List of I Love Lucy episodes

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The following is a list of episodes from the CBS television series I Love Lucy.

Contents 1 Episodes 1.1 Season 1 1.2 Season 2 1.3 Season 3 1.4 Season 4 1.5 Season 5 1.6 Season 6 2 References 3 Sources 4 External links

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#	Title	Original airdate
1	"The Girls Want to Go to a Nightclub"	Monday, October 15, 1951.
To celebrate the Mertzes' wedding anniversary, Fred and Ricky want to go to a prize fight, but the girls want to get dressed up and go to a nightclub. Lucy threatens to find two other escorts if their husbands won't take them. This is just fine with Fred, but Ricky worries. So he and Fred find two other girls and go to the same nightclub to spy on their wives. This episode wasn't actually the "first episode", as the pilot episode was the one where Lucy thinks Ricky is trying to kill her.
2	"Be a Pal"	Monday, October 22, 1951.
Lucy decides Ricky's love is growing cold, so she takes Ethel's suggestions: that she join her spouse in his weekly poker game and that she turn the apartment into a Cuban hacienda to appeal to Ricky's native tastes. Look for Lucy's wacky Carmen Miranda impression in this episode.
3	"The Diet"	Monday, October 29, 1951.
One of the girls in Ricky's show quits, making a vacancy for a singer who can wear a size 12 costume. Lucy tricks Ricky into saying that if she loses enough weight she can sing in the show. She then starves, exercises, and steams, finally losing five pounds. . .but there are further obstacles to her "big break." In this episode, Lucy and Desi reprise one of the highlights of their 1950 vaudeville tour, "Cuban Pete/Sally Sweet".
4	"Lucy Thinks Ricky Is Trying to Murder Her"	Monday, November 5, 1951.
A misunderstood conversation between Ricky and his agent leads Lucy to the conclusion that he is trying to kill her. Ricky pours a sedative for Lucy so she can relax, but she thinks it's poison. With what she believes is her last burst of energy, she drags herself to Ricky's club to shoot him. The Classic TV sitcom is born with this, the very first Lucy episode ever filmed!
5	"The Quiz Show"	Monday, November 12, 1951.
Finding herself short of funds, Lucy wangles her way into a contestant spot on a wild and woolly quiz show. The show is called "Females Are Fabulous," a title that Lucy justifies elaborately. In this episode, Frank Nelson makes the first of many cameos as Freddy Fillmore. Vivian Vance's then husband, Philip Ober, also makes his first appearance.
6	"The Audition Show"	Monday, November 19, 1951.
Ricky's band is to be auditioned for television, and Lucy is trying to "get into the act." When Lucy substitutes for Buffo the clown, the producers want to sign her, not Ricky, and Lucy is confronted with problems. Ricky sings his trademark "Babalu" for the first time in this episode. Vivian does not appear in this episode. This episode is a "re-working" of the original TV pilot. Cameos by: Head writer, Jess Oppenheimer and CBS executive, Harry Ackerman.
7	"The Seance"	Monday, November 26, 1951.
Lucy suddenly becomes interested in numerology and superstitions. After advising Ricky that it's a good day for him to make deals, she realizes that she read yesterday's horoscopes and that today is actually a bad day for Ricky. She thus says "no" to a very important business call for Ricky from Mr. Meriweather. In the process of putting things right, Lucy conducts a seance. Classic Ethel quote: "Ethel to Tillie, Ethel to Tillie, come in Tillie."
8	"Men Are Messy"	Monday, December 3, 1951.
When Ricky leaves his clothes around the living room, Lucy gets angry and divides the living room in half so Ricky can be as messy as he likes on his side. Ricky gets the Tropicana jumping with the "Straw Hat Song" in this episode.
9	"The Fur Coat"	Monday, December 10, 1951.
Ricky brings home a mink coat that is to be used in his nightclub act, but Lucy takes it for granted it's for her. Trying to get the coat away from her is a problem for Ricky: Lucy not only sleeps in it, she even wears it while she is doing the housework. Finally, Ricky tells Fred to dress up like a robber and steal it back for him. When Lucy finds out, she buys an imitation coat and restyles it in front of Ricky.
10	"Lucy Is Jealous of Girl Dancer"	Monday, December 17, 1951.
Ethel Mertz misinterprets a gossip column item and decides Ricky is interested in a chorus girl. To keep an eye on Ricky, Lucy manages to wangle her way into the chorus line, where she upstages the dancer during the number and makes a mess of the show. Arroz con pollo, Desi Arnaz's actual favorite dish, is served up in this episode.
11	"Drafted"	Monday, December 24, 1951.
When Lucy opens a telegram addressed to Ricky ordering him to appear at the Army's Fort Dix, she assumes he has been drafted. Both Lucy and Ethel are convinced their husbands have been drafted when they see them drilling in the living room with brooms. They don't realize that Ricky and Fred are practicing a dance routine for the servicemen's show. The men, seeing the girls acting strangely and finding knit stocks, thinks that the girls are pregnant.
12	"The Adagio"	Monday, December 31, 1951.
Lucy learns that Ricky is looking for an Apache dancer for his nightclub act. Convinced that someday she will break into show business, Lucy grabs at this opportunity. She dreams up a wild American Indian war dance routine and goes after the job at Ricky's club. As a result, Ricky is challenged to a duel behind Radio City Music Hall.
13	"The Benefit"	Monday, January 7, 1952.
Lucy resorts to womanly wiles to get Ricky to sing at a women's club benefit. Ricky is reluctant at first, but Lucy tricks him into agreeing to sing and dance with her at the function. In this episode Lucy and Ricky reprise a classic vaudeville routine, "Underneath the Bamboo Tree."
14	"The Amateur Hour"	Monday, January 14, 1952.
Lucy buys a very expensive dress. When Ricky tells her to take it back or pay for it herself, she decides to get a babysitting job -- but gets more than she bargained for with the Hudson twins. William Frawley did not appear in this episode.
15	"Lucy Plays Cupid"	Monday, January 21, 1952.
Lucy tries to arrange a match between a love-starved old lady and a giddy grocery man. In her efforts to play Cupid, Lucy gives the grocer the idea that she has a crush on him. Veteran actors Edward Everett Horton and Bea Benaderet guest-star in this episode. "The Mertzes" did not appear in this episode.
16	"Lucy Fakes Illness"	Monday, January 28, 1952.
Ricky won't hire Lucy for his new act, so Lucy consults a book on abnormal psychology for a solution. When Ricky arrives home and finds out that Lucy is faking a nasty case of the "gobloots," he calls in an actor to play a physician.
17	"Lucy Writes a Play"	Monday, February 4, 1952.
Lucy writes a tender, heartwarming story of a Cuban tobacco picker in "A Tree Grows in Havana." She tries to get Ricky to star in it. When he refuses, Lucy settles for Fred. However, Fred's Spanish accent is so terrible that she changes the play's setting to England. Ricky wants back in, but doesn't realize that the play has been revamped until he's on stage.
18	"Breaking the Lease"	Monday, February 11, 1952.
After a fun evening around the piano singing favorite songs, the Mertzes retire to bed, leaving Lucy and Ricky alone to pursue a short encore. Ethel telephones demanding quiet. When Lucy points out that the Mertzes were just down there making noise themselves, the Ricardos and the Mertzes have the first of many classic feuds.
19	"The Ballet"	Monday, February 18, 1952.
Ricky is searching for both a ballet dancer and a burlesque comic for his new act. Lucy wants the ballet job desperately and enrolls in a dance class run by the strict Madame Lamond. After failing at ballet, she decides to hire a burlesque comic teacher in hopes that she can at least be the comic in the show. When Lucy is summoned to the club to replace a sick performer, she assumes it's the comic they need, but it is actually the ballet dancer. Look for the classic "Slowly I Turned" burlesque comedy routine in this episode, "Lucy" style. Also look for a rare Lucy "ad-lib" when her foot actually got caught in the ballet bar!
