Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'Here's Lucy' from 1970-1982:
- Gale Gordon as Harrison Carter (1968-1974)
- Lucie Arnaz as Kim Carter (1968-1974)
- Lucille Ball as Lucy Carter (1968-1974)
- Desi Arnaz Jr. as Craig Carter (1968-1971)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'Here's Lucy':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
Season 1, episode 17
W: Bob O'Brien D: Jack Donohue
With Carol Burnett (Herself), Pearl Shear (Woman), Sean Morgan (Young Man), John Lindesmith (Serviceman), Laura Gile (Housewife), Carole Cook (Woman), Virginia Hawkins (Lady), Jerry Rush (Man). Lucy tries to enlist Carol Burnett's aid in raising money to build a gymnasium for Kim's and Craig's school.
September 22, 1969: Lucy Joins The Air Force Academy (1)
Season 2, episode 1
W: Gene Thompson D: George Marshall
With Roy Roberts (Superintendant), Frank Marth (Registrar), Beverly Garland. The Carter family hires out to drive a camper from Los Angeles to San Francisco and Lucy decides to show Craig the Air Force Academy in Colorado "on the way".
Season 2, episode 2
W: Gene Thompson D: George Marshall
With Roy Roberts (Superintendent), John Spina (Red Cadet Lt.). Lucy's efforts to get Craig enrolled at the Air Force Academy seem doomed as she continues to mistake a three-star general for a janitor.
Season 2, episode 3
W: Gene Thompson D: George Marshall
With Paul Fix (Chief), Mickey Manners (Indian Guide), Iron Eyes Cody (Medicine Man). Lucy looks for a picnic site in Arizona and ends up married to a Navajo chief.
Season 2, episode 4
W: Gene Thompson D: George Marshall
With Rob Hughes (Guide), George Marshall (Sheriff George). Lucy makes a detour en route to San Francisco via Arizona and involves the entire family in shooting the rapids of the Colorado River.
Season 2, episode 5
W: Milt Josefsberg, Ray Singer D: George Marshall
With Mary Wickes (Nurse Hurlow), Jack Collins (Mr. Phillips), Paula Stewart (Nurse Dean), Adele Claire (Nurse Whitton). Uncle Harry learns his tonsils must cmoe out, and he faces the trial with the courage of a pussycat.
Season 2, episode 6
W: Milt Josefsberg, Ray Singer D: George Marshall
With Patty Andrews (Herself), John McLaren (Elroy Sherwood), Gary Morton (Emcee). Patty Andrews of the Andrews Sisters asks the employment agency to supply look-alikes for her famous sisters for a fan club reunion.
Season 2, episode 9
W: David Ketchum, Bruce Shelly D: George Marshall
With Milton Berle (Cheerful Charlie). A fast-talking used car salesman unloads a "lemon" on Kim and Craig.
Season 2, episode 11
W: Milt Josefsberg, Ray Singer D: George Marshall
With Sid Gould (Maitre D'), Johnny Carson (Himself), Ed McMahon (Himself), DeDe Ball (Woman in Audience). Lucy tries to save the family's ruined evenng by sneaking them all into Johnny Carson's show.
Season 2, episode 12
W: Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs D: Jack Baker
With Lesley Evans (Janet), Cecil Gold (Fred), Victor Sen Yung (Murphy). After Lucy gives Kim and Craig the theme for their annual school musical, she and Uncle Harry are talked into portraying parents of teenagers during the Roman Era, Gay Nineties and space age.
Season 2, episode 14
W: Sam Perrin, Ralph Goodwin D: Danny Dayton
With Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane), Robert Carson (Mr. Morgan), Wanda Clark (Secretary). Harry decides to make Lucy's life easier by hiring an additional secretary but Lucy believes she's about to be replaced.
Season 2, episode 15
W: Milt Josefsberg, Al Schwartz D: Herbert Kenwith Kim and Craig take on extra jobs to pay for their own telephones -- but Lucy finds herself stuck with their responsibilities.
Season 2, episode 16
W: Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs D: Jack Baker
With Liberace (Himself), Paul Winchell (Carlo), Ben Wrigley (Williams). Craig convinces guest star Liberace to let him borrow a candelabra for a club initiation but Lucy thinks he took it without asking.
Season 2, episode 17
W: Larry Rhine, Lou Derman D: Herbert Kenwith
With James Hong (Lee Wong), Lauren Gilbert (Mr. Michaels), Bee Tompkins (Secretary), Rosalind Chao (Linda Chang Wong), Heather Lee (Sue Chin Wong), Romo Vincent (Customer). After an accident with a delivery truck, Lucy finds that her insurance has lapsed and arranges to work off the amount of damage -- in a Chinese laundry.
Season 2, episode 18
W: Martin A. Ragway D: Herbert Kenwith
With Vivian Vance (Vivian Jones), Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane Lewis), Lawrence Welk (Himself), Nancy Howard (Secretary). Vivian Jones arrives in Hollywood and expects Lucy to make good her promise to arrange a dinner date with Lawrence Welk.
