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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 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.
Directed by William AsherWritten by Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll Jr., Jess OppenheimerGuest stars Elvia Allman, Alvin Hurwitz, Amanda Milligan
Episode 2
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!
Directed by William AsherWritten by Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll Jr., Jess OppenheimerGuest stars Herb Vigran, Charles Victor
Episode 3
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.
Directed by Marc DanielsWritten by Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll Jr., Jess OppenheimerGuest stars Herb Vigran, Gloria Blondell, Richard Reeves
Episode 4
After Lucy snaps a pair of antique handcuffs on herself and Ricky, they realize there's no key. A locksmith is found, but not before the Ricardos go to bed handcuffed together, and Ricky has to do a TV show with his "attached" wife trying to upstage him.
Directed by Marc DanielsWritten by Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll Jr., Jess OppenheimerGuest stars Will Wright, Veola Vonn, Paul Dubov
Episode 5
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.
Directed by Marc DanielsWritten by Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll Jr., Jess OppenheimerGuest stars Myra Marsh
Episode 6
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.
Directed by William AsherWritten by Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll Jr., Jess Oppenheimer
Episode 7
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!
Directed by William AsherWritten by Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll Jr., Jess OppenheimerGuest stars Harry Bartell, Robert B. Williams, Moroni Olsen
Episode 8
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.
Directed by William AsherWritten by Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll Jr., Jess OppenheimerGuest stars Margie Liszt, Hans Conried, Florence Halop
Episode 9
Ricky's 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.
Directed by William AsherWritten by Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll Jr., Jess OppenheimerGuest stars Arthur Q. Bryan, Hazel Pierce, Helen Dickson, Barbara Pepper, Marco Rizo, Gertrude Astor
Episode 10
Lucy is delighted to learn she is pregnant-but how to tell Ricky? At lunch, he's too preoccupied with work to listen to her, then it's off to the club-where Lucy finds the right moment and just the right way to tell him.
Directed by William AsherWritten by Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll Jr., Jess OppenheimerGuest stars Richard Reeves, William Hamel
Episode 11
Lucy thinks Ricky cares more about the baby they're 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 he's lost interest in the baby.
Directed by William AsherWritten by Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll Jr., Jess OppenheimerGuest stars Bennett Green
Episode 12
Despite her pregnancy, Lucy wants to appear in Ricky's Gay Nineties revue at the Tropicana. After a disastrous audition, Lucy disguises herself and sneaks into the barbershop quartet number, and then proceeds to ruin it.
Directed by William AsherWritten by Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll Jr., Jess OppenheimerGuest stars Jerry Hausner, Pepito Pérez, Vernon Dent
Episode 13
Lucy hires an English tutor so that Ricky won't give their yet-to-be-born baby bad speaking habits. The lessons are free, but Lucy does promise the tutor a payback: he'll get to sing at the Tropicana. Of course, Lucy neglects to tell Ricky this.
Directed by William AsherWritten by Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll Jr., Jess OppenheimerGuest stars Hans Conried
Episode 14
Ricky develops "labor pains" because he is jealous of the attention being lavished on the expectant Lucy. So she decides to throw him a "daddy shower," which Fred turns into a "stag party," which Lucy and Ethel crash.
Directed by William AsherWritten by Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll Jr., Jess OppenheimerGuest stars Louis Merrill, Hazel Pierce, Jerry Hausner
Episode 15
Lucy decides to explore her artistic side and takes up sculpting.
Directed by William AsherWritten by Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll Jr., Jess OppenheimerGuest stars Paul Harvey, Leon Belasco, Shepard Menken
Episode 16
Ricky and the Mertzes rehearse for pregnant Lucy's trip to the hospital. It turns out to be predictably chaotic, but Lucy does deliver Little Ricky.
