I Love Lucy

Thinking Ricky is losing interest in her, Lucy follows the advice of a book Ethel gave her and takes up Rickys hobbies.

After becoming too involved in a murder mystery book, Lucy believes that Ricky is trying to murder her.

Ricky lands a TV audition at the club. When Buffo the Clown injures himself and cannot make it, Lucy takes his place.

Fed up with Rickys messiness, Lucy divides the Ricardo apartment in a clean part for her and a messy part for him.

Lucy is jealous of one of Rickys dancer at his nightclub after hearing about a gossip column item linking the two.

Lucy thinks she is a perfect fit for Rickys Parisian apache dance number. But her dance teacher has more than dancing on his mind.

Lucy spends too much money on a dress. So she tells Ricky that she will get a job babysitting in order to pay for it.

Lucy pretends to suffer from numerous psychological ailments so that Ricky will feel sorry for her and let her go into show business.

After a big quarrel between the Ricardos and the Mertzes, Lucy and Ricky decide that they want to move out. Ricky and Lucy become the most undesirable tenants ever so that they can break that lease, while the Fred and Ethel resist.

A shy young teenager named Peggy has a major crush on Ricky. Ricky, however, is tired of all this "attention" that this girl is giving him, so asks Lucy to have a talk with her. During their conversation, Lucy asks Peggy to think of some other boys her own age that she might like to go out with instead. Peggy, it seems, also likes a boy named Arthur Morton. Unfortunately, Arthur is painfully shy and cannot dance, so Lucy volunteers to give him a dance lesson. But it is then that Arthur becomes infatuated with Lucy! To get the two off their backs, Lucy and Ricky come up with a solution: they will dress up and act like 90 year olds, and scare their "young fans" back to reality.

Fred and Ethel have been going at each others throats for the past few days now, and arent talking to each other any more. (Fred: She called my mother a weasel!)To get them back together, Lucy comes up with a plan: She will invite Ethel to dinner, while Ricky will invite Fred. Neither Mertz will know that the other is coming, Lucy hopes that she can bring the Mertzes together so they can talk out their issues. Lucy commences with her plan, but during dinner, she and Ricky start to bicker. By the end of supper, the Mertzes leave the Ricardos apartment as happy as larks, but Lucy and Ricky are now at each others throats. Its now up to the Mertzes to bring the Ricardos back together.

Ricky is disgusted by Lucys obsession with gossiping about other people. According to Ricky, Lucy acts as if it is her ""lifes blood."" Fred, too, is disturbed by Ethels love of gossiping. The two girls then point out that both Ricky and Fred have been known to gossip, also. The boys then challenge the girls to a bet: They will see who can go without gossiping the longest, and the winners will receive breakfast in bed for a month. The bet commences, and everything is going fine until Ricky comes up with a plan to cheat so that he and Fred can win.

Lucy thinks she and Ricky arent legally married because his name was misspelled on their marriage license. So she wants them to renew their vows at the same place in Connecticut where Ricky first proposed to her. But they run out of gas getting there.

Lucy burns with jealousy when she gets an eyeful of Rickys dance parter Renita (Lita Baron) from the "old days" in Cuba. She was a child then, but no more! Determined to keep them apart, Lucy heads to the club in disguise, and finds herself in the clutches of a wild man named Ramon.

Desperate to be in Rickys new television commercial, Lucy makes every attempt to get her way; which eventually pays off. But her one-and-only chance flops when she is forced to test the sponsors product over-and-over, a vitamin syrup called Vitametavegimin, which is 25% alcohol.

Lucy secretly books Ricky on a radio quiz show.

Ricky fears that he is going bald, so Lucy takes it into her head to help him: she stages a "bald peoples party" to show him that hes not so bad, after all. But when that doesnt work, she resorts to showing some new "hair treatments" (or "torture tactics" as Lucy calls them) to show Ricky how silly hes been.

Ricky wants Lucy to try working for a week, so she and Ethel get jobs at a candy factory, where they are totally inept-especially at wrapping chocolates-due to a speeding conveyor belt that has them stuffing chocolates in their mouths, blouses, and hats.

Lucy thinks that Ricky is pitching woo with a sophisticated neighbor. The woman is actually a jeweler who Ricky has commissioned to fashion a pearl necklace to surprise Lucy with on their anniversary. Lucy takes to spying before the deal can go down and almost loses out on her big surprise.