Season 2, episode 19
W: Milt Josefsberg, Ray Singer D: Herbert Kenwith
With Vivian Vance (Vivian Jones), Don Diamond (Pedro), Don Megowan (Customs Inspector). Lucy and out-of-town visitor Vivian Jones decide to tour Tijuana and -- with Harry's help -- get involved in a smuggling ring.
Season 2, episode 20
W: Milt Josefsberg, Ray Singer D: Herbert Kenwith
With John O'Neill (Walter), Ann-Margret (Herself). Craig is discouraged about getting his song published until guest star Ann-Margret decides to introduce the song on a television special.
Season 2, episode 21
W: Ray Singer, Milt Josefsberg D: Jay Sandrich
With Wally Cox (Wally Manley), Alan Hale Jr. (Moose Manley), Gil Perkins (Babyface Johnson), Boyd 'Red' Morgan (Stuntman), Chuck Hicks (Crook), X Brands (Lefty Logan), Harvey Stone (Waiter). Lucy decides to instill a little courage in detective Moose Manley's timid, full-grown son.
Season 2, episode 22
W: Ray Singer, Milt Josefsberg D: Danny Dayton
With Wayne Newton (Himself), Jerry Newton (Jerry), Tommy Amato (Tommy). Lucy loses all the family's money in Las Vegas and tries to make it up by getting them jobs on Newton's nearby ranch.
Season 2, episode 23
W: William Raynor, Myles Wilder D: Jay Sandrich
With Lyle Talbot (Lawyer). Lucy finds herself as the owner of Harry's business and all his possessions when he can't pay a promissory note his ancestors gave Lucy's family 100 years before.
Season 2, episode 24
W: Lou Derman, Larry Rhine D: Jay Sandrich
With Sid Gould (Carpenter), Carol Burnett (Carol Krausmeyer), Robert Alda (Himself). Lucy doesn't want to enter a beauty contest for secretaries until her good friend Carol suggests that she wouldn't stand a chance.
September 14, 1970: Lucy Meets The Burtons
Season 3, episode 1
W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Jerry Paris
With Vanda Barra (Fan), Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Brooks Williams, Cliff Norton, Army Archerd, James Bacon, Marilyn Beck, Joan Crosby, Joyce Haber, Dick Kleiner, Morton Moss, Robert Rose, Vernon Scott, Cecil Smith. Richard Burton, trying to sneak his wife's famous $1.5 million diamond ring (used in the filming) to a jeweler, dresses as a plumber and is caught by Lucy, who insists he fix the office's plumbing. Ensuing mishaps find Lucy with the diamond stuck on her finger. Ten nationally known journalists appear in cameos.
Season 3, episode 2
W: Larry Rhine, Lou Derman D: Herbert Kenwith
With Bill Baldwin (Steve Campbell), Rhodes Reason (Sam Tolliver). In an effort to convince Kim and Craig to give up their dangerous hobbies, Lucy makes believe she's taking up skydiving -- and finds herself on a plane with nowhere to go. . . almost.
Season 3, episode 3
W: Milt Josefsberg D: Herbert Kenwith
With Sammy Davis Jr. (Himself), Irwin Sharone (Mr. Franklin), Elliott Reid (Director), Gary Morton (Night Club Manager). Sammy Davis, Jr. guests as a misadventure finds him wth a sore nose -- and Lucy dogging his steps to convince him not to sue.
Season 3, episode 4
W: Martin A. Ragway D: Jerry Paris
With Buddy Rich (Himself), Richard Yniguez (Jose Garcia), Eugene Molnar (Willy), Dick Winslow (Emcee). Lucy convinces guest star Buddy Rich to give Craig free drum lessons to help him win a scholarship but doesn't take into account the competition.
Season 3, episode 5
W: Milt Josefsberg, Al Schwartz D: Herbert Kenwith
With Carole Cook (Mrs. Casten), Charles Nelson Reilly (Elroy P. Clunk), John J. Fox (Salesman), Kathleen Hughes (Mrs. Portnoy), Bob Hastings (Martin Phillips), Jerome Cowan (Mr. Gary), Donald Briggs (Mr. Huntington). Lucy plunges into a consumer crusade when she discovers that a large manufacturer's guarantees on its many products put the consumer at a great disadvantage.
Season 3, episode 6
W: Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs D: Jack Baker
With Marilyn Maxwell (Gloria Pendleton), Robert Alda (Dean Butler), Kevin Edwards (Norman), Jim Bates (Clarence), Cecil Gold (Cecil). Harry, recruited to stage a college show for an alumni reunion, enlists the talents of Lucy, Kim and Craig.
Season 3, episode 7
W: Lou Derman, Larry Rhine D: Jack Donohue
With Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane), Sid Gould (Man), Don Crichton (Steve Bailey), Olive Dunbar (Librarian), Boyd 'Red' Morgan (Man), Alma Platt (Old Lady), Richard Collier (Library Assistant). Lucy becomes the "star" of a documentary by Craig and Uncle Harry and, as a result, almost costs Kim her boyfriend.
