The BEST episodes written by Bob Schiller

#1 - Lucy's Bicycle Trip

I Love Lucy - Season 5 - Episode 24

The Ricardos and Mertzes pedal their way from Italy to the French Riviera. It's a bumpy ride, thanks (of course) to Lucy, who left her passport in her purse, which she locked in a suitcase, which she sent ahead to their hotel in Nice. That presents problems when they get to the Italian-French border.

#2 - Housewarming

I Love Lucy - Season 6 - Episode 23

Fred Mertz installs an intercom system between the Mertz guest-house and the Ricardo main house. The intercom causes some confusion when Lucy and Ricky overhear what they believe to be plans for a housewarming party given for them.

#3 - Lucy Raises Tulips

I Love Lucy - Season 6 - Episode 26

Suburban living gets Lucy into a flower-show competition, and she raises tulips with a vengeance as she tries to beat out her neighbor, Betty Ramsey, for first prize. Lucy asks Ricky to mow the lawn so that her garden will look just right. But he only mows half before taking off for a baseball game, leaving Lucy and Ethel to tiptoe through the tulips -- with the lawnmower.

#4 - Thanksgiving Reunion (2)

Archie Bunker's Place - Season 1 - Episode 11

#5 - Walter's Problem (1) (a.k.a.) Life of the Party (1)

Maude - Season 2 - Episode 1

After a wild evening of drinking, Maude, Walter and Arthur awake to discover some oddities. First, Maude and Arthur shared a bed, second the guys trashed the living room and third, Walter made an obscene phone call to Maude's mother. Carol suggests that perhaps Walter has a drinking problem but he refuses to face that fact. Maude and Walter later get into a big argument while they are both drunk and Walter slaps her.

#6 - Edith's 50th Birthday (2)

All in the Family - Season 8 - Episode 5

Edith must deal with her sexual assault and identify the perpetrator.

#7 - Lucy Does the Tango

I Love Lucy - Season 6 - Episode 20

Chicken-raising and practicing a tango for Little Ricky's school PTA meeting combine to get the Ricardos and the Mertzes in a verbal battle. It's up to Ricky, Jr. and his neighborhood pal Bruce Ramsey to straighten things out.

#8 - Lucy in the Swiss Alps

I Love Lucy - Season 5 - Episode 21

In Switzerland, the Ricardos and Mertzes are caught in an abandoned cabin during an avalanche. It’s one of Lucy’s own making (of course), and it leads to some soul-searching and confessions. But not by Ricky: “We might be saved!” They are — by an oompah band playing “La Cucaracha.”

#9 - Lucy and Viv Put in a Shower

The Lucy Show - Season 1 - Episode 18

Tired of her daughter Chris hogging the bathroom all the time, Lucy asks her neighbor Harry to install an extra shower for her. Not wanting to do the job, he hires a plumber to do it instead. Lucy nags the plumber so much that he quits, leaving Lucy and Vivian to finish the jobs themselves!

#10 - Paris at Last

I Love Lucy - Season 5 - Episode 18

Equipped with an English-French dictionary, Lucy sets out to see Paris and "discover" an artist whose paintings will become very valuable -- she knows she has "the eye." Lucy's first encounter is indeed with an artist -- a con artist who changes her American money for French. Lucy's adventures land Lucy, Ethel, and Fred in jail.

#11 - The Perfect Marriage

Maude - Season 1 - Episode 21

Maude is convinced that her best friend, Vivian has the "perfect marriage" so she is completely stunned when Vivian announces plans for a divorce. This leads Maude to analyze her supposed "perfect marriage".

#12 - Lucy Meets Charles Boyer

I Love Lucy - Season 5 - Episode 19

Charles Boyer deals with a star-crazed Lucy in this guest appearance. The setting: Paris, where the Ricardos and Mertzes are lunching at a sidewalk cafe. Boyer is at a nearby table, and when Lucy and Ethel spot him they immediately repair to the ladies room to plot their approach. Ricky tries to stop the assault but nobody can defend against the star-struck Lucy.

#13 - Lucy Wants to Move to the Country

I Love Lucy - Season 6 - Episode 15

Lucy decides that it would be nice to move to the country and prevails on Ricky to place a comfortable deposit on a big house. Ricky agrees and puts a down payment on a house in Westport, Connecticut. It is not long before Lucy changes her mind. Lucy, Ethel, and Fred put on disguises to try and help poor Ricky get his deposit back.

#14 - Bosom Partners

Archie Bunker's Place - Season 1 - Episode 6

Archie is in trouble with the State of New York when he is charged with non-payment of sales tax and questionable record keeping. Now it's up to Murray to save Archie and the bar by trying to romance the tax agent.

#15 - The Stivics Go West

All in the Family - Season 8 - Episode 24

Mike and Gloria leave for California.

#16 - Lucy's Barbershop Quartet

The Lucy Show - Season 1 - Episode 19

When one of the members of Vivian's Barbershop Quartet drops out, Lucy naturally wants to take her place. Vivian agrees, and now it's up to Lucy to learn how to sing before a big singing contest in Albany!

