I Love Lucy Episode Guide:
The First Season (cont'd.)

2/25/52: "Young Fans" [photo]
I Love Lucy Episode 20 - Filmed 1/18/52
Story: A teenager has a crush on Ricky.
Guests: Janet Waldo (Peggy Dawson), Richard Crenna (Arthur Morton)
 Based on My Favorite Husband #76 ("Liz Teaches the Samba") and My Favorite Husband #19 ("George Attends a Teen-age Dance")

3/3/52: "New Neighbors"
I Love Lucy Episode 21 - Filmed 1/25/52
Story: Lucy and Ethel are certain that the new tenants are planning to blow up the building.
Guests: Hayden Rorke (Tom O'Brien), K.T. Stevens (Mrs. O'Brien), Allen Jenkins (Sgt. Morton)

3/10/52: "Fred and Ethel Fight"
I Love Lucy Episode 22 - Filmed 1/30/52
Story: To gain Ricky's sympathy after a fight, Lucy pretends to have been hit by a speeding bus.
Guests: Hazel Pierce (Soda Jerk)

3/17/52: "The Moustache"
I Love Lucy Episode 23 - Filmed 2/8/52
Story: When Ricky grows a moustache, Lucy decides to fight fire with fire -- she acquires a white beard.
Guests: John Brown (Mr. Murdoch)
 Based on My Favorite Husband #22 ("Respective Moustaches")

3/24/52: "The Gossip"
I Love Lucy Episode 24 - Filmed 2/15/52
Story: The boys try to prove that women are bigger gossips than men.
Guests: Bobby Jellison (Milkman), Dick Reeves (Mr. Foster)
 Based on My Favorite Husband #96 ("Gossip")

3/31/52: "Pioneer Women"
I Love Lucy Episode 25 - Filmed 2/22/52
Story: The Mertzes and the Ricardos bet they can live the same pioneer existence as their ancestors.
Guests: Florence Bates (Mrs. Pettebone), Ruth Perrott (Mrs. Pomerance)

4/7/52: "The Marriage License"
I Love Lucy Episode 26 - Filmed 2/28/52
Story: After taking another look at her marriage license, Lucy is not sure that she and Ricky are man and wife.
Guests: Irving Bacon (Mr. Willoughby), Elizabeth Patterson (Mrs. Willoughby)
 Based on My Favorite Husband #28("The Marriage License")

4/14/52: "The Kleptomaniac"
I Love Lucy Episode 27 - Filmed 3/7/52
Story: Ricky finds some extra money and silverware in the apartment and jumps to the conclusion that Lucy is a kleptomaniac.
Guests: Joseph Kearns (Dr. Tom Robinson)

4/21/52: "Cuban Pals"
I Love Lucy Episode 28 - Filmed 3/14/52
Story: A visiting Cuban dance troupe asks Ricky to do a number with "Little Renita Perez" -- a little girl he used to dance with in Havana. Lucy's all for it -- until she finds out that "Little Renita" isn't so "little" anymore.
Guests: Lita Baron (Renita Perez), Rita Conde (Maria Ortega), Alberto Morin (Carlos Ortega)

4/28/52: "The Freezer"
Episode 29 - Filmed 3/21/52
Story: Lucy and Ethel install a battered meat locker in the basement, and Lucy learns the hard way how cold it is - she gets locked inside!
Guests: Frank Sully (Deliveryman), Bennett Green (Deliveryman), Joaquin Escaruga (Deliveryman), Fred Aldrich (Butcher), Kay Wiley (Woman in butcher shop), Barbara Pepper (Woman in butcher shop), Hazel Pierce (Woman in butcher shop)
 One scene based on My Favorite Husband #90 ("Selling Dresses")

5/5/52: "Lucy Does a TV Commercial" [top photo][movie clip]
Episode 30 - Filmed 3/28/52
Story: Lucy is hired to do a TV commercial for "Vitameatavegamin" health tonic. After four takes she's "happy" but not very "peppy."
Guests: Ross Elliott (Director), Jerry Hausner (Joe), Maury Thompson (Maury, the script clerk)

5/12/52: "The Publicity Agent"
Episode 31 - Filmed 4/4/52
Story: Feeling that Ricky's publicity has fallen off, Lucy dreams up a stunt which involves her posing as the "Maharincess of Franistan."
Guests: Peter Leeds (Reporter), Bennett Green (Photographer), Gil Herman (Assassin), Dick Reeves (Assassin)

5/19/52: "Lucy Gets Ricky on the Radio"
Episode 32 - Filmed 4/11/52
Story: - Lucy is so impressed at Ricky's correct answers to a radio quiz show that she gets him on the show as a contestant.
Guests: Frank Nelson (Freddie Fillmore), Bobby Ellis (Office boy), Roy Rowan (Radio announcer)
 Based on My Favorite Husband #15 ("Quiz Show")

5/26/52: "Lucy's Schedule"
Episode 33 - Filmed 4/18/52
Story: Ricky is determined to teach Lucy the importance of punctuality, so he puts her on a rigid time schedule.
Guests: Gale Gordon (Alvin Littlefield), Edith Meiser (Phoebe Littlefield)
 Based on My Favorite Husband #41("Time Budgeting")

6/2/52: "Ricky Thinks He's Getting Bald" [photo]
Episode 34 - Filmed 4/25/52
Story: Ricky's receding hairline is giving him much concern, so Lucy decides to give him scalp treatments.
Guests: Milton Parsons (Mr. Thurlow)

6/9/52: "Ricky Asks for a Raise"
Episode 35 - Filmed 5/2/52
Story: At Lucy's insistence, Ricky tries to pressure his boss into giving him a raise.
Guests: Gale Gordon (Alvin Littlefield), Edith Meiser (Phoebe Littlefield), Maurice Marsac (Maurice, the headwaiter)
 Inspired by My Favorite Husband #57 ("George Tries for a Raise")

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