Episode 1
Ricky's 'Life' Story
25m8.5 / 10
Lucy is upset because a 'Life' magazine feature on Ricky's home life didn't include a picture of her.
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Directed by William AsherGuest stars Louis Nicoletti
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I Love Lucy
1951TV-G6 seasons7.9 / 10
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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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Synopsis
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 2
The Girls Go Into Business
24m8.5 / 10
Lucy and Ethel are all set to go into business when they buy a new dress shop. But what to call it? Ethelu's? Lucyeth's? Unfortunately, naming the shop isn't their only problem when they are unable to sell any dresses and must sell the shop.
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Directed by William AsherGuest stars Mabel Paige, Emory Parnell, Kay Wiley, Barbara Pepper
Episode 3
Lucy and Ethel Buy the Same Dress
26m9.0 / 10
Lucy and Ethel buy the same dress for the upcoming talent show for the Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League. True, they'll be doing a duet, and their number is Cole Porter's corny "Friendship" but wearing the same dress isn't exactly what they had in mind. Meanwhile, Lucy needs to persuade Ricky to host the show, so she decides to use a little reverse psychology.
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Directed by William AsherGuest stars Shirley Mitchell, Ruth Perrott, Doris Singleton
Episode 4
Equal Rights
26m9.0 / 10
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 Ethel's careers as restaurant dishwashers. So they plot revenge: they'll scare their husbands by claiming to have been robbed.
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Directed by William AsherGuest stars Lawrence Dobkin, Fred Aldrich, Richard Reeves, Louis Nicoletti
Episode 5
Baby Pictures
26m8.5 / 10
The Ricardos and the Applebys always brag to each other about their little sons. But when Lucy's and Caroline Appeby's exchanges turn hostile and sarcastic, Ricky worries that it will jeopardize a TV job that's been offered to him by Caroline's husband.
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Directed by William AsherGuest stars Hy Averback, Doris Singleton
Episode 6
Lucy Tells the Truth
25m9.0 / 10
Ricky and the Mertzes bet Lucy that she can't 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.
Episode credits
Directed by William AsherGuest stars Shirley Mitchell, Mario Siletti, Doris Singleton, Charles Lane
Episode 7
The French Revue
26m8.5 / 10
Ricky is planning a French revue for the club, and since Lucy is determined to be in it, she hires a Frenchman to coach her. When Ricky forbids her to come near the place, she tries various disguises, and finally succeeds as a chorus girl.
Episode credits
Directed by William AsherGuest stars Alberto Morin, Fred Aldrich, Richard Reeves, Louis Nicoletti
Episode 8
Redecorating the Mertzes' Apartment
26m8.5 / 10
It's 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.
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Directed by William Asher
Episode 9
Too Many Crooks
25m9.0 / 10
Lucy sneaks into the Mertzes' apartment to borrow one of Fred's suits so that she can order him a custom-made tweed suit for his birthday. This leads Ethel to think that Lucy is the notorious neighborhood burglar, "Madame X", and she goes spying on her friend to prove it.
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Directed by William AsherGuest stars Alice Wills, Allen Jenkins, Elizabeth Patterson
Episode 10
Changing the Boys' Wardrobe
24m8.5 / 10
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.
Episode credits
Directed by William AsherGuest stars Oliver Blake, Alberto Calderone, Lee Millar, Paul Power, Jerry Hausner
Episode 11
Lucy Has Her Eyes Examined
26m8.5 / 10
Lucy finally gets her chance to be in show business, when she tricks Ricky into letting her do the "Jitterbug" in one of his shows. She's terrific during rehearsals, but problems occur when Lucy accompanies Ricky (who's been suffering from headaches) to the eye doctor just before the show. There, the doctor decides to examine Lucy's eyes, as well. He puts some eyedrops in Lucy's eyes which "relaxes" them, but Lucy's vision is blurry for the next twenty four hours. Naturally, this causes problems since Lucy has to perform that night.
