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Lucille Ball appears as her Here's Lucy character in this episode of Danny Thomas' sitcom originally broadcast on January 21st, 1971.

An excerpt from Jack Benny's 1971 comedy special "Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Jack Benny...But Were Afraid To Ask" with guest appearances by Lucille Ball and John Wayne.

A new Featurette looking behind the scenes at the making of this monumental episode.

This fascinating featurette, utilizing original footage, takes a look behind the scenes at the design and making of sets used in various Here's Lucy episodes, with Art Director Ray Beal.

Lucy lands Craig and Kim a job performing at a high-class birthday party, but when Kim is sidelined with laryngitis, can songbird Lucy step into the breach?

An inexpensive vacation becomes quite costly for the Carters when it's spent at cheapskate Jack Benny's in-home hotel.

The simple assignment of making a bank deposit and serving a summons is not so simple when it's assigned to Lucy.

Lucy turns personal trainer and life coach to temperamental movie star Shelley Summers, who must overcome her compulsive eating and lose 15 pounds in two weeks or lose a lucrative movie deal.

Stumbling upon research notes for Kim and Don's school project on teenage marriage sets Lucy leaping before she looks and landing her and Harry in hot water at City Hall.

In this spoof of Mission: Impossible, Lucy inadvertently intercepts the tape and hears the secret message, leading to the Carters volunteering to impersonate Indian royalty at an embassy ball to help retrieve hidden microfilm.

Eva Von Graunitz, author of the scandalous, banned-in-Boston best seller "Valley of the Puppets", needs privacy while she writes the script for the film adaptation, so she goes to the Unique Employment Agency. Harry sends her to Lucy's house and trusts her to make sure no one disturbs Miss Von Graunitz at work.

It's Lucille Carter's birthday, and her teenage children Kim and Craig strive to make it special. They decide to treat her to a meal at a fancy Chinese restaurant.

While seeing Wayne Newton in concert, Lucy persuades him to give him an audition as a drummer for his back-up band.

Uncle Harry secures teenage Kim Carter her very first "real" job in a trendy fashion boutique. Her mother, Lucy is skeptical about Kim taking on such a responsibility, and attempts to give her daughter a few tips on how to make a good impression. Lucy's suggestions are not appreciated, and Kim begins to have doubts about her abilities. Lucy decides to patronize the boutique in order to bolster Kim's commissions, and eventually performs an impromptu fashion show at a nearby restaurant -- much to the dismay of both Uncle Harry and Lucy's son Craig.

A con man pretending to be Van Johnson scams Lucy out of $23.50. After that, a Texas oil millionaire comes to the Unique Employment Agency and asks for a celebrity to sing to his prized cow, Ethel, on her birthday. Lucy suggests Van Johnson, but when she goes to meet the real one and asks for her money back, she is thrown out.

Lucy decides that Uncle Harry should try to find a wife, so she visits a computer dating service to procure him a date.

Kim and Craig collect rocks for Kim's geology class, and Uncle Harry is led to believe that one of them contains gold.

Lucy makes a mess of things attempting to fix a light switch in Harry's house.

Lucy goes undercover as an old lady to catch the crook of a robbery she may have caused.

Lucy goes on a strike with the other secretaries to get Harry to give her a raise. When she overhears him later on, Lucy thinks Harry is trying to murder her.

Angeles High School needs money for a gymnasium, and the assembly that the students are staging to raise money to build one could use a star. Lucy suggests getting Carol Burnett to appear. They go to a taping of her show, and during the question and answer session, Lucy persuades Carol to do the benefit.

The Carters are waiting at the airport for a man who is considering opening a San Francisco branch of the agency. Meanwhile, Lucy and Harry run into a man who gives them a secret formula and then kills himself. The two of them must run from enemy spies to find the police.

Kim and Craig set Lucy up with a Handsome Latin, who seems like the perfect man. Little do they know that he is a jewel thief. When he takes Lucy to a banquet the fun begins.

