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.
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.
Lucy has Harry give her a crash course in football after she volunteers to referee a game for Jerry and Sherman's league. She fails so miserably, she's chased off the field. To make up for the disaster, she offers to take all 25 players to a pro game. That plan also goes awry when a blizzard traps all the boys in Lucy and Viv's house for the weekend.
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.
Left with no one to tend the lawn, Lucy buys a sheep named Clementine to take care of the grass. Unfortunately, weather and circumstances make Clementine an unwelcome house guest, and Lucy sneaks her back to the farm. Only then is she offered $200 for Clementine to appear in a blanket ad.
After Lucy and Vivian successfully spend 24 hours in a simulated space ship, Vivian decides to deflate Lucy's ego by convincing the red-head that she has been selected as the first woman astronaut and must leave immediately for Cape Canaveral.
Lucy takes a secretarial temp job in order to afford a bicycle for Jerry's birthday. Lost in a modern office, she has disastrous contact with the electric pencil sharpener, the water cooler, and the electric typewriter. Her exasperated employer sends on out on errands when her dress gets caught in an elevator and unravels. Not wanting to deliver contracts in her unmentionables, Lucy borrows a kangaroo costume to finish her chores.
Lucy goes overboard to make the doctor she's dating believe she's as big a classical music lover as he is. Her elaborate sham was for naught; when she invites her date over, he ends up making beautiful music with Viv. He's even planning to play violin in Viv's benefit recital--until Lucy crushes his hand with the piano lid.
To save money, Lucy talks Vivian into helping her install a new TV antenna on the roof. The do-it-yourself project costs a small fortune thanks to Lucy's general klutziness, Viv's fear of heights, broken windows, new holes in the roof, and smoke damage caused by clogging the chimney with Lucy's bottom.
Viv trips over one of Jerry's toys and suffers a minor ankle injury. Upset that Lucy believes she'd sue over this little mishap, she decides to teach the redhead a lesson. Exaggerating her injury and threatening to call her lawyer, Viv lounges in bed for a week, running Lucy ragged with petty demands.
Lucy and Viv each sneak back home to fix meals for their dates after agreeing that neither would get the house to herself that night. Following the inevitable fight, the gals go to work on turning the basement into an extra room for entertaining. Unfortunately, they've underestimated the strength of the glue they're using on the walls.
Lucy plans to surprise Vivian with a new mattress and a redone room while she's on vacation, but the electric mattress Lucy bought her malfunctions (it moves around the room when the motor is on) and Lucy is forced to return it. However, Vivian returns home early and has no place to sleep, so she and Lucy have to share the boys' bunkbeds for a night.
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.
Lucy promises not to interfere with Chris' New Year's Eve Party. Harry agrees to chaperone as Lucy and Viv take the other kids to a hotel. While at dinner, Viv's boyfriend brings news that Chris' party is a dud and desperately in need of their help. The ladies come to the rescue with entertainment.
Lucy's sister Marge shows up, having just left her new husband Hughie. Peacemaker Lucy gets the couple back together but believes their problems stem from having not had a wedding--they had eloped. Leave it to Lucy to plan a big wedding for the next day.
Lucy protests too loudly about Danfield needing a fire department; she's named Captain of an all-woman volunteer force. With Viv's help, the group practices to be ready for their first mission. When the alarm finally goes off, they set the firehouse ablaze.
After just three days as the fill-in society reporter for the Danfield newspaper, Lucy's job is hanging by a thread. The only thing that will save it is an interview with the press-shy financier visiting town. Once she learns he had been Viv's high school sweetheart, Lucy heads down to his hotel for a scoop, passing herself off as Vivian Bagley.
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!
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!
After Viv's boyfriend, Eddie, goes nuts over her caramel popcorn, Lucy suggests putting it on the market. The three become business partners, turning the kitchen into a gooey, sticky mess of a candy factory. They're violating zoning laws by running a business in their home, so they frantically hide the evidence before the cops arrives.
Tired of the weekly Saturday night debate with Viv and Eddie about what to do on their double-date, Lucy and Harry decided to have a quiet dinner alone. They pretend to have tickets to a Broadway show, but instead head to a new restaurant. When Viv and Eddie walk in, Lucy hides under their table and dines on their unwitting handouts.
