Lucy and the Efficiency Expert – The Lucy Show season 5
Lucy and the Efficiency Expert – the bank’s being audited by an overzealous efficiency expert – Phil Silvers. Who makes Lucy too efficient!
Comedy highlights
- Phil Silvers cowering Mr. Mooney (and everyone else)
- Mistaking an important client for a worker, and throwing away his cigar! Only to blame Mooney for the cigar on the floor!
- Deciding that since a toy company needs a loan, they must be a bad risk!
- Followed by Phil Silvers and Lucy going to the toy company’s factor, where he decides to show them how the assembly line should be run. It’s reminiscent of the chocolate factory episode of I Love Lucy.
- The end of the episode, where the worm has turned, and Mr. Mooney gets his revenge!
Cast of characters
- Lucille Ball (I Love Lucy episode guide, The Facts of Life) … Lucy Carmichael
- Gale Gordon (Don’t Give Up the Ship, The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock) … Mr. Theodore J. Mooney
- Phil Silvers (It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) … Oliver Kasten.
- Tol Avery (Hawaiian Eye) … Mr. Grantland. The important client, owner of a large toy factory. Kasten nearly destroys his assembly line!
- Mary Jane Croft (The Lucy Show season 6 episode guide, Our Miss Brooks TV series) … Mary Jane Lewis