Craig wants $100 to buy a surf board. Lucy says no, so he asks Uncle Harry to get him a job. His new job finds him working at the same grocery store where Lucy is trying to teach Kim how to be a good shopper.

Lucy goes undercover as a secretary to a man who is thought to be a spy.

Lucy, Harry, and the kids go on a safari to catch a Garboona, a cross between a gorilla and a baboon, that has escaped from the zoo and is very dangerous.

Tenessee Ernie returns, this time looking for help on his farm. Lucy comes up with an idea to make his farm a place where city folk can get away from the lights and sounds.

Craig celebrates his 16th birthday by getting his drivers license. Lucy takes him to the DMV to take the drivers test and interferes every step of the way, from commenting on his license picture, to being a backseat driver when he takes his road test!

Uncle Harry is hired to drive a motor home from Los Angeles to San Francisco, and foolishly agrees to take Lucy and the kids along for the ride. Lucy takes over driving so Harry can take a nap, and decides to take a detour, ending up visiting an air force academy in Colorado which Craig want to apply to after he graduates. Chaos ensues.

Lucy is still trying as hard as she can to get Craig into the Air Force Academy, and each result ends hilariously. This week she decides to camp out and gets the family captured as part of some war games.

Lucy indadvertently ends up marrying an Indian Chief who gives her the state of Utah as a wedding gift!

While in Arizona for a picnic (on their way to San Francisco) the Carters borrow a raft which leads to misadventures of the wet & wild variety. After camping outdoors near a river, Lucy's mattress gets carried away with the current, with Kim, Craig, and Harry trying to rescue her.

Harry shares sad news with his family of a SERIOUS operation, which turns out to be having his tonsils out. Lucy, Kim, and Craig attempt to keep Uncle Harry in the hospital after Harry has a run in with the nurse (Mary Wickes). Once he meets the sexy nurse (Paula Stewart) he changes his mind and wants to stay.

Patty Andrews recreates the Andrews sisters at the time of their greatest hits for a fan club reunion with the help of Lucy, Kim, and Craig. Lucy & Kim sing with Patty while Craig plays Bing Crosby.

After being robbed at home of $1.19 plus her TV set, Lucille, Kim, and Craig install an home-made alarm system.

Kim and her new boyfriend go to a drive in movie. Suspicious Lucy drags Harry to the drive in disguised as old hippies to spy on them. Of course Lucy and Harry cause such a stir at the drive in, it causes them to be kicked out.

Needing another means of transportation, Kim and Craig buy an old broken down car from Cheerful Charlie, the local car salesman. When the car no longer works, Lucy and Harry scheme to get Charlie to take it back for more than it's worth.

When Lucille loses an antique ring in wet cement, she disguises herself as a cement worker wielding a jackhammer.

Lucy sneaks Harry and the kids into a taping of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, wins an audience contest and gets to have a free dinner at the brown derby. When Lucy and Harry get to the restaurant, she sees Johnny and Ed Macmahon eating, and decide to horn in on their evening.

Kim and Craig are in charge of producing the school play, and decide its theme should be the Generation Gap. When they have casting problems, Lucy and Harry wind up playing the parents, and they all put on a really spectacular show.

The kids find a lost sheep dog and bring it home. After naming the sheep dog Humphrey Bogart, a litter of puppies are born. After the puppies are giving to new homes, Uncle Harry arrives with a want ad offering a reward.

Harry suggests Lucy is overworked and should hire an assistant. Suspecting Harry is really attempting to replace her, Lucy has Kim arrive to the office as temp secretary Shoiley Shopenauer, the world's worst office assistant.

The kids acquire part-time jobs to pay for a new phones, but Lucy ends up filling in for them with the multiple jobs that they acquire including various exotic animals.

Craig's high school club initiation scavenger hunt includes a candelabra that Craig borrowed from Liberace. Lucy of course thinks it has been stolen and feels obliged to return it to the famous pianist. A cute song and dance segment follows as the whole family end up with Liberace at his home.

When Lucy's drives into a Chinese Laundry, she takes a part time job there to pay for the damages.