#17 - The Ambush

Archie Bunker's Place - Season 1 - Episode 18

The neighborhood has had a sudden rash of burglaries and Archie and Murray are afraid the bar will be the next one.

#18 - Murray and Blanche

Archie Bunker's Place - Season 1 - Episode 16

Barney's ex-wife Blanche comes back to town, and is as sex crazy as ever. She now goes after Murray, infuriating Barney.

#19 - California, Here We Are (2)

All in the Family - Season 9 - Episode 13

The Bunkers have arrived in California and learn that the Stivics are hiding the fact that they've separated.

#20 - The New Housekeeper

Maude - Season 3 - Episode 4

With Florida gone, Maude has finally decided to hire a new housekeeper. She is excited with the fact that the new one, Mrs. Naugatuck is British but quickly the two of them clash over gender roles, as Mrs. Naugatuck insists on calling Walter the master of the house and begins to pamper his every need.

#21 - Edith's Final Respects

All in the Family - Season 9 - Episode 5

Edith is the sole mourner at her aunt's funeral.

#22 - Archie's Other Wife

All in the Family - Season 9 - Episode 7

At a convention, Archie awakens to find a black stewardess who swears they were married the night before.

#23 - The Convention

Maude - Season 1 - Episode 14

Walter and Maude go to Massachusetts for an appliance seller's convention. When their reservations at a upscale hotel are botched, they must share a shabby motel. This is when a squabble ensues when Maude tries to confide in Walter the angst she has over not having any meaning in her life and the troubles she's been having trying to find a job because she's a woman.

#24 - Edith's 50th Birthday (1)

All in the Family - Season 8 - Episode 4

Edith is attacked by a rapist posing as a policeman.

#25 - Walter's Secret

Maude - Season 1 - Episode 19

Carol walks into a cocktail lounge and catches a glimpse of Walter having drinks in a cozy corner with a woman who once worked for him. When Maude finds out, she immediately jumps to the conclusion that Walter is having an affair and promptly packs up his things and orders him out of the house.

#26 - Archie and the KKK (2)

All in the Family - Season 8 - Episode 11

Archie schemes to stop the local KKK group's plans.

#27 - Edith's Crisis of Faith (1)

All in the Family - Season 8 - Episode 13

Edith's religious faith is shaken after a friend is murdered.

#28 - The Ricardos Dedicate a Statue

I Love Lucy - Season 6 - Episode 27

Lucy joins a community effort to establish a Revolutionary War monument. She manages to shatter any dreams she may have had of becoming a community leader when the statue is broken. Her efforts to undo the damage put her in a unique position when the time comes to unveil the statue.

#29 - Super Bowl Sunday

All in the Family - Season 8 - Episode 16

Archie's Place is robbed on Super Bowl Sunday.

#30 - A Girl Like Edith

All in the Family - Season 9 - Episode 15

A butcher seems to favor Edith over his girlfriend, Edith's exact likeness.

#31 - Lucy Raises Chickens

I Love Lucy - Season 6 - Episode 19

The Mertzes find a way to stay with the Ricardos: chicken farming. But the scheme puts Lucy over her head in chickens when she and Ethel bring home 500 baby chicks before the hen house is ready.

#32 - Archie and the KKK (1)

All in the Family - Season 8 - Episode 10

Archie unwittingly joins a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan.

#33 - Walter's Problem (2) (a.k.a.) Life of the Party (2)

Maude - Season 2 - Episode 2

After giving Maude a black eye, Walter continues to drink. Later, Arthur sends over a recovering alcoholic to talk some sense into Walter who adamantly refuses help. When Walter discovers Maude got rid of all the alcohol, he goes ballistic and she locks him in the closet. That's when Carol makes an announcement, she's taking Phillip and is moving out

#34 - Edith's Shabbat Dinner

Archie Bunker's Place - Season 1 - Episode 14

Edith and Stephanie are preparing a Shabbat dinner, a dinner eaten on the Jewish sabbath. They invite Archie's partner, Murray and his non-Jewish girlfriend. Unbeknownst to him, Edith also invites his mother, who feels that Murray should only be dating Jewish women.

#35 - Cousin Liz

All in the Family - Season 8 - Episode 3

Edith learns a troubling secret about a deceased cousin.

#36 - Bogus Bills

All in the Family - Season 9 - Episode 10

Edith is arrested for passing phony $10 bills she got from Archie's Place.

#37 - Lucy Waits Up for Chris

The Lucy Show - Season 1 - Episode 1

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.

#38 - Lucy and the Loving Cup

I Love Lucy - Season 6 - Episode 12

Ricky's disapproval of Lucy's new hat leads to her trying on a loving cup which Ricky has planned to present to jockey Johnny Longden at a National Turf Association dinner. The problem is that Lucy can't get the trophy off her head.

#39 - California, Here We Are (1)

All in the Family - Season 9 - Episode 12

While visiting California, the Bunkers learn that the Stivics are having marital problems.

