Show Summary

Ricky and Lucy Ricardo, a happy middle-classed couple, reside at 623 East 68th Street in a reconverted Brownstone Apartment Building. The apartment building is owned by Fred and Ethel Mertz, who become The Ricardo's best friends as well as landlords.

Lucille "Lucy" Esmerelda McGillicuddy, who was born in Jamestown, New York and Ricky Ricardo, born in Cuba first met when Lucy went on a cruise to Havana, Cuba. The two fell in love, Ricky follows her back to America and in 1940 the couple married at the Byram River Beagle Club in Greenwich, Connecticut. The Ricardo's first child, Little Ricky, was born January 19, 1953. The Mertzes become his godparents.

Ricky, a very successful conga bandleader, works at the Tropicana Nightclub, which he later purchases and renames The Club Babalu. Ricky sings his trademark song, Babalu on a regular basis. Lucy, who greatly wants to become a star, often interferes with Ricky's job, when she sneaks into many of his performances, making a mess of things. Lucy does many of these hilarious schemes with her best friend, Ethel Mertz, right along with her, some even when Ethel wants no part of them. Lucy and Ethel are also in many other situations that have nothing to do with Ricky's nightclub acts.

In the fall of 1954, The Ricardos, The Mertzes, and Mrs. McGillicuddy travel to California, for Ricky's big movie deal. They then return to New York and in the fall of 1955 Ricky, Lucy, Fred, and Ethel head off to Europe for Ricky's tour of Europe. The two couples then return to New York in the spring of 1956. In the fall of 1956 when Lucy wants to move to the country, the Ricardos buy a house in Westport, Connecticut and move from the city. Not long afterward the Mertzes follow the Ricardos to Connecticut and move into the Ricardo's guesthouse. Then over the years, the couples travel to other countries such as Japan and Mexico.