Nervous over recent break-ins, Lucy and Viv take judo lessons for self-protection. The pair don't learn very much, but Lucy teaches what little she learned to Jerry after he's given a black eye by Sherman.
Chris needs cash for a majorette uniform so she takes a job at Wilbur's Ice Cream Parlor. On the day of the parade, Mr. Wilbur won't let her miss work, so Lucy and Viv fill in. Viv does alright as a waitress but Lucy makes a sticky mess as the soda jerk.
The fire department members are livid when Lucy fails to get the town council to pay for their new uniforms as she'd guaranteed. Her scheme to raise the funds through a newspaper drive leads to her court marshal by the ladies, a rented dump truck to haul 34 tons of paper to a nearby town, and numerous traffic citations.
Lucy calls the President to tell him about the replica of the White House made of sugar cubes built by the boys' Cub Scot troop. She actually gets Mr. Kennedy on the phone and receives an invitation to present it in person. On the train to Washington, the model is destroyed, forcing Lucy and Viv to do a quick rebuild. To get enough sugar cubes, Lucy hops off at one stop and cleans out a nearby diner's supply.
Viv regrets letting Lucy talk her into joining her for a night-school chemistry class. Lucy gets carried away trying to invent a youth serum and develops a huge ego between explosions. To teach her a lesson, Viv and the professor make her drink her own concoction, which acts as a sedative. When she awakens, she's horrified by the results of her youth formula.
Lucy is prepared to chaperone her daughter Chris and some of her school friends for a week at Sandy Cove. When Chris' school principle decides that one woman can't possibly chaperone all those girls Lucy recruits Viv to come along. While at the beach Lucy decides that the kids think that she and Viv are old foogys so they try to dress and act young, only to find out in the end that the kids would rather have their chaperones behave as adults.
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.
The hunt is on for a butterfly Lucy allowed to escape while helping Jerry with his collection. On a dinner date with a lawyer, she leaps into action when she thinks she spots the rogue insect, resulting in chaos at dinner, the park, and eventually a court session.
Lucy talks Viv into buying a "fixer upper" boat that's barely seaworthy. When they finally get it on the lake, it slips away from it's moorings, trapping a sea sick Viv and a bossy Capt'n Lucy without a sail. Then, the leaks start springing up.
The women of the Danfield Fire Department are talked into staging Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra for their fundraiser show. Lucy schemes her way into the lead as Cleopatra with Viv as Marc Antony. The two dueling divas try to upstage each other during their death scene to the dismay of their pretentious director Professor Gitterman.
The high cost of their kids' birthday parties inspires Lucy and Viv's latest money-making scheme. They'll make easy money with their own children's party business. What can goes wrong does at their first event.
Lucy and Viv have an after season softball match for the womens volunteer fire department. Lucy is benched until another player gets dilusional and Lucy catches the winning ball in her huge and oversized pants!!
Lucy makes a bad impression on new bank president Theodore Mooney. After he refuses to advance her money, she tests her home hair cutting kit on his son, Arnold. Going to the bank to apologize for the mohawk, she locks Mooney and herself in the vault until the next morning.
Lucy accidentally locks Mr. Mooney in the bank vault and finds a "can opener" turned candy store owner to open the vault. Once he opens the vault, he goes back to his old ways and steals several bags full of money and locks Viv and Lucy in his candy shop.
Enamored with her handsome, wealthy blind date, Lucy agrees to go duck hunting. After frightening all the ducks away, Lucy creates her own duck call, luring swarms of ducks.
When Lucy finds a note in Mr. Mooney's office that reads "ten thousand dollars buried in back yard," she and Viv spend the night digging up Mr. Mooney's backyard.
Lucy tries to wangle money out of Mr. Mooney to redecorate, but can only manage enough to do a few things herself. Things are going good until she decides to use fabric paint on her sofa and the sprayer malfunctions.
When Mr. Mooney and the town finance commitee refuse to fund the incompetent Danfield women's volunteer fire department, Lucy sets off a smoke bomb in the bank so the volunteers can rush in and pretend to save the day.
Lucy tries to sneak into a Military Academy disguised as a cadet to visit her son, Jerry, before visitor's day.
Lucy goes to her college reunion. While she's there, she helps Chris and some of her friends steal the bell tower statue. She and Viv end up having to put it back or suffer the consequences. They get locked on the top of the tower, until the Dean discovers them.
