I Love Lucy: Season 6

1956 · 27 episodes · ★ 8.8

What Season 6 of I Love Lucy

Season 6 of I Love Lucy It has 27 episodes and aired October 1, 1956. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.

27episodes

Oct 1, 1956aired

May 6, 1957latest episode

11.7 hrtotal runtime

Season 6 Episodes

6x01 Lucy and Bob Hope
Oct 1, 1956 · 26 min
Ricky is opening a new club, and he wants Bob Hope to appear at the grand opening. Lucy fears Hope won't appear because of her widespread reputation for monkey-wrench throwing, and wants to reassure him that this time she's butting out.
Directing: James V. Kern · Starring: Bob Hope, Ralph Sanford, Peter Leeds, Keith Thibodeaux
6x02 Little Ricky Learns to Play the Drums
Oct 8, 1956 · 26 min
Little Ricky gets drums and the Mertzes get headaches. So do Lucy and Ricky, but they're not about to evict themselves.
Directing: James V. Kern · Starring: Keith Thibodeaux, Elizabeth Patterson
6x03 Lucy Meets Orson Welles
Oct 15, 1956 · 26 min
Lucy tries to get in a skit with Orson Welles at Ricky's club, thinking it is a Shakespearean play that he will be doing. When Orson Welles tells Lucy she can be in the show, she calls her old high school drama teacher to tell her the news. Lucy's old teacher sends her whole drama class to Club Babalu to see Lucy perform. But poor Lucy! It turns out Welles only wanted her to be his assistant for a magic trick.
Directed by: James V. Kern · With: Ellen Corby, Orson Welles, Keith Thibodeaux, Lou Krugman
6x04 Little Ricky Gets Stage Fright
Oct 22, 1956 · 26 min
Little Ricky is scheduled to play the drums in a children's orchestra. Although his parents and their friends the Mertzes are overcome with nervousness, Little Ricky seems calm until his big moment arrives; then he goes to pieces. His next performance is six months away, but Lucy feels she must do something about his stage fright now.
Directing: James V. Kern · Starring: Howard McNear, Keith Thibodeaux, Marjorie Bennett
6x05 Visitor from Italy
Oct 29, 1956 · 26 min
Mario, the Ricardos and Mertzes' gondolier in Venice, comes to New York to surprise his brother Dominic, but turns up at the Ricardos' apartment when he can't find him. Lucy is sure Dominic is in San Francisco and sets out to help Mario raise the bus fare. Her earnest efforts pay off in a surprising way.
With: Louis Nicoletti, Peter Brocco, Jay Novello, Eduardo Ciannelli
6x06 Off to Florida
Nov 12, 1956 · 26 min
When Lucy misplaces two train tickets to Florida, she and Ethel consult the classified section, hoping to share a ride with someone driving south. They team up with a peculiar middle-aged woman, Mrs. Grundy, who's bent on getting to Florida in record time.
With: Elsa Lanchester, Strother Martin, Keith Thibodeaux, Roy Rowan
6x07 Deep Sea Fishing
Nov 19, 1956 · 26 min
It's Lucy and Ethel vs. Ricky and Fred in a fishing contest while they're on a Florida vacation. The wager: $150 (about what Lucy and Ethel had spent in hotel boutiques), so both sides do a little cheating to ensure a victory.
With: Keith Thibodeaux, Jim Hayward, Bill McLean
6x08 Desert Island
Nov 26, 1956 · 26 min
Lucy and Ethel will do anything to keep Ricky and Fred from judging a Miami Beach beauty contest (and end up being menaced on a seemingly deserted island as a result).
With: Claude Akins, Keith Thibodeaux, Jil Jarmyn, Joi Lansing
6x09 The Ricardos Visit Cuba
Dec 3, 1956 · 26 min
Still on their vacation, the Ricardos go to Cuba, where Ricky wants to introduce his relatives to Lucy and Little Ricky.
Directing: James V. Kern · Writing: Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf · Starring: Mary Emery, Keith Thibodeaux, Jorge Treviño, Nacho Galindo
6x10 Little Ricky's School Pageant
Dec 17, 1956 · 26 min
Little Ricky's school pageant "The Enchanted Forest" is coming up and it's coming up short on cast members, so the Ricardos and Mertzes volunteer. Ricky's a hollow stump, Fred's a frog and Ethel's the fairy princess. And Lucy? She's a witch.
With: Keith Thibodeaux, Candy Rogers Schoenberger
6x11 Christmas Show
Dec 24, 1956 · 30 min · ★ 8.2
The Ricardos and Mertzes spend Christmas Eve decorating a tree - and remembering moments that led up to the birth of Little Ricky five years earlier.
Directing: William Asher, James V. Kern · Writing: Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf · Starring: A. Cameron Grant
6x12 Lucy and the Loving Cup
Jan 7, 1957 · 25 min
Ricky's disapproval of Lucy's new hat leads to her trying on a loving cup which Ricky has planned to present to jockey Johnny Longden at a National Turf Association dinner. The problem is that Lucy can't get the trophy off her head.
With: Keith Thibodeaux, Johnny Longden, Hazel Longden, Robert Foulk
6x13 Lucy and Superman
Jan 14, 1957 · 26 min
When Stevie Appleby, Caroline's son, has a birthday party the same day as Little Ricky's, Lucy looks for unusual entertainment to lure the children. Ricky remembers that Superman is in town, and he invites him. But when Ricky is unable to corral Superman, Lucy is left with no choice but to dress as the Man of Steel herself. George Reeves makes a special guest-star appearance in this episode.
Directed by: James V. Kern · Written by: Madelyn Pugh, Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf · With: George Reeves, Doris Singleton, Keith Thibodeaux, Madge Blake
6x14 Little Ricky Gets a Dog
Jan 21, 1957 · 26 min
The Ricardos' apartment begins to resemble a pet shop when Little Ricky gets a puppy. Lucy and Ricky are both determined to get rid of the puppy after their son brings it home -- as are their landlords, Fred and Ethel. They have a hard time overcoming Little Ricky's arguments that a puppy would be a welcome addition to a home that already boasts a canary, a frog, a lizard, a turtle, and some goldfish.
