We all loved her

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I Love Lucy Day, which takes place on October 15, celebrates the trendsetting sitcom of the same name, I Love Lucy. Premiering on this day in 1951 and lasting until May of 1957, the hilarious comedy spearheaded by Lucille Ball as the bubbly, aspiring-star Lucy, and her real-life husband Desi Arnaz as singer and bandleader Ricky Ricardo took America by storm.

Shot in Hollywood, the show was innovative and fresh. It was the first sitcom to be shot in 35mm film in front of a live audience, those were real laughs we were hearing, not canned laughter. Three cameras were used simultaneously to shoot the show, allowing three different angles for each scene. After Lucy’s pregnancy, the reruns that were shown as a way to let her rest were so popular that it effectively started the concept of the rerun, revolutionizing TV as we know it.

I Love Lucy was the most-watched television show in the country for most of its airtime, even becoming the first show to end while at the top of the Nielsen ratings. It won five Emmy awards and has consistently been called one of the greatest shows in television history. Following the end of the original run of the series, one-hour episodes rebranded as The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show or The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour were broadcasted from 1957 to 1960. Starting in 1962, Ball starred in The Lucy Show, which ran until 1968, when Here’s Lucy started and broadcasted until 1974.

Today reruns of I Love Lucy are broadcast on several late-night networks, such as the Hallmark Channel, TBS, Nick and Nite, and TV Land, as well as many streaming sites. It is credited to be the longest-broadcasted TV show of all time.

 

 

[ebinmaine 74,161]

1 hour ago, 953 nut said:

Lucy’s pregnancy

 

Useless trivia for today. They were never allowed to use the word "pregnant." Too riské ...  They had to say "expecting."

 

[davem1111 2,226]

LUUUUUUUUCCCCCYYYY!!!!  YOU GOT SOME 'SPLAININ' TO DO!!  

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9 hours ago, davem1111 said:

LUUUUUUUUCCCCCYYYY!!!!  YOU GOT SOME 'SPLAININ' TO DO!!  

 

WAAAAAAAAAAA!

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12 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

 

Useless trivia for today. They were never allowed to use the word "pregnant." Too riské ...  They had to say "expecting."

 

 

 

More useless trivia, the address given in the show for the Ricardos' apartment building is completely fictitious. The street ends several blocks before the one their address would have been on, and if one attempts to go said address they will find themselves firmly in the middle of the Hudson river.

[rjg854 12,435]

Another bit of trivia, if it wasn't for Lucy, there would have been no STAR TREK, it was produced by Desilu Productions.

[kwalshy 241]

Good clean humor that we need more of today on TV.    My 11 and 10 year old girls enjoy watching episodes of this with me. 

[wh500special 2,308]

58 minutes ago, kwalshy said:

...   My 11 and 10 year old girls enjoy watching episodes of this with me. 

 

I always assumed the allure of that show was generational as I don't find it the least bit funny or even remotely entertaining, but I think your daughters might be proving me wrong.

 

Steve

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6 hours ago, kwalshy said:

Good clean humor that we need more of today on TV.    My 11 and 10 year old girls enjoy watching episodes of this with me. 

 

I love that show, but I can't get the kids to watch it for the life of me.

 

Until very recently they have written off anything in black and white simply for not being in color. Last Saturday they were out helping the wife lay the new footer for their tree house while I was in working on other things. Its rare I get the TV to myself, so I had the Stooges on, and they came in around 7 started watching and actually liked it.