20	"The Young Fans"	Monday, February 25, 1952.
When a teenage girl named Peggy drops her steady, Arthur, becoming infatuated with suave Ricky Ricardo (and practically stalking him), Lucy tries to teach the clumsy schoolboy how to dance so he can impress Peggy. Unfortunately, Arthur gets carried away and proclaims his love (or rather, infatuation) for Lucy. Ricky and Lucy thus come up with a scheme to discourage them. Actor/director Richard Crenna (who was 24 years old at the time) and Janet Waldo (the voice of Judy Jetson) guest-star in this episode. Trivia: "Fred and Ethel Mertz" are not in this episode!
21	"New Neighbors"	Monday, March 3, 1952.
Lucy and Ethel can't wait to get a closer look at the belongings of their new neighbors, the O'Briens. Ricky makes Lucy promise not to set foot in their apartment. Lucy and Ethel decide to snoop anyway, but when the O'Briens come home suddenly, Lucy and Ethel hide in a closet. There they overhear the O'Briens discussing what sounds like a plot to murder Ricky and Lucy. The neighbors are actually television actors rehearsing a scene. Hayden Rorke, who played Dr. Bellows on "I Dream of Jeannie," guest-stars in this episode.
22	"Fred and Ethel Fight"	Monday, March 10, 1952.
Lucy and Ricky try to patch up the Mertzes' quarrel by inviting each to dinner without the other's knowledge. While they're at the Ricardo's for dinner, Ethel and Fred do make up after realizing that they don't even remember what they fought about. As dinner continues, Ricky and Lucy fight with each other instead when both are convince that in their last fight, that they were the ones that made the first move to make-up. "I Love Lucy" sponsor Phillip Morris is prominently plugged in this episode.
23	"The Moustache"	Monday, March 17, 1952.
When Ricky refuses to shave off his new mustache, Lucy glues a white beard and mustache on her own face. Ricky concedes defeat, but Lucy is unable to remove her false whiskers because the glue remover is no longer available. It's "Bulldog Cement" that seals Lucy's fate in this episode. Guest-Star: John Brown, as the photographer. John Brown was the off-screen and only voice, in Tex Avery's 1951 MGM masterpiece cartoon, "Symphony In Slang". This was the first episode to show the musical talents of Vivian Vance and William Frawley.
24	"The Gossip"	Monday, March 24, 1952.
Ricky and Fred bet Lucy and Ethel that they can keep from gossiping longer than their wives. The winners are to be served breakfast in bed for a month. Ricky tells Lucy some gossip while pretending to be asleep, so that Lucy will spill the news to Ethel and make the girls lose the bet. Watch for the classic moment when Lucy does charades in this episode.
25	"Pioneer Women"	Monday, March 31, 1952.
Determining that they have washed 219,000 dishes since being married, Lucy and Ethel demand dishwashers. The men insist that the women have it too "soft" and bet them fifty dollars that they can't live without modern conveniences. See the classic moment when Lucy battles a loaf of bread.
26	"The Marriage License"	Monday, April 7, 1952.
A close inspection of her marriage license convinces Lucy that she and Ricky are not legally married. Because their last name is misspelled on the certificate ("Bacardi"), Lucy insists that Ricky go through the entire courtship and marriage ceremony a second time. They travel to Connecticut, and Lucy tries to re-create the first marriage by doing everything as it originally happened. They sit in the same tree bench, which is now too snug for the both of them to fit, and she makes a pinic basket as the first time. She even went as far as to take out Ricky's wallet from his pocket, because the first time, he left his wallet at home, and Lucy had to pay for the marriage, which causes them quite a series of problems as a result. This episode is based on Lucy and Desi's actual wedding. First appearances of: Irving Bacon (who would later appear as Ethel's father in season 4 episode- "Ethel's Hometown") and Elizabeth Patterson (who would later have the brilliant recurring role as "Mrs. Trumbull" throughout the rest of the show)
27	"The Kleptomaniac"	Monday, April 14, 1952.
Ricky discovers a large amount of cash in Lucy's purse and a cache of silverware and other valuables in a closet. Unaware that Lucy is collecting items for a club bazaar, he immediately jumps to the conclusion that she's a kleptomaniac. Joseph Kearns, Mr. Wilson of Dennis the Menace, guest-stars as psychiatrist "Dr. Robinson", in this episode. Trivia: Listen for Desi Arnaz mis-pronounce psychiatrist as "feez-o-key-a-trist"!
28	"Cuban Pals"	Monday, April 21, 1952.
Annoyed by Ricky's accounts of the lovely Cuban entertainer Renita, who was his partner in the old days, Lucy rigs herself out as a seductive Latin dancer and devises a plan to replace Renita in the show.
29	"The Freezer"	Monday, April 28, 1952.
Lucy gets a walk-in meat freezer, orders two sides of beef, and runs a business with Ethel until the neighborhood butcher gets wise to their competitive tricks. While trying to move the beef from the basement freezer into the unlit furnace before Ricky sees the $483 meat bill, Lucy accidentally gets locked inside the freezer. This is the "human popsicle" episode.
30	"Lucy Does a TV Commercial"	Monday, May 5, 1952.
Lucy tricks Ricky into letting her do a commercial during a television variety show. The commercial is for Vitameatavegamin vitamins, and Lucy is the Vitameatavegamin girl. Unknown to Lucy this liquid tonic contains a large proportion of alcohol, and after numerous retakes (with Lucy using the product) she has difficulties in pronouncing the product name. Many believe this to be one of the top classic episodes. It was one of Lucille Ball's personal favorites. Ethel Mertz does not appear in this episode. [1]
31	"Publicity Agent"	Monday, May 12, 1952.
To increase business at the Tropicana, Lucy concocts a publicity scheme based on a newspaper item claiming that the Shah of Persia owns all of Benny Goodman's records. Lucy decides to pose as the Maharincess of Franistan, who has traveled halfway around the globe to see her singing idol, Ricky Ricardo.
32	"Lucy Gets Ricky on the Radio"	Monday, May 19, 1952.
Convinced that Ricky is a mental giant, Lucy makes secret arrangements to get him on a radio quiz show. Frank Nelson returns once again as quiz show host Freddie Fillmore.
33	"Lucy's Schedule"	Monday, May 26, 1952.
After Lucy is late for a dinner appointment with Ricky's boss Alvin Littlefield, Ricky puts his wife on a rigid time schedule. Ricky tells his boss about this new schedule, adding that he has Lucy jumping around like a trained seal and that Littlefield should come over to see her perform. When Lucy gets wind of the plot, she schemes with Ethel and Mrs. Littlefield to teach their time-conscious hubbies a well-deserved lesson. Gale Gordon makes his first guest-star appearance as Alvin Littlefield, Ricky's boss. Mr. Gordon had appeared with Lucy on My Favorite Husband, her radio show from the 1940s. After the run of the Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour he would become a regular on all of Lucy's television shows in the years to come. Actress Edith Meiser, who played "Mrs. Littlefield", was a long-time friend and former co-star on stage with Vivian Vance.
34	"Ricky Thinks He's Getting Bald"	Monday, June 2, 1952.
Haunted by the thought that he is growing bald, Ricky appeals to Lucy, who comes up with an unorthodox treatment.
35	"Ricky Asks for a Raise"	Monday, June 9, 1952.
Lucy convinces Ricky that he should pressure his boss into giving him a raise. When Ricky follows Lucy's advice literally, he gets a big "no" from the nightclub owner. Insult is added to injury when Ricky's nightclub launches an explosive campaign announcing the debut of his replacement. You can't miss Fred Mertz in drag in this episode. Gale Gordon and Edith Meiser return as guest stars.

