"The Girls Want To Go To A Nightclub" (Oct. 15, 1951)
To celebrate the Mertze's eighteenth anniversary, Ricky and Fred want to go to a fight, but Lucy and Ethel are determined to go to the Copa. They get a friend to arrange blind dates for them, which she does---but Ricky and Fred are the dates.
"Be A Pal" (Oct. 22, 1951)
Afraid Ricky is losing interest in her, Lucy follows the advice in a book, "How To Keep the Honeymoon From Ending", and ends up decorating their apartment to look like cuba, and doing her impression of Carmen Miranda. Ricky Can't help by love her for it.
"The Diet" (Oct. 29, 1951)
Desperate to lose twelve pounds in four days so she can replace one of the singers in Ricky's nightclub act, Lucy crash-diets and steams her way to svelteness. She's a big hit in the show, but winds up fainting afterward from hunger. "Lucy Thinks Ricky Is Trying To Murder Her" (Nov. 5, 1951)
Spooked by a whodunit she's reading and misinterpreting a conversation she overhears, Lucy's convinced that Ricky's trying to bump her off. Armed with a "gun" and skillet, she confronts him at the Tropicana, where she's embarressed to discover the mistake.
"The Quiz Show" (Nov. 12, 1951)
In dire need of extra money Lucy is willing to make a fool of herself to win a thousand dollars on a game show, even if it means introducing Ricky to a bogu long-lost first husband. Lucy wins the jackpot, but ends up with fifty cents after paying her overdue bills. "The Audition" (Nov. 19, 1951)
When Lucy begs Ricky to let her audition for a talent scout at the Tropicana, he says no. But she sneaks into the show anyway by replacing the club's ailing clown. The act nets her a contract which she declines, preferring her role as Mrs. Ricardo. "The Seance" (Nov. 26, 1951)
When Lucy finds that she shares a mutual interest in the occult with a theatrical producer, who is considering Ricky for a aprt in his show, she stages a seance for him, with Ehtel as the medium. It's a success, spirit-wise, and RIcky gets the part. "Men Are Messy" (Dec. 3, 1951)
Fed up with Ricky's sloppiness, Lucy divides their apartment into to halves : hers, neat; his, a mess. When a man comes to do a photo layout of Ricky at home, she thinks he's from a musicians journal. Unfortunately, he's a photographer for Look magazine. "The Fur Coat" (Dec. 10, 1951)
Lucy thinks the mink coat Ricky brought home is her anniversary gift, but it's only rented for his nightclub act. Upon learning the truth, she decides to get even by substituing a fake fur, and cutting it up in front of a stunned Ricky. "Lucy Is Jealous Of Girl Singer" (Dec. 17, 1951)
Lucy's convinced that Ricky's being unfaithful to her with one of the pretty dancers at the Tropicana, so she sneaks her way into the chorus line to keep an eye on him and upstage her rival. Later, Ricky teases Lucy about that "terrible new chorus girl." "Drafted" (Dec. 24, 1951)
Ricky was been requestions to appear at Fort Dix to entertain soldiers, but Lucy miscontinues the invitation as a notice that he husband is being drafted. When she started knitting socks for him to take to boot camp, he mistakenly assumes she's pregnant. "The Adagio" (Dec. 31, 1951)
Before Lucy can perform an apache dance number at the Tropicana, she takes lessons from a Frenchman who's more interested in romance than dance. When Ricky discovers him hiding in a hall closet, the Parisian challenges the Cuban to a duel. "The Benefit" (Jan. 7, 1952)
Ethel wants Ricky to headline at her women's club benefit, but Lucy refuses to ask him unless she's part of the song-and-comedy act. Ethel relents. Then Lucy rewrites the material when she discovers that Ricky has all the punchlines. "The Amateur Hour" (Jan. 14, 1952)
Badly needing some extra money, Lucy takes on a baby sitting job for two unruly, eight year old twin boys who just about do her in. But when she performs with them in a talent contest and they win the boys' mother gives Lucy the prize money. "Lucy Plays Cupid" (Jan. 21, 1952)
Lucy tries to play "Cupid" between a local grocery man and a shy spinster, but it backfires when the grocery man thinks Lucy's the interested party. To discharge the man, Lucy invites him over to see her twenty five children and to meet the shy spinster for a look-see. "Lucy Fakes Illness" (Jan. 28, 1952)
Since Ricky won't put Lucy in his new nightclub act, she fakes a nervous
breakdown by developing multiple personalities-one of whom is Tallulah
Bankhead. Ricky is on to the fakery and calls in a phony doctor to scare
Lucy back to sanity. "Lucy Writes A Play" (Feb. 4, 1952)
Lucy has written a play about a Cuban tobacco picker for her women's club competition, but when she can't get Ricky to star in it, she rewrites it for Fred Mertz. Unaware of the change, Ricky decides to appear in the play after all. "Breaking The Lease" (Feb. 11, 1952)
