My Favorite Husband
Episode Guide
(Nos. 89-97)
Starring Lucille Ball with Richard Denning
Produced & Directed by Jess Oppenheimer
Written by Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh & Bob Carroll, Jr.
Featuring Ruth Perrott as Katy the Maid, and Gale Gordon & Bea Benaderet as Mr. & Mrs. Atterbury
Original Music by Marlin Skiles
Conducted by Wilbur Hatch
Announcer Bob LeMond
Broadcast over CBS Radio
Sponsored by JELL-O (General Foods)

5/28/50: "Selling Dresses"
My Favorite Husband Episode 90
Revision of script for Program#14 (10/16/48)
Story: Liz inadvertently returns a dress to a more expensive store than where she bought it, and makes money on the deal. So she decides to go into business buying dresses at one store and returning them at the other.
Guest: Hans Conried, Florence Halop, Vivi Janiss, Barney Phillips
 Basis for a scene in I Love Lucy #29  ("The Freezer")
(episodes 90-92 & 107)

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6/4/50: "George Is Messy"
My Favorite Husband Episode 91
Story: Liz is fed up with George's messy habits around the house, so she draws a line down the middle of the living room and divides the house in two--her half and his.
Guests: Eleanor Audley (as George's mother), Doris Singleton (as Grace Davis), and Harry Bartell (as the drunk)
 Basis for I Love Lucy #8  ("Men Are Messy")
(episodes 90-92 & 107)

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6/11/50: "Liz Learns to Swim"
My Favorite Husband Episode 92
Story: George makes a bargain with Liz: If she'll learn to swim, they can go to the beach with the Atterburys for their vacation.
Guests: Hans Conried, Herb Vigran
(episodes 90-92 & 107)

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6/18/50: "Be a Pal"
My Favorite Husband Episode 93
A revision of the script for Episode 21 ("Be Your Husband's Best Friend")
Story: Professor Millmoss, a speaker at Liz's women's club, convinces Liz that the way to have a happy marriage is for her to be interested in everything that interests George.
Guests: Hans Conried
 Basis for I Love Lucy #64  ("The Camping Trip") and parts of I Love Lucy #3  ("Be a Pal")

6/25/50: "Dancing Lessons"
My Favorite Husband Episode 94
Story: After an embarrassing evening at a local night club, the girls arrange for the boys to take dancing lessons.
Guests: Veola Von, Hal March, Peter Leeds

9/2/50: "Husbands Are Sloppy Dressers"
My Favorite Husband Episode 95
Story: Liz and Iris are embarrassed by the sloppy clothes that George and Rudolph wear at home, so they sell the boys' old clothes to the junkman.
Guests: Hans Conried
 Basis for I Love Lucy #76  ("Changing the Boys' Wardrobe")

9/9/50: "Gossip"
My Favorite Husband Episode 96
Story: The boys bet the girls $25 that the girls will be caught gossiping before the boys are, then pretend to talk in their sleep about a juicy story, which they made up.
This episode is often confused with Episode 48 ("Hair Dyed" -6/10/49), in which Liz's hair is accidentally dyed black.
Guests: Jerry Hausner
 Basis for I Love Lucy #24  ("The Gossip")

9/16/50: "Movies"
My Favorite Husband Episode 97
Story: The Coopers and the Atterburys get in an argument after they can't agree on what movie to go to together. Liz plans to get them all to make up by having everyone meet at the Green Room, where George is supposed to be having a drink with "an old college team-mate," who turns out to be his college friend Betty Lou Williams.
Guest: Bob Lemond

 More "My Favorite Husband" Episodes

Episode Nos. 1-13 | 14-25 | 26-34 | 35-43
44-52 | 53-61 | 62-70 | 71-79 | 80-88
89-97 | 98-107 | 108-116 | 117-125

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