[edit] Season 2

#	Title	Original airdate
36	"Job Switching"	Monday, September 15, 1952.
When Lucy goes over her monthly budget, Ricky and her get into a fight about her spending all of the money because she doesn't know what it is to have a "real" job and earn it, Lucy and Ethel defends themselves by saying that housework is even harder than going to some paying job. So the couples decides to switch roles for a week, with the men doing the housework, and the girls getting jobs. At an employment agency that finds jobs, the girls go through a whole list with one of the employment agents. After a comical conversation of trying to find them a field to go into, the agent tells them that the last thing on the list that was available was working at a candy factory. Lucy decides that's the job for them, and tells the agent that it's their specialty, making candy. Ethel gets sent to another department, while Lucy's job is to dip the candy into chocolate. She's "partnered" with a serious, silent coworker, who seems very involved in dipping the candy balls into chocolate, and ignores Lucy completely when she tries to make small talk with her. Lucy is fine, until there's a fly in the room. When it flies near her coworker's face, she accidentally slaps the lady in the face with a hand filled with chocolate! The lady, still silent, does the same to Lucy, and they start a chocolate face slap fight! Later, the girls are forced to work at a conveyor belt as their last position in the candy factory, as they failed at all the other positions there. At first it seems simple enough, but when they miss one of the candies, the whole row starts to pile up. When the supervisor comes to see how they are doing, Lucy and Ethel quickly hide all of the missed candy in their mouth, dress, and hats. The supervisor, thinking that they are doing a good job, tells the conveyor operator to, "Speed it up!" That brings the candies to them faster than their unskilled hands can pack them. At home, Ricky and Fred are doing no better. In the morning, Ricky ruins a dozen eggs trying to make Lucy breakfast, but then ends up having to order breakfast from the coffee shop instead. Lucy finds out about it, when the coffee shop phones to say that Ricky had left his hat there when he went to pick up his order. Then when Fred and Ricky are doing the laundry, they make iron mark burns on the girls' blouses, and they ruin their silk sockings. When they decide what to make for dinner, that's when the mess really starts! Not knowing the correct cup measurements for chicken and rice, Ricky cooks too much rice for the pot to handle, causing the rice to overflow, and the chicken pieces to explode, popping up to the ceiling! Fred, who was in charge of the dessert, didn't do so well either. His extensive layers of chocolate cake, came out looking like a mud slide instead. At the end of the day, both couples decided that both roles were hard work, and that both sides deserves their due credit. Reportedly, one of Lucy's favorite episodes. Considered by most fans to be one of the all-time classic episodes!
37	"The Saxophone"	Monday, September 22, 1952.
Determined to accompany her husband on a tour with his band, Lucy represents herself as a skilled performer on the saxophone. Unfortunately, Lucy blows another chance to be in the show with an off-key rendition of "Glow Worm."
38	"Anniversary Present"	Monday, September 29, 1952.
Believing that Ricky has forgotten their anniversary, Lucy fears his attentions are wandering. Her suspicions are further aroused when she sees him fastening a pearl necklace around the neck of one of their neighbors.
39	"The Handcuffs"	Monday, October 6, 1952.
Inspired by a magic trick she saw, Lucy handcuffs herself to her sleeping husband. To their mutual horror, they discover that the handcuffs are of Civil War vintage and a key cannot be found to unlock them.
40	"The Operetta"	Monday, October 13, 1952.
Lucy persuades members of her women's club to stage her original operetta with "John Charles Ricardo" as the leading man. Lucy plays a witchlike gypsy in the show, and Ricky plays the hero "good Prince Lancelot." In the midst of the performance, men from the costume and scenery rental company arrive and proceed to repossess the items.
41	"Vacation From Marriage"	Monday, October 27, 1952.
The Ricardos and Mertzes decide that their marriages are in a rut. A library book suggests a "week's vacation from marriage" as the solution. Lucy moves in with Ethel, and Fred with Ricky. Their newfound freedom creates a difficult situation.
42	"The Courtroom"	Monday, November 10, 1952.
On the occasion of the Mertzes' 25th wedding anniversary, Lucy and Ricky present them with a television set that doesn't work. This generates a feud between the two families — and an explosive courtroom scene. Watch the landmark case of Mertz versus Ricardo in this episode.
43	"Redecorating"	Monday, November 17, 1952.
A visit to the "Home Show" prompts Lucy and Ethel to enter a contest where the winner gets five rooms of new furnishings. All the wives have to do is sit by the phone and wait to see if they won. Fred makes a phony phone call to Lucy and tells her that she's won so she won't sit by the phone anymore. This causes Lucy to sell all her furniture and then demonstrate how not to put up wallpaper.
44	"Ricky Loses His Voice"	Monday, November 24, 1952.
When Ricky arrives home with a bad case of laryngitis, Lucy banishes him to bed. However, Ricky is concerned about the imminent reopening of the Tropicana; Mr. Chambers, his new boss, is counting on him to stage a good show. Lucy decides to stage the show herself and let Ricky rest. This episode finds Fred and Ethel in harmony for once, singing "Carolina in the Morning." Guest Star: Arthur Q. Bryan (who was the voice of Elmer Fudd), as Mr. Chambers.
45	"Lucy is Enciente"	Monday, December 8, 1952.
Constant interruptions -- the telephone, neighbors, and Ricky's nightclub co-workers -- frustrate Lucy's every attempt to talk quietly with her husband. Finally she is forced to go to the nightclub to tell him she's going to have a baby. This episode is a Classic TV milestone!
46	"Pregnant Women Are Unpredictable"	Monday, December 15, 1952.
Expectant Lucy creates a pandemonium in the Ricardo household with the unpredictable demands she makes on her adoring husband. Lucy is overwhelmed by Ricky's considerate treatment of her, but confuses him when she becomes suspicious of his attentions.
47	"Lucy's Show Biz Swan Song"	Monday, December 22, 1952.
Despite her "condition," Lucy is determined to participate in a Gay Nineties Revue. Enlisting Ethel's aid, Lucy tries to contrive an appropriate costume and finally comes up with a barrel. Pepito the Spanish Clown, a longtime Arnaz family friend, makes a special-guest appearance. (Pepito Perez was also in the TV series starting, untitled {Lost Pilot} episode, of Season One).
48	"Lucy Hires an English Tutor"	Monday, December 29, 1952.
Determined to have a well-spoken offspring -- though its arrival is several months away -- Lucy hires a tutor, Mr. Livermore. In return for his services, she lets him sing a song of his own writing at Ricky's nightclub. This is the episode with the ridiculous "Tippy Tippy Toe" song. Guest star: veteran actor Hans Conried.
49	"Ricky Has Labor Pains"	Monday, January 5, 1953.
When Ricky feels jealous of all the attention Lucy is getting, she decides to throw Ricky a "daddy shower" -- but Fred turns it into a stag party. A little apprehensive about the turn of events, Lucy decides to crash the daddy shower disguised as a newspaper reporter with Ethel posing as her photographer-partner.
50	"Lucy Becomes a Sculptress"	Monday, January 12, 1953.
Lucy decides that their unborn child should have artistic leanings. Salesmen in an art supply store put her to work on a lump of clay, and she uses the Mertzes as models for a modernistic creation. Art critics laud her weird effort as a masterpiece.
51	"Lucy Goes to the Hospital"	Monday, January 19, 1953.
Lucy approaches the zero hour and is rushed to the hospital to have her baby. Ricky carefully works out an elaborate plan with his neighbors, Ethel and Fred, whereby each is supposed to know exactly what to do "at the psychological moment." When the big moment arrives, bedlam breaks loose. This routine is an all-time classic! Little Ricky and Classic TV history are born in this episode! At the time, this episode reportedly was watched by more people than ever and businesses even shut down during it's first airing! Character actor Charles Lane (born on 26 January 1905), who would often appear with Lucy, makes an appearance as an expectant father of his seventh daughter. Classic Fred Mertz line: "Well, you could always start an all-girl softball team!"
52	"Sales Resistance"	Monday, January 26, 1953.
Lucy buys a tricky kitchen gadget in response to a TV pitch. Ricky accuses all women of having no sales resistance. Lucy retaliates by demanding to know why Ricky bought a 20-foot rubber life raft. Guest star: Sheldon Leonard (producer of future Desilu shows, such as: Dick Van Dyke and Andy Griffith). The song "There's a Brand New Baby at Our House," from this episode, was originally written by Desi Arnaz for daughter Lucie's birth.
53	"Inferiority Complex"	Monday, February 2, 1953.
Lucy pulls one faux pas after another, with the result that she develops a devastating inferiority complex. Ricky tries to flatter his wife out of her complex, but he must finally consult a "physio-chiatrist."
54	"Club Election"	Monday, February 16, 1953.
Pitted against each other in the race for the presidency of their women's club, Lucy and Ethel try to wangle the deciding vote by devious means. Meanwhile, their husbands map a campaign to have them both defeated. In this episode, actress Doris Singleton, makes her first appearance as Lillian Appleby (later Carolyn Appleby), Lucy's rival.
55	"The Black Eye"	Monday, March 9, 1953.
When a book accidentally tossed by Ricky hits Lucy in the eye, she winds up with a shiner. Neighbors Fred and Ethel jump to the conclusion that the Ricardos are having a family tiff. They intercede -- with black-eyed results.
56	"Lucy Changes Her Mind"	Monday, March 30, 1953.
When Ricky complains that Lucy is constantly changing her mind and never completing things, she decides to complete an old high-school romance by finishing a love letter she started when she was in high school. Rather than being jealous, Ricky offers to mail it for her. Lucy must intercept the letter, or her ex-boyfriend will think she's out of her mind. "I Love Lucy" regular Frank Nelson returns, this time as a myopic waiter.
57	"No Children Allowed"	Monday, April 20, 1953.
The Ricardos' infant prompts the neighbors to point out that there is a clause in the lease saying "no children." The Ricardos' landlords are also their friends the Mertzes, who loyally stand by them and refuse to evict them. Ethel Mertz takes such pride in her generous action that she brags about it at a bridge luncheon. Hearing Ethel's story for the umpteenth time, Lucy blows her top. The brilliant Elizabeth Patterson, makes her first appearance as "Mrs. Matilda Trumbull", the Ricardos' reliable babysitter, in this episode.
58	"Lucy Hires a Maid"	Monday, April 27, 1953.
Exhausted from walking the baby all night, Lucy and Ricky hire a maid. Lucy has never had anyone work for her before. She practices interviewing Ethel, using a businesslike, tough attitude as Ricky has instructed. But the woman she hires, Mrs. Porter, completely overpowers Lucy. Ethel talks Lucy into firing Mrs. Porter, but this is easier said than done. Classic character actress Verna Felton (who voiced Wilma Flintstone's mother) guest-stars and cleans house in this episode.
59	"The Indian Show"	Monday, May 4, 1953.
Lucy wants to get into the act when Ricky is producing an Indian show and boning up on Indian lore. Trying to avoid a renewal of Lucy's desire to get into show business, Ricky doesn't tell her he is producing an Indian show. Lucy reads Ricky's book, "Bloodcurdling Indian Tales," and is horrified by the stories. When two Indians in full regalia turn up for an audition, Lucy stages an ambush for them. Eventually Lucy steals the show with her classic rendition of By the Waters of the Minnetonka. Ricky asks Lucy: "What of Little Ricky?" Lucy had Little Ricky with her in a papoose, on her back.
60	"Lucy's Last Birthday"	Monday, May 11, 1953.
Ricky has planned a surprise party for Lucy's birthday. He swears the Mertzes and all their friends to secrecy. Lucy, however, only knows that everyone has forgotten her birthday and works very hard at being gay, denying that she wanted anyone to remember. Taking a walk to forget her troubles, Lucy runs across a rescue mission band called "Friends of the Friendless," tearfully tells them her troubles, and marches off with them. Meanwhile the party guests are assembled at Ricky's nightclub, waiting for the guest of honor. Ricky sings the lyrics to "I Love Lucy" for the first and only time in this Classic TV episode.
61	"The Ricardos Change Apartments"	Monday, May 18, 1953.
Lucy thinks the Ricardos need a larger apartment now that they have the baby. She tries all her tricks to cajole Ricky into switching apartments with Mr. and Mrs. Benson, who have recently married off their daughter and don't need the extra bedroom. Lucy fills her apartment with junk, including a sliding pond and teeter-totter, to give it a "cramped" appearance. This is the episode when the Ricardos move up in the world. . .to apartment 3-B.
62	"Lucy Is Matchmaker"	Monday, May 25, 1953.
At a bridge game, Lucy and her friends gossip about single gal, Sylvia Collins, and all decide that they need to match her up with someone. When Eddie Grant, a friend of the Mertzes, stops by for a visit, the Mertzes ask the Ricardos to entertain him for them, as they won't be available to do so themselves. When Lucy learns that the salesman of women lingerie is an eligible bachelor, she immediately begins brewing plans to fix him up with Sylvia Collins, but misunderstanding causes funny results.
63	"Lucy Wants New Furniture"	Monday, June 1, 1953.
A frantic economy wave engulfs the Ricardo household. Lucy buys some furniture against Ricky's orders and is forced to pay for it out of her own allowance. Ricky confiscates the furniture and takes it to the club until it's paid off. Lucy also needs a new dress and a new hairstyle for the Carrolls' party at the Tropicana on Saturday night. She tries to make her own dress and then does some "permanent damage" in this episode.
64	"The Camping Trip"	Monday, June 8, 1953.
When Lucy and her friends are playing cards, they gossip about one of their friends who recently got divorced. All the women agree that after a certain time, the interest just fades, but Lucy insists that it isn't true of her and Ricky. She clings on to Ricky, wanting to do everything that he does. Fred and Ricky have a camping trip planned with their other buddies, but when Lucy overhears it, she's expecting to go along too. Ricky decides that he'll give Lucy a host weekend of camping, to show her that it's rough, and he's sure that it will convince her not to come along with them. Lucy finds out about Ricky's plan, and she decides to conquer the great outdoors (with a little help from Ethel).
65	"Ricky and Fred Are TV Fans"	Monday, June 22, 1953.
When Lucy and Ethel become TV boxing-match widows, they decide to go out for a bite to eat, leaving their husbands in front of the Ricardo TV set. Everyone at the local cafe is also glued to the TV set, so when Lucy goes to pay her bill, she decides to take her change herself as the clerk was completely oblivious to her, and gets caught with her hand in the cash register. She manages to escape the cop's clutches by yelling, "Look -- a knockout!" With Ethel, she takes refuge on the roof of their apartment building. Guest star Frank Nelson is back and in uniform as Sergeant Nelson in episode 65.
66	"Never Don't Do Business With Friends"	Monday, June 29, 1953.
The Ricardos get a new washing machine. Despite Ricky's apprehensions, they sell their old one to the Mertzes for thirty-five dollars. The next day, the old machine erupts like a volcano. The Mertzes call the machine a "lemon" and take the stance that since no money has changed hands yet, the deal is invalid. This causes a tremendous fight between the couples. This episode offers a rare glimpse of the back of the Mertzes' apartment building.

