I Love Lucy
I Love Lucy
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I Love Lucy

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7.9 / 10
1951
6 seasons
180 episodes
ComedyFamily

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.

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Seasons

  • The Girls Want to Go to a Nightclub

    1.The Girls Want to Go to a Nightclub

    7.3
    15-10-195123m

    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 the...

  • Be a Pal

    2.Be a Pal

    7.5
    22-10-195123m

    Thinking Ricky is losing interest in her, Lucy follows the advice of a book Ethel gave her and takes up Ricky's hobbies.

  • The Diet

    3.The Diet

    8.0
    29-10-195123m

    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 i...

  • Lucy Thinks Ricky Is Trying to Murder Her

    4.Lucy Thinks Ricky Is Trying to Murder Her

    7.7
    05-11-195123m

    After becoming too involved in a murder mystery book, Lucy believes that Ricky is trying to murder her.

  • The Quiz Show

    5.The Quiz Show

    7.0
    12-11-195123m

    When 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.

  • The Audition

    6.The Audition

    7.0
    19-11-195123m

    Ricky lands a TV audition at the club. When Buffo the Clown injures himself and cannot make it, Lucy takes his place.

  • The Séance

    7.The Séance

    6.3
    26-11-195123m

    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.

  • Men Are Messy

    8.Men Are Messy

    6.3
    03-12-195123m

    Fed up with Ricky's messiness, Lucy divides the Ricardo apartment in a clean part for her and a messy part for him.

  • The Fur Coat

    9.The Fur Coat

    6.0
    10-12-195123m

    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.

  • Lucy Is Jealous of Girl Singer

    10.Lucy Is Jealous of Girl Singer

    7.3
    17-12-195124m

    Lucy is jealous of one of Ricky's dancer at his nightclub after hearing about a gossip column item linking the two.

  • Drafted

    11.Drafted

    6.7
    24-12-195123m

    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...

  • The Adagio

    12.The Adagio

    6.8
    31-12-195125m

    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.

  • The Benefit

    13.The Benefit

    7.0
    07-01-195226m

    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.

  • The Amateur Hour

    14.The Amateur Hour

    8.0
    14-01-195226m

    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.

  • Lucy Plays Cupid

    15.Lucy Plays Cupid

    7.8
    21-01-195226m

    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.

  • Lucy Fakes Illness

    16.Lucy Fakes Illness

    7.5
    28-01-195226m

    Lucy pretends to suffer from numerous psychological ailments so that Ricky will feel sorry for her and let her go into show business.

  • Lucy Writes a Play

    17.Lucy Writes a Play

    5.5
    04-02-195226m

    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.

  • Breaking the Lease

    18.Breaking the Lease

    6.3
    11-02-195226m

    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 ca...

  • The Ballet

    19.The Ballet

    6.8
    18-02-195226m

    Lucy learns that there is an opening in one of Ricky's acts for a ballet dancer as well as a burlesque comic.

  • The Young Fans

    20.The Young Fans

    7.0
    25-02-195226m

    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. Du...

  • New Neighbors

    21.New Neighbors

    7.3
    03-03-195225m

    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.

  • Fred and Ethel Fight

    22.Fred and Ethel Fight

    7.3
    10-03-195226m

    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...

  • The Moustache

    23.The Moustache

    7.3
    17-03-195226m

    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...

  • The Gossip

    24.The Gossip

    8.0
    24-03-195225m

    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...

  • Pioneer Women

    25.Pioneer Women

    7.3
    31-03-195225m

    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 deman...

  • The Marriage License

    26.The Marriage License

    6.3
    07-04-195225m

    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 w...

  • The Kleptomaniac

    27.The Kleptomaniac

    7.0
    14-04-195224m

    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...

  • Cuban Pals

    28.Cuban Pals

    5.7
    21-04-195224m

    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...

  • The Freezer

    29.The Freezer

    7.7
    28-04-195224m

    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...

  • Lucy Does a TV Commercial

    30.Lucy Does a TV Commercial

    7.5
    05-05-195224m

    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 te...

  • The Publicity Agent

    31.The Publicity Agent

    5.0
    12-05-195224m

    Lucy poses as a princess for a publicity stunt.

  • Lucy Gets Ricky on the Radio

    32.Lucy Gets Ricky on the Radio

    5.5
    19-05-195224m

    Lucy secretly books Ricky on a radio quiz show.

  • Lucy's Schedule

    33.Lucy's Schedule

    5.5
    26-05-195225m

    Ricky puts Lucy on a rigid time schedule.

  • Ricky Thinks He Is Getting Bald

    34.Ricky Thinks He Is Getting Bald

    5.5
    02-06-195225m

    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...

  • Ricky Asks for a Raise

    35.Ricky Asks for a Raise

    7.0
    09-06-195224m

    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 reservation...

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