I Love Lucy - Season 1

Run Time: 30 mins
Air Date: Mon, 15 Oct 1951
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.889 (238 votes)
CBS35 Episodes

The Girls Want to Go to a Nightclub
Season 1 - Episode 1
An argument ensues among the couples when Ethel wants to celebrate the Mertzes's anniversary at the Copacabana while Fred wants to attend th...

Be a Pal
Season 1 - Episode 2
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
Season 1 - Episode 3
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...

Lucy Thinks Ricky Is Trying to Murder Her
Season 1 - Episode 4
After becoming too involved in a murder mystery book, Lucy believes that Ricky is trying to murder her.

The Quiz Show
Season 1 - Episode 5
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 "l...

The Audition
Season 1 - Episode 6
Ricky lands a TV audition at the club. When Buffo the Clown injures himself and cannot make it, Lucy takes his place.

The Séance
Season 1 - Episode 7
Lucy tells an important talent agent that Ricky cannot appear in a show because of his horoscope. The agent is also interested in the occul...

Men Are Messy
Season 1 - Episode 8
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
Season 1 - Episode 9
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 anniversar...

Lucy Is Jealous of Girl Singer
Season 1 - Episode 10
Lucy is jealous of one of Ricky's dancer at his nightclub after hearing about a gossip column item linking the two.

Drafted
Season 1 - Episode 11
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 be...

The Adagio
Season 1 - Episode 12
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
Season 1 - Episode 13
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
Season 1 - Episode 14
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
Season 1 - Episode 15
The Ricardo's neighbor Miss Lewis wants Lucy to deliver a dinner invitation to her grocer. But he misunderstands and thinks the invitation ...

Lucy Fakes Illness
Season 1 - Episode 16
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
Season 1 - Episode 17
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
Season 1 - Episode 18
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 ...

The Ballet
Season 1 - Episode 19
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
Season 1 - Episode 20
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, ...

New Neighbors
Season 1 - Episode 21
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 ...

Fred and Ethel Fight
Season 1 - Episode 22
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 call...

The Moustache
Season 1 - Episode 23
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...

The Gossip
Season 1 - Episode 24
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."" Fr...

Pioneer Women
Season 1 - Episode 25
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...

The Marriage License
Season 1 - Episode 26
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...

The Kleptomaniac
Season 1 - Episode 27
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 ...

Cuban Pals
Season 1 - Episode 28
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 th...

The Freezer
Season 1 - Episode 29
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 b...

Lucy Does a TV Commercial
Season 1 - Episode 30
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-on...

The Publicity Agent
Season 1 - Episode 31
Lucy poses as a princess for a publicity stunt.

Lucy Gets Ricky on the Radio
Season 1 - Episode 32
Lucy secretly books Ricky on a radio quiz show.

Lucy's Schedule
Season 1 - Episode 33
Ricky puts Lucy on a rigid time schedule.

Ricky Thinks He Is Getting Bald
Season 1 - Episode 34
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 ...

Ricky Asks for a Raise
Season 1 - Episode 35
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 in...