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| Episode 1 - [Job Switching] |
| Details : Ricky wants Lucy to try working for a week so she and Ethel get jobs at a candy factory where they are totally inept-especially at wrapping chocolates-due to a speeding conveyor belt that has them stuffing chocolates in their mouths blouses and hats. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Elvia Allman as Forewoman | Alvin Hurwitz as Mr. Snodgrass | Amanda Milligan as Chocolate Dipper | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Director : William Asher | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Sep. 15, 1952 |
| Episode 2 - [The Saxophone] |
| Details : When Lucy fails her saxophone audition for Ricky's band she tries to stop him from going on the road by pretending there's another man in her life. Ricky gets back at her by hiring several lovers and hiding them in Lucy's closet. But Lucy gets the last laugh in the end! |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Herb Vigran as Julie | Charles Victor as Man in Closet | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Director : William Asher | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Sep. 22, 1952 |
| Episode 3 - [The Anniversary Present] |
| Details : Lucy thinks that Ricky is pitching woo with a sophisticated neighbor. The woman is actually a jeweler who Ricky has commissioned to fashion a pearl necklace to surprise Lucy with on their anniversary. Lucy takes to spying before the deal can go down and almost loses out on her big surprise. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Herb Vigran as Julie | Gloria Blondell as Grace Foster | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Sep. 29, 1952 |
| Episode 4 - [The Handcuffs] |
| Details : After Lucy snaps a pair of antique handcuffs on herself and Ricky they realize there's no key. A locksmith is found but not before the Ricardos go to bed handcuffed together and Ricky has to do a TV show with his attached wife trying to upstage him. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Will Wright as Mr. Walters | Veola Vonn as Girl Emcee | Paul Dubov as Jerry | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Oct. 06, 1952 |
| Episode 5 - [The Operetta] |
| Details : Lucy's women's club wants to stage an operetta but they're completely broke. (Lucy the treasurer seems to have spent it all to pay her own bills.) Thus Lucy and Ethel write and star in the musical but when their postdated check bounces for the costumes and scenery the rental company repossesses everything in midperformance. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Myra Marsh as Club President | Director : Marc Daniels | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Oct. 13, 1952 |
| Episode 6 - [Vacation From Marriage] |
| Details : The Ricardos and the Mertzes take a week off from their in-a-rut marriages. But each spouse misses the other too much and despite a last-ditch attempt to make each other jealous they all decide that they'd rather be in a rut with their mates. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Director : William Asher | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Oct. 27, 1952 |
| Episode 7 - [The Courtroom] |
| Details : The Ricardos give the Mertzes a television set for their anniversary but Ricky's zealous tuning causes it to blow up. Fred retaliates by breaking the Ricardos' set (by kicking it!) The foursome end up in court where they manage to destroy the judge's TV too! |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Harry Bartell as Process Server | Robert B. Williams as Bailiff | Moroni Olsen as Judge | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Director : William Asher | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Nov. 10, 1952 |
| Episode 8 - [Redecorating] |
| Details : Waiting to find out if she has won a home furnishing contest Lucy won't leave the house much to Ricky's annoyance. He tells Fred to call her and say that she's won. In her joy Lucy sells all the old furniture leaving Ricky with the job of buying it back. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Margie Liszt as Woman #2 (voice) | Hans Conried as Mr. Jenkins | Florence Halop as Woman #1 (voice) | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Director : William Asher | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Nov. 24, 1952 |
| Episode 9 - [Ricky Loses His Voice] |
| Details : Ricky's laryngitis makes it impossible for him to perform in a big reopening show for the Tropicana. So Lucy substitutes herself the ex-vaudivillian Mertzes and a chorus line of middle-aged showgirls from the Flapper Follies of 1927. Look for Barbara Pepper as one of the showgirls. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Arthur Q. Bryan as Mr. Chambers | Hazel Pierce as Showgirl #1 | Helen Dickson as Showgirl #2 | Barbara Pepper as Showgirl #2 | Marco Rizo as Marco (uncredited) | Gertrude Astor as Showgirl #4 | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Director : William Asher | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Dec. 01, 1952 |
| Episode 10 - [Lucy Is Enceinte] |
| Details : Lucy tells Ricky she thinks that their child should learn all about being an artist. So Lucy then goes to the local art store where the ever-so-helpful clerk urges her to shape something out of a chunk of clay. She makes some sort of a blob and the clerk pretends that it's a masterpiece. This of course is all a ruse to sell her a bunch of clay. When Lucy gets home she wants Ricky to be a model for her new sculpture but he refuses. Ethel refuses too but Fred obliges. However he stands in one position for so long that he becomes stiff! Not to be overlooked is the fact that the sculpture Lucy has made of him isn't exactly very good. Ricky then tells her she cannot continue sculpting unless she impresses an art critic friend of his. Otherwise Lucy must agree to give up her sculpting aspirations. Lucy tries to make a bust of herself but she cannot cover her whole head in plaster. So she covers her head in powder and pokes it through a table. The critic loves the 'bust' so much he |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Richard Reeves as Electrician | William Hamel as Maitre D' | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Director : William Asher | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Dec. 08, 1952 |