Sherman leaves the water in the bathtub running and it runs over, making the plaster in the ceiling below collapse. Mr. Mooney convinces Lucy that it's Viv's fault and they threaten to throw Viv out if she doesn't pay for the damages. They take out their lease and in it, it says that the rent will be considered down payment for the house, after five years, if the tenant desires. Viv has Mr. Mooney and Lucy thinking that she will and they end up trying to steal it from her, while she's sleeping.
Viv's cousin comes to New York to play percussion in Manhattan. When he arrives at the house, he's a nervous wreck and Lucy tries to relax him by telling jokes, but gets the hicups from laughing. Lucy tries to cure him by hypnotizing him, but she puts him in a heavy sleep and he won't wake up. Lucy ends up playing in the symphony in his place and makes the conductor mad and she takes his place.
Lucy needs Mr. Mooney to give her some money to buy Chris a dress for a dance, but Mr. Mooney is in the hospital with a broken leg. Lucy is a hospital helper and on the next day she has work, she tries to get Mr. Mooney to sign the check. She gets kicked off the floor Mr. Mooney is staying on and dresses as a doctor to get into his room.
When both Lucy and Viv enroll in an art class to win the affections of handsome John Brooks III, Vivian tricks Lucy into posing for the class so she can get a date with Brooks.
Chris decides to go steady with a boy who turns out to be Mr. Mooney's son. Lucy and Mr. Mooney don't like it and team up to show the kids a lesson by teaching them the real responsiblities of a serious relationship. And then the two adults must camp out in a treehouse to make sure the two don't elope.
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.
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.
When Lucy discovers that Ethel Merman and Mr. Mooney made up a story to hid the singer's real identity, she can't help but come up with the nerve to as Ethel to perform at her son's boy scout pageant. Ethel accepts and she does the show, along with Lucy and Mr. Mooney.
Lucy talks Viv into dipping into her "nest egg" and buying a small restaurant that's for sale. Unable to attract even a single customer, they also fail miserably as a gypsy tea room and a Colonial American themed restaurant. Even so, Mr. Mooney becomes interested in being a partner when he learns of a new highway's being built nearby.
Mr. Mooney hires Lucy to give a new toaster to anyone who opens a savings account. Lucy tries to drum up business by getting her friends to close out their savings accounts and then redeposit the money as new accounts, leading to a rumor that the bank is failing!
The gals have a spat and Viv moves out. Penny-pincher Mooney forces Lucy get a new tenant immediately so in moves nightclub singer Roberta Schaeffer and her son. Their non-stop rehearsals of "Up a Lazy River" get old quickly. By now, Viv wants back in and Lucy desperately wants to lose the chronic songbirds.
Lucy and Vivian are kept up all night by Mr. Mooney's new barking sheepdog, Nelson. When she complains, sarcastic Mooney tells her to sue him. She does and acts as her own lawyer. Lucy's melodramatic courtroom skills were all learned from watching Perry Mason on TV.
When Italian millionaire Umberto Fabriani asks Lucy on a date, Lucy spills spaghetti sauce all over Mr. Fabriani's best suit, compelling her and Mr. Mooney to break into the cleaners.
Mr. Mooney's campaign for city comptroller suffers a major setback when Lucy and Viv become volunteers. The ladies put up a Mooney billboard that makes his face looks like a Picasso. Even worse, Lucy forgets to book the Scottish bagpipe band for the big rally.
Mr. Mooney heads up a Cub Scout camping trip in the woods when Lucy and Viv show up to replace an ill father. After losing the canoe, Lucy goes searching for it and gets lost. The rescue team of Mooney and Vivian also fare poorly, unable to find the redhead or their way back to camp.
Lucy stars as herself in a fictional setting, Lucille Ball the star-studio President whom nasty banker-investor Mr. Harvey (Gale Gordon) is trying to force out of her position as production head for reasons not quite clear on the show. Lucy hopes to keep her position by signing Bob Hope to star with her in a new television special and Lucy and Gale traipse all over the world trying to track Hope down. Bob Hope is finally located and signed and the program then switches to the "special" Lucy planned to produce: MR AND MRS. a comedy about an acting couple who are America's favorite TV sweethearts but off-screen a bickering duo. This program seems at times seems an uncomfortable roman a clef about Lucy and her ex-husband Desi Arnaz as the lovebirds bicker, the "hubby" has an apparent wandering eye and most outrageously, it is suggested by the sponsors that the duo have a baby to improve the show's ratings!
