When Uncle Harry gets a request for a band to sing at a sweet sixteen birthday party, he hires Craig's band with Kim singing lead vocals. But a day at the beach surfing leaves her with a bad case of laryngitis. Lucy decides to step in as Kim's replacement, donning a wig and mini skirt.
A family vacation in Palm Springs finds Lucy and her family renting rooms at Jack Benny's desert mansion. Although the price is reasonable, Jack adds an extra charge for every little thing during their stay.
A planned picnic with the kids is ruined when Harry demands that Lucy work on a school holiday. He chore is to make a delivery of a summons to a woman at a department store, and make a deposit at the bank. But a mix-up finds Lucy doing the exact opposite and wreaks havoc within the store.
Lucy is hired by movie producer C.B. Wellborn, to keep a watchful eye on his overweight star, Shelly Summers. He wants Shelly to lose at least fifteen pounds before her next movie begins shooting, and Lucy is determined to make sure she reaches her goal.
Lucy makes a mistake when she overhears a conversation between Kim and her friend Don, who are researching a school project on teenage marriage. She believes that the kids are really planning an elopement, causing Lucy and Harry to search for the kids before they find a judge to perform the ceremony.
While trapped in a phone booth, Lucy overhears a secret mission from a spy's self-destructing tape recorder. Since they are aware of the mission, the government asks the family to dress as Middle Eastern royalty to help trap the spies.
Harry arranges for novelist Eva Von Kristen, to stay at Lucy's home while she finishes her screenplay for her newest book, Valley of the Puppets.
A birthday surprise turns into a case of embarrassment when Craig forgets his wallet at home when out on a Chinese dinner date with his mom. Lucy decides to pretend to be sick so she can skip being responsible for the check.
Kim and Craig borrow Wayne Newton's musical equipment while he is on a break, and Wayne believes that they have enough talent to perform with him the next evening.
Lucy comes up with a brilliant idea how to help Kim succeed in her first job as a sales assistant, buy up more clothes so that Kim will get a bigger commission and Lucy will save more money.
A prank by a Van Johnson look alike has Lucy lending him $23.50 to "fix his car." When Lucy goes to the bank the following day, the real Van has no idea who she is and is escorted out of the bank by security guards. But when it's revealed that a joke has been played on her, the real Van Johnson feels horrible for the way she was treated and takes a job for Carter's Unique Employment Agency to sing "happy birthday" to a cow.
When Lucy uses a computer dating service as a means to get a perfect match for Harry, the card reveals that her old friend Vivian is the woman for him. Eager to match them up, Viv winds up falling for Lucy's match instead.
A school geography project for Craig and Kim ends up with the two finding a gold mine. When Harry hears the news he immediately buys up the land for himself but finds out that it costs more to produce the gold than it's worth.
When Harry asks Lucy to work Saturday night at his home, it leads to a broken lamp in which she tries to repair, and that causes the whole house to be turned upside down.
When Lucy lends a hand to help ex-con Wally get a new start in life, but when she gets him in a tight fix, Lucy goes undercover to prove his innocence.
Lucy gets help from her friend Mary Wickes to revolt against Harry's unjust ways and go on strike.
Lucy gets Carol Burnett to appear in the high school play for Kim and Craig, along with Uncle Harry.
Lucy and Harry are chased through an airport by terrorists who believe they are American spies.
Kim and Craig have found a date for Lucy for the upcoming grand ball. The only problem is that he is a jewel thief.
A day at the supermarket finds Lucy teaching Kim the proper way to shop, how to get into a tiff and nearly getting Craig fired from his job there. Also, a contest involving a search for explosive cans of whipped cream in which they can win $100 is running at the store.
Lucy spies on a greeting card writer while working undercover as his secretary.
A trip with Howard Keel in search for the rare gorboona, a cross between a gorilla and a baboon, finds Kim and Craig dressed in native costumes and dancing to lure the prey, Lucy being shot in the behind with a tranquilizer and Uncle Harry causing a rain storm with his dance.
