This early, unsponsored episode, written by John Hayes, Madely Pugh, and Bob Carroll, Jr. and produced and directed by Gordon Hughes, was originally broadcast on CBS Radio on September 17, 1948.

This episode, originally broadcast on CBS on October 2, 1948, was the first script Jess Oppenheimer ever wrote for Lucille Ball. It won him a job as Lucy's head writer for the next seven and a half years.

Audio of radio broadcast for radio series starring Lucille Ball, which was the basis for I Love Lucy. This episode, originally broadcast on CBS Radio on November 20, 1948. This is an early episode, before the show had a sponsor and Liz and George's last was changed from "Cugat" to "Cooper".

Audio of radio broadcast for radio series starring Lucille Ball, which was the basis for I Love Lucy. This episode inspired the I Love Lucy episode, "Lucy Plays Cupid".

Audio of radio broadcast for radio series starring Lucille Ball, which was the basis for I Love Lucy. This episode, originally broadcast on March 18, 1949, inspired the second season I Love Lucy episode "Redecorating".

Audio of radio broadcast for radio series starring Lucille Ball, which was the basis for I Love Lucy. This episode, originally broadcast on CBS Radio on April 22, 1949, inspired the I Love Lucy episode, "Lucy's Schedule".

Audio of radio broadcast for radio series starring Lucille Ball, which was the basis for I Love Lucy. This episode, originally broadcast on CBS Radio on May 13, 1949, inspired the I Love Lucy episode, "The Fur Coat".

Audio of radio broadcast for radio series starring Lucille Ball, which was the basis for I Love Lucy. This episode, originally broadcast on CBS Radio on May 14, 1950, inspired the I Love Lucy episode, "The Seance".

Audio of radio broadcast for radio series starring Lucille Ball, which was the basis for I Love Lucy. This episode, originally broadcast on CBS Radio on June 4, 1950, inspired the I Love Lucy episode, "Men Are Messy".

This episode, originally broadcast on CBS Radio on June 25, 1949, inspired the I Love Lucy episode, "Lucy Changes Her Mind".

Audio of radio broadcast for radio series starring Lucille Ball, which was the basis for I Love Lucy. This episode, originally broadcast on July 1, 1949, features appearances by Gale Gordon, Bea Benaderet, Hans Conreid, and Frank Nelson.

Audio of radio broadcast for radio series starring Lucille Ball, which was the basis for I Love Lucy. This episode, originally broadcast on CBS Radio on October 7, 1949, inspired the I Love Lucy episode, "Ricky Asks For a Raise".

Audio of radio broadcast for radio series starring Lucille Ball, which was the basis for I Love Lucy. This episode, originally broadcast on CBS Radio on November 25, 1949, inspired the I Love Lucy episode, "Lucy Gets Ricky On the Radio".

Audio of radio broadcast for radio series starring Lucille Ball, which was the basis for I Love Lucy. This episode, originally broadcast on CBS Radio on January 21, 1949, inspired the I Love Lucy episode, "The Marriage License".

Audio of radio broadcast for radio series starring Lucille Ball, which was the basis for I Love Lucy. This episode, originally broadcast on CBS Radio on December 30, 1949, inspired the I Love Lucy episode, "The Handcuffs".

Audio of radio broadcast for radio series starring Lucille Ball, which was the basis for I Love Lucy. This episode, originally broadcast on CBS Radio on February 10, 1950, features guest stars Hal March, Frank Nelson, Hans Conried, and Eleanor Audley (as George's mother).

This episode, originally broadcast on CBS Radio on February 17, 1950, inspired the I Love Lucy episode, "The Young Fans".

Audio of radio broadcast for radio series starring Lucille Ball, which was the basis for I Love Lucy.

Audio of radio broadcast for radio series starring Lucille Ball, which was the basis for I Love Lucy. This episode, originally broadcast on April 9, 1950, inspired the I Love Lucy episode "The Golf Game".

