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I Love Lucy is an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley. The black-and-white series originally ran from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, on the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS). All 180 episodes aired on Mondays. In total 180 episodes of I Love Lucy were produced, plus a pilot episode. The pilot, which was not made for broadcast and did not air as part of the show's original run, is generally not counted as one of the episodes and therefore listed separately for reference. It is, however, available on DVD and Blu-ray releases of the first season. Following I Love Lucy, a further 13 one hour-long episodes were produced under the title of The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour with the same cast and later packaged as seasons 7, 8 & 9 under the I Love Lucy series. 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It was given to Pepito Perez by Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball as their show of gratitude for his performance, friendship and extremely humorous personalities, he acted as.[2] • I Love Lucy: Pilot (1951) was first shown on CBS television stations nationwide, on early Monday evening, April 30th, 1990, 38 or 39 years after it was originally filmed.[3] Season 1 (1951–52){{Episode table|background=#f987c0 |overall=5 |season=2 |title=24 |writer=21 |director=16 |aux3=15 |aux3T=Film date |airdate=15 |episodes={{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=1 | EpisodeNumber2=1 | Title=The Girls Want to Go to a Nightclub | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=September 15, 1951 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1951|10|15}} | ShortSummary=The Ricardos and the Mertzes agree to celebrate the Mertzes' wedding anniversary together. The girls decide on The Copacabana. The men opt for the prize fights. An old friend helps the girls play a trick on their husbands, but the men see through the ruse and turn the tables. | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=2 | EpisodeNumber2=2 | Title=Be a Pal | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=September 21, 1951 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1951|10|22}} | ShortSummary=Lucy thinks Ricky is losing interest in her. Ethel finds a book full of advice on how to rekindle the flame, and insists that Lucy take up Ricky's hobbies. Her attachment quickly becomes very annoying after failed attempts at seducing Ricky and joining his card game. Determined to remind Ricky of his childhood in Cuba, Lucy puts on a performance as Carmen Miranda. | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=3 | EpisodeNumber2=3 | Title=The Diet | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=September 28, 1951 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1951|10|29}} | ShortSummary=Ricky provides an incentive for Lucy's diet by telling her she can appear in his show if she can fit into a size 12. Can Lucy resist the temptations of eating? | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=4 | EpisodeNumber2=4 | Title=Lucy Thinks Ricky Is Trying to Murder Her | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=September 8, 1951 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1951|11|5}} | ShortSummary=Lucy can't put down a murder mystery novel she is reading, which features a man who kills his wife to remarry. When Ethel tells Lucy's fortune with a deck of cards and predicts death in the future, Lucy fears that Ricky is planning to murder her--especially after she overhears Ricky talking about "replacing" a girl (actually one of the dancers in his show). | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=5 | EpisodeNumber2=5 | Title=The Quiz Show | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=October 5, 1951 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1951|11|12}} | ShortSummary=Desperate to win a $1,000 jackpot to balance her household accounts, Lucy agrees to a quiz show stunt in which she has to introduce a stranger to Ricky as her "long lost husband." Frank Nelson makes the first of eleven appearances on the show, three times as game show emcee "Freddie Fillmore". | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=6 | EpisodeNumber2=6 | Title=The Audition | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=October 12, 1951 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1951|11|19}} | ShortSummary=Ricky tries to keep Lucy away from the club while he does a TV audition, but when a clown has an accident and can't make it, Lucy shows up in his place. (This is a remake of an original unaired pilot that was considered "lost" until 1990.) | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=7 | EpisodeNumber2=7 | Title=The Séance | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=October 19, 1951 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1951|11|26}} | ShortSummary=Lucy is on a superstitious kick, studying numerology and astrology. This hobby almost destroys Ricky's career, as Lucy tells an important talent agent, Mr. Merriweather, that Ricky cannot appear in a show because of his horoscope. That problem is resolved when Mr. Merriweather reveals that he is also interested in the occult. To please him, Lucy arranges a to show up at a séance that evening featuring "Madame Rhea" (Ethel). But when both Lucy and Ricky decide to imitate a spirit, things quickly get confusing. | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=8 | EpisodeNumber2=8 | Title=Men Are Messy | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=October 25, 1951 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1951|12|3}} | ShortSummary=Tired of Ricky's messy habits, Lucy divides the apartment in half—-he can be a slob in his half, but not hers. Lucy gets the door and kitchen, while Ricky gets the bathroom and bedrooms. Unfortunately, Ricky--and his apartment--are going to appear in a magazine spread, and the photographer comes to the apartment! | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=9 | EpisodeNumber2=9 | Title=The Fur Coat | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=November 9, 1951 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1951|12|10}} | ShortSummary=Ricky borrows a mink coat for an act at the club, but Lucy thinks it's for her, and won't take it off. He arranges for Fred to pose as a burglar and "steal", it, but when a real thief comes in, Lucy manages to hang on to it! | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=10 | EpisodeNumber2=10 | Title=Lucy Is Jealous of Girl Singer | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=November 16, 1951 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1951|12|17}} | ShortSummary=Lucy, upset by a gossip column item that links Ricky's name with a girl at the club, dons a disguise and heads for the Tropicana. | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=11 | EpisodeNumber2=11 | Title=Drafted | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=November 2, 1951 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1951|12|24}} | ShortSummary=Lucy intercepts a letter for Ricky that asks him to appear at a local Army station. She becomes convinced that he has been drafted (although the station just wants Ricky to "appear" in a nightclub act). When Ricky asks Fred to join him, Ethel thinks the same, and they begin knitting their husbands going away presents. Ricky and Fred, however, think the girls are pregnant and decide to organize a baby shower. | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=12 | EpisodeNumber2=12 | Title=The Adagio | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=November 23, 1951 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1951|12|31}} | ShortSummary=Lucy hears that Ricky needs a dancer for the Parisian Apache dance number at the club, and thinks she can fill the bill. But her Parisian dance teacher has more than dancing in mind. | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=13 | EpisodeNumber2=13 | Title=The Benefit | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=November 30, 1951 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|1|7}} | ShortSummary=Ethel wants Ricky for the club's benefit show, but Lucy thinks a husband and wife team would be more appropriate. Note: This episode was edited together with the episodes "Breaking the Lease" and "The Ballet", along with twenty minutes of new footage to create the unreleased I Love Lucy movie in 1953. | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=14 | EpisodeNumber2=14 | Title=The Amateur Hour | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=December 7, 1951 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|1|14}} | ShortSummary=Lucy makes an unexpected leap into show business when she takes care of a young boy who is to appear in an amateur hour. His desperate mother drops off his twin brother without telling Lucy, leaving her to take care of both rambunctiously rude children. | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=15 | EpisodeNumber2=15 | Title=Lucy Plays Cupid | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=December 13, 1951 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|1|21}} | ShortSummary=Lucy's neighbor, Miss Lewis, has her eye on Mr. Ritter, the grocer. Lucy tries her hand at playing Cupid, but Mr. Ritter thinks that her dropped hints mean that she is attracted to him! Lucy must make herself a little less desirable to scare Mr. Ritter off. Guest Stars: Bea Benaderet as Miss Lewis and Edward Everett Horton as Mr. Ritter. Benaderet was one of the original choices to play Ethel Mertz but was unavailable. | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=16 | EpisodeNumber2=16 | Title=Lucy Fakes Illness | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=December 18, 1951 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|1|28}} | ShortSummary=Lucy fears that if Ricky keeps refusing to hire her as part of his night club act, she may just have a nervous breakdown. She suffers from the "three stages" of one--amnesia, delusions of being Tallulah Bankhead and regression to childish behavior. Ricky learns of the trick and quickly turns the tables by inviting a "doctor" to the house to examine Lucy! Hal March appears as "himself". | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=17 | EpisodeNumber2=17 | Title=Lucy Writes a Play | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=December 22, 1951 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|2|4}} | ShortSummary=Playwright Lucy pens a drama with a Cuban locale. She figures Ricky for the star. The hitch: he refuses the part. So she changes her play from Cuba to England and has Fred take Ricky's spot. However, Ricky has decided to surprise Lucy and appear in the play...only problem is he has the wrong script. | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=18 | EpisodeNumber2=18 | Title=Breaking the Lease | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=January 5, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|2|11}} | ShortSummary=Everyone is having fun at a mirth-filled "at home" evening with the Ricardos and Mertzes. But when the Ricardos continue singing after Fred and Ethel go back downstairs to their apartment, the Mertzes, as landlords, decide that the Ricardos' merrymaking has gone too far. This leads to a battle between the couples: the Ricardos try to break their lease, while the Mertzes resist. Notes: I Love Lucy was briefly a radio program, also, and this episode, retitled "The Lease Breakers," was broadcast on February 27, 1952. Also, this episode was edited together with the episodes "The Benefit" and "The Ballet" to create the unreleased I Love Lucy movie. | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=19 | EpisodeNumber2=19 | Title=The Ballet | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=January 11, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|2|18}} | ShortSummary=Lucy performs an unexpected stint as a ballerina, then has a lesson in burlesque from a professional comic. Included is the classic routine "Slowly I Turned". Mary Wickes appears as the ballet teacher. Notes: This episode was edited together with the episodes "The Benefit" and "Breaking the Lease" to create the unreleased I Love Lucy movie. | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=20 | EpisodeNumber2=20 | Title=The Young Fans | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=January 18, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|2|25}} | ShortSummary=A teenager (Janet Waldo) has a crush on Ricky. Lucy tries pairing her up with another teenager (Richard Crenna) by attempting to teach the boy to dance--but her good intentions backfire when he falls for her! The "old" couple decide to make themselves appear a bit longer in the tooth to fool their admirers. | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=21 | EpisodeNumber2=21 | Title=New Neighbors | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=January 25, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|3|3}} | ShortSummary=Lucy can't resist snooping in the apartment of the building's newest renters. When she hides herself to avoid discovery, she overhears the couple talking about murdering her and Ricky; stealing their identities; and then blowing up the Capitol. Little does Lucy realize that the new tenants are rehearsing a scene for their job. Lucy sneaks out of the apartment and puts the apartment on lock-down as the Ricardos and Mertzes prepare to defend themselves. Hayden Rorke and K.T. Stevens guest star as the new tenants. | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=22 | EpisodeNumber2=22 | Title=Fred and Ethel Fight | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=January 30, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|3|10}} | ShortSummary=The Mertzes have a row, and Lucy makes an attempt to patch up their marriage. In the end, it isn't their marriage that's in trouble; it's her own. | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=23 | EpisodeNumber2=23 | Title=The Moustache | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=February 8, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|3|17}} | ShortSummary=When Ricky grows a moustache, Lucy decides to fight fire with fire—she acquires a long white beard. Things go bad when the beard won't come off and a movie agent decides to visit Ricky at the apartment. | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=24 | EpisodeNumber2=24 | Title=The Gossip | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=February 15, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|3|24}} | ShortSummary=Ricky and Fred make a bet with the girls to see who can go longer without gossiping, but they make it hard for them by planting a phony story too juicy to pass up. | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=25 | EpisodeNumber2=25 | Title=Pioneer Women | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=February 22, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|3|31}} | ShortSummary=The Mertzes and the Ricardos bet they can live the same pioneer existence as their ancestors. This episode contains the classic moment when Lucy's loaf of bread explodes from the oven. | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=26 | EpisodeNumber2=26 | Title=The Marriage License | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=February 28, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|4|7}} | ShortSummary=After taking another look at her marriage license, Lucy is not sure that she and Ricky are man and wife. | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=27 | EpisodeNumber2=27 | Title=The Kleptomaniac | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=March 7, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|4|14}} | ShortSummary=Ricky finds some extra money and silverware in the apartment and jumps to the conclusion that Lucy is a kleptomaniac. What he doesn't know is that they're just donations for a charity and when Lucy finds out what Ricky thinks, she decides to teach him a lesson. Joseph Kearns guest stars. | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=28 | EpisodeNumber2=28 | Title=Cuban Pals | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=March 14, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|4|21}} | ShortSummary=A visiting Cuban dance troupe asks Ricky to do a number with "Little Renita Perez"—a little girl he used to dance with in Havana. Lucy's all for it—until she finds out that "Little Renita" isn't so "little" anymore. She takes Renita's place at the club--but Ricky switches numbers, and Lucy is chased by a man in full voodoo garb! | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=29 | EpisodeNumber2=29 | Title=The Freezer | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=March 21, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|4|28}} | ShortSummary=Lucy and Ethel have a meat freezer installed in the basement and celebrate by buying two sides of beef, unaware of how much a side is. Now they must try to get rid of the excess before Ricky and Fred find out. They first try by peddling it to customers outside a grocery, but this fails when management shows up. Their next attempt involves hiding the beef in the apartment's furnace--but when Lucy tries to start moving the meat, she learns the hard way how cold the freezer is when she gets locked inside it and is frozen stiff! | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=30 | EpisodeNumber2=30 | Title=Lucy Does a TV Commercial | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=March 28, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|5|5}} | ShortSummary=Ricky needs a girl to act in a commercial for his television debut. Lucy immediately volunteers, but Ricky denies her. Irrepressible Lucy goes to the set anyway, and ends up in the sponsor's "Vitameatavegamin" health tonic commercial. As the tonic is 23% alcohol, Lucy soon ends up completely drunk. In 1997, TV Guide ranked this episode #2 on its list of the 100 Greatest Episodes.[4] In 2009, it moved to #4.[5] | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=31 | EpisodeNumber2=31 | Title=The Publicity Agent | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=April 4, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|5|12}} | ShortSummary=Feeling that Ricky's publicity has fallen off, Lucy dreams up a stunt which involves her posing as the "Maharincess of Franistan." | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=32 | EpisodeNumber2=32 | Title=Lucy Gets Ricky on the Radio | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=April 11, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|5|19}} | ShortSummary=Lucy is so impressed at Ricky's correct answers to a radio quiz show that she gets him on the show as a contestant. What she didn't know is Ricky got the answers from a friend at the station. | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=33 | EpisodeNumber2=33 | Title=Lucy's Schedule | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=April 18, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|5|26}} | ShortSummary=After being late for dinner with his new boss (Gale Gordon), Ricky is determined to teach Lucy the importance of punctuality, so he puts her on a rigid time schedule. Gordon was one of the early choices to play Fred Mertz but was unavailable. He later starred with Lucille Ball in each of her later series. | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=34 | EpisodeNumber2=34 | Title=Ricky Thinks He's Getting Bald | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=April 25, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|6|2}} | ShortSummary=Ricky's receding hairline is giving him much concern, so Lucy decides to give him painful scalp treatments. | LineColor=f987c0 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=35 | EpisodeNumber2=35 | Title=Ricky Asks for a Raise | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=May 2, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|6|9}} | ShortSummary=At Lucy's insistence, Ricky tries to pressure his boss (Gale Gordon's second and final appearance as "Mr. Littlefield") into giving him a raise...only to get him fired. Determined to make things right, Lucy, with the Mertzes' help, decides to book up every table at the Tropicana to make Ricky appear popular. Fred and Ethel then point out that they need to make it clear that it is Ricky the customers want to see. With the help of Fred's old vaudeville friend and his quick-change cabinet, Lucy, Ethel, and Fred don various disguises and pose as clubgoers who become irate and storm out when they hear Ricky has been let go. | LineColor=f987c0 }} }} Season 2 (1952–53){{Episode table|background=#e7cc58 |overall=5 |season=2 |title=24 |writer=21 |director=16 |aux3=15 |aux3T=Film date |airdate=15 |episodes={{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=36 | EpisodeNumber2=1 | Title=Job Switching | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=May 30, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|9|15}} | ShortSummary=Ricky and Fred think doing housework is much easier than earning money. Lucy and Ethel feel the opposite. So the boys try doing the housework while the girls attempt to hold down a job at a candy factory. Problems soon arise on both fronts. Ricky and Fred cause a huge mess in the apartment by burning the clothes with irons and getting food all over the kitchen. Lucy and Ethel find themselves fighting against a speedy conveyor belt of chocolate. Elvia Allman guest stars. Notes: In 1996, TV Guide included this episode as part of its "100 Most Memorable Moments in TV History", ranking it # 2.