Lucy takes a temp job as a process server for an attorney service and must serve Mr. Mooney with a subpoena or lose her job. He's leaving on vacation, so she chases him to the train station and serves him the wrong papers. Determined, she goes to his stateroom on board a ship, but stays a little too long.
Lucy's tired of the incessant jokes about her lousy cooking by Vivian and the bridge club ladies. To prove them wrong, she enters the annual pie banking challenge intending to defeat perennial winner Viv. At the competition, Lucy's incompetence in the kitchen in on display for the whole town to view.
Wanting 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.
Mr. Mooney approves of Lucy hiring a plumber to fix her kitchen, and the one who shows up looks exactly like Jack Benny (and his assistant bears resemblance to Bob Hope).
To impress her athletic boyfriend, Lucy exaggerates her ability to play any sport. In reality, she stinks at all of them. When he invites her on a ski trip, she talks Mr Mooney into giving her lessons at the house. Mooney suffers at the hands of the redhead who's armed with sharp poles and long skis suitable for whacking him on his rear.
Lucy's needs a $110 advance, 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.
To earn extra money, Lucy decides to rent Vivian's room to two men who want to go to the World's Fair, Vivian 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 and Viv don't have enough money for their boys to stay at camp the additional two weeks. On the trip to pick them up, the car runs out of gas. The ladies have no luck at flagging down a passing motorist, but Mooney does. He catches the eye of a flirtatious little old lady who calls him "Big Boy." Learning the camp cooks have quit, Lucy volunteers herself and Viv to take over as chefs despite knowing nothing about feeding 200 people. In short order, the kitchen and most of the food is destroyed.
When Lucy's new job as a meter maid goes to her head, she accuses Viv of many violations and takes her to traffic court.
Meter maid Carmichael and handsome Detective Baker masquerade as a Lovers Lane couple to catch a crook. After scaring off the criminal on their first night by turning on the siren, Lucy talks Viv into masquerading as Green Scarf Louie the next evening, not expecting the real one to show up again.
Lucy 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 cleans them out at poker and isn't afraid of a wild bear.
One 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 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.
Lucy 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 and Viv are "birdsitting" Mr. Mooney's pet cockatiel 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.
When 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.
While 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 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.
When 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 wins a free trip to Vegas, but she and Viv have only $5 spending money. The gals get dressed up and pose as big-money gamblers Pamela Pettibone and Penelope Poopendorf 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.
The boys are unfazed by the horror flicks they see at movies, but Lucy is scared stupid. In her 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.
Status-conscious Mr. Mooney is impressed by Lucy's childhood friend Rosie Harrigan, now known as the Countess Framboise. Despite her title, she's just a widow who's flat broke. Mooney 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.
To 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 debutante. 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.
Mr. 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 plotting an escape.
The Countess doesn't want her foreign visitors to know she's broke. Lucy's solution is to borrow a dilapidated mansion and get Viv 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 & 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.
In another attempt to squeeze cash out of Mooney, Lucy claims its 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.
When 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 wins a contest to be disc jockey for a day, and proceeds to wreak typical, Lucy-style havoc in the radio studio.
Tony Maietta explains how and why the show was very special to Lucy and The Lucy Show's new Script Consultant, Milt Josefsberg.
The original broadcasts of "Lucy and the Plumber", and "Lucy and the Camp Cook", concluded with Chris (Candy Moore) explaining to Vivian (Vivian Vance) why she stands on her head to improve her complexion.
Tony Maietta describes the color versions of Season 3 filmed, even though CBS still broadcast in black and white.
A Longtime Desi Arnaz/Lucille Ball collaborator Director of Photography Maury Gertsman.
Danny Kaye appeared on The Lucy Show as a part of a trade-off agreement that included Lucille's appearance on The Danny Kaye Show of November 4, 1964.
Trivia about The Lucy Show Season 3.
The Lucy Show was a huge hit, not only in the United States but around the world. Desilu filmed a series of promos to advertise the series in various languages and in various countries. Example, England.