| Episode 11 - [Pregnant Women Are Unpredictable] |
| Details : Ricky and the Mertzes rehearse for pregnant Lucy's trip to the hospital. It turns out to be predictably chaotic but Lucy does deliver Little Ricky. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Bennett Green as Deliveryman | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Director : William Asher | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Dec. 15, 1952 |
| Episode 12 - [Lucy's Showbiz Swan Song] |
| Details : Convinced his wife is a sucker for a sales pitch Ricky demands that she return the vaccum cleaner she bought from a door-to-door salesman. Instead she tries (unsuccessfully) to sell it. Ricky insists that he'll return it-and ends up buying a refrigerator. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jerry Hausner as Stage Manager | Pepito Pérez as Clown | Vernon Dent as Santa Claus (uncredited) | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Director : William Asher | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Dec. 22, 1952 |
| Episode 13 - [Lucy Hires An English Tutor] |
| Details : When no one laughs at her jokes or wants her to be their bridge partner Lucy comes to the conclusion that she is inferior to everyone else. Worried by Lucy's behavior Ricky goes to the psychiatrist (or fizz-a-key-a-tryst as Ricky pronounces it) to find the remedy. But it turns out that this doctor's remedy isn't exactly what Ricky had in mind. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Hans Conried as Mr. Livermore | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Director : William Asher | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Dec. 29, 1952 |
| Episode 14 - [Ricky Has Labor Pains] |
| Details : Because they both want to be president of the Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League Lucy and Ethel both engage in cut-throat competition. Prior to the elections Lucy and Ethel independently engage in a little spywork. It seems that half the club plans on voting for Lucy and the other half plans to vote for Ethel. But there is one undecided vote--that of the new member Ruth Knickerbocker. So Lucy and Ethel both go to extremes to sway Knickerbocker's vote. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Lou Merrill as Doctor | Hazel Pierce as Club Woman (uncredited) | Jerry Hausner as Jerry | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Director : William Asher | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Jan. 05, 1953 |
| Episode 15 - [Lucy Becomes A Sculptress] |
| Details : Lucy misses catching a book tossed to her by Ricky and winds up with a black eye that Fred and Ethel are convinced was intentional. Trying to patch things up for the Ricardos Fred sends Lucy flowers but inadvertedly uses his own name instead of Ricky's. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Paul Harvey as Art Critic | Leon Belasco as Clerk | Shepard Menken as Store Owner | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Director : William Asher | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Jan. 12, 1953 |
| Episode 16 - [Lucy Goes To The Hospital] |
| Details : Ricky is furious that his wife can't make up her mind and never finishes what she starts. To get even with Ricky Lucy decides to pick up where she left off with an old boyfriend but meeting her former beau after all these years turns out to be a major disappointment. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Charles Lane as Mr. Stanley | Barbara Pepper as Nurse | Peggy Rea as Nurse | Adele Longmire as Nurse | Ruth Perrott as Nurse | Hazel Pierce as Nurse | Bennett Green as Orderly | Ralph Montgomery as Policeman | William Hamel as Maitre D' | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Director : William Asher | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : Jan. 19, 1953 |
| Episode 17 - [Sales Resistance] |
| Details : Lucy is delighted to learn she is pregnant-but how to tell Ricky? At lunch he's too preoccupied with work to listen to her then it's off to the club-where Lucy finds the right moment and just the right way to tell him. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Sheldon Leonard as Harry Martin (uncredited) | Verna Felton as Mrs. Simpsons (uncredited) | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Jan. 26, 1953 |
| Episode 18 - [The Inferiority Complex] |
| Details : Lucy thinks Ricky cares more about the baby they're having than about her especially after he buys her presents like bonnets and rattles. But when he takes her out for a night on the town she thinks he's lost interest in the baby. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Gerald Mohr as Dr. Stewart | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Feb. 02, 1953 |
| Episode 19 - [The Club Election] |
| Details : Despite her pregnancy Lucy wants to appear in Ricky's Gay Nineties revue at the Tropicana. After a disastrous audition Lucy disguises herself and sneaks into the barbershop quartet number and then proceeds to ruin it. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Lurene Tuttle as Club President | Peggy Rea as Susan | Margie Liszt as Betty | Ida Moore as Ruth Knickerbocker | Doris Singleton as Carolyn | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Feb. 16, 1953 |
| Episode 20 - [The Black Eye] |
| Details : Lucy hires an English tutor so that Ricky won't give their yet-to-be-born baby bad speaking habits. The lessons are free but Lucy does promise the tutor a payback: he'll get to sing at the Tropicana. Of course Lucy neglects to tell Ricky this. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Bennett Green as Clerk | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Mar. 09, 1953 |