[6] | LineColor=e7cc58 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=37 | EpisodeNumber2=2 | Title=The Saxophone | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=June 6, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|9|22}} | ShortSummary=Lucy plots to join Ricky's band for a series of one-night engagements by trying to play a saxophone. There's only one problem: she can't play a single note. | LineColor=e7cc58 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=38 | EpisodeNumber2=3 | Title=The Anniversary Present | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=May 9, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|9|29}} | ShortSummary=Ricky asks a neighbor, Grace Foster (Gloria Blondell), to help him surprise Lucy with an anniversary present, but Lucy gets the wrong idea. | LineColor=e7cc58 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=39 | EpisodeNumber2=4 | Title=The Handcuffs | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=May 16, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|10|6}} | ShortSummary=One of Lucy's practical jokes backfires when she and Ricky are locked without a key in a pair of antique handcuffs. | LineColor=e7cc58 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=40 | EpisodeNumber2=5 | Title=The Operetta | DirectedBy=Marc Daniels | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=May 23, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|10|13}} | ShortSummary=Lucy and Ethel decide to write an operetta, and Lucy pays for the costumes and scenery with a post-dated check. Meanwhile, Ethel and Ricky persuade the chorus to join in whenever Lucy, playing "Camille, Queen of the Gypsies," starts to sing. | LineColor=e7cc58 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=41 | EpisodeNumber2=6 | Title=Vacation from Marriage | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=August 1, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|10|27}} | ShortSummary=Bored with married life, Lucy and Ethel decide that a few days away from their husbands would be a welcome change. | LineColor=e7cc58 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=42 | EpisodeNumber2=7 | Title=The Courtroom | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=August 8, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|11|10}} | ShortSummary=The Ricardos buy the Mertzes a new TV set for their wedding anniversary. When Ricky tries hooking it up, the picture tube explodes! In retaliation, Fred marches up to the Ricardo apartment and kicks in their own picture tube. The whole issue ends up with both couples in court. | LineColor=e7cc58 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=43 | EpisodeNumber2=8 | Title=Redecorating | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=August 15, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|11|24}} | ShortSummary=Ricky decides to fool Lucy into thinking she's won a new home furnishings contest. But the joke backfires when Lucy sells all their furniture. | LineColor=e7cc58 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=44 | EpisodeNumber2=9 | Title=Ricky Loses His Voice | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=August 22, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|12|1}} | ShortSummary=Ricky catches a cold and loses his voice during rehearsals for a new show, prompting Lucy to secretly stage the show herself. Arthur Q. Bryan appears as Ricky's new boss. | LineColor=e7cc58 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=45 | EpisodeNumber2=10 | Title=Lucy Is Enceinte | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=October 3, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|12|8}} | ShortSummary=Lucy feels strange, and tells Ethel. She responds by suggesting Lucy might be pregnant! Lucy laughs...but comes back from a doctor's visit and reveals that Ethel was right. Lucy tries to prepare the "perfect" moment to tell Ricky, but his business at the club keeps him away. Eventually, Lucy anonymously requests that Ricky perform his song "We're Having A Baby" at the club. Ricky gets quite a surprise when he finds out who requested the song! | LineColor=e7cc58 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=46 | EpisodeNumber2=11 | Title=Pregnant Women Are Unpredictable | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=October 10, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|12|15}} | ShortSummary=With the baby coming, Ricky decides that Lucy should stay in bed while he does the chores. Lucy thinks it is just because of the baby. | LineColor=e7cc58 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=47 | EpisodeNumber2=12 | Title=Lucy's Show Biz Swan Song | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=October 17, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|12|22}} | ShortSummary=Even with motherhood fast approaching, Lucy still wants to be in Ricky's "Gay 90's Revue." | LineColor=e7cc58 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=48 | EpisodeNumber2=13 | Title=Lucy Hires an English Tutor | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=October 24, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1952|12|29}} | ShortSummary=Lucy wants her baby to be raised in the "proper vocal environment," so she hires a tutor (Hans Conried) to teach Ricky proper English diction. The tutor turns out to be a struggling actor, and hopes that Ricky will give him a break. Lucy, Ricky, Fred, and Ethel all sing a ridiculous song composed by the tutor. | LineColor=e7cc58 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=49 | EpisodeNumber2=14 | Title=Ricky Has Labor Pains | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=October 31, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|1|5}} | ShortSummary=With all the attention that mother-to-be Lucy has been getting, father-to-be Ricky feels neglected. | LineColor=e7cc58 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=50 | EpisodeNumber2=15 | Title=Lucy Becomes a Sculptress | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=November 7, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|1|12}} | ShortSummary=No child should grow up without artistic influence, so Lucy takes up sculpting. When Ricky scoffs, Lucy arranges for an art critic to arrive and judge her work. When her sculpture accidentally breaks, though, she ends up disguising herself as a bust to fool the critic. | LineColor=e7cc58 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=51 | EpisodeNumber2=16 | Title=Lucy Goes to the Hospital | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=November 14, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|1|19}} | ShortSummary=With the baby due at any moment, Ricky and the Mertzes carefully rehearse the trip to the hospital. But when the fateful moment actually comes, things don't go quite so smoothly. When they eventually get there, Lucy stays in labor for quite a while, so Ricky goes to do a show at the club. He is in full tribal face makeup when the call comes from the hospital, and he rushes over still in costume! 1This episode aired the same day Lucille Ball's son Desi Arnaz, Jr. was born. For five episodes after this one, any scene featuring Lucy was filmed in advance to accommodate Ball's leave, with bookending scenes featuring only the other cast members filmed closer to the actual airdate. | LineColor=e7cc58 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=52 | EpisodeNumber2=17 | Title=Sales Resistance | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=August 29, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|1|26}} | ShortSummary=When Lucy buys yet another new gadget, Ricky complains that she's "got no sales resistance." Sheldon Leonard guest stars as the salesman. | LineColor=e7cc58 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=53 | EpisodeNumber2=18 | Title=Inferiority Complex | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=September 6, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|2|2}} | ShortSummary=A handsome psychiatrist might be the cure for Lucy's "inferiority complex." Gerald Mohr guest stars as "Dr. Molin" (aka "Chuck Stewart"). | LineColor=e7cc58 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=54 | EpisodeNumber2=19 | Title=The Club Election | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=September 12, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|2|16}} | ShortSummary=It's Lucy versus Ethel for President of the Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League. | LineColor=e7cc58 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=55 | EpisodeNumber2=20 | Title=The Black Eye | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=September 19, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|3|9}} | ShortSummary=The Mertzes won't accept Lucy's truthful explanation of how she got a black eye. | LineColor=e7cc58 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=56 | EpisodeNumber2=21 | Title=Lucy Changes Her Mind | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=September 26, 1952 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|3|30}} | ShortSummary=Whether it's getting dressed or ordering dinner at a restaurant, Lucy seems unable to finish anything without changing her mind. Ricky loses his temper, so Lucy tries to play a trick with an old, unfinished love letter to a beau from high school. Fred warns Ricky of Lucy's plot, and Lucy is soon in over her head. | LineColor=e7cc58 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=57 | EpisodeNumber2=22 | Title=No Children Allowed | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=March 20, 1953 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|4|20}} | ShortSummary=The Ricardos' lease says no children allowed, and the squalling new baby doesn't help matters with the landlord. This episode marked the beginning of a recurring character- Mrs. Trumbull (Elizabeth Patterson). | LineColor=e7cc58 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=58 | EpisodeNumber2=23 | Title=Lucy Hires a Maid | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=March 27, 1953 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|4|27}} | ShortSummary=Ricky hires a maid because Lucy keeps falling asleep during the day from staying up nights with the new baby. Verna Felton guest stars as the pushy, demanding maid. | LineColor=e7cc58 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=59 | EpisodeNumber2=24 | Title=The Indian Show | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=April 3, 1953 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|5|4}} | ShortSummary=Ricky is planning an Indian number for his nightclub act, and assumes that motherhood has ended Lucy's show business ambitions. No such luck, as Lucy persuades the girl singer in the number to switch places with her. | LineColor=e7cc58 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=60 | EpisodeNumber2=25 | Title=Lucy's Last Birthday | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=April 10, 1953 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|5|11}} | ShortSummary=When it seems that everyone has forgotten Lucy's birthday, she becomes depressed and wanders around town. She meets the "Friends of the Friendless" in the park, and joins the ranks of the unhappy mob. They all march to Ricky's club to protest-where a surprise party is waiting for the birthday girl! This episode features Ricky singing "I Love Lucy", a version of the show's theme song with lyrics. | LineColor=e7cc58 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=61 | EpisodeNumber2=26 | Title=The Ricardos Change Apartments | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=April 16, 1953 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|5|18}} | ShortSummary=Lucy thinks they need a bigger apartment, but Ricky says they can't afford it. Note: This is the last episode to feature the Ricardo's 4A apartment. Their new apartment number is 3D. | LineColor=e7cc58 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=62 | EpisodeNumber2=27 | Title=Lucy Is Matchmaker | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=April 25, 1953 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|5|25}} | ShortSummary=Lucy tries to fix up her girlfriend with a bachelor friend of the Mertzes but ends up as an unwitting third party in a love triangle. Hal March guest stars. | LineColor=e7cc58 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=63 | EpisodeNumber2=28 | Title=Lucy Wants New Furniture | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=May 1, 1953 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|6|1}} | ShortSummary=When Lucy buys a new sofa and coffee table without Ricky's permission, he says she'll have to pay for it out of her allowance. To save money, Lucy attempts to make her own clothes and gives herself a home perm. | LineColor=e7cc58 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=64 | EpisodeNumber2=29 | Title=The Camping Trip | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=May 8, 1953 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|6|8}} | ShortSummary=Lucy develops an annoying attachment to Ricky. She finally goes too far when she decides to join him and his friends on a camping trip. Fred suggests that Ricky take Lucy into the wilderness for some "camping practice" to make