We have been the luckiest show on the air, but we've worked for it. It would be ridiculous for us to wait until people got sick and tired of the regular half-hour every Monday night. I'd rather make a big change while we are still ahead. Lucy is my favorite character ever and I love I Love Lucy it's my favorite show. He noted at the time: "You've got to change in this business.
These "Lucy–Desi" repeats were the only black and white series aired that year, after which it, and I Love Lucy, went into syndication.Īrnaz was often questioned why he changed the format of I Love Lucy, a weekly, 30-minute program produced at 25 new episodes a season very successfully, to the Comedy Hour format of one-hour specials shown weeks or months apart. 1966–67 was the first TV season in which all first-run prime time network shows were in color. CBS reran these thirteen specials under the "Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour" title as prime-time summer replacements, from 1962 to 1965, with a final run in 1967. ĭesilu produced the show, which was mostly filmed at their Los Angeles studios with occasional on-location shoots at Lake Arrowhead, Las Vegas, and Sun Valley, Idaho. The production schedule avoided the grind of a regular weekly series. The successor to the classic comedy, I Love Lucy, the programs featured the same cast members: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, William Frawley, and Little Ricky (billed as Richard Keith in his post- Lucy–Desi acting assignments). Its original network title was The Ford Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show for the first season, and Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse Presents The Lucille Ball–Desi Arnaz Show for the following seasons. The remaining eight were originally shown as part of Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse. The first five were shown as specials during the 1957–58 television season.
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour is a collection of thirteen black-and-white one-hour specials airing occasionally from 1957 to 1960 (as opposed to the thirty-minute regular series, I Love Lucy). American TV series or program The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
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