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| Episode 1 - [The Girls Want To Go To A Nightclub] |
| Details : An 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Oct. 15, 1951 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 2 - [Be A Pal] |
| Details : Thinking Ricky is losing interest in her Lucy follows the advice of a book Ethel gave her and takes up Ricky's hobbies. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Richard Reeves as Hank | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Oct. 22, 1951 |
| Episode 3 - [The Diet] |
| Details : To 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Marco Rizo as Marco (uncredited) | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Oct. 29, 1951 |
| Episode 4 - [Lucy Thinks Ricky Is Trying To Murder Her] |
| Details : After becoming too involved in a murder mystery book Lucy believes that Ricky is trying to murder her. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jerry Hausner as Jerry | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Nov. 05, 1951 |
| Episode 5 - [The Quiz Show] |
| Details : When Lucy needs to balance her household accounts she decides to go on quiz show. To win the $1000 cash prize she has to introduce her long lost first husband to Ricky. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Philip Ober as Arnold (uncredited) | Frank Nelson as Freddie Filmore | John Emery as Harold | Hazel Pierce as Mrs. Peterson (uncredited) | Lee Millar as Announcer (uncredited) | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Nov. 12, 1951 |
| Episode 6 - [The Audition] |
| Details : Ricky lands a TV audition at the club. When Buffo the Clown injures himself and cannot make it Lucy takes his place. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jess Oppenheimer as Network Sponsor #1 (uncredited) | Harry Ackerman as Network Sponsor #2 (uncredited) | Pat Moran as Buffo | Hal Hudson as Network Sponsor #3 (uncredited) | Bennett Green as Stage Hand | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Nov. 19, 1951 |
| Episode 7 - [The Séance] |
| Details : Lucy 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jay Novello as Mr. Meriweather (uncredited) | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Nov. 26, 1951 |
| Episode 8 - [Men Are Messy] |
| Details : Fed up with Ricky's messiness Lucy divides the Ricardo apartment in a clean part for her and a messy part for him. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Kenny Morgan as Kenny (uncredited) | Lewis Martin as Jim White (uncredited) | Hazel Boyne as Maggie (uncredited) | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Dec. 03, 1951 |
| Episode 9 - [The Fur Coat] |
| Details : Ricky 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Ben Welden as Thief (uncredited) | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Dec. 10, 1951 |
| Episode 10 - [Lucy Is Jealous Of Girl Singer] |
| Details : Lucy is jealous of one of Ricky's dancer at his nightclub after hearing about a gossip column item linking the two. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Helen Silver as Rosemary (uncredited) | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Dec. 17, 1951 |
| Episode 11 - [Drafted] |
| Details : When 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Vernon Dent as Santa Claus (uncredited) | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Dec. 24, 1951 |
| Episode 12 - [The Adagio] |
| Details : Lucy thinks she is a perfect fit for Ricky's Parisian apache dance number. But her dance teacher has more than dancing on his mind. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Shepard Menken as Jean Valjean Raymond | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Dec. 31, 1951 |
| Episode 13 - [The Benefit] |
| Details : Ethel 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Jan. 07, 1952 |
| Episode 14 - [The Amateur Hour] |
| Details : Lucy spends too much money on a dress. So she tells Ricky that she will get a job babysitting in order to pay for it. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Sammy Ogg as Jimmy Hudson (uncredited) | David Stollery as Timmy Hudson (uncredited) | Gail Bonney as Mrs. Hudson (uncredited) | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Jan. 14, 1952 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 15 - [Lucy Plays Cupid] |
| Details : The 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Edward Everett Horton as Mr. Ritter | Bea Benaderet as Miss Lewis | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Jan. 21, 1952 |
| Episode 16 - [Lucy Fakes Illness] |
| Details : Lucy pretends to suffer from numerous psychological ailments so that Ricky will feel sorry for her and let her go into show business. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Hal March as Hal March | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Jan. 28, 1952 |
