I Love Lucy - The Complete 2nd. Season (1952)

30 mins 9/15/1952 1. The Anniversary Present

Ricky wants Lucy to try working for a week, so she and Ethel get jobs at a candy factory, where they are totally inept-especially at wrapping chocolates-due to a speeding conveyor belt that has them stuffing chocolates in their mouths, blouses, and hats.

Guest starring: Amanda Milligan, Alvin Hurwitz, Elvia Allman

30 mins 9/22/1952 2. The Handcuffs

When Lucy fails her saxophone audition for Ricky's band, she tries to stop him from going on the road by pretending there's another man in her life. Ricky gets back at her by hiring several ""lovers,"" and hiding them in Lucy's closet. But Lucy gets the last laugh in the end!

Guest starring: Herb Vigran, Charles Victor

30 mins 9/29/1952 3. The Operetta

Lucy thinks that Ricky is pitching woo with a sophisticated neighbor. The woman is actually a jeweler who Ricky has commissioned to fashion a pearl necklace to surprise Lucy with on their anniversary. Lucy takes to spying before the deal can go down and almost loses out on her big surprise.

Director: William Asher / Marc Daniels Writer: Jess Oppenheimer / Bob Carroll Jr.

Guest starring: Gloria Blondell, Herb Vigran

30 mins 10/6/1952 4. Job Switching

After Lucy snaps a pair of antique handcuffs on herself and Ricky, they realize there's no key. A locksmith is found, but not before the Ricardos go to bed handcuffed together, and Ricky has to do a TV show with his ""attached"" wife trying to upstage him.

Guest starring: Will Wright, Veola Vonn

30 mins 10/13/1952 5. The Saxophone

Lucy's women's club wants to stage an operetta, but they're completely broke. (Lucy, the treasurer, seems to have spent it all to pay her own bills.) Thus, Lucy and Ethel write and star in the musical, but when their postdated check bounces for the costumes and scenery, the rental company repossesses everything in midperformance.

Guest starring: Myra Marsh

30 mins 10/27/1952 6. Vacation From Marriage

The Ricardos and the Mertzes take a week off from their in-a-rut marriages. But each spouse misses the other too much, and despite a last-ditch attempt to make each other jealous, they all decide that they'd rather be in a rut with their mates.

30 mins 11/10/1952 7. The Courtroom

The Ricardos give the Mertzes a television set for their anniversary, but Ricky's zealous tuning causes it to blow up. Fred retaliates by breaking the Ricardos' set (by kicking it!) The foursome end up in court, where they manage to destroy the judge's TV, too!

Guest starring: Harry Bartell, Robert B. Williams, Moroni Olsen

30 mins 11/24/1952 8. Redecorating

Waiting to find out if she has won a home furnishing contest, Lucy won't leave the house, much to Ricky's annoyance. He tells Fred to call her and say that she's won. In her joy, Lucy sells all the old furniture, leaving Ricky with the job of buying it back.

Guest starring: Hans Conried, Florence Halop, Margie Liszt

30 mins 12/1/1952 9. Ricky Loses His Voice

Ricky's laryngitis makes it impossible for him to perform in a big reopening show for the Tropicana. So Lucy substitutes herself, the ex-vaudivillian Mertzes, and a chorus line of middle-aged showgirls from the Flapper Follies of 1927. Look for Barbara Pepper as one of the showgirls.

Guest starring: Arthur Q. Bryan, Helen Williams, Barbara Pepper, Hazel Pierce, Gertrude Astor

30 mins 12/8/1952 10. Sales Resistance

Lucy is delighted to learn she is pregnant-but how to tell Ricky? At lunch, he's too preoccupied with work to listen to her, then it's off to the club-where Lucy finds the right moment and just the right way to tell him.

Guest starring: Richard J. Reeves, William R. Hamel

30 mins 12/15/1952 11. The Inferiority Complex

Lucy thinks Ricky cares more about the baby they're having than about her, especially after he buys her presents like bonnets and rattles. But when he takes her out for a night on the town, she thinks he's lost interest in the baby.

Guest starring: Bennett Green

30 mins 12/22/1952 12. The Club Election

Despite her pregnancy, Lucy wants to appear in Ricky's Gay Nineties revue at the Tropicana. After a disastrous audition, Lucy disguises herself and sneaks into the barbershop quartet number, and then proceeds to ruin it.