The Unique Employment Agency chooses to do a commercial for Tennessee Ernie Ford who comes to them for an idea to help his failing fun farm. They believe the farm would work better as an amusement park.
The day has arrived in which Craig has been waiting for, his 16th birthday which means he can now try for his driver's license. So, at 6am he awakens his family and is ready to get the day going and get his test over with. Lucy decides she will be sitting right behind him in the back seat.
A Carter vacation finds Lucy being left behind at the Air Force Academy. She will do anything she can to get Craig admitted into the Academy.
Still hoping to get Craig interest in the Air Force, Lucy has the family camp out in the area where the cadets are engaged in war games.
While still on vacation, Lucy finds herself married to an Indian chief, who has given her the state of Utah as a wedding present. Now she must figure out how to get a divorce.
A night out under the stars and by a flowing river finds Lucy racing down the rapids when the riverbed swallows her up upon her mattress.
Lucy is made Harry's nurse when he enters a hospital for a tonsillectomy.
Kim, Craig and Lucy don the parts of the Andrew Sisters and Bing Crosby, when Patti Andrews comes to the Unique Employment Agency looking for players of these parts for an Andrew Sisters Revival.
After losing their TV and $1.19 when their home is robbed, Lucy has Craig create a very successful burglar alarm.
Lucy and Harry disguise themselves as hippies to keep an eye on Kim when she goes out on a date with a young bearded man.
Kim and Craig buy a used car from Uncle Miltie's Used Car lot without a test drive. When they get the vehicle home they decide it is a piece of junk and want a refund. But Uncle Miltie claims he never sold them any car, leading Lucy to scheme to get their money back.
Lucy disguises herself as a construction worker, complete with a jackhammer when she believes her precious antique ring has been lost in a batch of newly poured cement.
When an evening out with Harry turns out to be a free taping of the origin of money, Lucy sneaks into the audience of the Tonight Show. She gets a chance to play "stump the band" and believes her prize was a dinner with Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon, when she sees them dining in the Brown Derby, where she was dining as well and joins them for their meal.
Lucy and Harry agree to play parts in Kim and Craig's high school play about the history of the generation gap throughout the ages.
Harry creates a money making scheme when Kim and Craig bring home a stray dog, who gives birth to nine puppies.
Lucy mistakes Harry's idea of hiring an assistant for her because she looks tired, as a hint that he is going to replace her at work. Lucy chooses the most clumsy secretary she can find to prove how superior she really is.
Lucy hires Kim as her new assistant at work, which works out well since she is playing the role of a nutty secretary in a play at school.
Craig is in need of a candelabra from Liberace as an initiation to get into a club. Liberace is more than happy to lend him the candelabra, but his family believes he had stolen the item and they take it on themselves to return it to him.
Lucy crashes her car the same day as she had bragged to Craig about having a perfect driving record. As a means to payoff the other victim in the accident, Lucy takes a job in his laundromat, which proves to cause more damage than help.
Lucy's friend Viv takes up her offer of getting her a date with Lawrence Welk if she ever came to town for a visit. Problem is, Lucy doesn't even know Mr. Welk, and schemes with Mary Jane to replace him with a wax figure and keep Viv glasses away from her.
Lucy, Viv and Harry are quarantined for 24 hours at customs when they attempt to drive to Tijuana.
Craig has written a song, "Country Magic," and hopes to get it published. But Lucy has hopes of her own, that Craig will become a doctor instead. While in an elevator he meets Ann-Margaret, who takes a look at his composition and invites Craig to perform it as a duo on her TV special.
Lucy stages a phony robbery of a warehouse to help Wally, the wimpish son of Harry's high school friend, Moose Manley, gain confidence.
The Carter's spend a day on Wayne Newton's ranch after retrieving his lost Shetland pony.
When the family finds an old diary which belonged to Lucy's great grandmother, they discover that Harry's family once borrowed $10 with interest in which they never paid back. Because the total added up to $145,000, Harry turned the business over to Lucy.
