The Lucy Show

- Season 1

(1962)

Lucy and Vivian are a pair of single parents living at Lucy's house. Lucy's daughter Chris goes out on a date with Alan Harper, a 16-year-old boy attending prep school. Chris feels her mother ruined the date by waiting up and running out to the car when the couple returned. No mischief could have occurred -- Alan's parents were in the backseat because they attended the same movie as the young couple. Nevertheless, Alan asks Chris for a second date and this time Lucy promises not to wait up for Chris. At the end of date number two, Lucy leaves the house rather than ...

Lucy and Viv are scheming ways to get dates for the upcoming dance when Jerry announces that he got a "D" from "Old Man Taylor". When the "old man" turns out to be quite handsome, Lucy grabs his driver's license to find out if he's married, but forgets to put it back in his wallet. She and Viv sneak into the YMCA where he's staying to secretly return it.

A junior football game is cancelled due to lack of referees. The game prize is tickets to the big NFL game, Lucy volunteers to referee so her sons could go to the game. There is one problem though, she does not know anything about the game. She must now quickly learn to play football.

The bank gives Lucy a check for $2,000 instead of $20 just minutes after Mr. Barnsdahl had declared that his bank was perfect. To force the grouch into admitting a mistake, she cashes the check and hides the money in a box of candy. When it comes time to return the cash, the box is missing. Harry unknowingly gave the candy to the boys.

Lucy solves the lawn mowing problem by buying a sheep to eat the grass. Then winter weather makes the sheep, Clementine, have to spend the night in the house with Lucy, Viv and the kids, and it keeps them all awake.

Lucy and Vivian dress in their old military uniforms to go to a NASA lecture. The two then unwittingly volunteer for a psychological test, in which they stay in a sealed simulated space capsule. The two must now live in the cramped conditions for 24 hours, the problem though is that Vivian is claustrophobic and Lucy must now prevent Vivian from pulling the "chicken switch".

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 plan was for nothing. 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 project becomes caos thanks to Lucy's general klutziness, Viv's fear of heights, broken windows, and new holes in the roof. The plan goes even more awry when Lucy gets stuck in the chimeny!

Viv trips over one of Jerry's toys and suffers a minor ankle injury. Upset that Lucy thinks she'd sue over this little mishap, Vivian decides to teach Lucy a lesson. Exaggerating her injury and threatening to call her lawyer, Viv lounges in bed for a week, running Lucy ragged with petty demands. Hilarity ensues.

Wanting a room to entertain their dates in, Lucy and Viv fix up the basement to make it into a living area. Hilarity ensues when they get stuck to the walls after applying heavy duty glue.

After Viv's new vibrating mattress almost takes Lucy for a ride, they have to buy a new one. But before it arrives, Lucy and Viv have to spend the night in their sons bunk beds. With Viv's claustrophobia and Lucy not being able to get into the top bunk, this proves to be one hilarious episode.

Lucy, Viv and the kids are spending their first Christmas together and Lucy and Viv do nothing but argue over their family's special traditions. But, the kids show Lucy and Viv the true meaning of Christmas.

Chris doesn't want her mother to chaperon her New Year's eve party, so Lucy, Viv and the boys go out for the night and leave the chaperoning to Harry next door. When Harry calls Lucy at the restaurant in a panic, Lucy rushes to save the stale party with a classic Charlie Chaplin imitation.

Lucy's sister shows up at her doorstep in the middle of the night after having an argument with her husband. Lucy is convinced their marriage is rocky because they didn't have a big wedding. So Lucy and Viv throw Lucy's sister the wedding she never had, getting drunk in the process!

Lucy thinks that Danfield needs a fire department so she starts her own volunteer fire department made up of only women.

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.

After Lucy drives off the plumber with her meddling, she and Viv decide to finish installing the shower stall, with disastrous results.

When one of the members of Viv's female barbershop quartet drops out, Lucy convinces Viv and her friends to let her fill the vacant spot. Lucy takes singing lessons to learn to stay on key, but her instructor can do nothing for the stage fright that seizes the redhead when she learns that the groups first performance will be in front of three thousand people.

Lucy and Viv become business partners after marketing Vivian's caramel popcorn. The demand is so high for it that Lucy and Viv start an assembly line in the kitchen, turning it into a gooey, sticky mess.

Being tired of double dating with Eddie and Vivian, Lucy and Harry next door try anything to avoid a double date with them.

After being frightened by stories of burglars terrorizing Danfield, Lucy and Viv learn Judo to protect themselves against wrong doers.

Lucy's daughter Chris takes a job as a waitress at an ice cream parlor. When Chris can't make it one day, Lucy and Viv take over as soda jerks with utter chaos.

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 and Vivian's sons boy scout club make a replica of the white house out of sugar cubes. The president is so impressed that he invites all of them to the white house to unveil it. Calamity ensues when the replica get destroyed on the train.

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 and Vivian chaperone a vacation for Chris and her friends. After they over hear the girls saying that they're old, they try to be like teenagers and have fun with the girls and their friends.

Lucy gets kicked out of a ballpark for baiting an umpire.

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.