I Love Lucy (TV Series)

1951 · Series · 25 min. · United States

Comedy Sitcom

TV Series (1951-1957). 6 Seasons. 181 Episodes. A daffy woman constantly strives to become a star along with her bandleader husband and gets herself in the strangest situations. 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. "I Love Lucy" was a popular american television sitcom starring Lucille Ball. The black-and-white series originally ran from October, 1951, to May, 1957, on CBS. After the series ended in 1957, however, a modified version continued for three more seasons with 13 one-hour specials, running from 1957 to 1960, known first as The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show and later in reruns as The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour (wikipedia).

Direction William Asher · James V. Kern · Ralph Levy · Marc Daniels

Cast Lucille Ball · Desi Arnaz · Vivian Vance · William Frawley · Bennett Green · Elizabeth Patterson · Jerry Hausner · Frank Nelson · Louis Nicoletti