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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
Genre

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Series Fun Facts

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  • This unaired pilot was considered lost until Pepito Pérez's widow notified CBS that she owned the sole copy. It had been given to Pepito by Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball as a show of gratitude…
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    This unaired pilot was considered lost until Pepito Pérez's widow notified CBS that she owned the sole copy. It had been given to Pepito by Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball as a show of gratitude for his friendship.
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  • Lucille Ball decided to go ahead with the series after having a dream in which Carole Lombard - the screwball comedy actress who died in a plane crash and who was a close friend of Ball's -…
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    Lucille Ball decided to go ahead with the series after having a dream in which Carole Lombard - the screwball comedy actress who died in a plane crash and who was a close friend of Ball's - recommended she take a shot at the risky idea of entering television.
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  • The series was partially based on "My Favorite Husband", a radio comedy series with a similar storyline in which Lucille Ball had starred for several years.