HERE'S LUCY INDEX
Episode #101:
Lucy and Joe Namath
Season #5: (1972-73)
Airdate: October 9, 1972
Episode #102:
The Case of the Reckless Wheelchair Driver
Season #5: (1972-73)
Airdate: October 16, 1972
Episode #103:
Lucy the Other Woman
Season #5: (1972-73)
Airdate: October 23, 1972
Notes: This is comedian Totie Fields' first TV sitcom role. She overpowers anyone who is in a scene with her. Lucille even allows her a song at the finale to showcase her musical abilities. Fields' television work will almost always be confined to game shows, talk shows, dramas, and variety shows.
Episode #104:
Lucy and Petula Clark
Season #5: (1972-73)
Airdate: October 30, 1972
Episode #105:
Lucy and Jim Bailey
Season #5: (1972-73)
Airdate: November 6, 1972
Notes: Jim Baily impression of Phyllis Diller is dead-on.
Episode #106:
Dirty Gertie
Season #5: (1972-73)
Airdate: November 13, 1972
Episode #107:
Lucy and Donny Osmond
Season #5: (1972-73)
Airdate: November 20, 1972
Notes: Eve Plumb is much more recognizable to television fans as Jan Brady on The Brady Bunch (1969-74). Donny Osmond really did have a crush on Lucie Arnaz.
Episode #108:
Lucy and Her Prince Charming
Season #5: (1972-73)
Airdate: November 27, 1972
Episode #109:
My Fair Buzzi
Season #5: (1972-73)
Airdate: December 11, 1972
Episode #110:
Lucy and the Group Encounter
Season #5: (1972-73)
Airdate: December 18, 1972
Episode #111:
Lucy is Really in a Pickle
Season #5: (1972-73)
Airdate: January 1, 1973
Notes: This episode is based on the 1952 I Love Lucy episode #30, "Lucy Does a TV Commercial", the famous Vitameatavegamin outing. This time Lucille overreacts to the tast of sour pickles as she rehearses her lines over and over.
Episode #112:
Lucy Goes on Her Last Blind Date
Season #5: (1972-73)
Airdate: January 8, 1973
Episode #113:
Lucy and Her Genuine Twimby
Season #5: (1972-73)
Airdate: January 15, 1973
Episode #114:
Lucy Goes to Prison
Season #5: (1972-73)
Airdate: January 22, 1973
Episode #115:
Lucy and the Professor
Season #5: (1972-73)
Airdate: January 29, 1973
Episode #116:
Lucy and the Franchise Fiasco
Season #5: (1972-73)
Airdate: February 5, 1973
Notes: The slapstick comedy scene with the custard machine going crazy is classic Lucy. This entry is based in part on The Lucy Show episode #7, "Lucy is a Kangaroo", which is itself based in part on the unproduced 1961 special, Lucy Goes to Broadway.
Episode #117:
Lucy and Uncle Harry's Pot
Season #5: (1972-73)
Airdate: February 12, 1973
Episode #118:
The Not-So-Popular Mechanics
Season #5: (1972-73)
Airdate: February 19, 1973
Episode #119:
Goodbye Mrs. Hips
Season #5: (1972-73)
Airdate: February 26, 1973
Notes: This is the largest part Vanda Barra will have on a Lucy episode, and it showcases her to great advantage. Under different circumstances, she might have been a good replacement for Vivian Vance.
Episode #120:
Lucy and Harry's Memoirs
Season #5: (1972-73)
Airdate: March 5, 1973
Notes: This is the third retrospective show Lucille does. It was planned to be the last show of the series. CBS President Fred Silverman comes to Lucille's house in Beverly Hills and talks her into doing another year. The script is slightly reworked so that as Lucille walks out of the office at the end of the show, she leaves a sign that says 'Temporarily' Out of Business.
Episode #121:
Lucy and Danny Thomas
Season #6: (1973-74)
Airdate: September 10, 1973
Episode #122:
The Big Game
Season #6: (1973-74)
Airdate: September 17, 1973
Episode #123:
Lucy the Peacemaker
Season #6: (1973-74)
Airdate: September 24, 1973
Episode #124:
Lucy the Wealthy Widow
Season #6: (1973-74)
Airdate: October 1, 1973
Episode #125:
Bow-Wow Boutique
Season #6: (1973-74)
Airdate: October 8, 1973
Notes: It was about this time Lucille began relying totally on cue cards. In the beginning of Here's Lucy, she not only knew her lines but everyone else's. She wanted to observe what was going on without a script in her hand. The more she used the cue cards, the less she was in the reality of the scene.
