I Love Lucy

S01E01 The Girls Want to Go to a Nightclub 1951-10-15

It's the Mertzes' eighteenth wedding anniversary. Ethel longs to celebrate it by going to the Copacabana, while Fred wants to attend the fights. As can be guessed, an argument soon ensues among the couples. Ethel and Lucy decide that they will go to the club-with dates! Now, this is perfectly fine with Fred, but Ricky is worried. So he and Fred call an old friend, Ginny Jones, for dates so that they can go to the nightclub and spy on their wives. Coincidentally, Lucy and Ethel have also called Ginny about getting dates to go to the club. When Ginny tells the girls about the boys' plans, Lucy decides that she and Ethel will impersonate the boys' blind dates. Thus, the two of them enter the Ricardo apartment decked out like country bumpkins, which makes for some superb Lucille Ball schtick.

Pilot note — From the desk: I Love Lucy opens its catalog run with “The Girls Want to Go to a Nightclub” (1951-10-15). Still the proof that a sitcom can be both popular and formally inventive — and that off-screen mythology sells as hard as on-screen gags. The real-life business empire and marital saga behind the laughs remains TV's original celebrity industrial complex.

S01E02 Be a Pal 1951-10-22

In order to keep the honeymoon from ending with Ricky, Lucy consults a book that leads to all sorts of hilarious situations as Lucy tries to follow the book's advice.

S01E03 The Diet 1951-10-29

To her dismay, Lucy finds out that she's put on 22 pounds since marrying Ricky. Complications arise when one of the girls in Ricky's new show quits, making a vacancy for a dancer who can wear a size twelve costume. At the auditions the next morning, Lucy tricks Ricky into saying that if she loses enough weight (12 pounds) in four days, then she can be in the show. Thus, she starves and exercises, with Ethel as her coach. In one funny scene, she tries to steal food from the Mertzes' dog Butch, because she is so hungry! She finally resorts to using a steam cabinet, and manages to get down to the required 120 pounds. At the end, Lucy and Ricky perform "Cuban Pete/Sally Sweet." She's a hit, but at the end she collapses, suffering from malnutrition.

S01E04 Lucy Thinks Ricky is Trying to Murder Her 1951-11-05

Lucy 's new whodunit and a misunderstood phone conversation work together to lead Lucy to think Ricky is trying to poison her. So with what she believes is her last burst of energy, Lucy hastens to the Tropicana to confront Ricky with a gun.

S01E05 The Quiz Show 1951-11-12

After hearing a radio quiz show, and having Ricky answer all the question correctly, Lucy manages to get herself and Ricky on the show. Little does she know that Ricky knew the answers beforehand. The show is called "Females are Fabulous," a title that Lucy justifies elaborately. In this episode, Frank Nelson makes the first of many cameos as Freddy Fillmore.

S01E06 The Audition 1951-11-19

Ricky's band is to be auditioned for television, and Lucy is trying to "get into the act." When Lucy substitutes for Buffo the clown, the producers want to sign her, not Ricky, and Lucy is confronted with problems. Ricky sings his trademark "Babalu`" for the first time in this episode

S01E07 The Séance 1951-11-26

Lucy suddenly becomes interested in numerology and superstitions. After advising Ricky that it's a good day for him to make deals, she realizes that she read yesterday's horoscopes and that today is actually a bad day for Ricky. She thus says "no" to a very important business call for Ricky from Mr. Meriweather. In the process of putting things right, Lucy conducts a seance. Classic Ethel quote: "Ethel to Tillie, Ethel to Tillie, come in Tillie."

S01E08 Men are Messy 1951-12-03

"Men are nothing but a bunch of messcats," insists Lucy Ricardo, while Ricky insists that "a man's home is his castle." To make a point, Lucy divides the apartment in half, so that Ricky can be as messy as he likes on his side. But when Ricky's press agent, Kenny Morgan, lines up a publicity spread in Halfbeat Magazine, Lucy decides to teach her sloppy husband a lesson by turning the Ricardo apartment into a regular pig pen. Little does Lucy know that this photographer is not from the musician's journal, but is actually from Look magazine.

S01E09 The Fur Coat 1951-12-10

Ricky returns home with a $3,500 mink coat that he has rented for an act at the club. Lucy immediately jumps to the conclusion that it's her anniversary present. Lucy is so delighted with her "present" that she eats, sleeps, and even does the dishes wearing the mink. Ricky decides to get the coat back by having Fred dress up as a theif and "steal" it, but before he does, a REAL burglar almost makes off with the coat! When Lucy learns from Ethel of his plan, she decides to teach her hubby a lesson. Buying a cheap imitation mink, she decides to "restyle" it (with a pair of scissors)in full view of Ricky.

S01E10 Lucy is Jealous of Girl Singer 1951-12-17

An item in the morning gossip column prompts Lucy to assume that Ricky is seeing another woman, namely Rosemary, one of his dancers. To keep an eye on Ricky, Lucy manages to wangle her way into the chorus line of "Jezebel" at Ricky's club and upstages Rosemary during the number. Later that night, Ricky tells Lucy that there was a "strange girl" in the chorus-ugly, and a terrible dancer. He knew it was Lucy all along. They kiss and make up.

S01E11 Drafted 1951-12-24

When Lucy opens a telegram addressed to Ricky ordering him to appear at the Army's Fort Dix, she assumes that he has been drafted. Ethel suspects that Fred has been drafted as well. Their suspicions are confirmed when they see them drilling in the living room with brooms. They don't know, however, that Ricky and Fred are practicing a dance routine for a servicemen's show. To get their men "ready for the army," Lucy and Ethel take to knitting blankets and other things for them. They also plan a going away party for them on Sunday night. Ricky and Fred, meanwhile, think that the girls are pregnant. Chaos ensues when they plan a similar party (a baby shower) for that same night.

