8.0/10201 votes#1 - Lucy Takes a Cruise to Havana
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 11/6/1957
This episode takes us back to the night that Lucy and Ricky first met and fell in Love. Lucy was going to Cuba with her friend Susie on a vacation. When they arrive, Lucy meets Ricky and Susie meets Carlos Garcia. The two double date and everyone falls in love. In this episode we also meet Fred Mertz (When he had hair that is) and Ethel on the cruise. Also, Lucy and Susie get arrested and hope that they can get out before the cruise goes back to the states. Of course that will be a little hard when they discover that the water the guard has been giving them is spiked.
Director: Jerry Thorpe
Writer: Bob Weiskopf, Bob Schiller, Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh
9.1/10281 votes#2 - The Celebrity Next Door
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 12/3/1957
When Tallulah Bankhead moves in next door Lucy reacts in typical fashion and continuous chaos ensues.
Director: Jerry Thorpe
Writer: Bob Weiskopf, Bob Schiller, Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh
8.8/10214 votes#3 - Lucy Hunts Uranium
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/3/1958
Ricky brings the gang to Las Vegas where he is performing. Lucy wants to hunt Uranium in the desert and Ricky doesn't want her to. Anyway, they meet Fred Mac Murray on the train to Las Vegas and he loses a lot of money gambling, so he wants to get on Lucy's scheme too before his wife finds out. To help her Uranium hunting scheme, Lucy has it printed in a fake newspaper and everyone starts looking for Uranium. Everyone is so involved that even Lucy thinks it's true. Anyway, Lucy throws the "Uranium sample" away and they later find it not knowing that it's a sample, so they all, not trusting each other try and race to the claims office. Who will get their first? Lucy? The Mertzes? Fred Mac Murray? Now I am not going to spoil that.
Director: Jerry Thorpe
Writer: Bob Weiskopf, Bob Schiller, Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh
8.2/10172 votes#4 - Lucy Wins a Racehorse
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/3/1958
Lucy bugs Ricky about getting a horse for Little Ricky and he says "no". Lucy then wins a racehorse from sending in breakfast cereal box tops. When the horse appears at the house, Ricky comes home early and Lucy, Ethel, and Fred try getting the horse up the stairs. When he finds out, he blows his top. Ricky still says no and Betty Grable comes up with a plan of getting him in a race so that Little Ricky can get the horse. Well when Lucy finds out that the horse will do anything for her only, Lucy dresses up as a jockey and rides the horse until they win the race. But will the breaking of so many rules stop them?
Director: Jerry Thorpe
Writer: Bob Weiskopf, Bob Schiller, Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh
7.7/10169 votes#5 - Lucy Goes to Sun Valley
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/14/1958
Lucy and Ricky are about to go on a "2nd Honeymoon", but it falls through when Ricky has to do a TV show. Lucy and Ethel go by themselves and Lucy is upset. Lucy and Ethel meet Fernando Lamas at a ski lodge and they make friends. Lucy learns that Ricky and Fred are going after all and Lucy tries to teach Ricky a lesson for bailing out on her. She makes it look like there is something romantic between her and Fernando which causes pain and some black eyes.
Director: Jerry Thorpe
Writer: Bob Weiskopf, Bob Schiller, Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh
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The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour is a collection of thirteen one-hour specials airing occasionally from 1957 to 1960, and originally served as part of Westinghouse Desilu...
Genre:Comedy
Network:CBS
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Lucy Takes a Cruise to Havana" is the best rated episode of "The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour" season 1. It scored 8/10 based on 201 votes. Directed by Jerry Thorpe and written by Bob Weiskopf, Bob Schiller, Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh, it aired on 11/6/1957. This episode is rated 1.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Celebrity Next Door".