Audio of radio broadcast for radio series starring Lucille Ball, which was the basis for I Love Lucy. This episode, originally broadcast on CBS Radio on April 16, 1950, was one of two episodes to inspire the first season I Love Lucy episode "The Marriage License".

Audio of radio broadcast for radio series starring Lucille Ball, which was the basis for I Love Lucy. This episode, originally broadcast on CBS Radio on April 23, 1950, inspired the I Love Lucy episode, "Lucy and Ethel Buy the Same Dress"

Audio of radio broadcast for radio series starring Lucille Ball, which was the basis for I Love Lucy. This episode, originally broadcast on CBS Radio on May 21, 1950, inspired the I Love Lucy episode, "Lucy is Enceinte".

Audio of radio broadcast for radio series starring Lucille Ball, which was the basis for I Love Lucy. This episode, originally broadcast on CBS Radio on My 28, 1950, inspired the I Love Lucy episode, "The Freezer"

Audio of radio broadcast for radio series starring Lucille Ball, which was the basis for I Love Lucy. This episode, originally broadcast on CBS Radio on September 2, 1950, inspired the I Love Lucy episode, "Changing the Boys' Wardrobe".

Audio of radio broadcast for radio series starring Lucille Ball, which was the basis for I Love Lucy. This episode, originally broadcast on CBS Radio on October 7, 1950, inspired the I Love Lucy episode, "Lucy Becomes a Sculptress".

This episode, featuring guest stars Eleanor Audley as George's mother and Dick Crenna as the delivery boy, was broadcast on CBS Radio on October 14, 1950.

This episode, featuring guest stars Elvia Allman and Sheldon Leonard, was taped at Columbia Square in Hollywood on October 13, 1950 for broadcast on CBS Radio on October 21, 1950.

While taping an episode of Lucille Ball's radio sitcom, My Favorite Husband, on December 1, 1950, actor Frank Nelson blew an important line so badly that director Jess Oppenheimer called for a retake-and another-and another.

Audio of radio broadcast for radio series starring Lucille Ball, which was the basis for I Love Lucy. This episode, originally broadcast on CBS Radio on December 2, 1950, inspired the I Love Lucy episode, "Lucy is a Matchmaker"

Audio of radio broadcast for radio series starring Lucille Ball, which was the basis for I Love Lucy. This episode features guests Frank Nelson, Bobby Jellison, Wally Maher, Jerry Hausner, and Sandra Gould, was originally broadcast on CBS Radio on December 9, 1950.

This episode, originally broadcast on CBS Radio on December 30, 1950, inspired the I Love Lucy episode, "Lucy Fakes Illness".

Audio of radio broadcast for radio series starring Lucille Ball, which was the basis for I Love Lucy. This episode, originally broadcast on CBS Radio on January 6, 1951, featured guests Gale Gordon, Bea Benaderet, Mary Shipp, and Herb Vigran.

Audio of radio broadcast for radio series starring Lucille Ball, which was the basis for I Love Lucy. This episode, originally broadcast on January 27, 1951, inspired the I Love Lucy episode "Drafted". English

Audio of radio broadcast for radio series starring Lucille Ball, which was the basis for I Love Lucy. This episode, originally broadcast on CBS Radio on March 3, 1951. This episode features guest stars Sarah Selby and Jerry Hausner and it inspired the I Love Lucy episode of the same name.

Aired after the episode "Drafted" in 1951

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. Colorized Version.

CBS aired this promotional spot on Monday evening, August 25, 1952, three weeks before I Love Lucy returned for its second season.

During I Love Lucy's second season, CBS rebroadcast several first season episodes so Lucille Ball could take time off to have her baby. This new opening "flashback" scene, created for the Febuary 9, 1953 rerun of "The Diet", was broadcast only a single time.

The February 23, 1953 rebroadcast of "Men Are Messy" (while Lucy was still on maternity leave) began with this special message from Desi, as well as a new "flashback" opening scene, neither of which has been broadcast in more than 50 years!