[edit] Season 3

#	Title	Original airdate
67	"Ricky's Life Story"	Monday, October 5, 1953
LIFE magazine has done a home picture layout on the Ricardos. The pictures include Ricky, Little Ricky, and a view of Lucy's left elbow. Therefore, Lucy needles her husband into getting her into show business so her photos will be in demand. She rigs herself out in a Spanish costume and tries to augment a Cuban number sung by Ricky.
68	"The Girls Go Into Business"	Monday, October 12, 1953.
It's touch-and-go for Lucy and Ethel as they buy a dress shop on a shoestring and promptly go into the red. With typical beginner's luck, they unwittingly unload the losing venture on their husbands, Ricky and Fred. Listen and learn the Spanish phrase for "the check is good" in this episode.
69	"Lucy and Ethel Buy the Same Dress"	Monday, October 19, 1953.
Lucy wangles the star role in a revue staged by her women's club by promising that she will deliver her husband, Ricky, as the show's emcee. The fly in the theatrical ointment comes as Ethel Mertz, Lucy's archrival for show honors, turns up in the same gown as Lucy's. In this episode, Lucy and Ethel sing the Cole Porter classic, Friendship. Actress Shirley Mitchell takes over the recurring role of the "cackling" Marion Strong in this episode.
70	"Equal Rights"	Monday, October 26, 1953.
After Ricky is frustrated with waiting for Lucy to get ready for their dinner date with the Mertzes, and then her deciding where they should go to eat, a heated argument about equal rights forms between the men and the women. During which the girls insist they want to be treated exactly as if they were men, the Ricardos and the Mertzes go off to an Italian restaurant for dinner, and then to teach the girls a lesson, the men tell the waiter to give them separate checks. Much to the embarrassment of Lucy and Ethel, neither one of them has brought any money with them. While the men leave, the girls are force to wash dishes to pay off their meal. The girls decide to get back at the boys by placing a prank phone call to them, where they pretend like the restaurant is being robbed, and that they've been shot. The men call the police, and then rush to the restaurant to save their wives, but when they get to the restaurant they realize that they've been fooled. They pretend to be masked robbers to scare the girls with their own lies, but then the police arrive, and thinking that Ricky and Fred are real robbers, they get arrested. Lawrence Dobkin played the role of the waiter.
71	"Baby Pictures"	Monday, November 2, 1953.
A resolution by the Ricardos not to show snapshots of their youngster to their friends goes by the boards as two proud visitors, Charlie and Carolyn Appleby, gleefully exhibit pictures of their infant in a baseball suit resembling Little Ricky's. Listen for the classic Lucy quote: "Where do you keep your baby's cage?"
72	"Lucy Tells the Truth"	Monday, November 9, 1953.
Lucy vows to tell the truth for twenty-four hours in order to win a bet. This lands her in a knife-throwing act on television. Her predicament stems from a little white lie during her round-the-clock truth test -- namely, that she can understand a talent agent who can't speak English. When he hires her, Lucy has a choice of facing the knife-thrower's blades or losing the bet. This is the episode where Lucy "unwittingly" reveals her true age, weight, and original hair color. Character actor Charles Lane makes another appearance.
73	"The French Revue"	Monday, November 16, 1953.
Ricky plans a French revue at the Tropicana. Lucy hires DuBois, a waiter at a French bistro, to teach Ethel and herself some conversational French. In exchange for the free lessons, Lucy promises to get DuBois into Ricky's show. At first Ricky is mad, but he finally agrees to hire the waiter on the basis of his excellent "Louise" rendition. However, much to Lucy's consternation, Ricky forbids her to come near the club. She does her best to get into the Tropicana in various disguises. Maurice Chevalier impersonations abound in this tribute to France.
74	"Redecorating the Mertzes' Apartment"	Monday, November 23, 1953.
The Ricardos nearly wreck the apartment of their landlord friends, the Mertzes, when they try to help decorate their apartment and Lucy proves herself an inferior decorator. Watch for a rare dialogue mistake of Lucy's and Desi's ad-lib to cover it up!
75	"Too Many Crooks"	Monday, November 30, 1953.
Fred's birthday is approaching, and the Ricardos decide to buy him a custom-made tweed suit as a surprise. Lucy sneaks into the Mertz apartment to borrow one of Fred's old suits as a model. But Mrs. Trumbull, unaware of Lucy's intentions, sees her and tells Ethel. Because of a robbery scare in the neighborhood involving a "Madame X," Ethel immediately jumps to the conclusion that Lucy is she, while Lucy mistakenly thinks that Ethel is Madame X.
76	"Changing the Boys' Wardrobe"	Monday, December 7, 1953.
Lucy and Ethel hatch an ingenious plot to make their husbands stop wearing disreputable clothes in public. Ricky proudly displays his sweatshirt from his alma mater, Havana U.
77	"Lucy Has Her Eyes Examined"	Monday, December 14, 1953.
Lucy winds up with drops in her eyes when Ricky visits an oculist, but it takes more than impaired vision to quell her latest attempts to crash the show at Ricky's nightclub -- this time with a sizzling jitterbug dance. In this episode, Fred and Ethel don raccoon coats for a classic rendition of "The Varsity Drag."
78	"Ricky's Old Girlfriend"	Monday, December 21, 1953.
Ricky creates a fictitious old flame (Carlota Romero) to make Lucy fly into a jealous rage. By coincidence, a singer by the same name is actually appearing in New York. The next evening, a press agent arranges for Carlota Romero (with whom Ricky did work many years ago) to see Ricky again.
79	"The Million-Dollar Idea"	Monday, January 11, 1954.
Lucy and Ethel have visions of making a million dollars by bottling and selling old-fashioned salad dressing -- until their operations reach the point of diminishing returns, largely because of their bizarre views on how to run a business. Watch as Lucy and Ethel, a.k.a. Isabella Klump and Mary Margaret McMertz, invent the infomercial.
80	"Ricky Minds the Baby"	Monday, January 18, 1954.
Ricky changes his vacation plans so he can spend all his time with Little Ricky. Lucy uses her free time to go shopping, but when she returns she finds Little Ricky wandering the hallway by himself. Ricky and Fred have been so involved in a TV football game, they hadn't seen him wander off. To teach Ricky a lesson, Lucy phones her husband and nonchalantly asks about Little Ricky. Panic sets in when the father realizes his son is missing. A classic father-and-son moment occurs when Ricky recites Little Red Riding Hood in Spanish.
81	"Charm School"	Monday, January 25, 1954.
Lucy and Ethel enroll in a charm school to cope with their husbands' interest in a sweet young thing who exudes personality-plus. Veteran actress Natalie Schafer, who later played "Lovey Howell" on Gilligan's Island, guest-stars in this episode.
82	"Sentimental Anniversary"	Monday, February 1, 1954.
Lucy and Ricky want to spend their thirteenth anniversary at home, but the Mertzes have arranged a surprise party for them. When Ethel asks Lucy where they'll be that night, Lucy quickly concocts some story that they'll be out. As the party guests start arriving, Lucy and Ricky move their champagne dinner into the closet. Finally they manage to divert the guests' attention so they can slip out the front door and make a properly "surprised" entrance.
83	"Fan Magazine Interview"	Monday, February 8, 1954.
Lucy and Ricky madly prepare for a visit from a fan magazine writer who is doing a series on happily married couples. But their frayed nerves and a family quarrel make for a touch-and-go situation before the scribe arrives. Veteran actress Kathryn Card plays Ricky Ricardo fan "Minnie Finch" in this episode. She would later play recurringly as Lucy's mother "Mrs. McGillicuddy" in the series and on The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour.
84	"Oil Wells"	Monday, February 15, 1954.
When a fast-talking petroleum "tycoon" from Texas tries to foist some phony stock off on the Ricardos and the Mertzes, they discover the ruse just in time to avoid being fleeced, or so they think. Listen for the classic Ricky quote: "Don't cross their chickens before their bridges are hatched."
85	"Ricky Loses His Temper"	Monday, February 22, 1954.
Ricky tries his hand at a little psychology to overcome Lucy's mania for buying hats. Character actress Madge Blake, who played "Aunt Harriet in the TV series Batman, guest-stars as Mrs. Mulford. Ms. Blake would also appear with Lucy & Desi in their movie The Long, Long Trailer in 1954.
86	"Home Movies"	Monday, March 1, 1954.
When Ricky makes a film and succeeds in selling it to a producer, Lucy decides to get into the act by producing her own western. When TV producer Bennett Green arrives to see Ricky's pilot, "Ricky Ricardo Presents Tropical Rhythms," he is treated to a spliced-in sampling of Lucy's theatrical travesty. In this episode, Lucy and Ethel surprise Ricky with their rendition of I'm an Old Cowhand.
87	"Bonus Bucks"	Monday, March 8, 1954.
Lucy and Ethel engage in a not-too-neighborly tiff over the ownership of a "bonus buck" when its serial number turns up in a newspaper. Watch Lucy jump into a vat of starch for a half-dollar in this episode.
88	"Ricky's Hawaiian Vacation"	Monday, March 22, 1954.
When Ricky makes no provision for Lucy to accompany him on a trip to Hawaii, Lucy sets out to win a free trip to the ukulele capital for herself and the Mertzes. Frank Nelson returns as everyone's favorite game show host, Freddie Fillmore.
89	"Lucy Is Envious"	Monday, March 29, 1954.
A wealthy ex-schoolmate of Lucy's is collecting for a charity. Lucy tells her friend to put her down for "five." But when the uppity friend arrives to collect the pledged funds, Lucy is shocked to learn that her "five" meant five hundred dollars. In order to raise the money, Lucy and Ethel get a job dressed as two aliens from Mars in a stunt to publicize a science fiction movie. They "invade" the top of the Empire State Building and scare the daylights out of a group of tourists. Long-time Lucy favorite, actress Mary Jane Croft appears as "Cynthia Harcourt".
90	"Lucy Writes a Novel"	Monday, April 5, 1954.
Lucy decides to become an author after reading about a woman who won $10,000 for her book. Ricky, Fred, and Ethel find themselves the central characters in Lucy's first novel, "Real Gone With the Wind."
91	"Lucy's Club Dance"	Monday, April 12, 1954.
Lucy organizes an orchestra among her girl friends and books them for a club dance. But the orchestra plays so horribly that she asks Ricky to come to a rehearsal and give them some advice. Determined to get publicity for the dance, Lucy announces the premiere performance of "Ricky Ricardo and His All-Girl Orchestra."
92	"The Black Wig"	Monday, April 19, 1954.
Ricky forbids Lucy to get "one of those new Italian haircuts." She rebels by borrowing a wig from her hairdresser Roberta, who insists Lucy looks like a different person with it on. Lucy plans to wear the wig so she can test Ricky's fidelity, but the salon manager tips off Ricky to the scheme. When Lucy puts on the wig and starts flirting, Ricky flirts back.
93	"The Diner"	Monday, April 26, 1954.
Ricky becomes interested in a diner that is for sale, so the Ricardos and the Mertzes all buy it together. Right away, Ethel and Fred decide that they are doing all the work while Lucy and Ricky have all the fun. The couples decide to split the diner down the middle. The Ricardos' side says "A Little Bit of Cuba," and the Mertzes' side says "A Big Hunk of America."
94	"Tennessee Ernie Visits"	Monday, May 3, 1954.
When country cousin Tennessee Ernie Ford -- a hillbilly's hillbilly -- wears out his welcome with the Ricardos, Lucy tries a vamp act to scare him back to the mountains. Guest star: Tennessee Ernie Ford. Quote: Fred Mertz said, "Tell Li'l Abner goodnight."
95	"Tennessee Ernie Hangs On"	Monday, May 10, 1954.
Lucy gets sick of an extensive visit by Tennessee Ernie, who claims he is her cousin. She tries to get rid of the likable character by pleading poverty. The scheme backfires when Tennessee Ernie promotes a benefit hoedown to assist Lucy and Ricky. Look for "Ernie Ford and His Four Chicken Pickers", as they sing "Y'all Come" in this episode.
96	"The Golf Game"	Monday, May 17, 1954.
Championship golfer Jimmy Demaret visits the Ricardos when Lucy and Ethel arrive at a bizarre scheme for combating their "golf widowship." The girls install a basketball court in the Ricardo living room and pretend to be as deeply absorbed in the game as their husbands are in the fairways. Guest star: Jimmy Demaret.
97	"The Sublease"	Monday, May 24, 1954.
Hoping to spend the summer away, the Ricardos decide to sublet their apartment and split the profits with the Mertzes. Their tenant is a shy, timid soul who has been a witness in a murder trial and who wants nothing but peace and quiet. The deal is made when Ricky suddenly learns that his summer job has been canceled. Lucy stages a murder scene to frighten the tenant away so that she and Ricky can move back into the apartment. Jay Novello guest-stars as Mr. Beecher, the timid tenant.

