The last i love lucy episode was the ricardos dedicate a statue, which aired may 6, 1957. Santa claus, christmas, and i love lucy the retro network. Here are ten littleknown facts about the wildly popular show. Scenes from i love lucy season six, episode 166, the classic lucy and superman. Nov 20, 2019 85 08 jun 59 lucy s summer vacation season 9 191. I love lucy, american television situation comedy that aired on the columbia broadcasting system now cbs corporation from 1951 to 1957 and was the most popular show in america for four of its six primetime seasons. I could not find it in its entirety, but here is a great recap of that episode. On october 15, 1951, television broadcast history was made when the first episode of i love lucy aired on cbs. I love lucy is an american television sitcom that originally ran on cbs from october 15, 1951 to may 6, 1957, with a total of 180 halfhour episodes spanning six seasons including the lost original pilot and christmas episode. Nov 27, 2019 on that date, viewers will see the christmas episode joined by paris at last, which first aired in 1956. Every i love lucy fan knows this episode from season one.
The episode is not very well made and lacks the chemistry that their onair shows have. Ethel helps lucy, using a book of the week, when lucy believes ricky is losing interest in her. Its storyline was worked into an episode that was shown on november 19th, 1951 during i love lucys first season. I love lucy fans were quickly hit with holiday spirit. Wanting to go with ricky on a weekend with the boys, ricky decides to show lucy what a camping trip is like. Watch rare i love lucy behind the scenes color footage. The lucydesi comedy hour aired from november 6, 1957. Dec 10, 2019 by the end of the episode, the whole gang ends up in jail. Cbs revealed more about this years i love lucy holiday event in a press release.
Oct 01, 2007 scenes from i love lucy season six, episode 166, the classic lucy and superman. Join the conversation and connect with cbs s i love lucy. There is a saying that i love lucy is airing somewhere in the world at every hour. Audiences still love lucy 64 years after the show first aired.
Four fun financial facts about i love lucy celebrity net worth. Oct 15, 2016 lucy is too timid to fire her, so she and ethel set out to make such a mess that the maid will quit. List of i love lucy episodes i love lucy wiki fandom. The ten best i love lucy episodes of season four thats. Cbs annual colorized i love lucy christmas special, which airs this friday. Rare color footage shot behindthescenes on the set of i love lucy has surfaced, showing comic legend lucille ball clowning around and desi arnaz banging away on his conga drum. The classic episode, titled simply the christmas episode, first aired on christmas eve in 1956 and was considered lost for decades before it turned up in a vault back in 1989. I love lucy what major drama was happening on setthe. The first episode of i love lucy aired on this day in 1951. I love lucy is an american television sitcom starring lucille ball, desi arnaz, vivian vance, and william frawley. The ricardos and mertzes have a hard time finding accommodations that will please everyone on their trip to california.
Episode guide for the first season of lucille balls first classic sitcom, i love lucy the girls want to go to a night club i love lucy episode 02, originally aired 10151951 for the mertzes eighteenth anniversary, ethel wants to celebrate by going to the copacobana, while fred wants to go to the fights. I love lucy the last episode what major drama was happening on set. A guide listing the titles and air dates for episodes of the tv series i love lucy. Metv the first episode of i love lucy aired on this day. The episode lucy is enceinte first aired on december 8, 1952 enceinte being french for expecting or pregnant. The lost pilot was the very first episode of i love lucy which was shot, the.
It worked, but the pilot itself was never broadcast. Watch full episodes of i love lucy, view video clips and full episodes on. Apr 10, 2020 it was an emotional episode for messing, who is a lifelong fan of balls work and i love lucy, and described the opportunity to play her as a bucketlist moment and a dream come true. When i first went onto the set i called her miss ball the first day i was there. Ball gave birth to a boy the same day the episode aired. This episode did not air in 1959 as i stated but on april 1st 1960.
The i love lucy christmas special, a onehour special featuring two colorized backtoback classic episodes of the 1950s series, will be broadcast sunday, dec. On that date, viewers will see the christmas episode joined by paris at last, which first aired in 1956. Before ricky leaves for the club lucy checks his horoscope which says that this is his good day, but later finds out that that paper was yesterdays and todays says that this is not his day and to say no to everything. Cbs aired a colorized version of the i love lucy christmas. Episode one the lost i love lucy pilot first aired march. The camping trip i love lucy episode 64, originally aired 681953, season 2. I love lucys keith thibodeaux dishes on lucille ball, desi arnaz. Fun trivia about the opening theme song is that during the first season the show opened with their sponsor philip morris animation of stick figure cartoons of lucy and desi climbing down a pack of philip morris cigarettes. Directing the first multicamera film sitcom before a live audience. Verna felton was in another episode of i love lucy. Coming on the heels of the episode that put the nail in the smothers brothers coffin and a brass eye pedophilia special thats still squickinducing. Behind the i love lucy theme song performing songwriter. The episode is not very well made and lacks the chemistry that their on air shows have. But with the secret help of ethel, lucy teaches ricky a lesson instead.