| Episode 17 - [Lucy Writes A Play] |
| Details : Lucy 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Myra Marsh as Club Woman | Maury Thompson as Stage Manager | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Feb. 04, 1952 |
| Episode 18 - [Breaking The Lease] |
| Details : After 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Feb. 11, 1952 |
| Episode 19 - [The Ballet] |
| Details : Lucy learns that there is an opening in one of Ricky's acts for a ballet dancer as well as a burlesque comic. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Mary Wickes as Madame Le Mond | Frank J. Scannell as Burlesque Comic | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Feb. 18, 1952 |
| Episode 20 - [The Young Fans] |
| Details : A 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Richard Crenna as Arthur Morton | Janet Waldo as Peggy Dawson | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Feb. 25, 1952 |
| Episode 21 - [New Neighbors] |
| Details : Lucy 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : K.T. Stevens as Mrs. O'Brien | Hayden Rorke as Mr. O'Brien | Allen Jenkins as Policeman | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Mar. 03, 1952 |
| Episode 22 - [Fred And Ethel Fight] |
| Details : Fred 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Hazel Pierce as Soda Jerk (uncredited) | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Mar. 10, 1952 |
| Episode 23 - [The Moustache] |
| Details : Lucy 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : John Brown as Mr. Murdoch | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Mar. 17, 1952 |
| Episode 24 - [The Gossip] |
| Details : Ricky 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Bob Jellison as Milkman | Richard Reeves as Mr. Foster | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Mar. 24, 1952 |
| Episode 25 - [Pioneer Women] |
| Details : Having 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Florence Bates as Mrs. Pettebone | Ruth Perrott as Mrs. Pomerantz | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Mar. 31, 1952 |
| Episode 26 - [The Marriage License] |
| Details : Lucy 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Elizabeth Patterson as Mrs. Willoughby | Irving Bacon as Mr. Willoughby | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Apr. 07, 1952 |
| Episode 27 - [The Kleptomaniac] |
| Details : When 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Joseph Kearns as Doctor | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Apr. 14, 1952 |
| Episode 28 - [Cuban Pals] |
| Details : Lucy 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Lita Baron as Renita | Alberto Morin as Carlos | Rita Conde as Maria | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Apr. 21, 1952 |
| Episode 29 - [The Freezer] |
| Details : Where'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! |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Frank Sully as Delivery Man | Fred Aldrich as Butcher (uncredited) | Kay Wiley as Woman Shopper | Barbara Pepper as Woman Shopper | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Apr. 28, 1952 |
| Episode 30 - [Lucy Does A Tv Commercial] |
| Details : Desperate 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Ross Elliott as Director | Jerry Hausner as Joe | Maury Thompson as Script Clerk (uncredited) | Jess Oppenheimer as Sound Man (voice) (uncredited) | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : May. 05, 1952 |
| Episode 31 - [The Publicity Agent] |
| Details : Lucy poses as a princess for a publicity stunt. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Peter Leeds as Reporter | Bennett Green as Photographer | Richard Reeves as Assassin #1 | Gil Herman as Assassin #2 | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : May. 12, 1952 |
| Episode 32 - [Lucy Gets Ricky On The Radio] |
| Details : Lucy secretly books Ricky on a radio quiz show. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Frank Nelson as Freddie Filmore | Robert Ellis as Office Boy | Roy Rowan as Announcer | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : May. 19, 1952 |
| Episode 33 - [Lucy's Schedule] |
| Details : Ricky puts Lucy on a rigid time schedule. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Gale Gordon as Mr. Littlefield | Edith Meiser as Mrs. Littlefield | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : May. 26, 1952 |
| Episode 34 - [Ricky Thinks He Is Going Bald] |
| Details : Ricky 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Milton Parsons as Mr. Thurlow | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Jun. 02, 1952 |
| Episode 35 - [Ricky Asks For A Raise] |
| Details : Ricky 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Gale Gordon as Mr. Littlefield | Edith Meiser as Mrs. Littlefield | Maurice Marsac as Headwaiter | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Jun. 09, 1952 |