I Love Lucy season 1 Lucy Fakes Illness - Metacritic

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Jan 28, 1952
30 m

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Jan 28, 1952
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Summary Cuban-born bandleader, Ricky Ricardo, and his wife, Lucy, live in a Brownstone apartment building on East 68th Street in New York City. The beautiful but daffy Lucy has the nasty habit of getting into jams, scrapes, and predicaments of all kinds. The Ricardos' best friends and landlords, Fred and Ethel Mertz, frequently find themselves i...

Directed By: Marc Daniels

Written By: Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Davis, Bob Carroll Jr.

TV-Y
CBS
Jan 28, 1952
30 m

TV-Y
CBS
Jan 28, 1952
30 m

S1 • Episode 16

Lucy Fakes Illness

Air Date: Jan 28, 1952

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Summary Cuban-born bandleader, Ricky Ricardo, and his wife, Lucy, live in a Brownstone apartment building on East 68th Street in New York City. The beautiful but daffy Lucy has the nasty habit of getting into jams, scrapes, and predicaments of all kinds. The Ricardos' best friends and landlords, Fred and Ethel Mertz, frequently find themselves i...

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Episode 0 • 1951 • 45 m

Ricky tries to keep Lucy away from auditioning for a TV show, but when a clown becomes unavailable, Lucy takes his place.

Episode 1 • Oct 15, 1951 • 30 m

The Girls Want to Go to the Nightclub

To celebrate Ethel and Fred's anniversary, Lucy and Ethel want to go to a nightclub while Ricky and Fred want to go to a boxing match instead. An argument ensues.

Episode 2 • Oct 22, 1951 • 30 m

Worried that Ricky is starting to lose interest in her, Lucy decides to remind Ricky of Cuba and his childhood. With Ethel's help she decorates the home and decides to impersonate a singer like Ricky's mom.

Episode 3 • Oct 29, 1951 • 30 m

Lucy can be in Ricky's act, but only if she can lose 12 pounds in four days.

Episode 4 • Nov 5, 1951 • 30 m

Lucy Thinks Ricky Is Trying to Murder Her

After becoming too involved in a murder mystery book, Lucy believes that Ricky is trying to murder her.

Episode 5 • Nov 12, 1951 • 30 m

When Lucy is months behind in paying the bills, she decides to go on a radio show to win $1,000. To win the money, she must introduce a stranger to Ricky as her 'first husband'.

Episode 6 • Nov 19, 1951 • 30 m

Ricky finally lands an audition for a television show. After the clown in Ricky's act gets injured, Lucy fills in for him.

Episode 7 • Nov 26, 1951 • 30 m

Episode 8 • Dec 3, 1951 • 30 m

Annoyed at Ricky's messiness, Lucy divides the apartment into two halves: one for each of them to live in.

Episode 9 • Dec 10, 1951 • 30 m

Lucy thinks a mink coat that Ricky rented for a dance number at the club is actually her anniversary gift. She's so thrilled that Ricky can't bring himself to tell her the truth. He plans to fake a burglary to get it away from her.

Episode 10 • Dec 17, 1951 • 30 m

Lucy Is Jealous of Girl Singer

After reading a newspaper article planted by Ricky's press agent, Ethel convinces Lucy that Ricky is fooling around with the lead dancer in his nightclub act.

Episode 11 • Dec 24, 1951 • 30 m

Ricky and Fred are going to do a show for the Army troops at Fort Dix. To keep Lucy from wanting to be in it, they keep the reason they're going a secret. Lucy and Ethel think they've been drafted.

Episode 12 • Dec 31, 1951 • 30 m

Lucy decides to try out for a job as an Apache dancer in Ricky's show. The man she rehearses with falls madly in love with her.

Episode 13 • Jan 7, 1952 • 30 m

Lucy gets Ricky to perform with her at a benefit for Ethel's club.

Episode 14 • Jan 14, 1952 • 30 m

The Amateur Hour

To earn some extra money to pay for a new dress, Lucy takes a job babysitting a little boy. She is amazed that she will be getting $5 an hour. She finds out why when the boy's mother sneaks a second, twin boy into the apartment.

Episode 15 • Jan 21, 1952 • 30 m

Lucy Plays Cupid

Lucy's neighbor wants her to deliver an invitation to the grocer for a date. When she does, the grocer thinks the note is from Lucy rather than the neighbor. The grocer is delighted to think he will have dinner with Lucy.

Episode 16 • Jan 28, 1952 • 30 m

Lucy Fakes Illness

Lucy is so frustrated that Ricky won't let her go into show business, she fakes being mentally ill. When Ricky finds out, he hires an actor to play a doctor and tell her she's really very sick and needs an operation.

Episode 17 • Feb 4, 1952 • 30 m

Lucy Writes a Play

Lucy enters a playwriting competition, hoping to cast Ricky, but has to settle for Fred, and rewrites. But when Ricky learns a movie producer will be judging the plays, he takes over for Fred, not knowing the script's been changed.