Lucille Ball narrated promotional spots for The Lucy Show for which only the audio tracks remain. Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance later filmed a promotional spot for The Lucy Show in various languages. The audio portions are lost, but there are surviving picture elements, accompanied by on-screen captions present in the DVD edition.
Longtime Desilu collaborator Costume Designer Eddie Stevenson.
Trivia about Season 3, including the Desilu start up of Star Trek.
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.
Neighbor Mary Jane Lewis introduces herself and invites Lucy on a double date with her and her boyfriend. Lucy's blind date is a shy, short, nerd with little discernible personality. But during their dinner at a Greek restaurant, the music transforms him into a grabby Lothario who can't stop dancing.
Lucy takes a temp job at a record label to make some extra cash. Her neighbor, songwriter Mel Tinker, has his tune rejected by Lucy's boss because it's not a tear-jerking rock 'n roll song. Mel and Lucy write a new one about a surfer who's eaten by a shark oh his wedding day and (as the Tear Ducts) perform it on the teen music TV show Wing Ding.
Lucy's neighbor Joan, an actress, gives her a pair of tickets to a celebrity charity ball. Since Lucy doesn't have a date to escort her to the event, Joan helps her woo handsome Brad Collins who also lives in the complex. The gals stake out the laundry room so Lucy can work her charms on him. She even bakes a cake for his birthday, though it doesn't survive the tumble dry cycle.
Lucy tries to fool Mr. Mooney into advancing her money for a new refrigerator by sabotaging the one she has. Her scheme backfires when he finds her real need for the money: a leopard coat she's lusting over. Conveniently, Lucy's friend Joan is dating a Hollywood stuntman with a bad back. Seeing a chance at a quick $100, Lucy reports to the set in a cowboy costume and mustache as stuntman Iron Man Carmichael.
Old friend the Countess Framboise, aka Rosie Hannigan, shows up flat broke except for the racehorse her husband left her. Unable to pay the stable bill, Lucy volunteers to keep Oil Well on her patio. Mooney is livid about the scheme until learning that the horse is pregnant. Then he's as excited and proud as a real father, declaring, "I'm going to be a Daddy!"
Mr. Mooney instructs Lucy to deliver some documents to Danny Thomas, and through a series of misunderstandings, she ends up performing in his musical act.
The Countess Framboise now has her real estate license and Mooney's looking for a new place. She doesn't want him to know she's broke and working, so Lucy pulls a scam to get Mooney up to a highrise apartment the countess is selling. It's equipped with ultra-modern devises like a security system that locks the three of them in the apartment for the whole weekend.
Lucy and Mooney visit a construction site where the redhead falls head-over-heels for Frank, owner of a construction company. When he comes over for a date, he's completely exhausted, having worked 48 hours straight. Lucy suggests a nap, which is a bad idea. Because he learned karate in the military, he's in the attack mode when awakened. Lucy becomes trapped on the couch when Frank dozes off on top of her.
Dining with Mr. Mooney after attending a James Bond movie, Lucy and the Countess are convinced the suspicious character at a nearby table is an enemy spy. They set a trap for the operative, unaware he's an Army Intelligence agent who thinks they're spies. Their scheme to meet "Him", the enemy leader, involves Lucy pretending to be Carol Channing.
Mr. Mooney runs into Lucy and Mary Jane at the racetrack. He asks them to hold onto his tickets while he chats with a friend. In a photo finish, the wrong horse is reported as the winner, leading Lucy to tear up Mooney's tickets. To pay Mooney his winnings, Lucy again becomes stuntman "Iron Man Carmichael" to drum up some cash.
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.
Lucy Carmichael's 1st Christmas in California has Lucy expressing determination not to spend too much on presents & Christmas tree in a typical tete a tete with a dubious Mr. Mooney. She succeeds in mixing up all of Mr. Mooney's gift tags for his wrapped Christmas presents. Lucy shops for a Christmas tree with the scene ending with Lucy knocking lots of the inventory over with her new large tree. Lucy recruits Mr. Mooney to sing bass with the children's choir at a charity event at the bank.
Farm boy Wayne Newton finds Mr. Mooney's dog, Nelson, after it gets away from dog-sitter Lucy. When she goes to claim the critter, Lucy's impressed by his voice and hooks him up with a record company owner. The problem arises in the recording studio; Wayne can't sing unless he's surrounded by his cows and other assorted livestock.