her hate camping, but Lucy and Ethel team up to thwart their husbands. | LineColor=e7cc58 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=65 | EpisodeNumber2=30 | Title=Ricky and Fred Are TV Fans | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=May 22, 1953 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|6|22}} | ShortSummary=Ricky and Fred are excited about watching a big fight on TV. Lucy and Ethel claim that they will have a wonderful time away from their husbands. While Ricky and Fred stay glued to the set, Lucy and Ethel are mistaken for jewel thieves. Frank Nelson and Allen Jenkins guest star. | LineColor=e7cc58 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=66 | EpisodeNumber2=31 | Title=Never Do Business With Friends | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=May 29, 1953 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|6|29}} | ShortSummary=A beautiful friendship is almost ruined when the Ricardos sell their old washing machine to the Mertzes, who find that it needs repairs and demand their money back, but then change their mind again. In the ensuing argument over who owns the machine, the couples push the washer off the balcony. Herb Vigran guest stars. | LineColor=e7cc58 }} }} Season 3 (1953–54){{Episode table|background=#8ac1ff |overall=5 |season=2 |title=24 |writer=21 |director=16 |aux3=15 |aux3T=Film date |airdate=15 |episodes={{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=67 | EpisodeNumber2=1 | Title=Ricky's 'Life' Story | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=May 15, 1953 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|10|5}} | ShortSummary=Life magazine does a picture story on Ricky, but Lucy's not in it. Lucy decides to upstage Ricky during his "Lady in Spain" number at the club. | LineColor=8ac1ff }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=68 | EpisodeNumber2=2 | Title=The Girls Go Into Business | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=September 11, 1953 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|10|12}} | ShortSummary=Lucy and Ethel buy a dress shop on a shoestring, but they wind up in the red. | LineColor=8ac1ff }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=69 | EpisodeNumber2=3 | Title=Lucy and Ethel Buy the Same Dress | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=September 17, 1953 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|10|19}} | ShortSummary=The girls are going to appear on TV with their club, having chosen to sing Cole Porter's "Friendship" in celebration of their bond. Everybody's pleased, until the two women buy the same dress for the occasion. | LineColor=8ac1ff }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=70 | EpisodeNumber2=4 | Title=Equal Rights | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=September 24, 1953 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|10|26}} | ShortSummary=Tired of Ricky and Fred's attitude towards them, the girls demand equal rights. Ricky and Fred turn the tables on them when, out to dinner, they call for separate checks, and Ethel and Lucy, lacking any money in their purses, must wash dishes to pay for their meals. | LineColor=8ac1ff }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=71 | EpisodeNumber2=5 | Title=Baby Pictures | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=October 1, 1953 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|11|2}} | ShortSummary=The Ricardos have decided they're not going to brag about their new baby. That changes when some friends start to brag about their own new baby. | LineColor=8ac1ff }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=72 | EpisodeNumber2=6 | Title=Lucy Tells the Truth | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=October 8, 1953 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|11|9}} | ShortSummary=Ricky bets Lucy that she can't go twenty-four hours without telling a fib. Problems begin when Lucy starts being brutally frank with everyone. | LineColor=8ac1ff }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=73 | EpisodeNumber2=7 | Title=The French Revue | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=October 15, 1953 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|11|16}} | ShortSummary=Ricky's going to stage a French Revue at his club and Lucy bets him fifty dollars that she can get into the act no matter what he does to stop her. | LineColor=8ac1ff }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=74 | EpisodeNumber2=8 | Title=Redecorating the Mertzes' Apartment | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=October 22, 1953 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|11|23}} | ShortSummary=The Ricardos help the Mertzes redecorate their apartment. They paint the walls and cover the furniture - in typical Ricardo fashion. | LineColor=8ac1ff }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=75 | EpisodeNumber2=9 | Title=Too Many Crooks | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=October 29, 1953 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|11|30}} | ShortSummary=The police are looking for "Madame X," the mysterious cat burglar. Due to mutual misunderstandings, Lucy is suspected by the Mertzes, and Ethel is suspected by the Ricardos. | LineColor=8ac1ff }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=76 | EpisodeNumber2=10 | Title=Changing the Boys' Wardrobe | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=November 5, 1953 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|12|7}} | ShortSummary=Ricky and Fred infuriate the girls by wearing their oldest clothes in public. So Lucy and Ethel secretly sell their husbands' clothes to a second-hand clothes dealer. Ricky sings the song "Granada". Hans Conried guest stars. | LineColor=8ac1ff }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=77 | EpisodeNumber2=11 | Title=Lucy Has Her Eyes Examined | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=November 12, 1953 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|12|14}} | ShortSummary=A visit to the eye doctor leaves Lucy's vision hopelessly blurred for the rest of the day. But that doesn't stop her from auditioning a jitterbug number at the club. | LineColor=8ac1ff }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=78 | EpisodeNumber2=12 | Title=Ricky's Old Girlfriend | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=November 19, 1953 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1953|12|21}} | ShortSummary=Lucy wants to know about Ricky's old girlfriends, so he invents one named Carlotta Romero. Then a singer with that name shows up in town. Jerry Mathers appears (uncredited) as a child ("Dream Little Ricky") in Lucy's dream. | LineColor=8ac1ff }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=79 | EpisodeNumber2=13 | Title=The Million-Dollar Idea | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=November 26, 1953 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|1|11}} | ShortSummary=Lucy concocts a delicious salad dressing, and Fred tells her she ought to sell it. Marketing the product as "Aunt Martha's Old Fashioned Salad Dressing," the girls manage to receive hundreds of orders. The problem: they've priced the product so cheaply that it will cost them rather than make them money. | LineColor=8ac1ff }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=80 | EpisodeNumber2=14 | Title=Ricky Minds the Baby | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=December 3, 1953 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|1|18}} | ShortSummary=Ricky decides that Lucy deserves a rest, so he offers to take care of Little Ricky, who wanders into the Mertzs' apartment while he is distracted. | LineColor=8ac1ff }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=81 | EpisodeNumber2=15 | Title=The Charm School | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=December 10, 1953 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|1|25}} | ShortSummary=After seeing the boys give a pretty girl the eye, Lucy and Ethel decide to go to charm school. Future Gilligan's Island star Natalie Schafer appears as the charm school instructor. | LineColor=8ac1ff }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=82 | EpisodeNumber2=16 | Title=Sentimental Anniversary | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=December 17, 1953 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|2|1}} | ShortSummary=It's the Ricardos' wedding anniversary, and they plan to spend it alone, together. That's the plan, anyway. | LineColor=8ac1ff }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=83 | EpisodeNumber2=17 | Title=Fan Magazine Interview | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=January 7, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|2|8}} | ShortSummary=The Ricardos prepare for an interview with a reporter from a fan magazine by putting on their best clothes and manners. | LineColor=8ac1ff }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=84 | EpisodeNumber2=18 | Title=Oil Wells | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=January 14, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|2|15}} | ShortSummary=Lucy and Ethel learn that their new neighbors own stock in a Texas oil well. They decide to invest, until Lucy suspects he's a swindler. | LineColor=8ac1ff }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=85 | EpisodeNumber2=19 | Title=Ricky Loses His Temper | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=January 21, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|2|22}} | ShortSummary=Lucy has a scheme that's sure to net her a new hat. All she has to do is get Ricky to lose his temper. | LineColor=8ac1ff }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=86 | EpisodeNumber2=20 | Title=Home Movies | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=January 28, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|3|1}} | ShortSummary=Ricky's home movies inspire Lucy to become a professional moviemaker, with disastrous results when Ricky's TV pilot is shown with Lucy's footage (which was a disaster to begin with) spliced in. | LineColor=8ac1ff }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=87 | EpisodeNumber2=21 | Title=Bonus Bucks | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=February 4, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|3|8}} | ShortSummary=Lucy has the winning dollar bill in the newspaper's "Bonus Buck" contest, but lets it slip through her fingers. Now she has only a few hours left to get it back. | LineColor=8ac1ff }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=88 | EpisodeNumber2=22 | Title=Ricky's Hawaiian Vacation | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=February 11, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|3|22}} | ShortSummary=Ricky's band gets an offer to play in Honolulu. Lucy disguises herself as her mother and goes on a TV game show to try to raise enough money so she and Mertzes can go along. | LineColor=8ac1ff }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=89 | EpisodeNumber2=23 | Title=Lucy Is Envious | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=February 16, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|3|29}} | ShortSummary=After Lucy inadvertently pledges a five-hundred dollar donation to the charity run by her rich high-school pal, she and Ethel pose as "women from Mars" to earn the money. Herb Vigran guest stars. | LineColor=8ac1ff }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=90 | EpisodeNumber2=24 | Title=Lucy Writes a Novel | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=March 4, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|4|5}} | ShortSummary=Lucy