Episodes
Episode 1 Aired Oct 15, 1951 The Girls Want to Go to a Nightclub Lucy and Ethel disguise themselves as hillbillies when the men and women can't decide how to celebrate the Mertzes' 18th wedding anniversary. Details Episode 2 Aired Oct 22, 1951 Be a Pal Lucy believes Ricky is losing interest in her. Ethel finds a book that offers suggestions such as: dressing up for breakfast, taking up her husband's hobbies, and surrounding their apartment with things that remind her husband of his childhood. Details Episode 3 Aired Oct 29, 1951 The Diet The Ricardos and Mertzes discover they've put on a few pounds over the last few years. An unhappy Lucy talks Ricky into letting her audition for a show, and he tells her that she can have the part if she loses enough weight to fit the costume. Details Episode 4 Aired Nov 5, 1951 Lucy Thinks Ricky Is Trying to Murder Her Ethel uses a deck of cards to tell Lucy's fortune, and when the ace of spades ends up next to Lucy's cards, the redhead is shocked to find out it means death. After misconstruing Ricky's phone conversation, Lucy thinks Ricky is trying to kill her. Details Episode 5 Aired Nov 12, 1951 The Quiz Show After Ricky cuts off her allowance, Lucy goes on the radio show "Females Are Fabulous" to earn money; in order to win the money, she has to make Ricky believe she's been married before. Details Episode 6 Aired Nov 19, 1951 The Audition Lucy wants to be in Ricky's act when an injured Buffo the Clown arrives at her apartment; she performs a slapstick routine with Ricky and a cello, and impersonates a seal; everyone is shocked when a TV network offers her a contract. Details Episode 7 Aired Nov 26, 1951 The Seance To get on the good side of a producer who's interested in hiring Ricky -- and who also happens to be interested in numerology -- Lucy holds a seance, but she has to provide the voice for one of the spirits. Details Episode 8 Aired Dec 3, 1951 Men Are Messy Lucy is disgusted with Ricky's sloppy ways; she splits the apartment into two parts so she can have a clean side. When a photographer is scheduled to arrive to take pictures of Ricky, she tries to teach Ricky a lesson by making the whole house messy. Details Episode 9 Aired Dec 10, 1951 The Fur Coat Ricky brings home a mink coat he'll use in his show and Lucy thinks it's for her. When Lucy finds out that Ricky arranged for the coat to be stolen from their apartment, she gets even by cutting up a fake fur in front of him. Details Episode 10 Aired Dec 17, 1951 Lucy Is Jealous of Girl Singer Lucy reads in the paper that Ricky is interested in a chorus girl. After Lucy finds a dancer's black lace in Ricky's pocket -- which he put there during a rehearsal -- Lucy decides to work her way into Ricky's show to see what he's doing. Details Episode 11 Aired Dec 24, 1951 Drafted The girls begin knitting socks for Ricky and Fred, who they believe have been drafted and are heading to war. The men think that the knitting means the girls are pregnant. They wind up arranging surprise parties for each other on the same night. Details Episode 12 Aired Dec 31, 1951 The Adagio Ethel finds someone to teach Lucy an Apache dance that she wants to perform in Ricky's show. The dance instructor thinks he should also be romantic to American women. When Lucy rejects his advances, he challenges Ricky to a duel. Details Episode 13 Aired Jan 7, 1952 The Benefit Ethel wants Ricky to be in her benefit show, but Lucy insists that the only way to get Ricky is to let her be in it too. Ricky chooses a song for Lucy to sing, but selects one that has jokes in it where Ricky gets all the punch lines. Details Episode 14 Aired Jan 14, 1952 The Amateur Hour Lucy takes a job as a babysitter for a pair of mischievous twins. Their mother asks that Lucy be in a talent show with the boys and, if they win, she can keep the prize money. Lucy and the boys sing with a little dancing helped by a pet frog. Details Episode 15 Aired Jan 21, 1952 Lucy Plays Cupid Lucy tries to arrange a match between a love-starved old lady (Bea Benaderet) and a giddy grocery man (Edward Everett Horton), but in her efforts to play Cupid, Lucy gives the grocer the idea that she has a crush on him. Details Episode 16 Aired Jan 28, 1952 Lucy Fakes Illness Lucy finally finds what she believes to be the perfect solution for getting into show business. After Ethel gives her a book about psychological diseases, Lucy pretends to suffer from numerous ailments so that Ricky will feel sorry for her. Details Episode 17 Aired Feb 4, 1952 Lucy Writes a Play When