Mr. Mooney forgets to sign an important paper, so Lucy follows him to the dude ranch where he's vacationing. While searching the grounds for him, she encounters a group of Indians who declare her the rain goddess. They also think "Hopalong" Mooney, dressed in black, is an evil spirit. If she doesn't dance up a storm, they're both in trouble.
As a contestant on Linkletter's television show, Lucy is offered $200 if she can shut up for 24 hours. Art sends along another audience member, Ruth, to see how she does. Ruth's a plant from the show who tries her best to make Lucy scream, as are the one-armed "fugitive" and cop who shoot it out in her apartment, and the guy in the gorilla suit that attacks her.
Lucy moonlights at a department store to pay for a dinette set she's buying. Throughout the day she has run-ins with a haughty, hefty society matron who keeps getting her bounced from one department to another. Lucy ends her sales career in sporting goods where she has trouble with stilts, handballs, and a motorized skateboard.
Mickey's getting a loan from the bank to buy an acting school. To his eventual regret, he also gets Mr. Mooney and Lucy as his students. The three of them star in a take-off on silent movie comedies with Lucy impersonating Charlie Chaplin, Mickey as a "kid", Mooney as a store proprietor, and lots of crazy cops.
Lucy's not going to stand idly by while an actor friend is written out of her favorite soap opera, Camden Cove. Disguised as a Japanese gardener and also as a little old lady, Lucy harasses the show's writer into finding the friend's character not guilty in the big trial. When that fails, she disrupts the taping of the episode to make one final appeal to the jury.
Lucy, the world's biggest movie fan, manages to get into a big Hollywood movie premiere by filling-in as a theater usher. As the stars arrive, she disrupts proceedings on the red carpet by fawning over the celebrities and getting into a fight with a gorilla. Look for cameos from Kirk Douglas, Jimmy Durante, Edward G. Robinson, Vince Edwards, and the "Mayor of Hollywood" Johnny Grant.
Lucy is set up on a date with Dean Martin's stunt double. When the double can't make it, Dean himself substitutes on the date. During the date Lucy keeps telling him how bad it is that Dean Martin is stealing all of his glory.
Actor Bob Crane comes into the bank to open an account and leaves with a dinner date with "shy and demur" little Lucy. Since the bank has invested in Bob's new WWI picture, Mr. Mooney knows the director. Just for the joy of irritating Lucy, Mooney guarantees that Iron Man Carmichael will do stunts for the flick.
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.
Lucy takes her boyfriend Frank's measurements on the sly and stays up all night knitting him a red sweater. Come morning, she realizes it's big enough to cover a car and that he hates the color red. At the company picnic, she tries her best to ditch the gift rather than giving it to him, but it keeps finding its way back to her.
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.
When a heavy computer falls on Mooney's foot, Lucy's adrenaline kicks in, allowing her to lift the huge machine by herself. Strangely, her adrenal gland stays "on," giving her superhuman strength. This new power causes Lucy to destroy everything she touches, ripping doors from their frames and leaving wrecked furniture in her wake. While the doctors gawk in amazement, the product endorsements pour in.
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.
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.
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.
Ventriloquist 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.
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.
Lucy enters a dog food jingle contest and wins the grand prize: a trip to London, England. She packs her ticket in her luggage and misses her plane and finds herself seated next to Mr. Mooney on the next flight.
Lucy Carmichael (Lucille Ball), an American secretary, arrives in London to claim a free day trip that she won in a dog food jingle contest. She is expecting a luxury limousine tour of the city, but instead is greeted by a tour guide named Tony (Anthony Newley) who escorts her in a motorcycle with an open sidecar. Their initial stop, for punting on the River Thames in an inflatable raft, ends disastrously when they collide with a rowing team and sink beneath the waters. Tony then takes Lucy to the heart of London's shopping district, where she models the latest mod fashions in a musical number based on the Phil Spector tune Lucy in London. Lucy is then escorted to Madame Tussaud’s wax museum, where she is frightened by a curator (Wilfred Hyde-White) whom she mistakes for a haunted wax statue that comes to life. She then visits a British manor, where she plays Kate opposite actor Peter Wyngarde in a scene from the William Shakespeare comedy The Taming of the Shrew. Lucy and Tony return to the Thames, where they sing Pop Goes the Weasel as a duet. The Dave Clark Five turns up to sing London Bridge is Falling Down. Lucy and Tony then arrive at an empty theater, where Tony dons a tuxedo and sings a medley of songs from the Leslie Bricusse-Anthony Newley show Stop the World, I Want to Get Off. Lucy follows him with a mime act and a song where she shows her appreciation of her London adventures.