S01E12 The Adagio 1951-12-31

Lucy volunteers for Ricky's Parisian apache dance number for an upcoming Tropicana show. And Ethel finds the perfect person to teach her the basic aspects of Apache dancing-Jean Valjean Raymand, who is the nephew of the woman who runs the French hand laundry. This Frenchman has more than dance lessons in mind, however. When Ricky finds him hiding in the hall closet, fireworks commence. Jean challenges him to a duel behind Radio City Music Hall, but they ultimately decide to stage a fake fight in the bedroom to teach Lucy a well-deserved lesson.

S01E13 The Benefit 1952-01-07

Ethel wants Ricky to a headline a benefit show for her women's club, but Lucy refuses to ask him, unless she can be on the bill, too. After plenty of coaxing on the part of Lucy, Ricky finally says that he'll do it. But Lucy then gets a chance to look at the act that she and Ricky will be doing for the benefit. Ricky has all the punch lines! She decides to rewrite the jokes and teach her husband a lesson.

S01E14 The Amateur Hour 1952-01-14

Lucy, as usual, spends too much money on a dress. So she tells Ricky that she will get a job babysitting in order to pay for it. The trouble is, she didn't know that she would be winding up babysitting a pair of rambunctious, spoiled twins. The twins do almost everything to Lucy besides burning her at the stake. The twins' mother eventually calls, and says that if Lucy performs at a variety show with the twins, she can keep the prize money $100.

S01E15 Lucy Plays Cupid 1952-01-21

Miss Lewis, the Ricardos' elderly neighbor, requests Lucy's assistance in getting the attention of Mr. Ritter, the elderly grocery man whom she is sweet on. Lucy readily agrees to give Mr. Ritter a dinner invitation for Miss Lewis. The first complication arises when Lucy shares the news with Ricky, who spanks Lucy for interfering and makes her promise to give the note back to Miss Lewis. But, when Lucy proceeds to give Mr. Ritter the note anyway, he misunderstands and thinks the invitation is from Lucy herself. This leads to an unsuccessful plan by Lucy to discourage Mr. Ritter and Ricky's telling Mr. Ritter that he can have her. In spite of all these unintended mishaps, Mr. Ritter and Miss Lewis do in fact wind up together, never to be seen on any future episode.

S01E16 Lucy Fakes Illness 1952-01-28

After all this time, Lucy has finally found what she believes to be the perfect solution for getting into show business. After Ethel gives her a book about diseases, Lucy decides that she will pretend that she is suffering from numerous psychological ailments so that Ricky will feel sorry for her and let her go into show business. To convince Ricky that she is really "ill," Lucy pretends that she doesn't know who she is, and at one point "thinks" that she is Tallulah Bankhead! When Ricky eventually gets wind of Lucy's trick, he hires a phony doctor to scare Lucy back to health.

S01E17 Lucy Writes a Play 1952-02-04

Lucy is busily writing the script for the play that her women's club is going to put on, a little something called "A Tree Grows in Havana," and she needs Ricky to appear in it. When Ricky sees the script, he immediately declines. So Lucy is then left with no alternative but to get Fred to agree to do the role. Deciding that Fred wouldn't be very good for portraying a Cuban character, Lucy decides to rewrite the play so that it is set in England. Later, however, Ricky decides that he wants to be in the play when he hears that some very important sponsors are going to be at the women's show. So he manages to trick Fred into giving him back the role. But Ricky doesn't know that Lucy has rewritten the play. This leads to some pretty disastrous results.

S01E18 Breaking the Lease 1952-02-11

The show opens with the Ricardos and the Mertzes sitting around the Ricardos' piano, singing songs together. After the Mertzes leave, Lucy and Ricky wind up in an argument: Lucy wants to leave the bedroom window open, while Ricky wants it closed. The Mertzes, who are trying to get some sleep, are most irritated by the noise. They angrily phone the Ricardos and demand that they cut down on the racket. This, as you can imagine, leads to a big quarrel between the Ricardos and the Mertzes. Lucy and Ricky decide that they can't take it anymore, and they want to move out. However, there is a slight problem--they've signed a lease. The Ricardos thus decide to become the most undesirable tenants ever so that they can break that lease. They succeed in doing so, but ultimately decide that they can't move away and that they must apologize to their friends.

S01E19 The Ballet 1952-02-18

Even after all this time, Lucy still longs to get into one of Ricky's shows. When she learns that there is an opening in one of Ricky's acts for a ballet dancer, as well as a burlesque comedienne, Lucy decides to take a ballet class-which leads to some pretty disastrous results. Fed up, Lucy then hires a teacher to teach her the art of burlesque comedy. It is then that Lucy learns that Ricky still has one spot available in his act. Falsely assuming that it is the burlesque comedienne, not the ballet dancer, that Ricky needs for his act, Lucy goes to the club and mayhem ensues.

S01E20 The Young Fans 1952-02-25

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.

S01E21 New Neighbors 1952-03-03

In order for Lucy to hide from Ricky that she is snooping in the new neighbors' apartment, she hides in their closet where she hears them planning to blow up the capital, not knowing that they're rehearsing a play.

S01E22 Fred and Ethel Fight 1952-03-10

Fred and Ethel have been going at each others' throats for the past few days now, and aren't 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. It's now up to the Mertzes to bring the Ricardos back together.

S01E23 The Moustache 1952-03-17

Lucy dislikes Ricky's new moustache. In order to take revenge, she glues a moustache and beard on to her face. Then, Ricky agrees to shave his moustache off, as long as Lucy gets rid of hers. Lucy tries to get the facial hair off, and is unsuccessful. They try to get a special substance to take the glue off, to find out that it is not made anymore.

S01E24 The Gossip 1952-03-24

Ricky is disgusted by Lucy's obsession with gossiping about other people. According to Ricky, Lucy acts as if it is her "life's blood." Fred, too, is disturbed by Ethel's 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.