Lucy and her friend Carol Crowsmyer decide to have a friendly competition in the "Secretary Beautiful Contest."
Chaos ensues when Lucy tries on Elizabeth Taylor's huge diamond ring and it gets stuck on her finger.
Harry persuades Lucy to take up skydiving in order to drum up publicity for the employment agency.
After Lucy whacks Sammy Davis, Jr. in the nose while opening a door he threatens to sue the employment agency if his nose looks any different for the movie he's filming.
Craig decides to enter a drum contest after seeing Buddy Rich perform. Lucy, as usual, nearly manages to screw things up.
Lucy tries to return a defective record player but the store won't accept it back. She then leads a group of consumers against the company's defective products.
Lucy, Kim, and Craig are featured prominently in a musical variety show about the Roaring 20's held by Harry and his classmates at their reunion.
The Carters become self-conscious in front of the camera when Craig films a documentary about them.
While Harry is away at a reunion, Lucy borrows his house for a Greek couple's wedding.
Lucy tries to get Vincent Price to appraise a painting she bought at an auction but he mistakes her for an actress auditioning for a part in his latest horror movie.
When Harry gets a contract to have a diamond cut for an eccentric rich woman Lucy must keep the diamond cutter calm so he can do his job.
Harry sends Lucy over to Jack Benny's house where she takes notes for his autobiography about significant events in his life.
Lucy tries to modernize Rudy Vallee's musical style with the help of Kim and her rocker friends.
Lucy goes on an audience participation show and is offered the sum of $500 if she can hold her temper for 24 hours. Unknown to her, her friends and family are in on the joke and have been offered $250 if they can make her lose her temper.
Harry gets Lucy to pose as his pregnant wife in order to discourage the marital intentions of a former galpal.
Lucy poses as female gangleader Ma Parker in order to help the authorities nail a notorious counterfeiter.
Lucy mistakenly assumes that Harry is marrying a rich woman for her money and tries to stop the nuptuals.
Lucy wants to go to Palm Springs with Kim but she can't go unless she gets fired so she cooks up several outrageous schemes to get Harry to terminate her.
Lucy tries to coax Harry into wearing glasses so that she can get a long weekend with her kids in Mexico.
After Kim wins a sports car in a raffle, Lucy insists that she sell it so the Carters decide to hold their own raffle. Lucy, Kim, and Harry then end up getting arrested for gambling.
Harry moves in with Lucy and Kim while having his house redecorated and proceeds to drive them crazy. Lucy then schemes to drive him out using a marching band and a goat.
Lucy finds an old lamp which amazingly grants wishes to all who use it.
Lucy and a pal put on the Hollywood Unemployment Follies after they both lose their jobs.
Lucy decides to work her way to Hawaii as social director on a cruise ship and somehow ends up convincing Harry to purchase tickets for Kim and Craig so that they can accompany her.
Lucy wrecks havoc in her job as a social director on board a cruise ship bound for Hawaii.
Lucy somehow manages to convince Flip Wilson to play the role of Prissy in a local production of Gone With the Wind.
Harry's new partner wants to add youth to the agency so to keep her job Lucy bets him that she can beat him at mountain climbing.
Harry worries about his appearance when his Italian former galpal announces she's coming for a visit.
Harry hires private eye Joe Mannix to protect Lucy from a gang of robbers but they both end up being held hostage.
Lucy must undergo the decontamination process along with a pair of astronauts when she makes physical contact with them after their spaceship lands.
After Harry denies Lucy a pay raise, she and Kim try to make him feel guilty.
On a ski vacation, Lucy gets stuck on a ski lift with Dinah Shore.
Lucy books an all-Nun band to help Harry's sister (who is a nun) with a benefit. She then joins the band herself when the saxophone player becomes ill.
Lucy gets impressionist Rich Little to help out with a radio campaign by imitating the voices of various celebrities.
Lucy goes to work for Dan Dailey and proceeds to drive him bonkers thus leading the entertainer to plead with Harry to take the redhead back at the employment agency.