Lucy advertises for a roommate to help with the expenses, and after reading the correspondence, she finally decides on Carol Bradford (Carol Burnet), a frumpy off-kilter librarian. Carol soon starts taking over, reorganizing the apartment, laughing like a hyena, and generally driving Lucy nuts. Lucy and Mary Jane scheme to help Carol develop a social life (to keep her out of Lucy's hair), so they have a small party to introduce her to some boys. It isn't long before usually mild-mannered Carol begins drinking, singing, and being the life of the party.
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...
When 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.
When 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 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...
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...
Efficiency expert Oliver Kasten takes over Mr. Mooney's office and commandeers his secretary, Lucy Carmichael, who quickly patterns herself after Kasten, following his strict orders without question.
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.
Recently married Vivian leaves Danfield to visit Lucy and the two begin gossiping and making up for lost time. When Viv tells Lucy about a friend's son who's now sporting long-hair, a guitar and a clock earring, the duo decide to dress up as hippies and set off to Sunset Strip to find "Itchy" to rescue him from the underworld. Lucy and Viv quickly find themselves in The Hairy Ape, where they finally find Itchy entertaining after they spend the evening having to dance with the hip crowd.
Wanting a break from the bank and to make some extra money, Lucy visits an employment agency and lands a job as a babysitter. Little does she know that the babies are actually chimps!
Lucy holds a protest against a freeway destroying a small town. The catch is that Mr. Mooney is helping to get the freeway.
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.
Lucy is mistaken for a shoplifter called "The Red Flash" and taken to jail, but she thinks she's in jail because she littered a candy wrapper.
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.
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.
When 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.
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.)
Lucy fakes sickness to go shopping at a one-day-only sale with Mary Jane. But when Lucy becomes the customer of the year and has her photo printed in the paper, Lucy must hide the paper from Mr. Mooney before he sees it.
The famous French movie star Jacques DuPre expresses interest in opening an account at Mr. Mooney's bank, Lucy is asked to visit his apartment and dictate a formal letter of agreement confirming the account. While visiting, she drinks a little too much champagne and makes a complete fool of herself. But Monsieur DuPre gets a kick out of it, and gets the account anyway.
A young man wants a career in the music, but his uncle insists he learn the banking business. Lucy arranges for an impromptu audition with a record producer in the bank's lobby.
Lucy is in trouble when a new bank policy requires all of its employees be high school graduates, and she reveals she was unable to complete her final year. So now it's back to school for Lucy, who ends up helping another man earn his diploma as well.
Needing new accounts for the bank, Lucy visits Jack Benny to try and get him to keep his money at her bank. He agrees to do it if she can prove that her bank can build a vault safer than his. Lucy then has the bank build a burglar proof vault, and gives Mr. Benny a personal tour of it.
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...
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.
After there is a 48 cent shortage at the bank, Lucy puts her own money to make the difference. When Mr. Cheever finds out, he blames Mr. Mooney, and Mooney is promptly fired. Lucy becomes Mr. Cheever's secretary, but feels so bad about Mr. Mooney, that she tries to convince Mr. Cheever that he's going insane because of the guilt of firing Mooney, and she plots to get Mr. Mooney's job back.
Lucy accidentally tears up a letter from someone who is coming to visit her, not knowing when or who is coming to stay. It turns out to be Lucy's very controlling Aunt, who changes Lucy's diet to disgusting diet food, and gives her daily exercise regiments, so Lucy plots to get rid of her.
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.
Lucy injures her leg while working at Mr. Mooney's house, so she hires Mary Jane's lawyer cousin to get a little money for her pain and suffering. Once shady Willy Wiley sees big bucks to be made, he sues Mooney and the bank for everything they're worth.
Lucy visits a local pool hall and enters their billiards tournament. Her main competition is a woman named Laura Winthrop. Cigar-smoking Laura, however, looks suspiciously like a a pool hustling man named Ace.
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.
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.
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.
