Episode #1 - Lucy Takes a Cruise to Havana

Special Notes: Dancer Barrie Chase, once Fred Astaire's TV dance partner, appeared briefly as one of a group of dancers in a production number early in the show.

Episode #2 - The Celebrity Next Door

Special Notes: During rehearsal for the telephone scene, Tallulah picked up the receiver and did her scene, afterwhich she proclaimed that this was the first time sa stage phone worked, she could actually hear someone on the other end. Later for the Southern dinner scene, packages of the first frozen fried chicken dinners ever manufactured were purchased and served with no one the wiser. Tallulah raved about the chicken all night, claiming it was the best fried chicken she'd ever eaten!

Episode #3 - Lucy Hunts Uranium

Special Notes: Lucille Ball changed her hairstyle beginning with this episode to a style similar to what she would wear the rest of her TV career. In fact, in one scene, when Lucy Ricardo reaches for a hatbox (in which she's hidden her Geiger counter) Ethel mistakenly guesses: 'Oh, you've bought a new hat to go with your new hairdo?'

Episode #4 - Lucy Wins a Racehorse

Episode #5 - Lucy Goes to Sun Valley

Special Notes: A double was used for the scene depicting Lucy skiing, Good thing for Lucille Ball - the double wound up with a broken leg!

Episode #6 - Lucy Goes to Mexico

Episode #7 - Lucy Makes Room for Danny

Special Notes: Danny Thomas's 'Make Room for Daddy' series inherited the 'I Love Lucy' time slot - Monday Nights at nine - when the half-hour sitcom went off the air in 1957. When Thomas originally agreed to do his series for the fall of 1953 (for ABC), he went to Desilu for production assistance and utilized their exclusive three-camera technique. Desi Arnaz had been trying to get Danny Thomas on the 'Lucy' show since 1955, but, at that time, there existed a sponsor conflict - 'Daddy' was bankrolled by a competing cigarette company.

Episode #8 - Lucy Goes to Alaska

Special Notes: Location Scenes for this episode were filmed in Lake Arrowhead, one hundred miles northeast of Los Angeles.

Episode #9 - Lucy Wants a Career

Episode #10 - Lucy's Summer Vacation

Episode #11 - Milton Berle Hides Out at the Ricardos

Episode #12 - The Ricardos Go to Japan

Episode #13 - Lucy Meets the Moustache

Special Notes: Dick Kallman was a member of Lucille Balls' acting workshop on the RKO/Desilu lot. He later starred in the NBC sitcom 'Hank'.

Episode #14 - The Desilu Playhouse Christmas Special

Special Notes: One of the last shows Lucy and Desi did together, a Christmas special that has never been re-broadcast. This program is significant because it's one of the last appearances of the four I Love Lucy cast members together, Lucy and Desi filed for divorce just a few months after this special was filmed. They only did one more Lucy/Desi program together before ending The Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Show and never again performing together on another TV show. The Desilu Players was a pet project of Lucille Ball's, who hand-picked each of the versatile performers as her protégés (they actually were appearing in a stage revue that she produced around the time of this broadcast). The musical and comedy numbers from the live show were filmed almost exactly as originally staged, but only the musical numbers ended up in the Christmas special's final edit.