List of I Love Lucy episodes
Season 5 (1955–56)

List of I Love Lucy episodes

Section Title: Season 5 (1955–56)
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No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Film date	Original air date

128	1	"Lucy Visits Grauman's"	James V. Kern	Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf	September 9, 1955	October 3, 1955

Lucy discovers that the cement slab with John Wayne's footprints in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater has come loose. Lucy talks Ethel into helping her steal the slab, and they make their get-away, Lucy gets her foot caught in a bucket of cement.

129	2	"Lucy and John Wayne"	James V. Kern	Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf	September 15, 1955	October 10, 1955

Lucy and Ethel have made off with the cement slab of John Wayne's footprints. Now the police are called in to investigate.

130	3	"Lucy and the Dummy"	James V. Kern	Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf	September 22, 1955	October 17, 1955

MGM asks Ricky to help entertain executives at a studio party. Ricky has plans to go deep-sea fishing, but as far as Lucy is concerned, "the show must go on"—and she ends up being offered a contract.

131	4	"Ricky Sells the Car"	James V. Kern	Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf	September 29, 1955	October 24, 1955

Ricky sells the car and buys train tickets for the trip back East, but he forgets about Fred and Ethel.

132	5	"The Great Train Robbery"	James V. Kern	Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf	October 6, 1955	October 31, 1955

Lucy gets mixed up with a jewel thief on a cross-country rail trip that marks the end of the series' Hollywood sojourn.

133	6	"Homecoming"	James V. Kern	Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf	October 20, 1955	November 7, 1955

Back in Manhattan, Ricky is surrounded by excited friends wanting to know about his picture. Soon, even Lucy starts treating him like a star.

134	7	"Face to Face"	James V. Kern	Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf	October 20, 1955	November 14, 1955

Lucy and Ricky are scheduled to appear on Ed Warren's (Elliott Reid) TV interview show, "Face to Face", at their home.

135	8	"Lucy Goes to a Rodeo"	James V. Kern	Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf	October 27, 1955	November 28, 1955

Ricky is dismayed to learn that he signed up to do not a radio show, but a rodeo show. When there are no acts available, he has to reluctantly turn to Lucy and the Mertzes.

136	9	"Nursery School"	James V. Kern	Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf	November 3, 1955	December 5, 1955

Lucy is not happy about being separated from Little Ricky, but Ricky insists the lad must start nursery school. She is really unhappy when he gets sick and must go to the hospital.

137	10	"Ricky's European Booking"	James V. Kern	Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf	November 10, 1955	December 12, 1955

Ricky's band gets booked in Europe, and the girls can only go if they can come up with enough money to pay their own way.

138	11	"The Passports"	James V. Kern	Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf	November 17, 1955	December 19, 1955

Lucy needs her birth certificate in order to get her passport, but Jamestown has no record of her being born. She devises a way to sneak to Europe with the others: hide in a large steamer trunk.

139	12	"Staten Island Ferry"	James V. Kern	Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf	November 24, 1955	January 2, 1956

The Ricardos and Mertzes are all ready to leave for Europe, until Fred announces that he gets seasick easily. Charles Lane guest stars.

140	13	"Bon Voyage"	James V. Kern	Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf	December 1, 1955	January 16, 1956

After boarding the ocean liner SS Constitution, Lucy goes ashore just one more time to kiss Little Ricky goodbye, and misses the boat.

141	14	"Second Honeymoon"	James V. Kern	Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf	December 8, 1955	January 23, 1956

Lucy plans to make the ocean voyage a second honeymoon, but Ricky has previous shipboard engagements with his band. When she's had enough, she devises a way to spend time with him no matter what.

142	15	"Lucy Meets the Queen"	James V. Kern	Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf	December 15, 1955	January 30, 1956

Lucy and Ethel go looking for Queen Elizabeth II on their first day in London, but no luck. When they arrive back at the hotel, Ricky tells her she's going to be presented to the Queen the next evening.

143	16	"The Fox Hunt"	James V. Kern	Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf	December 22, 1955	February 6, 1956

Lucy wants to spend a weekend on a British estate, but Ricky makes her promise not to try to wangle an invitation out of Sir Clive Richardson, with whom Ricky is scheduled to talk business.

144	17	"Lucy Goes to Scotland"	James V. Kern	Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf	January 6, 1956	February 20, 1956

In this Brigadoon-inspired episode, complete with musical numbers, Lucy finds herself in her ancestral village in Scotland. The villagers are delighted at her arrival, as it is once again the year when they must sacrifice a McGillicuddy to a man-eating, two-headed dragon (Fred and Ethel)--and until Lucy showed up, the clan was believed to be extinct.

145	18	"Paris at Last"	James V. Kern	Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf	January 12, 1956	February 27, 1956

The Ricardos and the Mertzes arrive in Paris only to find themselves locked up in jail for passing counterfeit francs.

146	19	"Lucy Meets Charles Boyer"	James V. Kern	Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf	January 19, 1956	March 5, 1956

Ricky has a luncheon engagement with Charles Boyer, and he wants to keep Lucy away from him.

147	20	"Lucy Gets a Paris Gown"	James V. Kern	Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf	February 16, 1956	March 19, 1956

After Lucy fakes a hunger strike to get an original Paris gown, Ricky decides to give her a true original made from a potato sack.

148	21	"Lucy in the Swiss Alps"	James V. Kern	Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf	February 23, 1956	March 26, 1956

The Ricardos and the Mertzes go mountain climbing in the Swiss Alps, and are stuck in a cabin with little to eat, after a sudden avalanche.

149	22	"Lucy Gets Homesick in Italy"	James V. Kern	Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf	March 1, 1956	April 9, 1956

Lucy, while in Florence, gets homesick for Little Ricky on his birthday, makes a lengthy, expensive phone call, and then hosts an impromptu party for several Italian children who all claim it's their birthday too.

150	23	"Lucy's Italian Movie"	James V. Kern	Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf	March 8, 1956	April 16, 1956

En route to Rome, an Italian producer offers Lucy a role in a film called Bitter Grapes. So she decides to take a job in a vineyard to absorb a little "local color." This episode contains the famous scene in which Lucy stomps grapes and picks a fight with her fellow stomper.

151	24	"Lucy's Bicycle Trip"	James V. Kern	Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf	March 22, 1956	April 23, 1956

Lucy organizes the Ricardos and the Mertzes for a bicycle trip from the Italian Riviera to Nice. But she doesn't know about the rough terrain, the aches and pains—or where she put her passport.

152	25	"Lucy Goes to Monte Carlo"	James V. Kern	Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf	March 29, 1956	May 7, 1956

Ricky has declared the Monte Carlo Casino out-of-bounds for Lucy, but she and Ethel "just happen" to eat dinner there. When she accidentally wins a fortune, she tries to hide it from Ricky.

153	26	"Return Home from Europe"	James V. Kern	Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf	April 5, 1956	May 14, 1956

Homeward-bound from Europe, Lucy tries to get out of paying duties by disguising a big piece of Italian cheese as a swaddled baby—much to the consternation of the new mother seated next to her on the plane.

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