When did i love lucy started

I Love Lucy premiered on October 15, and aired on Monday nights at 9pm EST until its th episode aired on May 6, There are episodes total—including the pilot episode and a Christmas special. The same cast of actors reprised their roles in thirteen hour-long Lucy Desi Comedy Hour specials that aired on CBS from to

Principal cast members include Lucille Ball as Lucy Ricardo, Desi Arnaz as Ricky Ricardo, Vivian Vance as Ethel Mertz, and William Frawley as Fred Mertz.

The character of Little Ricky, Lucy and Ricky Ricardo’s son, was played by six different actors over the course of the show’s run: James John Ganzer (), Richard Lee Simons and Ronald Lee Simons (), Michael Mayer and Joseph Mayer (), and Keith Thibodeaux().

I Love Lucy was nominated for 21 Emmy Awards and won 5 times:

1. Best Situation Comedy
2. Best Comedienne, Lucille Ball
3. Best Situation Comedy
4. Best Supporting Actress, Vivian Vance
5. Best Actress—Continuing Performance, Lucille Ball 

American television sitcom (–)

I Love Lucy is an American sitcom that originally aired on CBS from October 15, , to May 6, , with a total of half-hour episodes spanning six seasons.^[2] The series starred Lucille Ball and her husband Desi Arnaz, along with Vivian Vance and William Frawley, and follows the life of Lucy Ricardo (Ball), a young, middle-class housewife living in New York City, who often concocts plans with her best friends and landlords, Ethel and Fred Mertz (Vance and Frawley), to appear alongside her bandleader husband, Ricky Ricardo (Arnaz), in his nightclub. Lucy is depicted trying numerous schemes to mingle with and be a part of show business. After the series ended in , a modified version of the show continued for three more seasons, with 13 one-hour specials, which ran from to It was first known as The Lucille Ball–Desi Arnaz Show, and later, in reruns, as The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour.

I Love Lucy became the most-watched show in the United States in four of its six seasons and it was the first to end its run at the top of the Nielsen ratings.^[3] As of , episodes of the show have been syndicated in dozens of languages across the world and remain popular with an American audience of 40 million each year.^[4]

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