Episode
Here's Lucy: Lucy Visits Jack Benny
Overview
The Carter family vacations in Jack Benny's desert mansion. Percieved as a budget getaway, Benny loads charge after charge to up the bill. This exceptional episode has a cameo by Jackie Gleason playing his classic Ralph Kramden character from the Honeymooners.
Details
- Series
- Here's Lucy
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 1968-09-30
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
Lucy Visits Jack Benny is Episode 2 in Season 1 of Here's Lucy. It aired on 1968-09-30. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 1: Mod, Mod Lucy
Cheapskate Uncle Harry hire's his nephew & neice, Craig and Kim, as the band needed by a client at the Unique Employment Agency. Lead vocalist Kim develops laryngitis, however, and mom Lucy, decked out in modern fashions, fills in for her.
Episode 3: Lucy the Process Server
Lucy confuses a bank deposit and a summons. Amusing episode borrowing on older Lucille Ball plots.
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Episode 4: Lucy and Miss Shelly Winters
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Episode 5: Lucy the Conclusion Jumper
Lucy jumps to the wrong conclusion! Daughter Lucie is working on a school project about teenage marriage, and Lucy fears she is about to elope.
Episode 6: Lucy's Impossible Mission
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Episode 7: Lucy and Eva Gabor
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Episode 8: Lucy's Birthday
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Episode 9: Lucy Sells Craig to Wayne Newton
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Episode 10: Lucy's Working Daughter
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Episode 11: Guess Who Owes Lucy $23.50?
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Episode 12: Lucy the Matchmaker
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Episode 13: Lucy and the Gold Rush
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