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I Love Lucy Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
36 Episodes 1951 - 1952
Episode 0
Pilot
Fri, Feb 20, 202645 mins
Ricky tries to keep Lucy away from auditioning for a TV show, but when a clown becomes unavailable, Lucy takes his place.
Episode 1
The Girls Want to Go to the Nightclub
Mon, Oct 15, 195130 mins
It's Fred and Ethel's 18th wedding anniversary, Ethel wants to go to the Copacabana and Fred wants to go to the fights. Lucy helps Ethel to try and change the boys minds and Ricky helps Fred to do the same with the girls. Neither side will give in so Lucy tries to find dates to escort her and Ethel to the Copa, when Ricky finds out he tells Fred they need to find dates so they can go to the Copa and keep an eye on the girls. They both end up calling the same person for help with finding escorts and the result was the beginning of TV's funniest sitcom ever.
Episode 2
Be a Pal
Mon, Oct 22, 195130 mins
Worried that Ricky is starting to lose interest in her, Lucy decides to remind Ricky of Cuba and his childhood. With Ethel's help she decorates the home and decides to impersonate a singer like Ricky's mom.
Episode 3
The Diet
Mon, Oct 29, 195130 mins
Lucy can be in Ricky's act, but only if she can lose 12 pounds in four days.
Episode 4
Lucy Thinks Ricky Is Trying to Murder Her
Mon, Nov 5, 195130 mins
After becoming too involved in a murder mystery book, Lucy believes that Ricky is trying to murder her.
Episode 5
The Quiz Show
Mon, Nov 12, 195130 mins
When Lucy is months behind in paying the bills, she decides to go on a radio show to win $1,000. To win the money, she must introduce a stranger to Ricky as her 'first husband'.
Episode 6
The Audition
Mon, Nov 19, 195130 mins
Ricky finally lands an audition for a television show. After the clown in Ricky's act gets injured, Lucy fills in for him.
Episode 7
The Seance
Mon, Nov 26, 195130 mins
Lucy gets superstitious with the daily Horoscope. When she explains to theatre producer Mr. Merriweather that Ricky's horoscope is not Ricky's day and he should say no, Lucy once again convinces Ricky to invite Mr. Merriweather to contact his beloved Tilly. However, the Ricardos get a big surprise of who Tilly really is.
Episode 8
Men Are Messy
Mon, Dec 3, 195130 mins
When Lucy gets mad at how sloppy Ricky is, she decides to get back at him by only cleaning 'her half' of the apartment. When a magazine photographer comes to photograph the place for a musician's magazine, she goes all out and makes it as messy as she can.
Episode 9
The Fur Coat
Mon, Dec 10, 195130 mins
Lucy thinks a mink coat that Ricky rented for a dance number at the club is actually her anniversary gift. She's so thrilled that Ricky can't bring himself to tell her the truth. He plans to fake a burglary to get it away from her.
Episode 10
Lucy Is Jealous of Girl Singer
Mon, Dec 17, 195130 mins
After reading a newspaper article planted by Ricky's press agent, Ethel convinces Lucy that Ricky is fooling around with the lead dancer in his nightclub act.
Episode 11
Drafted
Mon, Dec 24, 195130 mins
Ricky and Fred are going to do a show for the Army troops at Fort Dix. To keep Lucy from wanting to be in it, they keep the reason they're going a secret. Lucy and Ethel think they've been drafted.
Episode 12
The Adagio
Mon, Dec 31, 195130 mins
Lucy decides to try out for a job as an Apache dancer in Ricky's show. The man she rehearses with falls madly in love with her.
Episode 13
The Benefit
Mon, Jan 7, 195230 mins
Lucy gets Ricky to perform with her at a benefit for Ethel's club.
Episode 14
The Amateur Hour
Mon, Jan 14, 195230 mins
To earn some extra money to pay for a new dress, Lucy takes a job babysitting a little boy. She is amazed that she will be getting $5 an hour. She finds out why when the boy's mother sneaks a second, twin boy into the apartment.