S01E25 Pioneer Women 1952-03-31

Lucy and Ethel's hopes of joining the posh Society Matrons' League lead to a bet with their husbands over which sex - the men or the women - had it harder living in a bygone era. They select the turn of the last century, and as Lucy and Ethel start to bake their own bread and churn their own butter, the men become acquainted with straight-blade shaving and riding home from work on horseback. They all have some "'splainin'" to do when two ladies from the Society Matrons' League stop by for an unexpected visit.

S01E26 The Marriage License 1952-04-07

Lucy thinks she and Ricky aren't 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.

S01E27 The Kleptomaniac 1952-04-14

When Ricky sees Lucy sneaking silver items into their closet, he thinks she's a kleptomaniac. Fred and Ricky question her when they see her hide a cuckoo clock under her coat.

S01E28 Cuban Pals 1952-04-21

Lucy is jealous of one of Ricky's female Cuban friends, a woman named Renita. Lucy and Ethel dress as cleaning women to spy on Renita and Ricky at rehearsal. Lucy is appalled, and arranges for Fred to take Renita to the show by way of Philadelphia.

S01E29 The Freezer 1952-04-28

Where's the beef? It's in Lucy and Ethel's new walk-in freezer (according to Lucy, the "human popsicle"). Of course, Ricky and Fred have a beef with their wives, because they paid $483 for it. The meat company won't take it back, and they can't sell it to customers waiting in the local butcher shop, so they're stuck with it. And speaking of stuck, Lucy gets herself locked in the freezer!

S01E30 Lucy Does a TV Commercial 1952-05-05

Lucy has angled her way onto Ricky's special as the show's pitch girl. She advertises a medicine called "Vitameatavegamin." Believing it contains vitamins, minerals, meat, and vegetables, Lucy does not know is that it also contains twenty-three percent of alcohol.

S01E31 The Publicity Agent 1952-05-12

Lucy poses as a princess for a publicity stunt.

S01E32 Lucy Gets Ricky on the Radio 1952-05-19

Lucy secretly books Ricky on a radio quiz show.

S01E33 Lucy's Schedule 1952-05-26

Ricky puts Lucy on a rigid time schedule.

S01E34 Ricky Thinks He's Getting Bald 1952-06-02

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

S01E35 Ricky Asks for a Raise 1952-06-09

Ricky's boss won't give him a raise, so he quits. Lucy and the Mertzes decide that to convince the boss to hire Ricky back, they should pretend to be different patrons of the club who, once they discover Ricky isn't there anymore, would leave.

S02E01 Job Switching 1952-09-15

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.

S02E02 The Saxophone 1952-09-22

When Lucy fails her saxophone audition for Ricky's band, she tries to stop him from going on the road by pretending there's another man in her life. Ricky gets back at her by hiring several "lovers," and hiding them in Lucy's closet. But Lucy gets the last laugh in the end!

S02E03 The Anniversary Present 1952-09-29

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.

S02E04 The Handcuffs 1952-10-06

Inspired by a magic trick she saw, Lucy handcuffs herself to Ricky using old handcuffs from Fred. She was unaware of the fact that he didn't have a key for them.

S02E05 The Operetta 1952-10-13

Lucy's women's club wants to stage an operetta, but they're 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.

S02E06 Vacation from Marriage 1952-10-27

The Ricardos and the Mertzes take a week off from their in-a-rut marriages. But each spouse misses the other too much, and despite a last-ditch attempt to make each other jealous, they all decide that they'd rather be in a rut with their mates.

S02E07 The Courtroom 1952-11-10

The Ricardos give the Mertzes a television set for their anniversary, but Ricky's 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 judge's TV, too!

S02E08 Redecorating 1952-11-24

Waiting to find out if she has won a home furnishing contest, Lucy won't leave the house, much to Ricky's annoyance. He tells Fred to call her and say that she's won. In her joy, Lucy sells all the old furniture, leaving Ricky with the job of buying it back.

S02E09 Ricky Loses His Voice 1952-12-01

Ricky comes down with a sore throat just as he is about to open a new show.

S02E10 Lucy is Enceinte 1952-12-08

When Lucy learns that she's going to have a baby, she tries to find the right way to tell this to Ricky.

S02E11 Pregnant Women Are Unpredictable 1952-12-15

With the baby coming, Ricky decides to make Lucy breakfast in bed and shower her (baby) with gifts. Lucy then gets depressed thinking that all the special treatment she is getting is only because of the baby.

S02E12 Lucy's Show Biz Swan Song 1952-12-22

Pregnant Lucy insists on being in a barbershop quartet skit at the club with Ricky and the Mertzes.

S02E13 Lucy Hires an English Tutor 1952-12-29

Lucy wants her baby to be raised hearing nothing but perfect English, so she hires a tutor to teach her, Ricky, and the Mertzes proper English diction. The tutor turns out to be an aspiring entertainer, and hopes that Ricky will give him a break.

S02E14 Ricky Has Labor Pains 1953-01-05

When Lucy's pregnancy cravings and preoccupation with a baby shower leave Ricky frustrated and overwhelmed, he begins to develop psychosomatic pregnancy symptoms of his own. A doctor advises Lucy and Ethel to give Ricky some special attention as a cure, so the women ask Fred to organize a men-only "daddy shower" for him. When Fred calls it a "stag party" in front of Lucy, curiosity gets the best of her and she must find a way to sneak into the event.

S02E15 Lucy Becomes a Sculptress 1953-01-12

Lucy feels that her child should grow up with artistic influence, so she takes up sculpting. When Ricky arranges for an art critic to arrive and judge her work, she ends up disguising herself as a bust in an attempt to fool the critic.

S02E16 Lucy Goes to the Hospital 1953-01-19

With the baby due at any moment, Ricky and the Mertzes carefully rehearse the trip to the hospital. But when the big moment actually comes, things do not go quite so smoothly. When they eventually get there, Lucy stays in labor for quite a while, so Ricky goes to do his new 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.