Season 3, episode 8
W: Sam Perrin, Ralph Goodman D: Jack Donohue
With Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane), Bruce Gordon (Konstantin Kassos), Paul Picerni (Father Lambros), Cynthia Hull (Cleo Menikos), Sam Chew Jr. (Joe Androppalos), Lyle Talbot (Freddy Fox). When a young Greek couple are without a place to hold their reception, Lucy generously offers them Harry's house -- without his knowledge.
Season 3, episode 9
W: Martin A. Ragway D: Herbert Kenwith
With Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane), Vincent Price (Himself), Tol Avery (Auctioneer), Jack Collins (Kurt). Vincent Price's movie image sends Lucy's imagination on a wild trip when she pays him a visit at home and begins to think he's after her brain.
Season 3, episode 10
W: Milt Josefsberg, Al Schwartz D: Herbert Kenwith
With Mary Wickes (Maid), Wally Cox (Gustav Vandemeer), Ruth McDevitt (Mrs. Cornelius Whitmark III). Uncle Harry hires a diamond cutter to cut the famous "Casbah" gem to rid it of a curse it is reported to carry.
Season 3, episode 11
W: Milt Josefsberg, Ray Singer D: Herbert Kenwith
With Jack Benny (Himself), George Burns (Himself), Louis Quinn (Salor), Michael Barbera (Young Jack Benny), Ben Wrigley (Butler), Florence Lake (Trixie). Fanciful flashbacks help Jack Benny illustrate his autobiography when Lucy is hired to take dictation.
Season 3, episode 12
W: David Ketchum, Bruce Shelly D: Coby Ruskin
With Vanda Barra (Maid), Rudy Vallee (Himself), Herbie Faye (Restaurant Manager), Philip Vandervort (Steve). Lucy discovers guest star Rudy Vallee waiting tables to keep busy and decides to help him update his singing style for a comeback at the "Hungry Hippie".
Season 3, episode 13
W: Milt Josefsberg, Ray Singer D: Herbert Kenwith
With Art Linkletter (Himself), Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane), Vanda Barra (Mr. Carol Carol), Richard Erdman (Supermarket Clerk), Scott Garrett (Kid). Lucy faces a terrible test of character when guest Art Linkletter offers her $500 if she can keep from losing her temper for 24 hours for a TV stunt.
Season 3, episode 14
W: Larry Rhine, Lou Derman D: Ross Martin
With Carole Cook (Lillian Rylander), Jean Willes (Gertie Krebs), Eddie Quillan (Cab Driver), William Benedict (Delivery Man). Harry bribes Lucy into posing as his expectant wife to keep a former girlfriend from shanghaiing him into marriage.
Season 3, episode 15
W: Larry Rhine, Lou Derman D: Herbert Kenwith
With Carole Cook (Ma Parker), Marc Lawrence (Joe Grapefruit), Billy Curtis (Lucy Parker / Ma Parker), Jerry Maren, Harry Hickox (Lt. Cross), Stafford Repp (Detective), Boyd 'Red' Morgan (Muggsy), Emile Autuori (Waiter). Lucy tries to make her new neighbors, Ma Parker and her "children", feel welcome, and ends up as bait for a counterfeit money middleman.
Season 3, episode 16
W: Frank Gill Jr., Vincent Bogert D: Jack Donohue
With Jayne Meadows (Laura Trenton), Marcel de la Brosse (Waiter). Lucy thinks that a wealthy woman is the object of Harry's romantic intentions when he pleads that he can't afford to give Lucy a raise.
Season 3, episode 17
W: Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs D: Coby Ruskin
With Sid Gould (Mr. Hilliard), Parley Baer (Dr. Cunningham), Kimetha Laurie (Jan). Lucy's been late to work so often that according to Harry she's used up her vacation, so she plans to get herself fired to get another one.
Season 3, episode 18
W: Phil Leslie, George Balzer D: Jack Carter
With Jack Collins (Dr. Proctor). Lucy, Kim and Craig devise an elaborate scheme to convince headachy Uncle Harry that he needs glasses.
Season 3, episode 19
W: Ray Singer, Al Schwartz D: Ross Martin
With Sid Gould (Clerk), Vanda Barra (Waitress), Hayden Rorke (Judge Gibson), Paul Picerni (Frank Williams), Rhodes Reason (Lt. Egan), Florence Lake (Old Lady). Kim's winning of a car leads the Carters to jail when Lucy decides to hold a raffle to pay the taxes on the prize.
Season 3, episode 20
W: Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs D: Charles Walters
With Sid Gould (Cabbie), Robert Foulk (Poker Player), Herbie Faye (Poker Player), Vince Barnett (Cabbie), Emile Autuori (Poker Player), Frank Scanell (Poker Player), Eugene Molnar (Tuba Player). Lucy extends an invitation to Harry to be her house guest while his home is being redecorated -- and quickly learns to regret it.
Season 3, episode 21
W: Frank Gill Jr., Vincent Bogert D: Charles Walters
With Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane Lewis), Robert Foulk (Janitor), George Neise (Mr. Frost), William Lanteau (Mr. Minkle). Lucy finds what appears to be a "magic lamp", thrilling the family with the wishes it grants -- until she hides it from Uncle Harry.
