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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.

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Comedy
Family
Created By

Bob Carroll Jr.Madelyn PughJess Oppenheimer

First Aired on

Oct 15, 1951

6 seaons till May 06, 1957

Popularity: 65.2319
229 votes
Networks
(US)
Production

Desilu Productions (US)

Status: Ended

Show Ended

Last episode: The Ricardos Dedicate a Statue

Seasons & episodes

Total 6 seasons, 180 episodes

Specials

Aired

18 Episodes
  • Episode 1The Lost Pilot30 min

    The Original pilot for the series long thought to have been lost until 1990 when it was found and restored. In this we meet the Ricardos and learn of Lucy's desires to be in Ricky's act. Lucy's original announcer Bob LeMond also steps back into the role of Narrator after a break of 50 years.

  • Episode 2Colorized Christmas Show30 min

    Colorized version of the Christmas show

  • Episode 3Lucy Goes To Scotland30 min

    Lucy wants to investigate her family history in Scotland.

  • Episode 4Color Audience Footage min

    On October 12, 1951, three days before I Love Lucy premiered, Desilu filmed Episode #6, "The Audition." An enterprising member of the studio audience secretly brought a 16mm movie camera with him into the bleachers that evening, and when no one was looking he managed to take a few "home movies" as the filming proceeded/ Gregg Oppenheimer, son of series producer and head writer Jess Oppenheimer, recently discovered and obtained this rare color footage, and has edited it together with scenes from the actual show.

  • Episode 5The Cast On The Bob Hope Show min

    In Exchange for Bob Hope's appearance on the first I Love Lucy of the 1956-57 season, Lucy, Desi, Viv and Bill all appeared on Hope's NBC Chevrolet special a few weeks later, on October 21, 1956. Included in the Hope show was a sketch involving the Ricardos and the Mertzes - with JHope as "Ricky" and Desi as "fred"

Crew & Team

Jack Aldworth

Producer

Jess Oppenheimer

Producer

Desi Arnaz

Producer

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