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98-The Business Manager Original Air Date: Monday, October 4, 1954. After coming home from work and the bank, Ricky is upset at Lucy for her writing a note on a check that reads, "Dear Teller. Be a lamb and don't put this through 'til the end of the month." This prompts Ricky into hiring a business manager (Charles Lane) to help Lucy with her financial problems. When the manager shows up and tries to go over Lucy's books, he congratulates Lucy by saying, "This is the first set of books I can't figure out." They decide to wipe the slate clean and start over with everyone. After giving her an allowance and paying her bills, Lucy is only left with $5. She complaines to the business manager that she won't have any money left to buy groceries. The manager then arranges to setup some credit for her at the market.

The next day, Ethel needs to buy groceries and Lucy offers to charge them on her account. Lucy then figures out that she can keep the money Ethel has given her so she can make a little money for herself. This becomes a small business for Lucy as she buys groceries for all her neighbors in the apartment. On another day, Mrs. Trumbull picks up her groceries and asks Lucy to buy a can of "All Pet" for her cat. Lucy writes down on a notepad, "Tuesday buy can all pet".

After that, Ricky and Lucy are talking and Ricky says that he doesn't have any money to get a haircut. Lucy then produces a large wad of money from her purse which causes Ricky to bulge his eyes out. Ricky talks with Fred about where Lucy has gotten this money and he tells Ricky that he overheard Lucy talking about the market. Ricky suggests that Lucy could be playing the stock market and making money. Then he finds the notepad. He looks in the newspaper and sees that "Can all pet" is an abbreviation for "Canadian Allied Petroleum". Ricky then calls up the business manager and buys some of the stock.

Lucy then gets a phone call from the supermarket saying she owes over $400 in charges. She tells them that the business manager will take care of the bill. Then Ricky comes into the apartment with a lot of money saying he got the money through the market just like she did. Lucy is confused by this but still plays along. Ricky then announces that he fired the business manager and gives her half of what he earned from selling the stock at a high price. He then asks, "What are you going to do with the money? Put it back in the market?" Lucy replies, "That's what I'm going to do with it all right." Guest star: Charles Lane as "Andrew Hickox", the Business Manager.

99-Mertz and Kurtz Original Air Date: Monday, October 11, 1954. Veteran character actor, Charles Winninger, appears as the often mentioned- "Barney (sometimes Ted) Kurtz". At first, the Mertzes puts on airs, and asks Lucy to pose as their maid because they've been telling Barney how well off they've been doing. Their scheme is blown when Ricky drops by the Mertzes and sees Lucy in her maid's outfit. Then Barney tells the Mertzes that it's okay because he hasn't been doing so well himself. They all do a rodeo show for Ricky's night club after Ricky has no choice but to put them in the act, after he misunderstood his agent for a "radio show" instead of a rodeo show.

100-Lucy Cries Wolf Original Air Date: Monday, October 18, 1954.

101-The Matchmaker Original Air Date: Monday, October 25, 1954.

102-Ricky's Movie Offer Original Movie Air Date: Monday, November 8, 1954. Frank Nelson returns, this time as Ricky's recurring agent, "Ben Benjamin". Watch for Mrs. Trumbull's audition of Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life.

103-Ricky's Screen Test Original Air Date: Monday, November 15, 1954.

104-Lucy's Mother-In-Law Original Air Date: Monday, November 22, 1954. This is the first appearance of Ricky's mother (played by actress Mary Emery).

105-Ethel's Birthday Lucy called Ethel a hippopotamus as an insult, and all four tempers flare! Original Air Date: Monday, November 29, 1954.

106-Ricky's Contract Original Air Date: Monday, December 6, 1954.

107-Getting Ready Original Air Date: Monday, December 13, 1954.

108-Lucy Learns To Drive The Ricardos and Mertzes are getting ready to go to Hollywood. Lucy decides to freshen up on her driving skills. She forgets to insure the car, and gets into a huge accident as a result, but all ends well, as Ricky, not trusting her with something so important, went and insured the car himself. Original Air Date: Monday, January 3, 1955.

109-California, Here We Come! Original Air Date: Monday, January 10, 1955. This was the first of many appearances for Lucy's mother, "Mrs. McGilliccuddy", played brilliantly by Kathryn Card.

110-First Stop Original Air Date: Monday, January 17, 1955. Watch for actual location footage in this episode.

111-Tennessee Bound

• After getting jailed, in Tennessee, Lucy gets Ricky to call Tennessee Ernie Ford, Tennessee Ernie Ford comes to the jail and help them escape by his singing, then as he sings, Ricky, Lucy, Fred and Ethel start square dancing and use a rope to tie up the sheriff that arrested them then continue their trip west, to California.

Guest-stars: Tennessee Ernie Ford and Aaron Spelling as the sheriff. Original Air Date: Monday, January 24, 1955.

112-Ethel's Hometown Albuquerque, New Mexico As Ricky, Lucy, Fred and Ethel get closer to Los Angeles, California, Ricky stops the car in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where Ethel's dad, school classmates and her friends, as a teenager, that still reside there, give Ethel publicity! And as the publicity sets in, Ethel causes her old flame's and dad to think that she is the star-to-be and is the main reason of the trip, to Los Angeles! Ethel Mertz sang Shortnin' Bread, as Fred, Ricky and Lucy quietly made scenes behind her, causing the audience to laugh, as she was about to start her second song. Ethel's second song was going to be an opera. Character actor, Irving Bacon, appears as Ethel's father, Will Potter. Original Air Date: Monday, January 31, 1955.

113-L. A., At Last Lucy recognizes William Holden, as he comes into the Brown Derby restaurant. For a minute, Lucy continuously watched William Holden. Then after the waiter brings a menu page to William Holden, William Holden "returned the favor" by continuously watching Lucy. William Holden spoke to the waiter, he called Gus and said the catchphrase "If the shoe was on the other foot". William Holden stared Lucy out of the Brown Derby restaurant. Shortly after Lucy, Fred and Ethel leave, a waiter that carried a pie, accidentally stumbled because of Lucy bumping into him, causing the pie to go into William Holden's face! Much to the horror of Lucy, Ricky meets William, and asks him if he would mind stopping by the hotel to meet his wife, who's a huge fan, neither one of them knowing about what had occured earlier. William stops by the hotel with Ricky, and Ricky tells Lucy that he has a big movie star that he brought with him to surprise Lucy. When she finds out it's William Holden, she disguises herself, including putting on a big ridiculous looking nose, which catches on fire as William lights a cigarette for her! The script for this episode was nominated for an Emmy award. Guest Stars: William Holden and Eve Arden Original Air Date: Monday, February 7, 1955.

114-Don Juan and the Starlets Original Air Date: Monday, February 14, 1955.

115-Lucy Gets Into Pictures Original Air Date: Monday, February 21, 1955.

116-The Fashion Show Wives of seven major Hollywood actors; William Holden, Dean Martin, Gordon MacRae, Richard Carlson, Van Heflin, Alan Ladd and Forrest Tucker appear in cameo, wearing their designer Don Loper dresses for a fashion show of wives of movie stars. Lucy and Ethel goes into the store to buy an original Don Loper dress for Lucy, when she overhears about the fashion show. When there's a spot opened, she makes a fake phone call so that she can throw Ricky's name around, which catches the attention of fashion designer, Don Loper who needs the spot filled. Lucy hastily chooses a plain looking dress, thinking it was probably the least expensive of the dresses in the store. When she goes back to the hotel, she finds the price tag, and sees that the plain dress cost $500. She comes up with an idea to get a little burnt tan because her skin is so fair, that Ricky will feel bad for her. Only, she falls asleep, and she's completely burnt, and can barely move as a result. Despite this, Ricky is still very upset with her for spending so much money on the dress, and storms out. However, as luck would have it, Don Loper calls her to tell her that there's been a terrible mistake, and that the dress she chose has already been promised to someone else to wear for the show. He tells her though, if she'll wear something else, as a thank you for being such a doll, he'll give her the dress she bought for free. Lucy does the show despite being so badly burnt, and when she returns to the hotel with Ethel, she finds flowers from Ricky with a note and a check for $500, saying how he felt really bad for being so upset with her when she was so badly burnt, and she can have the dress, not knowing she already got the dress for free. Veteran character actress Amzie Strickland also guest-starred, in this episode. Original Air Date: Monday, February 28, 1955.