S02E17 Sales Resistance 1953-01-26

When Lucy buys a gadget in response to an ad, Ricky gets angry.

S02E18 The Inferiority Complex 1953-02-02

Lucy makes one faux pas after another and develops an inferiority complex.

S02E19 The Club Election 1953-02-16

Lucy and Ethel each run for president of their club, the Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League. They soon discover that the deciding vote will be from their club's newest member, Ruth Knickerbocker. Lucy and Ethel's campaigns end up taking a nasty turn, while Ricky and Fred each campaign separately for the other woman to win.

S02E20 The Black Eye 1953-03-09

Lucy and Ricky are both engrossed in a thrilling novel, and decide to read it aloud to enjoy it at the same time. When Ricky tosses the book to Lucy for her to put it away, it accidentally hits her in the face, giving her a black eye. Trouble begins when Fred and Ethel overhear the dialogue from the novel and, seeing the black eye, fear the worst. When Ethel will not accept the truth, Lucy concocts a "juicy story" about her falling in love with another man, which only leads to further trouble.

S02E21 Lucy Changes Her Mind 1953-03-30

Lucy seems unable to finish anything without changing her mind. Ricky loses his temper over it, so Lucy tries to play a trick on him with an old, unfinished love letter to a beau from high school. However, Fred finds out from Ethel and warns Ricky of Lucy's plot.

S02E22 No Children Allowed 1953-04-20

The Ricardos' lease does not allow children, and their crying new baby Little Ricky causes neighbor Mrs. Trumbull to complain to Lucy and Ethel about the noise. However, she later has a change of heart. This episode marked the beginning of recurring character Mrs. Trumbull.

S02E23 Lucy Hires a Maid 1953-04-27

Ricky allows Lucy to hire a maid because she keeps falling asleep during the day from staying up nights with Little Ricky. However, the maid she hires has a cozy schedule, refuses to help take care of the baby, treats Lucy with disdain, and eats most of the Ricardos' food.

S02E24 The Indian Show 1953-05-04

Ricky is planning an Indian number for his nightclub act, and assumes that motherhood has ended Lucy's show business ambitions. However, Lucy still wants to get in on the act, and persuades the female vocalist in the number to switch places with her.

S02E25 Lucy's Last Birthday 1953-05-11

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 them. They all march to Ricky's club to protest, where a surprise party is waiting for her.

S02E26 The Ricardos Change Apartments 1953-05-18

Now that they have a baby, Lucy thinks that she and Ricky need a bigger apartment, but Ricky says they cannot afford it. When Lucy learns that neighbor Mrs. Benson has an extra room now that her daughter has married, Lucy has the idea to swap apartments with Mr. and Mrs. Benson.

S02E27 Lucy is Matchmaker 1953-05-25

Lucy tries to fix up her girl friend with a bachelor friend of Fred's, but soon ends up as an unwitting party in a love triangle.

S02E28 Lucy Wants New Furniture 1953-06-01

When Lucy buys a new sofa and coffee table without Ricky's permission, he says she will have to pay for it out of her allowance. To save money, Lucy attempts to make her own dress and gives herself a home perm.

S02E29 The Camping Trip 1953-06-08

Determined to prove to friends from her bridge club that she and Ricky have not grown apart, Lucy starts spending all of her time with Ricky. When she wants to join him and Fred on a summer camping trip, Ricky takes Lucy into the wilderness for a practice trip to make her hate camping, but Lucy and Ethel team up to thwart his plan.

S02E30 Ricky and Fred Are TV Fans 1953-06-22

Ricky and Fred are excited about watching a lengthy boxing match on TV. While Ricky and Fred stay glued to the set, Lucy and Ethel are mistaken for thieves and taken to the police station, while their husbands do not realize they are gone

S02E31 Never Do Business with Friends 1953-06-29

The Ricardos sell their old washing machine to the Mertzes, where it breaks down in their possession. They demand that the Ricardos take it back, but then change their minds when they find out how much a repairman is willing to pay for it.

S03E01 Ricky's 'Life' Story 1953-10-05

Life magazine does a picture story on Ricky, but Lucy is not in it, leaving her feeling resentful of Ricky for not letting her have a career in show business. To teach Lucy a lesson that show business is not all just glamour and stardom, Ricky tells Lucy that she will be the star in his new show at the club, and works her very hard during rehearsals, with no intention of actually using her in the show. When Fred inadvertently tells Lucy about Ricky's scheme, Lucy decides to upstage Ricky during his "Lady in Spain" number.

S03E02 The Girls Go Into Business 1953-10-12

Lucy and Ethel buy a dress shop behind their husbands' backs, but soon find that they are not making the profits that they anticipated.

S03E03 Lucy and Ethel Buy the Same Dress 1953-10-19

Lucy and Ethel are going to appear on TV with their women's club, and choose to sing Cole Porter's "Friendship" together. In addition, Lucy manages to use reverse psychology to get Ricky to host the event. All is well until the two women buy the same dress for the occasion.

S03E04 Equal Rights 1953-10-26

ired 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.

S03E05 Baby Pictures 1953-11-02

The Ricardos have decided they are not going to brag about their baby Little Ricky. That changes when Carolyn and Charlie Appleby start to brag about their own baby, Stevie.

S03E06 Lucy Tells the Truth 1953-11-09

When Ricky and the Mertzes wager that Lucy can't go a full day without telling a lie, her husband and friends feel more than a bit stung by her unabashed honesty.

S03E07 The French Revue 1953-11-16

After being embarrassed in a restaurant, Lucy takes French lessons. Then she does everything she can to get into Ricky's new French-themed show.

S03E08 Redecorating the Mertzes' Apartment 1953-11-23

Lucy decides that she and Ricky are going to redecorate the Mertzes' apartment.

