William Frawley's biggest role came on 'I Love Lucy,' as Fred Mertz, the cantankerous landlord of Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz). However Gene Hazelton's original animation survives, and can be seen in the DVD boxed set as originally presented. Dr. Frasier Crane moves back to his hometown of Seattle where he lives with his father and works as a radio psychiatrist. Its ratings quickly declined, however, and resulted in a cancellation after eight episodes. As originally broadcast, the episodes opened with animated matchstick figures of Arnaz and Ball making reference to whoever the particular episode's sponsor was. [94] That episode appeared on the "I Love Lucy: The Ultimate Season 2" Blu-ray edition released on August 4, 2015. [citation needed] Shooting the show on film, however, would require that Lucy and Desi become responsible for producing the series themselves. [89] In 2014, Target stores sold an exclusive version of the DVD that also included "Job Switching". [31] Another problem lay in the fact that Philip Morris wanted the series to originate from New York rather than Hollywood. Ricky's mother (played by actress Mary Emery) appears in two episodes; in another Lucy mentions that he has five brothers. Everyone who has already commented has said just about all one can about this extraordinary accomplishment in TV entertainment. With virtually no crimes to solve, most of Andy's time is spent philosophizing and calming down his cousin Deputy Barney Fife. Season 3 includes all 31 Season 3 episodes in a 5-disc set. Lucy and Ricky's best friends are landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz who often become unwitting participants in Lucy's get-rich-quick and other wild schemes. Lucy cannot seem to do anything right. As part of Lucy's role was to care for her husband, she stayed at home and took care of the household chores while her husband Ricky went to work. – Today's News: Our Take", "Viewers Found Much to Love in 'Lucy' Christmas Show", "Ask Her Anything About Desi Sr., Divorce, Drugs, Gay Rights—Lucy Ball Hasn't Become Bashful at 68", "DVD Extra: Loving Lucy, Part 2: Columbia Pictures", "Lucille Ball Lovingly Remembered on Her 100th Birthday", "HISTORY'S Moments in Media: Launching a Legend With "I Love Lucy, "Television/Radio: The Good, the Bad, the Lucy: A Legacy of Laughs; The Man Behind the Throne: Making the Case for Desi", "Filming the I Love Lucy Show - The American Society of Cinematographers", "Why does I Love Lucy endure after all these years? Studio owner Jimmy Nasser was eager to accommodate the Desilu company and allowed them, with financial backing of CBS, to renovate two of his studios so that they could accommodate an audience and be in compliance with local fire laws. A nouveau riche hillbilly family moves to Beverly Hills and shakes up the privileged society with their hayseed ways. Gale Gordon and Bea Benaderet, supporting cast members on My Favorite Husband, were originally approached for the roles of Fred and Ethel, but neither could accept owing to previous commitments. They also showed her continuing popularity with audiences, enticing CBS to further use her skills. During the second season, Lucy and Ricky have a son named Ricky Ricardo Jr. ("Little Ricky"), whose birth was timed to coincide with Ball's real-life birth of her son Desi Arnaz Jr.[10]. It is currently on Hulu. I Love Lucy is an American television sitcom that originally aired on CBS from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, with a total of 180 half-hour episodes[a] spanning six seasons. At the time, most television shows were produced from New York with live broadcasts of the show airing for eastern and Midwest audiences. They were designed and animated by MGM character designer and future "Flintstones" cartoonist, Gene Hazelton (1917–2005) and were produced under a contract producer William Hanna had secured privately. Owing to the impending birth of their first child, both Lucy and Desi insisted on staying in Hollywood and producing the show on film, something a few Hollywood-based series had begun to do. The Mertz's history in entertainment only strengthens Lucy's resolve to prove herself as a performer. In fall 1967, CBS began offering the series in off-network syndication; As of August 2017[update], the reruns air on the Hallmark Channel and MeTV networks, and scores of television stations in the U.S. and around the world, including Fox's KTTV/KCOP in Los Angeles until December 31, 2018. We're as happy as two can be. In addition to Primetime Emmy Awards and nominations, I Love Lucy's many honors include the following: On February 10, 1991, CBS aired a television