Lucy brags to Viv, who's visiting, that she knows Lawrence Welk personally, and then schemes to introduce her to the band leader, whom she has actually never met. She and Mary Jane then attempt to foot Vivian with a wax dummy, but the kids get the real Lawrence Welk instead.

Lucy and Viv talk Harry into taking them to Tijuana for the day. After shopping in a tourist shop, they stopped at the border because a stuffed toy has thousands of dollars worth of jewels inside.

Craig decides he wants to be a songwriter much to the dismay of doctor loving Lucy. Craig writes Country Magic. Ann-Margret likes Craig's new song, and wants to duet with him on her upcoming television special.

Lucy schemes to help change a father's image of his son. Wally Cox appears as the son of Alan Hale. Lucy & Wally guard a warehouse and are successful in foiling a real robbery and soaking Harry in the process.

While in Las Vegas, Lucy and family return a lost horse to singer Wayne Newton. While there they decide to take jobs as ranch hands to earn spending money so they can see some Las Vegas shows. Kim & Craig join Wayne doing equestrian stunts while Lucy & Harry get to do the branding and clean-up.

One night Kim, Craig and Lucy find an old diary belonging to Lucy's great-grandmother and see that Harry's side of the family has owed their side of the family $10 for 100 years, with interest! The total comes to an incredible amount (over $145,000) and so Harry let's Lucy become the boss of the Employment Agency.... until they find out that later on in the diary it says that Harry's side of the family paid back the $10.

Lucy and her friend Carol Krausmeyer both end up entering the local Secretary Beautiful Contest, causing a rivalry between them. They both make fools of themselves at the contest trying to prove which woman is better.

Richard Burton, the movie star, escapes riotous fans by wearing a plumber's disguise. Lucy Carter mistakes him for a much needed plumber. Sam (Burton), the plumber, escapes to the Carter household. Lucy later finds a remarkable diamond ring in his discarded over-alls. By the time Lucy discovers it is THE famous Elizabeth Taylor diamond ring, it is already stuck on her finger. The end result is a creshendo of comedy as Liz feverishly tries to get the ring off Lucy's finger. Ultimately, Lucy's arms are used as Liz Taylor's while Richard & Liz do a scheduled press conference.

Lucy threatens to take up skydiving if her kids don't drop their dangerous activities, but Harry convinces her to actually do it as publicity for the Employment Agency.

Lucy ends up hitting Sammy Davis Jr. while opening the door to the employment agency and it hits his nose which causes him to threaten to sue Harry and Lucy if his nose looks different for the movie he is filming.

After seeing Buddy Rich perform Craig decides to enter a drum contest. Lucy of course believes that Buddy Rich will help Craig and after some confusion he does.

When Lucy buys Craig a record player for his birthday it ends up not working right, so Lucy brings it back to the store but they won't accept it back which causes Lucy and other victims of the company's defective products to present their case in front of shareholders. Charles Nelson Reilly appears as the store employee who refuses the return. Some good physical comedy is done with the defective merchandise props. rs.

Harry & his classmates hold a reunion musical variety show about the roaring 20's in which of course Lucy & family are prominently featured. A fun show with good music and dancing.

Craig produces a documentary focusing on his mother and family. Chaos ensues when Lucy leaves money in a library book that she has returned, and goes through shelf after shelf of books.

While Uncle Harry is away at his college reunion, Lucy borrows his home for a Greek couple's wedding.

Lucy has the winning bid on a painting at an auction and asks Vincent Price to appraise it for her. Lucy suspects it may have great value. Remembering that former client Vincent Price is a collector, Lucy calls on him for consultation. Vincent mistakes Lucy for an actress in his new horror movie and proceeds to rehearse a scene in his newly created evil laboratory.

Harry gets a contract to have a diamond cut for a rich and eccentric woman. Lucy houses the diamond cutter and attempts to sooth his nerves.

Harry sends Lucy to Jack Benny's house where she writes down his biography. Important and significant events throughout his life like him as a child practicing violin to being in the navy to shows with Mary Livingston. George Burns makes a cameo appearance.

