“Here’s Lucy” ~ Season 3

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“Lucy Meets the Burtons” (S3;E1) ~ September 14, 1970

“Lucy the Skydiver” (S3;E2) ~ September 21, 1970

“Lucy and Sammy Davis, Jr.” (S3;E3) ~ September 28, 1970

“Lucy and the Drum Contest” (S3;E4) ~ October 4, 1970

“Lucy, the Crusader” (S3;E5) ~ October 12, 1970

“Lucy, the Coed” (S3;E6) ~ October 19, 1970

“Lucy, the American Mother” (S3;E7) ~ October 26, 1970

“Lucy’s Wedding Party” (S3;E8) ~ November 2, 1970

“Lucy Cuts Vincent’s Price” (S3;E9) ~ November 9, 1970

“Lucy, the Diamond Cutter” (S3;E10) ~ November 16, 1970

“Lucy and Jack Benny’s Biography” (S3;E11) ~ November 23, 1970

“Lucy and Rudy Vallee” (S3;E12) ~ November 30, 1970

“Lucy Loses Her Cool” (S3;E13) ~ December 7, 1970

“Lucy, the Part-Time Wife” (S3;E14) ~ December 14, 1970

“Lucy and Ma Parker” (S3;E15) ~ December 21, 1970

“Lucy Stops a Marriage” (S3;E16) ~ December 28, 1970

“Lucy’s Vacation” (S3;E17) ~ January 4, 1971

“Lucy and the 20-20 Vision” (S3;E18) ~ January 11, 1971

“Lucy and the Raffle” (S3;E19) ~ January 18, 1971

“Lucy’s House Guest, Harry” (S3;E20) ~ January 25, 1971

“Lucy and Aladdin’s Lamp” (S3;E21) ~ February 1, 1971

“Lucy and Carol Burnett” aka “The Hollywood Unemployment Follies” (S3;E22) ~ February 8, 1971

“Lucy Goes Hawaiian: Part 1” (S3;E23) ~ February 15, 1971

“Lucy Goes Hawaiian: Part 2” (S3;E24) ~ February 22, 1971

SEASON SUMMARY

• Regular Cast: Lucille Ball (Lucy Carter), Gale Gordon (Harrison Otis Carter), Lucie Arnaz (Kim Carter), Desi Arnaz Jr. (Craig Carter)
• Recurring Characters: Vivian Vance (as Vivian Jones),

  Mary Jane Croft (Mary Jane Lewis)

• Celebrity Cast playing Characters: Wally Cox (Gustav Vandermeer),  Carol Burnett (Carol Krausmeyer), Charles Nelson Reilly (Elroy P. Clunk), Marilyn Maxwell (Gloria Pendleton), Robert Alda (Dean Butler / Captain McClay), Jayne Meadows (Laura Trenton), Hayden Rorke (Judge Gibson) 
• Celebrity Cast playing Themselves: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Jack Benny, George Burns, Sammy Davis Jr., Buddy Rich, Vincent Price, Rudy Vallee, Art Linkletter, Johnny Ukulele
• Guest Cast playing Characters: Sid Gould, Vanda Barra, Rhodes Reason, Gary Morton, Dick Winslow, Carole Cook, Don Briggs, Bruce Gordon, Lyle Talbot, Mary Wickes, Ruth McDevitt, Herbie Faye, Phil Vandervoort, Jerry Maren, Parley Baer, Richard Deacon
• Live Animal Cast: Parakeets (Anthony & Cleopatra), Goat (Willy) in “Lucy’s House Guest, Harry”
• There were 24 new episodes
• Episodes Written by: Bob Carroll, Jr., Madelyn Davis, Larry Rhine, Lou Derman, Sam Perrin, Ralph Goodman, Martin Ragaway, Milt Josefsberg, 

  Al Schwartz,

  Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs, David Ketchum, Bruce Shelly, 

  Frank Gill, Jr., Vincent Bogert, Phil Leslie, George Balzer

• Directed by Jerry Paris, Jack Donohue, Herbert Kenwith, Jack Baker, Coby Ruskin, Ross Martin, Charles Walters
• Total Binge Hours: 12 hours (with commercials)
• Papermoon’s Full Moon Pick: “The Unemployment Follies” (E22)
• Papermoon’s Half Moon Pick: “Lucy and Ma Parker” (E15)
• “Lucy Meets the Burtons” (E1) was CBS’s highest rated show on the air for the entire 1970-71 television season. 
• Season 3 was #3 in the ratings (up from #6) with a 26.1 share
• Season 3 was released on DVD on June 15, 2010