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Lucille Ball and Richard Denning star as Liz and George Cooper in a domestic situation comedy about marriage, neighbors, misunderstandings, and everyday life.
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A new rule at the bank picnic requires the wives to join the baseball game, leaving inexperienced players to learn the sport in the middle of the competition.
Searching the attic for a ukulele, Liz and George manage to lock themselves upstairs and turn a simple hunt through old belongings into an increasingly frantic escape attempt.
Liz is unexpectedly elected treasurer of her women's club and immediately finds herself facing an accounting problem she is poorly prepared to explain.
Determined to help George get a raise, Liz launches a succession of elaborate schemes that complicate his job far more than either of them expected.
Liz wants a television set and George does not, so her increasingly inventive campaign to change his mind turns the household into a battle over the new technology.
Liz's devotion to superstition collides with George's skepticism, and the argument eventually leaves the house in chaos during an increasingly ridiculous hunt for a cricket.
Liz and George sneak into a Halloween party they believe excluded them, only to discover that the celebration was secretly organized in their honor.
George's mother moves into the Cooper home for an extended visit, and her talent for manipulation quickly disrupts the young couple's routine.
Liz secretly takes a babysitting job to earn Christmas money, but hiding the work from George gives him entirely different ideas about what she is doing.
Liz tries to arrange a romance for Katy, but her matchmaking efforts bring unexpected visitors and late-night problems into the Cooper household.
Liz decides she needs to become more intellectual, but her efforts to improve herself create a fresh series of misunderstandings around a quiz show.
Liz and Iris refuse to be left out of their husbands' all-male football outing and devise ways to crash the college homecoming trip, creating trouble at every turn.
George misunderstands Liz's French lessons badly enough to believe another man is involved, and his jealousy escalates the confusion into an unexpected duel.
Liz tries to knit George a Christmas sweater in secret, but repeated mishaps and a mix-up among presents threaten to ruin the surprise.
Determined to recreate an old-fashioned Christmas with caroling and a sleigh ride, Liz draws George, the neighbors and eventually the police into a succession of holiday mishaps.
A playful game leaves Liz and George handcuffed together, and their inability to separate threatens both George's work obligations and Liz's carefully planned day.
Advice from a self-help book makes Liz suspicious of George and sets off a round of marital confusion in which mistaken identities only deepen her fears.
Liz agrees to teach Iris how to drive, but one accident leads to another and the two women become increasingly desperate to conceal the automotive damage.
George's strict household budget inspires Liz to look for ways around his rules, and an attempt to economize leaves her appearance caught in the middle of the scheme.
Liz dreams of becoming a songwriter and performer, surviving a bad party performance and failed lessons before unexpectedly winning a contest that puts her voice on the radio.
Liz and Iris scheme to make their husbands attend a country club dance, but the plan backfires into teenage escorts and a disastrous trip by car.
Liz's mother announces another engagement to a wealthy Texan, and his eccentric habits and ambitious wedding plans quickly turn the family celebration into a crisis.
Liz tries to teach a shy teenager the samba and accidentally inspires a declaration of love that brings the lesson's confusion directly into her marriage.
Liz takes charge of redecorating the house, clashes with a professional decorator and eventually sees her domestic experiment exposed to a much wider audience.
Liz and Iris demand equal treatment from their husbands, turning domestic disagreements into a full battle of the sexes and setting up a clever test of everyone's principles.
Liz and Iris push gender-role reversal further by seeking jobs while their husbands handle the home, and neither side finds the new arrangement nearly as easy as expected.
A conversation about wills, a planned mountain trip and several suspicious purchases convince Liz that George may be arranging something far more sinister than a vacation.
Jealous when George reconnects with a talented college acquaintance, Liz enters a radio-writing contest to prove that she has literary ability of her own.
Tired of their husbands' devotion to stamp collecting and golf, Liz and Iris plot to break the hobbies' hold, only to create a disastrous day on the golf course.
An anniversary gift mix-up involving a mink coat and a nightgown turns a romantic celebration into confusion that somehow ends with an arrest.
Liz and Iris appear together on a Friendship Week television program, but their demonstration of harmony falls apart when they discover they have chosen identical dresses.
Liz combines an ambitious round of spring cleaning with a scheme to provoke George's jealousy, and both plans rebound into a household full of misunderstandings.
Numerology and a séance become Liz and George's unlikely tools for fighting a rent increase, with the mystical strategy producing a result no one planned.
Liz pretends to be ill to avoid a bridge luncheon with her mother-in-law, but the excuse convinces everyone that she is expecting a baby.
Liz spots a chance to profit from a department store price difference, but her dress-selling scheme collides with George's plan to surprise her with the very same item.
Liz tries to cure George of his messy habits, but her campaign collides with a visit from his mother and an unexpected magazine editor interested in the household.
Hoping to steer their vacation toward the beach and away from a dude ranch, Liz sets out to learn how to swim well enough to win George over.
Following questionable marriage advice, Liz attempts to become George's ideal companion by sharing all of his interests and creates one comic predicament after another.
An anniversary outing goes sour when the husbands refuse to dance but show plenty of interest in the performers, leaving their wives determined to put them through dancing lessons.
A quiet evening turns into a dispute over old clothes, and Liz and George's argument eventually spills into a very public wardrobe embarrassment.
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