Lucy tries to modernize Rudy Vallee with the help of Kim and her Rock N Roll friends.

Lucy is chosen on an audience participation game show. The host, Art Linkletter, offers her $500 if she won't lose her temper for 24 hours. When she's escorted off the stage, the host then brings out Harry, Mary Jane, & the kids, offering them $250 each if they can make Lucy lose her temper! They do everything possible to make Lucy lose it, but she overcomes temptation. Lucy manages to demolish a grocery store!

Harry bribes Lucy into posing as his pregnant wife to keep away an old flame with romantic desires for Harry. A funny physical show in which Lucy gets ready to deliver a baby largely made of feathers.

Crooks move in next door to Lucy and the kids. Ma Parker, dangerous leader of a gang of 35 year old little people. After the cops nab Ma, Lucy poses as her to catch Joe Grapefruit the brains of a counterfeiting outfit.

Lucy assumes that Harry is broke and marrying a rich woman for her money. She schemes to break up the union before it can happen.

Lucy wants to go to Palm Springs with Kim but can't go unless she gets fired. As she continues to cook up wild ways to get Harry to fire her Harry's doctor is telling him to be nice to her. This episode features a classic look as Lucy dons a wild wig and costume in an effort to not dress conservatively.

Lucy wants a long weekend to go to Mexico with the kids. Lucy tries to cure miserable Harry by coaxing him to get glasses. After much scheming with eye doctors and double vision Harry gives in.

Kim wins a car but because there's a large tax on it, Lucy decides to raffle the car off to get the money needed to pay the tax. Harry tells them they need a permit to hold the raffle. But the guy at the office tells them they don't need one. After holding the raffle without a permit they are arrested.

While having his house redecorated Harry moves in with Lucy and Kim. He of course disturbs their happy home by taking over, ordering them around, and making them do 6 a.m. exercises. Then Lucy schemes to drive him away with the help of a marching band and a goat.

Lucy finds an old cigarette lighter/ lamp, and is convinced it can grant wishes. When it gets accidentally thrown away at the office, Lucy and Harry search through the garbage bins to get it back.

Carol Burnett and Lucille Ball salute the Hollywood of Yesteryear, as they recruit jobless entertainers at the unemployment office to stage a variety show.

Lucy is working her way to Hawaii as social director on an ocean liner, and ends up convincing Harry to pay for Kim and Craig to come along too. To her surprise, her old friend Vivian is also on board the ship.

Lucy, Harry, Vivian and the kids put on a show on the cruise ship.

After working for him as a secretary Lucy convinces Flip Wilson to play the part of Prissy in a local production of Gone With the Wind, with Harry as Rhett Butler, Lucy as Scarlett O'Hara, and Kim as Melanie.

Harry takes on a new partner who tries to add youth to the agency. In an effort to keep her job Lucy bets Harry's business partner that she can beat him at mountain climbing.

When Harry learns that a woman whom he knew many years ago in Italy is coming to see him. He says they vowed to wait for each other. He wants to look good for her so he asks Lucy and Kim to help him lose weight and learn Italian before she arrives.

Lucy, using binoculars to view a building across the street, thinks she has seen two criminals commit a burglary. The criminals spot her. The next day, before Lucy comes into work, the crooks force Harry to tell them where Lucy is. Harry spills his guts and the hoodlums lock him in the closet. After Harry is freed, he first tells Lucy what happened and she should leave home. He then calls private detective Joe Mannix to protect Lucy.

"Operation Redhead" is a result of Lucy helping Harry, who is photographing the splash down as part of the naval reserve. Space nut Lucy must go through decontamination with Astronauts when she makes physical contact with them after a landing.

Lucy and Kim attempt to make Uncle Harry guilty for not giving Lucy a pay raise.

Harry invites Lucy & Kim to join him at a friends ski lodge. Lucy encounters Dinah Shore while there. The two get stuck together on a ski lift, where Lucy proceeds to sing a medley of Dinah's hits to her, and otherwise annoy the singer.