movie titled Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter, about the lives of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. How we love making up again. [93] Nearly a year later, on December 7, 2014, the Christmas special was again aired on CBS, but this time paired with the popular episode "Job Switching", which was newly colorized for that broadcast. The episode in which Lucy gives birth, "Lucy Goes to the Hospital", first aired on January 19, 1953, which was the day before the inauguration of Dwight Eisenhower as President of the United States. Not being able to fulfill the show's 39-episode commitment, both Desi and Jess Oppenheimer decided to rebroadcast popular episodes of the series first season to help give Lucy the necessary rest she needed after she gave birth, effectively allowing fewer episodes to be filmed that season. During the summer of 2002, each DVD would contain between five and seven episodes on a single DVD. The two had a long history together, as Pepper had been one of the Goldwyn Girls who came to Hollywood with Lucy in 1933. Pepper was ruled out by Lucy and Desi because she too had a drinking problem like Frawley. However, for the 1956–57 season, Little Ricky suddenly aged by two years, becoming a young school-age boy from 1956 to 1960. Seven men and women are stranded on an uncharted island following a torrential storm. [82], In October 2011, the stage play I Love Lucy Live on Stage premiered to sold-out houses at the Greenway Court Theatre in Los Angeles. The series is legitimately the most influential in TV history, pioneering so many innovations and normalizing so many others that it would be easy to write an appreciation of simply, say, the show’s accidental invention of the TV rerun. Lucille Ball had come to Hollywood after a successful stint as a New York model. [104] A third "Superstar Special" aired on May 19, 2017, featuring two more newly colorized Hollywood-based episodes: "The Dancing Star" featuring Van Johnson, and "Harpo Marx". The episodes included are: "The Million Dollar Idea" (1954), "Lucy Does a TV Commercial" (1952), "Pioneer Women" (1952), "Job Switching" (1952) and "L.A. at Last!" [20] Before and during World War II, Lucy had made several notable and successful guest appearances on several radio programs, among them Jack Haley's radio show and bandleader Kay Kyser's radio program. In 1986, Ball tried another sitcom, Life with Lucy. Arnaz and Jess Oppenheimer went to see her in the play and hired her on the spot. The I Love Lucy show continued the ever-popular and age-old "battle between the sexes" scenarios. Pauline Lopus was a childhood friend, Fred was also her brother and grandfather's name. [90], On December 20, 2013, CBS revived an annual holiday tradition when it reaired the Christmas special for the first time in nearly two decades. Instead, she constantly tries to perform at his club, the Tropicana, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlord and best friends, Fred and Ethel Mertz. Season 1 includes the pilot and all 35 Season 1 episodes in a 7-disc set. The wife of a band leader constantly tries to become a star - in spite of her having no talent, and gets herself (along with her best friend) into the funniest predicaments. Initially, the first season was offered in volumes, with four episodes per disc. About I Love Lucy . While it never aired on radio at the time in the 1950s (Philip Morris eventually sponsored a radio edition of My Little Margie instead), copies of this radio pilot episode have been circulating among "old time radio" collectors for years, and this radio pilot episode has aired in more recent decades on numerous local radio stations that air some "old time radio" programming.[65]. As previously mentioned, Vance and Frawley were offered a chance to take their characters to their own spin-off series. However, the openings are listed as special features within the disks with the "heart on satin" image opening the actual episodes. I Love Lucy […] is one of the two foundational texts of American TV comedy, along with The Honeymooners. Ironically, KTTV was the original CBS affiliated station in Los Angeles until 1951, just before "I Love Lucy" premiered on KNXT Channel 2 (now KCBS-TV) when CBS bought that station the same year. "[50] It was reported that Vance, who was 22 years younger than Frawley, was not really keen on the idea that her character Ethel was married to a man that was old enough to be her father. April 16, 2015. It was at RKO that Ball received steady film work, first as an extra and bit player and eventually working her way up to co-starring roles in feature films and starring roles in second rate B pictures, collectively earning her the nickname "Queen of the B's". [9], Originally set in an apartment building in New York City, I Love Lucy centers on Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball) and her singer/bandleader husband Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz), along with their best friends and landlords Fred Mertz (William Frawley) and Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance). Club wrote retrospectively:[70]. Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance Didn’t Get on at First. When the Ricardos and the Mertzes arrive in Hollywood, Lucy goes to the Brown Derby restaurant where her sighting of William Holden turns catastrophic. In 1962, Ball began a six-year run with The Lucy Show, followed immediately in 1968 by six more years on a third sitcom, Here's Lucy, finally ending her regular appearances on CBS in 1974. It is estimated to be 3.2 million years old. After 1956, it became known as Desilu-Cahuenga Studios to avoid confusion with other acquired Desilu locations. "I Love Lucy" debuted on TV in 1951, and has been enjoyed by viewers in its original run as well as flourishing in countless reruns. In spite of this, they were always professional and exhibited exceptional chemistry while performing on the show. Ain't she something? Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz actually created their own company to produce I Love Lucy. Miss Jenssen’s relationship with Lucy had begun four years prior to the debut of “I Love Lucy” when she was assigned to design costumes on the film “Lured” which starred Lucille Ball. In 2012, it was voted the 'Best TV Show of All Time' in a survey conducted by ABC News and People magazine. The main cast, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, William Frawley and Little Ricky/Richard Keith (birth name Keith Thibodeaux) were all in the show. [48], Vivian Vance became a consideration on the recommendation of Lucy director Marc Daniels. That's it. Vance and Ball would develop a lifelong close friendship. CBS aired the Christmas special again on December 23, 2015, with the flashback scenes being colorized for the first time, and with a colorized "Lucy Does a TV Commercial" replacing "Job Switching". [27] CBS executives believed that audiences would not believe the marriage between an all-American girl and a Latin man. [citation needed], Desilu Productions, jointly owned by Ball and Arnaz, would gradually expand to produce and lease studio space for many other shows. The first episode to be colorized was the Christmas special, which had been feared to be lost for many years, as it was not included in the regular syndication package with the rest of the series. CBS DVD (distributed by Paramount) has released all six seasons of I Love Lucy on DVD in Region 1, as well as all 13 episodes of The Lucy and Desi Comedy Hour (as I Love Lucy: The Final Seasons – 7, 8, & 9). Ricky also mentions that he had been "practically raised" by his uncle Alberto (who was seen during a family visit to Cuba), and that he had attended the University of Havana. [63] That record is surpassed only by Elvis Presley's first of three appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, which aired on September 9, 1956 (82.6% share, 60.710 million viewers and a 57.1 rating ). Frawley and Vance would have an adversarial relationship during the entire run of the show.[51]. Fred can also sing and dance and often performs duets with Ethel. Add to List Opens a popup. [32], Although the pilot had been made as a kinescope, for the series itself, the process was rejected. A United States astronaut finds his life vastly complicated when he stumbles on to a bottle containing a female genie. They began that summer with the pilot and the first three episodes on a single DVD. A family of friendly monsters have misadventures, never quite understanding why people react to them so strangely. The couple's agent, Don Sharpe, brought the pilot to several advertising agencies with little luck but finally succeeded with the Milton H. Biow agency. Deadline. Beginning in the summer of 2001, Columbia House Television began releasing I Love Lucy on DVD in chronological order. [101] A DVD of this special was released on October 4, 2016. King Features syndicated a comic strip (written by Lawrence Nadel and drawn by Bob Oksner, jointly credited as "Bob Lawrence") from 1952 to 1955. Desi Arnaz retained his orchestra, which was used in the series musical numbers and to score the show's background and transitional music. The company was named Desilu, from the combination of both their first names "Desi" and "Lucille". However, this was his last screen appearance with his longtime friend. 