page_title: Here's Lucy
section_title: Guest stars and notable episodes
hierarchical_section_title: Here's Lucy / Guest stars and notable episodes
caption_attribution_description: Publicity photo of Lucille Ball, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor from the television show Here's Lucy. In this episode, Lucy tries on Elizabeth Taylor's famous large diamond ring, which gets stuck on her finger.
context_page_description: Here's Lucy is an American sitcom starring Lucille Ball. The series co-starred her long-time comedy partner Gale Gordon and her real-life children Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr.. It was broadcast on CBS from 1968 to 1974. It was Ball's third network sitcom, following I Love Lucy and The Lucy Show.
context_section_description: Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor guest-starred in the 1970 third season opener, in a storyline involving their famous diamond, which becomes stuck on Lucy's finger. Ball and Burton reportedly did not get along, as he found Ball's rigid perfectionism grating; he subsequently wrote about her in extremely unflattering terms in his memoir. (The episode reunited Ball with longtime cowriters Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. for the first time since Pugh and Carroll had left The Lucy Show in 1964.) Another noteworthy episode was "Lucy Visits Jack Benny." In addition to Benny, Jackie Gleason made a surprise cameo reprising his role of bus driver Ralph Kramden.
  During its run, Here's Lucy featured a number of famous guest stars, many of whom were Ball's real-life friends, often playing themselves, including Ann-Margret, Milton Berle, Carol Burnett, George Burns, Johnny Carson, Liberace, Petula Clark, Eva Gabor, Helen Hayes, Dean Martin, Eve McVeagh, Vincent Price, Tony Randall, Buddy Rich, Joan Rivers, Ginger Rogers, Dinah Shore,  Danny Thomas, Lawrence Welk, Flip Wilson, Shelley Winters, Donny Osmond and Patty Andrews.
  Ball appeared as herself in an episode in which Lucy Carter enters a Lucille Ball look-alike contest. This episode, designed to cross-promote Ball's then current film Mame, enabled Ball to appear on screen with herself.
  Mary Treen was cast as Mary Winters in the series finale, the 1974 episode "Lucy Fights the System".
caption: Elizabeth Taylor tries to get her diamond back from Lucy's finger as Richard Burton looks on, 1970
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