Directed by: James V. Kern · Written by: Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf · With: Keith Thibodeaux, John Emery, June Foray
6x15 Lucy Wants to Move to the Country
Jan 28, 1957 · 25 min
Lucy decides that it would be nice to move to the country and prevails on Ricky to place a comfortable deposit on a big house. Ricky agrees and puts a down payment on a house in Westport, Connecticut. It is not long before Lucy changes her mind. Lucy, Ethel, and Fred put on disguises to try and help poor Ricky get his deposit back.
Starring: Eleanor Audley, Frank Wilcox
6x16 Lucy Hates to Leave
Feb 4, 1957 · 26 min
The Ricardos find themselves, and all their belongings, boarding with the Mertzes while they wait to move into their new Westport, Connecticut home.
Directing: William Asher · Writing: Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf · Starring: Keith Thibodeaux, Gene Reynolds, Mary Ellen Kay
6x17 Lucy Misses the Mertzes
Feb 11, 1957 · 25 min
As the Ricardos get settled in their new country home, they immediately wind up in a mix-up with their old friends Fred and Ethel Mertz. Missing their old friends already, Lucy and Ricky decide to visit the Mertzes. At the same time, the Mertzes decide to trek to the country to visit the Ricardos, and what began simply becomes complicated.
With: Keith Thibodeaux, Robert Bice, Tristram Coffin, Gary Gray
6x18 Lucy Gets Chummy With the Neighbors
Feb 18, 1957 · 26 min
With the best intentions in the world, Lucy somehow causes a misunderstanding with her neighbors, the Ramseys. It all starts when Betty Ramsey offers Lucy some advice and a wholesale deal on furniture. For a time, the Ricardos' whole future at their Connecticut home seems threatened.
With: Parley Baer, Keith Thibodeaux, Mary Jane Croft, Frank Nelson
6x19 Lucy Raises Chickens
Mar 4, 1957 · 26 min
The Mertzes find a way to stay with the Ricardos: chicken farming. But the scheme puts Lucy over her head in chickens when she and Ethel bring home 500 baby chicks before the hen house is ready.
Directing: William Asher · Writing: Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf · Starring: Keith Thibodeaux, Mary Jane Croft, Mary Alan Hokanson, Tyler McVey
6x20 Lucy Does the Tango
Mar 11, 1957 · 26 min
Chicken-raising and practicing a tango for Little Ricky's school PTA meeting combine to get the Ricardos and the Mertzes in a verbal battle. It's up to Ricky, Jr. and his neighborhood pal Bruce Ramsey to straighten things out.
Directing: William Asher · Writing: Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf · Starring: Keith Thibodeaux, Ray Ferrell
6x21 Ragtime Band
Mar 18, 1957 · 26 min
When Ricky refuses to bring his rumba band out to Westport to play for a Historical Society benefit, Lucy and the Mertzes put together a combo of their own, with Little Ricky on drums.
Directing: William Asher · Writing: Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf · Starring: Keith Thibodeaux
6x22 Lucy's Night in Town
Mar 25, 1957 · 25 min
After spending six whole weeks in their new Connecticut home, Lucy dreams of a night in New York City and it turns into a nightmare. Four carefully hoarded tickets to the Broadway musical hit "The Most Happy Fella" are supposed to get the Ricardos and the Mertzes in to see the sold-out show. But difficulties arise when Fred Mertz gets nervous about pickpockets because he's carrying $500 in cash in his pockets.
With: Louis Nicoletti, Keith Thibodeaux, Joseph Kearns, Gladys Hurlbut
6x23 Housewarming
Apr 1, 1957 · 26 min
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.
Directed by: William Asher · Written by: Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf · With: Keith Thibodeaux, Mary Jane Croft, Frank Nelson
6x24 Building a B.B.Q.
Apr 8, 1957 · 26 min
Lucy has a problem deciding what to do to get her vacationing husband, Ricky, out of her hair so she can do her housework. She and Ethel solve the problem by putting their husbands to work building a barbecue.
Directing: William Asher · Writing: Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf · Starring: Keith Thibodeaux
6x25 Country Club Dance
Apr 22, 1957 · 25 min
Lucy, Ethel, and Betty want their husbands to dance with their friends' visiting houseguest - until they see that she's a sultry, young blonde. Now the boys are only too happy to oblige - and the miffed wives decide to fight glamour with glamour.
Writing: Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf · Starring: Keith Thibodeaux, Ruth Brady, Mary Jane Croft, Frank Nelson
6x26 Lucy Raises Tulips
Apr 29, 1957 · 26 min
Suburban living gets Lucy into a flower-show competition, and she raises tulips with a vengeance as she tries to beat out her neighbor, Betty Ramsey, for first prize. Lucy asks Ricky to mow the lawn so that her garden will look just right. But he only mows half before taking off for a baseball game, leaving Lucy and Ethel to tiptoe through the tulips -- with the lawnmower.
Starring: Keith Thibodeaux, Mary Jane Croft, Eleanor Audley, Peter Brocco
6x27 The Ricardos Dedicate a Statue Season Finale
May 6, 1957 · 26 min
Ricky has been chosen to dedicate a new Revolutionary War statue in the Westport Town Square. There's a problem: Lucy has accidentally destroyed the one-of-a-kind sculpture.
Directed by: William Asher · Written by: Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf · With: Keith Thibodeaux, Desi Arnaz Jr.