117-The Hedda Hopper Story

• Ricky is unhappy about the lack of publicity involving him in the Hollywood newspapers. Lucy attempts to call her mother and the baby who are still back in New York. However, after repeated unanswered calls, Lucy grows worrisome, fearing something terrible has happened to the two. A telegram arrives at the hotel room, informing Lucy and Ricky that they have left New York, however, the telegram is unclear. Soon after, Lucy's mother calls Lucy to inform them that they have arrived. Lucy, Ricky, Fred, and Ethel leave for the airport to pick up Mrs. McGillicuddy, yet after an hour of no success, they return to the hotel room where they find Lucy's mother, informing them that she had been in the lobby when they called. She talks about her flight to Los Angeles, specifically a journalist who is considering writing an article on Ricky. Ricky, unhappy by Hedda Hopper's virtual ignorance of Ricky's career, calls over his publicity agent, whom arrives and plans a scheme in which Ricky rescues a drowning Lucy at a women's benefit that she has attended annually for quite some time. They get ready and are prepared to depart from the hotel to the pool area when Lucy's mother informs them that her journalist friend is visiting today. Ricky and Lucy depart and Ricky's publicity agent, after seeing what seemed to be Hopper approaching, pushes Lucy into the pool and Ricky follows, rescuing her. However it was not Hopper but a waiter bringing a potted plant onto one of the vacant tables around the pool. The two return to the hotel room, only to discover that Mrs. McGillicuddy's journalist friend was, in fact, Hedda Hopper.

Listen to Ricky mis-pronounce Hedda Hopper's last name as "Hooper", at least twice. Guest Star:Hedda Hopper Original Air Date: Monday, March 14, 1955.

118-Don Juan Is Shelved

• Lucy reads an article claiming that Ricky's motion picture "Don Juan" was going to be shelved. Ricky, despite the article's claims, is sure that the movie is still in production, considering that he has not been informed of the cancellation. However, after going down to the MGM studios, he learns that the picture is to be shelved. In order to foster a change of heart of the producers, Lucy and the gang write a swarm of fan mail. In addition, they search for an actor in the lobby of the hotel to act as a producer from Europe in order to pressure MGM producer Dore Schary into keeping Ricky. However, they end up paying Dore Schary himself to act as the European producer, since neither Lucy nor Ethel nor Fred know the physical attributes of Schary. After Ricky returns to meet Dore, the gang find out that their actor is in fact the Hollywood producer, but are relieved to discover that MGM is not planning on firing Ricky. Look for the husband (at that time) of Vivian Vance in this episode- Philip Ober as Dore Schary.

Original Air Date: Monday, March 21, 1955.

119-Bull Fight Dance

• Ricky's publicist, Ross, has arranged for Lucy to write an article about being the wife of the very successful Ricky Ricardo. Provided with an opportunity to express what is one her mind, Lucy is ecstatic about the article. When learning of a television benefit Ricky has been cast to do, Lucy decides to make two copies of the article, one that paints Ricky as a considerate husband and one that depicts Ricky as an arrogant jerk. She, then, asks Ricky if she can be in the television benefit, however, his disapproval allows Lucy to blackmail Ricky by promising to submit the article depicting him as an arrogant jerk. Frightened by the negative publicity, he allows Lucy to be in the benefit, first in a musical bit of two singers performing two different songs concurrently. However, when Lucy fails to perform the bit successfully, she is cast unknowingly as a bull in a Bull Fight Dance. Lucy, angered by her new character, decides to surprise Ricky by adorning her costume with ornate flowers atop her head, lipstick on her bull lips, and unusually long eyelashes. In addition, instead of walking on all fours, she dances about on her two legs and, contrary to the original ending in which Ricky defeats the bull, Lucy defeats Ricky, the matador.

Original Air Date: Monday, March 28, 1955.

120-Hollywood Anniversary Lucy realizes that her upcoming wedding anniversary will take place in Hollywood. Ricky totally forgets about it when Lucy asks him if he had remembered. Ricky tries to play around it, pretending that he knew all along and he had a big party planned for her. Lucy believes Ricky but she still has a bit of doubt in her mind. That night, Ricky calls western union and asks for the date of his wedding anniversary. He also calls his agent to put a story in the newspaper about the upcoming event.

The next morning the bellhop brings Ricky a telegram with the date but he doesn't get a chance to read it right away. When he does read it and tells Lucy the correct date, she is happy that Ricky remembered the date. She also sees the story in the paper and she runs off to share the news with Fred & Ethel.

When she returns, she announces that Fred & Ethel are upset that they weren't mentioned in the newspaper article and the truth comes out when Lucy finds the telegram that was sent. This angers Lucy and she doesn't speak with Ricky. Ricky tries desperately to ask for forgiveness and he still plans a night out with Lucy at the Mocambo nightclub. But Lucy won't budge. So Ricky goes to the club by himself.

Lucy's mother then suggests if Ricky went to the club to celebrate, she should do the same. Lucy reluctantly goes and sits at a separate table. After Ricky finishes a song at the club, he announces to the audience that tonight is his wedding anniversary and he admits that he had forgotten. He then wishes that Lucy would join him on the dancefloor and he again asks for forgiveness. Lucy accepts his apology and they both dance to "The Anniversary Waltz" Original Air Date: Monday, April 4, 1955.

121-Mr. and Mrs. T.V. Show Original Air Date: Monday, April 11, 1955.

122-The Star Upstairs Guest Star: Cornel Wilde Original Air Date: Monday, April 18, 1955. Look for the brilliant performance of Vivian Vance as Lucy is dangling from the balcony!

123-Lucy in Palm Springs Guest Star: Rock Hudson. While in Hollywodd, the group realizes that each of them have small annoying habits: Ricky taps his fingers, Lucy stirs her coffee too much, Ethel enjoys her food too much, and Fred jiggles his keys in his pocket. This angers everyone and they all agree that they need to spend some time away from each other. After a coin flip goes wrong, the guys agree that the girls should go to Palm Springs to relax.

The girls go off but it starts to rain and they are forced to stay in their hotel. Ethel's food enjoyment causes Lucy to go crazy and they both agree that they miss their annoying husbands. In Hollywood, the same thing happens with Fred & Ricky. Ricky then gets a phone call saying that he is ironically needed in Palm Springs. So the guys go to be their wives.

The rain finally stops in Palm Springs and Lucy and Ethel are sitting by the pool when Rock Hudson shows up. They tell him why they are in Palm Springs. He then tells them a story about someone who had a problem with a husband who always whistled, one constant whistle over and over. This makes Lucy realize that she the small argument with Ricky's habit was dumb and they reunite. It was also revealed that Lucy had called Ricky to be him with sooner. Original Air Date: Monday, April 25, 1955.

124-The Dancing Star Guest Star: Van Johnson. While staying in Hollywood, Lucy writes to her friend, Carolyn Appleby, that she has been in company with many movie stars. This upsets Ricky as he finds out by reading one of Lucy's unmailed postcards. Carolyn writes back to Lucy that she will be visiting Hollywood and would just love to meet a real movie star. Oiginal Air Date: Monday, May 2, 1955.

125-Lucy and Harpo Marx Guest Star: Harpo Marx. Original Air Date: Monday, May 9, 1955. Carolyn Appleby stops by on another visit to Lucy and Ethel. After Lucy didn't learn her lesson the first time with her lies of rubbing elbows with movie stars, Carolyn is excited to meet some. However, this time proves to be more difficult, as Carolyn has her eye glasses attached to straps around her neck so she won't lose them. She can hardly see without her glasses, but Lucy and Ethel manage to cut the straps and hide her glasses anyway. Then Lucy pretends to be different movie stars who are dropping by the hotel, to the blind Carolyn, who can't tell the difference through Lucy's many disguises because of her poor eye sight. Lucy had ask Ricky for help, but he decline and decided to spend the day relaxing by the pool. Lucy fools Carolyn dressed as Gary Cooper, and that Cary Grant is really there, then Lucy returns dressed as Clark Gable, but she doesn't speak, saying that she has a bout of laryngitis.

Meanwhile, back at the pool, Ricky is joined by Fred and he tells him that he feels a little guilty that he couldn't help Lucy, but Fred isn't paying attention. He's busy looking at the girls by the pool. The girls that walk by suddenly return by being chased by Harpo Marx. Harpo recognizes Ricky and explains that he is in town for a benefit. Ricky then asks Harpo to pay a visit to the hotel room to help Lucy out, and Harpo agrees.

Back in the hotel room, Lucy dresses as Jimmy Durante and again fools Carolyn. As soon as she leaves to change costumes, the doorbell rings and Harpo shows up. He entertains the girls, but Ethel thinks it's Lucy. Carolyn asks Harpo if he had brought his harp, Ethel quickly says that he didn't, Harpo says that he did and he leaves the room. Carolyn leaves to fix her makeup because she was laughing so hard. Then the doorbell rings again and Lucy enters the room dressed as Harpo. Ethel realizes her mistake and Harpo returns forcing Lucy to hide in the mini kitchen. Harpo then plays Take Me Out to the Ballgame for the girls and Carolyn decides that it's time to leave. Harpo helps her out and Ethel returns her glasses. Harpo then quietly re-enters the room and chases Ethel when he briefly sees Lucy behind the kitchen curtain. He then goes over to the curtain and they recreate the famous mirror image scene from the classic Marx Brothers movie, Duck Soup. Harpo catches Lucy with his hat being dropped and returned like a yo-yo and Lucy's hat falls to the ground. Harpo then explains that Ricky had asked him to visit the apartment. Finally Ricky and Fred enter the apartment dressed as Groucho and Chico Marx only to find out that Carolyn had already left. This episode features the classic pantomime routine that made this episode one of the best!

126-Ricky Needs an Agent Lucy pretends to be Ricky's agent, only to get him release from the studio! She fixes everything when she realizes that the producer has never met her as Ricky's wife before, so she phones to tell him that some crazy woman is going around town claiming to be Ricky's agent. Original Air Date: Monday, May 16, 1955. Guest star: character actor Parley Baer

127-The Tour Guest Star: Richard Widmark. Original Air Date: Monday, May 30, 1955. In this episode, look for location footage that features the real-life home of Lucy & Desi.

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128-Lucy Visits Grauman's

• After completing the motion picture, Ricky informs Lucy and the Mertzes that it is time to return to New York. However, an unwilling Lucy complains, stating that she hasn't gone sightseeing. Ricky promises to stay one more week, and Lucy decides to go to Grauman's Chinese Theatre to view the celebrity shoeprints and signatures. Lucy stands on John Wayne's footprints, however, after realizing the cement block is loose, Lucy is determined to take the block as the greatest souvenir of all time. Lucy, along with Ethel, sneak out of the hotel room and attempt to loosen the block and steal it. However, two pedestrians and two cops make the adventure more difficult. Lucy, Ethel, and Fred, who has caught on to their scheme, drag away the block to the hotel. There, Lucy feigns a sleep in the Mertzes hotel room to keep Ricky from learning her whereabouts. Ricky finds out about their robbery and orders Lucy to return the block but, in her attempt to return the block, it shatters, rendering it unrecognizable, and leaving a gaping hole where the old block once rested.