#40 - Music Hath Charms

Maude - Season 2 - Episode 13

For their 5th wedding anniversary, Maude makes a big mistake in giving Walter an electric organ as a gift. He's driving everyone up the wall with his constant playing. Maude soon confronts him and they end up a huge argument, leading to Walter storming out and crashing his car into a tree.

#41 - Maude Meets the Duke

Maude - Season 3 - Episode 1

As part of a publicity tour for a new movie, John Wayne makes a stop in Tuckahoe, to visit Arthur, his number one fan. However, when the ceiling caves in at the Harmons, Arthur talks Maude into hosting the party. Maude decides to have a verbal shootout with the Duke about woman's lib but finds her tongue tied when she actually meets him.

#42 - A Night to Remember

Maude - Season 3 - Episode 8

Maude is having a restless night, she can't sleep because she has something very important on her mind and wants to tell Walter about it, but he's too busy worrying about the blizzard outside and his end of the summer sale scheduled for the next day. So she decides to just drop the bomb, her doctor has told her that she should have a hysterectomy.

#43 - Maude the Boss

Maude - Season 3 - Episode 11

At a new job, Maude manages three men who find it hard to work for a woman.

#44 - Archie's New Partner (2)

Archie Bunker's Place - Season 1 - Episode 2

Archie deals with new partner Murray, a Jewish liberal.

#45 - Lucy Gets Chummy with the Neighbors

I Love Lucy - Season 6 - Episode 18

With the best intentions in the world, Lucy somehow causes a misunderstanding with her neighbors, the Ramseys. It all starts when Betty Ramsey offers Lucy some advice and a wholesale deal on furniture. For a time, the Ricardos' whole future at their Connecticut home seems threatened.

#46 - Lucy's Night in Town

I Love Lucy - Season 6 - Episode 22

After spending six whole weeks in their new Connecticut home, Lucy dreams of a night in New York City and it turns into a nightmare. Four carefully hoarded tickets to the Broadway musical hit "The Most Happy Fella" are supposed to get the Ricardos and the Mertzes in to see the sold-out show. But difficulties arise when Fred Mertz gets nervous about pickpockets because he's carrying $500 in cash in his pockets.

#47 - Ragtime Band

I Love Lucy - Season 6 - Episode 21

Lucy decides to take part in the fundraising campaign of the Westport Historical Society, and offers to get her husband and his band to perform for their kickoff function. There's only one hitch -- Ricky won't do it. So Lucy decides to form her own band featuring herself, Little Ricky, and Fred and Ethel Mertz.

#48 - Archie's New Partner (1)

Archie Bunker's Place - Season 1 - Episode 1

Archie decides to expand the bar into a restaurant.

#49 - Barney and the Hooker

Archie Bunker's Place - Season 1 - Episode 12

Dottie (the hooker from #3) has been arrested for prostitution. Murray bails her out and talks Archie into hiring her as a waitress to try to keep her out of trouble. However, trouble finds her when now divorcee Barney Hefner falls in love and proposes.

#50 - Christmas Show

I Love Lucy - Season 6 - Episode 11

It's Christmas Eve and Ricky warns his young son: "Santa won't bring the tree and the presents until you go to sleep." It takes some effort to cajole the boy, but after Lucy convinces him that Santa will have no trouble coming down the chimney ("he brings the North Pole with him and slides down it like a fireman."), he's off to bed. The coast clear, Fred and Ethel arrive with a Christmas tree. "It's a gift from me and Ebenezer," Ethel reveals about the five-dollar fir. The four friends begin to trim the tree until Lucy discovers "a branch on the right side that spoils the shape." Fred solves the symmetry problem with a pocket saw as Ricky says to Lucy, "Our lives have sure been different ever since you told me you were going to have a baby." We flash back to the sentimental moment at the Tropicana in 1952 when Lucy breaks the baby news to Ricky (from "Lucy is Enceinte"). This reminiscence over, we discover that Fred got carried away with his saw while listening to the baby tale - the tree is now a spindly stripling. While Fred goes off in search of a replacement, Ethel and Ricky start singing "Jingle Bells," but when Lucy joins in with her off-key rendition, they recall, once again in a flashback sequence, the barbershop quartet harmonizing of "Sweet Adeline" (from "Lucy's Show Biz Swan Song"). With the last note sung, we return to the Ricardo apartment just as Fred enters with a new tree - he got this "last minute" one for only fifty cents. The foursome starts decorating the tree and discussing Little Ricky's Christmas gifts, as Ethel realizes: "It seems like only yesterday he was born." This is the perfect lead-in to a flashback of Ricky, Fred, and Ethel rehearsing Lucy's trip to the hospital (from "Lucy Goes to the Hospital"). Finally, it's Christmas morning. The four principals are up early and wearing Santa outfits. When they hear Little Ricky approaching the living room, they hasten to the kitchen so the boy won't be disillusioned by seeing four Santas. Sudden