The very first show was the first airing of the pilot on cbs television stations nationwide on monday, april 30, 1990. This holiday season you can catch the christmas classic pairing of i love lucys the christmas episode and paris at last in full color on cbs on december 20th at 8pm eastern. Nov 26, 2016 rare color footage shot behindthescenes on the set of i love lucy has surfaced, showing comic legend lucille ball clowning around and desi arnaz banging away on his conga drum. The very first show at the beginning of this pilot or test film, cuban bandleader larry lopez receives notice from his agent, jerry, that. It was an emotional episode for messing, who is a lifelong fan of balls work and i love lucy, and described the opportunity to play her as a bucketlist moment and a dream come true. The last episode was entitled the minuteman and the redhead. The series won five emmy awards, including best situation comedy 1953, 1954 and. On october 15, 1951, i love lucy aired for the first time on cbs. It was the highest rated show in the country at this time. The ten best i love lucy episodes of season one thats. I love lucy, lucy is enceinte season two, episode 10.
But in true i love lucy fashion, after turning the apartment topsyturvy, she discovers that ricky, feeling sorry for her, has already called up and fired the maid. The lost pilot was the very first episode of i love lucy which was shot, the unaired pilot episode for i love lucy. Lucys desire to star in a tv commercial, despite ricky saying no, gets her in. This means that you could potentially watch one episode of i love lucy three different ways and. The blackandwhite series originally ran from october 15, 1951, to may 6, 1957, on the columbia broadcasting system cbs. The first major show to be put on film rather than kinescope. After six seasons and 161 episodes, the sitcom was firmly established as an. Being hidden for so long, or nearly lost, i love lucy. Bea benaderet and gale gordon were the first choices of lucille ball and desi arnaz to act as the mertz. Watch rare i love lucy behind the scenes color footage video.
How the unaired i love lucy pilot episode was recovered. The lost pilot unaired pilot i love lucy wiki fandom. Looking back at i love lucy 64 years later new york. Episode one the lost i love lucy pilot first aired march 2, 1951 thank you for joining me on my jouney through the i love lucy episodes. I love lucythe last episode what major drama was happening on set. Nov 06, 2015 lucy does a tv commercial famously aired in 1952, while the christmas episode first debuted on cbs in december of 1965. I love lucy christmas special i love lucy airing in color. May 20, 2011 the last episode of that quintessential 1950s sitcom i love lucy ends this month, and aired on 6 may 1957. In each episode, she and ethel often get embroiled in silly shenanigans. Episode one the lost i love lucy pilot first aired march 2. In the episode, told mostly in flashbacks, lucy and ricky ricardo. More than 60 years ago, a pregnant lucille ball couldnt call.
I love lucy, american television situation comedy that aired on the columbia. The first scene starts out with lucy reading a book about numerology and gets really into it. Directed by ralph levy, it was shot before a live audience at cbs columbia square in hollywood, california, on march 2, 1951, and sold to cbstv in the summer of 1951. I thought the clown was pretty freakylooking and was very glad lucy was able to take his place. Oct 14, 2014 on october 15, 1951, the very first episode of the i love lucy show aired on cbs and became the most watched tv show in the u. On december 20, 2019, cbs aired its annual i love lucy christmas episode along with a new colorized episode, paris at last.
Nov 11, 2014 the i love lucy christmas special, a onehour special featuring two colorized backtoback classic episodes of the 1950s series, will be broadcast sunday, dec. Share if this was the first time lucy cracked you up. The i love lucy christmas special featuring two classic. Starring lucille ball and the lucy gang, george reeves makes a special. According to cbs news, the christmas episode was considered lost for many years until cbs re aired it in 1989. On october 15, 1951, the first episode of i love lucy aired on cbs. I love lucy american television program britannica. In march 1951, a 34minute pilot episode for a proposed i love lucy series was filmed in an attempt to sell the series to cbs and potential sponsors. An obviously pregnant lucille ball joins her reallife husband to make this pilot for their new show, i love lucy.