The Lucy Show

Weekdays at 11a ET | 8a 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

Mar 27th 11:30a ET

Lucy Buys a Boat

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.

Mar 28th 11:00a ET

Lucy Plays Cleopatra

The Danfield Women's Volunteer Fire Fighters put on Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra. Lucy is cast as Cleopatra with Viv, in male drag, as Marc Antony. The two dueling divas try to upstage each other during the performance, infuriating their pretentious director Professor Gitterman.

Mar 28th 11:30a ET

Kiddie Parties, Inc.

The high cost of their kids' birthday parties inspires Lucy and Viv's latest money-making scheme. They'll make easy money with their own children's party business. What can goes wrong does at their first event.

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