To mark the end of the second season on CBS, Lucy and Desi bid farewell for the summer to the TV audience in the special end-of-season "tag scene". It was broadcast just once, on June 29, 1953

CBS aired this promotional spot on the evening of September 28, 1953, exactly one week before I Love Lucy returned for its third season.

CBS's original broadcast of "Changing the Boys' Wardrobe" ended with this special Christmas message from Lucy and Desi, unseen since its original broadcast on December 7, 1953.

I Love Lucy's animated opening changed from time to time during its original network run on CBS. On January 3, 1954, I Love Lucy opened with this special introduction by Desi Arnaz, welcoming the show's new sponsor, Proctor & Gamble, followed by a new opening title sequence.

On March 22, 1954, CBS rebroadcast "Lucy Does a TV Commercial" with this introduction by announcer Roy Rowan, who refers to the series by its 1950s nickname-the "Lucy Show" (not to be confused with Lucy's 1960s TV series).

At the beginning of the original network broadcast of "Lucy's Club Dance" on April 12, 1954, Desi Arnaz stepped out from behind the curtain to introduce the show-as well as the sponsor's brand new "snap-open" packaging.

When "Ricky's Contract" was edited for syndication, CBS cut short the closing music cue. For the Special Edition DVD, the episode's original ending was restored to the way it sounded in its original network broadcast on December 6, 1954.

This flashback scene was created to introduce the rebroadcast of "the Camping Trip" that CBS aired on December 20, 1954, just as the Ricardos and the Mertzes were preparing to drive to Hollywood so that Ricky could star in the movie Don Juan.

Lucy an Desi did a promotional spot for the Olympic Fund to help raise support for American Athletes competing in the Australia games the following year. It aired at the end of "The Hedda Hopper Story" original broadcast in 1955.

On April 14, 1955, with the Ricardos already in Hollywood, CBS aired "Mr. and Mrs. TV Show"-set in New York. (It was supposed to have aired the previous fall, but was pre-empted.) To maintain continuity, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz filmed this recently-discovered new opening scene.

On December 26, 1955, as the Ricardos were preparing for their European trip, CBS rebroadcast "Lucy's Club Dance". To maintain story line continuity, the cast filmed this new "flashback" opening, seen here for the first time since its original 1955 airing.

On December 26, 1955, CBS aired a rerun of "Lucy's Club Dance", featuring this new opening "flashback" scene in which Ricky announces that his band has been booked to play the London Paladium. The scene, lost for decades, was recovered recently from a rare 16mm print.

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.---Colorized Version

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.----"Lucy's Italian Movie" (aka "Grape Stomping")---were colorized with a vintage look, a nod to the 1950s period in which the shows were filmed.

Colorized version of the Christmas show. It's Christmas Eve and Ricky warns his young son: "Santa won't bring the tree and the presents until you go to sleep." It takes some effort to cajole the boy, but after Lucy convinces him that Santa will have no trouble coming down the chimney ("he brings the North Pole with him and slides down it like a fireman."), he's off to bed. The coast clear, Fred and Ethel arrive with a Christmas tree. "It's a gift from me and Ebenezer," Ethel reveals about the five-dollar fir. The four friends begin to trim the tree until Lucy discovers "a branch on the right side that spoils the shape." Fred solves the symmetry problem with a pocket saw as Ricky says to Lucy, "Our lives have sure been different ever since you told me you were going to have a baby." We flash back to the sentimental moment at the Tropicana in 1952 when Lucy breaks the baby news to Ricky (from "Lucy is Enceinte"). This reminiscence over, we discover that Fred got carried away with his saw while listening to the baby tale - the tree is now a spindly stripling. While Fred goes off in search of a replacement, Ethel and Ricky start singing "Jingle Bells," but when Lucy joins in with her off-key rendition, they recall, once again in a flashback sequence, the barbershop quartet harmonizing of "Sweet Adeline" (from "Lucy's Show Biz Swan Song"). With the last note sung, we return to the Ricardo apartment just as Fred enters with a new tree - he got this "last minute" one for only fifty cents. The foursome starts decorating the tree and discussing Little Ricky's Christmas gifts, as Ethel realizes: "It seems like only yesterday he was born." This is the perfect lead-in to a flashback of Ricky, Fred, and Ethel rehearsing Lucy's trip to the hospital (from "Lucy Goes to the Hospital"). Finally, it's Christmas morning. The four principals are up early and wearing Santa outfits. When they hear Little Ricky approaching the living room, they hasten to the kitchen so the boy won't be d

