Episode #1 - Lucy Waits up for Chris

Special Notes: Lucy never memorized any of her lines on the show, and instead used cue cards. This is normally verboten by any actors, even sitcom or soap opera actors who have to learn their lines quickly. If you look close at The Lucy Show, you can see Lucy looking away from the actors in the scene to the cue cards, right before she says her lines. Reportedly, Lucy had no time to rehearse, because of her board meetings and other commitments as the head of Desilu Studios.

Episode #2 - Lucy Buys a Sheep

Special Notes: This is the only episode of "The Lucy Show" where we see Lucy Carmichael's bedroom. The opening scene from this episode was used as the audition scene for the children. In the original script, and in the scripts for the first few weeks, Lucy's daughter Chris is called Linda.

Episode #3 - Lucy Digs up a Date

Special Notes: This episode introduces Dick Martin as next-door neighbor, and sometimes date, Harry Conners.

Episode #4 - Lucy is a Referee

Episode #5 - Lucy Misplaces Two Thousand Dollars

Special Notes: The basic plot of this entry was adapted for a children's book that was published about that time by Whitman Press called "Lucy and the Madcap Mystery" by Cole Fannin. This episode introduces Charles Lane as banker, Mr. Barnsdahl. Although Lane is a veteran of many Lucy appearances, he is not a success on this series (Lane has trouble remembering his lines) and before long his character will be written out.

Episode #6 - Lucy Becomes an Astronaut

Special Notes: For trivia fans, it is Lucille who has the claustrophobia in real life, not Vivian (as revealed in the "isolation" scene).

Episode #7 - Lucy is a Kangaroo for a Day

Special Notes: Notice Majel Barett as the secretary Lucy replaces, she will soon gain television immortality as Nurse Chapel on Star Trek (1966-69). The entire bit where Lucy's knitted suit unravels is taken from the script outline for "Lucy Goes to Broadway" (1961), which was never produced. This is the first appearance of Sid Gould (the waiter), he is Gary Morton's cousin, and becomes a staple of Lucille's shows for the next fifteen years. While he never has a large part, almost every waiter, bell captain, or bit character on Lucille's sereis will be played by Sid.

Episode #8 - Lucy, the Music Lover

Special Notes: This is Mary Jane Croft's debut playing Audrey Simmons. The character is very close to that of her Betty Ramsey character on "I Love Lucy", but will be phased out by the third season. Mary Jane will return when the show's locale is moved from New York to California in 1965.

Episode #9 - Lucy Puts up a TV Antenna

Special Notes: The scene in the TV repair shop is greatly edited as it was much longer when filmed. In it, Lucy holds up a cardboard TV screen to show the repairman how her screen looks by contorting her face. A color still from this sequence will be used as part of the show's opening credits for the next season. At the end of this episode, Viv lights a fire that billows smoke up to Lucy stuck in the chimney, but there is no fireplace in this set as there was in every other Lucy set!

Episode #10 - Lucy Builds a Rumpus Room

Episode #11 - Vivian Sues Lucy

Special Notes: Vivian's antipathy towards her ex-husband is even funnier because everyone watching is thinking of Fred Mertz as the one she hates so much. This is the last appearance of Charles Lane as Mr. Barnsdahl.

Episode #12 - Together for Christmas

Episode #13 - Chris' New Year's Eve Party

Special Notes: This was the first time Lucy did her very adroit Charlie Chaplin immitation on a television program.

Episode #14 - Lucy's Sister Pays a Visit

Episode #15 - Lucy and Her Electric Mattress

Episode #16 - Lucy and Viv are Volunteer Firemen

Special Notes: Lucille wears her own hair (she usually wore wigs) in this episode to accommodate the fire hat.

Episode #17 - Lucy Becomes a Reporter

Episode #18 - Lucy and Viv Put in a Shower

Special Notes: The final scene (with the girls stuck in the shower as the water continually rises) was almost a physical disaster for Lucille. When she went down to the bottom of the shower, she couldn't get up again. Viv realized she was in trouble, and pulled her up by the roots of her hair. She then began doing all of the dialog, including Lucille's lines so that Lucille could catch a breath. The distressed look on Lucille's face was real. This episode is a classic, ranking almost anything Lucille had done in the past.

Episode #19 - Lucy and Viv Become Tycoons

Episode #20 - Lucy's Barbershop Quartet

Special Notes: Lucille loved working with Hans Conried, who plays the voice teacher. The entire voice lesson scene will be repeated the following season, with Lucy as the teacher and Ethel Merman as the nonplussed pupil.