I Love Lucy - Season 5

Ricky has completed his movie for MGM, but Lucy and the Mertzes convince him to let them stay in Hollywood for one more week. While sight-seeing, Lucy discovers that the cement slab with John Wayne's footprints and signature in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater has become loose. Lucy talks Ethel into helping her steal the slab to keep as a souvenir, and as they make their get-away, Lucy gets her foot caught in a bucket of cement. Ricky demands that they return the slab to the theater forecourt, but while trying to return it, Lucy and Ethel accidentally destroy it.

Lucy and Ethel have made off with the cement slab of John Wayne's footprints. Now the police are called in to investigate. John Wayne guest stars.

MGM asks Ricky to help entertain executives at a studio party. Ricky has plans to go deep-sea fishing, but as far as Lucy is concerned, "the show must go on." She performs with a dummy and ends up being offered a contract.

Ricky sells the car and buys train tickets for the trip back to New York, but he forgets about Fred and Ethel, leading to a rift between the friends. After Lucy informs Ricky of his error, he is able to buy tickets for the Mertzes, but Lucy worries when she finds out that the tickets are not the same class as theirs.

On the trip back to New York, Lucy learns a jewel thief's on their train.

The gang is finally home from Hollywood, and everybody is gushing over Ricky, treating him like the movie star that he has become. A reporter emphasizes to Lucy how important it is to pamper Ricky and love every minute she has to spend with him. Lucy falls under the Ricky-is-a-star spell, too, and Ricky hates it. To snap her out of it, Ricky starts acting like a hugely pompous celebrity, ordering Lucy to do five things at once. Lucy eventually gets annoyed enough to shout back at Ricky, and he tells her that he's happy he's got his girl back.

Ricky's agent says that the Ricardos should move to a fancy apartment and get out of the "dump" that the Mertzes own. The Ricardos stand up for the Mertzes, saying they're happy where they are. Just for fun, though, Lucy goes to look at a high-price New York apartment. Meanwhile, the Mertzes make up a fake fight to get the Ricardos to move out, because they think living elsewhere would do wonders for Ricky's careers. After the fight, Ethel calls up her Aunt Martha, saying that there will probably be a vacant apartment soon. But when the Mertzes find out Lucy visited the ritzy apartments, and when the Ricardos find out Ethel called Aunt Martha, the two couples start bitterly feuding. The feud spreads when they all appear on the TV show Face to Face. In the end, all of their real motives are explained, and they end up friends again.

Ricky is upset when he learns that he signed up to do not a radio show, but a rodeo show. When there are no acts available, he has to reluctantly turn to Lucy and the Mertzes since they are planning their own Western show for Fred's lodge.

Lucy is not happy about the idea of being separated from Little Ricky, but Ricky insists their son must start nursery school. Lucy then becomes worried when Little Ricky gets sick with tonsillitis and must be hospitalized.

Ricky's band gets booked in Europe, and Fred is recruited as Ricky's band manager. Lucy and Ethel can only go if they can come up with enough money to pay their own way. They run a raffle benefiting a phony charity and nearly get arrested for the fraud.

Lucy needs her birth certificate in order to get her passport, but Jamestown has no record of her being born there. She devises a way to sneak to Europe with the others: hide in a large steamer trunk. While trying it out, she ends up locked in the trunk with the key in her pocket. Lucy ends up receiving her birth certificate in the mail from her mother, and learns from her childhood doctor that she was actually born in West Jamestown.

The Ricardos and Mertzes are all ready to leave for Europe, until Fred announces that he gets seasick, so Ricky suggests seasick pills.

After boarding the ocean liner SS Constitution, Lucy goes ashore just one more time to kiss Little Ricky goodbye, and misses the boat. As a result, she ends up hiring a helicopter to drop her off on the ship. 

Lucy plans to make the ocean voyage a second honeymoon, but Ricky has previous shipboard engagements with his band. When she has had enough, she devises a plan with Ethel to trap Ricky in the room.

Lucy and Ethel go looking for Queen Elizabeth II on their first day in London. Ethel manages to get a glimpse of the Queen, but Lucy misses seeing her. Eventually, Lucy finds out that she can be presented to the Queen if she is one of the performers in Ricky's show at the London Palladium.

Lucy is torn between wanting to spend the weekend fox hunting and her jealousy of a blonde.

Ricky's tour calls for Paris as the next stop, but Lucy wants to go to Scotland.

The Ricardos and the Mertzes arrive in Paris, and when a man outside the American Express office offers to exchange money for Lucy, she ends up in jail for passing counterfeit francs.

Lucy decides to fake a meeting with Charles Boyer.

Lucy is determined to get a new designer dress while in Paris.

While in Lucerne, the Ricardos and the Mertzes go mountain climbing in the Swiss Alps, and are stuck in a cabin with little to eat after a sudden avalanche.

Lucy, while in Florence, gets homesick for Little Ricky on his third birthday. To lift her spirits, she hosts an impromptu party for several Italian children who all claim it is their birthday too.

Lucy is "discovered" by an Italian film director while traveling to Rome.

Lucy can't cross the French-Italian border because she lost her passport.

Lucy and Ethel go to the casino and inadvertently win big. After Ricky finds the hidden money, he thinks Fred has been skimming Ricky's concert earnings.

In order to make it home from Europe in time for Ricky and his band to perform at the Roxy Theatre, everyone must travel back to New York by plane. Lucy tries to get out of paying duties by disguising a twenty-five pound piece of Italian cheese as a swaddled baby, much to the frustration of Ricky.