Season 6

I Love Lucy: Season 6
Season 6
Season 6 DVD Cover
Episodes	27
Aired from	October 1, 1956 - May 6, 1957
Finale	The Ricardos Dedicate a Statue
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I Love Lucy season six lasted from October 1, 1956 to May 6, 1957, with a total of 27 episodes.

Season 6 (1956-57)

#	# in Series	Prod. code	Title	Written by	Directed by	Film Date	Original Air Date
1	154	6-01 / 154	Lucy and Bob Hope	Madelyn Martin Bob Carroll, Jr. Bob Schiller Bob Weiskopf	James V. Kern	June 5, 1956	October 1, 1956
Sighting Bob Hope at Yankee Stadium, Lucy hopes to persuade him to appear at Ricky's club. To get close enough to him, she disguises herself first as a hot-dog vendor, then as a tobacco-chewing umpire.
2	155	6-02 / 157	Little Ricky Learns to Play the Drums	Madelyn Martin Bob Carroll, Jr. Bob Schiller Bob Weiskopf	James V. Kern	June 28, 1956	October 8, 1956
Little Ricky's non-stop drum playing threatens the Ricardos' and Mertzes' friendship.
3	156	6-03 / 155	Lucy Meets Orson Welles	Madelyn Martin Bob Carroll, Jr. Bob Schiller Bob Weiskopf	James V. Kern	June 14, 1956	October 15, 1956
Lucy wangles a job as Orson Welles's assistant when he appears at Ricky's club. He's doing a magic act, but Lucy's doing Shakespeare.
4	157	6-04 / 156	Little Ricky Gets Stage Fright	Madelyn Martin Bob Carroll, Jr. Bob Schiller Bob Weiskopf	James V. Kern	June 21, 1956	October 22, 1956
Little Ricky gets stage fright before his first school music recital. Howard McNear guest stars.
5	158	6-05 / 158	Visitor From Italy	Madelyn Martin Bob Carroll, Jr. Bob Schiller Bob Weiskopf	James V. Kern	September 24, 1956	October 29, 1956
When the Venetian gondolier the Ricardos met in Europe shows up in New York, a series of mishaps result in Lucy's working at a pizza parlor.
6	159	6-06 / 159	Off to Florida	Madelyn Martin Bob Carroll, Jr. Bob Schiller Bob Weiskopf	James V. Kern	September 13, 1956	November 12, 1956
Driving to Miami to meet their husbands, the girls share the drive with a strange lady (Elsa Lanchester) they suspect is an ax murderess. Character actor Strother Martin appears as a store clerk.
7	160	6-07 / 160	Deep Sea Fishing	Madelyn Martin Bob Carroll, Jr. Bob Schiller Bob Weiskopf	James V. Kern	September 27, 1956	November 19, 1956
On a deep-sea fishing trip, the boys bet the girls that they'll catch bigger fish. To win the bet, the men and the women each buy large tunas to pass off as their catch...the only problem is hiding the fish from their spouses.
8	161	6-08 / 161	Desert Island	Madelyn Martin Bob Carroll, Jr. Bob Schiller Bob Weiskopf	James V. Kern	October 4, 1956	November 26, 1956
Lucy and Ethel's scheme to prevent the boys from judging a beauty contest leaves the Ricardos and the Mertzes marooned on a desert island. Claude Akins guest stars as himself.
9	162	6-09 / 162	The Ricardos Visit Cuba	Madelyn Martin Bob Carroll, Jr. Bob Schiller Bob Weiskopf	James V. Kern	October 18, 1956	December 3, 1956
Lucy is bent on impressing Ricky's family when they visit Havana, Cuba, but she can't seem to say or do anything right.
10	163	6-10 / 163	Little Ricky's School Pageant	Madelyn Martin Bob Carroll, Jr. Bob Schiller Bob Weiskopf	James V. Kern	October 25, 1956	December 17, 1956
The Ricardos and the Mertzes sign on as extra cast members in Little Ricky's class play, "The Enchanted Forest".
11	164	6-11 / 166	Lucy and the Loving Cup	Madelyn Martin Bob Carroll, Jr. Bob Schiller Bob Weiskopf	James V. Kern	November 1, 1956	January 7, 1957
Lucy jokingly dons a loving cup Ricky is supposed to present to jockey Johnny Longden, but then she can't get it off her head.
12	165	6-12/ 165	Little Ricky Gets a Dog	Madelyn Martin Bob Carroll, Jr. Bob Schiller Bob Weiskopf	James V. Kern	November 8, 1956	January 21, 1957
Little Ricky's new puppy prompts complaints by another tenant.
13	166	6-13 / 167	Lucy and Superman	Madelyn Martin Bob Carroll, Jr. Bob Schiller Bob Weiskopf	James V. Kern	November 15, 1956	January 14, 1957
Lucy promises to produce Superman ([[George Reeves]) for Little Ricky's fifth birthday party, but must make alternate plans when he is unable to attend. She hastily tries to impersonate Superman, but gets locked out on the balcony with the pigeons.
14	167	6-14 / 168	Lucy Wants to Move to the Country	Madelyn Martin Bob Carroll, Jr. Bob Schiller Bob Weiskopf	William Asher	December 6, 1956	January 28, 1957
