The Lucy Show

Lucy Plays Florence Nightingale

Season 2, Episode 14, Aired 1/6/64

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Lucy wants Mr. Mooney, hospitalized with a broken leg, to sign a cash advance to buy Chris a formal dress. As a "Hospital Helper," she slips in, tortures him, and is banned from that floor by the head nurse. With Viv's help, she masquerades as a wheelchair-bound patient who leads the staff on a wild chase, and then as a surgeon.moreless

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Lucille Ball

Lucy Carmichael
Gale Gordon

Theodore J. Mooney (1963-1968)
Vivian Vance

Vivian Bagley (1962-1965)

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Lucy needs money from Mooney to buy daughter Chris a dress for her first formal. Discovering Mooney hospitalized, she just "happens" to be a candy-striper volunteer so she tries to get into his room to get him to sign a check. Naturally, chaos ensues.moreless

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By cadillacman52, Aug 09, 2010 Report Abuse

The "I need money-let's try and trick Mr. Mooney" premise wears thin very quickly and this is just another episode built around that motivation. There is a rather funny scene where Lucy is wheeling around in a wheelchair being chased by several hospital workers and each time someone sees them a new person joins in, but it almost seems like this was done before in one of the episodes of the "I Love Lucy" series. Why Vivian was involved in the hospital scenes is not really understood since she really did not have that much to do except feed Lucy some lines.moreless

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- Lucy says Mr. Mooney used to live on a farm in Indiana. Edit
- Lucy switches with Audrey Simmons and Viv with Alice Banfield so they can work now as "Hospital Helpers" and corner Mr. Mooney in the hospital. Edit
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- CBS repeated this episode on 4/13/1964. Edit
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- Mr. Mooney: (upon Lucy's arrival in his room) Look, Mrs. Carmichael. Before I agreed to be hospitalized, they told me that you would not be on duty for two full weeks! My only hope is that I'm delirious and you're a hallucination. Edit
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