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| Episode 1 - [Ricky's 'life' Story] |
| Details : Lucy is upset because a 'Life' magazine feature on Ricky's home life didn't include a picture of her. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Louis Nicoletti as Dance Coach | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Oct. 05, 1953 |
| Episode 2 - [The Girls Go Into Business] |
| Details : Lucy and Ethel are all set to go into business when they buy a new dress shop. But what to call it? Ethelu's? Lucyeth's? Unfortunately naming the shop isn't their only problem when they are unable to sell any dresses and must sell the shop. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Mabel Paige as Mrs. Hansen | Emory Parnell as Policeman | Kay Wiley as Woman Shopper | Barbara Pepper as Woman Shopper | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Oct. 12, 1953 |
| Episode 3 - [Lucy And Ethel Buy The Same Dress] |
| Details : Lucy and Ethel buy the same dress for the upcoming talent show for the Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League. True they'll be doing a duet and their number is Cole Porter's corny Friendship but wearing the same dress isn't exactly what they had in mind. Meanwhile Lucy needs to persuade Ricky to host the show so she decides to use a little reverse psychology. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Shirley Mitchell as Marion | Ruth Perrott as Club Woman | Doris Singleton as Carolyn | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Oct. 19, 1953 |
| Episode 4 - [Equal Rights] |
| Details : Lucy and Ethel demand equal rights for women. Okay say Ricky and Fred at the restaurant: separate checks for the four of them. Thus begins Lucy and Ethel's careers as restaurant dishwashers. So they plot revenge: they'll scare their husbands by claiming to have been robbed. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Lawrence Dobkin as Maitre D' | Fred Aldrich as Policeman | Richard Reeves as Policeman | Louis Nicoletti as Policeman | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Oct. 26, 1953 |
| Episode 5 - [Baby Pictures] |
| Details : The Ricardos and the Applebys always brag to each other about their little sons. But when Lucy's and Caroline Appeby's exchanges turn hostile and sarcastic Ricky worries that it will jeopardize a TV job that's been offered to him by Caroline's husband. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Hy Averback as Charlie | Doris Singleton as Carolyn | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Nov. 02, 1953 |
| Episode 6 - [Lucy Tells The Truth] |
| Details : Ricky and the Mertzes bet Lucy that she can't go twenty-four hours without telling a lie. The outcome? Lucy insults all her friends and has to admit her real age weight and hair color. But she nearly gets a part on a TV show by telling the truth more or less. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Shirley Mitchell as Marion | Mario Siletti as Knife Thrower | Doris Singleton as Carolyn | Charles Lane as Casting Director | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Nov. 09, 1953 |
| Episode 7 - [The French Revue] |
| Details : Ricky is planning a French revue for the club and since Lucy is determined to be in it she hires a Frenchman to coach her. When Ricky forbids her to come near the place she tries various disguises and finally succeeds as a chorus girl. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Alberto Morin as Robert | Fred Aldrich as Bouncer | Richard Reeves as Bouncer | Louis Nicoletti as Maitre D' | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Nov. 16, 1953 |
| Episode 8 - [Redecorating The Mertzes' Apartment] |
| Details : It's redecorating time at the Mertzes' and Lucy and Ricky volunteer to help. But when Fred turns on a fan as Lucy is unstuffing a chair the paint and feathers they were using go flying. Lucy feels responsible for the ruined furniture so she gives Ethel her own living room furniture as a gift. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Nov. 23, 1953 |
| Episode 9 - [Too Many Crooks] |
| Details : Lucy sneaks into the Mertzes' apartment to borrow one of Fred's suits so that she can order him a custom-made tweed suit for his birthday. This leads Ethel to think that Lucy is the notorious neighborhood burglar Madame X and she goes spying on her friend to prove it. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Alice Wills as Madame X | Allen Jenkins as Policeman | Elizabeth Patterson as Mrs. Trumbull | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Nov. 30, 1953 |
| Episode 10 - [Changing The Boys' Wardrobe] |
| Details : Lucy and Ethel are disgusted by their husbands' old clothes so they secretly give them away to a secondhand store. Unfortunately for them the boys find out about their plan and buy everything back. Later on Ricky learns that a magazine has named Fred and him as two of the Best-Dressed Men in New York City. He and Fred dressed in tuxedos invite the girls to meet them at the club for pictures. The girls arrive in their grubbiest attire. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Oliver Blake as Zeb Allen | Alberto Calderone as Alberto | Lee Millar as Photographer | Paul Power as Award Presenter | Jerry Hausner as Jerry | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Dec. 07, 1953 |
