The Lucy Show

Season 3

After her husband's death, Lucy Carmichael and her recently-divorced best friend Vivian Bagley move into a house together with their children. The series follows the adventures of the widow Lucy as she grapples with the comic complications of life on her own, with her income being controlled by impatient, grumpy banker Mr. Mooney.

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26 Episodes

  • Lucy and the Good Skate
    E1
    Lucy and the Good SkateWanting to spend more time with her daughter, Lucy & Chris go roller skating. But when Lucy gets home, she can't get the skates off because her feet had swollen, and she has to wear them to a dance that night.
  • Lucy and the Plumber
    E2
    Lucy and the PlumberThe plumber Lucy calls to fix her kitchen sink is a dead ringer for Jack Benny. Just like Benny, he's a violinist, but his classical music career was ruined by his resemblance to the comedian. Lucy decides to help him out by introducing him on a local TV talent show--the same show she was kicked off of a week earlier because of the lousy dog act she presented.
  • Lucy and the Winter Sports
    E3
    Lucy and the Winter SportsLucy is participated in Winter Sports in Skiing, Ice Hockey, Curling & Ice Skating. Vivian coached her to do it when a true athlete to please help out in the forthcoming Olympics. She can win a decathlon for the bank.
  • Lucy Gets Amnesia
    E4
    Lucy Gets AmnesiaLucy's needs a $110 advance on her allowance, but Mooney refuses it as he leaves for a convention. She immediately goes to work on his fill-in, an old childhood sweetheart of hers. Unable to recall the pet name she had for him, she schemes with Viv to fake amnesia, hoping he'll say it while trying to jar her memory. Lucy takes a conk on the head and really blanks out, ruining her own plan.
  • Lucy and the Great Bank Robbery
    E5
    Lucy and the Great Bank RobberyTo earn extra money, Lucy decides to rent Vivian's room to two men who want to go to the World's Fair, Vivan having to stay in Lucy's room. After discovering $8,500 stashed in Viv's mattress, Lucy thinks her friend robbed a bank. They quickly realize the cash was heisted from Mooney's bank the night before by the two gentlemen. When the robbers return unexpectedly, Lumpy Lucy stashes the money in her sweatpants while Viv calls the cops.
  • Lucy, the Camp Cook
    E6
    Lucy, the Camp CookLucy and Vivan visit their boys at sleep away camp, but are upset that they don't have more money so they can stay two more weeks. But, when they learn the camp cooks have quit, Lucy volunteers herself and Viv to take over as chefs despite knowing nothing about feeding 200 people. Of course, chaos ensues.
  • Lucy, the Meter Maid
    E7
    Lucy, the Meter MaidLucy becomes drunk with power in her new job as a meter maid. She issues Viv a parking ticket and then charges her with a batch of other trumped-up violations. A livid Viv contests the citations in traffic court and the judge quickly becomes as irritated with the red-headed "copper" as Viv is.
  • Lucy Makes a Pinch
    E8
    Lucy Makes a PinchMeter maid Lucy and handsome Detective Baker masquerade as a Lovers Lane couple to catch a crook. After scaring off the criminal on their first night, Lucy talks Viv into masquerading as Green Scarf Louie the next evening, not expecting the real one to show up again.
  • Lucy Becomes a Father
    E9
    Lucy Becomes a FatherLucy 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 starts to beat them at their own game.
  • Lucy's Contact Lenses
    E10
    Lucy's Contact LensesOne 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 Mr. 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. This is one hilarious episode.
  • Lucy Gets Her Maid
    E11
    Lucy Gets Her MaidLucy and Viv are envious of the snooty women of the Danfield Art Society, all of whom have their own maids. Lucy decides they must have one, too, so to afford a maid, Lucy goes to work as a maid. She's hired by a society matron who's throwing a dinner party--for the members of the Art Society.
  • Lucy Gets the Bird
    E12
    Lucy Gets the BirdLucy and Viv are "birdsitting" Mr. Mooney's pet cockatiel, Greenback, when it escapes its cage and perches on a telephone line outside. To reach the creature, Lucy climbs up on the roof in a grass skirt (her pants split) and rubber swim flippers (for insulation from the power lines). When this fails, the gals resort to buying another cockatiel and try and pass it off as Mooney's beloved bird.
