My favorite I Love Lucy Episodes
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- 1951–195730mTV-Y8.1 (619)TV EpisodeDirectorMarc DanielsStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceAfter becoming too involved in a murder mystery book, Lucy believes that Ricky is trying to murder her.
- DirectorMarc DanielsStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceAnnoyed at Ricky's messiness, Lucy divides the apartment into two halves: one for each of them to live in.
- DirectorMarc DanielsStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceLucy is so frustrated that Ricky won't let her go into show business, she fakes being mentally ill. When Ricky finds out, he hires an actor to play a doctor and tell her she's really very sick and needs an operation.
- DirectorMarc DanielsStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceLucy enters a playwriting competition, hoping to cast Ricky, but has to settle for Fred, and rewrites. But when Ricky learns a movie producer will be judging the plays, he takes over for Fred, not knowing the script's been changed.
- DirectorMarc DanielsStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceThe Ricardos try to break their lease after a fight with the Mertzes.
- DirectorMarc DanielsStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceLucy and Ricky try to deal with youthful admirers.
- DirectorMarc DanielsStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceLucy thinks the new neighbors are plotting a murder.
- DirectorMarc DanielsStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceThe boys and girls bet each other breakfast in bed for a month that they can't stop gossiping.
- DirectorMarc DanielsStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceThe girls revolt over housework and want modern conveniences. The boys bet that they can survive longer than the girls without using anything invented after 1900, including electricity.
- DirectorMarc DanielsStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceLucy is the chairman of a bazaar for her club, but doesn't tell Ricky. When he finds all the cash and donations hidden in the apartment, he accuses her of being a compulsive thief.
- DirectorMarc DanielsStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceThe gang listens to a quiz show on the radio and Ricky answers all of the questions right. This inspires Lucy to get Ricky and herself on the show.
- DirectorMarc DanielsStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceAfter Lucy causes them to be late for dinner with Ricky's new boss, he puts her on a tight schedule.
- DirectorMarc DanielsStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceAfter Ricky loses his job when he asks for a raise, Lucy comes up with a plan to demonstrate to his boss how important he is.
- DirectorMarc DanielsStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceThe Ricardos and Mertzes perform in an operetta for a club benefit.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceLucy and Ethel are both sick of their furniture, so they enter a contest where the grand prize is five rooms of new furniture.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceRicky gets a sore throat just before a show for the new owner of the Tropicana.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceWhen Lucy learns that she's going to have a baby, she tries to find the right way to tell this to Ricky.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceLucy is worried that their unborn child will someday ask a lot of difficult questions, so she hires a tutor to teach her, Ricky, and the Mertzes.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceLucy has her baby.
- DirectorMarc DanielsStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceLucy and Ethel run against each other for President of their women's club.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceRicky and the Mertzes recall when Ricky accidentally gave Lucy a black eye.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceWhen Ricky gets upset about Lucy constantly changing her mind and never finishing anything, he tells her she has to finished everything she starts. When she finds an old, incomplete love letter to a former boyfriend, she decides to finish it.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceLucy has a difficult night with Little Ricky crying constantly. A neighbor, Mrs Trumbull complains and says the lease does not allow children. Ethel says the lease does not matter because the Ricardos can stay.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceLucy tries everything to convince Ricky to let them move to a bigger apartment.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceThe girls get fed up with the boys watching the fights on television. They try to do something to distract them and end up getting arrested.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceLucy and Ethel demand to be treated as if they were men, so Ricky and Fred do just that.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceLucy and Ricky agree that they will not be the kind of parents that force everyone to look at their baby pictures. They find it hard to do when their friends the Applebys come over bragging about their son Little Stevie.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceWhen Ricky and the Mertzes wager that Lucy can't go a full day without telling a lie, her husband and friends feel more than a bit stung by her unabashed honesty.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceLucy is suspected of being the mysterious woman burglar, Madame X.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceThe girls decide they are tired of Ricky and Fred wearing the same old worn out clothes at home and decide to make some changes.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceLucy and Ethel go into business making salad dressing based on Lucy's Aunt Martha's recipe. Their advertising on a local TV show looks like a success, but when Ricky finds that they're losing money on each jar, the girls have to find a way to get their customers to cancel their orders.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceEthel and Lucy are upset that Ricky and Fred don't seem interested in them. After seeing how they react to a friend's beautiful and poised date, they enroll in charm school.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceThe gang buys oil stock from new neighbors who claim to be Texas oil tycoons.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceWhen an advertiser agrees to make a pilot for a potential music TV show starring Ricky only, Lucy, Ethel, and Fred make a movie of their own.