Lucys womens club wants to stage an operetta, but theyre completely broke. (Lucy, the treasurer, seems to have spent it all to pay her own bills.) Thus, Lucy and Ethel write and star in the musical, but when their postdated check bounces for the costumes and scenery, the rental company repossesses everything in midperformance.

The Ricardos give the Mertzes a television set for their anniversary, but Rickys zealous tuning causes it to blow up. Fred retaliates by breaking the Ricardos set (by kicking it!) The foursome end up in court, where they manage to destroy the judges TV, too!

Rickys laryngitis makes it impossible for him to perform in a big reopening show for the Tropicana. So Lucy substitutes herself, the ex-vaudivillian Mertzes, and a chorus line of middle-aged showgirls from the Flapper Follies of 1927. Look for Barbara Pepper as one of the showgirls.

Lucy thinks Ricky cares more about the baby theyre having than about her, especially after he buys her presents like bonnets and rattles. But when he takes her out for a night on the town, she thinks hes lost interest in the baby.

Lucy hires an English tutor so that Ricky wont give their yet-to-be-born baby bad speaking habits. The lessons are free, but Lucy does promise the tutor a payback: hell get to sing at the Tropicana. Of course, Lucy neglects to tell Ricky this.

Lucy decides to explore her artistic side and takes up sculpting.

Convinced his wife is a sucker for a sales pitch, Ricky demands that she return the vacuum cleaner she bought from a door-to-door salesman. Instead, she tries (unsuccessfully) to sell it. Ricky insists that hell return it-and ends up buying a refrigerator.

Because they both want to be president of the Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League, Lucy and Ethel both engage in cut-throat competition. Prior to the elections, Lucy and Ethel independently engage in a little "spywork." It seems that half the club plans on voting for Lucy and the other half plans to vote for Ethel. But there is one undecided vote--that of the new member, Ruth Knickerbocker. So Lucy and Ethel both go to extremes to sway Knickerbockers vote.

Whether its 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 Lucys plot, and Lucy is soon in over her head.

Lucys sleepless nights with the new baby are exhausting, so the Ricardos hire a maid. Unfortunately, this new maid turns out to be a terrible shrew, who takes better care of herself than of Lucy or the apartment. Unable to get the gumption to fire her, Lucy wrecks the apartment, hoping it will make the maid quit.

Convinced everyone has forgotten her birthday, a forlorn Lucy sits on a park bench and meets up with a group of musical "lost souls." To embarrass Ricky, she brings them to the Tropicana, only to discover that a surprise birthday party awaits her.

Lucy plays matchmaker when she meets a friend of the Mertzes (Hal March, as Eddie) who happens to be an eligible bachelor. His line of work? Hes a lingerie salesman, a fact that just might get her (and Ethel) into trouble when her matchmaking efforts inevitably backfire.

Lucy fears that she and Ricky dont have enough in common, so she decides to pursue one of his interests: camping. Ricky and Fred dont want her (or Ethel, for that matter,) horning in on their summer retreat, so Ricky decides to take Lucy on a "trial run" in the woods and make her life miserable. But Lucy is wise to his plan, and guess whose life is made miserable in the end?

The Ricardos sell their old washing machine to the Mertzes for $35. When it breaks down the next day, the Mertzes want out of the deal. A tug-of-war ensues, however, when the Mertzes want the machine back after a repairman offers them $50 for it.

Lucy and Ethel are all set to go into business when they buy a new dress shop. But what to call it? Ethelus? Lucyeths? Unfortunately, naming the shop isnt their only problem when they are unable to sell any dresses and must sell the shop.

Lucy and Ethel demand equal rights for women. Okay, say Ricky and Fred at the restaurant: separate checks for the four of them. Thus begins Lucy and Ethels careers as restaurant dishwashers. So they plot revenge: theyll scare their husbands by claiming to have been robbed.

Ricky and the Mertzes bet Lucy that she cant go twenty-four hours without telling a lie. The outcome? Lucy insults all her friends and has to admit her real age, weight, and hair color. But she nearly gets a part on a TV show, by telling the truth, more or less.

Its redecorating time at the Mertzes, and Lucy and Ricky volunteer to help. But when Fred turns on a fan as Lucy is unstuffing a chair, the paint and feathers they were using go flying. Lucy feels responsible for the ruined furniture, so she gives Ethel her own living room furniture as a gift.