Original Air Date: Monday, October 3, 1955.

129-Lucy and John Wayne Guest Star: John Wayne. Continuing from the previous episode, the newspaper has the story that John Wayne's footprints had been stolen and Ricky is still upset over the whole incident. Lucy tries to hide the newspaper but Ricky sees it anyway. He then calls Graumann's Chinese theatre and tells them the truth as to what happens. He then finds out that if the cement block is returned unharmed, no charges will be pressed. Fred then shows up with a cement block but it is easily recognized as a fake. Ricky then decides why not ask John Wayne himself. As he is doing that Lucy and Ethel decided to get their hair done.

John Wayne shows up and agrees to sign the cement block and put his boots in the cement. Ricky then suggests that John should get his boots shine at the shoe shine shop in the hotel lobby. Lucy and Ethel return to the hotel room to see the cement block and they think it's fake. So they smooth out the block and attempt to contact John Wayne themselves. Ricky and Fred return and they tell the girls that the cement block has been restored but the girls don't believe them. Fred even shows Ethel his autograph book. When Ricky goes to look at the cement block he gets angry to see the block has been smooth clean and he rushes to get John back to sign the block again. Lucy and Ethel then realize that they are about to meet John Wayne with their hair in curlers and John shows up to sign the block again. After that they thank John for all he has done and then turn around to see Little Ricky playing in the cement block.

Ricky then goes to the studio where John is filming a movie and another block is signed. Ricky thanks John again and tells Ricky to make sure this is the last one. Lucy and Ethel then show up and Lucy places another cement block just below the step to John's dressing room. She figures out when John steps out of his dressing room he has to step in the cement. After stepping in the cement he would then have no choice but to sign again. But Ricky comes out of the dressing room with the block of cement and he ruins the footprints and covers his face with wet cement. Lucy then realizes the the signature is still intact and all she has to due is make an imprint of the shoes. John then returns to his dressing room saying he needs a rubdown before he continues filming his movie. He lies down on the table and thinks he hears his trainer named George. Lucy pretends to be George and starts to give him a massage. She then gets scared and runs away.

Back at the hotel Lucy tells everyone her story and John Wayne returns with another block of cement and tells her not to worry about it anymore. John has provided Lucy with a six month supply of cement blocks.

Original Air Date: Monday, October 10, 1955.

130-Lucy and the Dummy Ricky comes home with a mannequin head the studio has made for him and he playfully scares Lucy with it. The head is a perfect likeness of Ricky and it's a little hard to tell the difference with the two heads are side by side. Ricky then announces that he's planning a deep sea fishing trip to Catalina. While Ricky is taking a shower he gets a phone call asking to work a benefit show. Ricky declines saying he wants to go fishing, but Lucy seems interested to get into the act. She offers that she can be in the show, but they want Ricky. Lucy tells Ricky of the plan and Ricky again gets angry saying nothing is going to stop him from his fishing trip. Lucy then carries the mannequin head into the living room where The Mertzes are waiting and they get a playful scare as well.

Lucy then decides that puts a scheme together where she can perform at the show with Ricky. She puts the mannequin head on a body and dances with it. She then puts a plan together that the dummy will become sick so she can perform solo.

At the show, the plan goes off well until Lucy needs to release herself from the dummy. The dummy gets caught on Lucy's dress and causes her to struggle through the performance. Because of her performance the show offers her a contract.

Ricky returns from his fishing trip to hear the news of what had happened and decides to let Lucy sign the contract and start her much wanted career in show business. Lucy returns to the apartment really excited about her career, but quickly becomes sad when she finds out that Ricky, The Mertzes, and Little Ricky would return to New York and Lucy would stay in California. But Ricky assures Lucy that he would show Little Ricky her picture so he would know who Mommy is and she could visit them every Christmas.

That night Lucy serious thinks about her choice and she starts to hear voices, both telling her about her career and her family. She snaps out of her thoughts when she hears Little Ricky crying. Ricky then wakes up and sees the dummy sitting in a chair and he hits it saying it was all is fault. Lucy then comes back into the room and sees Ricky sitting in a chair and she hits it thinking it's the dummy. Ricky then pops back to life and Lucy chooses her family over her career. Original Air Date: Monday, October 17, 1955.

131-Ricky Sells the Car Original Air Date: Monday, October 24, 1955.

132-The Great Train Robbery Lucy stops a crook with a gun from robbing the train by constantly pulling the emergency brakes, much to the annoyance of the Mertzes and the train conductor. Original Air Date: Monday, October 31, 1955. Look for Frank Nelson as the train conductor.

133-Homecoming Original Air Date: Monday, November 7, 1955.

134-The Ricardos' are Interviewed Original Air Date: Monday, November 14, 1955.

135-Lucy Goes to a Rodeo Original Air Date: Monday, November 28, 1955.

136-Nursery School Ricky tells Lucy that she must send Little Ricky to school, she is reluctant at first, but finally gives in. Everything goes well, until Little Ricky gets sick due to being around other kids. Original Air Date: Monday, December 5, 1955.

137-Ricky's European Booking Original Air Date: Monday, December 12, 1955.

138-The Passports Original Air Date: Monday, December 19, 1955.

139-Staten Island Ferry Original Air Date: Monday, January 2, 1956. Look for Charles Lane as the passport clerk.

140-Bon Voyage Lucy misses the ship as it's broading it's passengers for the final call. Guest Star: Jack Albertson as helicopter dispatcher. Original Air Date: Monday, January 16, 1956.

141-Second Honeymoon Original Air Date: Monday, January 23, 1956,

142-Lucy Meets the Queen

• The Ricardos and the Mertzes finally arrive in Europe, at their first stop in London. Lucy, completely awe-struck by the city and the Queen, is determined to see the Queen. Lucy and Ethel leave the hotel en route to Buckingham Palace, where they await an appearance by the Queen. Lucy asks a palace guard about the Queen's whereabouts, however, after learning that the guards must maintain an impassive face, Lucy attempts to crack a smile out of the guard by reciting jokes and hopping about in a nonsensical manner. Caught in her attempts to break the stoic face of the guard, Lucy misses the Queen's appearance. In another attempt to meet the Queen, Lucy and Ethel return to their hotel, where they have learned of a luncheon she is expected to attend that afternoon. The two enter the lobby, occupied by a huge crowd of people. Lucy rips a slip of paper to pass down to the queen for a signature, yet, when the paper returns, it is signed by Ricky Ricardo. After another failed attempt, she is allowed one more try after Ricky allows her to take part in his show. However, Lucy, after a long period of practicing her curtsey, develops a charley horse. Her performance is mistaken as a comedic act and pleases the queen. She personally asks for Lucy after her performance and Lucy meets the queen, despite being cramped in a fixed position: doing a curtsey.

Guest Star: Nancy Kulp who later played "Jane Hathaway" on the Beverly Hillbillies. Original Air Date: Monday, January 30, 1956.

143-The Fox Hunt Lucy gets jealous when an important woman is attracted to Ricky. Original Air Date: Monday, February 6, 1956.

144-Lucy Goes to Scotland

• Lucy has a nightmare! As if she were the last McGillicuddy, and in Scotland. Fred and Ethel Mertz are dressed together, almost as if they were Siamese twins, in a suit as a dragon that only likes McGillicuddy blood and they want to eat Lucy! Ricky is her somewhat knight is shining armor, only he's more like a cowardly pauper instead.

Original Air Date: Monday, February 20, 1956.

145-Paris at Last Original Air Date: Monday, February 27, 1956. Look for the classic translation scene at the police station!

146-Lucy Mets Charles Boyer Guest Star: Charles Boyer Original Air Date: Monday, March 5, 1956.

147-Lucy Gets a Paris Gown

• Ricky arranges for an invitation to a Parisian Fashion show for Lucy and Ethel under the conditions that Lucy goes just to look. However, captivated by the unusual but modern fashion created by Jacques Marcel, Lucy is determined to get a new dress. She commits herself to a hunger strike, which she promises never to deter from until Ricky meets her demands. Ricky succumbs to her strike, but after learning that her supposed hunger strike is a fallacy, Ricky and Fred pay a local tailor to make two fake dresses of potato sacks, a testament to the absurdity of the dresses in the fashion show. They wear the dress in public, unbeknownst to them that the dresses are just as fallacious as her "hunger strike." After discovering the truth behind the dresses, Lucy and Ethel force their spouses to purchase them Jacques Marcel original dresses, but are surprised to witness that the fashion designer has created dresses of exact likeness to the absurd dresses the tailor had made.

Original Air Date: Monday, March 19, 1956.

148-Lucy in the Swiss Alps

• After Fred accidentally sent the Ricky's Bandmembers to Locarno, Switzerland, Lucy plans a hiking trip to the Swiss Alps in order to ease Ricky's anxiety. Lucy, along with Ricky, Fred, and Ethel, hike up to the peak summit of one of the mountain tops, where the four of them eat their lunch "on top of the world." After it begins to snow, the four decide to take shelter in a small cabin they discovered on their way up to the summit. Ricky realizes, however, that an unsturdy cliff of snow is hovering over the cabin and a strong vibration or loud noise could easily collapse the snow bank into a falling avalanche. Lucy, despite urging everyone to keep from sneezing, sneezes herself. Lucy goes outside to check on the snow bank and slams the door upon reentering the cabin, collapsing the snow bank and burrying the cabin under an unknown snow depth. The four are visibly freightened by their captivity and fear they may die of starvation. However, they are saved by concerned Swiss Bandmembers that Fred had secured for Ricky in the case that the displaced bandmembers failed to reach Lucerne, Switzerland in time.

Original Air Date: Monday, March 26, 1956.

149-Lucy Gets Homesick in Italy

• Lucy and Ricky check into an antiquated but picturesque hotel in Florence, Italy in which they reside in a fourth floor suite with a dysfunctional elevator. A concerned Lucy is worried that Little Ricky may have not received his birthday presents. Ricky allows her to call New York to get in contact with Little Ricky. The first call is obstructed by the time difference, in which it is still only 5 a.m. in New York. The second call is obstructed by the fact that Little Ricky is in nursery school. A little neighborhood boy comes to shine Lucy's shoes and fibs, stating that coincidentally today was his birthday also. She gives him some chocolate, which prompts a wave of fictitious claims in which many neighborhood children claim to be celebrating their birthdays today. Lucy throws a birthday party in honor of Little Ricky in Italy and finally gets in contact with Little Ricky.

