Episode #141 - Lucy Gets Mooney Fired

Episode #142 - Lucy Sues Mooney

Special Notes: Jack Carter is a close friend of Lucille's. In fact, he introduced Lucille to Gary Morton.

Episode #143 - Lucy Gets Involved

Episode #144 - Lucy the Philanthropist

Special Notes: Notice the ice cream cones Mary Jane brings for Lucy. They have to be small enough for Frank McHugh to gobble up in a couple of bites, so special cones are made by the prop department.

Episode #145 - Lucy and Carol Burnett, Part 1 (aka Coffee, Tea or

Special Notes: This episode is the first of two parts. By this point, the series is developing into a skitcom, much like Jack Benny's old TV series. There is very little continuity from week to week, and no vision for the series as a whole. Part of this is due to the fact Lucille has recently sold Desilu to the huge conglomerate Gulf & Western, which also owns Paramount Studios (located next door to Desilu in Hollywood). Everyone knows this is the final season for this still very popular series. Less attention is paid to plots and details, and more effort is placed on guest stars and musical numbers. The finale of this entry has Lucy and Carol putting on an impromptu in-flight show when the scheduled film breaks. This kind of spontaneous singing and dancing had not happened since the golden days of the MGM musical films. Without the talen and energy of the two ladies involved, it would have been very corny. Notice the subtle use of flight attendant trainees of all races.

Episode #146 - Lucy and Carol Burnett, Part 2 (aka Lucy and Carol

Special Notes: This is the follow-up episode of the two-parter. After this two-part sequence, the flight attendant plot thread is dropped without explanation, and Lucy is back at the bank as Mr. Mooney's secretary!.

Episode #147 - Lucy's Mystery Guest

Episode #148 - Lucy and the Pool Hustler

Episode #149 - Lucy and Viv Reminisce

Special Notes: This is the second of three times that Lucille trots out old clips and builds a show around them. It is already known The Lucy Show is coming to an end, and Lucille wants a sentimental look-back at the show's six years. She doesn't want to do a final episode, because the show is about to be rerun on CBS on weekday mornings (replacing I Love Lucy, which is goinb into syndication). Lucille feels a final episode would hurt the show later in reruns. It is then decided to involve Vivian, and to limit the clips to those involving the two of them. Vivian thinks it would be a good idea to do a retrospective of all their bits together, going back to 1951. Lucille immeidately nixes the suggestion. It is still difficult for her to deal with the Desi years. All but one of the clips are from the first season of The Lucy Show. Wraparound scenes are filmed to introduce and conclude the clips. These are filmed to introduce and conclude the clips. These are done in one day, without a live studio audience. Vivian is often a whip with a quip, and isn't intimidated by Lucille. At one point, when the Lucy character says, "I've always had a sensible reason for doing things," Viv jokes back, "Sensible? Sensible my ass!"

Episode #150 - Lucy and Phil Harris

Episode #151 - Mooney's Other Wife

Episode #152 - Lucy and the Stolen Stole

Episode #153 - Lucy Helps Ken Berry

Episode #154 - Lucy and the Lost Star

Special Notes: The story line that Crawford is a cleaning fanatic is taken right out of her personal life. This is the last episode to star Vivian Vance, and is also one of the episodes that Lucille Ball was not happy to make. According to known Hollywood sources, as well as visual proof once you watch the episode, actress 'Joan Crawford' was often drunk on the set during taping which lead to frequent arguments between the stars.

Episode #155 - Lucy and Sid Caesar

Special Notes: Sid is no longer the superstar he once was. His talent is still intact, but it is dulled by the alcoholism that Sid will overcome in the 1970s.

Episode #156 - Lucy and 'The Boss of the Year' Award

Special Notes: This is the last episode of the series. It is too bad no one thinks to bring back Vivian or Lucy's stage kids for a final farewell. The show must end because it is owned by Desilu, and Desilu is no longer owned by Lucille Ball. Miss Ball wants to own her own TV product, so it is decided for her to come back in the fall with a new CBS network series produced by Ball's new company, Lucille Ball Productions. The finale of the installment, a musical number by Lucy saluting Mr. Mooney for six years, totally ignoring the first three seasons of the format. Notice that this is, by comparison to other series, a short season. Lucille Ball's sticoms will consistently have the shortest seasons of any network sitcoms on the air from this point forward.

Episode #157 - Lucy and Viv Fight over Harry

Special Notes: This script, written for the first season was not filmed. The main reason the episode isn't shot is that it would have firmly established Lucy and Harry as having deep feelings for one another. It has already been decided to phase out Harry's character (Dick Martin was not available every week, and Lucille did not want a steady boyfriend for her character), so this outing would have been at cross-purposes with the show's long range plans.

Episode #158 - Lucy Plays Basketball

Special Notes: This script was never produced. Lucille had misgivings about filming the script.