Guest starring: Pepito PÃ©rez

30 mins 12/29/1952 13. The Black Eye

Lucy hires an English tutor so that Ricky won't give their yet-to-be-born baby bad speaking habits. The lessons are free, but Lucy does promise the tutor a payback: he'll get to sing at the Tropicana. Of course, Lucy neglects to tell Ricky this.

Guest starring: Hans Conried

30 mins 1/5/1953 14. Lucy Changes Her Mind

Ricky develops ""labor pains"" because he is jealous of the attention being lavished on the expectant Lucy. So she decides to throw him a ""daddy shower,"" which Fred turns into a ""stag party,"" which Lucy and Ethel crash.

Guest starring: Hazel Pierce, Louis D. Merrill

30 mins 1/12/1953 15. Lucy Is Enceinte

Lucy tells Ricky she thinks that their child should learn all about being an artist. So Lucy then goes to the local art store where the ever-so-helpful clerk urges her to shape something out of a chunk of clay. She makes some sort of a blob and the clerk pretends that it's a masterpiece. This, of course, is all a ruse to sell her a bunch of clay. When Lucy gets home, she wants Ricky to be a model for her new sculpture, but he refuses. Ethel refuses too, but Fred obliges. However, he stands in one position for so long that he becomes stiff! Not to be overlooked is the fact that the sculpture Lucy has made of him isn't exactly very good. Ricky then tells her she cannot continue sculpting unless she impresses an art critic friend of his. Otherwise, Lucy must agree to give up her sculpting aspirations. Lucy tries to make a bust of herself, but she cannot cover her whole head in plaster. So she covers her head in powder and pokes it through a table. The critic loves the 'bust' so much he

Guest starring: Shepard Menken, Paul Harvey, Leon Belasco

30 mins 1/19/1953 16. Pregnant Women Are Unpredictable

Ricky and the Mertzes rehearse for pregnant Lucy's trip to the hospital. It turns out to be predictably chaotic, but Lucy does deliver Little Ricky.

Guest starring: Barbara Pepper, Ralph Montgomery, Hazel Pierce, Bennett Green, Peggy Rea, Adele Longmire, Charles Lane, James John Ganzer

30 mins 1/26/1953 17. Lucy's Showbiz Swan Song

Convinced his wife is a sucker for a sales pitch, Ricky demands that she return the vaccum cleaner she bought from a door-to-door salesman. Instead, she tries (unsuccessfully) to sell it. Ricky insists that he'll return it-and ends up buying a refrigerator.

Guest starring: Sheldon Leonard, Verna Felton

30 mins 2/2/1953 18. Lucy Hires An English Tutor

When no one laughs at her jokes or wants her to be their bridge partner, Lucy comes to the conclusion that she is inferior to everyone else. Worried by Lucy's behavior, Ricky goes to the psychiatrist (or ""fizz-a-key-a-tryst"" as Ricky pronounces it,) to find the remedy. But it turns out that this doctor's ""remedy"" isn't exactly what Ricky had in mind.

Guest starring: Gerald Mohr

30 mins 2/16/1953 19. Ricky Has Labor Pains

Because they both want to be president of the Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League, Lucy and Ethel both engage in cut-throat competition. Prior to the elections, Lucy and Ethel independently engage in a little ""spywork."" It seems that half the club plans on voting for Lucy and the other half plans to vote for Ethel. But there is one undecided vote--that of the new member, Ruth Knickerbocker. So Lucy and Ethel both go to extremes to sway Knickerbocker's vote.

Guest starring: Ida Moore, Jerry Hausner, Doris Singleton, Margie Liszt, Hazel Pierce, Lurene Tuttle, Peggy Rea

30 mins 3/9/1953 20. Lucy Becomes a Sculptress

Lucy misses catching a book tossed to her by Ricky, and winds up with a black eye that Fred and Ethel are convinced was intentional. Trying to patch things up for the Ricardos, Fred sends Lucy flowers, but inadvertedly uses his own name instead of Ricky's.

Guest starring: Bennett Green

30 mins 3/30/1953 21. Lucy Goes To the Hospital

Ricky is furious that his wife can't make up her mind and never finishes what she starts. To get even with Ricky, Lucy decides to pick up where she left off with an old boyfriend, but meeting her former beau after all these years turns out to be a major disappointment.

