#16 - 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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#17 - 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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#18 - Lucy Goes into Politics
Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/23/1964
Mr. Mooney's campaign for city comptroller suffers a major setback when Lucy and Viv become volunteers. The ladies put up a Mooney billboard that makes his face looks like a Picasso. Even worse, Lucy forgets to book the Scottish bagpipe band for the big rally.
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#20 - Lucy Enters a Baking Contest
Season 2 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/27/1964
Lucy's tired of the incessant jokes about her lousy cooking by Vivian and the bridge club ladies. To prove them wrong, she enters the annual pie banking challenge intending to defeat perennial winner Viv. At the competition, Lucy's incompetence in the kitchen in on display for the whole town to view.
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#21 - Lucy, the Camp Cook
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1964
Lucy and Viv don't have enough money for their boys to stay at camp the additional two weeks. On the trip to pick them up, the car runs out of gas. The ladies have no luck at flagging down a passing motorist, but Mooney does. He catches the eye of a flirtatious little old lady who calls him "Big Boy." Learning the camp cooks have quit, Lucy volunteers herself and Viv to take over as chefs despite knowing nothing about feeding 200 people. In short order, the kitchen and most of the food is destroyed.
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#22 - 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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#23 - Chris's New Year's Eve Party
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/31/1962
Lucy promises not to interfere with Chris' New Year's Eve Party. Harry agrees to chaperone as Lucy and Viv take the other kids to a hotel. While at dinner, Viv's boyfriend brings news that Chris' party is a dud and desperately in need of their help. The ladies come to the rescue with entertainment.
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#24 - 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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#25 - Lucy Gets Locked in the Vault
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/1963
Lucy makes a bad impression on new bank president Theodore Mooney. After he refuses to advance her money, she tests her home hair cutting kit on his son, Arnold. Going to the bank to apologize for the mohawk, she locks Mooney and herself in the vault until the next morning.
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