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I Love Lucy
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.
- Created by:
- Bob Carroll Jr., Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh
- Cast:
- Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, William Frawley
- Language:
- English
- Country:
- United States of America
- Network:
- CBS
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Season 1
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E01
Episode 1
★ 7.6The Girls Want to Go to a Nightclub
1951-10-15 · 23mAn argument ensues among the couples when Ethel wants to celebrate the Mertzes's anniversary at the Copacabana while Fred wants to attend the fights. Ethel and Lucy decide that they will go to the club with dates.
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E02
Episode 2
★ 7.8Be a Pal
1951-10-22 · 23mThinking Ricky is losing interest in her, Lucy follows the advice of a book Ethel gave her and takes up Ricky's hobbies.
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E03
Episode 3
★ 8.2The Diet
1951-10-29 · 23mTo her dismay, Lucy finds out that she's put on twenty-two pounds since marrying Ricky. When one of the girls in Ricky's new show quits, she tricks him into promising, she can be in the show if she fits into the dancer's size twelve costume.
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E04
Episode 4
★ 8.0Lucy Thinks Ricky Is Trying to Murder Her
1951-11-05 · 23mAfter becoming too involved in a murder mystery book, Lucy believes that Ricky is trying to murder her.
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E05
Episode 5
★ 7.5The Quiz Show
1951-11-12 · 23mWhen Lucy needs to balance her household accounts, she decides to go on quiz show. To win the $1,000 cash prize, she has to introduce her "long lost first husband" to Ricky.
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E06
Episode 6
★ 7.5The Audition
1951-11-19 · 23mRicky lands a TV audition at the club. When Buffo the Clown injures himself and cannot make it, Lucy takes his place.
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E07
Episode 7
★ 7.0The Séance
1951-11-26 · 23mLucy tells an important talent agent that Ricky cannot appear in a show because of his horoscope. The agent is also interested in the occult. So Lucy arranges a séance.
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E08
Episode 8
★ 6.8Men Are Messy
1951-12-03 · 23mFed up with Ricky's messiness, Lucy divides the Ricardo apartment in a clean part for her and a messy part for him.
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E09
Episode 9
★ 6.8The Fur Coat
1951-12-10 · 23mRicky returns home with expensive mink coat that he has rented for an act at the club. Lucy jumps to the conclusion that it's her anniversary present.
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E10
Episode 10
★ 7.8Lucy Is Jealous of Girl Singer
1951-12-17 · 24mLucy is jealous of one of Ricky's dancer at his nightclub after hearing about a gossip column item linking the two.
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E11
Episode 11
★ 7.2Drafted
1951-12-24 · 23mWhen Lucy opens Ricky's a telegram ordering him to appear at Fort Dix, she assumes that he has been drafted. Ethel suspects that Fred has been drafted as well when she hears, Fred is joining Ricky.
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E12
Episode 12
★ 7.2The Adagio
1951-12-31 · 25mLucy thinks she is a perfect fit for Ricky's Parisian apache dance number. But her dance teacher has more than dancing on his mind.
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E13
Episode 13
★ 7.4The Benefit
1952-01-07 · 26mEthel 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.
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E14
Episode 14
★ 8.2The Amateur Hour
1952-01-14 · 26mLucy spends too much money on a dress. So she tells Ricky that she will get a job babysitting in order to pay for it.
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E15
Episode 15
★ 8.0Lucy Plays Cupid
1952-01-21 · 26mThe Ricardo's neighbor Miss Lewis wants Lucy to deliver a dinner invitation to her grocer. But he misunderstands and thinks the invitation is from Lucy herself.
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E16
Episode 16
★ 7.8Lucy Fakes Illness
1952-01-28 · 26mLucy pretends to suffer from numerous psychological ailments so that Ricky will feel sorry for her and let her go into show business.
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E17
Episode 17
★ 6.2Lucy Writes a Play
1952-02-04 · 26mLucy writes a play set in Cuba hoping to cast Ricky, But when he refuses, she has to settle for Fred and changes her setting to England.
