| "Here's Lucy": Season 5 | |
|---|---|
| Season 5 | |
 Season 5 DVD Cover | |
| Network | CBS-TV |
| Episodes | 24 |
| Aired from | September 11, 1972 - March 5, 1973 |
| Premiere | "Lucy's Big Break" |
| Finale | "Lucy and Harry's Memoirs" |
| Season guide | |
| Previous Season 4 |
Next Season 6 |
Season Five of Here's Lucy lasted from September 11, 1972 to March 5, 1973, with a total of 24 episodes aired on CBS-TV.
Series overview[]
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season premiere | Season finale | ||||
| 1 | 24 | September 23, 1968 | March 17, 1969 | ||
| 2 | 24 | September 22, 1969 | March 2, 1970 | ||
| 3 | 24 | September 14, 1970 | February 22, 1971 | ||
| 4 | 24 | September 13, 1971 | Febuary 21, 1972 | ||
| 5 | 24 | September 11, 1972 | March 5, 1973 | ||
| 6 | 24 | September 10, 1973 | March 18, 1974 | ||
Season 5 (1972-1973)[]
| Ep. No. |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97 | 1 | "Lucy's Big Break" | Coby Ruskin | Bob Carroll, Jr. and Madelyn Davis | September 11, 1972 | 5-01 (5x1) |
| Lucy falls for a doctor while she's in the hospital with a broken leg. | ||||||
| 98 | 2 | "Lucy and Eva Gabor Are Hospital Roomies" | Coby Ruskin | Bob Carroll, Jr. and Madelyn Davis | September 18, 1972 | 5-02 (5x2) |
| Eva Gabor becomes Lucy's hospital roommate. | ||||||
| 99 | 3 | "Harrison Carter, Male Nurse" | Coby Ruskin | Bob Carroll, Jr. and Madelyn Davis | September 25, 1972 | 5-03 (5x3) |
| Harry tends to Lucy when she comes home from the hospital. | ||||||
| 100 | 4 | "A Home Is Not an Office" | Coby Ruskin | Fred S. Fox and Seaman Jacobs | October 2, 1972 | 5-04 (5x4) |
| Harry moves the office to Lucy's house. | ||||||
| 101 | 5 | "Lucy and Joe Namath" | Coby Ruskin | Bob O'Brien | October 9, 1972 | 5-05 (5x5) |
| Joe Namath tries to convince Lucy to let Craig join a college-football team. | ||||||
| 102 | 6 | "The Case of the Reckless Wheel-Chair Driver" | Coby Ruskin | Fred S. Fox and Seaman Jacobs | October 16, 1972 | 5-06 (5x6) |
| Lucy is charged with reckless driving in a wheelchair. | ||||||
| 103 | 7 | "Lucy, the Other Woman" | Coby Ruskin | Fred S. Fox and Seaman Jacobs | October 23, 1972 | 5-07 (5x7) |
| Lucy finds herself the other woman in a romantic triangle. | ||||||
| 104 | 8 | "Lucy and Petula Clark" | Coby Ruskin | Bob O'Brien | October 30, 1972 | 5-08 (5x8) |
| Petula Clark hires Lucy as a secretary. | ||||||
| 105 | 9 | "Lucy and Jim Bailey" | Coby Ruskin | Bob O'Brien | November 6, 1972 | 5-09 (5x9) |
| When Phyllis Diller loses her voice at a benefit, Jim Bailey saves the show with his impression of her. | ||||||
| 106 | 10 | "Dirty Gertie" | Coby Ruskin | Bob O'Brien | November 13, 1972 | 5-10 (5x10) |
| Lucy goes undercover as an alcoholic apple peddler known as Dirty Gertie. | ||||||
| 107 | 11 | "Lucy and Donny Osmond" | Coby Ruskin | Bob O'Brien | November 20, 1972 | 5-11 (5x11) |
| Donny Osmond falls for Kim. | ||||||
| 108 | 12 | "Lucy and Her Prince Charming" | Coby Ruskin | Fred S. Fox and Seaman Jacobs | November 27, 1972 | 5-12 (5x12) |
| Harry helps a prince gain Lucy's hand in marriage. | ||||||
| 109 | 13 | "My Fair Buzzi" | Coby Ruskin | Fred S. Fox and Seaman Jacobs | December 4, 1972 | 5-13 (5x13) |
| Lucy gives Kim's friend Annie (Ruth Buzzi) a makeover for an audition. | ||||||
| 110 | 14 | "Lucy and the Group Encounter" | Coby Ruskin | Fred S. Fox and Seaman Jacobs | December 11, 1972 | 5-14 (5x14) |
| Lucy and Harry join an encounter group to let out their hostility toward each other. | ||||||
| 111 | 15 | "Lucy Is Really in a Pickle" | Coby Ruskin | Bob Carroll, Jr. and Madelyn Davis | January 1, 1973 | 5-15 (5x15) |
| Harry recruits Lucy and Kim to star in a TV commercial dressed as pickles. | ||||||
| 112 | 16 | "Lucy Goes on Her Last Blind Date" | Coby Ruskin | Bob Carroll, Jr. and Madelyn Davis | January 8, 1973 | 5-16 (5x16) |
| Lucy is set up on a blind date with Harry's rich country boy cousin Ben. | ||||||
| 113 | 17 | "Lucy and Her Genuine Twimby" | Coby Ruskin | Fred S. Fox and Seaman Jacobs | January 15, 1973 | 5-17 (5x17) |
| An antique dealer tries to get back a chair he sold to Lucy by mistake. | ||||||
| 114 | 18 | "Lucy Goes to Prison" | Coby Ruskin | Fred S. Fox and Seaman Jacobs | January 22, 1973 | 5-18 (5x18) |
| Lucy goes undercover as a convict to get information out of a bank robber. | ||||||
| 115 | 19 | "Lucy and the Professor" | Coby Ruskin | Bob O'Brien | January 29, 1973 | 5-19 (5x19) |
| Lucy thinks the young professor Kim is dating is an old man. | ||||||
| 116 | 20 | "Lucy and the Franchise Fiasco" | Coby Ruskin | Bob Carroll, Jr. and Madelyn Davis | February 5, 1973 | 5-20 (5x20) |
| Lucy gets a franchise serving soft ice cream. | ||||||
| 117 | 21 | "Lucy and Uncle Harry's Pot" | Coby Ruskin | Bob O'Brien | February 12, 1973 | 5-21 (5x21) |
| Lucy accidentally breaks a pot made for Harry by a previous secretary so she makes a new one. | ||||||
| 118 | 22 | "The Not So Popular Mechanic" | Coby Ruskin | Bob Carroll, Jr. and Madelyn Davis | February 19, 1973 | 5-22 (5x22) |
| Lucy tries to fix Harry's Rolls-Royce. | ||||||
| 119 | 23 | "Goodbye, Mrs. Hips" | Coby Ruskin | Bob Carroll, Jr. and Madelyn Davis | February 26, 1973 | 5-23 (5x23) |
| Lucy and her friends are tempted by a gourmet meal in the refrigerator as they try to maintain their diet. | ||||||
| 120 | 24 | "Lucy and Harry's Memoirs" | Coby Ruskin | Bob O'Brien | March 5, 1973 | 5-24 (5x24) |
| Lucy and Harry remember past misadventures as they pack up the office. | ||||||