Guest starring: John L. Hart, Frank Nelson, Phil Arnold, Sally Corner

30 mins 4/20/1953 22. No Children Allowed

When a cranky tenant (Elizabeth Patterson, in her first appearance as Mrs. Trumble,) threatens to move because of Little Ricky's loud crying, Ethel makes it clear that her friendship with Lucy is more important than a rental agreement. But Ethel doesn't let the Ricardos forget her loyalty.

Guest starring: Peggy Rea, Richard Lee Simmons, Ronald Lee Simmons, Charlotte Lawrence, June Whitney, Vivi Janiss, Kay Wiley, Margie Liszt, Jerry Hausner

30 mins 4/27/1953 23. Lucy Hires a Maid

Lucy's sleepless nights with the new baby are exhausting, so the Ricardos hire a maid. Unfortunately, this new maid turns out to be a terrible shrew, who takes better care of herself than of Lucy or the apartment. Unable to get the gumption to fire her, Lucy wrecks the apartment, hoping it will make the maid quit.

Guest starring: Verna Felton, Jerry Hausner

30 mins 5/4/1953 24. The Indian Show

Even the arrival of the baby hasn't dampened Lucy's showbiz aspirations. Wanting to get into the new Indian act at the Tropicana, Lucy pays off one of the performers and appears herself, carrying Little Ricky papoose-style on her back.

Guest starring: Richard J. Reeves, Carol Richards, Frank Gerstle

30 mins 5/11/1953 25. Lucy's Last Birthday

Convinced everyone has forgotten her birthday, a forlorn Lucy sits on a park bench and meets up with a group of musical ""lost souls."" To embarrass Ricky, she brings them to the Tropicana, only to discover that a surprise birthday party awaits her.

Guest starring: William R. Hamel

30 mins 5/18/1953 26. The Ricardos Change Apartments

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.

Guest starring: Norma Varden

30 mins 5/25/1953 27. Lucy Is Matchmaker

Lucy plays matchmaker when she meets a friend of the Mertzes (Hal March, as Eddie,) who happens to be an eligible bachelor. His line of work? He's a lingerie salesman, a fact that just *might* get her (and Ethel) into trouble when her matchmaking efforts inevitably backfire.

Guest starring: Hal March, Phil Arnold, Peggy Rea, William R. Hamel

30 mins 6/1/1953 28. Lucy Wants New Furniture

Lucy tries to hide some new furniture she bought without Ricky's permission in the kitchen. Discovering his wife's extravagant purchase, Ricky insists that Lucy pays for it from her allowance.

30 mins 6/8/1953 29. The Camping Trip

Lucy fears that she and Ricky don't have enough in common, so she decides to pursue one of his interests: camping. Ricky and Fred don't want her (or Ethel, for that matter,) horning in on their summer retreat, so Ricky decides to take Lucy on a ""trial run"" in the woods and make her life miserable. But Lucy is wise to his plan, and guess whose life is made miserable in the end?

Guest starring: Doris Singleton, June Whitney

30 mins 6/22/1953 30. Ricky's Life Story

With Ricky and Fred glued to a TV fight, their wives go to the local cafe, where service is so slow that Lucy makes change for herself at the cash register and the girls are arrested. They finally prove their innocence and get home to husbands who didn't know they were gone.

Guest starring: Lawrence Dobkin, Allen Jenkins, Frank Nelson

30 mins 6/29/1953 31. Ricky And Fred Are Tv Fans

The Ricardos sell their old washing machine to the Mertzes for $35. When it breaks down the next day, the Mertzes want out of the deal. A tug-of-war ensues, however, when the Mertzes want the machine back after a repairman offers them $50 for it.

Guest starring: Elizabeth Patterson, Herb Vigran

32. Never Do Business with Friends

Lucille Ball	Lucy McGillicuddy Ricardo
Desi Arnaz	Ricky Ricardo
William Frawley	Fred Mertz
Vivian Vance	Ethel Mertz
Richard Keith	Little Ricky Ricardo

Director	Jordan,Glenn Marc Daniels William Asher James V. Kern Ralph Levy
Producer	Lucille Ball Jess Oppenheimer
Writer	Bob Carroll Jr. Madelyn Davis
Musician	Eliot Daniel