| Episode 21 - [Lucy Changes Her Mind] |
| Details : Whether it's getting dressed or ordering dinner at a restaurant Lucy seems unable to finish anything without changing her mind. Ricky loses his temper so Lucy tries to play a trick with an old unfinished love letter to a beau from high school. Fred warns Ricky of Lucy's plot and Lucy is soon in over her head. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Frank Nelson as Waiter | John Hart as Tom Henderson | Sally Corner as Woman in Fur Salon | Phil Arnold as Fur Salesman | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Mar. 30, 1953 |
| Episode 22 - [No Children Allowed] |
| Details : When a cranky tenant (Elizabeth Patterson in her first appearance as Mrs. Trumble) threatens to move because of Little Ricky's loud crying Ethel makes it clear that her friendship with Lucy is more important than a rental agreement. But Ethel doesn't let the Ricardos forget her loyalty. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Vivi Janiss as Clubwoman | Charlotte Lawrence as Clubwoman | Margie Liszt as Clubwoman | Peggy Rea as Clubwoman | June Whitley Taylor as Clubwoman | Kay Wiley as Clubwoman | Elizabeth Patterson as Mrs. Trumbull | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Apr. 20, 1953 |
| Episode 23 - [Lucy Hires A Maid] |
| Details : Lucy's sleepless nights with the new baby are exhausting so the Ricardos hire a maid. Unfortunately this new maid turns out to be a terrible shrew who takes better care of herself than of Lucy or the apartment. Unable to get the gumption to fire her Lucy wrecks the apartment hoping it will make the maid quit. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Verna Felton as Mrs. Porter | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Apr. 27, 1953 |
| Episode 24 - [The Indian Show] |
| Details : Even the arrival of the baby hasn't dampened Lucy's showbiz aspirations. Wanting to get into the new Indian act at the Tropicana Lucy pays off one of the performers and appears herself carrying Little Ricky papoose-style on her back. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Carol Richards as Juanita | Frank Gerstle as Indian #1 | Richard Reeves as Indian #2 | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : May. 04, 1953 |
| Episode 25 - [Lucy's Last Birthday] |
| Details : Convinced everyone has forgotten her birthday a forlorn Lucy sits on a park bench and meets up with a group of musical lost souls. To embarrass Ricky she brings them to the Tropicana only to discover that a surprise birthday party awaits her. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Ransom M. Sherman as Man in Park | Byron Foulger as Leader of Band | William Hamel as Headwaiter | Elizabeth Patterson as Mrs. Trumbull | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : May. 11, 1953 |
| Episode 26 - [The Ricardos Change Apartments] |
| Details : Now that they have Little Ricky Lucy insists they need more room and wants to change apartments with one of the other tenants (Mrs. Benson.) She convinces a reluctant Ricky by cluttering their apartment with baby things and assorted junk. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Norma Varden as Mrs. Benson | Richard Lee Simmons as Little Ricky (uncredited) | Ronald Lee Simmons as Little Ricky (uncredited) | Writer : Jess Oppenheimer | Director : William Asher | Writer : Bob Carroll Jr. | Writer : Madelyn Pugh | |
| Air Date : May. 18, 1953 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 27 - [Lucy Is Matchmaker] |
| Details : Lucy plays matchmaker when she meets a friend of the Mertzes (Hal March as Eddie) who happens to be an eligible bachelor. His line of work? He's a lingerie salesman a fact that just *might* get her (and Ethel) into trouble when her matchmaking efforts inevitably backfire. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Phil Arnold as Man in Hall | Hal March as Eddie Grant | Peggy Rea as Dorothy | William Hamel as Headwaiter | Doris Singleton as Carolyn | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : May. 25, 1953 |
| Episode 28 - [Lucy Wants New Furniture] |
| Details : Lucy tries to hide some new furniture she bought without Ricky's permission in the kitchen. Discovering his wife's extravagant purchase Ricky insists that Lucy pays for it from her allowance. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Jun. 01, 1953 |
| Episode 29 - [The Camping Trip] |
| Details : Lucy fears that she and Ricky don't have enough in common so she decides to pursue one of his interests: camping. Ricky and Fred don't want her (or Ethel for that matter) horning in on their summer retreat so Ricky decides to take Lucy on a trial run in the woods and make her life miserable. But Lucy is wise to his plan and guess whose life is made miserable in the end? |
| Guest Cast and Crew : June Whitley Taylor as Sally | Doris Singleton as Carolyn | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Jun. 08, 1953 |
| Episode 30 - [Ricky And Fred Are Tv Fans] |
| Details : Ricky and Fred are excited about watching a big fight on TV. Lucy and Ethel claim that they will have a wonderful time away from their husbands. While Ricky and Fred stay glued to the set Lucy and Ethel are mistaken for jewel thieves. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Frank Nelson as Desk Sergeant | Lawrence Dobkin as Counterman | Allen Jenkins as Policeman | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Jun. 22, 1953 |
| Episode 31 - [Never Do Business With Friends] |
| Details : The Ricardos sell their old washing machine to the Mertzes for $35. When it breaks down the next day the Mertzes want out of the deal. A tug-of-war ensues however when the Mertzes want the machine back after a repairman offers them $50 for it. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Herb Vigran as Joe | Elizabeth Patterson as Mrs. Trumbull | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Jun. 29, 1953 |