THE LUCY SHOW INDEX
Episode #26:
Lucy and Viv Take up Chemistry
Season #1: (1962-63)
Airdate: April 1, 1963
Episode #27:
Lucy is a Chaperone
Season #1: (1962-63)
Airdate: April 8, 1963
Notes: Don Grady best known as Robbie on "My Three Sons", (1960-72) is given an excellent showcase here for his good looks and musical talent.
Episode #28:
Lucy and the Little League
Season #1: (1962-63)
Airdate: April 15, 1963
Episode #29:
Lucy and the Runaway Butterfly
Season #1: (1962-63)
Airdate: April 22, 1963
Notes: There was no actual butterfly on the set. The butterfly was optically inserted later.
Episode #30:
Lucy Buys a Boat
Season #1: (1962-63)
Airdate: April 29, 1963
Notes: The finale of this episode has one of the last really great physical comedy scenes between Lucille and Vivian.
Episode #31:
Lucy Plays Cleopatra
Season #2: (1963-64)
Airdate: September 30, 1963
Notes: Starting with this episode, there are new opening credits for the show. The cartoon characters that had been part of the opening of all past television seasons are retired. It is decided to shoot the series in color from this point forward, although they are broadcast in black and white.
Episode #32:
Kiddie Parties, Inc.
Season #2: (1963-64)
Airdate: October 7, 1963
Episode #33:
Lucy and Viv Play Softball
Season #2: (1963-64)
Airdate: October 14, 1963
Notes: In the scene at the ballpark, with Lucy in the outfield, her hair is darker and much longer. That is because it is her own hair, which Lucille wore chin length in private life.
Episode #34:
Lucy Gets Locked in the Vault
Season #2: (1963-64)
Airdate: October 21, 1963
Notes: This episode, the first of a two-part story, introduces Gale Gordon as Theodore J. Mooney, the new trustee of Lucy's money and manager of the bank.
Episode #35:
Lucy and the Safecracker
Season #2: (1963-64)
Airdate: October 28, 1963
Notes: This is the second of two parts from Episode #34, "Lucy Gets Locked in the Vault".
Episode #36:
Lucy Goes Duck Hunting
Season #2: (1963-64)
Airdate: November 4, 1963
Episode #37:
Lucy and the Bank Scandal
Season #2: (1963-64)
Airdate: November 11, 1963
Episode #38:
Lucy Decides to Redecorate
Season #2: (1963-64)
Airdate: November 18, 1963
Episode #39:
Lucy Puts Out a Fire at the Bank
Season #2: (1963-64)
Airdate: December 2, 1963
Episode #40:
Lucy and the Military Academy
Season #2: (1963-64)
Airdate: December 9, 1963
Notes: Jerry will eventually be sent off to military school permanently when the series moves its locale to Los Angeles in 1965.
Episode #41:
Lucy's College Reunion
Season #2: (1963-64)
Airdate: December 16, 1963
Notes: We learn in this episode that Lucy's maiden name was Taylor, although these facts will change in later years.
Episode #42:
The Loophole in the Lease
Season #2: (1963-64)
Airdate: December 23, 1963
Episode #43:
Lucy Conducts the Symphony
Season #2: (1963-64)
Airdate: December 30, 1963
Unproduced Episode:
Lucy Plays Basketball
Season #2: (1963-64)
Airdate: unproduced
Notes: This script was never produced. Lucille had misgivings about filming the script.
Episode #44:
Lucy Plays Florence Nightingale
Season #2: (1963-64)
Airdate: January 6, 1964
Episode #45:
Lucy Goes to Art Class
Season #2: (1963-64)
Airdate: January 13, 1964
Episode #46:
Chris Goes Steady
Season #2: (1963-64)
Airdate: January 20, 1964
Notes: The entire scene with Lucy and Mr. Mooney in the tree house will be reused more than twenty years later, in the 1986 Life With Lucy episode, Lucy and Curtis are Up a Tree (unaired).
Episode #47:
Lucy Takes up Golf
Season #2: (1963-64)
Airdate: January 27, 1964
This episode is based in part on the I Love Lucy episode, The Golf Game, episode #96.
Episode #48:
Lucy Teaches Ethel Merman to Sing
Season #2: (1963-64)
Airdate: February 3, 1964
Notes: This show is the first of a two-part story. Originally written as a single episode, it was altered to be a duet between Merman and Lucille, with Ethel belting the lyrics and Lucy acting them out.
Episode #49:
Ethel Merman and the Boy Scout Show
Season #2: (1963-64)
Airdate: February 10, 1964
Episode #50:
Lucy and Viv Open a Restaurant
Season #2: (1963-64)
Airdate: February 17, 1964