0:30 I Love Lucy: A Colorized Celebration. in Hollywood, renaming it Desilu Studios, to shoot seasons 3–6 (1953–1957) of I Love Lucy. Dell Comics published 35 issues of an I Love Lucy comic book between 1954 and 1962 including two try-out Four Color issues (#535 and #559). Nonetheless, by 1951, she was still a relatively unknown actress in Hollywood. The network paired this special with the color version of "Lucy's Italian Movie" episode. How about Cosmo and Henrietta Topper? When logistical difficulties convinced Oppenheimer to abandon this plan, he advised Desi that as head writer, he would have Lucy Ricardo give birth to a boy. The show starred Lucille Ball, her then real-life husband Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley. In 1990, this episode was again aired in the days prior to Christmas, but this time the framing sequence was in color, while the clips from earlier episodes remained in black and white. The Bach and Beethoven of TV. 'Cause I love Lucy, Yes I love Lucy, and Lucy loves me! ), Jess Oppenheimer stated in his memoir, Laughs, Luck...and Lucy: How I Came to Create the Most Popular Sitcom of All Time, that the initial plan was to match the sex of the Ricardo baby with Lucille Ball's real baby, inserting one of two alternate endings into the broadcast print at the last minute. While performing in Husband, veteran character actors Gale Gordon and Bea Benaderet had played Rudolph and Iris Atterbury, an older, more financially stable couple as Mr. Atterbury had been George Cooper's boss. For seasons 1 and 2 (1951–1953), Desilu rented space and filmed I Love Lucy at General Service Studios, which eventually became known as Hollywood Center Studios. Lucy even went so far as to parody Johnny Roventini's image as the Philip Morris "bellhop" in the May 5, 1952, episode, "Lucy Does a TV Commercial". That makes me the greatest writer in the world!"[55]. The Middle. Lucy's husband, Ricky Ricardo, is an up-and-coming Cuban American singer and bandleader with an excitable personality. All episodes appear in order of their original air dates, although it states that some episodes may be edited from their original network versions. 3 min . Lucy and Miss Jenssen had a congenial working relationship; when a costume designer was needed in 1951 for “I Love Lucy”, Lucille Ball called Elois. This comes as a third blow to fans following the news of the CBS not having their annual I Love … Little Things reports that when I Love Lucy began, … Also on Hallmark Channel. However, he also shows that he can be a soft touch, especially when it comes to Little Ricky, to whom Fred is both godfather and honorary "uncle". The story, at least insofar as related to newspaper columnist Hedda Hopper, is that the couple met in Havana when Lucy and the Mertzes vacationed there in 1940. Lucy is told to impress Uncle Alberto because he is the one that wanted Ricky to marry a Cuban woman. Real classics. Sixty-four-year-old William Frawley, a seasoned vaudevillian and movie character actor with nearly 100 film credits to his name, was a long shot to play Fred Mertz and only came into consideration after he telephoned Ball personally to ask if there was a role for him on her new show. Arnaz's childhood friend Marco Rizo arranged the music and played the piano for the show, while Wilbur Hatch was used to conduct the orchestra. Unlike some programs that advance the age of a newborn over a short period, I Love Lucy at first allowed the Little Ricky character to grow up in real time. Thus, Arnaz reorganized the company he created to manage his orchestra bookings and used it as the corporation that would produce the I Love Lucy shows. Having coincidentally also met popular singer Rudy Vallée on the cruise ship, Lucy arranges an audition for Ricky who is hired to be in Vallée's orchestra, thus allowing him to emigrate to the United States on the very ship on which Lucy and the Mertzes were returning. I Love Lucy is an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, … They filmed the original pilot while Lucy was "showing", but did not include any references to the pregnancy in the episode. They began releasing complete season sets in the Summer of 2004 every few months. As a comeback in the ensuing argument, Lucy bemoans that she made a mistake fifteen years before when Marion Strong asked her if she would like to go on a blind date with a Cuban drummer and she said "yes". Episodes feature English closed-captioning, but only Spanish subtitles. [39][40], Audience reactions were live, thus creating a far more authentic laugh than the canned laughter used on most filmed sitcoms of the time. On