The "Lucy and Superman" episode with commentary from Keith Thibodeaux, Doris Singleton, and Steve Kay

In the original network broadcasts of I Love Lucy, Lucy and Desi occasionally appeared in commercials as spokepersons for the sponsor. This spot for Instant Sanka aired only once - on January 14, 1957, at the end of the original broadcast of "Lucy and Superman".

During I Love Lucy's original network run on CBS, Lucy and Desi occasionally appeared in commercial broadcast during the show. This spot for Instant Sanka Coffee aired only once-on January 29, 1957, at the end of "Lucy Wants to Move to the Country".

Ford Motor Company sponsored three episodes of I Love Lucy in March of 1957. To close CBS's original broadcast of "Lucy Does the Tango", the new sponsor asked Vivian Vance and William Frawley to perform this musical pitch-unseen since March 11, 1957.

On May 27, 1957, with the Ricardos happily ensconced in their new home in rural Connecticut, CBS decided to air a rerun of "The Start Upstairs" - set in Hollwood. Once again, in order to maintain continuity, the cast filmed this new "flashback" opening.

When "The Celebrity Next Door" was repeated as a part of The Lucy Desi Comedy Hour, cuts were made to the original 35mm negative, and the material was discarded. The following footage was found recently in 16mm prints. Unfortunately, its condition was too poor to re-insert it directly into the episodes.

In this scene from "The Celebrity Next Door", Ethel fumes to Fred over how poorly they are being treated while posing as Lucy and Ricky's maid and butler. This footage was seen only in the original network broadcast of this episode, on December 3, 1957.

In this scene, Ethel and Fred have had enough of playing maid and butler to an ungrateful Lucy, and decide to call it a night. They help themselves to some of the Ricardos leftovers. Again, this footage was seen only in the original network broadcast of this episode, on December 3, 1957.

The original broadcast of "The Celebrity Next Door", on December 3, 1957, concluded with the Arnazes appearing in a commercial for Ford Motor Co. The commercial was followed immediately by the closing credits featuring Lucy-Desi stick figures.

"Lucy Hunts Uranium" originally aired under the series title The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show. It opened with Lucy and Desi saying hello, and with animated graphics featuring the Lucy-Desi stick figures. The elements seen here were only used on the original broadcast of this episode on January 3, 1958.

Tennessee Ernie Ford was the spokesman for Ford Motor Co. in this commercial created especially for use in "Lucy Hunts Uranium". Note it was filmed on the same desert set used for some of the action in this episode. The commercial was used only in the broadcast of January 3, 1958.

In this long-lost scene from "Lucy Hunts Uranium", the Mertzes fret over having spent all day looking for uranium and finding nothing, and Ethel berates Fred for having rented an old jalopy. This footage was seen only in the original network broadcast of this episode, on January 3, 1958.

In this scene from "Lucy Hunts Uranium", Fred MacMurray joins the race back to Las Vegas, and Ricky discovers he is driving with the Emergency Brake engaged. Again, this footage was only seen in the original network broadcast of this episode, on January 3, 1958.

In this scene from "Lucy Hunts Uranium", Ethel fumes at Fred because the Ricardos and Fred MacMurray have pulled ahead of them in the race back to town. This footage was seen only in the original network broadcast of this episode, on January 3, 1958.