Harry and Lucy try to return Ginger Rogers' purse to her after she leaves it behind in a theater where she was sitting next to them.
David Frost hires Lucy to make sure that he gets a good night's sleep while on a Trans-Atlantic flight to England but as usual she makes a complete fiasco of things.
Harry is stressed out and needs a vacation so Lucy amazingly arranges a house swap with a family that lives in the African jungle.
The Carters believe they are on Candid Camera but in reality they are assisting in a robbery courtesy of a villain who's a dead ringer for Allen Funt.
Appearing on a game show, Lucy can win a $1,000 prize if she can train a chimpanzee to do a trick in one week's time.
On the advice of his psychiatrist, Harry gives Lucy a raise. She's so shocked that she begins following him because she thinks he's hiding something.
Lucy and Kim believe that the little old lady whom they just took into their home might be a con artist after she sells Harry some real estate.
When Lucy saves the life of a Chinese man, he becomes indebted to her according to custom. But when he proceeds to drive her and Kim crazy, they seek to rectify things.
Lucy's job at the employment agency is made obsolete by a computer so Harry lets her go. She and Kim then scheme to get her job back by making the computer obsolete.
Kim decides to move out of the house after Lucy begins cramping her style.
Promoted to office manager, Lucy tries to save money by subletting half the office to a toymaker.
Harry and Kim decide to break up Lucy's latest romance because they suspect her new fella is a womanizing playboy.
Old pal Viv shows up in California for a surprise visit and ends up taking Lucy's job at the employment agency.
Kim moves into her own apartment but must deal with wacky neighbors and horny men.
Lucy breaks her leg and winds up in the hospital, garnering her sympathy from her friends and co-workers. But being in the hospital is very boring, so when a handsome doctor visits the patient in the next bed, Lucy hatches a scheme to lure that doctor over to visit her. But he catches on, and concocts a scheme of his own...
Lucy becomes jealous of her new hospital roommate, admitted for a suspected broken foot. That roommate is Eva Gabor, who draws the attention of everyone in the hospital. Irritated, Lucy makes Eva's hospital stay miserable.
Lucy escapes hospital confinement and returns home, but still needs help. Her friends agree, but find themselves drawn away by other commitments, leaving her Uncle Harry to play twenty-four hour-a-day home nurse, a job he soon finds taxing...
Harry finds himself unable to run his office without Lucy; every one of the replacements he hires has even less experience! So he solves the problem by moving the office to Lucy's house, so she can work! Lucy, of course, doesn't want him there and tries various schemes to dislodge him, all of which fail. Finally, the police intervene...
When Lucy's son Craig returns home from college, a football coach spots him and decides he just might be quarterback material. But Lucy doesn't want Craig playing a sport she believes is too dangerous, so the coach sends a special emissary to convince the reluctant Lucy...
Lucy's wheelchair knocks over a bystander - who promptly sues her for $100,000, claiming an injury that makes it hard for him to work and even to get around. But is he on the level? Lucy's friend Kim doesn't think so, and hatches a plan to prove it.
"Poopsie," the wife of the milkman, becomes convinced that Lucy and her husband are having an affair, and throws him out of the house. Lucy, Kim and Harry work to reunite the troubled pair.
Petula Clark needs an assistant to help her prepare for a recording session and handle her pregnancy; Lucy snares the assignment for herself, and promptly makes a hash of it, overprotecting the singer and threatening the session - until she accidently winds up making a valuable contribution.
Lucy arranges for Phyllis Diller to entertain a Chamber of Commerce charity function, but Phyllis loses her voice in the eleventh hour, forcing Kim to improvise.
Lucy cleans out her fireplace, making herself dirty in the process. Then, still filthy, she delivers a crate of apples to her beauty parlor. En route, a criminal mistakes her for "Dirty Gertie" who is his good luck charm, and gives her a hundred dollars for one apple! The police realize they may have a way to put an end to a criminal career, with a little help from Lucy.
