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 (2)
Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/11/1967
Flight attendants Lucy and Carol get their wings. Plus, the two red-heads team up with Mr. Mooney to stage a musical with Buddy Rogers and Richard Arlen from the silent film Wings.
#2 - 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.
#3 - Lucy and Viv Reminisce
Season 6 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/1/1968
Lucy's old pal Viv Bunson comes out west to care for Lucy after she breaks her leg. They spend time looking back at when they lived together, until Viv breaks her leg while on her way to fix lunch, forcing Mr. Mooney to look after both of them.
#4 - 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.
#5 - Lucy Puts Main Street on the Map
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/30/1967
Picking up where ""Main Street USA"" left off, Lucy, Mr. Mooney, and Mel Tinker stage a shootout at the bank for press coverage, to bring the freeway problem to the attention of the world.
#6 - Lucy and Phil Harris
Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/5/1968
Lucy brings a Drunken lounge singer home to sober up for the night and finds out that he was once a talented song writer who is now a has been. He plays for her a song he's been writing and Lucy swears it's a hit, so she helps him make a come back.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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...
#10 - Lucy and Sid Caesar
Season 6 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/4/1968
Sid Caesar enlists Lucy's help in capturing Frankie the Forger, a look-alike who's passing off bad checks in his name. Lucy becomes confused with too many Caesars running around and repeatedly captures the real Sid.
#11 - Lucy and "The Boss of the Year" Award
Season 6 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/11/1968
When Mr. Mooney is up for becoming president of the San Fransisco branch of the bank, Lucy tries to get him named Boss of the Year so he gets the position.
#12 - 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.
#13 - Mooney, the Monkey
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/5/1966
Lucy is overworked, between the work that she's neglected and having to sell tickets for a benefit for the bank. Mary Jane warns that Lucy will have a nervous breakdown if she's not careful, but Lucy initially blows off this comment -- but she later thinks she's been hallucinating when she enters Mr. Mooney's office and finds a monkey, who's part of the benefit show, sitting at Mooney's desk. Lucy thinks she's been seeing Mr. Mooney as a monkey, so it's off to the psychiatrist's office, who gives her this advice: "Face your fear and it will disappear." So on her next encounter with the simian, she treats him as if he's Mooney... which gets confusing as Mooney and the monkey simultaneously enter and exit the room...
#14 - Lucy, the Philanthropist
Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/20/1967
Lucy takes in a homeless man and feeds him a home cooked meal. When she finds out that he needs a job, she goes to Mr. Mooney for help. He wants nothing to do with it until he finds out a millionaire is going around and posing as a bum and handing out cash to people who help him. So Mooney promptly gives him a job and a place to stay at his home, not knowing that the man is simply broke and not the secret millionaire.
#15 - 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.
#16 - Lucy, the Robot
Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/28/1966
Lucy helps an inventor friend get some badly needed funding. She figures Mr. Mooney will approve some cash if they help him with the miscreant 13-year-old nephew he's stuck with. Her genius pal builds a life-sized robot soldier to entertain the brat, but its doesn't survive a Lucy-induced fall down the stairs. Lucy passes herself off as the robot and gives the delinquent some much-needed discipline.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - 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.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - Lucy Meets the Berles
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/11/1967
Needing some extra money, Lucy takes a part-time job as the secretary for Milton Berle. While Working for Mr. Berle, she suspects that he is having an affair and does the best she can to stop him in his tracks. (This synopsis is from the Front Row Features DVD.)
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.