reads about a housewife who makes a fortune writing a novel in her spare time, so she takes a crack at it by writing her first novel, "Real Gone with the Wind." However, Ricky, Ethel, and Fred don't like the way Lucy has portrayed them and try to stop the book from being published. | LineColor=8ac1ff }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=91 | EpisodeNumber2=25 | Title=Lucy's Club Dance | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=March 11, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|4|12}} | ShortSummary=The girls decide to raise money for their Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League by sponsoring a dance. | LineColor=8ac1ff }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=92 | EpisodeNumber2=26 | Title=The Black Wig | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=March 25, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|4|19}} | ShortSummary=Lucy dons a black wig, believing it changes her appearance enough to test Ricky's marital fidelity. Eve McVeagh guest stars. | LineColor=8ac1ff }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=93 | EpisodeNumber2=27 | Title=The Diner | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=March 18, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|4|26}} | ShortSummary=Ricky decides to quit show business, and the Ricardos and the Mertzes decide to open up a diner. The Mertzes struggle with all the difficult cooking, while Ricky only has to be the greeter. And because of a road detour, there are very few customers. | LineColor=8ac1ff }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=94 | EpisodeNumber2=28 | Title=Tennessee Ernie Visits | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=April 1, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|5|3}} | ShortSummary=Tennessee Ernie Ford shows up in the big city with his guitar and a letter of introduction to the Ricardos. | LineColor=8ac1ff }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=95 | EpisodeNumber2=29 | Title=Tennessee Ernie Hangs On | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=April 8, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|5|10}} | ShortSummary=Ernie is still boarding at the Ricardos', to their annoyance. They try to get resources to pay for his travel home. | LineColor=8ac1ff }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=96 | EpisodeNumber2=30 | Title=The Golf Game | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=April 15, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|5|17}} | ShortSummary=Ricky and Fred take up golf; Lucy and Ethel want to join them. To scare them off, the men invent complicated and bizarre rules for the game. Professional golfer Jimmy Demaret, appearing as himself, sets the women straight and helps them turn the tables by playing a hole with Ricky and Fred, following their ridiculous system. | LineColor=8ac1ff }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=97 | EpisodeNumber2=31 | Title=The Sublease | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=April 22, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|5|24}} | ShortSummary=The Ricardos have sublet their apartment. But Lucy, deciding they were too hasty, decides to frighten away the new tenant. After discovering that the new tenant was a witness in a murder trial, Lucy and Ethel decide to stage a murder in front of him. | LineColor=8ac1ff }} }} Season 4 (1954–55){{Episode table|background=#973838 |overall=5 |season=2 |title=24 |writer=21 |director=16 |aux3=15 |aux3T=Film date |airdate=15 |episodes={{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=98 | EpisodeNumber2=1 | Title=The Business Manager | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=June 17, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|10|4}} | ShortSummary=Ricky hires a business manager (Charles Lane), and Lucy finds him tighter with money than Ricky. | LineColor=973838 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=99 | EpisodeNumber2=2 | Title=Mertz and Kurtz | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=July 1, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|10|11}} | ShortSummary=To help Fred impress his ex-vaudeville partner, Barney Kurtz (Charles Winninger), Lucy agrees to pose as the Mertzes' maid. | LineColor=973838 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=100 | EpisodeNumber2=3 | Title=Lucy Cries Wolf | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=June 3, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|10|18}} | ShortSummary=To find out how much Ricky really loves her, Lucy calls him during a rehearsal and says there's a burglar in the apartment. It's only after two attempts that Lucy finds herself tied and gagged by two local crooks. | LineColor=973838 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=101 | EpisodeNumber2=4 | Title=The Matchmaker | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=June 10, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|10|25}} | ShortSummary=Matchmaker Lucy invites girlfriend Dorothy and her beau to a cozy dinner at the Ricardos' apartment, hoping to present an example of marital bliss. | LineColor=973838 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=102 | EpisodeNumber2=5 | Title=Mr. and Mrs. TV Show | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=June 24, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|11|1}}* | ShortSummary=Ricky has a chance to do an "at-home" TV show, and Lucy wants to be in it. Things go well until Lucy discovers Ricky only let her do the show because the sponsor insisted. (*) This episode's original scheduled network broadcast was pre-empted. It eventually aired on Monday, April 11, 1955. | LineColor=973838 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=103 | EpisodeNumber2=6 | Title=Ricky's Movie Offer | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=September 16, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|11|8}} | ShortSummary=A Hollywood talent scout (Frank Nelson) wants Ricky to audition, and everyone wants to get into the act. | LineColor=973838 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=104 | EpisodeNumber2=7 | Title=Ricky's Screen Test | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=September 23, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|11|15}} | ShortSummary=Ricky gets an unsolicited assist from Lucy when he appears as Don Juan in a screen test. | LineColor=973838 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=105 | EpisodeNumber2=8 | Title=Lucy's Mother-In-Law | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=September 30, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|11|22}} | ShortSummary=Lucy's trying desperately to perfect her Spanish-speaking skills in preparation for meeting her Cuban mother-in-law for the first time. | LineColor=973838 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=106 | EpisodeNumber2=9 | Title=Ethel's Birthday | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=October 7, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|11|29}} | ShortSummary=Fred asks Lucy to choose something special for him to give Ethel for her birthday. Ethel opens the gift, then complains that Fred's choice of presents is getting worse every year. | LineColor=973838 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=107 | EpisodeNumber2=10 | Title=Ricky's Contract | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=October 14, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|12|6}} | ShortSummary=Ricky's still waiting for the results of his screen test, and his anxious attitude is getting on everyones nerves. Things get worse when Fred leaves a note saying he got the job, while the call still hasn't come.This episode was, according to a CBS press release of August 14, 1954, to be broadcast in color, but ultimately plans to film it in color were abandoned. | LineColor=973838 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=108 | EpisodeNumber2=11 | Title=Getting Ready | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=October 21, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1954|12|13}} | ShortSummary=The Ricardos and the Mertzes are all ready to leave for California, until they see the antique car Fred has just bought for the trip. | LineColor=973838 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=109 | EpisodeNumber2=12 | Title=Lucy Learns To Drive | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=October 28, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|1|3}} | ShortSummary=Ricky makes the mistake of teaching Lucy to drive his brand new car. It's only after showing Ethel how the car works that she crashes into another car and has to get them unhooked and fixed in time. | LineColor=973838 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=110 | EpisodeNumber2=13 | Title=California, Here We Come! | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=November 4, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|1|10}} | ShortSummary=Lucy and Ricky are all ready to start their trek to Los Angeles when complications develop: Lucy's mother decides to join them. The car is also extremely overloaded with baggage strapped precariously on all sides. | LineColor=973838 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=111 | EpisodeNumber2=14 | Title=First Stop | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=November 11, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|1|17}} | ShortSummary=After a long day of non-stop driving, the Ricardos and the Mertzes pull into a run-down cafe somewhere near Cincinnati that has nothing but stale cheese sandwiches. The bunk beds in their ugly cabin have spongy sagging mattresses, that scoot back and forth across the floor every time a noisy train passes nearby. | LineColor=973838 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=112 | EpisodeNumber2=15 | Title=Tennessee Bound | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=November 18, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|1|24}} | ShortSummary=Lucy's rush to California lands the Ricardos and the Mertzes in jail in Bent Fork, Tennessee, the home town of their favorite "peapicker", Tennessee Ernie Ford. Future TV producer Aaron Spelling has a bit role as a gas station attendant. | LineColor=973838 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=113 | EpisodeNumber2=16 | Title=Ethel's Home Town | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=November 25, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|1|31}} | ShortSummary=The Ricardos and the Metzes arrive in Ethel's home town: Albuquerque, New Mexico and visit her parents. Lucy, Ricky, and Fred are shocked when the town-folk give Ethel a big welcome since Ethel told everybody she was the aspiring star. | LineColor=973838 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=114 | EpisodeNumber2=17 | Title=L.A., At Last | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=December 2, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|2|7}} | ShortSummary=Arriving in Hollywood, Lucy goes star hunting at the Brown Derby restaurant, and finds William Holden and Eve Arden, annoying Holden by staring at him from behind a potted plant and then getting him hit in the face with a pie. | LineColor=973838 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=115 | EpisodeNumber2=18 | Title=Don Juan and the Starlets | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=December 9, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|2|14}} | ShortSummary=Ricky leaves Lucy at home and goes out for an evening of publicity with four gorgeous starlets. He then lands in hot water with Lucy when it appears