| I Love Lucy: Season 3 | |
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| Season 3 | |
 Season 3 DVD Cover | |
| Network | CBS-TV |
| Episodes | 31 |
| Aired from | October 5, 1953 - May 24, 1954 |
| Premiere | Ricky's 'Life' Story |
| Finale | The Sublease |
| Season guide | |
| Previous Season 2 |
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I Love Lucy season three lasted from October 5, 1953 to May 24, 1954, with a total of 31 episodes.
Series overview[]
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired (U.S. dates) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season premiere | Season finale | |||
| Season 1 | 35 | October 15, 1951 | June 9, 1952 | |
| Season 2 | 31 | September 15, 1952 | June 29, 1953 | |
| Season 3 | 31 | October 5, 1953 | May 24, 1954 | |
| Season 4 | 30 | October 4, 1954 | May 30, 1955 | |
| Season 5 | 26 | October 3, 1955 | May 14, 1956 | |
| Season 6 | 27 | October 1, 1956 | May 6, 1957 | |
Season 3 (1953-1954)[]
| Ep.# | # in Series | Prod. Code | Title | Written by | Directed by | Film Date | Original Air Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 68 | 3-1 / 068 | The Girls Go Into Business | Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh & Bob Carroll, Jr. | William Asher | September 11, 1953 | October 12, 1953 |
| Lucy and Ethel buy a dress shop on a shoestring, but they wind up in the red. | |||||||
| 2 | 69 | 3-2 / 069 | Lucy and Ethel Buy the Same Dress | Jess Oppenheimer
Madelyn Pugh Bob Carroll, Jr. |
William Asher | September 17, 1953 | October 19, 1953 |
| The girls are going to appear on TV with their club, having chosen to sing Cole Porter's "Friendship" in celebration of their bond. Everybody's pleased, until the two women buy the same dress for the occasion. | |||||||
| 3 | 70 | 3-3 / 070 | Equal Rights | Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh 7 Bob Carroll, Jr. | William Asher | September 24, 1953 | October 26, 1953 |
| Tired of Ricky and Fred's attitude towards them, the girls demand equal rights. Ricky and Fred turn the tables on them when, out to dinner, they call for separate checks, and Ethel and Lucy, lacking any money in their purses, must wash dishes to pay for their meals. | |||||||
| 4 | 71 | 3-4 / 071 | Baby Pictures | Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh & Bob Carroll, Jr. | William Asher | October 1, 1953 | November 2, 1953 |
| The Ricardos have decided they're not going to brag about their new baby. | |||||||
| 5 | 72 | 3-5 / 072 | Lucy Tells the Truth | Jess Oppenheimer
Madelyn Pugh Bob Carroll, Jr. |
William Asher | October 8, 1953 | November 9, 1953 |
| Ricky bets Lucy that she can't go twenty-four hours without telling a fib. Problems begin when Lucy starts being brutally frank with everyone. | |||||||
| 6 | 73 | 3-6 / 073 | The French Revue | Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh & Bob Carroll, Jr. | William Asher | October 15, 1953 | November 16, 1953 |
| Ricky's going to stage a French Revue at his club and Lucy bets him fifty dollars that she can get into the act no matter what he does to stop her. | |||||||
| 7 | 74 | 3-7 / 074 | Redecorating the Mertzes' Apartment | Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh & Bob Carroll, Jr. | William Asher | October 22, 1953 | November 23, 1953 |
| The Ricardos help the Mertzes redecorate their apartment. They paint the walls and cover the furniture - in typical Ricardo fashion. | |||||||
| 8 | 75 | 3-8 / 075 | Too Many Crooks | Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh & Bob Carroll, Jr. | William Asher | October 29, 1953 | November 30, 1953 |
| The police are looking for "Madame X," the mysterious cat burglar. Due to mutual misunderstandings, Lucy is suspected by the Mertzes, and Ethel is suspected by the Ricardos. | |||||||
| 9 | 76 | 3-9 / 076 | Changing the Boys' Wardrobe | Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh & Bob Carroll, Jr. | William Asher | November 5, 1953 | December 7, 1953 |
| Ricky 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 clothes dealer. Hans Conried guest stars. | |||||||
| 10 | 77 | 3-10 / 077 | Lucy Has Her Eyes Examined | Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh & Bob Carroll, Jr. | William Asher | November 12, 1953 | December 14, 1953 |
| A visit to the eye doctor leaves Lucy's vision hopelessly blurred for the rest of the day. But that doesn't stop her from auditioning a jitterbug number at the club. | |||||||
| 11 | 78 | 3-11 / 078 | Ricky's Old Girlfriend | Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh & Bob Carroll, Jr. | William Asher | November 19, 1953 | December 21, 1953 |
| Lucy wants to know about Ricky's old girlfriends, so he invents one named Carlotta Romero. Then a singer with that name shows up in town. | |||||||
| 12 | 79 | 3-12 / 079 | The Million-Dollar Idea | Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh & Bob Carroll, Jr. | William Asher | November 26, 1953 | January 11, 1954 |
| Lucy concocts a delicious salad dressing, and Fred tells her she ought to sell it. Marketing the product as "Aunt Martha's Old Fashioned Salad Dressing," the girls manage to receive hundreds of orders. The problem: they've priced the product so cheaply that it will cost them rather than make them money. | |||||||
| 13 | 80 | 3-13 / 080 | Ricky Minds the Baby | Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh & Bob Carroll, Jr. | William Asher | December 3, 1953 | January 18, 1954 |
| Ricky decides that Lucy deserves a rest, so he offers to take care of Little Ricky, who wanders into the Mertzs' apartment while he is distracted. | |||||||
| 14 | 81 | 3-14 / 081 | The Charm School | Jess Oppenheimer
Madelyn Pugh Bob Carroll, Jr. |