Episode credits
Directed by William AsherGuest stars Dayton Lummis, Arthur Walsh, Shepard Menken
Episode 12
Ricky's Old Girlfriend
25m8.5 / 10
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.
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Directed by William AsherGuest stars Rosa Turich, Jerry Hausner, Lillian Molieri
Episode 13
The Million Dollar Idea
26m9.0 / 10
The Ricardo household budget is in shambles (as usual) after Lucy decides to put her salad dressing on the market. Her plan? To market it on a TV morning show on the station her friend Caroline Appleby's husband runs. Home economist Mary Margaret McMertz (Ethel) will invite "an average housewife," (Lucy) to taste the dressing on the air.
Episode credits
Directed by William AsherGuest stars Frank Nelson
Episode 14
Ricky Minds the Baby
25m8.5 / 10
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.
Episode credits
Directed by William Asher
Episode 15
The Charm School
26m9.0 / 10
It's time for charm school for Lucy and Ethel when their men eye a pretty woman at a party. But Ricky and Fred are anything but charmed by the results.
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Directed by William AsherGuest stars Natalie Schafer, Tyler McVey, Maurice Hill, Vivi Janiss, Eve Whitney
Episode 16
Sentimental Anniversary
26m9.0 / 10
Lucy and Ricky want to spend their 13th wedding anniversary alone, but the Mertzes have another idea: a surprise party.
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Directed by William AsherGuest stars Hazel Pierce
Episode 17
Fan Magazine Interview
26m8.5 / 10
A reporter for a fan magazine, Eleanor Harris, spends an "average day" with the Ricardos. Of course, it's anything BUT average for the happily married couple. And they might not be one so happily married, thanks to a publicity stunt that Ricky's agent Jerry has cooked up.
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Directed by William AsherGuest stars Kathryn Card, Jerry Hausner, Joan Banks, Elvia Allman, Hazel Boyne
Episode 18
Oil Wells
25m8.5 / 10
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.
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Directed by William AsherGuest stars Sandra Gould, Ken Christy, Harry Cheshire
Episode 19
Ricky Loses His Temper
26m9.0 / 10
Ricky explodes when Lucy buys an expensive hat. She offers to return it, and bets him he'll lose his cool over something else before she buys another hat. But no matter what she does to provoke him, the hot-tempered Cuban remains unruffled.
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Directed by William AsherGuest stars Madge Blake, Byron Kane, Max Terhune
Episode 20
Home Movies
26m9.0 / 10
Ricky's 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 that's not to mixed up with a TV pilot Ricky's making, is it?
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Directed by William AsherGuest stars Stanley Farrar
Episode 21
Bonus Bucks
26m9.0 / 10
A dollar bill takes a zany trip-with the Ricardos and Mertzes in hot pursuit. It's a winning bill (worth $300) in a newspaper contest. It belongs to Ricky, but he gallantly slips it into Lucy's purse. Gallant isn't necessarily smart: Lucy unthinkingly gives the bill to the grocery delivery boy-who gives it to Ethel in change. The wild ride has only begun!
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Directed by William AsherGuest stars John Frank, Frank Jaquet, Tony Michaels, Patsy Moran, Don Garner, Bennett Green
Episode 22
Ricky's Hawaiian Vacation
26m8.5 / 10
Ricky's band is to play in Hawaii-and guess who wants to go also? Lucy's 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 show's host, Freddie Fillmore, a prankster par excellence.
Episode credits
Directed by William AsherGuest stars Frank Nelson
Episode 23
Lucy Is Envious
25m8.5 / 10
Lucy's past fibs to her rich and snotty ex-schoolmate are about to catch up with her when she unwittingly pledges $500 to a charity drive. In order to come up with the money, she and Ethel agree to a publicity stunt that puts them on top of the Empire State Building posing as women from Mars.