In "Lucy Hunts Uranium", the Mertzes move a detour sign, causing the Ricardos and Fred MacMurray to take the wrong road back to town. In this scene, Lucy and Ricky realize what has happened. Again, this footage was only seen in the original network broadcast of this episode, on January 3, 1958.

The original broadcast of "Lucy Hunts Uranium" on January 3, 1958, concluded with the Arnazes appearing in a commercial for Ford Motor Co. The commercial was followed immediately by closing featuring the Lucy-Desi stick figures.

When "Lucy Wins a Racehorse" was repeated as a part of the Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, cuts were made to the original 35mm negative, and the material was discarded. The following footage was found recently in 16mm prints. Unfortunately, its condition was too poor to be re-inserted directly into the episode.

In this scene from "Lucy Wins a Racehorse", Ricky decides he cannot face another breakfast of Korny Krinkles, however noble the cause. Little Ricky is tired of the cereal, too. This footage was seen only in the original network broadcast of this episode on February 3, 1958.

The original broadcast of "Lucy Wins a Racehorse" on February 3, 1958, concluded with the Arnazes appearing in a commercial for Ford Motor Co. The commercial was followed by closing credits featuring the Lucy-Desi stick figures.

The original broadcast of "Lucy Goes to Mexico" on October 6, 1958, closed with Desi telling Lucy (and viewers at home) about the following week's presentation on Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse. This led directly into the show's closing credits, featuring a voice-over by Roy Rowan.

"Lucy Goes to Mexico" was the first episode of the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show to air with Westinghouse sponsorship. Its opening featured Desi Arnaz and the animated stick figures. This original footage, found recently in a 16mm print of the show, was seen only in the broadcast of October 6, 1958.

Although Desi Arnaz was the official host of The Westinghouse Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show and The Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, the sponsor asked Lucy to participate as much as possible in the "wrap-around" segments, including this one from the original broadcast of "Lucy Goes to Mexico".

When "Lucy Goes to Mexico" first aired on The Westinghouse Lucill Ball-Desi Arnaz Show, this animated transition featuring Lucy-Desi stick figures was used to lead into a commercial. This footage, found recently in a 16mm print of the show, was seen in the broadcast of October 6, 1958.

"Lucy Makes Room For Danny" originally aired as part of The Westinghouse Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show, and closed with graphics featuring the Lucy-Desi stick figures. These closing credits were used in the original broadcast on December 1, 1958.

"Lucy Goes to Sun Valley" originally aired on April 14, 1958, and was repeated December 22, 1958. To freshen the repeat, a Christmas-themed "flashback" opening was added to open the show. The new footage, however, was removed again when the show became part of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour.

In this scene from "Lucy Goes to Sun Valley", Fred scolds Ricky for being melancholy while Lucy is away. The scene was shortened slightly when the show was edited for The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour. This footage was recently discovered in a 16mm print of the December 22,1958 rebroadcast.

The Christmas 1958 rebroadcast of "Lucy Goes to Sun Valley" closed with graphics featuring the Lucy-Desi stick figures and a voice-over by Row Rowan.

When "Lucy Wants a Career" was repeated as part of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, the original Westinghouse opening featuring the Lucy-Desi stick figures was replaced with new graphics. This original footage, found recently in a 16mm print of the show, was seen in the original broadcast of April 13, 1959.

"Lucy Wants a Career" originally aired as part of The Westinghouse Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show, and closed with graphics featuring the Lucy-Desi stick figures. These closing credits were used in the original broadcast on April 13, 1959.

When "Lucy's Summer Vacation" was repeated as part of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, the original Westinghouse opening featuring the Lucy-Desi stick figures was replaced with new graphics. This original footage, found recently in a 16mm print of the show, was seen in the original broadcast of June 8, 1959.