Oct. 15, 1951, the black-and-white series aired and soon became a cult classic with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz co-starring as the Ricardos--appearing alongside their landlord friends, Fred and Ethel Mertz (William Frawley, Vivian Vance). It followed the life of Lucy Ricardo (Ball), a young middle-class housewife in New York City, who often concocted plans with her best friends Ethel and Fred Mertz (Vance and Frawley) to appear alongside her bandleader husband Ricky Ricardo (Arnaz… Regular audience members were sometimes heard from episode to episode, and Arnaz's distinctive laugh could be heard in the background during scenes in which he did not perform, as well as Ball's mother, DeDe, whose distinctive "Uh Oh" could be heard in many of the episodes. After the success of releasing seasons 2, 3, and 4 in slimpacks, the first season was re-released as a seven disc set, requiring new discs to be mastered and printed to include more episodes per disc so there would be fewer discs in the set. Her family was absent, other than occasional appearances by her scatter-brained mother (Kathryn Card), who could never get Ricky's name right. Vance was a regular only during the first three seasons of The Lucy Show but continued to make guest appearances through the years on The Lucy Show, and on Here's Lucy. [119][120], A DVD collection, I Love Lucy: Colorized Collection was released on August 13, 2019. Use the HTML below. In 2012, all season sets were reissued in slipcovered clear standard-sized amaray DVD cases, with season 1 being the 6-disc version as opposed to the 7-disc version. This FAQ is empty. Each year during its summer hiatus its timeslot was occupied by various summer replacement series. (1955). "CBS Dusts Off and Colorizes 'I Love Lucy'...". (In the Superman episode, Little Ricky is mentioned as being five years old but it had been less than four years since the birth-of-Little-Ricky episode. The misadventures of a suburban boy, family and friends. [60] The song was covered by Michael Franks on the album Dragonfly Summer (1993). Despite steadily working in pictures, Lucy's movie career never advanced to the level of a headlining feature-film actress; nevertheless she remained popular with movie audiences. Freund noted that a typical episode (20–22 min.) The I Love Lucy Christmas Special scored a 4.9 million in the ratings, becoming the night's most-watched show on television. Se transmitió por la CBS y fue la serie más vista en los Estados Unidos durante cuatro temporadas. Lucy and Desi had a business manager by the name of Mr. Andrew Hickox, and in the first episode of season 4, called "The Business Manager" Lucy and Ricky hire a man named Mr. Hickox. Ball would go on to ask Vance to co-star in Ball's new series The Lucy Show after the end of I Love Lucy. Seems to me it is just I Love Lucy and The Honeymooners that have stood the test of time and appealed to all generations. Desilu acquired RKO's two studio complexes located on Gower Street in Hollywood, and in Culver City (now part of the Paramount lot and Culver Studios respectively), along with the Culver City back lot nicknamed "Forty Acres". She does not seem to be able to carry a tune or play anything other than off-key renditions of songs such as "Glow Worm" on the saxophone, and many of her performances devolve into disaster. [83], In July 2018, I Love Lucy: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Sitcom, a behind-the-scenes comedy about I Love Lucy by Gregg Oppenheimer (son of series creator Jess Oppenheimer), had its world premiere in a Los Angeles production by L.A. Theatre Works. I Love Lucy é uma das mais aclamadas e populares sitcom da televisão norte-americana, estrelada por Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance e William Frawley.A série foi ao ar de 15 de outubro de 1951 a 6 de maio de 1957 na CBS.Foram produzidos um total de 194 episódios, incluindo um especial de Natal "perdido". CBS relented only after Arnaz contractually bound Frawley to complete sobriety during the production of the show, and reportedly told the veteran actor that if he ever appeared on-set more than once in an intoxicated state he would be fired. Frances Fisher starred as Lucy and Maurice Benard as Desi. I would just like to add this. Season 6 allows viewers to choose whether to watch the episodes with the original opening or the syndicated opening. Biow's agency presented the pilot to its clients and was able to convince cigarette giant Philip Morris to sponsor the show. The Ethel Mertz character also took quite some time to pin down an actress suitable for the role. 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