S03E09 Too Many Crooks 1953-11-30

The police are looking for "Madame X," the mysterious burglar. Due to misunderstandings, Ethel suspects that Lucy is Madame X, while Lucy suspects that Ethel is the burglar.

S03E10 Changing the Boys' Wardrobe 1953-12-07

The girls decide they are tired of Ricky and Fred wearing the same old worn out clothes at home and decide to make some changes.

S03E11 Lucy Has Her Eyes Examined 1953-12-14

After a visit to the eye doctor leaves Lucy's vision hopelessly blurred for the rest of the day, she decides to go through a jitterbug number at an audition at Ricky's club.

S03E12 Ricky's Old Girl Friend 1953-12-21

The Ricardos and Mertzes take a marriage quiz. One question involves past romances, and Ricky makes up a story about an old girlfriend from Cuba, Carlotta Romero. When a real Cuban entertainer of the same name is performing in town, Ricky is in trouble.

S03E13 The Million Dollar Idea 1954-01-11

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.

S03E14 Ricky Minds the Baby 1954-01-18

While the Tropicana is closed for repainting, Ricky offers to give Lucy a week's break and take total responsibility for the care of Little Ricky.

S03E15 The Charm School 1954-01-25

After seeing Ricky and Fred give pretty girl Eve Whitney the eye during a party, Lucy and Ethel decide to go to charm school.

S03E16 Sentimental Anniversary 1954-02-01

It is the Ricardos' wedding anniversary, and they plan to spend it home alone. The Mertzes however, have planned a surprise anniversary party for them.

S03E17 Fan Magazine Interview 1954-02-08

Lucy and Ricky put on a big act for a magazine writer who wants to do an article on the 'real' Ricardos. The writer spends the day with Lucy and plants seeds of doubt about Ricky's fidelity. A stunt by Ricky's publicity agent makes it looks like he is cheating on her.

S03E18 Oil Wells 1954-02-15

The gang buys oil stock from new neighbors who claim to be Texas oil tycoons.

S03E19 Ricky Loses His Temper 1954-02-22

Ricky gets fed up with Lucy buying so many new hats. They decide to see who can hold out the longest: she has to stop buying hats and he can't lose his temper.

S03E20 Home Movies 1954-03-01

Ricky bores everyone by overplaying the home movies he's taken with his new camera. When the gang finds out he's making a TV pilot they try to get in on the act, but they're stopped short. They decide to make their own movie.

S03E21 Bonus Bucks 1954-03-08

Ricky secretly hides a winning Bonus Buck worth $300 in Lucy's purse, but she gives all the money in her purse to the grocery boy! Ethel gets the winning dollar in the form of change from the grocery boy, and Lucy and Ethel fight over it, to the point of ripping it. After the Ricardos' half of the dollar gets sent to the laundromat, the gang has to rush to get it back before the 3 pm contest deadline. Lucy and Ricky end up retrieving the bill, but at a great cost- they damaged so much from rushing that the group only ends up with one dollar left! Oh, the irony!

S03E22 Ricky's Hawaiian Vacation 1954-03-15

Ricky and his band get an offer to play in Honolulu. Lucy disguises herself an elderly mother and goes on a TV game show to try to win a trip to Honolulu for her and the Mertzes, but Ricky thwarts her fraudulent plan.

S03E23 Lucy is Envious 1954-03-29

After Lucy and Ethel each accidentally pledge a five-hundred dollar donation to a charity run by Lucy's rich high-school friend, they must now earn the money to pay their donation.

S03E24 Lucy Writes a Novel 1954-04-05

Lucy's novel - a thinly disguised story of her life and the people in it - upsets Ricky, Fred, and Ethel.

S03E25 Lucy's Club Dance 1954-04-12

Lucy, Ethel, and their friends from the Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League decide to raise money for their club by sponsoring a dance. They decide to form their own all-girl orchestra for the occasion, but they sound so terrible that Lucy convinces Ricky to give them some pointers, leading to unwanted publicity for Ricky.

S03E26 The Black Wig 1954-04-19

After Ricky forbids Lucy to cut her hair short in an Italian style haircut, Lucy dons a black wig at the beauty salon to try out the look. She then decides test Ricky's marital fidelity by pretending to be another woman and flirts with him. However, Ricky, having been tipped-off of Lucy's plan by the salon owner, pretends not to recognize her and flirts back.

S03E27 The Diner 1954-04-26

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. Because of a road detour, there are few customers.

S03E28 Tennessee Ernie Visits 1954-05-03

Lucy's mother writes to inform Lucy and Ricky that her friend's roommate's cousin's son Ernie Ford will be arriving from Tennessee to visit them in New York. To the Ricardos' surprise, Ernie has no place to stay and must sleep in their living room since he cannot afford a hotel or a trip back home.

S03E29 Tennessee Ernie Hangs On 1954-05-10

Ernie is still living with the Ricardos, much to their annoyance. The Ricardos and Mertzes try different schemes to get Ernie to leave on his own accord.

S03E30 The Golf Game 1954-05-17

After Lucy buys Ricky a set of golf clubs for their anniversary, the girls regret it when he and Fred become obsessed with the game.

S03E31 The Sublease 1954-05-24

The Ricardos are taking a summer trip to Maine after Ricky's band is booked there, so they sublet their apartment for the summer. After the booking is canceled, the Ricardos need their apartment back, but the subtenant refuses to leave.

S04E01 The Business Manager 1954-10-04

Ricky hires a business manager (Charles Lane), and Lucy finds him tighter with money than Ricky. After Lucy gets several months behind in all the bills, Ricky hires Mr. Hickox, a no-nonsense business manager who puts her on a strict budget. Lucy comes up with a scheme to get some extra money that soon has her rolling in cash.

S04E02 Mertz and Kurtz 1954-10-11

To help Fred impress his world-traveling ex-vaudeville partner, Barney Kurtz, Ethel talks Lucy into posing as their maid. It turns out that Barney is not as successful as he had been letting on.

