Episode
I Love Lucy: Country Club Dance
Overview
Lucy, Ethel, and Betty want their husbands to dance with their friends' visiting houseguest - until they see that she's a sultry, young blonde. Now the boys are only too happy to oblige - and the miffed wives decide to fight glamour with glamour.
Details
- Series
- I Love Lucy
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 25
- Air date
- 1957-04-22
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
Country Club Dance is Episode 25 in Season 6 of I Love Lucy. It aired on 1957-04-22. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 24: Building a B.B.Q.
Lucy has a problem deciding what to do to get her vacationing husband, Ricky, out of her hair so she can do her housework. She and Ethel solve the problem by putting their husbands to work building a barbecue.
Episode 26: Lucy Raises Tulips
Suburban living gets Lucy into a flower-show competition, and she raises tulips with a vengeance as she tries to beat out her neighbor, Betty Ramsey, for first prize. Lucy asks Ricky to mow the lawn so that her garden will look just right. But he only mows half before taking off for a baseball game, leaving Lucy and Ethel to tiptoe through the tulips -- with the lawnmower.
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Episode 22: Lucy's Night in Town
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Episode 20: Lucy Does the Tango
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Episode 18: Lucy Gets Chummy With the Neighbors
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Episode 15: Lucy Wants to Move to the Country
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