William Asher | December 10, 1953 | January 25, 1954 |
| After seeing the boys give a pretty girl the eye, Lucy and Ethel decide to go to charm school. Future Gilligan's Island star Natalie Schafer appears as the charm school instructor. | |||||||
| 15 | 82 | 3-15 / 082 | Sentimental Anniversary | Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh & Bob Carroll, Jr. | William Asher | December 17, 1953 | February 1, 1954 |
| It's the Ricardos' wedding anniversary, and they plan to spend it alone, together. That's the plan, anyway. | |||||||
| 16 | 83 | 3-16 / 083 | Fan Magazine Interview | Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh & Bob Carroll, Jr. | William Asher | January 7, 1954 | February 8, 1954 |
| The Ricardos prepare for an interview with a reporter from a fan magazine by putting on their best clothes and manners. | |||||||
| 17 | 84 | 3-17 / 084 | Oil Wells | Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh & Bob Carroll, Jr. | William Asher | January 14, 1954 | February 15, 1954 |
| Lucy and Ethel learn that their new neighbors own stock in a Texas oil well. | |||||||
| 18 | 85 | 3-18 / 085 | Ricky Loses His Temper | Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh & Bob Carroll, Jr. | William Asher | January 21, 1954 | February 22, 1954 |
| Lucy has a scheme that's sure to net her a new hat. All she has to do is get Ricky to lose his temper. | |||||||
| 19 | 86 | 3-19 / 086 | Home Movies | Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh & Bob Carroll, Jr. | William Asher | January 28, 1954 | March 1, 1954 |
| Ricky's home movies inspire Lucy to become a professional moviemaker, with disastrous results when Ricky's TV pilot is shown with Lucy's footage (which was a disaster to begin with) spliced in. | |||||||
| 20 | 87 | 3-20 / 087 | Bonus Bucks | Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh & Bob Carroll, Jr. | William Asher | February 4, 1954 | March 8, 1954 |
| Lucy has the winning dollar bill in the newspaper's "Bonus Buck" contest, but lets it slip through her fingers. Now she has only a few hours left to get it back. | |||||||
| 21 | 88 | 3-21 / 088 | Ricky's Hawaiian Vacation | Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh & Bob Carroll, Jr. | William Asher | February 11, 1954 | March 22, 1954 |
| Ricky's band gets an offer to play in Honolulu. Lucy disguises herself as her mother and goes on a TV game show to try to raise enough money so she and Mertzes can go along. | |||||||
| 22 | 89 | 3-22 / 089 | Lucy Is Envious | Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh & Bob Carroll, Jr. | William Asher | February 16, 1954 | March 29, 1954 |
| After Lucy inadvertently pledges a five-hundred dollar donation to the charity run by her rich high-school pal, she and Ethel pose as "women from Mars" to earn the money. Herb Vigranguest stars. | |||||||
| 23 | 90 | 3-23 / 090 | Lucy Writes a Novel | Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh & Bob Carroll, Jr. | William Asher | March 4, 1954 | April 5, 1954 |
| Lucy reads about a housewife who makes a fortune writing a novel in her spare time, so she takes a crack at it by writing her first novel, "Real Gone with the Wind." However, Ricky, Ethel, and Fred don't like the way Lucy has portrayed them and try to stop the book from being published. | |||||||
| 24 | 91 | 3-24 / 091 | Lucy's Club Dance | Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh & Bob Carroll, Jr. | William Asher | March 11, 1954 | April 12, 1954 |
| The girls decide to raise money for their Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League by sponsoring a dance. | |||||||
| 25 | 93 | 3-26 / 094 | The Diner | Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh & Bob Carroll, Jr. | William Asher | March 18, 1954 | April 26, 1954 |
| Ricky decides to quit show business, and the Ricardos and the Mertzes decide to open up a diner. The Mertzes struggle with all the difficult cooking, while Ricky only has to be the greeter. Because of a road detour, there are few customers. | |||||||
| 26 | 92 | 3-25 / 093 | The Black Wig | Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh & Bob Carroll, Jr. | William Asher | March 25, 1954 | April 19, 1954 |
| Lucy dons a black wig, believing it changes her appearance enough to test Ricky's marital fidelity. Eve McVeagh guest stars. | |||||||
| 27 | 94 | 3-27 / 094 | Tennessee Ernie Visits | Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh & Bob Carroll, Jr. | William Asher | April 1, 1954 | May 3, 1954 |
| Tennessee Ernie Ford shows up in the big city with his guitar and a letter of introduction to the Ricardos. | |||||||
| 28 | 95 | 3-28 / 095 | Tennessee Ernie Hangs On | Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh & Bob Carroll, Jr. | William Asher | April 8, 1954 | May 10, 1954 |
| Ernie is still boarding at the Ricardos'. They try to get resources to pay for his travel home. | |||||||
| 29 | 96 | 3-29 / 096 | The Golf Game | Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh & Bob Carroll, Jr. | William Asher | April 15, 1954 | May 17, 1954 |
| The girls take up golf, and in an attempt to scare them off, Ricky and Fred complicate the game's rules and regulations. Golf champion Jimmy Demaret guest stars as himself. | |||||||
| 30 | 97 | 3-30 / 097 | The Sublease | Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh & Bob Carroll, Jr. | William Asher | April 22, 1954 | May 24, 1954 |
| The Ricardos have sublet their apartment. But Lucy, deciding they were too hasty, decides to frighten away the new tenant. After discovering that the new tenant was a witness in a murder trial, Lucy and Ethel decide to stage a murder in front of him. | |||||||