S04E03 Lucy Cries Wolf 1954-10-18

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 he'd rush home from the club "between the 'baba' and the 'lu' " if she were in danger, but that's not enough reassurance for her, and soon she's in a precarious position.

S04E04 The Matchmaker 1954-10-25

Lucy attempts to help her friend Dorothy get married by inviting Dorothy and her beau Sam to a romantic dinner at the Ricardos' apartment, hoping to present Sam with a positive example of married and parenting life. However, Ricky is not amused at Lucy's matchmaking attempts, and the evening does not go as planned.

S04E05 Mr. and Mrs. TV Show 1954-11-01

Phipps Department Store offers Ricky a job as a morning TV show host, but only if it includes Lucy as well.

S04E06 Ricky's Movie Offer 1954-11-08

A Hollywood talent scout wants Ricky to audition for a movie about the life of Don Juan, and everyone wants to get into the act and audition.

S04E07 Ricky's Screen Test 1954-11-15

Lucy appears with Ricky in his screen test, with the hope that she will get discovered by a Hollywood executive.

S04E08 Lucy's Mother-in-Law 1954-11-22

When Ricky's mother visits, Lucy desperately tries to impress her.

S04E09 Ethel's Birthday 1954-11-29

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.

S04E10 Ricky's Contract 1954-12-06

Ricky is still waiting for the results of his screen test, and his anxious attitude is worrying Lucy and the Mertzes. To calm Ricky down, Fred leaves a note saying that Ricky got the job, but the call still has yet to come.

S04E11 Getting Ready 1954-12-13

The Ricardos and the Mertzes are all ready to leave for California, until they see the antique car Fred has bought for the trip.

S04E12 Lucy Learns to Drive 1955-01-03

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.

S04E13 California, Here We Come 1955-01-10

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.

S04E14 First Stop 1955-01-17

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 frozen cheese sandwiches. The bunk beds in their ugly cabin, with spongy sagging mattresses, scoot back and forth across the floor every time a noisy train passes nearby.

S04E15 Tennessee Bound 1955-01-24

After getting lost and ending up south in Tennessee, the Ricardos and Mertzes get arrested for speeding and Tennessee Ernie Ford helped them escape, to continue their trip west, to California.

S04E16 Ethel's Home Town 1955-01-31

The gang arrives in Ethel's hometown of Albequerque, New Mexico, where the locals are under the impression that she, and not Ricky, has been hired to star in a Hollywood movie.

S04E17 L.A. at Last 1955-02-07

When the Ricardos and the Mertzes arrive in Hollywood, Lucy goes to the Brown Derby restaurant where her sighting of William Holden turns catastrophic.

S04E18 Don Juan and the Starlets 1955-02-14

Ricky leaves Lucy at their hotel and goes out to a movie premiere with four starlets. He then gets in trouble with Lucy when she thinks that he was out all night.

S04E19 Lucy Gets in Pictures 1955-02-21

Lucy finally gets her chance - she lands a part as a murdered showgirl in a major MGM musical.

S04E20 The Fashion Show 1955-02-28

Lucy is determined to own a Don Loper gown and winds up being part of a "Hollywood Wives" fashion show while having a bad sunburn.

S04E21 The Hedda Hopper Story 1955-03-14

Lucy's mother arrives in California with the baby, while Ricky's agent concocts a publicity stunt designed to land Ricky in Hedda Hopper's celebrity gossip column. They plan for Ricky to "save" Lucy from drowning in the hotel pool.

S04E22 Don Juan is Shelved 1955-03-21

When Lucy finds out from a Variety article that MGM has shelved Ricky's film Don Juan, she schemes with her mother and the Mertzes to create public demand for Ricky's talent. However, producer Dore Schary informs Ricky that even though the studio is indeed shelving Don Juan, they want to keep Ricky on contract, and will star him in a film as soon as they can find the right one.

S04E23 Bull Fight Dance 1955-03-28

When Lucy gets to write answers to questions about what it is like to be married to Ricky for Photoplay magazine, she blackmails him to let her appear in his "Heart Fund" show. However, when Lucy's singing skills are not up to par, Ricky arranges for her to wear a bull costume for his bull fight number.

S04E24 Hollywood Anniversary 1955-04-04

Lucy and Ricky's wedding anniversary is approaching, and Ricky has forgotten the date, but he has a plan to convince Lucy that he knew it all along, telling her that he had planned an anniversary party at the Mocambo nightclub. She is elated until she learns that the entire party is a sham.

S04E25 The Star Upstairs 1955-04-18

Lucy poses as a bellboy to get a glimpse of Cornel Wilde, who is staying at the hotel. When this does not work, Lucy manages to get a bellboy's help to sneak into Wilde's hotel room. However, getting out of his room proves to be more difficult.

S04E26 In Palm Springs 1955-04-25

Lucy and Ethel go to Palm Springs; guest Rock Hudson.

S04E27 The Dancing Star 1955-05-02

Carolyn Appleby, one of Lucy's friends from New York, is visiting and wants to meet some of the movie stars that Lucy has bragged about befriending, starting with Van Johnson, who is appearing at the hotel.

S04E28 Harpo Marx 1955-05-09

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.

S04E29 Ricky Needs an Agent 1955-05-16

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.

S04E30 The Tour 1955-05-30

After Ricky forbids Lucy to join him for lunch with Richard Widmark at Romanoff's, Lucy and Ethel take a bus tour of movie stars' homes in Beverly Hills, and Lucy ends up picking a grapefruit from Widmark's backyard, where she gets trapped.

S05E01 Lucy Visits Grauman's 1955-10-03

Ricky has completed his movie for MGM, but Lucy and the Mertzes convince him to let them stay in Hollywood for one more week. While sight-seeing, Lucy discovers that the cement slab with John Wayne's footprints and signature in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater has become loose. Lucy talks Ethel into helping her steal the slab to keep as a souvenir, and as they make their get-away, Lucy gets her foot caught in a bucket of cement. Ricky demands that they return the slab to the theater forecourt, but while trying to return it, Lucy and Ethel accidentally destroy it.

