I Love Lucy: Season Three

SEASON THREE

1 - Ricky gets his life story in Life magazine, but only Lucy's elbow is pictured and she becomes obsessed with the world know who she is; she invades one of Ricky's numbers at the club with hilarious results.

2 - Lucy and Ethel, angry that the men consider them (and all women) business dunces, go in together an buy a dress shop; at first it seems like they are conned but good, yet perhaps there is a way they can still make a profit - foist the shop on someone else!

3 - Lucy and Ethel are going to represent their club on TV, and are thrilled - until they discover they both bought the same fancy dress for the occasion, and are both equally determined the other one SHOULD NOT wear it. 

4 - Lucy and Ethel demand equal rights from the husbands, who agree; but when Lucy and Ethel have to wash dishes to pay for their fancy Italian dinner, they concoct a scheme to get back at the men.

5 - Ricky takes adorable photos of Little Ricky, but Lucy doesn't want to turn into "those people" who show off their kids; that is, until the Applebys come for dinner and start putting down Little Ricky at their own kid's expense. 

6 - Lucy makes a bet with Ricky, Ethel, and Fred that she can go 24 hours without telling a lie - and finds that not only do people not like her anymore, but her chances at getting into show business are seriously imperiled.

7 - A really great episode where Lucy prompts Ricky to stage a French Revue, and then bets him $50 she can get into his act no matter what he does to stop her; you can bet her techniques are imaginative.

8 - When Fred agrees, reluctantly, to have his "valuable" antique feather-stuffed furniture reupholstered - so he doesn't have to buy new ones - the whole process goes crazily awry.

9 - A cat burglar named Madame X is on the loose, and Lucy and Ethel secretly suspect each other; both have to use all their resources when the REAL Madame X pays a visit to the Ricardos apartment!

10 - When Lucy and Fred sell the husband's old clothes to a used clothes salesman, they hatch a plot to get the girls back; the girls THINK they are onto said plot, but their counterscheme backfires hilariously. 

11 - Lucy wants in on Ricky's new jitterbug act, and takes lessons with a really really strange beatnik; however, she has her eyes dilated during an eye exam just hours before the show, and has to jitterbug totally blind. 

12 - Lucy is convinced Ricky is in love with his old flame "Carlotta Romero," a name he made up on the spot; except it turns out a real dancer named Carlotta Romero is in town, and wants to see Ricky! This episode has a memorable and hysterical dream sequence where Lucy imagines Ricky leaving her and the baby for "Carlotta."

13 - Lucy and Ethel make a commercial hocking their homemade salad dressing; they get thousands of orders, but Ricky shows them they are losing money on every jar, so they proceed to make the funniest ANTI-commercial ever filmed. 

14 - Ricky tells Lucy he will let her rest, and since he has some days off HE will take care of baby; however, when his attention wanders for a moment, so does Little Ricky, and all kinds of switcheroos take place.

15 - Lucy and Ethel are furious with Ricky and Fred pay tons of attention to young charm school trophy girlfriend who comes for dinner; they decide THEY will go to charm school and win the husbands back.

16 - Lucy and Ricky want to spend their wedding anniversary alone, just the two of them; when they accidentally get wind of a giant surprise party being held for them, they have to concoct a wild plan to evade it and stay together.

17 - When a fancy magazine does a spread on Ricky, Lucy puts on her best clothes and has to maintain an elaborate act that she is much higher class than she actually is; things get real hairy real fast as her quotidian life betrays her at every turn.

18 - Lucy and Ricky have new neighbors, who are Texas oil well developers, and the Ricardos and Mertzes invest heavily; then Lucy and Ethel become convinced it's a scam and hatch a plan to un-invest.

19 - Lucy makes a bet with Ricky - she gets the price of a new hat ($49.50) if Ricky can keep his temper for 24 hours and if she can go without buying a new hat; meanwhile, Ricky discovers keeping his temper has some surprising and beneficial dividends, which Lucy is terribly tempted by hats.

20 - Ricky decides to make a TV special, and Lucy wants in, so she, Ethel, and Fred make a homemade Western sing-a-long comedy; when the TV exec comes to screen Ricky's footage, Lucy splices in the Western footage, resulting in total movie chaos.

21 - This episode has Lucy getting, and then splitting with the Mertzes, and then losing, a winning lottery ticket; she has to go to the laundromat to retrieve the ticket when it gets into Ricky's PJs.

22 - Ricky has a gig in Hawaii, but can't afford to take Lucy or the Mertzes, so Lucy goes on a game show to win the money needed to bring everyone; the game show is a lot more than Lucy bargained for!

23 - Fantastic (literally) episode where Lucy and Ethel mistakenly donate $500 (instead of $5) to a rich friend's charity, and then have to dress up and appear in public as Martians to earn the money! 

24 - Lucy writes a novel, "Real Gone with the Wind," based on everyone she knows but with them downgraded hilariously and her upgraded hugely; everyone else is furious, and attempts to sabotage her attempts to publish it.

25 - Lucy and Ethel are raising money for their Fine Arts club, and try to have the women in the club play a song, with Ricky helping; they are horrible beyond belief, and in the end Ricky and his band have to be very inventive with costumes in order to help out.

26 - Lucy is furious when Ricky won't let her get a new "Italian" pixie-type haircut; when she dons a wig at the salon, she decides to trick Ricky with it, but he's in on the joke and turns the tables.

27 - The immortal episode where the Ricardos and the Mertzes attempt to run a diner together; eventually it degenerates into "A Little Bit of Cuba" diner versus "A Big Hunk of America" diner.  

28 - First in a two-part episode where Lucy's poor relation Tennessee Ernie Ford comes to visit the Ricardos... and they can't get him to leave, while he's a huge drain on the household.

29 - Second part of the Tennessee Ernie plot, where Lucy and Ricky go to some hilarious lengths to trick him into leaving in a way where his feelings won't get hurt.

30 - The priceless episode where Lucy and Ethel tire of the husbands' obssession with golf, and demand to be included; the boys decide to invent new rules (including the infamous "mashey") making the game as unfun as possible, to make the wives want to quit ASAP. 

31 - Ricky gets a gig in Maine, and the Ricardos sublease their apartment (making the Mertzes angry); but when the gig falls through, they have to scare away the already-skittish new tenant. (New tenant played by the same guy as Broadway Producer in Season 1, Episode 7, one of MANY reusings of character actors).