Lucy books an all Nun band to help Harry's sister who is a sister with a benefit. Lucy takes saxophone lessons from Freddy Martin to join the band when the saxophone player becomes ill.

Lucy goes to work for movie star Dan Dailey, and star struck Lucy drives him crazy. Dan pleads with Harry to take her back at the Unique Employment Agency.

Lucy and Uncle Harry seek celebrities for a radio campaign when a competitor makes a dent in their business. Kim's boyfriend is an impressionist (Rich Little), and offers his services.

Lucille and Uncle Harry attend a Ginger Rogers film festival. Ms. Rogers attends in disguise, and is seated next to "you-know-who". When Lucille offends Ms. Rogers, she leaves the theater, but also leaves her purse. Discovering the true identity to the stranger, Harry and Lucy plot to return the purse to meet her again.

David Frost needs help on an airplane to England to make sure he gets a good nights sleep but hires Lucy which is never a good thing. She has to stay awake during the whole flight to keep visitors away. Once on the plane Lucy's constant distracting keeps him awake. After creating an international incident Lucy then falls asleep while appearing on David Frost's TV show to explain it.

Stressed out Harry needs a vacation so Lucy arranges for a house swap with a family in the jungle of Africa. The episode centers on a variety of animals they encounter (chimps, parrot, lion, gorilla) plus a silly segment about a tse-tse fly.

The family believes they are on Candid Camera, but in actuality, the are assisting a robbery. Allen Funt plays a dual role as himself and an evil look-a-like.

Lucy is a game show contestant on her lucky day. She can win $1000 if she can train Jackie the chimp to do a trick in a week.

Harry takes his psychiatrists advice to give Lucy a raise. Lucy is so shocked by the raise that she thinks he is hiding something and decides to keep a close eye on Harry which leads to paranoia as he tries to get away from those following him.

When an old lady comes in the enployment agency looking for a job because she has nowhere to go, Lucy decides to let her stay at her house. When Mrs. Brady sells land to Harry, Kim tells them about a similar sounding scam which gives Lucy and Harry the idea to let the Mrs. Brady have a seance in which they dress up as Napoleon and Josephine to convince her to refund Harry his money.

Lucy saves a man's life, and according to Chinese custom, he is indebted to her. Lucy and Kim scheme to correct the situation once they learn that others in town have the same problem.

Harry gets a new office computer, leading Lucy to get a new job at an insurance company, so she schemes to make the computer obsolete and get her job back.

Kim has decided it is time for her to move out of the house, but Lucy becomes an annoying mother hen. Ultimately, Kim plans to teach Mother a lesson.

Lucy is promoted to office manager, and looks for ways to save money. Her solution is to sublet half the office to a toy maker.

Lucy has a new boyfriend Bob Collins, but Kim and Uncle Harry are worried. The milkman doesn't help matters when he informs the pair the Lucy's boyfriend is a playboy. Kim & Harry cook up all kinds of crazy stunts to scare off Bob.

Viv shows up for a surprise visit, and tells Lucy she may stay in California for a year, but everything goes awry when Harry fires Lucy and hires Viv in her place, making Lucy furious. After a few weeks, Harry can't stand Viv and Viv can't stand Harry. Lucy comes up with a scheme to get Viv to quit, but Kim blabs the whole thing to Viv.

Kim moves into her own apartment (one managed by Lucy's brother) and deals with neighbors and lecherous men.

Lucy Carter breaks her leg, and is in the hospital. She is attracted to a doctor, and attempts to get his affection.

Lucy's new hospital roommate has broken her foot, and steals the attention from Lucy. Lucy being Lucy torments Eva for the entire stay.

Harry plays 24hr home-nurse when Lucy arrives home from the hospital after the others (Kim; Vanda & Mary Jane) all fail to help due to other commitments.

Amazingly, Harry is lost without Lucille, and after 4 failed replacements moves the office to her house while she is recovering. Lucy then uses a variety of schemes to get him out. Harry ends up being arrested for operating a business in a residential area