S05E02 Lucy and John Wayne 1955-10-10

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.

S05E03 Lucy and the Dummy 1955-10-17

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." She performs with a dummy and ends up being offered a contract.

S05E04 Ricky Sells the Car 1955-10-24

Ricky sells the car and buys train tickets for the trip back to New York, but he forgets about Fred and Ethel, leading to a rift between the friends. After Lucy informs Ricky of his error, he is able to buy tickets for the Mertzes, but Lucy worries when she finds out that the tickets are not the same class as theirs.

S05E05 The Great Train Robbery 1955-10-31

On the trip back to New York, Lucy learns a jewel thief's on their train.

S05E06 Homecoming 1955-11-07

The gang is finally home from Hollywood, and everybody is gushing over Ricky, treating him like the movie star that he has become. A reporter emphasizes to Lucy how important it is to pamper Ricky and love every minute she has to spend with him. Lucy falls under the Ricky-is-a-star spell, too, and Ricky hates it. To snap her out of it, Ricky starts acting like a hugely pompous celebrity, ordering Lucy to do five things at once. Lucy eventually gets annoyed enough to shout back at Ricky, and he tells her that he's happy he's got his girl back.

S05E07 Face to Face 1955-11-14

Ricky's agent says that the Ricardos should move to a fancy apartment and get out of the "dump" that the Mertzes own. The Ricardos stand up for the Mertzes, saying they're happy where they are. Just for fun, though, Lucy goes to look at a high-price New York apartment. Meanwhile, the Mertzes make up a fake fight to get the Ricardos to move out, because they think living elsewhere would do wonders for Ricky's careers. After the fight, Ethel calls up her Aunt Martha, saying that there will probably be a vacant apartment soon. But when the Mertzes find out Lucy visited the ritzy apartments, and when the Ricardos find out Ethel called Aunt Martha, the two couples start bitterly feuding. The feud spreads when they all appear on the TV show Face to Face. In the end, all of their real motives are explained, and they end up friends again.

S05E08 Lucy Goes to a Rodeo 1955-11-28

Ricky is upset when he learns 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 since they are planning their own Western show for Fred's lodge.

S05E09 Nursery School 1955-12-05

Lucy is not happy about the idea of being separated from Little Ricky, but Ricky insists their son must start nursery school. Lucy then becomes worried when Little Ricky gets sick with tonsillitis and must be hospitalized.

S05E10 Ricky's European Booking 1955-12-12

Ricky's band gets booked in Europe, and Fred is recruited as Ricky's band manager. Lucy and Ethel can only go if they can come up with enough money to pay their own way. They run a raffle benefiting a phony charity and nearly get arrested for the fraud.

S05E11 The Passports 1955-12-19

Lucy needs her birth certificate in order to get her passport, but Jamestown has no record of her being born there. She devises a way to sneak to Europe with the others: hide in a large steamer trunk. While trying it out, she ends up locked in the trunk with the key in her pocket. Lucy ends up receiving her birth certificate in the mail from her mother, and learns from her childhood doctor that she was actually born in West Jamestown.

S05E12 Staten Island Ferry 1956-01-02

The Ricardos and Mertzes are all ready to leave for Europe, until Fred announces that he gets seasick, so Ricky suggests seasick pills.

S05E13 Bon Voyage 1956-01-16

After boarding the ocean liner SS Constitution, Lucy goes ashore just one more time to kiss Little Ricky goodbye, and misses the boat. As a result, she ends up hiring a helicopter to drop her off on the ship.

S05E14 Second Honeymoon 1956-01-23

Lucy plans to make the ocean voyage a second honeymoon, but Ricky has previous shipboard engagements with his band. When she has had enough, she devises a plan with Ethel to trap Ricky in the room.

S05E15 Lucy Meets the Queen 1956-01-30

Lucy and Ethel go looking for Queen Elizabeth II on their first day in London. Ethel manages to get a glimpse of the Queen, but Lucy misses seeing her. Eventually, Lucy finds out that she can be presented to the Queen if she is one of the performers in Ricky's show at the London Palladium.

S05E16 The Fox Hunt 1956-02-06

Lucy is torn between wanting to spend the weekend fox hunting and her jealousy of a blonde.

S05E17 Lucy Goes to Scotland 1956-02-20

Ricky's tour calls for Paris as the next stop, but Lucy wants to go to Scotland.

S05E18 Paris at Last 1956-02-27

The Ricardos and the Mertzes arrive in Paris, and when a man outside the American Express office offers to exchange money for Lucy, she ends up in jail for passing counterfeit francs.

S05E19 Lucy Meets Charles Boyer 1956-03-05

Lucy decides to fake a meeting with Charles Boyer.

S05E20 Lucy Gets a Paris Gown 1956-03-19

Lucy is determined to get a new designer dress while in Paris.

S05E21 Lucy in the Swiss Alps 1956-03-26

While in Lucerne, 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.

S05E22 Lucy Gets Homesick in Italy 1956-04-09

Lucy, while in Florence, gets homesick for Little Ricky on his third birthday. To lift her spirits, she hosts an impromptu party for several Italian children who all claim it is their birthday too.

S05E23 Lucy's Italian Movie 1956-04-16

Lucy is "discovered" by an Italian film director while traveling to Rome.

S05E24 Lucy's Bicycle Trip 1956-04-23

Lucy can't cross the French-Italian border because she lost her passport.

S05E25 Lucy Goes to Monte Carlo 1956-05-07

Lucy and Ethel go to the casino and inadvertently win big. After Ricky finds the hidden money, he thinks Fred has been skimming Ricky's concert earnings.