Fed up with city life, Lucy yearns for the suburban life.
15	168	6-15 / 169	Lucy Hates to Leave	Madelyn Martin Bob Carroll, Jr. Bob Schiller Bob Weiskopf	William Asher	December 13, 1956	February 4, 1957
The Ricardos find themselves, and all their belongings, boarding with the Mertzes while they wait to move into their new Westport, Connecticut home.
16	169	6-16 / 170	Lucy Misses the Mertzes	Madelyn Martin Bob Carroll, Jr. Bob Schiller Bob Weiskopf	William Asher	December 20, 1956	February 11, 1957
17	170	6-17 / 171	Lucy Gets Chummy With the Neighbors	Madelyn Martin Bob Carroll, Jr. Bob Schiller Bob Weiskopf	William Asher	January 10, 1957	February 18, 1957
Lucy's new neighbor, Betty Ramsey, talks Lucy into buying all new furniture. Frank Nelson and Mary Jane Croft make their initial appearance as the Ramseys.
18	171	6-18 / 172	Lucy Raises Chickens	Madelyn Martin Bob Carroll, Jr. Bob Schiller Bob Weiskopf	William Asher	January 17, 1957	March 4, 1957
Lucy and Ricky decide to raise chickens to help make ends meet. Soon the house is overrun with a flock of baby chicks, on the day a fashion magazine photographer is due to visit.
19	172	6-19 / 173	Lucy Does the Tango	Madelyn Martin Bob Carroll, Jr. Bob Schiller Bob Weiskopf	William Asher	February 7, 1957	March 11, 1957
Lucy "boosts" egg production by buying several dozen eggs and pretending they are homegrown. But her plan to hide them in her blouse goes awry when Ricky asks her to help him rehearse a tango number. This resulted in one of the longest sustained audience laughter sequences in sitcoms.
20	173	6-20 / 174	Ragtime Band	Madelyn Martin Bob Carroll, Jr. Bob Schiller Bob Weiskopf	William Asher	February 14, 1957	March 18, 1957
Lucy promises that Ricky will play at a local benefit, but he refuses. So she and the Mertzes put together their own combo—featuring Ricky Ricardo, Jr.
21	174	6-21 / 175	Lucy's Night in Town	Madelyn Martin Bob Carroll, Jr. Bob Schiller Bob Weiskopf	William Asher	February 21, 1957	March 25, 1957
In Manhattan for dinner and a hit Broadway show ("The Most Happy Fella"), Lucy discovers that their tickets were instead for the matinée performance. Joseph Kearns has a minor role.
22	175	6-22 / 176	Housewarming	Madelyn Martin Bob Carroll, Jr. Bob Schiller Bob Weiskopf	William Asher	February 28, 1957	April 1, 1957
Ethel is jealous of Lucy's friendship with Betty Ramsey. But when Betty reveals that she's from Ethel's home town of Albuquerque, the two become fast friends, and now it's Lucy who feels left out.
23	176	6-23 / 177	Building a B-B-Q	Madelyn Martin Bob Carroll, Jr. Bob Schiller Bob Weiskopf	William Asher	March 14, 1957	April 8, 1957
Lucy and Ethel decide that the only way to get Ricky to build the backyard barbecue is to start the project themselves. Things go bad when Lucy can't find her wedding ring and decides to take apart the entire B-B-Q.
24	177	6-24 / 178	Country Club Dance	Madelyn Martin Bob Carroll, Jr. Bob Schiller Bob Weiskopf	William Asher	March 21, 1957	April 22, 1957
At a club dance, Ricky, Fred, and Ralph Ramsey shower attention on a sultry young blonde (portrayed by a then-unknown 22-year-old Barbara Eden in an early role), much to the chagrin of their wives.
25	178	6-25 / 179-A	Lucy Raises Tulips	Madelyn Martin Bob Carroll, Jr. Bob Schiller Bob Weiskopf	William Asher	March 28, 1957	April 29, 1957
Lucy is determined to beat Betty Ramsey in Westport's "best-looking garden" contest, and she accidentally runs over Betty's tulip garden with a lawn mower.
26	179	6-26 / 179-B	The Ricardos Dedicate a Statue	Madelyn Martin Bob Carroll, Jr. Bob Schiller Bob Weiskopf	William Asher	April 4, 1957	May 6, 1957
Ricky has been chosen to dedicate a new Revolutionary War statue in the WestportTown Square. There's a problem: Lucy has accidentally destroyed the one-of-a-kind sculpture.
27	180	6-27 / Special	I Love Lucy Christmas Show	Madelyn Pugh Davis Bob Carroll, Jr. Bob Schiller Bob Weiskopf	James V. Kern	November 22, 1956	December 24, 1956
Lucy, Ricky, Fred and Ethel reminisce (courtesy of flashbacks to favorite episodes) as they trim the tree on Christmas Eve. Note: CBS would re-broadcast this episode in primetime on December 18, 1989. The "wrap around" segments (the non-flashback parts) were broadcast in color in 1990, and these color scenes are available on the season's DVD release. Because this was a "special episode," it was never re-broadcast in syndication.