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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 …

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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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  • Frank Nelson appeared on the show in various roles, including that of game show host Freddy Filmore. During the final season he took on the occasional role of Betty Ramsey's husband Ralph.
  • My Little Margie was I Love Lucy's "summer replacement" on CBS during 1952 because the rerun had not been invented yet.
  • The back door so much used in both the Ricardo's and Mertz's apartments were in actuality a common trait of older buildings in Los Angeles and not of those in New York.