diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.21.0.txt b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.21.0.txt
index a64e0f0380d0d..c5fe89282bf52 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.21.0.txt
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.21.0.txt
@@ -128,7 +128,8 @@ Other Enhancements
 - :func:`DataFrame.add_prefix` and :func:`DataFrame.add_suffix` now accept strings containing the '%' character. (:issue:`17151`)
 - `read_*` methods can now infer compression from non-string paths, such as ``pathlib.Path`` objects (:issue:`17206`).
 - :func:`pd.read_sas()` now recognizes much more of the most frequently used date (datetime) formats in SAS7BDAT files (:issue:`15871`).
-- :func:`DataFrame.items` is now present in both Python 2 and 3 and is lazy in all cases (:issue:`13918`, :issue:`17213`)
+- :func:`DataFrame.items` and :func:`Series.items` is now present in both Python 2 and 3 and is lazy in all cases (:issue:`13918`, :issue:`17213`)
+
 
 
 
diff --git a/pandas/core/series.py b/pandas/core/series.py
index c8282450b77a9..75dc3d6403650 100644
--- a/pandas/core/series.py
+++ b/pandas/core/series.py
@@ -1110,8 +1110,7 @@ def iteritems(self):
         """
         return zip(iter(self.index), iter(self))
 
-    if compat.PY3:  # pragma: no cover
-        items = iteritems
+    items = iteritems
 
     # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
     # Misc public methods
diff --git a/pandas/tests/series/test_api.py b/pandas/tests/series/test_api.py
index 8e22dd38030ee..b7fbe803f8d3b 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/series/test_api.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/series/test_api.py
@@ -301,6 +301,16 @@ def test_iteritems(self):
         # assert is lazy (genrators don't define reverse, lists do)
         assert not hasattr(self.series.iteritems(), 'reverse')
 
+    def test_items(self):
+        for idx, val in self.series.items():
+            assert val == self.series[idx]
+
+        for idx, val in self.ts.items():
+            assert val == self.ts[idx]
+
+        # assert is lazy (genrators don't define reverse, lists do)
+        assert not hasattr(self.series.items(), 'reverse')
+
     def test_raise_on_info(self):
         s = Series(np.random.randn(10))
         with pytest.raises(AttributeError):