"Lucy's Summer Vacation" originally aired as part of The Westinghouse Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show, and closed with graphics featuring the Lucy-Desi stick figures. These closing credits were used in the original broadcast on June 8, 1959.

"Milton Berle Hides Out at the Ricardos" originally aired as part of The Westinghouse Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show, and closed with graphics featuring the Lucy-Desi stick figures. These closing credits were used in the original broadcast on September 25, 1959.

Milton Berle extends his engagement at a Las Vegas night club for an extra 2 weeks along with his bandleader Ricky Ricardo. When Milton's wife gets upset at him missing their anniversary, Ricky's wife, Lucy, assists Milton in a crazy scheme to help Milton's wife forgive her. In the process, they get mixed up with 2 mobsters as hilarity ensues. This is basically a "lost" episode of "I Love Lucy."

Original Closing from "Milton Berle Hides Out At the Ricardos"

When "The Ricardos Visit Japan" was repeated as part of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, the original Westinghouse opening featuring Lucy-Desi stick figures was replaced with new graphics. This footage, found recently in a 16mm print, was seen in the original broadcast of November 27, 1959.

"The Ricardos Visit Japan" originally aired as part of The Westinghouse Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show, and closed with graphics featuring the Lucy-Desi stick figures. These closing credits were used in the original broadcast on November 27, 1959.

When "Lucy Meets the Moustache" was repeated as part of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, the original Westinghouse opening featuring Lucy-Desi stick figures was replaced with new graphics. This footage, found recently in a 16mm print, was seen in the original broadcast of April 1, 1960.

"Lucy Meets the Moustache" originally aired as part of The Westinghouse Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show, and closed with graphics featuring the Lucy-Desi stick figures. These closing credits were used in the original broadcast on April 1, 1960.

Opening sequence aired 4/3/1960 - 11/25/1960 on CBS retitling the stories of Lucy and Desi in their home in Westport, Connecticut

CBS tribute to Lucille Ball highlights I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show & Here’s Lucy as well as highlights from her movie career, and excerpts from numerous other TV appearances. Guests Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, Gale Gordon, Jimmy Stewart, Richard Burton, John Wayne, Milton Berle, Johnny Carson, George Burns, Sammy Davis Jr., Dick Van Dyke, William Holden, Bob Hope, Harpo Marx, Dean Martin, Red Skelton and more.

Includes Full-Length TV Sketches featuring the cast of ''I Love Lucy'' plus Skits, Promos, Bloopers and More!

Dan Rather hosts this CBS news special from the night Lucy passed away. Guests Ronald Reagan, Dick Van Dyke, Dinah Shore, & Bob Shiller.

The unaired (and lost) pilot for the series.

Because of its seasonal themes and flashbacks, "Christmas Show" wasn't syndicated with the other episodes of I Love Lucy. The show was never rebroadcast until CBS aired it as a prime time special on December 18, 1989. When CBS reran the special a year later, the network decided to colorize the "wrap-around" segments, which are presented here.

From the I Love Lucy Treasure Chest collection, a CBS Video, Al Yankovich production Al produced this collection of the greatest musical moments from the “I Love Lucy” show, including the “Babalu Music” medley.

From The Joan Rivers Show. I Love Lucy writers Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf, Author Bart Andrews, Lucy costume designer Irma Kusely, Little Ricky actor Keith Thibodeaux, and Desi Arnaz Jr. look back at the history of I Love Lucy.

Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr. host this ‘real life’ special with a look through home movies of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.

This broadcasted special commemorates the 50th anniversary of the I Love Lucy Show with top celebrities sharing their memories and the impact of the series on their lives. Lucy's childhood home in Jamestown , NY is visited by her children and clips from the top 10 episodes chosen by fans are shown.