Original Air Date: Monday, April 9, 1956.

150-Lucy's Italian Movie

• One of the all-time classic episodes! While in Europe, Lucy gets a chance to be an actress, in a movie, she goes to a vineyard and starts to step on grapes with an experienced Italian, that is used to the job. Lucy gets tired before she realises it and the other vineyard worker, speaking Italian, says "Quit goofing". And shortly afterwards, Lucy wants to leave, but falls down and on top of the experienced grape-stepper. Here is where the humor is most hilarious! It almost appears as if Lucy and the Italian were wrestling in the vineyard! Finally after getting back to the apartment, Lucy's skin is colored so much, from the grapes, the movie director immediately gives the role to Ethel!

"Lucy's Grapes of Wrath" would be a good secondary title, of this episode! Original Air Date: Monday, April 16, 1956.

151-Lucy's Bicycle Trip Original Air Date: Monday, April 23, 1956.

152-Lucy Goes to Monte Carlo Original Air Date: Monday, May 7, 1956

153-Return Home From Europe Original Air Date: Monday, May 14, 1956. Look for Mary Jane Croft as "Evelyn Bigsby" and Frank Nelson as the customs officer.

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154-Lucy and Bob Hope Guest Star: Bob Hope. Original Air Date: Monday, October 1, 1956. This episode marks Keith Thibideaux's first appearance as an "aged" Little Ricky.

155-Little Ricky Learns to Play the Drum Original Air Date: Monday, October 8, 1956

156-Lucy Meets Orson Welles Guest Star: Orson Welles. Original Air Date: Monday, October 15, 1956.

157- Little Ricky Gets Stage Fright Guest star: Howard McNear as "Mr. Crawford" (he would later play Floyd Lawson, the barber on Andy Griffith). Original Air Date: Monday, October 22, 1956.

158-Visitor From Italy Original Air Date: Monday, October 29, 1956. Guest star: Jay Novello Look for Lucy's classic way of making a pizza!

159-Off to Florida Guest Stars: Elsa Lanchester andStrother Martin Original Air Date: Monday, November 12, 1956.

160-Deep-Sea Fishing Lucy and Ethel makes a bet with Ricky and Fred to see who will catch the biggest fish. Original Air Date: Monday, November 19, 1956.

161-Desert Island Original Air Date: Monday, November 26, 1956. Guest star: Claude Akins

162-The Ricardos Visit Cuba Original Air Date: Monday, December 3, 1956. The Ricardo's and the Mertz's visit Ricky's family. Actress Mary Emery appears again as Ricky's mother.

163-Little Ricky's School Pageant Original Air Date: Monday, December 17, 1956.

164-I Love Lucy Christmas Show (Special) After little Ricky goes to bed, Ricky, Lucy, Fred and Ethel bring back memories of the events when Lucy was nearing little Ricky's birth, three and four years earlier. Original Air Date: Monday, December 24, 1956.

165-Lucy and the Loving Cup Lucy gets a cup stuck on her head, and travels around the train to an event that way! Original Air Date: Monday, January 7, 1957. Guest star: Johnny Longden

166-Lucy and Superman For Little Ricky's birthday party, Lucy tries to get Ricky to have Superman stop by. Ricky does at the last moment, only Lucy doesn't realize it, and she is dressed up as Superman instead. When she realizes that the real Superman is there, she hides out on the outside of the window sill. Guest Star: George Reeves. Original Air Date: Monday, January 14, 1957.

167-Little Ricky Gets a Dog Original Air Date: Monday, January 21, 1957. The "voice" of the dog was portrayed by veteran voice actress- June Foray.

168-Lucy Wants to Move to the Country After a weekend out in the country, Lucy decides that she likes it better than the city. She tries to convince Ricky to move. Original Air Date: Monday, January 28, 1957.

169-Lucy Hates to Leave The Ricardos have decided to move to the country, and have bought a house in Westport, Connecticut. When the final packings are being done though, she realizes how much she'll miss the city though. Original Air Date: Monday, February 4, 1957.

170-Lucy Misses the Mertzes The Ricardos misses the Mertzes, and the Mertzes misses the Ricardos. Both couples decide to try and visit the other during a snow storm. Original Air Date: Monday, February 11, 1957.

171-Lucy Gets Chummy With the Neighbors This episode marks the first appearances of new recurring neighbors- "Ralph & Betty Ramsey" as played by Frank Nelson and Mary Jane Croft. Original Air Date: Monday, February 18, 1957.

172-Lucy Raises Chickens Living out in the country is getting to be expensive. Fred gives Ricky the idea to raise chicken, to use for eggs, and then as poultry when they become old. This is when the Mertzes move to the country also, and they live in the Ricardos' guest house, to help them with the chickens. They go into the business together. Listen and watch as Lucy does sounds to call baby chicks that were unable to be reached and follow Lucy to the hen house. Original Air Date: Monday, March 4, 1957.

173-Lucy Does the Tango As Ricky Ricado and Fred Mertz tempers start to flare, once again, this time is because the hens that have not started to laying eggs, in their new environment. This gives Lucy the idea of buying eggs and then, she and Ethyl were about to secretly put them under the hens. And stop the flared up tempers of Ricky and Fred. Just as they were to hide the eggs, Ricky decided to practice another tango dance, right then and spoil Lucy and Ethyl's plan. Fortunately, all was not lost. Because, two children, Little Ricky and Bruce Ramsey were hiding some of the hens at the Ramsey's house, because Little Ricky did not want the chickens to be sold back. When the number of hens is noticed to be lower, than what it should be, Little Ricky admits that he and Bruce Ramsey hid some chickens, not knowing that some are hens. As the episode concludes, Bruce Ramsey comes over to the Ricardo's house and brought a bucket of at least eighteen eggs, that the hidden hens really did lay. Trivia: This episode reportedly has the longest, loudest and continuous studio audience laughter in Lucy history! The reason is that as Lucy and Ricky practice their tango number and the big finish, numerous eggs that were hidden inside Lucy's shirt broke and soaked through. While Ricky looked on in disbelief, Lucy ad-libbed by trying to cover up the mess with her arms without saying a word and by looking nonchalant. As Ethel looked on with a pained look from across the room, Fred entered the room and the door hit Ethel on her behind where she too had eggs "stashed" in her pants! Original Air Date: Monday, March 11, 1957.

174-Ragtime Band Original Air Date: Monday, March 18, 1957.

175-Lucy's Night In Town The Ricardos and the Mertzes are planning to go to New York City to see a Broadway Show, but Ricky is worried that absent-minded Lucy will forget the tickets. Lucy doesn't forget the tickets, she makes sure of that, however, the tickets are for an earlier showing, and no good to them. They go to a restaurant for dinner before the show, where Lucy and Ethel tries to stall the men by eating very slowly so that they'll be late for the opening, and have a reason to miss the show, but Ricky finds out the truth. At the ticket booth, there are only two available seats left for the show. They decide that the girls will watch the first half, while the men watch the second half. Only it doesn't work out, as the girls enjoy the show so much that they can't miss the second half! G S: Joseph Kearns as Theatre Manager Original Air Date: Monday, March 25, 1957.

176-Housewarming Original Air Date: Monday, April 1, 1957.

177-Building a B-B-Q Ricky is home on vacation from work. Lucy can't stand him being home because he's annoying her, so she gets him to build and set up a BBQ grill. All four help out, but in the process, Lucy loses her wedding ring. She thinks that it fell into the cement that was use to build the grill, so her and Ethel tears the whole grill apart. They don't find it, but when the grill is rebuilt, and they are all eating hamburgers, Lucy finds it in her burger. The ring drop out of Ricky's shirt pocket, and into the chopped meat that was use to make patties. Original Air Date: Monday, April 8, 1957.

178-Country Club Dance Lucy, Ethel and Betty all tell their husbands to be nice to a relative of a friend of theirs at a country club, but to their surprise, she is beautiful and the guys are stumbling over themselves for her attention, which leads the girls to be jealous. So the three girls decide that they too will be glamorous, but it back fires on them. Originl Air Date: Monday, April 22, 1957. Guest star: Barbara Eden

179-Lucy Raises Tulips Betty's tulips win every year for best garden, but this year, Lucy is competing in the contest too. When she accidentally destroys Betty's garden of tulips, she replaces them with fake wax tulips that look like the real thing; only, Ricky accidentally destroys Lucy's garden of tulips, and he pulls the same act with Lucy's tulips. It's a very hot day, and when the judges are there, both girls' garden of tulips melt in the sun! Original Air Date: Monday, April 29, 1957.

180-The Ricardos Dedicate a Statue Original Air Date: Monday, May 6, 1957. Look quickly for Desi Arnaz Jr. in the crowd scene where Ethel asks: "Are you having a good time, honey?" Desi Arnaz Jr. was also in in this episode but uncredited.

• • • There are 181 episodes, altogether. What was to be the pilot episode of Season 1 was kept back or misplaced. Vaudeville clown Pepito Perez was in it and his wife returned it to the Lucie Arnaz or Desi Arnaz Jr., in 1990. That episode was originally shown on Monday, April 30, 1990 on CBS.

Trivia: What was to be the original pilot episode, is titled, "The Lost Pilot". Lucille Ball was pregnant with Lucie Arnaz, when the episode was filmed, in 1951. Lucille Ball or Desi Arnaz must have given it to Pepito Perez and let his family keep it for 38 years. The plot is exactly same in both "The Lost Pilot" and "The Audition Show", of season one, episode six, except the actor that played the role of the clown, that Lucy replaced. It originally aired Monday, November 19, 1951. In both episides, Lucille Ball replaced the clown, and played the How Dry I Am song, acting as if she was a seal blowing horns. And Desi Arnaz also sang Babalu, in both episodes, as Lucy pretended to be a seal. The Guest Star was Spanish clown, Pepito Perez doing the same acts, as he also did them, like in Season Two's episode, "Lucy's Show-Biz Swan Song", it originally aired on Monday,December 22, 1952.

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.tv.com/i-love-lucy/lucy-does-a-tv-commercial/episode/15110/summary.html

[edit] Sources

• Andrews, Bart. The "I Love Lucy" Book. A Dolphin Book. DOUBLEDAY & CO., INC. NY, 1985 ISBN 0385190336

[edit] External links

• East 68th Street - Everything "I Love Lucy"