Episode 15
Lucy Plays Cupid
Mon, Jan 21, 195230 mins
Lucy's neighbor wants her to deliver an invitation to the grocer for a date. When she does, the grocer thinks the note is from Lucy rather than the neighbor. The grocer is delighted to think he will have dinner with Lucy.
Episode 16
Lucy Fakes Illness
Mon, Jan 28, 195230 mins
Lucy 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.
Episode 17
Lucy Writes a Play
Mon, Feb 4, 195230 mins
Lucy 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.
Episode 18
Breaking the Lease
Mon, Feb 11, 195230 mins
The Ricardos try to break their lease after a fight with the Mertzes.
Episode 19
The Ballet
Mon, Feb 18, 195230 mins
Lucy claims to have been a ballerina, to get into Ricky's show. She goes to Madame Le Mond's class to hone her ballet skills.
Episode 20
The Young Fans
Mon, Feb 25, 195230 mins
Lucy and Ricky try to deal with youthful admirers.
Episode 21
New Neighbors
Mon, Mar 3, 195230 mins
Lucy thinks the new neighbors are plotting a murder.
Episode 22
Fred and Ethel Fight
Mon, Mar 10, 195230 mins
Lucy tries to reunite the separated Mertzes after they had a big fight.
Episode 23
The Mustache
Mon, Mar 17, 195230 mins
Ricky grows a mustache to get an acting job in a movie. Lucy doesn't like it, so she wears a fake beard and mustache she gets from Fred. The adhesive is so old, it won't come off.
Episode 24
The Gossip
Mon, Mar 24, 195230 mins
The boys and girls bet each other breakfast in bed for a month that they can't stop gossiping.
Episode 25
Pioneer Women
Mon, Mar 31, 195230 mins
The 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.
Episode 26
The Marriage License
Mon, Apr 7, 195230 mins
When Lucy finds a misspelling on her marriage license, she believes her marriage to Ricky isn't legal.
Episode 27
The Kleptomaniac
Mon, Apr 14, 195230 mins
Lucy is secretly running the annual bazaar, having been forbidden by Ricky to ever be in charge of it again. When Ricky finds a huge roll of bazaar money in Lucy's purse, he begins to suspect something. Things only get worse when Ricky finds extra silverware in their apartment and Lucy is caught stealing Fred's cuckoo clock. Ricky fears that his wife may be a kleptomaniac, and calls Dr. Robinson to help solve the matter.
Episode 28
Cuban Pals
Mon, Apr 21, 195230 mins
Lucy tries to emulate Ricky's former dance partner from Cuba.
Episode 29
The Freezer
Mon, Apr 28, 195230 mins
Lucy and Ethel decide to make some money by buying a used walk-in freezer. When they unwittingly buy 700 pounds of beef, they try to sell it to customers at the butcher shop.
Episode 30
Lucy Does a TV Commercial
Mon, May 5, 195230 mins
Lucy has angled her way onto Ricky's special as the show's pitch girl. She advertises a medicine called "Vitameatavegamin." Believing it contains vitamins, minerals, meat, and vegetables, Lucy does not know is that it also contains twenty-three percent of alcohol.
Episode 31
The Publicity Agent
Mon, May 12, 195230 mins
Ricky's publicity goes bad, so Lucy creates a stunt that includes her posing as the "Maharincess of Franistan."
Episode 32
Lucy Gets Ricky on the Radio
Mon, May 19, 195230 mins
The 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.
Episode 33
Lucy's Schedule
Mon, May 26, 195230 mins
After Lucy causes them to be late for dinner with Ricky's new boss, he puts her on a tight schedule.
Episode 34
Ricky Thinks He's Getting Bald
Mon, Jun 2, 195230 mins
Lucy tries to convince Ricky that he is not losing his hair.
Episode 35
Ricky Asks for a Raise
Mon, Jun 9, 195230 mins
After 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.