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The Best Episodes of I Love Lucy Season 5

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    I Love Lucy Season 5 Episode 1 - Lucy Visits Grauman's
    8.7/10(431 votes)

    #1 - Lucy Visits Grauman's

    S5:E1

    With only a week left in Hollywood, Lucy weeps about her lack of souvenirs. Her collection already includes a tin can run over by Cary Grant's rear tire, a napkin boasting Lana Turner's lip-prints, and a few other goodies. But when Lucy discovers that John Wayne's concrete block at Grauman's Chinese Theatre is loose, she decides to take home a souvenir to end all souvenirs.

    Director:James V. Kern
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. I Love Lucy Season 5 Episode 2 - Lucy and John Wayne
    9.1/10(539 votes)

    #2 - Lucy and John Wayne

    S5:E2

    Lucy is spotted while attempting to "collect" a cement block with John Wayne's footprints from Grauman's Chinese Theater. To avoid publicity and keep Lucy out of jail, Ricky enlists John Wayne's help in replacing the block. One mishap leads to another, and the plot thickens -- as does the cement. John Wayne guest-stars.

    Director:Unknown
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  3. I Love Lucy Season 5 Episode 3 - Lucy and the Dummy
    7.9/10(349 votes)

    #3 - Lucy and the Dummy

    S5:E3

    Lucy thinks she may have finally gotten her big break in Hollywood. It all centers on a posh party attended by studio execs. Ricky was invited to attend but begged off. But Lucy will fool ’em. She has a lifelike rubber replica of Ricky’s head, which she’ll attach to a dummy body — and she’ll dance her way to stardom with “Raggedy Ricky.”

    Director:Unknown
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  4. I Love Lucy Season 5 Episode 4 - Ricky Sells the Car
    8.1/10(345 votes)

    #4 - Ricky Sells the Car

    S5:E4

    Ricky sells his car, and the Mertzes think they are being stranded in California. Ricky buys train tickets for everyone, but a reservations mixup puts Lucy in an apparently compromising position with Fred Mertz. Watch for Fred and Ethel decked out in motorcycle gear and riding on a Harley.

    Director:Unknown
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  5. I Love Lucy Season 5 Episode 5 - The Great Train Robbery
    9.2/10(552 votes)

    #5 - The Great Train Robbery

    S5:E5

    Lucy gets mixed up with a jewel thief on a cross-country rail trip that marks the end of the series' Hollywood sojourn. That's not the only reason it's a bumpy ride. Another is that Lucy keeps pulling the emergency-brake cord.

    Director:Unknown
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  6. I Love Lucy Season 5 Episode 6 - Homecoming
    8.0/10(342 votes)

    #6 - Homecoming

    S5:E6

    Ricky returns from Hollywood as a celebrity, and even Lucy gets in on the hero worship. Can Ricky stand her brand of hero worship?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. I Love Lucy Season 5 Episode 7 - Face to Face
    8.1/10(319 votes)

    #7 - Face to Face

    S5:E7

    Ricky Ricardo's new fame leads to an invitation to appear on the popular interview program "Face to Face", and Lucy and Ricky consider moving. Ricky's agent arranges an appearance for him and suggests that they stage a fight so Lucy and Ricky won't have to stay. In the end the scheme falls flat while "Face to Face" is on the air.

    Director:Unknown
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  8. I Love Lucy Season 5 Episode 8 - Lucy Goes to a Rodeo
    7.4/10(310 votes)

    #8 - Lucy Goes to a Rodeo

    S5:E8

    Fred has a Western-themed show coming up at his lodge and he wants Ricky to perform in it. He can’t — but Lucy and Ethel volunteer (Lucy yodels “Home on the Range”). The reason Ricky can’t appear is that he has a “radio” show that night. Or is it a “rodeo” show?

    Director:Unknown
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  9. I Love Lucy Season 5 Episode 9 - Nursery School
    8.0/10(331 votes)

    #9 - Nursery School

    S5:E9

    Lucy’s objects, but Ricky insists that Little Ricky go to nursery school. All goes well until the boy gets sick. Then it’s hospital frolics — starring Nurse Lucy.

