The Lucy Show
Season 5
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.
22 Episodes
- Lucy and George Burns
E1Episode 1Lucy and George BurnsWhen visiting the bank as a customer, George Burns finds out that Lucy is instinctively funny and asks her to become a partner in his show. Mr. Mooney, who thinks this is an opportunity to get rid of her, accepts being her agent. The show opens in Santa Monica, where the new pair appear in a Burns and Allen-style act. George Burns is the straight man and Lucy the comedienne, who delivers the punchlines. - Lucy, the Bean Queen
E3Episode 3Lucy, the Bean QueenLucy 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. - Lucy and Paul Winchell
E4Episode 4Lucy and Paul WinchellVentriloquist Paul Winchell comes into the bank and opens an account with Lucy. When Mr. Mooney fails to find a celebrity for an upcoming benefit for the bank, Lucy suggests that Mr. Winchell appear. But a mishap causes Lucy to have to stand in as the ventriloquist's dummy on the night of the show. - Lucy and the Ring-a-Ding-Ding
E5Episode 5Lucy and the Ring-a-Ding-DingMr. 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. - Lucy Goes to London
E6Episode 6Lucy Goes to LondonLucy writes a jingle for a dog food company and wins a trip to London, England (""in Europe""). But when she misses her flight, she's forced to take a commuting flight to New York -- in a seat next to Mr. Mooney, who's on his way to the Big Apple for a business meeting. - Lucy Gets Caught Up in the Draft
E9Episode 9Lucy Gets Caught Up in the DraftWhen a letter arrives from the US Government, Lucy finds that she's mistakenly been drafted. Instead of ""Lucy,"" the letter is addressed to ""Lou C."" So she sets off to the draft office to correct the mistake, but due to stupid ""rules and regulations,"" Lucy finds that she has to become a marine until the paperwork gets straightened out... So she does what any woman would do -- she makes life miserable for her Sargent. - Lucy and John Wayne
E10Episode 10Lucy and John WayneWhen Mr. Mooney sends Lucy to the movie studio to deliver some papers regarding the financing on John Wayne's new film, she ignores his warning not to bother Mr. Wayne and finds herself lunching with him. Nervous and excited, Lucy proceeds to talk his ear off and finally splatters him with ketchup. Mr. Wayne takes that as his exit cue, but Lucy soon tracks him to the set of his film, where she continuously screws up the production. - Lucy and Pat Collins
E11Episode 11Lucy and Pat CollinsLucy and Mary Jane meet Pat Collins, a celebrity hypnotist, at a fashion show and are invited to her night club performance. When Lucy learns that Mr. Mooney is suffering insomnia, she insists she come to the program in the hopes that he'll become more relaxed why under the hypnotist's spell. - Lucy and the Monkey
E12Episode 12Lucy and the MonkeyMary Jane warns Lucy that the long hours she's putting in at the office could lead to hallucinations. Later, when she a monkey appears and apparently disappears in Mr. Mooney's chair, she begins to think she's loosing her mind and consults a psychiatrist. - Lucy's Substitute Secretary
E14Episode 14Lucy's Substitute SecretaryLucy 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. - Lucy Puts Main Street on the Map
E18Episode 18Lucy Puts Main Street on the MapLucy schemes to put Mainstreet U.S.A. back on the map, so she thinks up a plan to have the town featured on mainstream national media by intricately playing an old-school game of cops and robbers to get it featured on TV and persuade people to visit. - Lucy, the Fight Manager
E20Episode 20Lucy, the Fight ManagerMr. 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. - Lucy and Tennessee Ernie Ford
E21Episode 21Lucy and Tennessee Ernie FordMr. 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. - Lucy Meets Sheldon Leonard
E22Episode 22Lucy Meets Sheldon LeonardWhen Sheldon Leonard convinces Mr. Mooney to let him shoot a televison pilot at the bank, Lucy mistakingly thinks he is a gangster who plans to rob the bank, so she and Mary Jane sneak into the bank at night, disguised as scrubwomen, to stop them.
