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Season 1

1. Lucy Waits Up for Chris  

Community Score

6.5 Fair
First aired: 10/1/1962    Production Code: 001

When Lucy waits up for her daughter Chris to return from a date, the fourteen-year old girl is mightly embarrassed. Lucy promises never to do it again, but can't help herself. To not be discovered after locking herself out of the house, Lucy tries to enter by the only means available; a trampoline.

2. Lucy Digs Up a Date  

Community Score

5.3 Mediocre
First aired: 10/8/1962    Production Code: 003

Eager to ask Jerry's handsome math teacher to take her to a dance, Lucy steals the teacher's driver's license to find out whether he's married, then ends up in the teacher's fencing outfit to get the license back into his wallet.

3. Lucy Is a Referee  

Community Score

6.7 Fair
First aired: 10/15/1962    Production Code: 004

Lucy volunteers to referee a football game at Jerry's school. Believe it or not, Lucy actually knows the rules, but can't help but call all the plays in her son's favor. With both teams angry at her, she offers to take all the players to a pro game.

4. Lucy Misplaces $2,000  

Community Score

7.8 Good
First aired: 10/22/1962    Production Code: 005

When the bank accidentally gives Lucy a check for $2,000 instead of $20, Lucy decides to hide the money in a candy box for a few days to give the persnickety banker a good scare.

5. Lucy Buys a Sheep  

Community Score

7.7 Good
First aired: 10/29/1962    Production Code: 002

Left with no one to tend the lawn, Lucy buys a sheep named Clementine to take care of the grass. Unfortunately, weather and circumstances make Clementine an unwelcome house guest, and Lucy sneaks her back to the farm. Only then is she offered $200 for Clementine to appear in a blanket ad.

6. Lucy Becomes an Astronaut  

Community Score

5.5 Mediocre
First aired: 11/5/1962    Production Code: 006

Lucy and Viv successfully spend 24 hours in a simulated space ship as part of a "women in space" experiment. Lucy's ego has swelled from the publicity so Viv decides do deflate it. She convinces the redhead that she's been chosen to be the first woman astronaut and must leave immediately for Cape Canaveral.

7. Lucy Is a Kangaroo for a Day  

Community Score

6.0 Fair
First aired: 11/12/1962    Production Code: 007

Lucy takes a secretarial temp job so she can afford a bicycle for Jerry. In short order, she's flooded the office in a water cooler mishap. When she's sent on an errand run, she accidentally destroys her suit. Only Lucy would think to borrow a kangaroo costume to finish her route.

8. Lucy, the Music Lover  

Community Score

5.5 Mediocre
First aired: 11/19/1962    Production Code: 008

Lucy isn't interested in her blind date, a classical violinist, until he hits it off with Viv. In her frantic effort to impress her date with her false love of chamber music, she accidentally slams his hand in the piano lid. Naturally, it happens just before a performance.

9. Lucy Puts Up a TV Antenna  

Community Score

9.4 Superb 1
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First aired: 11/26/1962    Production Code: 009

Lucy and Viv try to replace the TV antenna on the roof.

10. Vivian Sues Lucy  

Community Score

8.3 Great
First aired: 12/3/1962    Production Code: 012

Viv trips over one of Jerry's toys and suffers a minor injury. She's upset to learn Lucy actually thinks she might sue over this little mishap. To teach her a lesson, Viv exaggerates her injury and runs the redhead ragged with demands.

11. Lucy Builds a Rumpus Room  

Community Score

5.4 Mediocre
First aired: 12/10/1962    Production Code: 010

Lucy and Viv decide they need an extra room where they can entertain visitors.

12. Lucy and Her Electric Matress  

Community Score

6.7 Fair
First aired: 12/17/1962    Production Code: 016

Lucy plans to surprise Viv with a new electric mattress while she's away. Unfortunately, it's vibrating feature malfunctions and practically destroys the bedroom. When Viv returns home early, the two have nowhere to sleep except the boys' bunkbeds. This leads to Lucy's classic misadventure with a pair of stilts.

13. Together for Christmas  

Community Score

8.8 Great
First aired: 12/24/1962    Production Code: 013

The Carmichaels and the Bagleys are spending their first Christmas together. Almost immediately, trouble starts when Lucy and Viv fight over whether to have a traditional green or white flocked tree. Two trees and an esclation of words leads to chopped-off tree limbs and numerous busted ornaments.

14. Chris's New Year's Eve Party  

Community Score

8.0 Great
First aired: 12/31/1962    Production Code: 014

Lucy promises not to interfere with Chris' New Year's Eve Party. Harry agrees to chaperone as Lucy and Viv take the other kids to a hotel. While at dinner, Viv's boyfriend brings news that Chris' party is a dud and desperately in need of their help. The ladies come to the rescue with entertainment.

15. Lucy's Sister Pays a Visit  

Community Score

6.4 Fair
First aired: 1/7/1963    Production Code: 015

Lucy's sister Marge shows up, having just left her new husband Hughie. Peacemaker Lucy gets the couple back together but believes their problems stem from having not had a wedding--they had eloped. Leave it to Lucy to plan a big wedding for the next day.