he was out all night. | LineColor=973838 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=116 | EpisodeNumber2=19 | Title=Lucy Gets Into Pictures | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=December 16, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|2|21}} | ShortSummary=Lucy finally gets her chance - she lands a part as a murdered showgirl in a major MGM musical. | LineColor=973838 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=117 | EpisodeNumber2=20 | Title=The Fashion Show | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=December 23, 1954 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|2|28}} | ShortSummary=Lucy is determined to have a beautiful Don Loper gown for her very own and winds up being part of a "Hollywood Wives" fashion show, wearing a scratchy tweed suit while having a bad sunburn. | LineColor=973838 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=118 | EpisodeNumber2=21 | Title=The Hedda Hopper Story | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=February 3, 1955 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|3|14}} | ShortSummary=Ricky's agent concocts a publicity stunt designed to land Ricky in Hedda Hopper's celebrity gossip column. They plan to "save" Lucy from drowning in the hotel pool. | LineColor=973838 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=119 | EpisodeNumber2=22 | Title=Don Juan Is Shelved | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=February 10, 1955 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|3|21}} | ShortSummary=When producer Dore Schary decides to shelve Ricky's film, "Don Juan," Lucy schemes to create public demand for Ricky's talent. Vivian Vance's then-husband, Philip Ober, appears as Schary. | LineColor=973838 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=120 | EpisodeNumber2=23 | Title=Bull Fight Dance | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=February 17, 1955 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|3|28}} | ShortSummary=Asked to appear in a Spanish dance number on Ricky's "Heart Fund" show, Lucy envisions herself as an exotic Senorita. But Ricky has something altogether different in mind. | LineColor=973838 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=121 | EpisodeNumber2=24 | Title=Hollywood Anniversary | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=February 24, 1955 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|4|4}} | ShortSummary=Ricky has forgotten the date of their anniversary, but he has a scheme to convince Lucy that he knew it all along. | LineColor=973838 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=122 | EpisodeNumber2=25 | Title=The Star Upstairs | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=March 3, 1955 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|4|18}} | ShortSummary=Lucy poses as a bellboy to gain entrance to movie star Cornel Wilde's hotel room. It's getting out of the room that proves to be tougher with dangling down off the balcony to his room. | LineColor=973838 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=123 | EpisodeNumber2=26 | Title=In Palm Springs | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=March 17, 1955 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|4|25}} | ShortSummary=Upset by a quarrel with their husbands, Lucy and Ethel leave for a weekend in Palm Springs, where they encounter Rock Hudson. | LineColor=973838 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=124 | EpisodeNumber2=27 | Title=Dancing Star | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=March 31, 1955 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|5|2}} | ShortSummary=Carolyn Appleby, a friend of Lucy's, visiting from New York, wants to meet some of the stars that Lucy has befriended, starting with Van Johnson, who is appearing at the Ricardos' hotel. | LineColor=973838 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=125 | EpisodeNumber2=28 | Title=Harpo Marx | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=March 24, 1955 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|5|9}} | ShortSummary=Lucy promised Carolyn Appleby she'd produce some real Hollywood celebrities. Now she's got to deliver. Dressing up as Clark Gable, Gary Cooper and other celebrities, she manages to fool the near-sighted Carolyn. However, the real Harpo Marx shows up only to discover Lucy dressed up as him. | LineColor=973838 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=126 | EpisodeNumber2=29 | Title=Ricky Needs an Agent | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=April 7, 1955 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|5|16}} | ShortSummary=Lucy pretends to be Ricky's agent and tries to bluff a studio executive (Parley Baer) into casting Ricky in a film, only to get him released from his contract. | LineColor=973838 }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=127 | EpisodeNumber2=30 | Title=The Tour | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll, Jr. | Aux3=April 14, 1955 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|5|30}} | ShortSummary=Lucy and Ethel take a bus tour of movie stars' homes in Beverly Hills, and Lucy winds up picking grapefruit in Richard Widmark's backyard, where she gets trapped. | LineColor=973838 }} }} Season 5 (1955–56){{Episode table|background=#38b27e |overall=5 |season=2 |title=24 |writer=21 |director=16 |aux3=15 |aux3T=Film date |airdate=15 |episodes={{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=128 | EpisodeNumber2=1 | Title=Lucy Visits Grauman's | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=September 9, 1955 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|10|3}} | ShortSummary=Lucy discovers that the cement slab with John Wayne's footprints in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater has come loose. Lucy talks Ethel into helping her steal the slab, and they make their get-away, Lucy gets her foot caught in a bucket of cement. | LineColor=38b27e }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=129 | EpisodeNumber2=2 | Title=Lucy and John Wayne | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=September 15, 1955 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|10|10}} | ShortSummary=Lucy and Ethel have made off with the cement slab of John Wayne's footprints. Now the police are called in to investigate. John Wayne guest stars. | LineColor=38b27e }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=130 | EpisodeNumber2=3 | Title=Lucy and the Dummy | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=September 22, 1955 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|10|17}} | ShortSummary=MGM asks Ricky to help entertain executives at a studio party. Ricky has plans to go deep-sea fishing, but as far as Lucy is concerned, "the show must go on"—and she ends up being offered a contract. | LineColor=38b27e }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=131 | EpisodeNumber2=4 | Title=Ricky Sells the Car | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=September 29, 1955 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|10|24}} | ShortSummary=Ricky sells the car and buys train tickets for the trip back East, but he forgets about Fred and Ethel. | LineColor=38b27e }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=132 | EpisodeNumber2=5 | Title=The Great Train Robbery | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=October 6, 1955 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|10|31}} | ShortSummary=Lucy gets mixed up with a jewel thief on a cross-country rail trip that marks the end of the series' Hollywood sojourn. That's not the only reason it's a bumpy ride. Another is that Lucy keeps pulling the emergency-brake cord. Sanka Coffee was a background image with the credits. Frank Nelson guest stars. | LineColor=38b27e }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=133 | EpisodeNumber2=6 | Title=Homecoming | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=October 20, 1955 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|11|7}} | ShortSummary=Back in Manhattan, Ricky is surrounded by excited friends wanting to know about his picture. Soon, even Lucy starts treating him like a star. Sanka Coffee was a background image with the credits. | LineColor=38b27e }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=134 | EpisodeNumber2=7 | Title=Face to Face | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=October 20, 1955 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|11|14}} | ShortSummary=Lucy and Ricky are scheduled to appear on Ed Warren's (Elliott Reid) TV interview show, "Face to Face", at their home. But Ricky's new agent says the apartment is a "dump," and urges them to move into ritzier quarters. | LineColor=38b27e }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=135 | EpisodeNumber2=8 | Title=Lucy Goes to a Rodeo | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=October 27, 1955 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|11|28}} | ShortSummary=Ricky is dismayed to learn that he signed up to do not a radio show, but a rodeo show. When there are no acts available, he has to reluctantly turn to Lucy and the Mertzes. | LineColor=38b27e }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=136 | EpisodeNumber2=9 | Title=Nursery School | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=November 3, 1955 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|12|5}} | ShortSummary=Lucy is not happy about being separated from Little Ricky, but Ricky insists the lad must start nursery school. She is really unhappy when he gets sick and must go to the hospital. | LineColor=38b27e }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=137 | EpisodeNumber2=10 | Title=Ricky's European Booking | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=November 10, 1955 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|12|12}} | ShortSummary=Ricky's band gets booked in Europe, and the girls can only go if they can come up with enough money to pay their own way. They run a raffle benefitting a made-up charity called "Ladies Overseas Aid" and nearly get arrested for it until the president of the real charity shows up to collect the proceeds. Barney Phillips guest stars as the TV store owner who had donated the raffle prize. (Desi and The Pied Pipers take some time and sing "Forever, Darling," the theme song of the upcoming Ball-Arnaz picture of the same name, released three months after this episode to critical lambasting and audience indifference.) | LineColor=38b27e }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=138 | EpisodeNumber2=11 | Title=The Passports | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=November 17, 1955 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1955|12|19}} | ShortSummary=Lucy needs her birth certificate in order to get her passport, but Jamestown has no record of her being born. She devises a way to sneak to Europe with the others: hide in a large steamer trunk. Naturally, she ends up locked in the trunk, and no one has a key. (The place of her birth is an injoke; Lucille Ball was really born in Jamestown, New York.) | LineColor=38b27e }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=139 | EpisodeNumber2=12 | Title=Staten Island Ferry | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=November 24, 1955 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|1|2}} | ShortSummary=The Ricardos and Mertzes are all ready to leave for Europe, until Fred announces that he gets seasick easily. Charles Lane guest stars. | LineColor=38b27e }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=140 | EpisodeNumber2=13 | Title=Bon Voyage | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=December 1, 1955 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|1|16}} | ShortSummary=After boarding the ocean liner SS Constitution, Lucy goes ashore just one more time to kiss Little Ricky goodbye, and misses the boat. Future Chico and the Man star Jack Albertson appears as a helicopter dispatcher. This episode inspired the later Desilu series Whirlybirds, with Kenneth Tobey. NOTE: Desi Arnaz claims in several interviews that this was the most expensive episode produced! | LineColor=38b27e }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=141 | EpisodeNumber2=14 | Title=Second Honeymoon | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=December 8, 1955 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|1|23}} | ShortSummary=Lucy plans to make the ocean voyage a second honeymoon, but Ricky has previous shipboard engagements with his band. When she's had enough, she devises a way to spend time with him no matter what. | LineColor=38b27e }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=142 | EpisodeNumber2=15 | Title=Lucy Meets the Queen | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=December 15, 1955 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|1|30}} | ShortSummary=Lucy and Ethel go looking for Queen Elizabeth II on their first day in London, but no luck. When they arrive back at the hotel, Ricky tells her she's going to be presented to the Queen the next evening. Future Beverly Hillbillies star Nancy Kulp appears as a chambermaid. | LineColor=38b27e }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=143 | EpisodeNumber2=16 | Title=The Fox Hunt | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=December 22, 1955 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|2|6}} | ShortSummary=Lucy wants to spend a weekend on a British estate, but Ricky makes her promise not to try to wangle an invitation out of Sir Clive Richardson, with whom Ricky is scheduled to talk business. Hillary Brooke guest stars. | LineColor=38b27e }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=144 | EpisodeNumber2=17 | Title=Lucy Goes to Scotland | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=January 6, 1956 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|2|20}} | ShortSummary=In this Brigadoon-inspired episode, complete with musical numbers, Lucy finds herself in her ancestral village in Scotland. The villagers are delighted at her arrival, as it is once again the year when they must sacrifice a McGillicuddy to a man-eating, two-headed dragon (Fred and Ethel)--and until Lucy showed up, the clan was believed to be extinct. Will "Scotty McTavish McDougal McCardo" (Ricky) fight the dragon to save Lucy's life? {Goof: McGillicuddy is an Irish surname!} | LineColor=38b27e }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=145 | EpisodeNumber2=18 | Title=Paris at Last | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=January 12, 1956 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|2|27}} | ShortSummary=The Ricardos and the Mertzes arrive in Paris only to find themselves locked up in jail for passing counterfeit francs. | LineColor=38b27e }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=146 | EpisodeNumber2=19 | Title=Lucy Meets Charles Boyer | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=January 19, 1956 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|3|5}} | ShortSummary=Ricky has a luncheon engagement with Charles Boyer, and he wants to keep Lucy away from him. | LineColor=38b27e }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=147 | EpisodeNumber2=20 | Title=Lucy Gets a Paris Gown | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=February 16, 1956 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|3|19}} | ShortSummary=After Lucy fakes a hunger strike to get an original Paris gown, Ricky decides to give her a true original made from a potato sack. | LineColor=38b27e }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=148 | EpisodeNumber2=21 | Title=Lucy in the Swiss Alps | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=February 23, 1956 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|3|26}} | ShortSummary=The Ricardos and the Mertzes go mountain climbing in the Swiss Alps, and are stuck in a cabin with little to eat, after a sudden avalanche. | LineColor=38b27e }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=149 | EpisodeNumber2=22 | Title=Lucy Gets Homesick in Italy | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=March 1, 1956 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|4|9}} | ShortSummary=Lucy, while in Florence, gets homesick for Little Ricky on his birthday, makes a lengthy, expensive phone call, and then hosts an impromptu party for several Italian children who all claim it's their birthday too. | LineColor=38b27e }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=150 | EpisodeNumber2=23 | Title=Lucy's Italian Movie | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=March 8, 1956 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|4|16}} | ShortSummary=En route to Rome, an Italian producer offers Lucy a role in a film called Bitter Grapes. So she decides to take a job in a vineyard to absorb a little "local color." This episode contains the famous scene in which Lucy stomps grapes and picks a fight with her fellow stomper. However, by being away, she misses being selected for the role. In 1997, TV Guide ranked this episode #18 on its list of the 100 Greatest Episodes.[8] | LineColor=38b27e }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=151 | EpisodeNumber2=24 | Title=Lucy's Bicycle Trip | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=March 22, 1956 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|4|23}} | ShortSummary=Lucy organizes the Ricardos and the Mertzes for a bicycle trip from the Italian Riviera to Nice. But she doesn't know about the rough terrain, the aches and pains—or where she put her passport. The border guard refuses to let her through the checkpoint. | LineColor=38b27e }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=152 | EpisodeNumber2=25 | Title=Lucy Goes to Monte Carlo | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=March 29, 1956 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|5|7}} | ShortSummary=Ricky has declared the Monte Carlo Casino out-of-bounds for Lucy, but she and Ethel "just happen" to eat dinner there. When she accidentally wins a fortune, she tries to hide it from Ricky. | LineColor=38b27e }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=153 | EpisodeNumber2=26 | Title=Return Home from Europe | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=April 5, 1956 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|5|14}} | ShortSummary=Homeward-bound from Europe, Lucy tries to get out of paying duties by disguising a big piece of Italian cheese as a swaddled baby—much to the consternation of the new mother seated next to her on the plane. Frank Nelson and Mary Jane Croft guest star. | LineColor=38b27e }} }} Season 6 (1956–57){{Episode table|background=#AE85CF |overall=5 |season=2 |title=24 |writer=21 |director=16 |aux3=15 |aux3T=Film date |airdate=15 |episodes={{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=154 | EpisodeNumber2=1 | Title=Lucy and Bob Hope | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Madelyn Martin, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=June 5, 1956 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|10|1}} | ShortSummary=Sighting Bob Hope at Yankee Stadium, Lucy hopes to persuade him to appear at Ricky's club. To get close enough to him, she disguises herself first as a hot-dog vendor, then as a tobacco-chewing baseball player, and she joined Bob and Ricky to perform at Ricky's nightclub. | LineColor=AE85CF }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=155 | EpisodeNumber2=2 | Title=Little Ricky Learns to Play the Drums | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Madelyn Martin, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=June 28, 1956 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|10|8}} | ShortSummary=Little Ricky's non-stop drum playing threatens the Ricardos' and Mertzes' friendship. | LineColor=AE85CF }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=156 | EpisodeNumber2=3 | Title=Lucy Meets Orson Welles | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Madelyn Martin, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=June 14, 1956 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|10|15}} | ShortSummary=Lucy wangles a job as Orson Welles's assistant when he appears at Ricky's club. He's doing a magic act, but Lucy's doing Shakespeare. | LineColor=AE85CF }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=157 | EpisodeNumber2=4 | Title=Little Ricky Gets Stage Fright | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Madelyn Martin, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=June 21, 1956 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|10|22}} | ShortSummary=Little Ricky gets stage fright before his first school music recital. Howard McNear guest stars. | LineColor=AE85CF }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=158 | EpisodeNumber2=5 | Title=Visitor from Italy | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Madelyn Martin, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=September 24, 1956 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|10|29}} | ShortSummary=When the Venetian gondolier the Ricardos met in Europe shows up in New York, a series of mishaps result in Lucy's working at a pizza parlor. | LineColor=AE85CF }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=159 | EpisodeNumber2=6 | Title=Off to Florida | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Madelyn Martin, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=September 13, 1956 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|11|12}} | ShortSummary=Driving to Miami to meet their husbands, the girls share the drive with a strange lady (Elsa Lanchester) they suspect is an ax murderess. Character actor Strother Martin appears as a store clerk. | LineColor=AE85CF }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=160 | EpisodeNumber2=7 | Title=Deep-Sea Fishing | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Madelyn Martin, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=September 27, 1956 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|11|19}} | ShortSummary=On a deep-sea fishing trip, the boys bet the girls that they'll catch bigger fish. To win the bet, the men and the women each buy large tunas to pass off as their catch...the only problem is hiding the fish from their spouses. | LineColor=AE85CF }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=161 | EpisodeNumber2=8 | Title=Desert Island | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Madelyn Martin, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=October 4, 1956 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|11|26}} | ShortSummary=Lucy and Ethel's scheme to prevent the boys from judging a beauty contest leaves the Ricardos and the Mertzes marooned on a desert island. Claude Akins guest stars as himself. | LineColor=AE85CF }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=162 | EpisodeNumber2=9 | Title=The Ricardos Visit Cuba | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Madelyn Martin, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=October 18, 1956 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|12|3}} | ShortSummary=Lucy is bent on impressing Ricky's family when they visit Havana, Cuba, but she can't seem to say or do anything right. | LineColor=AE85CF }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=163 | EpisodeNumber2=10 | Title=Little Ricky's School Pageant | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Madelyn Martin, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=October 25, 1956 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|12|17}} | ShortSummary=The Ricardos and the Mertzes sign on as extra cast members in Little Ricky's class play, "The Enchanted Forest". | LineColor=AE85CF }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=164 | EpisodeNumber2=11 | Title=I Love Lucy Christmas Show | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Madelyn Pugh Davis, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=November 22, 1956 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1956|12|24}} | ShortSummary=Lucy, Ricky, Fred and Ethel reminisce (via flashbacks of previous episodes) as they trim the tree on Christmas Eve. The flashbacks were all from season 2, include Lucy telling Ricky about her pregnancy in "Lucy Is Enceinte," Lucy, Ricky, Fred and Ethel singing in a barbershop quartet in "Lucy's Showbiz Swan Song," and Ricky, Fred and Ethel franctically preparing for Lucy's impending labor in "Lucy Goes to the Hospital." Because this was a "special" episode, it was not included in the syndication package. Since 1989, CBS has rebroadcast the episode in primetime during the holiday season.
