Season 3 Episodes
RICKY'S "LIFE" STORY
A magazine does a picture story on Ricky's life, but Lucy's not in it. So she decides to upstage Ricky during his "Lady in Spain" number at the club.
THE GIRLS GO INTO BUSINESS
Dreaming of dollar signs, Lucy and Ethel buy Hansen's Dress Shop, but the only sales they seem to be making are to each other!
LUCY AND ETHEL BUY THE SAME DRESS
The girls are going to appear together on TV. Everybody's pleased until they discover that they've bought identical dresses for the occasion.
EQUAL RIGHTS
The girls demand equal rights, but soon find themselves stuck washing dishes in a restaurant when the boys leave them behind to pay their own check.
BABY PICTURES
The Ricardos say nothing when the Applybys go on and on about their little boy, Stevie. But when she visits Caroline, Lucy just can't restrain herself.
LUCY TELLS THE TRUTH
Lucy bets she can go a whole day without telling a lie. But at a TV audition, she can't resist the pressure to fib, landing a job as a knife thrower's assistant.
THE FRENCH REVUE
After the girls take French lessons, Ricky stages a French revue-without Lucy. So she bets him $50 that he can't keep her from sneaking into the act.
REDECORATING THE MERTZES' APARTMENT
The Ricardos help the Mertzes paint and reupholster. Then Fred turns on a fan to clear the paint fumes-just as Lucy begins stripping feathers from an easy chair!
TOO MANY CROOKS
After she sees Lucy rummaging through Fred's closet, Mrs. Trumbull tells Ethel she thinks Lucy is "Madame X," the thief who's been ransacking the neighborhood.
CHANGING THE BOYS' WARDROBE
Rick and Fred infuriate the girls by wearing their oldest clothes in public. So Lucy and Ethel secretly sell their husbands' clothes to a second-hand clothing dealer.
LUCY HAS HER EYES EXAMINED
Lucy talks Ricky into lettering her do a jitterbug number at the Tropicana. But on the day of the performance the eye doctor gives her eye drops that make her practically blind!
RICKY'S OLD GIRLFRIEND
Lucy wants to know about Ricky's old girlfriends, so he invents one name "Carlotta Romero." Then a singer with that name shows up in town!
THE MILLION DOLLAR IDEA
Lucy and Ethel decide to bottle and sell homemade salad dressing, and go on TV to pitch the product.
RICKY MINDS THE BABY
Ricky, promising to devote more time to his son, tells him the Spanish version of "Little Red Riding Hood." All's well until Ricky's parenting duties conflict with watching sports on TV.
THE CHARM SCHOOL
After watching their husbands fawn over a friend's alluring date, Lucy and Ethel decide to transform themselves by enrolling in Charm School.
SENTIMENTAL ANNIVERSARY
To get some time alone with Ricky on their anniversary, Lucy tells Ethel she and Ricky are going out. The Ricardos get some time alone, all right-in their closet!
FAN MAGAZINE INTERVIEW
A reporter, chronicling Ricky's "typical" day, finds him enjoying gourmet food and wearing a smoking jacket. All goes well until Lucy discovers a postcard in Ricky's pocket, asking "Minnie Finch" for a date.
OIL WELLS
Texans San and Nancy Johnson, in Apartment 4B, are selling "a sure thing"-shares in an oil well. Lucy wants to invest, but Fred and Ethel are suspicious.
RICKY LOSES HIS TEMPER
Lucy bets Ricky she can go without a new hat longer than he can control his temper, then tries to provoke him before the hat she just bought is delivered.
HOME MOVIES
Ricky won't let Lucy and the Mertzes be in his TV pilot film, so the three decide to make their own movie-a western musical-which Lucy secretly splices into Ricky's film.
BONUS BUCKS
Bent on winning the "Bonus Buck Contest," Luck checks every dollar for a winning serial number. When Ricky finds a winner in his wallet, he slips it into Lucy's purse.
RICKY'S HAWAIIAN VACATION
To win a free trip to Hawaii, lucy writes a heart-rending letter to a TV game show and lands an appearance on the program.
LUCY IS ENVIOUS
Lucy and Ethel each unintentionally pledge $500 to a charity. To raise cash, they get hired to dress up as Martians and invade the Empire State Building for a publicity stunt.
LUCY WRITES A NOVEL
Lucy pens a novel, Real Gone with the Wind, whose main characters, "Nicky Ricardo" and "Fred and Ethel Hertz," are a little too real for Ricky and the Mertzes.
LUCY'S CLUB DANCE
Lucy's women's club forms an orchestra to play at their dance, and Lucy pledges Ricky's services as bandleader. But even Ricky can't make their "sour sextet"sound good.
THE BLACK WIG
When Lucy disguises herself to test Ricky's fidelity, his reaction to the "other woman" infuriates her. So She invites him out on a date.
THE DINER
Fed up with showbiz, the Ricardos buy a dinner with the Mertzes. But after the feuding starts, they decide to split the diner down the middle.
TENESSEE ERNIE HANGS ON
To convince Cousin Ernie to leave, Lucy pleads poverty. But Ernie just takes up a collection among the neighbors and then books the Ricardos and Mertzes on a TV show.
THE GOLF GAME
To discourage their wives from joining them at golf, the boys fabricate complicated golf rules, which the girls dutifully follow-until they discover they've been had.
THE SUBLEASE
When Ricky gets a gig in Maine, the Ricardos plan to sublet their apartment at a profit, but landlords Fred and Ethel nix the deal.