The I LOVE LUCY CHRISTMAS SPECIAL, a one-hour special featuring two newly colorized back-to-back classic episodes of the 1950s series, will be broadcast Friday, Dec. 20 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. The two episodes---the seldom-seen "Christmas Episode" and "Lucy's Italian Movie" (aka "Grape Stomping")---were colorized with a vintage look, a nod to the 1950s period in which the shows were filmed. The main titles and end credits of the two episodes are seamlessly combined into one set---at the beginning and end of the hour---with no interruption between the episodes.

From 1956

Includes colorized versions of the Christmas Show and "Job Switching"

William Holden guest stars in the first episode, Finally L.A. Lucy and Ricky’s arrival in Los Angeles during the season long arc about Ricky’s big jump to Hollywood. I Love Lucy fans will remember the iconic Brown Derby scene when Lucy tries to sneak a peek at Holden in a nearby booth and he turns the tables on her. Lucy and Ricky each make the acquaintance of movie icon William Holden, playing himself, and gamely taking a pie in the face. The second episode, “Lucy and Superman,” has Lucy trying to book TV’s Man of Steel, George Reeves, to appear as a surprise guest at Little Ricky’s birthday party, but when he can’t make it, she dons the Superman suit herself and as only Lucy can, becomes a heroin in distress. But not to worry, Superman saves the day. He ends up stopping by the party and making a superhero entrance to the delight of Little Ricky and all his friends.

Lucy arrives in Hollywood with stars in her eyes. She heads for The Brown Derby, a celebrity hangout, where she encounters Eve Arden and William Holden -- and inadvertently presents Holden with a custard pie in the face. Hollywood legends William Holden and Eve Arden guest-star as themselves.

When Stevie Appleby, Caroline's son, has a birthday party the same day as Little Ricky's, Lucy looks for unusual entertainment to lure the children. Ricky remembers that Superman is in town, and he invites him. But when Ricky is unable to corral Superman, Lucy is left with no choice but to dress as the Man of Steel herself. George Reeves makes a special guest-star appearance in this episode.

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.

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.

Lucy finally gets her shot at Hollywood stardom — as a chorus girl photographed in a lavish musical. But she had better not get a swelled head, because the headdress she has to wear is too big as it is.

Lucy begs Van Johnson to let her dance a number with him at the nightclub to impress her rival Caroline Appleby, who is visiting from New York. Van accepts the challenge by waltzing her across the ballroom floor as his dance partner. Movie star Van Johnson guest-stars as himself.

Lucy decides to impersonate some Hollywood notables to impress nearsighted Caroline Appleby, who is visiting from New York. A mixup occurs when Lucy, having introduced her friend to "Gary Cooper," "Clark Gable," "Marlon Brando," and "Jimmy Durante," decides to impersonate Harpo Marx just as the real Harpo arrives at the apartment with Ricky.

Lucy's a model at a charity fashion show, but the redhead — wearing a scratchy tweed suit — is red all over from too much time in the California sun.

Having been bet by their husbands that they can't do without modern conveniences, Lucy and Ethel churn butter and bake bread from scratch-an eighteen foot loaf! But then Lucy demands that Ricky live as if it's the turn of the century for him, too.

The Ricardo household budget is in shambles (as usual) after Lucy decides to put her salad dressing on the market. Her plan? To market it on a TV morning show on the station her friend Caroline Appleby's husband runs. Home economist Mary Margaret McMertz (Ethel) will invite "an average housewife," (Lucy) to taste the dressing on the air.

A dollar bill takes a zany trip-with the Ricardos and Mertzes in hot pursuit. It's a winning bill (worth $300) in a newspaper contest. It belongs to Ricky, but he gallantly slips it into Lucy's purse. Gallant isn't necessarily smart: Lucy unthinkingly gives the bill to the grocery delivery boy-who gives it to Ethel in change. The wild ride has only begun!

This short film accompanied a Fathom Events screening of five colorized I Love Lucy episodes on August 6, 2019. Excellent description of the colorization process with interviews and historical perspective.

Includes colorized episodes of "The Christmas Show" and "Paris At Last"

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.