Episode credits
Directed by William AsherGuest stars Mary Jane Croft, Herb Vigran, Dick Elliott, Kay Wiley, Louis Nicoletti
Episode 24
Lucy Writes a Novel
26m8.5 / 10
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.
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Directed by William AsherGuest stars Pierre Watkin, Dayton Lummis, Bennett Green
Episode 25
Lucy's Club Dance
25m8.5 / 10
The Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League forms a quintet (with Lucy on sax) as a fundraiser. It's no way to raise money (Ethel likens Lucy's sound to a "moose with a head cold"). Maybe bandleader Ricky can whip them into shape--but first, Lucy has some persuading to do.
Episode credits
Directed by William AsherGuest stars Shirley Mitchell, Doris Singleton
Episode 26
The Black Wig
26m8.5 / 10
Lucy plays a black-wigged temptress to test Ricky's fidelity. The result makes makes her see red so she schemes to get even. But she won't divorce him. Ethel agrees: "Yeah, stay married to him," she says. "That'll teach him."
Episode credits
Directed by William AsherGuest stars Douglas Evans, Bennett Green, Eve McVeagh, Louis Nicoletti
Episode 27
The Diner
26m9.0 / 10
The Ricardos and the Mertzes buy a diner, name it "A Little Bit of Cuba" and go to work. Well, the Mertzes go to work; the Ricardos "greet." Not surprisingly, relations are soon strained. Can a food fight be far behind?
Episode credits
Directed by William AsherGuest stars James Burke, Fred Sherman, Don Garner, Joe Miller
Episode 28
Tennessee Ernie Visits
26m8.5 / 10
The corn starts popping when Tennessee Ernie Ford comes to visit in Part 1 of a two-part episode. He's Lucy's "Cousin" Ernest, an earnest young man from Bent Fork, Tenn., who knows nothing of city ways and is inadvertently infuriating. He's got to go but he's so sweet that they can't just throw him out. What to do? Lucy will pose as a wicked city woman, and "vamp" him out of town.
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Directed by Marc DanielsGuest stars Tennessee Ernie Ford
Episode 29
Tennessee Ernie Hangs On
26m8.5 / 10
Lucy gets sick of an extensive visit by Tennessee Ernie, who claims he is her cousin. She tries to get rid of the likeable character by pleading poverty. The scheme backfires when Tennessee Ernie promotes a benefit hoedown to assist Lucy and Ricky. Look for "Ernie Ford and His Four Hot Chicken Pickers" in this episode.
Episode credits
Directed by William AsherGuest stars Tennessee Ernie Ford, Richard Reeves
Episode 30
The Golf Game
26m9.0 / 10
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.
Episode credits
Directed by William AsherGuest stars Jimmy Demaret, George Pierrone, Louis Nicoletti
Episode 31
The Sublease
26m8.5 / 10finale
The Ricardos are off to Maine for the summer, so they decide to sublet their apartment. Their landlords, the Mertzes, don't like the idea, and like the potential tenants even less. Nor are they wild about their new roommates.
Episode credits
Directed by William AsherGuest stars Jay Novello, Virginia Brissac
Episode information updated Jul 24, 2026
More about I Love Lucy
Cast
Lucille BallLucy Ricardo
Desi ArnazRicky Ricardo
Vivian VanceEthel Mertz
William FrawleyFred Mertz
Tennessee Ernie FordErnie Ford
Peggy ReaClubwoman
Herb VigranJulie
Ross ElliottPublicity ManCredits
- Created by
- Bob Carroll Jr., Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh
- Written by
- Jess Oppenheimer, Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh, Bob Weiskopf, Bob Schiller
Production details
- Status
- Ended
- Series type
- Scripted
- Episodes
- 180
- Original language
- English
Networks & production
CBSUnited States
Desilu ProductionsUnited States
Themes
bandleaderfriendshipgrandhousewifehusband wife relationshipneighbornew york citynightclub entertainer
