I Love Lucy - Season 3

Run Time: 30 mins
Air Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1953
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.889 (238 votes)
CBS31 Episodes

Ricky's 'Life' Story
Season 3 - Episode 1
Lucy is upset because a 'Life' magazine feature on Ricky's home life didn't include a picture of her.

The Girls Go Into Business
Season 3 - Episode 2
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, nami...

Lucy and Ethel Buy the Same Dress
Season 3 - Episode 3
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, ...

Equal Rights
Season 3 - Episode 4
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 ...

Baby Pictures
Season 3 - Episode 5
The Ricardos and the Applebys always brag to each other about their little sons. But when Lucy's and Caroline Appeby's exchanges turn hostil...

Lucy Tells the Truth
Season 3 - Episode 6
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 ...

The French Revue
Season 3 - Episode 7
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 forb...

Redecorating the Mertzes' Apartment
Season 3 - Episode 8
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, th...

Too Many Crooks
Season 3 - Episode 9
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. T...

Changing the Boys' Wardrobe
Season 3 - Episode 10
Lucy and Ethel are disgusted by their husbands' old clothes, so they secretly give them away to a secondhand store. Unfortunately for them, ...

Lucy Has Her Eyes Examined
Season 3 - Episode 11
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 te...

Ricky's Old Girlfriend
Season 3 - Episode 12
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? ...

The Million Dollar Idea
Season 3 - Episode 13
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...

Ricky Minds the Baby
Season 3 - Episode 14
Ricky agrees to watch his son, but while Daddy is engrossed in a football game, Little Ricky wanders off. Lucy finds him in the hallway, and...

The Charm School
Season 3 - Episode 15
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 t...

Sentimental Anniversary
Season 3 - Episode 16
Lucy and Ricky want to spend their 13th wedding anniversary alone, but the Mertzes have another idea: a surprise party.

Fan Magazine Interview
Season 3 - Episode 17
A reporter for a fan magazine, Eleanor Harris, spends an "average day" with the Ricardos. Of course, it's anything BUT average for the happi...

Oil Wells
Season 3 - Episode 18
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...

Ricky Loses His Temper
Season 3 - Episode 19
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 buy...

Home Movies
Season 3 - Episode 20
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" sh...

Bonus Bucks
Season 3 - Episode 21
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 be...

Ricky's Hawaiian Vacation
Season 3 - Episode 22
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 call...

Lucy Is Envious
Season 3 - Episode 23
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. I...

Lucy Writes a Novel
Season 3 - Episode 24
Lucy writes a novel in which the characters are thinly-veiled caricatures of Ricky, Fred and Ethel. Too thinly veiled, Ricky, Fred and Ethel...

Lucy's Club Dance
Season 3 - Episode 25
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...

The Black Wig
Season 3 - Episode 26
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 d...

The Diner
Season 3 - Episode 27
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."...

Tennessee Ernie Visits
Season 3 - Episode 28
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 yo...

Tennessee Ernie Hangs On
Season 3 - Episode 29
Lucy gets sick of an extensive visit by Tennessee Ernie, who claims he is her cousin. She tries to get rid of the likeable character by plea...

The Golf Game
Season 3 - Episode 30
Championship golfer Jimmy Demaret visits the Ricardos when Lucy and Ethel arrive at a bizarre scheme for combating their "golf widowship." T...

The Sublease
Season 3 - Episode 31
The Ricardos are off to Maine for the summer, so they decide to sublet their apartment. Their landlords, the Mertzes, don't like the idea, a...