    Director:Unknown
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  10. I Love Lucy Season 5 Episode 10 - Ricky's European Booking
    8.3/10(324 votes)

    #10 - Ricky's European Booking

    S5:E10

    Ricky’s band is going on a European tour but he can’t afford to take Lucy — who’s not about to take this lying down. Her plan: raffle off a TV set to benefit “Ladies Overseas Aid.” “We’re ladies,” Lucy tells Ethel (who’s scheming to go, too). “We want to go overseas. And, boy, do we need aid.” The Pied Pipers perform the theme from Ball and Arnaz’s 1956 movie Forever Darling.

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  11. I Love Lucy Season 5 Episode 11 - The Passports
    8.6/10(375 votes)

    #11 - The Passports

    S5:E11

    It's Lucy vs. bureaucrats (bureaucrats: watch out) when she can't find her birth certificate, which she needs for a passport so she can go on Ricky's European tour.

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  12. I Love Lucy Season 5 Episode 12 - Staten Island Ferry
    8.8/10(358 votes)

    #12 - Staten Island Ferry

    S5:E12

    Fred's fear of becoming seasick threatens the Mertzes and Ricardos' plans for Ricky's European band tour. To prove that Fred won't get seasick, Ricky takes him down to the ship, which is anchored in the harbor. But Fred turns green and becomes more firm about his not going. Lucy and Ethel test some new, improved seasickness remedies on the Staten Island Ferry. The trial run leads to unexpected complications when Lucy gets seasick.

    Director:Unknown
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  13. I Love Lucy Season 5 Episode 13 - Bon Voyage
    8.7/10(388 votes)

    #13 - Bon Voyage

    S5:E13

    Ricky, Ethel, and Fred are aboard their ship to Europe when Lucy rushes down the gangplank for one last goodbye to Little Ricky, who will be in Lucy's mother's care while she is in Europe. The ship heads out to sea, leaving Lucy frantically trying to catch up with it.

    Director:Unknown
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  14. I Love Lucy Season 5 Episode 14 - Second Honeymoon
    8.3/10(333 votes)

    #14 - Second Honeymoon

    S5:E14

    Lucy schemes to tear Ricky away for a second honeymoon aboard the ocean liner taking them to Europe. The trouble is, Ricky's too busy with his band.

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  15. I Love Lucy Season 5 Episode 15 - Lucy Meets the Queen
    8.1/10(350 votes)

    #15 - Lucy Meets the Queen

    S5:E15

    Lucy is thrilled at being in London and desperate to see the Queen. She misses the Queen at Buckingham Palace, where she gets involved in the changing of the guard. Ricky is invited to meet the Royal Family when they attend a special performance at the Palladium. Lucy is not included in the invitation, but she has no intention of letting it go at that.

    Director:Unknown
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  16. I Love Lucy Season 5 Episode 16 - The Fox Hunt
    7.7/10(343 votes)

    #16 - The Fox Hunt

    S5:E16

    Tally ho! In England, Lucy hounds a movie producer (Walter Kingsford) about her riding prowess and ends up on a fox hunt.

    Director:Unknown
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  17. I Love Lucy Season 5 Episode 17 - Lucy Goes to Scotland
    7.3/10(425 votes)

    #17 - Lucy Goes to Scotland

    S5:E17

    The Ricardos and Mertzes are on their way to Paris, but first Lucy wants to go to Scotland to seek members of the McGillicuddy family into which she was born. In a classic dream sequence, Ricky appears as Scotty MacTavish MacDougal MacCardo.

    Director:Unknown
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  18. I Love Lucy Season 5 Episode 18 - Paris at Last
    8.8/10(386 votes)

    #18 - Paris at Last

    S5:E18

    Equipped with an English-French dictionary, Lucy sets out to see Paris and "discover" an artist whose paintings will become very valuable -- she knows she has "the eye." Lucy's first encounter is indeed with an artist -- a con artist who changes her American money for French. Lucy's adventures land Lucy, Ethel, and Fred in jail.