Season 3, episode 22
W: Ray Singer, Al Schwartz D: Jack Carter
With Sid Gould (Mountie), Vanda Barra (Cashier), Carol Burnett (Carol Krausmeyer), Jack Benny (Himself), Clarence Landry (Clarence), Kay E. Kuter (Mountie), Robert Alda (Himself). When Carol Krausemeyer and her friend Lucy find themselves out of work they decide to stage a show to earn money -- with the talent pool of the unemployment office.
Season 3, episode 23
W: Milt Josefsberg, Al Schwartz D: Jack Donohue
With Vivian Vance (Vivian Jones), Robert Alda (Captain McClay), Anita Mann (Wendy), Jeanne Byron (Mrs. McClay), Maurice Kelly (Sailor). Harry gets himself a job as cruise director on a ship to Hawaii and Lucy talks him into taking her along as his assistant.
Season 3, episode 24
W: Ray Singer, Al Schwartz, Milt Josefsberg D: Jack Donohue
With Vivian Vance (Vivian Jones), Robert Alda (Captain McClay), Anita Mann (Wendy). Lucy discovers to her dismay that Uncle Harry is as hard to work for at sea as he is at home in her new job as the cruise director's assistant en route to Hawaii.
September 13, 1971: Lucy And Flip Go Legit
Season 4, episode 1
W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Coby Ruskin
With Flip Wilson (Himself), Kim Hamilton (Office Manager). Star-struck Lucy wangles a job as one of Wilson's office girls, then pleads with him to join her, Kim and Uncle Harry in a little theater production of "Gone With the Wind".
Season 4, episode 2
W: Lou Derman, Larry Rhine D: Coby Ruskin
With Sid Gould (Photographer), Tony Randall (Rudolph Springer III), Morgan Jones (Contest Representative), Janos Prohaska (Black Bear). Unless Lucy can prove her athletic prowess to uphold a vigorous, youthful image for the firm, she's liable to lose her job.
Season 4, episode 3
W: Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs D: Coby Ruskin
With Sid Gould (Mr. Ferguson), Vanda Barra (Saleslady), Kaye Ballard (Donna), Herbie Faye (Burglar), Emile Autuori (Alfredo Colucci). Uncle Harry's long-lost girlfriend is set to arrive from Italy, an event that sets Harry on a crash shape-up program.
Season 4, episode 4
W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Coby Ruskin
With Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane), Robert Foulk (Officer), Mike Connors (Joe Mannix), Marc Lawrence (Ruby), John Doucette (Vernon), Vince Howard (Officer). Mike Connors, in his role of private eye Joe Mannix, answers Lucy's call for help when she stumbles on the identity of two bank robbers.
Season 4, episode 5
W: Lou Derman, Larry Rhine D: Coby Ruskin
With Sid Gould (Cameraman), Hank Brandt (Commander Matthews), Hal England (Major Dunlap), Robert Hogan (Capt. Perry), Roy Roberts (Dr. Jensen), Paul Picerni (Reporter), Byron Morrow (Announcer). When Uncle Harry, a former wartime naval photographer, is allowed on the astronauts' moon recovery ship to take pictures, Lucy convinces him to take her along as his assistant.
Season 4, episode 6
W: Phil Leslie, Ralph Goodman D: Coby Ruskin
With Larry J. Blake (Fireman), Gary Morton (Carnival Barker). Lucy enlists daughter Kim's help in inveigling a raise from Uncle Harry.
Season 4, episode 7
W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Coby Ruskin
With Dinah Shore (Herself), Mike Howden (Ski Instructor). Dinah Shore, as herself, encounters Lucy at a ski resort where Lucy's unabashed admiration leaves Dinah up in the air.
Season 4, episode 8
W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Coby Ruskin
With Mary Wickes (Sister Paula Carter), Lew Parker (Mr. Adams), Freddy Martin (Himself). Lucy sets out to help Harry hire a band for a hospital benefit. Orchestra leader Freddy Martin (and Mrs. Martin) and the Remnants, a pop music group composed of six nuns of the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth (Kan.) appear on tonight's program.
Season 4, episode 9
W: Milt Josefsberg, Al Schwartz D: Coby Ruskin
With Sid Gould (Security Guard), Jack Benny (Himself), Rich Little (Himself). Lucy persuades an impressionist to attract business to Uncle Harry's firm by recording radio commercials mimicking stars' voices.
Season 4, episode 10
W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Coby Ruskin
With Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane), Vanda Barra (Vanda), Sid Gould (Waiter), Dan Dailey (Himself). Dan Dailey hires Lucy as his secretary and then resorts to lechery in hopes of scaring her into resigning.
Season 4, episode 11
W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Coby Ruskin
With Ginger Rogers (Herself), William Lanteau (Spike). Ginger Rogers has an unfortunate meeting with Lucy and Harry in a movie theater.
Season 4, episode 12
W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Coby Ruskin
With David Frost (Himself), Tommy Farrell (Sky Marshal), Sue Taylor (Nancy), Rosalind Miles (Stewardess), Mike Howden (Steward), Ivor Barry (Producer). David Frost hires Lucy to fend off pesky fans during his trans-Atlantic flights.