Lucy borrows Mr. Mooney's TV set and promptly breaks it. To make enough cash to replace it, she moonlights as a carhop at a drive-in. While there, she takes up the cause of a young motorcyclist who's accused of stealing and stripping cars.
Mr. Mooney flirts innocently with a waitress when attending an out-of-town bank convention. But then the sexy server comes to L.A. insisting that Mooney has proposed to her. To scare her off, Lucy pretends to be Mrs. Mooney and shows the homewrecker how horrible it is to be married to a such a monster.
When Lucy takes Mr. Mooney to buy a fur for his wife, they're made an incredible offer by a shady character. The stole they buy from him turns out to be "hot", getting the two of them arrested for possession of stolen goods. Lucy and Mooney's schemes to get his money back from the crook get them arrested again... and again.
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.
Ken is turned down by Mr. Mooney for a loan to open his dance studio. Lucy decides all he needs in a little publicity so she arranges for a bunch of truck drivers to sign up for lessons and wrangles some TV coverage.
Lucy & Viv's car breaks down, so they visit the nearest house for help, which happens to belong to Joan Crawford. All of Crawford's furniture is away being redone, which lead the women to suspect she is broke, so they ask Mr. Mooney to help get her back to work.
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.
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.
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Interview with actor Barry Livingston.
Lucie Arnaz reminisces with host Tony Maietta about making her "show business debut" on the first season of The Lucy Show. She speaks about working with her famous mom and Vivian Vance, and about the Lucy heritage. "Lucy is a Soda Jerk". Season 1 Episode 23.
To promote its 1962 fall line-up, CBS presented a 30-minute compilation of previews, heralding new and returning programs. Included, of course, was a segment on its new Monday night comedy, The Lucy Show.
To promote it stellar 1962-1963 line-up of comedy programs, CBS presented "Opening Night," a one-hour variety show starring Lucille Ball, Danny Thomas, Andy Griffith, Garry Moore and Jack Benny. Included was a dance sequence introducing The Lucy Show.
Also included in "Opening Night" was a comedy routine featuring Lucille Ball and Lou Krugman: a reworking of the "Heavy Headdress" scene originally presented in the "Lucy gets in Pictures" episode of I Love Lucy.
Actress Carole Cook reminisces with host Tony Maietta about being Lucille Ball's protégé and about their work together on The Lucy Show. She also shares her memories about her longtime friendship with her famous mentor.
To promote its 1963 fall lineup, CBS presented a 30-minute compilation of previews, heralding new and returning programs. Lucy and Viv, dressed as postal workers, presented the network's plan for Monday night, which included, of course, season two of The Lucy Show.
Included in the show was this restaging of the "Slowly I Turned" burlesque routine used in a 1952 episode of I Love Lucy, with Lucy now playing the grieving comic!
Also in "Opening Night," Lucille Ball performed, "Hey, Look Me Over," her hit song from the Broadway musical Wildcat. Special lyrics were attempting to convince her sponsor to continue her series.
World's Fair Historian Albert Fisher reminisces with host Tony Maietta about Lucille Ball's experiences on "Lucy Day" at the 1964 New York World's Fair. Fisher narrates rare film footage (much of it silent) that chronicles the day-long festivities.
In the fall of 1965, Lucille Ball and Gale Gordon (as "Lucy Carmichael" and "Mr. Mooney") appeared in a special presentation that was screened at the annual sales convention of Beatrice Foods Company. Beatrice sponsored syndicated reruns of Desilu's The Greatest Show on Earth that season, and this was Lucy's way of thanking them. Sadly, the picture portion of the presentation is lost but the audio track was recently rediscovered. We present highlights here, illustrated with footage and still frames borrowed from "Lucy and Bob Crane", as an approximation of what the picture elements might have been like.
To promote their fall lineup of shows at their annual affiliates conference held in New York on May 3-4, 1966, CBS produced a 90-minute presentation that included preview scenes from the new shows and "Guest appearances" by many of the stars of their returning programs. Lucy and Gale Gordon appeared in a sketch heralding The Lucy Show.
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of U.S. Treasury Savings Bonds, Lucille Ball starred in this special film designed to remind viewers about the history and purpose of Savings Bonds. Included are rare film clips dating back to World War II, when many big Hollywood stars (Including Lucy herself) toured the country selling Bonds.