Lucy and Ethel are disgusted by their husbands old clothes, so they secretly give them away to a secondhand store. Unfortunately for them, the boys find out about their plan, and buy everything back. Later on, Ricky learns that a magazine has named Fred and him as two of the "Best-Dressed Men in New York City." He and Fred, dressed in tuxedos, invite the girls to meet them at the club for pictures. The girls arrive in their grubbiest attire.

Ricky is jealous when Lucy comes up with a long list of ex-boyfriends, so he invents an old flame-who just happens to be in town. Her name? Carlotta Romero, with whom Ricky DID perform years before.

Ricky agrees to watch his son, but while Daddy is engrossed in a football game, Little Ricky wanders off. Lucy finds him in the hallway, and calls Ricky to ask where the baby is. Panicking, Ricky searches everywhere, before Lucy walks in with his son.

Lucy and Ricky want to spend their 13th wedding anniversary alone, but the Mertzes have another idea: a surprise party.

The Ricardos and Mertzes as oil millionaires? Lucy and Ethel get a hot stock tip from their new neighbors from Texas. But Ricky and Fred say no. At first, anyhow. But are these neighbors swindlers? Lucy and the gang eventually think so, so they come up with a plan to find out.

Rickys home movies move the Mertzes to walk out, and prompt Lucy, Fred and Ethel to make a movie of their own, a "Western musical drama" shot in the Ricardo living room. But thats not to mixed up with a TV pilot Rickys making, is it?

Rickys band is to play in Hawaii-and guess who wants to go also? Lucys plan: to go on a game show that gives away airline tickets. It calls for some trickery, and Lucy just might meet her match in the shows host, Freddie Fillmore, a prankster par excellence.

Lucy writes a novel in which the characters are thinly-veiled caricatures of Ricky, Fred and Ethel. Too thinly veiled, Ricky, Fred and Ethel think. So they burn it. But not before Lucy gets a copy to a publisher.

Lucy plays a black-wigged temptress to test Rickys fidelity. The result makes makes her see red so she schemes to get even. But she wont divorce him. Ethel agrees: "Yeah, stay married to him," she says. "Thatll teach him."

The corn starts popping when Tennessee Ernie Ford comes to visit in Part 1 of a two-part episode. Hes Lucys "Cousin" Ernest, an earnest young man from Bent Fork, Tenn., who knows nothing of city ways and is inadvertently infuriating. Hes got to go but hes so sweet that they cant just throw him out. What to do? Lucy will pose as a wicked city woman, and "vamp" him out of town.

Championship golfer Jimmy Demaret visits the Ricardos when Lucy and Ethel arrive at a bizarre scheme for combating their "golf widowship." The girls install a basketball court in the Ricardo living room and pretend to be as deeply absorbed in the game as their husbands are in the fairways.

Ricky hires a business manager, and Lucy finds him tighter with money than Ricky.

Lucy cries wolf once too often when she decides to see whether Ricky would come to her aid in an emergency. He assures her that hed rush home from the club "between the baba and the lu " if she were in danger, but thats not enough reassurance for her, and soon shes in a precarious position.

A Hollywood talent scout is coming over to the apartment to audition Ricky for a movie role. But Ricky wont be the only one looking to attract the scouts attention. (Whos that gal in the Marilyn Monroe getup?).

Rickys mother comes to visit, and poor Lucy cant speak Spanish. So she finds a Spanish-speaking mindreader and it works like a charm — as long as hes around.

As Ricky paces the floor awaiting word from Hollywood about his screen test, Lucy enlists the Mertzes to distract him. The drastic steps taken by the trio to alleviate Rickys tension boomerang into a king-sized headache for them all.

Ricky makes the mistake of teaching Lucy to drive his brand new car. Its only after showing Ethel how the car works that she crashes into another car and has to get them unhooked and fixed in time.

The Ricardos and Mertzes have a hard time finding accommodations that will please everyone on their trip to California. They finally hit a greasy restaurant where stale cheese sandwiches cost them a dollar apiece. Hoping to find something better elsewhere, Ricky pays the check. The couples leave -- only to return several hours later, fooled by some purposely misleading road signs.

The Ricardos and the Mertzes stop at Ethels hometown: Albuquerque, New Mexico (Vivian Vances real-life hometown). Under the impression that Ethel has been called to Hollywood and not Ricky, the townsfolk accord her a monumental ovation. When Ethel refuses to disillusion them -- and even goes so far as to put on a "celebrity act" -- Lucy takes matters into her own hands.