Season 4, episode 13
W: Larry Rhine, Lou Derman D: Coby Ruskin
With Lola Fisher (Matiilda Pomeroy), Ben Wrigley (Homer Pomeroy). After arranging a temporary house swap with an African couple, Lucy and Kim deliver Uncle Harry -- who's near nervous collapse -- to the "suburb of Nairobi".
Season 4, episode 14
W: Milt Josefsberg, Al Schwartz D: Coby Ruskin
With Robert Carson (Sergeant), Vanda Barra (Bank Teller), Allen Funt (Himself), James Millhollin (Mr. Posonby), Fred Festinger (Bank Guard), Maurice Kelly (Bank Manager), Peter Leeds (Officer), Paul Sorenson (Officer). Lucy, Harry and Kim stage a spectacular bank robbery for Allen Funt's Candid Camera TV show. At least they think it's a staged stunt.
Season 4, episode 15
W: Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs D: Coby Ruskin
With Dick Patterson (Dick Dunkirk), Billy Sands (Mr. Orson). Lucy Carter becomes a contestant on a TV game show and winds up with a chimpanzee and a very slim chance of winning one of the show's valuable prizes.
Season 4, episode 16
W: Martin A. Ragway D: Coby Ruskin
With Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane), Vanda Barra (Waitress), Parley Baer (Dr. Cunningham), Paul Picerni (IRS Agent). Lucy racks her brain to determine why Harry presented her with a $50-a-week raise.
Season 4, episode 17
W: Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs D: Coby Ruskin
With Helen Hayes (Kathleen Brady), Hank Brandt (Detective Muldoon). Kathleen Brady, a penniless lady, comes to the Unique Employment Agency in search of a job. Lucy, who persuades her to become her house guest for a few days, begins to worry when Kathleen gets $5,000 from Uncle Harry for a deed to some property in Ireland.
Season 4, episode 18
W: Martin A. Ragway D: Coby Ruskin
With Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane), Larry J. Blake (Sam), Sid Gould (Fred), Vanda Barra (Sally), Keye Luke (Kwan Fong), Tommy Farrell (Reporter). After Lucy saves the life of Kwan Fong, the Chinese laundryman insists that she adhere to an ancient custom which holds that a person who saves another's life must be responsible for the welfare of that person for the rest of that person's life.
Season 4, episode 19
W: Fred S. Fox D: Coby Ruskin
With R.G. Brown (Office Manager), Phil Vandervort (Joe Hackley). Fed up with Lucy's incompetence, Uncle Harry gets fed up and replaces her with a fantastic computer.
Season 4, episode 20
W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Coby Ruskin
With Tim Matheson (Peter Sullivan). Kim, weary of her mother's treating her as a child, moves away from home. Unfortunately, it's only a moment away for her mother.
Season 4, episode 21
W: George Balzer, Sam Perrin D: Coby Ruskin
With Wally Cox (Tommy Tucker), Richard Deacon (Elmer Zellerbach). Lucy is thrown in charge of the Unique Employment Agency when Uncle Harry tries to secure a loan to save his failing business.
Season 4, episode 22
W: Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs D: Coby Ruskin
With Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane), Larry J. Blake (Fireman), Sid Gould (Fireman), Bob Cummings (Bob Collins), Billy Sands (Mr. Larson). A suave wolf plans to add Lucy to his list of conquests.
Season 4, episode 23
W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Coby Ruskin
With Vivian Vance (Vivian Jones), Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane Lewis), Vanda Barra (Vanda), Sid Gould (Waiter). Lucy's old chum Vivian Jones arrives for a surprise visit and enrages Lucy by taking her job.
Season 4, episode 24
W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Coby Ruskin
With Susan Tolsky (Sue Ann Ditbenner), Lloyd Battista (Ronnie Cumberland), Alan Oppenheimer (Uncle Herb). Kim invites dashng race driver Ronnie Cumberland to her apartment for a romantic candlelight dinner for two, but doesn't count on the protective instincts of her inventive mother.
September 11, 1972: Lucy's Big Break
Season 5, episode 1
W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Coby Ruskin
With Lloyd Bridges (Dr. Murray), Alan Oppenheimer (Dr. Parker), Mary Wickes (Nurse Ogilvy), June Whitley Taylor (Mrs. Foster). The fifth season begins with Lucy trying to lure a handsome doctor to her bedside when she's hospitalized with a broken leg.
Season 5, episode 2
W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Coby Ruskin
With Mary Wickes (Nurse), Vanda Barra (Vanda), Eva Gabor (Herself), June Whitley Taylor (Nurse), R.G. Brown (Walter). Hospitalized with a broken leg from a skiing accident, Lucille Carter nearly swoons with excitement when her hospital roommate turns out to be Eva Gabor.
Season 5, episode 3
W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Coby Ruskin
With Vanda Barra (Vanda), Sid Gould (Sam). Bedridden Lucy Carter arrives home from the hospital at last, and in a couple of days it's exhausted Uncle Harry, who's ready for an ambulance when he tries to be a good nurse.