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E18
Episode 18
★ 6.8Breaking the Lease
1952-02-11 · 26mAfter a big quarrel between the Ricardos and the Mertzes, Lucy and Ricky decide that they want to move out. Ricky and Lucy become the most undesirable tenants ever so that they can break that lease, while the Fred and Ethel resist.
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E19
Episode 19
★ 7.2The Ballet
1952-02-18 · 26mLucy learns that there is an opening in one of Ricky's acts for a ballet dancer as well as a burlesque comic.
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E20
Episode 20
★ 7.5The Young Fans
1952-02-25 · 26mA 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.
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E21
Episode 21
★ 7.8New Neighbors
1952-03-03 · 25mLucy becomes afraid that one of her new neighbors is threatening to kill her and convinces the others that the neighbors are trying to kill them...which gets them into big trouble.
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E22
Episode 22
★ 7.8Fred and Ethel Fight
1952-03-10 · 26mFred 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.
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E23
Episode 23
★ 7.8The Moustache
1952-03-17 · 26mLucy 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.
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E24
Episode 24
★ 8.2The Gossip
1952-03-24 · 25mRicky 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.
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E25
Episode 25
★ 7.8Pioneer Women
1952-03-31 · 25mHaving been bet by their husbands that they can't do without modern conveniences, Lucy and Ethel churn butter and bake bread from scratch-an eighteen foot loaf! But then Lucy demands that Ricky live as if it's the turn of the century for him, too.
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E26
Episode 26
★ 7.0The Marriage License
1952-04-07 · 25mLucy 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.
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E27
Episode 27
★ 7.5The Kleptomaniac
1952-04-14 · 24mWhen Ricky finds a closet full of valuables that Lucy has collected for a bazaar, he mistakenly thinks that she's become a kleptomaniac. He secretly calls in a doctor to hypnotize her, but Lucy is wise to his plan and feigns recalling a notorious past.
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E28
Episode 28
★ 6.5Cuban Pals
1952-04-21 · 24mLucy burns with jealousy when she gets an eyeful of Ricky's dance parter Renita (Lita Baron) from the "old days" in Cuba. She was a child then, but no more! Determined to keep them apart, Lucy heads to the club in disguise, and finds herself in the clutches of a wild man named Ramon.
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E29
Episode 29
★ 8.0The Freezer
1952-04-28 · 24mWhere'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!
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E30
Episode 30
★ 8.2Lucy Does a TV Commercial
1952-05-05 · 24mDesperate to be in Ricky's new television commercial, Lucy makes every attempt to get her way; which eventually pays off. But her one-and-only chance flops when she is forced to test the sponsor's product over-and-over, a vitamin syrup called Vitametavegimin, which is 25% alcohol.
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E31
Episode 31
★ 6.3The Publicity Agent
1952-05-12 · 24mLucy poses as a princess for a publicity stunt.
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E32
Episode 32
★ 6.7Lucy Gets Ricky on the Radio
1952-05-19 · 24mLucy secretly books Ricky on a radio quiz show.
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E33
Episode 33
★ 6.7Lucy's Schedule
1952-05-26 · 25mRicky puts Lucy on a rigid time schedule.
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E34
Episode 34
★ 6.7Ricky Thinks He Is Getting Bald
1952-06-02 · 25mRicky 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.
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E35
Episode 35
★ 7.7Ricky Asks for a Raise
1952-06-09 · 24mRicky asks for a raise, but his boss (Gale Gordon) turns him down, prompting Lucy to prove just how popular a performer he is. Her scheme involves making a lot of bogus reservations at the club on the night that somebody else is playing, then show up in various guises(including Fred in drag) feigning indignation that Ricky's not performing--and leave in a huff.
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Lucille Ball
Lucy Ricardo
Desi Arnaz
Ricky Ricardo
Vivian Vance
Ethel Mertz
William Frawley
Fred Mertz