The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965–66 season divides the program into two distinct eras; aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program for its second season, remained. For the first three seasons, Vivian Vance was the co-star.
The earliest scripts were entitled The Lucille Ball Show, but when this title was declined, producers thought of calling the show This Is Lucy or The New Adventures of Lucy, before deciding on the title The Lucy Show. Ball won consecutive Emmy Awards as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the series' final two seasons, 1966–67 and 1967–68.
Creators
Bob WeiskopfBob SchillerBob Carroll Jr.Madelyn Pugh
The Danfield Womens Volunteer Fire Fighters do the play Cleopatra for their annual thearter group play. Lucy gets cast as Cleopatra and no man in town wants to be in the play, except for the director who plays Caesar, Viv ends up playing Anthony and the show is interupted by a fire in another part of town.
One of the kids needs money for a birthday party they're going to, but Lucy and Viv don't have it. To solve they're money problem they start up a birthday party, throwing business. At their fist party, everything bad that could happen, happens.
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 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 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 consiquences. 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.
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.
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.
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.