Lucy and Kim take their twelve year old cousin Patricia to a Donny Osmond concert. Donny misinterprets Kim's attempts to get an autograph for Pat, and develops a crush on her that leads him to commit himself to a charity function. When Kim realizes the truth, she must set the record straight.
Prince Hennepin has come to America looking for a wife, and he has hired the Unique Employment Agency to help him. But his eye comes to rest on Lucy herself, and his promise of a quarter million dollar reward has Harry scheming to convince his niece to accept the proposal!
Kim's friend Annie wants a part in a new drama club show, so Kim arranges for her to receive a makeover, and then discovers that the director liked her better as she was before!
Lucy and Harry bicker more than usual, prompting their friend Mary Jane to suggest a visit to a group therapist. He suggests they switch office roles to get a better feel for each other's responsibilities.
An ad agency wants to hire a young woman with an "ordinary face" for a commercial, so the agency places Lucy herself. Then the agency changes the ad to one with music, requiring Lucy to dance - which she cannot yet do as her broken leg has not fully mended. Finally, Harry comes up with a solution...
Harry's cousin Ben Fletcher visits, and insists on a date with Lucy. Harry pushes her into it, and when he discovers his cousin is rich, pushes even harder. But Lucy's not interested, so she plots to rid herself of the unwelcome companionship.
Lucy shops for antiques, and selects a reproduction of an antique chair. But the owner mistakenly sells her the extremely valuable original antique! When he realizes this, he sets out to recover it, an operation that involves romancing an unsuspecting Lucy.
Lucy's after a big reward, so she goes to prison! There she must obtain information from another inmate, but she has no luck until she manages to ply the woman with alcohol!
Lucy learns that Kim is dating a college professor, and immediately assumes the man is cradle robbing! She goes to the campus and on seeing an older man makes a perhaps predictable assumption. Then she begins to plan how she'll demand Kim end the relationship!
Lucy, Harry and Mary Jane purchase a custard franchise. Lucy eventually drives off the employees, and Mary Jane must return to her regular job. That leaves Harry and Lucy to run the custard stand by themselves. Their efforts quickly go south...
Lucy breaks a keepsake vase Harry's previous secretary made for him. She decides the best approach is a replacement, so she takes a ceramics class to learn how.
Lucy and Mary Jane attend an automobile mechanics class so that Lucy can date the professor. But when Uncle Harry buys an antique Rolls Royce that needs work, and Lucy cannot reach her repairman boyfriend, she decides that she and Mary Jane can repair the car themselves, with predictable results...
Lucy and her friends struggle to stay on their diet - an effort made Herculean by the presence of Harry's gourmet feast in Lucy's refrigerator!
Harry sells his business. Lucy and Harry pack up the office, and reminisce about their lives, good and bad. As they talk, they wind up downing an entire magnum of champagne...
Lucy takes up painting, and winds up meeting a talented artist named Danny Gallupi. He explains that his work will only be valuable after he dies, so Lucy concocts a scheme to fake his death so that his work will be valuable right away.
Harry books O. J. Simpson to speak at the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce. That nets him some football tickets, but when he tries to sell the ones he doesn't need, he gets arrested for scalping!
Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé both contact the agency looking for domestics. It seems they've had a terrible fight and have separated. Lucy tries to bring them back together, but only makes the situation worse.
Lucy wants a loan to modernize the Unique Employment Agency. She's sure the only way she can persuade the bank to loan her money is to act like she doesn't need any money, so she enlists Kim and Harry to pretend to be her servants!
Harry purchases a pet shop, strictly as an investment, and quickly drives away the employees, forcing him to reply on Lucy and Kim. He warns them to take good care of dog trainer Bob Williams, a potential buyer.
A woman who looks like Lucy has been harassing stars including Rock Hudson and Eddie Albert. So when Lucy tries to get Eddie to appear at a charity function, he jumps to the wrong conclusion.
Lucy elects to rent out Kim's room, but her first tenant, Kermit, proves annoying. She schemes to rid herself of Kermit, first faking a love interest and finally convincing Harry to play her long lost husband to get Kermit to break the lease.