S05E26 Return Home from Europe 1956-05-14

In order to make it home from Europe in time for Ricky and his band to perform at the Roxy Theatre, everyone must travel back to New York by plane. Lucy tries to get out of paying duties by disguising a twenty-five pound piece of Italian cheese as a swaddled baby, much to the frustration of Ricky.

S06E01 Lucy and Bob Hope 1956-10-01

Sighting Bob Hope at Yankee Stadium, Lucy hopes to persuade him to appear at Ricky's club (now named Club Babalú) unaware that Hope has already agreed to appear. She ends up joining Hope and Ricky in performing at Club Babalú.  Richard Keith makes his first appearance as Little Ricky, who is now depicted as four years old.

S06E02 Little Ricky Learns to Play the Drums 1956-10-08

Little Ricky's non-stop drum playing threatens the Ricardos' and Mertzes' friendship.

S06E03 Lucy Meets Orson Welles 1956-10-15

Orson Welles asks Lucy to assist in his magic act.

S06E04 Little Ricky Gets Stage Fright 1956-10-22

A case of stage fright hits Little Ricky as he is about to perform.

S06E05 Visitor from Italy 1956-10-29

Lucy tries to reunite a Venetian gondolier with his brother who lives in America.

S06E06 Off to Florida 1956-11-12

Driving to Miami to meet their husbands after Ricky's band is booked in Florida, the girls share the drive with a strange lady (Elsa Lanchester) they suspect is an ax murderess.

S06E07 Deep-Sea Fishing 1956-11-19

While in Miami, the boys bet the girls that they will catch bigger fish on a planned deep-sea fishing trip. 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.

S06E08 Desert Island 1956-11-26

Still in Miami, Lucy and Ethel's scheme to prevent the boys from judging a bathing beauty contest leaves the Ricardos and the Mertzes marooned on a desert island.

S06E09 The Ricardos Visit Cuba 1956-12-03

Lucy is bent on impressing Ricky's family when they leave Florida and visit Havana, Cuba, but she cannot seem to say or do anything right.

S06E10 Little Ricky's School Pageant 1956-12-17

Back in New York, the Ricardos and the Mertzes sign on as extra cast members in Little Ricky's school play, "The Enchanted Forest".

S06E11 Christmas Show 1956-12-24

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.

S06E12 Lucy and the Loving Cup 1957-01-07

After Ricky makes fun of Lucy's new hat, she puts on a trophy that Ricky is supposed to present at a ceremony. She finds out it goes on a lot easier than it comes off.

S06E13 Lucy and Superman 1957-01-14

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, but gets locked out on the balcony with the pigeons.

S06E14 Little Ricky Gets a Dog 1957-01-21

Little Ricky's new puppy prompts complaints by a grouchy new tenant.

S06E15 Lucy Wants to Move to the Country 1957-01-28

Fed up with city life, Lucy yearns for the suburban life. Ricky buys an old Colonial house in suburban Westport, Connecticut as a surprise for their anniversary.

S06E16 Lucy Hates to Leave 1957-02-04

The Mertzes rent the Ricardo's apartment to a young newlywed couple named Mr. and Mrs. Taylor. Lucy and Ricky decide to sell their furniture to the Taylors, but when Lucy finds out that the Taylors plan to make alterations the furniture, she buys all of it back from them. Then when the Ricardos find out that the Connecticut house's title search has been delayed for two weeks, they find themselves, and all their belongings, living with the Mertzes while they wait to move into their new home.

S06E17 Lucy Misses the Mertzes 1957-02-11

The Ricardos move into their new home in Connecticut. While Little Ricky is at a sleepover, Lucy and Ricky decide to take the train to New York to surprise the Mertzes. But Fred and Ethel have the same idea, and are on their way to Connecticut.

S06E18 Lucy Gets Chummy with the Neighbors 1957-02-18

Lucy's new neighbor, Betty Ramsey, talks Lucy into buying all new furniture, and it all ends up costing over three thousand dollars. When Ricky finds out, he demands that Lucy return it. However, she is too embarrassed to admit to Betty that they cannot afford the new furniture, which leads Betty to assume that Lucy thinks that she has bad taste. Eventually, the Mertzes arrive and help clear up the misunderstanding, and Betty's husband Ralph gives Ricky a job on a television show that pays thirty-five hundred dollars, which will be enough to pay for furniture.

S06E19 Lucy Raises Chickens 1957-03-04

Lucy Raises Chickens — Season 6, Episode 19 of I Love Lucy. Aired 1957-03-04. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

S06E20 Lucy Does the Tango 1957-03-11

The Ricardos and Mertzes go to war over chicken-raising and PTA meetings.

S06E21 Ragtime Band 1957-03-18

Ragtime Band — Season 6, Episode 21 of I Love Lucy. Aired 1957-03-18. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

S06E22 Lucy's Night in Town 1957-03-25

Lucy's Night in Town — Season 6, Episode 22 of I Love Lucy. Aired 1957-03-25. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

S06E23 Housewarming 1957-04-01

Housewarming — Season 6, Episode 23 of I Love Lucy. Aired 1957-04-01. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

S06E24 Building a Bar-B-Q 1957-04-08

Building a Bar-B-Q — Season 6, Episode 24 of I Love Lucy. Aired 1957-04-08. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

S06E25 Country Club Dance 1957-04-22

Country Club Dance — Season 6, Episode 25 of I Love Lucy. Aired 1957-04-22. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

S06E26 Lucy Raises Tulips 1957-04-29

Lucy gets involved in a flower show and starts raising tulips.

S06E27 The Ricardos Dedicate a Statue 1957-05-06

Lucy becomes involved in community affairs and almost gets expelled from the neighborhood.

Finale note — From the desk: The guide closes on “The Ricardos Dedicate a Statue” (1957-05-06) — a series bookend worth the package context. The real-life business empire and marital saga behind the laughs remains TV's original celebrity industrial complex.