• Air date: 15 Oct '51 35 episodes
      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.
  • List of Episodes (35)
    • 26. The Marriage License

      07 Apr '52
      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 where Ricky first proposed to her. But they run out of gas getting there.
    • 27. The Kleptomaniac

      14 Apr '52
      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 her, but Lucy is wise to his plan and feigns recalling a notorious past.
    • 28. Cuban Pals

      21 Apr '52
      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 apart, Lucy heads to the club in disguise, and finds herself in the clutches of a wild man named Ramon.
    • 29. The Freezer

      28 Apr '52
      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 $483 for it. The meat company won't take it back, and they can't sell it to customers waiting in the local butcher shop, so they're stuck with it. And speaking of stuck, Lucy gets herself locked in the freezer!
    • 30. Lucy Does a TV Commercial

      05 May '52
      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 test the sponsor's product over-and-over, a vitamin syrup called Vitametavegimin, which is 25% alcohol.
    • 31. The Publicity Agent

      12 May '52
      Lucy poses as a princess for a publicity stunt.
    • 32. Lucy Gets Ricky on the Radio

      19 May '52
      Lucy secretly books Ricky on a radio quiz show.
    • 33. Lucy's Schedule

      26 May '52
      Ricky puts Lucy on a rigid time schedule.
    • 34. Ricky Thinks He is Going Bald

      02 Jun '52
      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 work, she resorts to showing some new "hair treatments" (or "torture tactics" as Lucy calls them) to show Ricky how silly he's been.
    • 35. Ricky Asks for a Raise

      09 Jun '52
      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 reservations at the club on the night that somebody else is playing, then show up in various guises(including Fred in drag) feigning indignation that Ricky's not performing--and leave in a huff.