Lucy falls hard for Andy Johnson, a man who works with "wayward" youth. But Kim isn't sure he's on the level, so she disguises herself as the sort of person he'd want to help, to test him.
Lucy draws jury duty, and much like the trial in "Twelve Angry Men," deliberations boil down to a lone dissenter - Lucy! Joan Rivers plays another of the jurors.
Lucy needs more money precisely when Harry decides to cut costs, so she takes a second job: she hires out to a mystery writer who must finish a novel. Her job? Keep him sober so he can do it. But the man has caches of booze hidden everywhere and Lucy finds it hard to keep up - especially after she's shared "just one" with the soused author, just one too many times.
When the Carters go to see Frankie Avalon perform, Kim gets invited on stage to perform with him. That earns her an invitation to enter an amateur's contest, and Lucy begins scheming about how to win it... with a ringer!
Harry purchases land by pretending to be an environmentalist. He believes there's gold on that land, and enlists Lucy to help him find it, but all they find instead is bear trouble...
Harry rents Lucy's home to a movie production company. She makes a pest of herself and the film crew banishes her. She returns later, confident that they've finished, and unaware that star Chuck Connors is asleep in her bed.
Local burglaries prompt Lucy to propose a neighborhood watch. But she begins to see crooks around every corner and behind every tree, prompting her to call the police... too many times. So naturally, when she's trapped in her home by a real burglar, the police don't take her call seriously...
Harry, in support of the city's zoo, agrees to care for a rare New Guinea bird until it can be united with its mate. The tropical animal requires a lot of heat, so when Harry's furnace fails, he enlists Lucy to care for the bird, which she promptly loses...
Harry decides to sell his agency to Ken Richards, who retains Lucy as his secretary. But then Harry discovers that he's miserable and realizes it's because he needs to run the Unique Employment Agency! Lucy schemes to get her new boss to sell the agency back to her old boss.
Lucy must cancel her convention trip to care for her uncle Harry, who has a bad knee, for Kim who has a bad cold, for Mary Jane who has a pair of broken hands, and for Harry the Cat, who is about to have her kittens! The job proves more than Lucy can safely handle...
The small town of Cartridge Belt, Montana discovers that Lucy Carter is a descendant of a sheriff from departed days, Flora Belle Orcutt. So they ask her to visit for a planned celebration during which she'll be the acting sheriff for a week. Tough luck that some real crooks choose that week to knock over the bank...
Milton Berle offers an appearance as a charity auction prize. When Lucy's friends tell her she throws boring parties, she decides to throw an exciting party, and to that end, bids on Berle's services - which she wins for just $7.50!
Mary Jane goes to charm school, figuring with a few lessons she can snag a boyfriend. And she does - until he meets Lucy! Lucy must figure a way to send him packing, and must decide what to tell Mary Jane about it...
Lucy learns that Phil Harris wants to form a new orchestra. Sensing an opportunity, she gathers many unemployed musicians, clients of the Unique Employment Agency, and presents them to Phil, who hires them. Because a lot of them are minorities, Phil looks good - until some women realize none of their gender are counted among the new orchestra! Harris solves that problem by hiring Lucy herself as a vocalist!
Lucy enters a contest - the winner will be the person who most looks like... Lucille Ball! It's part of a promotion; when both Lucy and her daughter Kim reach the finals, they must imitate Lucille Ball's look from Mame and sing a commerical jingle.
Lucy is lonely, so Harry has Kim invite her over. But after she arrives, she overhears Kim tell a friend that her mother is "in the way," so Lucy manufactures an excuse to leave, and then disappears so thoroughly that her daughter starts to worry!
A waitress comes to the agency looking for work, after her boss fired her for being too old. Lucy decides to teach the restaurateur a lesson, and sends Kim to replace the waitress. Armed with phony credentials and Lucy's schemes, Kim drives the owner to distraction with odd ideas and poor customer service.