Lucy is forced to lend Ricky to five dazzling starlets for a proposed evening of publicity pictures. She tries to wait up for him but falls asleep on the sofa and doesnt awake until late the next morning. When she finds Rickys bed unused, she jumps to the conclusion that he spent the night out with the starlets and decides she wants a divorce.

Lucys a model at a charity fashion show, but the redhead — wearing a scratchy tweed suit — is red all over from too much time in the California sun.

Rickys movie is shelved, so Lucy schemes to get Ricky another role. The plan: impress MGM studio boss Dore Schary by any means necessary, even if it means that Schary must impress himself. But first, there are 500 fan letters to write.

Frantic over having forgotten the date of their wedding anniversary, Ricky tells Lucy that he has a big party planned in a famous nightclub. He doesnt tell her when it is, desperately wiring their marriage license bureau for the correct date. This episode is based on an actual surprise anniversary party that Desi Arnaz threw for Lucy.

Cornel Wilde becomes the one-hundredth movie star Lucy has seen in Hollywood; he is living in the penthouse directly above the Ricardo suite. Determined to get a glimpse of the handsome actor, Lucy disguises herself as a bellboy, then hides under the stars luncheon cart to gain entry into Wildes suite. Things go smoothly until she finds herself locked out on Cornels terrace and must make her way down the side of the building using a few blankets as rope. Swashbuckler Cornel Wilde guest-stars as himself in this episode.

Lucy begs Van Johnson to let her dance a number with him at the nightclub to impress her rival Caroline Appleby, who is visiting from New York. Van accepts the challenge by waltzing her across the ballroom floor as his dance partner. Movie star Van Johnson guest-stars as himself.

Ricky needs an agent, Lucy figures, so she nominates herself (unbeknownst to Ricky, of course) and heads off to negotiate with a studio executive to land him a role in a movie. Her strategy: use a nonexistent Broadway musical as a bargaining chip. It works too well.

With only a week left in Hollywood, Lucy weeps about her lack of souvenirs. Her collection already includes a tin can run over by Cary Grants rear tire, a napkin boasting Lana Turners lip-prints, and a few other goodies. But when Lucy discovers that John Waynes concrete block at Graumans Chinese Theatre is loose, she decides to take home a souvenir to end all souvenirs.

Lucy thinks she may have finally gotten her big break in Hollywood. It all centers on a posh party attended by studio execs. Ricky was invited to attend but begged off. But Lucy will fool ’em. She has a lifelike rubber replica of Ricky’s head, which she’ll attach to a dummy body — and she’ll dance her way to stardom with “Raggedy Ricky.”

Lucy gets mixed up with a jewel thief on a cross-country rail trip that marks the end of the series Hollywood sojourn. Thats not the only reason its a bumpy ride. Another is that Lucy keeps pulling the emergency-brake cord.

Ricky Ricardos new fame leads to an invitation to appear on the popular interview program "Face to Face", and Lucy and Ricky consider moving. Rickys agent arranges an appearance for him and suggests that they stage a fight so Lucy and Ricky wont have to stay. In the end the scheme falls flat while "Face to Face" is on the air.

Lucy’s objects, but Ricky insists that Little Ricky go to nursery school. All goes well until the boy gets sick. Then it’s hospital frolics — starring Nurse Lucy.

Its Lucy vs. bureaucrats (bureaucrats: watch out) when she cant find her birth certificate, which she needs for a passport so she can go on Rickys European tour.

Ricky, Ethel, and Fred are aboard their ship to Europe when Lucy rushes down the gangplank for one last goodbye to Little Ricky, who will be in Lucys mothers care while she is in Europe. The ship heads out to sea, leaving Lucy frantically trying to catch up with it.

Lucy is thrilled at being in London and desperate to see the Queen. She misses the Queen at Buckingham Palace, where she gets involved in the changing of the guard. Ricky is invited to meet the Royal Family when they attend a special performance at the Palladium. Lucy is not included in the invitation, but she has no intention of letting it go at that.

The Ricardos and Mertzes are on their way to Paris, but first Lucy wants to go to Scotland to seek members of the McGillicuddy family into which she was born. In a classic dream sequence, Ricky appears as Scotty MacTavish MacDougal MacCardo.

Charles Boyer deals with a star-crazed Lucy in this guest appearance. The setting: Paris, where the Ricardos and Mertzes are lunching at a sidewalk cafe. Boyer is at a nearby table, and when Lucy and Ethel spot him they immediately repair to the ladies room to plot their approach. Ricky tries to stop the assault but nobody can defend against the star-struck Lucy.

