The Lucy Show
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.
- 1962-1968
- 6 seasons
- CBS
- Comedy
- TV-PG
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.
Season 6 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 1967 - 1968
Episode 1
Lucy Meets the Berles
Mon, Sep 11, 1967 30 mins
Lucy moonlights as Milton Berle's secretary. She overhears Milton rehearsing a torrid love scene, thinks that the comedian is cheating on his wife and plots a suitable comeuppance.
Episode 2
Lucy Gets Trapped
Mon, Sep 18, 1967 25 mins
Lucy convinces Mr. Mooney that she's too ill to come to work so she can go to a department store sale. After examining some of the items for sale in the store (and causing a lot of damage), she learns she is the ten-millionth customer and wins many valuable prizes. One prize she wins isn't one to her liking - her photograph will appear prominently in the next day's morning newspaper. Lucy goes to great lengths to make sure that her boss doesn't see the incriminating photograph and fails miserably.
Episode 3
Lucy and the French Movie Star
Mon, Sep 25, 1967 30 mins
A European movie company fronted by a famous French movie actor comes to Los Angeles to set up shop. Mr. Mooney's plans to land their account are nearly scuttled when Lucy becomes inebriated on French champagne.
Episode 4
Lucy and the Starmaker
Mon, Oct 2, 1967 30 mins
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.
Episode 5
Lucy Gets Her Diploma
Mon, Oct 9, 1967 30 mins
In order to keep her job at the bank, Lucy goes back to high school to finally earn her diploma. Of course she makes friends and everyone at the school love her, except for one annoying student.
Episode 6
Lucy Gets Jack Benny's Account
Mon, Oct 16, 1967 25 mins
Lucy tries to convince Jack Benny to take his money from his underground vault and deposit it in Mr. Mooney's bank. She plans to do so by designing even more elaborate precautions than Benny's own booby-trapped passages.
Episode 7
Little Old Lucy
Mon, Oct 23, 1967 30 mins
Mr. Mooney orders Lucy to dress up as an elderly woman and escort the aging bank president to the annual banquet. The old man would rather chase Lucy around his living room.
Episode 8
Lucy and Robert Goulet
Mon, Oct 30, 1967 30 mins
When a handsome truck driver is turned down for a loan, she convinces him to enter a Robert Goulet look alike contest in order to win the needed cash.
Episode 9
Lucy Gets Mooney Fired
Mon, Nov 6, 1967 30 mins
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.
Episode 10
Lucy's Mystery Guest
Mon, Nov 13, 1967 30 mins
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.
Episode 11
Lucy, the Philanthropist
Mon, Nov 20, 1967 30 mins
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.
Episode 12
Lucy Sues Mooney
Mon, Nov 27, 1967 30 mins
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.
Episode 13
Lucy and the Pool Hustler
Mon, Jan 8, 1968 30 mins
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.
Episode 14
Lucy and Carol Burnett: Part 1
Mon, Dec 4, 1967 30 mins
Lucy becomes a trainee flight attendant at Gobal Workd Airlines. 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.
Episode 15
Lucy and Carol Burnett: Part 2
Mon, Dec 11, 1967 30 mins
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.
Episode 16
Lucy and Viv Reminisce
Mon, Jan 1, 1968 30 mins
After Lucy breaks her leg, Mr. Mooney enlists the help of Lucy's best pal Vivian Bagley from Danfield to take care of Lucy. Then, the two start reminiscing about old times and the crazy things they did together.
Episode 17
Lucy Gets Involved
Mon, Jan 15, 1968 30 mins
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.
Episode 18
Mooney's Other Wife
Mon, Jan 22, 1968 30 mins
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.
Episode 19
Lucy and the Stolen Stole
Mon, Jan 29, 1968 30 mins
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.
Episode 20
Lucy and Phil Harris
Mon, Feb 5, 1968 30 mins
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.
Episode 21
Lucy Helps Ken Berry
Mon, Feb 19, 1968 30 mins
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.
Episode 22
Lucy and the Lost Star
Mon, Feb 26, 1968 30 mins
Lucy and Vivian's (who's visiting Lucy) car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. They walk to a house down the road to see if they can call an auto club and the house is owned by none other than Joan Crawford, the movie star. All her furniture has been sent out for cleaning, so Lucy and Viv think she's broke and try to raise money for the star.
Episode 23
Lucy and Sid Caesar
Mon, Mar 4, 1968 30 mins
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.
Episode 24
Lucy and 'The Boss of the Year' Award
Mon, Mar 11, 1968 30 mins
Mr. Mooney wants to be named president of the San Fransisco branch of the bank. To get the job, he enters his boss, Mr. Cheever, in a Boss of the Year contest and writes a ridiculously fawning letter comparing him to Abe Lincoln. Meanwhile, Lucy does the same thing and enters Mooney.