The Best Episodes Written By Jess Oppenheimer
Every TV Episode Written by Jess Oppenheimer Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Jess Oppenheimer Ratings Summary
The best episode written by Jess Oppenheimer is "The Ricardos Change Apartments", rated 10/10 from 1 user votes. It was "directed by William Asher". "The Ricardos Change Apartments" aired on 5/18/1953 and is rated 1.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "The Amateur Hour".
10.0/10 1 votes#1 - The Ricardos Change Apartments
Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 5/18/1953
Now that they have Little Ricky, Lucy insists they need more room, and wants to change apartments with one of the other tenants (Mrs. Benson.) She convinces a reluctant Ricky by cluttering their apartment with baby things and assorted junk.
Director: William Asher
Writer: Jess Oppenheimer
9.0/10 2 votes#2 - The Amateur Hour
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/14/1952
Lucy spends too much money on a dress. So she tells Ricky that she will get a job babysitting in order to pay for it.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Jess Oppenheimer
8.0/10 1 votes#3 - Be a Pal
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/22/1951
Thinking Ricky is losing interest in her, Lucy follows the advice of a book Ethel gave her and takes up Ricky's hobbies.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Jess Oppenheimer
8.0/10 1 votes#4 - The Diet
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/29/1951
To her dismay, Lucy finds out that she's put on twenty-two pounds since marrying Ricky. When one of the girls in Ricky's new show quits, she tricks him into promising, she can be in the show if she fits into the dancer's size twelve costume.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Jess Oppenheimer
8.0/10 1 votes#5 - Lucy Plays Cupid
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/21/1952
The Ricardo's neighbor Miss Lewis wants Lucy to deliver a dinner invitation to her grocer. But he misunderstands and thinks the invitation is from Lucy herself.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Jess Oppenheimer
8.0/10 1 votes#6 - Lucy Fakes Illness
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/28/1952
Lucy pretends to suffer from numerous psychological ailments so that Ricky will feel sorry for her and let her go into show business.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Jess Oppenheimer
8.0/10 1 votes#7 - The Ballet
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/18/1952
Lucy learns that there is an opening in one of Ricky's acts for a ballet dancer as well as a burlesque comic.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Jess Oppenheimer
8.0/10 1 votes#8 - Lucy Does a TV Commercial
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 5/5/1952
Desperate to be in Ricky's new television commercial, Lucy makes every attempt to get her way; which eventually pays off. But her one-and-only chance flops when she is forced to test the sponsor's product over-and-over, a vitamin syrup called Vitametavegimin, which is 25% alcohol.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Jess Oppenheimer
7.0/10 3 votes#9 - The Girls Want to Go to a Nightclub
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/15/1951
An argument ensues among the couples when Ethel wants to celebrate the Mertzes's anniversary at the Copacabana while Fred wants to attend the fights. Ethel and Lucy decide that they will go to the club with dates.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Jess Oppenheimer
6.0/10 1 votes#10 - Men Are Messy
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/3/1951
Fed up with Ricky's messiness, Lucy divides the Ricardo apartment in a clean part for her and a messy part for him.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Jess Oppenheimer
6.0/10 1 votes#11 - The Adagio
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/31/1951
Lucy thinks she is a perfect fit for Ricky's Parisian apache dance number. But her dance teacher has more than dancing on his mind.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Jess Oppenheimer
6.0/10 1 votes#12 - The Benefit
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/7/1952
Ethel wants Ricky to a headline a benefit show for her women's club, but Lucy refuses to ask him, unless she can be on the bill too.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Jess Oppenheimer
6.0/10 1 votes#13 - Breaking the Lease
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/11/1952
After a big quarrel between the Ricardos and the Mertzes, Lucy and Ricky decide that they want to move out. Ricky and Lucy become the most undesirable tenants ever so that they can break that lease, while the Fred and Ethel resist.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Jess Oppenheimer
4.0/10 1 votes#14 - Lucy Writes a Play
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/4/1952
Lucy writes a play set in Cuba hoping to cast Ricky, But when he refuses, she has to settle for Fred and changes her setting to England.
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Jess Oppenheimer