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Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.
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Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.
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Episode 1
Ricky is opening a new club, and he wants Bob Hope to appear at the grand opening. Lucy fears Hope won't appear because of her widespread reputation for monkey-wrench throwing, and wants to reassure him that this time she's butting out.
Directed by James V. KernGuest stars Bob Hope, Ralph Sanford, Peter Leeds, Keith Thibodeaux, Lou Krugman, Bennett Green, David Saber, Henry Kulky
Episode 2
Little Ricky gets drums and the Mertzes get headaches. So do Lucy and Ricky, but they're not about to evict themselves.
Directed by James V. KernGuest stars Keith Thibodeaux, Elizabeth Patterson
Episode 3
Lucy tries to get in a skit with Orson Welles at Ricky's 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. Lucy's 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.
Directed by James V. KernGuest stars Ellen Corby, Orson Welles, Keith Thibodeaux, Lou Krugman, Ray Kellogg, Jack Rice, Fred Aldrich, Hazel Pierce
Episode 4
Little Ricky is scheduled to play the drums in a children's orchestra. Although his parents and their friends the Mertzes are overcome with nervousness, Little Ricky seems calm until his big moment arrives; then he goes to pieces. His next performance is six months away, but Lucy feels she must do something about his stage fright now.
Directed by James V. KernGuest stars Howard McNear, Keith Thibodeaux, Marjorie Bennett
Episode 5
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 can't 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.
Guest stars Louis Nicoletti, Peter Brocco, Jay Novello, Eduardo Ciannelli, James Flavin, Aldo Formica
Episode 6
When Lucy misplaces two train tickets to Florida, she and Ethel consult the classified section, hoping to share a ride with someone driving south. They team up with a peculiar middle-aged woman, Mrs. Grundy, who's bent on getting to Florida in record time.
Guest stars Elsa Lanchester, Strother Martin, Keith Thibodeaux, Roy Rowan
Episode 7
It's Lucy and Ethel vs. Ricky and Fred in a fishing contest while they're 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.
Guest stars Keith Thibodeaux, Jim Hayward, Bill McLean
Episode 8
Lucy and Ethel will do anything to keep Ricky and Fred from judging a Miami Beach beauty contest (and end up being menaced on a seemingly deserted island as a result).
Guest stars Claude Akins, Keith Thibodeaux, Jil Jarmyn, Joi Lansing
Episode 9
Still on their vacation, the Ricardos go to Cuba, where Ricky wants to introduce his relatives to Lucy and Little Ricky.
Directed by James V. KernWritten by Bob Schiller, Bob WeiskopfGuest stars Mary Emery, Keith Thibodeaux, Jorge Treviño, Nacho Galindo, Eddie Le Baron, Barbara Logan, Manuel París
Episode 10
Little Ricky's school pageant "The Enchanted Forest" is coming up and it's coming up short on cast members, so the Ricardos and Mertzes volunteer. Ricky's a hollow stump, Fred's a frog and Ethel's the fairy princess. And Lucy? She's a witch.
Guest stars Keith Thibodeaux, Candy Rogers Schoenberger
Episode 11
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.
Directed by William Asher, James V. KernWritten by Bob Schiller, Bob WeiskopfGuest stars A. Cameron Grant
Episode 12
Ricky's disapproval of Lucy's new hat leads to her trying on a loving cup which Ricky has planned to present to jockey Johnny Longden at a National Turf Association dinner. The problem is that Lucy can't get the trophy off her head.
Guest stars Keith Thibodeaux, Johnny Longden, Hazel Longden, Robert Foulk, Jesslyn Fax, Lester Dorr, Byron Kane, Phil Tead
Episode 13
When Stevie Appleby, Caroline's son, has a birthday party the same day as Little Ricky's, 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.
Directed by James V. KernWritten by Madelyn Pugh, Bob Schiller, Bob Carroll Jr., Bob WeiskopfGuest stars George Reeves, Doris Singleton, Keith Thibodeaux, Madge Blake, Ralph Dumke, Steven Kay, George O'Hanlon, Roy Rowan
Episode 14
The Ricardos' apartment begins to resemble a pet shop when Little Ricky gets a puppy. Lucy and Ricky are both determined to get rid of the puppy after their son brings it home -- as are their landlords, Fred and Ethel. They have a hard time overcoming Little Ricky's arguments that a puppy would be a welcome addition to a home that already boasts a canary, a frog, a lizard, a turtle, and some goldfish.