  • Lucy, the Coin Collector
    E13
    Lucy, the Coin CollectorWhen Jerry finds a penny worth fifty cents, Lucy & Viv withdraw 2,000 pennies from the bank, and search through them until they find one worth $16.50. When Lucy drops the penny down a storm drain, they disguise themselves as workmen, and climb their way through the sewer system searching for it.
  • Lucy and the Missing Stamp
    E14
    Lucy and the Missing StampWhile trying to sell Mr. Mooney a vacuum cleaner, Lucy accidentally vacuums up a stamp Mr. Mooney had just bought for $3,000. When the stamp winds up on an envelope sent through the mail, Lucy breaks into the post office to get it back.
  • Lucy Meets Danny Kaye
    E15
    Lucy Meets Danny KayeLucy 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.
  • Lucy and the Ceramic Cat
    E16
    Lucy and the Ceramic CatWhen Lucy and Viv break the ceramic cat Mr. Mooney plans to give his wife as a surprise birthday present, Lucy winds up pretending to be a mechanical man in a department store window to steal another ceramic cat.
  • Lucy Goes to Vegas
    E17
    Lucy Goes to VegasLucy and Vivian win a free trip to Vegas, but she and Viv have only $5 spending money left. The gals get dressed up and pose as big-money gamblers to score some free "comps" from the casino. The trick works so well that an oil tycoon asks Lucy to win back the $10,000 he's lost and he'll give her whatever she wins over that amount.
  • Lucy and the Monsters
    E18
    Lucy and the MonstersThe boys are unaffected by the horror flicks they see at movies, but Lucy and Viv are scared stupid. In Lucy's nightmare, she and Viv break down at Dracula's castle and are tormented by his werewolf butler Ringo and gorilla maid Loretta. Tired of his lousy hired help, Dracula turns the gals into ghastly witches to act as his new housekeeper and cook.
  • Lucy and the Countess
    E19
    Lucy and the CountessWith Vivian visiting relatives, Lucy's childhood friend Rosie Harrigan temporarily moves in with Lucy, now known as the Countess Framboise. Despite her title, she's just a widow who's flat broke. Mr. Mooney, who is impressed by her title, invites the ladies to attend a meeting of his high society wine-tasting club. The two guzzle wine on empty stomachs and proceed to get rip-roaring plastered.
  • My Fair Lucy
    E20
    My Fair LucyTo 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 débutante. 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.
  • Lucy and the Countess Lose Weight
    E21
    Lucy and the Countess Lose WeightMr. Mooney's made a bad investment in a "fat farm". Lucy and the Countess volunteer to attend to generate some needed publicity. In no time, the brutal regime has the two starving for food and will stop and nothing to get it.
  • Lucy and the Old Mansion
    E22
    Lucy and the Old MansionThe Countess doesn't want her foreign visitors to know she's broke. Lucy's solution is to borrow a dilapidated mansion and get Vivian 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.
  • Lucy and Arthur Godfrey
    E23
    Lucy and Arthur GodfreyLucy & Viv are able to talk Arthur Godfrey to appear in a local musical they and their community actors are putting on. Lucy plays Lucy Bell, Mr. Mooney plays the millionaire, and Vivian plays Steamboat Bessie.
  • Lucy the Beauty Doctor
    E24
    Lucy the Beauty DoctorIn another attempt to squeeze cash out of Mooney, Lucy claims it's for medical reasons. Actually, its for a visit to a beauty shop. She has to concoct an even bigger lie when she's caught there by a hidden camera TV show.
  • Lucy the Stockholder
    E25
    Lucy the StockholderWhen Lucy and Vivian try to get the town's wealthiest doctor to become a depositor in Mr. Mooney's bank, the doctor, mistaking the girls for volunteers for an experiment in hypnosis, regressing them to the age of five.
  • Lucy and the Disc Jockey
    E26
    Lucy and the Disc JockeyLucy drives Viv crazy trying to identify a mystery sound in a radio station contest. She determines it's a refrigerator shutting down (after destroying theirs) and gets to be a disc jockey for a day. She entertains the masses with ten second songs, commercials played at slow speed, and bizarre sound effects. The radio station may not survive her debut in broadcasting.

Cast of Season 3

  • Lucille BallLucy Carmichael
  • Vivian VanceVivian Bagley
  • Gale GordonTheodore J. Mooney

 

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