16. Lucy and Viv Are Volunteer Firemen  

Community Score

8.0 Great
First aired: 1/14/1963    Production Code: 017

Lucy protests too loudly about Danfield needing a fire department; she's named Captain of an all-woman volunteer force. With Viv's help, the group practices to be ready for their first mission. When the alarm finally goes off, they set the firehouse ablaze.

17. Lucy Becomes a Reporter  

Community Score

6.8 Fair
First aired: 1/21/1963    Production Code: 018

Lucy gets a temporary job as a society reporter for a newspaper. In no time at all, she's on the verge of being fired. When she learns an old boyfriend of Viv's is now a well-known financier, Lucy disguises herself as her housemate to get an interview and save her job.

18. Lucy and Viv Put in a Shower  

Community Score

9.4 Superb
First aired: 1/28/1963    Production Code: 019

Tired of her daughter Chris hogging the bathroom all the time, Lucy asks her neighbor Harry to install an extra shower for her. Not wanting to do the job, he hires a plumber to do it instead. Lucy nags the plumber so much that he quits, leaving Lucy and Vivian to finish the jobs themselves!

19. Lucy's Barbershop Quartet  

Community Score

7.7 Good 1
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First aired: 2/4/1963    Production Code: 021

When one of the members of Vivian's Barbershop Quartet drops out, Lucy naturally wants to take her place. Vivian agrees, and now it's up to Lucy to learn how to sing before a big singing contest in Albany!

20. Lucy and Viv Become Tycoons  

Community Score

9.0 Superb
First aired: 2/11/1963    Production Code: 020

When Viv's boyfriend goes nuts over her carmel popcorn recipe, Lucy sees a money-making opportunity. Suddenly, their kitchen is turned into a candy factory. Too bad their business is being run in a residential zone.

21. No More Double Dates  

Community Score

6.1 Fair
First aired: 2/18/1963    Production Code: 022

Tired of arguing about where to go and what to do, Lucy and Harry decide to spend an Saturday evening alone. They make up a story about having tickets to a Broadway show and go to a restaurant for dinner. Who should walk in? Viv and Eddie, of course.

22. Lucy and Viv Learn Judo  

Community Score

8.5 Great
First aired: 2/25/1963    Production Code: 023

Alarmed by break-ins in the neighborhood, Lucy and Viv decide to take judo lessons for self-protection.

23. Lucy Is a Soda Jerk  

Community Score

8.9 Great
First aired: 3/4/1963    Production Code: 024

Chris needs cash for a majorette uniform so she takes a job at Wilbur's Ice Cream Parlor. On the day of the parade, Wilbur won't let her miss work; Lucy and Viv fill in and a major mess is made.

24. Lucy Drives a Dump Truck  

Community Score

8.1 Great
First aired: 3/11/1963    Production Code: 025

Lucy joins a drive to gather newspapers to buy new uniforms for the local firefighters.

25. Lucy Visits the White House  

Community Score

6.7 Fair
First aired: 3/25/1963    Production Code: 026

The women accompany their boys' Cub Scout troup to Washington, D.C. After Lucy calls the President to tell him about the pack's replica of the White House built from sugar cubes, they're all invited to present it Mr. Kennedy in person. On the trip their model is destroyed, forcing Lucy and Viv to do a quick rebuild.

26. Lucy and Viv Take Up Chemistry  

Community Score

7.8 Good
First aired: 4/1/1963    Production Code: 027

To further their education, Lucy and Viv take a night-school chemistry class. Lucy gets carried away and tries to concoct a youth serum. When their teacher catches wind of this, he decides to teach the redhead a lesson.

27. Lucy Is a Chaperone  

Community Score

7.8 Good
First aired: 4/8/1963    Production Code: 028

Lucy and Viv chaperone Chris and some of her school friends for a week at Sandy Cove. While at the beach, Lucy decides that the kids think that she and Viv are old fogies so they try, unsucessfully, to dress and act young. The kids would rather have their chaperones behave like adults.

28. Lucy and the Little League  

Community Score

8.3 Great
First aired: 4/15/1963    Production Code: 029

Lucy and Viv are such distractions at their kids' Little Leage games that they get tossed out. Lucy schemes to get the two of them back into the ballpark.

29. Lucy and the Runaway Butterfly  

Community Score

5.1 Mediocre
First aired: 4/22/1963    Production Code: 030

Lucy helps Jerry with his butterfly collection when she accidentally allows one to escape. Later on a date with a lawyer, she thinks she spots the rogue butterfly, resulting in a chaotic dinner and a disrupted court session.

30. Lucy Buys a Boat  

Community Score

8.7 Great
First aired: 4/29/1963    Production Code: 031

Lucy and Viv purchase a "fixer upper" that's not quite seaworthy. When it slips away from it's moorings, the two are trapped in the middle of the lake in a boat that's quickly springing leaks.

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