Directed by James V. KernWritten by Bob Schiller, Bob WeiskopfGuest stars Keith Thibodeaux, John Emery, June Foray
Episode 15
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.
Guest stars Eleanor Audley, Frank Wilcox
Episode 16
The Ricardos find themselves, and all their belongings, boarding with the Mertzes while they wait to move into their new Westport, Connecticut home.
Directed by William AsherWritten by Bob Schiller, Bob WeiskopfGuest stars Keith Thibodeaux, Gene Reynolds, Mary Ellen Kay
Episode 17
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.
Guest stars Keith Thibodeaux, Robert Bice, Tristram Coffin, Gary Gray, Jess Kirkpatrick
Episode 18
With the best intentions in the world, Lucy somehow causes a misunderstanding with her neighbors, the Ramseys. It all starts when Betty Ramsey offers Lucy some advice and a wholesale deal on furniture. For a time, the Ricardos' whole future at their Connecticut home seems threatened.
Guest stars Parley Baer, Keith Thibodeaux, Mary Jane Croft, Frank Nelson, Ray Ferrell
Episode 19
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.
Directed by William AsherWritten by Bob Schiller, Bob WeiskopfGuest stars Keith Thibodeaux, Mary Jane Croft, Mary Alan Hokanson, Tyler McVey
Episode 20
Chicken-raising and practicing a tango for Little Ricky's school PTA meeting combine to get the Ricardos and the Mertzes in a verbal battle. It's up to Ricky, Jr. and his neighborhood pal Bruce Ramsey to straighten things out.
Directed by William AsherWritten by Bob Schiller, Bob WeiskopfGuest stars Keith Thibodeaux, Ray Ferrell
Episode 21
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.
Directed by William AsherWritten by Bob Schiller, Bob WeiskopfGuest stars Keith Thibodeaux
Episode 22
After spending six whole weeks in their new Connecticut home, Lucy dreams of a night in New York City and it turns into a nightmare. Four carefully hoarded tickets to the Broadway musical hit "The Most Happy Fella" are supposed to get the Ricardos and the Mertzes in to see the sold-out show. But difficulties arise when Fred Mertz gets nervous about pickpockets because he's carrying $500 in cash in his pockets.
Guest stars Louis Nicoletti, Keith Thibodeaux, Joseph Kearns, Gladys Hurlbut, Doris Packer, John Eldredge, Jody Warner, Paul Power
Episode 23
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.
Directed by William AsherWritten by Bob Schiller, Bob WeiskopfGuest stars Keith Thibodeaux, Mary Jane Croft, Frank Nelson
Episode 24
Lucy has a problem deciding what to do to get her vacationing husband, Ricky, out of her hair so she can do her housework. She and Ethel solve the problem by putting their husbands to work building a barbecue.
Directed by William AsherWritten by Bob Schiller, Bob WeiskopfGuest stars Keith Thibodeaux
Episode 25
Lucy, Ethel, and Betty want their husbands to dance with their friends' visiting houseguest - until they see that she's a sultry, young blonde. Now the boys are only too happy to oblige - and the miffed wives decide to fight glamour with glamour.
Written by Bob Schiller, Bob WeiskopfGuest stars Keith Thibodeaux, Ruth Brady, Mary Jane Croft, Frank Nelson, Barbara Eden, Tristram Coffin
Episode 26
Suburban living gets Lucy into a flower-show competition, and she raises tulips with a vengeance as she tries to beat out her neighbor, Betty Ramsey, for first prize. Lucy asks Ricky to mow the lawn so that her garden will look just right. But he only mows half before taking off for a baseball game, leaving Lucy and Ethel to tiptoe through the tulips -- with the lawnmower.
Guest stars Keith Thibodeaux, Mary Jane Croft, Eleanor Audley, Peter Brocco
Episode 27
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.
Directed by William AsherWritten by Bob Schiller, Bob WeiskopfGuest stars Keith Thibodeaux, Desi Arnaz Jr.
Episode information updated Jul 24, 2026
Lucille BallLucy Ricardo
Desi ArnazRicky Ricardo
Vivian VanceEthel Mertz
William FrawleyFred Mertz
Tennessee Ernie FordErnie Ford
Peggy ReaClubwoman
Herb VigranJulie
Ross ElliottPublicity Man
CBSUnited States
Desilu ProductionsUnited States