| Episode 11 - [Lucy Has Her Eyes Examined] |
| Details : Lucy finally gets her chance to be in show business when she tricks Ricky into letting her do the Jitterbug in one of his shows. She's terrific during rehearsals but problems occur when Lucy accompanies Ricky (who's been suffering from headaches) to the eye doctor just before the show. There the doctor decides to examine Lucy's eyes as well. He puts some eyedrops in Lucy's eyes which relaxes them but Lucy's vision is blurry for the next twenty four hours. Naturally this causes problems since Lucy has to perform that night. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Dayton Lummis as Bill Parker | Arthur Walsh as Arthur Walsh | Shepard Menken as Doctor | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Dec. 14, 1953 |
| Episode 12 - [Ricky's Old Girlfriend] |
| Details : Ricky is jealous when Lucy comes up with a long list of ex-boyfriends so he invents an old flame-who just happens to be in town. Her name? Carlotta Romero with whom Ricky DID perform years before. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Rosa Turich as Carlotta Romero | Jerry Hausner as Jerry | Lillian Molieri as Young Carlotta | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Dec. 21, 1953 |
| Episode 13 - [The Million Dollar Idea] |
| Details : The Ricardo household budget is in shambles (as usual) after Lucy decides to put her salad dressing on the market. Her plan? To market it on a TV morning show on the station her friend Caroline Appleby's husband runs. Home economist Mary Margaret McMertz (Ethel) will invite an average housewife (Lucy) to taste the dressing on the air. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Frank Nelson as Dickie Davis | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Jan. 11, 1954 |
| Episode 14 - [Ricky Minds The Baby] |
| Details : Ricky agrees to watch is son but while Daddy is engrossed in a football game Little Ricky wanders off. Lucy finds him in the hallway and calls Ricky to ask where the baby is. Panicking Ricky searches everywhere before Lucy walks in with his son. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Jan. 18, 1954 |
| Episode 15 - [The Charm School] |
| Details : It's time for charm school for Lucy and Ethel when their men eye a pretty woman at a party. But Ricky and Fred are anything but charmed by the results. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Natalie Schafer as Phoebe Emerson | Tyler McVey as Bill Hall | Maurice Hill as Tom Williams | Vivi Janiss as Louann Hall | Eve Whitney as Eve Whitney | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Jan. 25, 1954 |
| Episode 16 - [Sentimental Anniversary] |
| Details : Lucy and Ricky want to spend their 13th wedding anniversary alone but the Mertzes have another idea: a surprise party. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Feb. 01, 1954 |
| Episode 17 - [Fan Magazine Interview] |
| Details : A reporter for a fan magazine Eleanor Harris spends an average day with the Ricardos. Of course it's anything BUT average for the happily married couple. And they might not be one so happily married thanks to a publicity stunt that Ricky's agent Jerry has cooked up. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Kathryn Card as Minnie Finch | Jerry Hausner as Jerry | Joan Banks as Eleanor Harris | Elvia Allman as Minnie's Neighbor #1 | Hazel Boyne as Minnie's Neighbor #2 | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Feb. 08, 1954 |
| Episode 18 - [Oil Wells] |
| Details : The Ricardos and Mertzes as oil millionaires? Lucy and Ethel get a hot stock tip from their new neighbors from Texas. But Ricky and Fred say no. At first anyhow. But are these neighbors swindlers? Lucy and the gang eventually think so so they come up with a plan to find out. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Sandra Gould as Nancy Johnson | Ken Christy as Ken | Harry Cheshire as Sam Johnson | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Feb. 15, 1954 |
| Episode 19 - [Ricky Loses His Temper] |
| Details : Ricky explodes when Lucy buys an expensive hat. She offers to return it and bets him he'll lose his cool over something else before she buys another hat. But no matter what she does to provoke him the hot-tempered Cuban remains unruffled. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Madge Blake as Mrs. Mulford | Byron Kane as Morris Williams | Max Terhune as Ventriloquist | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Feb. 22, 1954 |
| Episode 20 - [Home Movies] |
| Details : Ricky's home movies move the Mertzes to walk out and prompt Lucy Fred and Ethel to make a movie of their own a Western musical drama shot in the Ricardo living room. But that's not to mixed up with a TV pilot Ricky's making is it? |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Stanley Farrar as Bennett Green | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Mar. 01, 1954 |
| Episode 21 - [Bonus Bucks] |
| Details : A dollar bill takes a zany trip-with the Ricardos and Mertzes in hot pursuit. It's a winning bill (worth $300) in a newspaper contest. It belongs to Ricky but he gallantly slips it into Lucy's purse. Gallant isn't necessarily smart: Lucy unthinkingly gives the bill to the grocery delivery boy-who gives it to Ethel in change. The wild ride has only begun! |