| LineColor=AE85CF }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=165 | EpisodeNumber2=12 | Title=Lucy and the Loving Cup | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Madelyn Martin, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=November 1, 1956 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|1|7}} | ShortSummary=Lucy jokingly dons a loving cup Ricky is supposed to present to jockey Johnny Longden, but then she can't get it off her head. | LineColor=AE85CF }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=166 | EpisodeNumber2=13 | Title=Lucy and Superman | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Madelyn Martin, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=November 15, 1956 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|1|14}} | ShortSummary=Lucy promises to produce Superman (George Reeves) for Little Ricky's fifth birthday party, but must make alternate plans when he is unable to attend. She hastily tries to impersonate Superman herself, but gets locked out on the balcony with the pigeons. Note: George Reeves did originally receive voice-over screen credit for this episode, although it was subsequently cut from the syndicated version. After the closing credits, the disclaimer appeared on the screen that said: Superman Character, Feats and Narrative Copyrighted by National Comics Publications, Inc., 1956 | LineColor=AE85CF }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=167 | EpisodeNumber2=14 | Title=Little Ricky Gets a Dog | DirectedBy=James V. Kern | WrittenBy=Madelyn Martin, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=November 8, 1956 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|1|21}} | ShortSummary=Little Ricky's new puppy prompts complaints by another tenant. | LineColor=AE85CF }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=168 | EpisodeNumber2=15 | Title=Lucy Wants to Move to the Country | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Madelyn Martin, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=December 6, 1956 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|1|28}} | ShortSummary=Fed up with city life, Lucy yearns for the suburban life. Ricky buys a house in suburban Westport, Connecticut. The house is an old Colonial and sits on 2 acres of land, with a guest house and barn. The selling price is never mentioned, but Ricky placed a $500 deposit down on it. | LineColor=AE85CF }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=169 | EpisodeNumber2=16 | Title=Lucy Hates to Leave | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Madelyn Martin, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=December 13, 1956 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|2|4}} | ShortSummary=The Ricardos find themselves, and all their belongings, boarding with the Mertzes while they wait to move into their new home. | LineColor=AE85CF }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=170 | EpisodeNumber2=17 | Title=Lucy Misses the Mertzes | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Madelyn Martin, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=December 20, 1956 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|2|11}} | ShortSummary=Lucy and Ricky miss the Mertzes so much that they decide to take the train to New York to surprise them. But Fred and Ethel have the same idea, and are on their way to Connecticut! Little Ricky spends the night with the Munsons, the first in a series of babysitters which runs up to the last episode of The Lucy Desi Comedy hour in 1960. At that time his age is around 9 years old. In this episode Ethel mentions Elvis Presley, the only time he is noted on the show. | LineColor=AE85CF }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=171 | EpisodeNumber2=18 | Title=Lucy Gets Chummy With the Neighbors | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Madelyn Martin, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=January 10, 1957 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|2|18}} | ShortSummary=Lucy's new neighbor, Betty Ramsey, talks Lucy into buying all new furniture, and Ricky demands that she return it. Frank Nelson and Mary Jane Croft make their initial appearance as the Ramseys. | LineColor=AE85CF }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=172 | EpisodeNumber2=19 | Title=Lucy Raises Chickens | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Madelyn Martin, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=January 17, 1957 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|3|4}} | ShortSummary=Lucy and Ricky decide to raise chickens to help make ends meet. Soon the house is overrun with a flock of baby chicks, on the day a fashion magazine photographer is due to visit. | LineColor=AE85CF }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=173 | EpisodeNumber2=20 | Title=Lucy Does the Tango | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Madelyn Martin, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=February 7, 1957 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|3|11}} | ShortSummary=Lucy "boosts" egg production by buying several dozen eggs and pretending they are homegrown. But her plan to hide them in her blouse goes awry when Ricky asks her to help him rehearse a tango number. This resulted in one of the longest sustained audience laughter sequences in sitcoms. | LineColor=AE85CF }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=174 | EpisodeNumber2=21 | Title=Ragtime Band | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Madelyn Martin, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=February 14, 1957 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|3|18}} | ShortSummary=Lucy promises that Ricky will play at a local benefit, but he refuses. So she and the Mertzes put together their own combo—featuring Ricky Ricardo, Jr. | LineColor=AE85CF }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=175 | EpisodeNumber2=22 | Title=Lucy's Night in Town | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Madelyn Martin, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=February 21, 1957 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|3|25}} | ShortSummary=In Manhattan for dinner and a hit Broadway show ("The Most Happy Fella"), Lucy discovers that their tickets were instead for the matinée performance. Joseph Kearns has a minor role. Desilu Productions owned a large portion of the show, and was cross-promoting in this episode. | LineColor=AE85CF }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=176 | EpisodeNumber2=23 | Title=Housewarming | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Madelyn Martin, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=February 28, 1957 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|4|1}} | ShortSummary=Ethel is jealous of Lucy's friendship with Betty Ramsey. But when Betty reveals that she's from Ethel's home town of Albuquerque, the two become fast friends, and now it's Lucy who feels left out. | LineColor=AE85CF }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=177 | EpisodeNumber2=24 | Title=Building a B-B-Q | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Madelyn Martin, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=March 14, 1957 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|4|8}} | ShortSummary=Lucy and Ethel decide that the only way to get Ricky to build the backyard brick barbecue is to start the project themselves. Things go bad when Lucy can't find her wedding ring and decides to take apart the entire brick barbecue. | LineColor=AE85CF }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=178 | EpisodeNumber2=25 | Title=Country Club Dance | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Madelyn Martin, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=March 21, 1957 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|4|22}} | ShortSummary=At a club dance, Ricky, Fred, and Ralph Ramsey shower attention on a sultry young blonde (portrayed by a then-unknown Barbara Eden in an early role), much to the chagrin of their wives. | LineColor=AE85CF }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=179 | EpisodeNumber2=26 | Title=Lucy Raises Tulips | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Madelyn Martin, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=March 28, 1957 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|4|29}} | ShortSummary=Lucy is determined to beat Betty Ramsey in Westport's "best-looking garden" contest, and she accidentally runs over Betty's tulip garden with a lawn mower. | LineColor=AE85CF }}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=180 | EpisodeNumber2=27 | Title=The Ricardos Dedicate a Statue | DirectedBy=William Asher | WrittenBy=Madelyn Martin, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf | Aux3=April 4, 1957 | OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1957|5|6}} | ShortSummary=Ricky has been chosen to dedicate a new Revolutionary War statue in the Westport Town Square. There's a problem: Lucy has accidentally destroyed the one-of-a-kind sculpture. Desi Arnaz Jr. appears in the final crowd scene, his only appearance on the series. | LineColor=AE85CF }} }} The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour episodesAfter season six, the series was renamed The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show for its original broadcast run and rather than airing as weekly half hour series, hour-long episodes were produced to run occasionally during the year. There were thirteen hour-long shows. The first five were broadcast as specials during the 1957-58 television season. The other eight episodes were broadcast as part of the Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse from October 6, 1958, to April 1, 1960. The series was subsequently broadcast in syndication as The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour and We Love Lucy. This show had the same cast as I Love Lucy, employed many of the other same actors, and featured many famous guest stars. Of the original I Love Lucy cast, besides the principals, only Lucy's mother appeared in any Comedy Hour episode. She appears in season 3, episode 2 'The Ricardos Go To Japan' as Little Ricky's babysitter. Season 1 (1957–58)
Season 2 (1958–59)
Season 3 (1959–60)
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