The WORST episodes of The Lucy Show
Every episode of The Lucy Show ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 and Carol Burnett (1)
Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/4/1967
Lucy becomes a trainee flight attendant for Trans-Global Airways. She's teamed with fellow trainee Carol Tilford, who's afraid of heights. On their very first flight, the movie breaks, leaving the two to entertain the passengers.
#2 - Lucy and Robert Goulet
Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/30/1967
When a poor trucker Chuck Willis(Robert Goulet) gets turned down by the bank for a loan, Lucy decides to help him out by entering him in a Robert Goulet lookalike contest. When he loses the contest, Lucy decides to take matters into her own hands.
#3 - Lucy and the Submarine
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/19/1966
When Lucy accidentally gets Mr. Mooney stationed on a submarine by talking too much, she sneaks onto the submarine dressed as a sailor to get him to sign some important contracts, but the submarine takes off before Lucy can exit.
#4 - Lucy, the Fight Manager
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/20/1967
Mr. Mooney has a fight with his wife, so Lucy decides to have some flowers sent over for her. When Eddie, the florist, arrives with the arrangement, Mr. Mooney immediately recognizes him as a former boxer. Eddie wants $3,000 to open up his own florist shop, but Mr. Mooney denies him a loan, so Lucy arranges for Eddie to partake in a boxing match to earn the money.
#5 - Lucy Waits Up for Chris
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1962
When Lucy waits up for her daughter Chris to return from a date, the fourteen-year old girl is mightly embarrassed. Lucy promises never to do it again, but can't help herself. To not be discovered, Lucy accidentally locks herself out of the house and has to enter by the only means available; a trampoline.
#6 - Lucy Digs Up a Date
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/1962
Eager to ask Jerry's handsome math teacher to take her to a dance, Lucy steals the teacher's driver's license to find out whether he's married, then ends up in the teacher's fencing outfit to get the license back into his wallet.
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#7 - Lucy and Pat Collins
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/28/1966
Lucy and Mary Jane spend their lunch hour shopping for furs (despite the fact they only have 27 cents between them) so they can take advantage of the store's free tea and sandwiches. As they're getting ready to leave, the duo run into Pat Collins, a hypnotist, who says she's appearing at The Royal Club. Later at the bank, Mr. Mooney confides to Lucy that he has insomnia and hasn't slept in days, so she offers to take him to see Pat to cure him of his sleep deprivation. But Mr. Mooney has his reservations about being hypnotized, so he drags Lucy on stage with him...
#8 - Lucy, the Disc Jockey
Season 3 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/12/1965
Lucy wins a contest to be disc jockey for a day, and proceeds to wreak typical, Lucy-style havoc in the radio studio.
#9 - Main Street, U.S.A.
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/23/1967
Lucy holds a protest against a freeway destroying a small town. The catch is that Mr. Mooney is helping to get the freeway.
#10 - Lucy, the Bean Queen
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/1966
Lucy finds a sale on beans that says ""The Best Beans You've Ever Eaten or Double Your Money Back"". Needing money for new furniture, Lucy & Mary Jane keep buying and returning more and more beans until they have collected $1,500.00! Little does Lucy know that Mr. Mooney is helping to sell them.
#11 - Lucy with George Burns
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1966
George Burns arrives at the bank to pick up his statement, but Mr. Mooney has problems locating it. While waiting for Lucy to return to work, Mooney and Burns chat, and Mr. Burns reveals that he's having trouble finding another girl to be in his act. Enter Lucy, who goes on to explain her rather unique filing system, impressing George so much that he asks her to be his new comedy partner. The two go on to do a hit show and are offered a gig in Las Vegas, but Lucy declines, saying that she could never leave Mr. Mooney behind.
#12 - Lucy and Tennessee Ernie Ford
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/27/1967
Mr. Cheever warns Mr. Mooney that his job is in jeopardy unless he attracts new business to their branch of the bank. So when Lucy hears that a recording star, country hick Homer Higgins (Ernie Ford), is about to become a California resident, she sets off to the hotel to coax him into setting up an account with their bank. To impress Mr. Higgins and his family, Lucy and Mr. Mooney set up a hoe-down in the bank after it closes that evening...and Lucy decides to dress down to pose as Mrs. Mooney.
#13 - Little Old Lucy
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/23/1967
Lucy and Mr. Mooney are sent to pick up Mr. Heatherington, the wealthy bank president, from the airport, and the gentleman finds that Lucy strikes his fancy. So when Mr. Mooney neglects to find a lady for Mr. Heatherington to escort to that evening's banquet, Lucy is given the job. But to her dismay, she's forced to dress up as a little old lady. As it turn's out, little old Lucy strikes perverse Mr. Heatherington's fancy more than the younger Lucy...