| Guest Cast and Crew : John Frank as Newspaperman | Frank Jaquet as Laundry Checker | Tony Michaels as Laundry Man | Patsy Moran as Woman at Laundry | Don Garner as Delivery Boy | Bennett Green as Deliveryman | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Mar. 08, 1954 |
| Episode 22 - [Ricky's Hawaiian Vacation] |
| Details : Ricky's band is to play in Hawaii-and guess who wants to go also? Lucy's plan: to go on a game show that gives away airline tickets. It calls for some trickery and Lucy just *might* meet her match in the show's host Freddie Fillmore a prankster par excellence. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Frank Nelson as Freddie Filmore | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Mar. 22, 1954 |
| Episode 23 - [Lucy Is Envious] |
| Details : Lucy's past fibs to her rich and snotty ex-schoolmate are about to catch up with her when she unwittingly pledges $500 to a charity drive. In order to come up with the money she and Ethel agree to a publicity stunt that puts them on top of the Empire State Building posing as women from Mars. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Mary Jane Croft as Cynthia Harcourt | Herb Vigran as Al Sparks | Dick Elliott as Henry | Kay Wiley as Martha | Louis Nicoletti as Elevator Operator | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Mar. 29, 1954 |
| Episode 24 - [Lucy Writes A Novel] |
| Details : Lucy writes a novel in which the characters are thinly-veiled caricatures of Ricky Fred and Ethel. Too thinly veiled Ricky Fred and Ethel think. So they burn it. But not before Lucy gets a copy to a publisher. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Pierre Watkin as Mr. Dorrance | Dayton Lummis as Mr. Eaton | Bennett Green as Messenger | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Apr. 05, 1954 |
| Episode 25 - [Lucy's Club Dance] |
| Details : The Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League forms a quintet (with Lucy on sax) as a fundraiser. It's no way to raise money (Ethel likens Lucy's sound to a moose with a head cold). Maybe bandleader Ricky can whip them into shape--but first Lucy has some persuading to do. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Shirley Mitchell as Marion | Doris Singleton as Carolyn | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Apr. 12, 1954 |
| Episode 26 - [The Black Wig] |
| Details : Lucy plays a black-wigged temptress to test Ricky's fidelity. The result makes makes her see red so she schemes to get even. But she won't divorce him. Ethel agrees: Yeah stay married to him she says. That'll teach him. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Douglas Evans as Doug | Bennett Green as Man | Eve McVeagh as Roberta | Louis Nicoletti as Waiter | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Apr. 19, 1954 |
| Episode 27 - [The Diner] |
| Details : The Ricardos and the Mertzes buy a diner name it A Little Bit of Cuba and go to work. Well the Mertzes go to work; the Ricardos greet. Not surprisingly relations are soon strained. Can a food fight be far behind? |
| Guest Cast and Crew : James Burke as Mr. Watson | Fred Sherman as Drunk | Don Garner as Delivery Boy | Joe Miller as Patron | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : Apr. 26, 1954 |
| Episode 28 - [Tennessee Ernie Visits] |
| Details : The corn starts popping when Tennessee Ernie Ford comes to visit in Part 1 of a two-part episode. He's Lucy's Cousin Ernest an earnest young man from Bent Fork Tenn. who knows nothing of city ways and is inadvertently infuriating. He's got to go but he's so sweet that they can't just throw him out. What to do? Lucy will pose as a wicked city woman and vamp him out of town. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Tennessee Ernie Ford as Ernie Ford | Director : Marc Daniels | |
| Air Date : May. 03, 1954 |
| Episode 29 - [Tennesse Ernie Hangs On] |
| Details : Lucy gets sick of an extensive visit by Tennessee Ernie who claims he is her cousin. She tries to get rid of the likable character by pleading poverty. The scheme backfires when Tennessee Ernie promotes a benefit hoedown to assist Lucy and Ricky. Look for Ernie Ford and His Four Hot Chicken Pickers in this episode. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Tennessee Ernie Ford as Ernie Ford | Richard Reeves as Lester Bych | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : May. 10, 1954 |
| Episode 30 - [The Golf Game] |
| Details : Championship golfer Jimmy Demaret visits the Ricardos when Lucy and Ethel arrive at a bizarre scheme for combating their golf widowship. The girls install a basketball court in the Ricardo living room and pretend to be as deeply absorbed in the game as their husbands are in the fairways. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jimmy Demaret as Jimmy Demaret | George Pierrone as Caddy | Louis Nicoletti as Tournament Chairman | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : May. 17, 1954 |
| Episode 31 - [The Sublease] |
| Details : The Ricardos have sublet their apartment. But Lucy deciding they were too hasty decides to frighten away the new tenant. After discovering that the new tenant was a witness in a murder trial Lucy and Ethel decide to stage a murder in front of him. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jay Novello as Mr. Beecher | Virginia Brissac as Mrs. Hammond | Director : William Asher | |
| Air Date : May. 24, 1954 |