    Director:Unknown
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  19. I Love Lucy Season 5 Episode 19 - Lucy Meets Charles Boyer
    8.5/10(364 votes)

    #19 - Lucy Meets Charles Boyer

    S5:E19

    Charles Boyer deals with a star-crazed Lucy in this guest appearance. The setting: Paris, where the Ricardos and Mertzes are lunching at a sidewalk cafe. Boyer is at a nearby table, and when Lucy and Ethel spot him they immediately repair to the ladies room to plot their approach. Ricky tries to stop the assault but nobody can defend against the star-struck Lucy.

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

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  20. I Love Lucy Season 5 Episode 20 - Lucy Gets a Paris Gown
    8.8/10(404 votes)

    #20 - Lucy Gets a Paris Gown

    S5:E20

    Lucy decides to go on a hunger strike until Ricky agrees to buy her a designer dress. The plan works perfectly (even though Ethel has been smuggling food to Lucy) and Ricky finally gives in and buys her an expensive outfit. But when Ricky discovers what Lucy has been up to, he puts together a crazy outfit made of burlap and passes it off as a Paris original.

    Director:Unknown
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  21. I Love Lucy Season 5 Episode 21 - Lucy in the Swiss Alps
    8.3/10(359 votes)

    #21 - Lucy in the Swiss Alps

    S5:E21

    In Switzerland, the Ricardos and Mertzes are caught in an abandoned cabin during an avalanche. It’s one of Lucy’s own making (of course), and it leads to some soul-searching and confessions. But not by Ricky: “We might be saved!” They are — by an oompah band playing “La Cucaracha.”

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

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  22. I Love Lucy Season 5 Episode 22 - Lucy Gets Homesick in Italy
    8.2/10(368 votes)

    #22 - Lucy Gets Homesick in Italy

    S5:E22

    Fred is conscience-stricken about the expense involved when he misrouted Ricky's band. He books second-class train passage for their overnight trip to Florence and a fourth-class hotel for their stay. Lucy wants to call home to see if Little Ricky has received the birthday presents she sent him from London, but the difficulties of calling from a fourth-class room almost prove too much for her. In the end, Lucy invites an Italian shoeshine boy and his friends to celebrate Little Ricky's birthday.

    Director:Unknown
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  23. I Love Lucy Season 5 Episode 23 - Lucy's Italian Movie
    9.2/10(576 votes)

    #23 - Lucy's Italian Movie

    S5:E23

    En route to Rome by train, Lucy is spotted by a famous Italian cinema director and chosen to play a part in his new movie "Bitter Grapes." Lucy sets out to immerse herself in the role. When she nonchalantly wanders into a vineyard inhabited by a motley assortment of Italian-speaking women, she is dispatched to the wine-making area to crush grapes with her feet.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. I Love Lucy Season 5 Episode 24 - Lucy's Bicycle Trip
    8.6/10(361 votes)

    #24 - Lucy's Bicycle Trip

    S5:E24

    The Ricardos and Mertzes pedal their way from Italy to the French Riviera. It's a bumpy ride, thanks (of course) to Lucy, who left her passport in her purse, which she locked in a suitcase, which she sent ahead to their hotel in Nice. That presents problems when they get to the Italian-French border.

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

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  25. I Love Lucy Season 5 Episode 25 - Lucy Goes to Monte Carlo
    8.5/10(348 votes)

    #25 - Lucy Goes to Monte Carlo

    S5:E25

    Ricky is working in Monte Carlo, but Fred goofs and negotiates too little money for the engagement. Lucy and Ethel go to the casino to watch, and Lucy finds a chip that someone dropped. She picks it up and puts it on the table. The chip wins, and continues to do so, all by accident. Since Ricky warned Lucy to stay away from the casino, she hides the money in Ethel's trunk. Ricky finds it and thinks Fred has been holding out on him.

    Director:Unknown
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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Lucy Visits Grauman's" is the best rated episode of "I Love Lucy" season 5. It scored 8.7/10 based on 431 votes. Directed by James V. Kern and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/3/1955. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Lucy and John Wayne".