The BEST episodes of The Lucy Show season 2
Every episode of The Lucy Show season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Lucy Show season 2!
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 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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#2 - Lucy and the Bank Scandal
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1963
When Lucy finds a note in Mr. Mooney's office that reads "ten thousand dollars buried in back yard," she and Viv spend the night digging up Mr. Mooney's backyard.
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#3 - 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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#4 - 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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#5 - Lucy and the Scout Trip
Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/30/1964
Mr. Mooney heads up a Cub Scout camping trip in the woods when Lucy and Viv show up to replace an ill father. After losing the canoe, Lucy goes searching for it and gets lost. The rescue team of Mooney and Vivian also fare poorly, unable to find the redhead or their way back to camp.
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#6 - Lucy and Viv Play Softball
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/1963
Lucy and Viv have an after season softball match for the womens volunteer fire department. Lucy is benched until another player gets dilusional and Lucy catches the winning ball in her huge and oversized pants!!
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#7 - 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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#8 - Lucy Is Her Own Lawyer
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/9/1964
Lucy and Vivian are kept up all night by Mr. Mooney's new barking sheepdog, Nelson. When she complains, sarcastic Mooney tells her to sue him. She does and acts as her own lawyer. Lucy's melodramatic courtroom skills were all learned from watching Perry Mason on TV.
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#9 - Lucy Meets a Millionaire
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/16/1964
When Italian millionaire Umberto Fabriani asks Lucy on a date, Lucy spills spaghetti sauce all over Mr. Fabriani's best suit, compelling her and Mr. Mooney to break into the cleaners.
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#10 - Lucy's College Reunion
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/16/1963
Lucy goes to her college reunion. While she's there, she helps Chris and some of her friends steal the bell tower statue. She and Viv end up having to put it back or suffer the consequences. They get locked on the top of the tower, until the Dean discovers them.
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#11 - Ethel Merman and the Boy Scout Show
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/10/1964
When Lucy discovers that Ethel Merman and Mr. Mooney made up a story to hid the singer's real identity, she can't help but come up with the nerve to as Ethel to perform at her son's boy scout pageant. Ethel accepts and she does the show, along with Lucy and Mr. Mooney.
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#12 - The Loophole in the Lease
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/23/1963
Sherman leaves the water in the bathtub running and it runs over, making the plaster in the ceiling below collapse. Mr. Mooney convinces Lucy that it's Viv's fault and they threaten to throw Viv out if she doesn't pay for the damages. They take out their lease and in it, it says that the rent will be considered down payment for the house, after five years, if the tenant desires. Viv has Mr. Mooney and Lucy thinking that she will and they end up trying to steal it from her, while she's sleeping.
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#13 - 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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#14 - Lucy and the Military Academy
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/9/1963
Lucy tries to sneak into a Military Academy disguised as a cadet to visit her son, Jerry, before visitor's day.
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#15 - Lucy Is a Process Server
Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/20/1964
Lucy takes a temp job as a process server for an attorney service and must serve Mr. Mooney with a subpoena or lose her job. He's leaving on vacation, so she chases him to the train station and serves him the wrong papers. Determined, she goes to his stateroom on board a ship, but stays a little too long.
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#16 - Viv Moves Out
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/2/1964
The gals have a spat and Viv moves out. Penny-pincher Mooney forces Lucy get a new tenant immediately so in moves nightclub singer Roberta Schaeffer and her son. Their non-stop rehearsals of "Up a Lazy River" get old quickly. By now, Viv wants back in and Lucy desperately wants to lose the chronic songbirds.
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#17 - Kiddie Parties, Inc.
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1963
The high cost of their kids' birthday parties inspires Lucy and Viv's latest money-making scheme. They'll make easy money with their own children's party business. What can goes wrong does at their first event.
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#18 - Lucy Goes Duck Hunting
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/7/1963
Enamored with her handsome, wealthy blind date, Lucy agrees to go duck hunting. After frightening all the ducks away, Lucy creates her own duck call, luring swarms of ducks.
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#19 - Lucy Conducts the Symphony
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/30/1963
Viv's cousin comes to New York to play percussion in Manhattan. When he arrives at the house, he's a nervous wreck and Lucy tries to relax him by telling jokes, but gets the hicups from laughing. Lucy tries to cure him by hypnotizing him, but she puts him in a heavy sleep and he won't wake up. Lucy ends up playing in the symphony in his place and makes the conductor mad and she takes his place.
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#20 - Lucy Takes a Job at the Bank
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/24/1964
Mr. Mooney hires Lucy to give a new toaster to anyone who opens a savings account. Lucy tries to drum up business by getting her friends to close out their savings accounts and then redeposit the money as new accounts, leading to a rumor that the bank is failing!
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#21 - Lucy Plays Cleopatra
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1963
The women of the Danfield Fire Department are talked into staging Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra for their fundraiser show. Lucy schemes her way into the lead as Cleopatra with Viv as Marc Antony. The two dueling divas try to upstage each other during their death scene to the dismay of their pretentious director Professor Gitterman.
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#22 - Lucy Plays Florence Nightingale
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/6/1964
Lucy needs Mr. Mooney to give her some money to buy Chris a dress for a dance, but Mr. Mooney is in the hospital with a broken leg. Lucy is a hospital helper and on the next day she has work, she tries to get Mr. Mooney to sign the check. She gets kicked off the floor Mr. Mooney is staying on and dresses as a doctor to get into his room.
#23 - Lucy Decides to Redecorate
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/1963
Lucy tries to wangle money out of Mr. Mooney to redecorate, but can only manage enough to do a few things herself. Things are going good until she decides to use fabric paint on her sofa and the sprayer malfunctions.
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#24 - Lucy Puts Out a Fire at the Bank
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/2/1963
When Mr. Mooney and the town finance commitee refuse to fund the incompetent Danfield women's volunteer fire department, Lucy sets off a smoke bomb in the bank so the volunteers can rush in and pretend to save the day.
#25 - Chris Goes Steady
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/20/1964
Chris decides to go steady with a boy who turns out to be Mr. Mooney's son. Lucy and Mr. Mooney don't like it and team up to show the kids a lesson by teaching them the real responsiblities of a serious relationship. And then the two adults must camp out in a treehouse to make sure the two don't elope.