Season 5, episode 4
W: Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs D: Coby Ruskin
With Vanda Barra (Vanda), Robert Carson (Officer Harlow), Sid Gould (Carpet Cleaner), Susan Tolsky (Miss Quigley), Phil Vandervort (Tommy), Emile Autuori (Munson). Uncle Harry, unable to find a satisfactory replacement secretary during Lucille Carter's absence, decides to take drastic measures -- he moves the office into Lucy's home.
Season 5, episode 5
W: Bob O'Brien D: Coby Ruskin
With Joe Namath (Himself), Desi Arnaz Jr. (Craig), Dick Patterson (Coach Hennessy), Kenny Endoso (Jimmy). Broadway Joe Namath crosses swords with Lucy when she objects to son Craig's football activities and the New York Jets' star tries to convince her that Craig has the makings of a top quarterback.
Season 5, episode 6
W: Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs D: Coby Ruskin
With Robert Foulk (Officer Rafferty), Jesse White (Hickey), Ed Hall (Officer), Jim Bates (Billy Joe Jackson), Harry Hickox (Sgt. Montgomery), Rosalind Miles (Waitress), Jayson Kane. Lucy gets a ticket for reckless driving in her wheelchair and winds up getting sued by an out-of-work country singer.
Season 5, episode 7
W: Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs D: Coby Ruskin
With Totie Fields (Poopsie), Herbie Faye (Lester Butkus). The jealous wife of Lucy Carter's milkman suspects Lucy of being passionately in love with her husband.
Season 5, episode 8
W: Bob O'Brien D: Coby Ruskin
With Petula Clark (Herself), Claude Wolff (Petula's Husband), Doris Singleton (Miss Perkins), Tommy Farrell (Paul). Lucy lands a job herself when singer Petula Clark contacts the agency for a secretary who can also act as a traveling companion.
Season 5, episode 9
W: Bob O'Brien D: Coby Ruskin
With Jim Bailey (Himself as Phyllis Diller), Sam Yorty (Himself), Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane). Jim Bailey performs his Phyllis Diller impersonation when the real Phyllis Diller is unable to appear at Lucy's benefit show. Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty also makes a guest appearance.
Season 5, episode 10
W: Bob O'Brien D: Coby Ruskin
With Craig Stevens (Lt. Egan), Bruce Gordon (Rocky), Johnny Silver (Benny), Hal Smith (Max), Sid Gould (Deliveryman), Larry J. Blake (Passerby), Ed Hall (Numbers Smith), John Harmon (Moose Murdock). An undercover policeman plots to trap a hood with the help of Lucy -- disguised as an old apple peddler.
Season 5, episode 11
W: Bob O'Brien D: Coby Ruskin
With Donny Osmond (Himself), Eve Plumb (Patricia Carter), Jack Manning (Mr. Walters), Milton Frome (Waiter), Ivor Barry (Chef). Young recording star Donny Osmond develops a crush on Kim which proves embarrassing for Lucy's daughter when he agrees to appear in a charity music show she's arranging.
Season 5, episode 12
W: Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs D: Coby Ruskin
With Sid Gould (Waiter), Ricardo Montalban (Prince Phillip of Montalbania), Iggie Wolfington (Mr. Winstead), Gloria Wood (Dowager Soprano). An aristocratic European prince hires Lucy as his personal escort, falls in love with her and decides he wants to make her his princess.
Season 5, episode 13
W: Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs D: Coby Ruskin
With Ruth Buzzi (Herself), Larry Meredith (Hal King), Hal England (Mr. Greenway), Michael Richardson (Tommy). Ruth Buzzi guests as an ugly duckling member of Kim's drama club whom Lucy and Harry adopt as their project for personal improvement.
Season 5, episode 14
W: Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs D: Coby Ruskin
With Kurt Kasznar (Dr. Henderson), Reta Shaw (Rita Forrester), Romo Vincent (Mailman), Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane), Vanda Barra (Hippie), Sid Gould (Hippie). To solve their long-standing difficulties, Lucy and Harry agree to attend a group encounter session with Mary Jane and her boyfriend.
Season 5, episode 15
W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Coby Ruskin
With Dick Patterson (Steve Thompson). Lucy's still-mending leg costs her the chance to play a dancing pickle in a television commercial until she comes up with a unique solution to her employment dilemma.
Season 5, episode 16
W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Coby Ruskin
With Vanda Barra (Vanda), Sid Gould (Sam), Don Knotts (Ben Fletcher), Ralph James (Luigi). Uncle Harry's country cousin meets Lucy on a blind date and tries to charm her with the verses he writes for greeting cards.
Season 5, episode 17
W: Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs D: Coby Ruskin
With Bob Cummings (Robert Henning), William Lanteau (Edgar Vincent Kincaid). The owner of an antique store unknowingly sells an especially valuable chair to Lucy, and the dealer is forced to use every ploy imaginable to regain his choice antique.
Season 5, episode 18
W: Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs D: Coby Ruskin
With Elsa Lanchester (Mumsie Westcott), Roy Roberts (Warden Maginetti), Joyce Jameson (Prisoner), Jody Gilbert (Matron Wilson), Queenie Smith (Prisoner). An absent-minded bank robber suddenly discovers Lucy, in an undercover role, as her new cellmate in an attempt to locate a rich bank heist.
