I Love Lucy episode ratings · Plotted

I Love Lucy

1951–1957 · 6 seasons · 180 episodes · Comedy

Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.

8.5IMDb · 31k votes

Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.

Best season: 8.4; Season 4. Weakest is season 1, at 8.0
Top episode: 9.5; S1 E30 · Lucy Does a TV Commercial
Lowest episode: 7.1; S5 E17 · Lucy Goes to Scotland
Finale: 7.9; −0.3 against the show's 8.2 average

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IMDb rating of every I Love Lucy episode, by season and episode number
	Episode 1	Episode 2	Episode 3	Episode 4	Episode 5	Episode 6	Episode 7	Episode 8	Episode 9	Episode 10	Episode 11	Episode 12	Episode 13	Episode 14	Episode 15	Episode 16	Episode 17	Episode 18

Season 1	7.8	8.0	8.1	8.1	8.0	7.7	8.1	8.1	8.1	7.7	7.4	7.3	7.7	7.5	7.4	8.0	7.8	8.3	8.3	7.6	8.2	8.0	7.9	8.5	8.6	7.7	8.0	7.5	9.0	9.5	7.6	8.2	8.5	8.2	8.4
Season 2	9.3	8.1	8.2	8.6	8.2	8.1	8.2	8.3
Season 3	7.8	8.0	8.3	8.5	7.8	8.8	7.7	8.2
Season 4	8.6	7.7	8.2	7.8	8.4	8.3	8.2	8.3
Season 5	8.6	9.1	7.9	8.1	9.1	8.0	8.0	7.3
Season 6	8.5	7.9	8.2	8.0	8.2	8.7	8.6	8.3