Ricky refuses to appear in Lucy's play "A Tree Grows in Havana," she rewrites it as "The Perils of Pamela." Ricky learns that a Hollywood producer will see the show, so he appears onstage dressed for the original version of Lucy's play. Details Episode 18 Aired Feb 11, 1952 Breaking the Lease The two couples have a fun evening singing until the Mertzes go home and hear the Ricardos still singing in the apartment above. Arguments occur between the friends and, to break out of their lease, the Ricardos invite Ricky's band over to play. Details Episode 19 Aired Feb 18, 1952 The Ballet When Lucy 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 disastrous results. Details Episode 20 Aired Feb 25, 1952 Young Fans Young Peggy Dawson and teenager Arthur Morton (Richard Crenna) fall madly in love, unfortunately, with Ricky and Lucy. To discourage the young kids, the Ricardos age themselves to such a state that the two teens flee from the apartment. Details Episode 21 Aired Mar 3, 1952 New Neighbors 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. Details Episode 22 Aired Mar 10, 1952 Fred and Ethel Fight Lucy tries to re-unite Fred and Ethel after their fight, by inviting them both to dinner, without telling each of them that the other is invited. As they make up over dinner, Lucy and Ricky argue and Lucy pretends that she was run over by a bus. Details Episode 23 Aired Mar 17, 1952 The Mustache Ricky won't shave off his mustache for Lucy so she glues on a beard in retaliation, using liquid cement by mistake. When a movie producer visits and enjoys Lucy's veiled Arabian dance, she is stuck when he asks to see her face. Details Episode 24 Aired Mar 24, 1952 The Gossip When Ricky tells Lucy to quit gossiping, she acts out -- rather than tells -- some gossip to Ethel about Betty and her husband, Jack. The boys bet the girls to see who can prevent themselves from gossiping the longest. Details Episode 25 Aired Mar 31, 1952 Pioneer Women Ricky and Fred can't believe how pampered their wives are. They think women have it easy in their day and age, and that Lucy and Ethel couldn't survive living at the turn of the century like their grandmothers. Details Episode 26 Aired Apr 7, 1952 The Marriage License Lucy finds a mistake on her marriage license and goes to City Hall to fix it. Fred has a friend at the license bureau, so Ricky has them jokingly revoke the license. Lucy insists that she and Ricky recreate their wedding exactly as it happened. Details Episode 27 Aired Apr 14, 1952 Kleptomaniac 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. Details Episode 28 Aired Apr 21, 1952 Cuban Pals 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. Details Episode 29 Aired Apr 28, 1952 The Freezer Lucy and Ethel decide to make some extra money by buying a used, walk-in freezer. When they unwittingly buy 700 pounds of beef, they try to sell it to customers at the butcher shop. Lucy later finds herself locked in the freezer. Details Episode 30 Aired May 5, 1952 Lucy Does a TV Commercial Lucy gets a job in a TV commercial by telling the chosen actress that another girl's been hired; at the studio, Lucy rehearses tasting spoonfuls of the product, "Vitameatavegamin," but the contents of the product contain far too much alcohol. Details Episode 31 Aired May 12, 1952 Publicity Agent Lucy thinks Ricky could use some added publicity in the society columns, so she poses as visiting royalty. She disguises herself as the Maharincess of Franistan who has traveled halfway around the world to see her singing idol, Ricky Ricardo. Details Episode 32 Aired May 19, 1952 Lucy Gets Ricky on the Radio Ricky misleads Lucy into thinking he knows all the answers to a radio quiz show; she gets them booked onto the next broadcast. When Ricky reveals the truth, Lucy tries to sneak a peek at the questions in advance but things backfire on her scheme. Details Episode 33 Aired May 26, 1952 Lucy's Schedule After taking so long to get dressed that they miss a dinner with his new boss, Ricky puts Lucy on a strict schedule. On a follow-up dinner with Ricky's boss and his wife, the women give the men a taste of what it's like to be on a schedule. Details Episode 34 Aired Jun 2, 1952 Ricky Thinks He's Going Bald Ricky is horrified to notice his hair-line is receding; Lucy tries a number of unorthodox treatments in order to convince Ricky that the products and treatments aren't worth the worry about his hair. Details Episode 35 Aired Jun 9, 1952 Ricky Asks for a Raise 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. Details