Season 5, episode 19
W: Bob O'Brien D: Coby Ruskin
With John Davidson (Professor Kleindorf), Murray Matheson (Professor Dietrich), Patti Cubbison (Gloria), Mitch Carter (Charlie), Irwin Charone (Dean Phillips). A college music professor becomes the object of Lucy's wrath when she mistakenly believes him to be the "older man" in daughter Kim's life.
Season 5, episode 20
W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Coby Ruskin
With Sid Gould (Sam), Clint Young (Jimmy), Lola Fisher (Bunny), Coby Ruskin (Drunk). Lucy talks Harry into buying an ice cream franchise because he needs more income to entertain his new girlfriend.
Season 5, episode 21
W: Bob O'Brien D: Coby Ruskin
With Jack Manning (Mr. Hubble), Roger Twedt (Mr. Tweed), Orwin Harvey (Store Employee). Harry becomes very depressed when Lucy breaks a vase which had great sentimental value to him, and she decides to take drastic measures to rectify the situation.
Season 5, episode 22
W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Coby Ruskin
With Robert Rockwell (Jack Scott), Leigh Adams-Bennett (Mrs. Foley), Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane Lewis). After Harry entrusts his classic Rolls-Royce to Lucy for the weekend, she decides to put her new automobile mechanics course to good use and make the repairs Harry wanted a professional to do.
Season 5, episode 23
W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Coby Ruskin
With Vanda Barra (Vanda), Sid Gould (Waiter), Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane). The diet resolve of Lucy and her girlfriends is severely shaken when Harry leaves the gourmet lunch he has prepared for a wine and food society in Lucy's refrigerator overnight.
Season 5, episode 24
W: Bob O'Brien D: Coby Ruskin Nostalgia overwhelms Harry when he decides to sell the Unique Employment Agency, and he and Lucy recall some of the bizarre and amusing incidents that occurred during their five-year employer-employee relationship.
September 10, 1973: Lucy And Danny Thomas
Season 6, episode 1
W: Bob O'Brien D: Coby Ruskin
With Danny Thomas (Danny Gallupi), Hans Conried (William Barkley), Sid Gould (Bidder). The sixth season begins with an undiscovered painter whose plight intrigues Lucy and leads her to promote his artistic talent instantly.
Season 6, episode 2
W: Bob O'Brien D: Coby Ruskin
With O.J. Simpson (Himself), Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane), James Brodhead (Tilford), Cliff Norton (Detective Billy), Al Checco (Detective Bobby), Tom Kelly (Announcer), Sid Gould (Man), Robert Foulk (Fan), Jerry Jones (Officer). Football star O.J. Simpson meets Lucy and Harry at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon, where he presents Harry with two valuable seats to a game.
Season 6, episode 3
W: Bob O'Brien D: Coby Ruskin
With Eydie Gorme (Herself), Steve Lawrence (Himself). Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme have a domestic quarrel when Steve hires Lucy to perform the secretarial duties Eydie usually handles.
Season 6, episode 4
W: Bob O'Brien D: Coby Ruskin
With Ed McMahon (Ed McCallister), Henry Beckman (Truck Driver), Sid Gould (Telephone Man), Tommy Farrell (Bank Teller). A bank vice president does television commercials for his bank and becomes the central figure in Lucy's plan to get a loan for Harry's faltering business.
Season 6, episode 5
W: Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs D: Coby Ruskin
With Bob Williams (Himself), Sid Gould (Sid), Jonathan Hole (Mr. Dinwitty), Andy Albin (Joe). Lucy's weekend becomes a canine nightmare when she agrees to run Harry's pet boutique to improve his chances of selling the shop to a noted dog trainer.
Season 6, episode 6
W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Coby Ruskin
With Eddie Albert (Himself), Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane), Vanda Barra (Vanda), Doris Singleton (Patty), Jerry Hausner (Jimmy). Eddie Albert unintentionally becomes the star attraction of Lucy's annual Girl Friday Follies, when he mistakes her for one of his most persistent admirers.
Season 6, episode 7
W: Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs D: Coby Ruskin
With Jackie Coogan (Kermit), Rhodes Reason (Keith Davidson), Reta Shaw (Mrs. Witherspoon), Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane). An obnoxious used car salesman leases Lucy's spare room through a real estate agent and won't move out.
Season 6, episode 8
W: Bob O'Brien D: Coby Ruskin
With Andy Griffith (Andy Johnson), Sid Gould (Officer), Randall Carver (Teenager), Hank Stohl (Henry), Bob Whitney (Bill Adams). A charity fundraiser's evangelical style charms Lucy, but makes daughter Kim suspicious of his motives.
Season 6, episode 9
W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Coby Ruskin
With Joan Rivers (Herself), Burt Mustin (Mr. Robertson), James Brodhead (Mr. Miller), Hank Brandt (Bailiff), Judd Lawrence (Mr. Stalkup), Savannah Bentley (Mrs. Holmes), Alice Backes (Mrs. Barnes), Lew Palter (Mr. Patrick), Bob Whitley (Juror), Sid Gould (Juror). Joan, as Lucy's fellow juror, fears her romantic future is ruined when Lucy deadlocks the jury and locks them up for the night.
