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The Best Episodes of I Love Lucy Season 6

Every episode of I Love Lucy Season 6 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of I Love Lucy Season 6!

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Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    I Love Lucy Season 6 Episode 1 - Lucy and Bob Hope
    8.5/10(376 votes)

    #1 - Lucy and Bob Hope

    S6:E1

    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.

    Director:James V. Kern
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. I Love Lucy Season 6 Episode 2 - Little Ricky Learns to Play the Drums
    7.9/10(319 votes)

    #2 - Little Ricky Learns to Play the Drums

    S6:E2

    Little Ricky gets drums and the Mertzes get headaches. So do Lucy and Ricky, but they're not about to evict themselves.

    Director:James V. Kern
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. I Love Lucy Season 6 Episode 3 - Lucy Meets Orson Welles
    8.2/10(354 votes)

    #3 - Lucy Meets Orson Welles

    S6:E3

    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.

    Director:James V. Kern
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. I Love Lucy Season 6 Episode 4 - Little Ricky Gets Stage Fright
    8.0/10(292 votes)

    #4 - Little Ricky Gets Stage Fright

    S6:E4

    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.

    Director:James V. Kern
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. I Love Lucy Season 6 Episode 5 - Visitor from Italy
    8.2/10(309 votes)

    #5 - Visitor from Italy

    S6:E5

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. I Love Lucy Season 6 Episode 6 - Off to Florida
    8.7/10(408 votes)

    #6 - Off to Florida

    S6:E6

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. I Love Lucy Season 6 Episode 7 - Deep Sea Fishing
    8.7/10(350 votes)

    #7 - Deep Sea Fishing

    S6:E7

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. I Love Lucy Season 6 Episode 8 - Desert Island
    8.3/10(320 votes)

    #8 - Desert Island

    S6:E8

    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).

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. I Love Lucy Season 6 Episode 9 - The Ricardos Visit Cuba
    8.2/10(317 votes)

    #9 - The Ricardos Visit Cuba

    S6:E9

    Still on their vacation, the Ricardos go to Cuba, where Ricky wants to introduce his relatives to Lucy and Little Ricky.

    Director:James V. Kern
    Writers:Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf

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  10. I Love Lucy Season 6 Episode 10 - Little Ricky's School Pageant
    7.9/10(305 votes)

    #10 - Little Ricky's School Pageant

    S6:E10

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. I Love Lucy Season 6 Episode 11 - Christmas Show
    8.1/10(574 votes)

    #11 - Christmas Show

    S6:E11

    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.

    Directors:William Asher, James V. Kern
    Writers:Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf

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  12. I Love Lucy Season 6 Episode 12 - Lucy and the Loving Cup
    8.5/10(337 votes)

    #12 - Lucy and the Loving Cup

    S6:E12

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. I Love Lucy Season 6 Episode 13 - Lucy and Superman
    8.8/10(483 votes)

    #13 - Lucy and Superman

    S6:E13

    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.

    Director:James V. Kern
    Writers:Madelyn Pugh, Bob Schiller, Bob Carroll Jr., Bob Weiskopf

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  14. I Love Lucy Season 6 Episode 14 - Little Ricky Gets a Dog
    8.3/10(314 votes)

    #14 - Little Ricky Gets a Dog

    S6:E14

    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.

    Director:James V. Kern
    Writers:Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf

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  15. I Love Lucy Season 6 Episode 15 - Lucy Wants to Move to the Country
    8.5/10(331 votes)

    #15 - Lucy Wants to Move to the Country

    S6:E15

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. I Love Lucy Season 6 Episode 16 - Lucy Hates to Leave
    8.2/10(316 votes)

    #16 - Lucy Hates to Leave

    S6:E16

    The Ricardos find themselves, and all their belongings, boarding with the Mertzes while they wait to move into their new Westport, Connecticut home.

    Director:William Asher
    Writers:Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf

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  17. I Love Lucy Season 6 Episode 17 - Lucy Misses the Mertzes
    8.7/10(331 votes)

    #17 - Lucy Misses the Mertzes

    S6:E17

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. I Love Lucy Season 6 Episode 18 - Lucy Gets Chummy With the Neighbors
    8.4/10(308 votes)

    #18 - Lucy Gets Chummy With the Neighbors

    S6:E18

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. I Love Lucy Season 6 Episode 19 - Lucy Raises Chickens
    8.6/10(354 votes)

    #19 - Lucy Raises Chickens

    S6:E19

    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.

    Director:William Asher
    Writers:Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf

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  20. I Love Lucy Season 6 Episode 20 - Lucy Does the Tango
    8.7/10(356 votes)

    #20 - Lucy Does the Tango

    S6:E20

    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.

    Director:William Asher
    Writers:Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf

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  21. I Love Lucy Season 6 Episode 21 - Ragtime Band
    7.7/10(283 votes)

    #21 - Ragtime Band

    S6:E21

    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.

    Director:William Asher
    Writers:Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf

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  22. I Love Lucy Season 6 Episode 22 - Lucy's Night in Town
    8.4/10(317 votes)

    #22 - Lucy's Night in Town

    S6:E22

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. I Love Lucy Season 6 Episode 23 - Housewarming
    8.2/10(316 votes)

    #23 - Housewarming

    S6:E23

    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.

    Director:William Asher
    Writers:Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf

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  24. I Love Lucy Season 6 Episode 24 - Building a B.B.Q.
    8.8/10(365 votes)

    #24 - Building a B.B.Q.

    S6:E24

    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.

    Director:William Asher
    Writers:Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf

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  25. I Love Lucy Season 6 Episode 25 - Country Club Dance
    8.5/10(362 votes)

    #25 - Country Club Dance

    S6:E25

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf

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Season 6 Ratings Summary

"Lucy and Bob Hope" is the best rated episode of "I Love Lucy" season 6. It scored 8.5/10 based on 376 votes. Directed by James V. Kern and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/1/1956. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "Little Ricky Learns to Play the Drums".