Directed by William AsherWritten by Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll Jr., Jess OppenheimerGuest stars Charles Lane, Barbara Pepper, Peggy Rea, Adele Longmire, Ruth Perrott, Hazel Pierce, Bennett Green, Ralph Montgomery
Episode 17
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 he'll return it-and ends up buying a refrigerator.
Directed by William AsherGuest stars Sheldon Leonard, Verna Felton
Episode 18
When no one laughs at her jokes or wants her to be their bridge partner, Lucy comes to the conclusion that she is inferior to everyone else. Worried by Lucy's behavior, Ricky goes to the psychiatrist (or "fizz-a-key-a-tryst" as Ricky pronounces it,) to find the remedy. But it turns out that this doctor's "remedy" isn't exactly what Ricky had in mind.
Directed by William AsherGuest stars Gerald Mohr
Episode 19
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 Knickerbocker's vote.
Directed by William AsherGuest stars Lurene Tuttle, Peggy Rea, Margie Liszt, Ida Moore, Doris Singleton
Episode 20
Lucy misses catching a book tossed to her by Ricky, and winds up with a black eye that Fred and Ethel are convinced was intentional. Trying to patch things up for the Ricardos, Fred sends Lucy flowers, but inadvertently uses his own name instead of Ricky's.
Directed by William AsherGuest stars Bennett Green
Episode 21
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.
Directed by William AsherGuest stars Frank Nelson, John Hart, Sally Corner, Phil Arnold
Episode 22
When a cranky tenant (Elizabeth Patterson, in her first appearance as Mrs. Trumble,) threatens to move because of Little Ricky's loud crying, Ethel makes it clear that her friendship with Lucy is more important than a rental agreement. But Ethel doesn't let the Ricardos forget her loyalty.
Directed by William AsherGuest stars Vivi Janiss, Charlotte Lawrence, Margie Liszt, Peggy Rea, June Whitley Taylor, Kay Wiley, Elizabeth Patterson
Episode 23
Lucy's 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.
Directed by William AsherGuest stars Verna Felton
Episode 24
Even the arrival of the baby hasn't dampened Lucy's showbiz aspirations. Wanting to get into the new Indian act at the Tropicana, Lucy pays off one of the performers and appears herself, carrying Little Ricky papoose-style on her back.
Directed by William AsherGuest stars Carol Richards, Frank Gerstle, Richard Reeves
Episode 25
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.
Directed by William AsherGuest stars Ransom M. Sherman, Byron Foulger, William Hamel, Elizabeth Patterson
Episode 26
Now that they have Little Ricky, Lucy insists they need more room, and wants to change apartments with one of the other tenants (Mrs. Benson.) She convinces a reluctant Ricky by cluttering their apartment with baby things and assorted junk.
Directed by William AsherWritten by Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll Jr., Jess OppenheimerGuest stars Norma Varden
Episode 27
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? He's a lingerie salesman, a fact that just might get her (and Ethel) into trouble when her matchmaking efforts inevitably backfire.
Directed by William AsherGuest stars Phil Arnold, Hal March, Peggy Rea, William Hamel, Doris Singleton
Episode 28
Lucy tries to hide some new furniture she bought without Ricky's permission in the kitchen. Discovering his wife's extravagant purchase, Ricky insists that Lucy pays for it from her allowance.
Directed by William Asher
Episode 29
Lucy fears that she and Ricky don't have enough in common, so she decides to pursue one of his interests: camping. Ricky and Fred don't 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?
Directed by William AsherGuest stars June Whitley Taylor, Doris Singleton
Episode 30
With Ricky and Fred glued to a TV fight, their wives go to the local cafe, where service is so slow that Lucy makes change for herself at the cash register and the girls are arrested. They finally prove their innocence and get home to husbands who didn't know they were gone.
Directed by William AsherGuest stars Frank Nelson, Lawrence Dobkin, Allen Jenkins
Episode 31
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.
Directed by William AsherGuest stars Herb Vigran, Elizabeth Patterson
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