Episode 18 • Feb 11, 1952 • 30 m

Breaking the Lease

The Ricardos try to break their lease after a fight with the Mertzes.

Episode 19 • Feb 18, 1952 • 30 m

Lucy claims to have been a ballerina, to get into Ricky's show. She goes to Madame Le Mond's class to hone her ballet skills.

Episode 20 • Feb 25, 1952 • 30 m

Lucy and Ricky try to deal with youthful admirers.

Episode 21 • Mar 3, 1952 • 30 m

Lucy thinks the new neighbors are plotting a murder.

Episode 22 • Mar 10, 1952 • 30 m

Fred and Ethel Fight

Lucy tries to reunite the separated Mertzes after they had a big fight.

Episode 23 • Mar 17, 1952 • 30 m

Ricky grows a mustache to get an acting job in a movie. Lucy doesn't like it, so she wears a fake beard and mustache she gets from Fred. The adhesive is so old, it won't come off.

Episode 24 • Mar 24, 1952 • 30 m

The boys and girls bet each other breakfast in bed for a month that they can't stop gossiping.

Episode 25 • Mar 31, 1952 • 30 m

The girls revolt over housework and want modern conveniences. The boys bet that they can survive longer than the girls without using anything invented after 1900, including electricity.

Episode 26 • Apr 7, 1952 • 30 m

The Marriage License

When Lucy finds a misspelling on her marriage license, she believes her marriage to Ricky isn't legal.

Episode 27 • Apr 14, 1952 • 30 m

The Kleptomaniac

Lucy is the chairman of a bazaar for her club, but doesn't tell Ricky. When he finds all the cash and donations hidden in the apartment, he accuses her of being a compulsive thief.

Episode 28 • Apr 21, 1952 • 30 m

Lucy tries to emulate Ricky's former dance partner from Cuba.

Episode 29 • Apr 28, 1952 • 30 m

Lucy and Ethel decide to make some money by buying a used walk-in freezer. When they unwittingly buy 700 pounds of beef, they try to sell it to customers at the butcher shop.

Episode 30 • May 5, 1952 • 30 m

Lucy Does a TV Commercial

Episode 31 • May 12, 1952 • 30 m

The Publicity Agent

Ricky's publicity goes bad, so Lucy creates a stunt that includes her posing as the "Maharincess of Franistan."

Episode 32 • May 19, 1952 • 30 m

Lucy Gets Ricky on the Radio

The gang listens to a quiz show on the radio and Ricky answers all of the questions right. This inspires Lucy to get Ricky and herself on the show.

Episode 33 • May 26, 1952 • 30 m

Lucy's Schedule

After Lucy causes them to be late for dinner with Ricky's new boss, he puts her on a tight schedule.

Episode 34 • Jun 2, 1952 • 30 m

Ricky Thinks He's Getting Bald

Lucy tries to convince Ricky that he is not losing his hair.

Episode 35 • Jun 9, 1952 • 30 m

Ricky Asks for a Raise

After Ricky loses his job when he asks for a raise, Lucy comes up with a plan to demonstrate to his boss how important he is.

6 Seasons

Top Cast

Lucille Ball

Lucy Ricardo

Desi Arnaz

Ricky Ricardo

Vivian Vance

Ethel Mertz

William Frawley

Fred Mertz

Joseph A. Mayer

Little Ricky Ricardo

Bennett Green

Messenger, Cameraman, Deliveryman

Michael Mayer

Little Ricky Ricardo

Richard Keith

Little Ricky Ricardo, Little Ricky

Hazel Pierce

Party Guest, Club Member, Neighbor

Louis Nicoletti

Waiter, Boom Man, Burglar #2

Jerry Hausner

Jerry, Little Ricky, Baby Ricky Ricardo, Crying Baby, Joe

Elizabeth Patterson

Mrs. Trumbull, Mrs. Willoughby

Frank Nelson

Ralph Ramsey, Ben Benjamin, Conductor, Customs Officer, Dickie Davis, Freddie Fillmore, Freddie Filmore, Freddy Fillmore, Henry the Waiter, Sergeant Nelson

Doris Singleton

Caroline Appleby, Lillian Appleby

Barbara Pepper

Party Guest, Chorus Girl, Customer in dress shop, Friends of the Friendless Member, Neighbor, Nurse, Voice of the Woman in 4B, Woman in Butcher Shop, Woman on Bus

Marco Rizo

Pianist, Marco, Piano Player, Marco - Piano Player

Kathryn Card

Mrs. McGillicuddy, Minnie Finch

Richard Reeves

Assassin, Bill Foster, Hank, Lighting man at club, Policeman, Stagehand, TV Show Announcer, Tall Indian, Voice of Albert, the Man in 4B

Bob Jellison

Bellboy, Bobby the Bellboy, Milkman

Mary Jane Croft

Betty Ramsey, Cynthia Harcourt, Evelyn Bigsby

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