The Lucy Show

Weekdays at 11:30a ET | 8:30a PT and Sunday at 9p ET | 6p PT

In the follow-up to I Love Lucy, Lucille Ball plays widow Lucy Carmichael, a mother of two children who shares a home with divorced friend Vivian Bagley (Vivian Vance of I Love Lucy fame). Carmichael is always scheming—dragging Vivian along with her—and grappling with comic complications related to life on her own and serving as secretary to the grumpy and demanding Mr. Mooney.

Next Airings

Sep 4th 11:30a ET

The Loophole in the Lease

Viv's son Sherman lets the bathtub overflow, collapsing the plaster on the ceiling below. Mr. Mooney says that according to the lease, Viv must pay for damages or be evicted. Viv discovers that she actually could buy the house and throw Lucy out if she wanted. Mooney and Lucy panic, breaking into her room in the middle of the night to steal her copy of the agreement.

Sep 6th 9:00p ET

Lucy and the Beauty Doctor

In another attempt to squeeze cash out of Mooney, Lucy claims its for medical reasons. Actually, it's for a visit to a beauty shop. She has to concoct an even bigger lie when she's caught there by a hidden camera TV show.

Sep 6th 9:30p ET

Lucy the Stockholder

When Lucy and Vivian try to get the town's wealthiest doctor to become a depositor in Mr. Mooney's bank, the doctor, mistaking the girls for volunteers for an experiment in hypnosis, regressing them to the age of five.

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