I Love Lucy Episode Synopsis (w/images): “Ricky Asks For A Raise” & “Job Switching”:

With Labor Day coming up, I thought I would repost these.

“Ricky Asks For A Raise”:

Episode #35 (Syndicated episode #34)
DVD: On the I Love Lucy Season 1, Volume 9 DVD, it is attached to episodes #33-36 along with bonus features like flubs, series original opening, guest cast information, behind the scenes featurette, My Favorite Husband episodes “Time Budgeting”, “George Tries For A Raise”, “Quiz Show”& it also has an excerpt from the Jess Oppenheimer book “Laughs, Luck & Lucy” with video from “Lucy Does A TV Commercial.” On all the other standard definition Season 1 DVD Box sets, it is Attached to episodes 31-36 of the show and it also has an excerpt from the Jess Oppenheimer book “Laughs, Luck & Lucy” with video from “Lucy Does A TV Commercial.” On the Blu Ray set, it is attached to the episodes #29-34 along with the bonus features like flubs and the same excerpt.
Air Date: Mon. 6/9/52

Job Switching”:

Episode #36 (Syndicated episode #37)
VHS: On some tapes, it is attached to “The Fashion Show.” On some tapes, it is attached to “Lucy & Bob Hope.”
DVD: On all the standard definition Season 1 DVD Box sets, it is Attached to episodes 37-42 of the show, and the My Favorite Husband episode “Liz & George Handcuffed.” On the Blu Ray set, it is attached to the episodes #37-42 along with the bonus features like flashbacks, flubs, the colorized version of this episode and the same My Favorite Husband episode. On the I Love Lucy Colorized Collection DVD Box Set, it is attached to “Pioneer Women”, “Lucy Does A TV Commercial” & “The Million Dollar Idea.”
Air Date: Mon. 9/15/52

Note: Wikipedia.org says that in the 4/9/20 episode of Will & Grace, Sean Hayes as Lucy and Debra Messing as Ethel and Lucie Arnaz as their boss reenact the chocolate factory scene. That is true. I watched it. It’s hysterical.

“Lucy Wants A Career”:

Note: These episodes were originally called “The (Ford) Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show” and “The Westinghouse Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show” Apparantly from the late 1960s to 1987 or so, these episodes did not see the light of day. It wasn’t until 1987 that these episodes saw the light of day when they were at first shown as TV specials called “We Love Lucy” (not to be confused with the three Reelz channel specials that dealt with Lucille Ball called “Lucille Ball: We Love Lucy” and also not to be confused with the umbrella title that these LDCH episodes were given when they were shown in syndication.) One of the specials was hosted by Betty White which included edited versions of “Lucy Goes To Alaska”, “Lucy Goes To Sun Valley” & “The Ricardos Go To Japan.” The second special was hosted by Lucie Arnaz. It includes “The Celebrity Next Door” and a few others that I don’t know. The third specials information as far as the host and the episodes are a mystery to me. Each episode contained at least one guest star. After these specials, these episodes were syndicated to TV stations under the umbrella title “We Love Lucy” and were badly edited with the second half-hour showing recap footage from the first half hour. Why the recap footage was needed is beyond my comprehension. But these episodes were still being shown in local syndication as late as 2006. Here’s proof

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eQadooktJI

You will notice that there is a bug on the bottom right that says My13 Los Angeles. The station is KCOP and that logo indicates that it is affiliated with My Network TV which launched in 2006. These episodes were shown for the first time with the non sponsor advertisements in 1995 on N@N.

“Lucy Wants A Career”:

Episode #190 (Syndicated episode #9)
VHS: It’s the only episode on the volume.
DVD: Attached to “Lucy Makes Room For Danny”, “Lucy Goes To Alaska”, “Lucy’s Summer Vacation” & meet special people: Vivian Vance, Bill Frawley and Keith Thibodeaux. On the blu ray, it’s attached to On the blu ray, it’s attached to “Lucy Makes Room For Danny”, “Lucy Goes To Alaska”, ‘Lucy Wants A Career”, “Lucy’s Summer Vacation” & Lucy & Desi Comedy Hour Promo #2.

Air Date: Mon. 2/9/59

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Bump. I added one more episode.