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceLucy's novel - a thinly disguised story of her life and the people in it - upsets Ricky, Fred, and Ethel.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceCousin Ernie visits the Ricardos and won't leave. Lucy gets creative trying to find a way to get him to go home.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceLucy pretends she and Ricky have gone broke to get Tennessee Ernie Ford to leave.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceAfter Lucy buys Ricky a set of golf clubs for their anniversary, the girls regret it when he and Fred become obsessed with the game.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceAfter Lucy gets several months behind in all the bills, Ricky hires a no-nonsense business manager who puts her on a strict budget. Lucy comes up with a scheme to get some extra money that soon has her rolling in cash.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VancePhipps Department Store offers Ricky a job as a morning TV show host, but only if it includes Lucy as well.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceLucy unwittingly attacks the talent scout sent by a company that wants to cast Ricky in a movie.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceLucy sees Ricky's screen test as an opportunity to get discovered as a new movie star.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazWilliam FrawleyEveryone's on pins and needles waiting for the results of Ricky's screen test.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceThe Ricardos and Mertzes prepare for their trip to California where Ricky will be acting in a movie.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceLucy insists in learning to drive the new car so she can help with the driving on the way to California. After one bad lesson, she tries teaching Ethel how to drive. Ethel ends up wrecking the car before it has insurance.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceThe Ricardos and Mertzes begin their cross-country drive to California.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceWhen the gang is traveling through Ohio, they stop at a diner and motel run by a man who takes advantage of them.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceAfter getting lost and ending up south in Tennessee, the Ricardos and Mertzes get arrested for speeding and Tennessee Ernie Ford helped them escape, to continue their trip west, to California.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceThe gang arrives in Ethel's hometown of Albequerque, New Mexico, where the locals are under the impression that she, and not Ricky, has been hired to star in a Hollywood movie.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceWhen the Ricardos and the Mertzes arrive in Hollywood, Lucy goes to the Brown Derby restaurant where her sighting of William Holden turns catastrophic.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceWhen Variety reports that M-G-M has shelved its "Don Juan" movie, Lucy is afraid that she and the gang might have to leave Hollywood. She schemes to find a man to pretend to be a producer interested in Ricky, thinking this will convince studio head Dore Schary to put him in another film.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceLucy blackmails Ricky to get a role on a national TV show, but the part isn't exactly what she expected.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceAfter having a fight with Ricky and Fred, Lucy and Ethel go to Palm Springs. They meet Rock Hudson there, who helps get everyone back together.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceLucy is frustrated that Ricky is waiting in Hollywood while MGM tries to find a movie for him to star in. She pretends to be his new agent and confronts the MGM brass, saying he has an offer to do a big Broadway musical. Instead of putting him in a movie right away, MGM releases Ricky from his contract.
- DirectorJames V. KernStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceTo avoid bad publicity for the upcoming opening of his Don Juan movie Ricky calls Grauman's Chinese Theater to explain how John Wayne's footprints went missing. The manager of Grauman's promised not to call the police if the footprints were returned by that evening's opening of John Wayne's film Blood Alley (1955). Having broken them, that is obviously impossible, so Ricky convinces John Wayne to provide a new set of footprints.
- DirectorJames V. KernStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceOn the trip back to New York, Lucy learns a jewel thief's on their train.
- DirectorJames V. KernStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceThe Ricardos arrive home in New York where Ricky enjoys fame and adulation.
- DirectorJames V. KernStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceLucy wants to investigate her family history in Scotland.
- DirectorJames V. KernStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceLucy takes a huge block of cheese disguised as a baby on the flight home.
- 1951–195730mTV-Y7.9 (311)TV EpisodeDirectorJames V. KernStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceWhen Little Ricky shows a natural talent for the drums, Lucy and Ricky clash over whether he should be a professional drummer when he grows up.
- DirectorJames V. KernStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceLucy competes with her friend Carolyn Appleby over invitations and scheduling for Little Ricky's birthday party. When her husband Ricky mentions that Superman is in town, Lucy tries to get Superman to come to Little Ricky's party, sure that this will make it a much bigger draw than the one Carolyn is hosting. Ricky tries, but Superman can't make the party. So Lucy disguises herself as Superman, but gets herself into great peril. Fortunately, the real Superman does show up to save the day.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceAfter spending an idyllic weekend in Connecticut with friends, Lucy decides she wants to change her surroundings entirely.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceHabitual tenants, Lucy and Ricky have second thoughts about the purchase of their new Connecticut home.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceAfter years of living side by side, the Ricardos leave the Mertzes, after a bittersweet departure, and begin their new life in the suburbs.
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceWhere's the fire in pastoral Connecticut? Look no further than the country club and the sexy siren, whose presence sets off all manner of alarms.