I Love Lucy: Season Five

SEASON FIVE

1 - Lucy isn't ready to leave Hollywood yet, and decides to take a piece of it with her - John Wayne's footprint slab in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater! All hell breaks loose when they have to return it on threat of arrest.

2 - Second part of the John Wayne Slab plot, where Ricky enlists John Wayne's help in replacing the slab so Lucy isn't arrested, but things go crazy when each time John Wayne makes his footprints and signature in the wet cement, something ruins it!!

3 - When Ricky goes deep sea fishing instead of performing with Lucy in a charity show, Lucy goes on without him - using a dummy made with a wax stunt head modeled after Ricky; after the act is a big comedy success, Ricky has to get Lucy to not sign a contract, and come back to NYC.

4 - Ricky sells the car they drove to CA, and buys train tickets back to NYC - but forgets to get the Mertzes tickets, which causes a huge fight and Lucy gets involved with sneaking new tickets to the Mertzes, which results in some hilarious situations.

5 - On the train ride back to NYC, Lucy is convinced she has caught a jewel thief - she hilariously stops the train using the emergency brake about 6 times, each wilder than the last; when the REAL thief shows up, she has a chance to redeem herself.

6 - Once Ricky is home in NYC, everyone treats him like a big star ... and after Lucy does too, Ricky is sick of it, just wants to be normal, and engineers a plan to make Lucy totally fed up with his giant (fake) ego. 

7 - Lucy and Ricky are due to be on an interview show on TV, but Ricky's agent tells him that the apartment is unfit to be seen on TV, and they need ritzier quarters; overhearing this, the Mertzes are sad, but try to kick the Ricardos out so they can be more famous.

8 - Ricky signs up for a Rodeo show, but misunderstands it as "Radio" - when he learns what a Rodeo is, he is horrified, and has to get Lucy's help to understand Western music and cowboy culture. 

9 - Lucy is distraught when Little Ricky has to go to preschool, but Ricky insists; then Little Ricky has to have his tonsils out and Lucy TOTALLY freaks out and gets separation anxiety.

10 - Ricky gets booked in Europe, but can't afford to take anyone but himself; Lucy and Ethel find a devious, illegal way to raise the money - register themselves as a charity and hold a raffle! This doesn't go well with the law. 

11 - Lucy needs a passport to go to Europe, but there is no record of her birth in Jamestown, NY, so she has to go to outlandish lengths to get her identity confirmed.

12 - Everyone is ready for Europe ... except Fred, who gets easily seasick, and decides to "practice" for the ride on the Staten Island Ferry! But Lucy and Fred overdose on seasickness medication, fall asleep, and almost miss their passport pick-up date!!

13 - Lucy misses the cruise ship when her skirt gets caught in her bike chain, so she has to eventually take a helicopter over to the ship, which goes hilarious awry, as always. (Helicopter pilot is played by Jack Albertson, who is best known as Grandpa Joe is Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory). 

14 - Lucy wants the cruise to Europe to be a second honeymoon, but Ricky is paying his way by playing every night for the other passengers with his band; Lucy schemes to make him jealous, and then to trick his band, and then finally gets herself stuck in a porthole!

15 - Lucy wants to meet the Queen, but when it looks like Ricky might actually make it happen (by casting her in his show) she becomes a total nervous wreck; she gets to meet the Queen, but is frozen into a curtsy! (chambermaid to the Queen is played by Nancy Kulp, best known as banker Miss Hathaway on The Beverly Hillbillies)

16 - Lucy is desperate to spend some time at a lavish English estate, but Ricky forbids her from mentioning it to his English aristocrat friend; Lucy worms her way into a fox hunt, only to discover it's on horseback - and she can't ride a horse!

17 - A very strange episode where Lucy dreams about going to Scotland, in a musical format like Brigadoon, Fred and Ethel are a two-headed dragon who will eat her, and Ricky is the Scottish warrior (!!!) who must save her. 

18 - The Ricardos and Mertzes finally get to Paris, and Lucy changes her dollars into francs with a black market dealer; she then uses the counterfeit francs, and is arrested, and Ricky has to come straighten everything out with the help of a chain of interpreters.

19 - A great episode in which Lucy is determined to meet Charles Boyer, but Ricky gets to him first and Boyer plays a trick on Lucy by claiming he is just a humble lookalike named Maurice DuBois; there are double and triple-crosses here as no one is quite sure who is in on what.

20 - The immortal episode where Lucy and Ethel demand a Paris high-fashion dress, and their husbands, fed up, comply with burlap sacks and feedbags for hats; only to discover that this DOES become the next fashion statement!

21 - After Fred accidentally sends Ricky's band to the wrong city (Locarno instead of Lucerne), the two couples go hiking in the Swiss Alps; while in a cabin, they are stuck in an avalanche, and - convinced it's the end - they start confessing to each other. 

22 - Lucy and the gang get to their hotel in Italy, they are on the 4th floor with no elevator; Lucy gets homesick for Little Ricky, and gives candy to all the Italian children, who all pretend it's their birthday until they feel guilty.

23 - The extremely famous episode where Lucy thinks she is being cast in an Italian movie about the grape industry, and goes to research at a winery; she stomps grapes with a peasant woman, and then gets in a knock-down fight with her too!

24 - The famous episode where Lucy and gang cross back to France on bike - except Lucy has forgotten her passport and gets caught on the wrong side of the border! There is a lot of border switching and insanity. 

25 - Lucy promises Ricky she won't gamble at Monte Carlo, but then accidentally wins three times in a row at roulette by throwing a chip she found on the floor onto the table; when the money is hidden in Ethel's suitcase, Ricky finds it and thinks Fred is holding out on him. 

26 - The great episode where Lucy and gang fly home to NYC, and Lucy wants to bring her mother a fancy 25-pound cheese, but doesn't want to pay freight on it, so she disguises it as a baby; when another passenger gets nosy, Lucy and Ethel eat some of it, hide the rest, and then Lucy has to explain where her "baby" went!