#14 - Lucy, the Gun Moll
Season 4 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/14/1966
Federal agent Stack discovers that Lucy is a dead ringer for gangster Gordon's moll and gets her to go undercover in order to recover missing bank robbery loot. This episode was a spoof of the classic crime drama "The Untouchables," which was produced and filmed at Desilu Studios.
#15 - Lucy Meets Danny Kaye
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/28/1964
Lucy is determined to get tickets to The Danny Kaye Show since she's already promised the kids she could. She goes directly to Danny, posing as a model, and destroys his lunch meeting by making him wear all the courses. He agrees to slip her in as an extra in a crowd scene; all she has to do is blend into the background. This is something Lucy is incapable of doing.
#16 - Lucy Teaches Ethel Merman to Sing
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/3/1964
When Lucy happens upon Ethel Merman at the bank, then Ethel and Mr. Mooney must make up a fake name and tell Lucy that she only looks like Ethel Merman. Soon after, Lucy is in need of money, as usual, and decides to let this Ethel Merman look alike rent a room. Soon after Lucy is giving her lessons how to perform and sing like Ethel Merman.
#17 - Lucy and the Ring-a-Ding Ring
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/10/1966
Mr. Mooney has a $6,000 ring delivered, which is an anniversary present for his wife. Lucy wants the thrill of having such an expensive rock on her finger for a brief moment, and Mooney obliges, only to find that the ring won't come off. Lucy reveals that she "has a condition" that causes her fingers to swell when she becomes nervous, so she takes some relaxing pills that the doctor prescribed her. But the pills make her loopy and knock her out, so Mr. Mooney spends the remainder of the day dragging Lucy's body around and trying to get her to wake up long enough to get the ring off. He finally gets her conscious, only to end up with the ring lost in the drain.
#18 - Lucy Takes Up Golf
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/27/1964
To be near her golf-nut boyfriend Gary, Lucy decides to learn the sport. After just six lessons, with a handicap of 36, she's bona fide lousy. This doesn't prevent her from playing in a tournament with her boyfriend against two guys she's never heard of, Jimmy Demaret and Bo Wininger.
#19 - Together for Christmas
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/24/1962
The Carmichaels and the Bagleys are spending their first Christmas together and trouble begins immediately. Lucy and Viv argue over every single holiday tradition, especially over whether to have a traditional green or white flocked tree. Two trees and an escalation of words results in many busted ornaments and hacked-off limbs.
#20 - Lucy Saves Milton Berle
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/6/1965
Uncle Miltie is masquerading as a drunken bum while researching a movie role. He comes into the soup kitchen where Lucy is volunteering and is literally dragged to her house for rehabilitation. Once recognized, he makes up a story about being Berle's down-and-out brother, Arthur. Outraged that Milton would neglect his twin so badly, she infiltrates his next press event and gets revenge.
#21 - Lucy's Substitute Secretary
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/2/1967
Lucy is preparing to go on vacation, but she has a change of heart when her substitute secretary turns out to be an attractive blonde who Mr. Mooney really likes. Lucy secretly doesn't go on vacation, and spies on them in various disguises.
#22 - Lucy and the Little League
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/15/1963
Lucy and Viv are such obnoxious parents at their sons' Little League game that they're tossed out of the park. Determined to watch Jerry play, Lucy dons various disguises to sneak back in, but her big mouth gives her away every time. Viv, however, stays quiet and has more success.
#23 - Lucy and Carol in Palm Springs
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/7/1966
Lucy fakes sick so she can get out of work and accompany Carol, who's going to entertain at a golf tournament in Palm Springs. When they arrive, the hotel staff realizes that there's two women rooming together, so Lucy finds herself having to partake in the show. Lucy later weasels her way into an encounter with a distinguished actor, Collin Grant (Dan Rowan), and gets herself invited to a dinner dance. It's a good excuse not to go back to work when she finds that Mr. Mooney is Mr. Grant's partner in the golf tournament...
#24 - Lucy Misplaces $2,000
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/1962
When the bank accidentally gives Lucy a check for $2,000 instead of $20, Lucy decides to hide the money in a candy box for a few days to give the persnickety banker a good scare.
#25 - Lucy at Marineland
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1965
Lucy and her son Jerry arrive in LA (her daughter has gone to bording school, and Vivian has gotten married, it is explained), where, coincidentally, Mr. Mooney has also relocated to. Lucy coerces Mr. Mooney into taking her and Jerry to Marine Land, where Lucy ultimately ends up in the pool with the dolphins.