In Switzerland, the Ricardos and Mertzes are caught in an abandoned cabin during an avalanche. It’s one of Lucy’s own making (of course), and it leads to some soul-searching and confessions. But not by Ricky: “We might be saved!” They are — by an oompah band playing “La Cucaracha.”

En route to Rome by train, Lucy is spotted by a famous Italian cinema director and chosen to play a part in his new movie "Bitter Grapes." Lucy sets out to immerse herself in the role. When she nonchalantly wanders into a vineyard inhabited by a motley assortment of Italian-speaking women, she is dispatched to the wine-making area to crush grapes with her feet.

Ricky is working in Monte Carlo, but Fred goofs and negotiates too little money for the engagement. Lucy and Ethel go to the casino to watch, and Lucy finds a chip that someone dropped. She picks it up and puts it on the table. The chip wins, and continues to do so, all by accident. Since Ricky warned Lucy to stay away from the casino, she hides the money in Ethels trunk. Ricky finds it and thinks Fred has been holding out on him.

Ricky is opening a new club, and he wants Bob Hope to appear at the grand opening. Lucy fears Hope wont appear because of her widespread reputation for monkey-wrench throwing, and wants to reassure him that this time shes butting out.

Lucy tries to get in a skit with Orson Welles at Rickys club, thinking it is a Shakespearean play that he will be doing. When Orson Welles tells Lucy she can be in the show, she calls her old high school drama teacher to tell her the news. Lucys old teacher sends her whole drama class to Club Babalu to see Lucy perform. But poor Lucy! It turns out Welles only wanted her to be his assistant for a magic trick.

Mario, the Ricardos and Mertzes gondolier in Venice, comes to New York to surprise his brother Dominic, but turns up at the Ricardos apartment when he cant find him. Lucy is sure Dominic is in San Francisco and sets out to help Mario raise the bus fare. Her earnest efforts pay off in a surprising way.

Its Lucy and Ethel vs. Ricky and Fred in a fishing contest while theyre on a Florida vacation. The wager: $150 (about what Lucy and Ethel had spent in hotel boutiques), so both sides do a little cheating to ensure a victory.

Still on their vacation, the Ricardos go to Cuba, where Ricky wants to introduce his relatives to Lucy and Little Ricky.

The Ricardos and Mertzes spend Christmas Eve decorating a tree - and remembering moments that led up to the birth of Little Ricky five years earlier.

When Stevie Appleby, Carolines son, has a birthday party the same day as Little Rickys, Lucy looks for unusual entertainment to lure the children. Ricky remembers that Superman is in town, and he invites him. But when Ricky is unable to corral Superman, Lucy is left with no choice but to dress as the Man of Steel herself. George Reeves makes a special guest-star appearance in this episode.

Lucy decides that it would be nice to move to the country and prevails on Ricky to place a comfortable deposit on a big house. Ricky agrees and puts a down payment on a house in Westport, Connecticut. It is not long before Lucy changes her mind. Lucy, Ethel, and Fred put on disguises to try and help poor Ricky get his deposit back.

As the Ricardos get settled in their new country home, they immediately wind up in a mix-up with their old friends Fred and Ethel Mertz. Missing their old friends already, Lucy and Ricky decide to visit the Mertzes. At the same time, the Mertzes decide to trek to the country to visit the Ricardos, and what began simply becomes complicated.

The Mertzes find a way to stay with the Ricardos: chicken farming. But the scheme puts Lucy over her head in chickens when she and Ethel bring home 500 baby chicks before the hen house is ready.

When Ricky refuses to bring his rumba band out to Westport to play for a Historical Society benefit, Lucy and the Mertzes put together a combo of their own, with Little Ricky on drums.

Ethel is jealous of Lucys friendship with Betty Ramsey. But when Betty reveals that shes from Ethels home town of Albuquerque, the two become fast friends, and now its Lucy who feels left out.

Lucy, Ethel, and Betty want their husbands to dance with their friends visiting houseguest - until they see that shes a sultry, young blonde. Now the boys are only too happy to oblige - and the miffed wives decide to fight glamour with glamour.

Ricky has been chosen to dedicate a new Revolutionary War statue in the Westport Town Square. Theres a problem: Lucy has accidentally destroyed the one-of-a-kind sculpture.

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