Season 6, episode 10
W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Coby Ruskin
With Foster Brooks (David Benton Miller), Jack Collins (Arthur Collins). A suave mystery writer's secret tippling drives Lucy to distraction.
Season 6, episode 11
W: Bob O'Brien, Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs D: Coby Ruskin
With Frankie Avalon (Himself), Vic Glazer (Stage Manager), Sid Gould (Maitre D'), Robert Hogan (Waiter), Jerry Fogel (Emcee). Kim becomes a song-and-dance partner of Frankie Avalon when her mother Lucy lures the singer into appearing at an amateur show.
Season 6, episode 12
W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Coby Ruskin
With Mary Wickes (Violet Barker), Al Lewis (Lionel Barker), Gary Crosby (Officer Riggs), Dick Sargent (Officer Spencer), Gino Conforti (Burglar), Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane). Two policemen enlist Lucy and her friends in their "neighborhood watch" to foil burglars.
Season 6, episode 13
W: Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs D: Coby Ruskin
With Janos Prohaska (Black Bear), J. Pat O'Malley (Jed Tankley). Harry has a bad case of gold fever, after his research of a remote section of the Mother Lode country convinces him that he can strike it rich.
Season 6, episode 14
W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Coby Ruskin
With Chuck Connors (Himself), Ryan MacDonald (Jerry Thompson), Sidney Clute (Lt. Turner), Sid Gould (Sticks), Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane), Bob Whitney (Cameraman). Chuck Connors learns the pitfalls of trying to use Lucy's house for a location for his new film.
Season 6, episode 15
W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Coby Ruskin
With Arte Johnson (Sir Osbird Beechman Place), Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane). A professor of anthropology allows Lucy to "bird-sit" with a rare tropical bird he is delivering to the L.A. Zoo.
Season 6, episode 16
D: Coby Ruskin
With Don Porter (Ken Richards), John Wheeler (Hank Blake), Billy Sands (Billy), George Chandler (Winston Shelby), Dave Morick (Detective). After impulsively selling his employment agency, Harry Carter misses the business so much that he returns to work for the new owner in a menial desk job that puts him on an equal with Lucy.
Season 6, episode 17
W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Coby Ruskin
With Roy Roberts (Dr. Hunnicutt), Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane), Al Checco (Dr. Crawford). Lucy feels like a registered nurse when circumstances force her to set up a convalescent ward to care for her ailing family.
Season 6, episode 18
W: Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs D: Coby Ruskin, Lucille Ball
With Mary Wickes (Clara Simpson), Cliff Osmond (Jake), Boyd 'Red' Morgan (Charlie), Florence Halop (Old Lady), Ross Elliott (Chuck Stewart), John Craig (Rusty). Lucy gets a taste of what the old west was like when she is invited to serve as honorary sheriff for the 100th anniversary celebration of a small Montana town.
Season 6, episode 19
With Milton Berle (Himself), Vanda Barra (Vanda), Sid Gould (Sam), John Calvin (Bob Morer), James Joyce (Bill McCormick). Milton Berle reluctantly becomes the star attraction at one of Lucy's parties when her ridiculously low bid on a charity telethon wins the comedian's services for one night.
Season 6, episode 20
With John Gabriel (Jack Thomas), Cliff Norton (Walter Butley). Lucy finds a way to beat the high cost of steaks -- get them from Mary Lou's new boyfriend Walter who has taken a sudden shine to Lucy.
Season 6, episode 21
With Phil Harris (Himself), Tommy Farrell (Manager). Lucy talks Phil Harris into using minoritiy group musicians in his revived big band, but she forgets one minority group -- women's lib -- and it creates a problem for the band's opening.
Season 6, episode 22
W: Bob O'Brien D: Jack Donohue
With Carole Cook (Cynthia Duncan), Gary Morton (Himself), Doris Singleton (Doris), Tom Kelly (Tom Morgan), Roy Rowan (TV Movie Host). When daughter Kim enters a Lucille Ball look-alike contest and gets the runaround, Lucy Carter decides to take matters into her own hands by intervening with Lucille Ball herself.
Season 6, episode 23
W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: Jack Donohue
With Jack Donohue (Dirty Jack), Brian Cutler (Brian), Cindy Barnes (Cindy). Feeling sorry for herself, Lucy wangles an invitation to spend the weekend with daughter Kim, but discovers that her presence is dampening Kim's plans for a romantic evening with her boyfriend.
Season 6, episode 24
W: Bob O'Brien D: Jack Donohue
With Eddie Quillan (Mr. Jackson), Vanda Barra (Diner), Sid Gould (Diner), Larry J. Blake (Franklin), Mary Treen (Mary Winters), Jack Collins (Harvey Stevens), John J. Fox (Charlie), Ernest Sarracino (Tony). Lucy starts a campaign for recognition of older-but-employable people after an aging waitress applies at the employment agency. (Last show of the series.)