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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. The first major show to be put on film rather than kinescope.

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06x27 The Ricardos Dedicate a Statue Aired: May. 06, 1957

Lucy joins a community effort to establish a Revolutionary War monument. She manages to shatter any dreams she may have had of becoming a community … [continue reading]

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I Love Lucy is Canceled/Ended
The show had 6 seasons and 180 episodes air between 1951 and 1957.

Series Info

Type:
Scripted
Premiered:
Oct. 15, 1951
Status:
Canceled/Ended
Runtime:
30 min.
Aired:
1951 - 1957
To-Date:
6 Seasons
180 Episodes
Network
CBS TV Network
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Series Fun Facts

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  • After the pilot, the characters' original last name, Lopez, was changed to Ricardo to avoid confusion with band leader Vincent Lopez.
  • Bob LeMond was also the narrator on Lucille Ball's radio show "My Favorite Husband" on which this series was based.
  • My Little Margie was I Love Lucy's "summer replacement" on CBS during 1952 because the rerun had not been invented yet.