The Ricardos' late night singing and other noisy endeavors set off a feud with the Mertzes. Lucy and Ricky decide to break their lease by becoming totally undesirable tenants. They succeed, but on moving day the sentimental foursome make up. "The Ballet" (Feb. 18, 1952)
Lucy fails miserably at ballet lessons but does much better learning a burlesque act. So when asked to replace a sick performer in Ricky's show, Lucy comes on as a pie throwing, seltzer squirting comic. But Ricky needed the ballet dancer. "The Young Fans" (Feb. 25, 1952)
A teenage girl meets her favorite performer, Ricky Ricardo and develops a crush on him while her steady boyfriend falls in love with Lucy. But when the Ricardos start acting like ninety year olds, the teenagers quickly return to each other. "New Neighbors" (Mar. 3, 1952)
Lucy and Ethel overhears their new neighbors plotting tenants' murders, unaware that they're only actors rehearsing lines. To protect themselves, the Ricardos and Mertzes take the law into their own hands and all four wind up in jail. "Fred And Ethel Fight" (Mar. 10, 1952)
Lucy and Ricky succeed in patching up the sparring Mertzes only to start fighting themselves. Ethel's advice to Lucy and Fred's to Ricky bring the Ricardos back together but set the Mertzes off again. "The Moustache" (Mar. 17, 1952)
Ricky grows a moustache for a movie role but Lucy doesn't like it and retaliates with a fake beard. The powerful glue she used makes it impossible to remove and Lucy has to hide behind a harem veil when Ricky beings the producer home. "The Gossip" (Mar. 24, 1952)
Ricky and Fred bet their wives that they can keep from gossiping longer. Then each one sets out to trick the other into gossiping first. Lucy and Ethel win the bet but only because Lucy bribed the milkman into creating some phony gossip. "Pioneer Women" (Mar. 31, 1952)
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 demands Ricky start living as if it's the turn of the century for him too. "The Marriage License" (Apr. 7, 1952)
Lucy thinks she and Ricky aren't legally married because his name was mispelled 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. "The Kleptomaniac" (Apr. 14, 1952)
When Ricky finds a closetful of valuables that Lucy has collected for a bazaar he mistakenly thinks she's become a kleptomaniac. He secretly calls in a doctor to hypnotize her, but Lucy is wise to them and feigns recalling a notorious past. "Cuban Pals" (Apr. 21, 1952)
Ricky's former dance partner, the very sexy Renita, visits them from Cuba and Lucy is immediately jealous. Enlisting Fred to drive the dancer to Philadelphia, Lucy takes over Renita's number at the club and ends up in the wildest dance of her life. "The Freezer" (Apr. 28, 1952)
To stock their new walk in freezer, Lucy and Ethel buy enough beef for a cattle drive. Then Lucy gets locked in the freezer. She emerges dripping icicles, just as the meat she hid in an unlit furnace starts cooking because Fred turned on the heat. "Lucy Does A TV Commercial" (May 5, 1952)
Lucy schemes her way into doing a vitamin commercial on a TV show Ricky is hosting. Rehearsing her lines and sampling the liquid tonic, which is one quarter alcohol, Lucy gets bombed as she extols the products virtues while barely staying upright. "The Publicity Agent" (May 12, 1952)
Lucy dreams up some publicity to boast Ricky's career by posing as a Middle Eastern princess who's his biggest fan. The media thinks she's the real thing and so does Ricky until she shows up at the Tropicana and wants to hear twenty five encores of ""Babalu." "Lucy Gets Ricky On The Radio" (May 19, 1952)
Lucy enters Ricky as a contestant on a radio quiz show but he refuses to appear. In the producer's office, Lucy comes upon the answers for the show, memorizes them and Ricky is a contestant again. But at airtime all the questions are switched. "Lucy's Schedule" (May 26, 1952)
Lucy is habitually late, so Ricky puts her on a strict time schedule then invites his boss over for dinner. Lucy gets back at her husband by serving each course of the meal for just a few seconds and then whisking it away again. "Ricky Thinks He's Getting Bald" (Jun. 2, 1952)
Ricky's so afraid he's losing his hair that Lucy invites a group of bald men over to reassure her husband he has nothing to worry about. When Ricky doesn't show up, Lucy concocts a bizarre hair growth procedure to get him off his "balding" kick. "Ricky Asks For A Raise" (Jun. 9, 1952)
A new act is competing with Ricky's at the Tropicana, so Lucy makes dozens of bogus reservations and appears at the club with the Mertzes in various quick change outfits pretending to be customers who only want to see Ricky Ricardo perform.
