I Love Lucy
The Plot Thickens
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4.8 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
With a TV deal from CBS, Desi assembles a ragtag team of collaborators to make a new kind of program, one that would rewrite the rules of television. And they do it while hiding Lucy’s newest surprise: after ten years of trying, she’s about to have a baby. The result is the biggest hit in TV history, one that showcases Lucy's fearlessness and comic timing, and she becomes beloved by millions of fans from coast to coast.
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| 0:00.0 | You have been listening to my favorite husband, starring Lucille Ball with Richard Denning. |
| 0:16.8 | Lucille, did you want to say something? |
| 0:18.9 | Yes, Bob. |
| 0:20.3 | Sad things are best said simply. |
| 0:22.6 | So I'll just say, tonight is our last show. |
| 0:26.3 | Lucille Ball said goodbye to her radio show in March of 1951. |
| 0:30.3 | And a wonderful two and a half years. |
| 0:31.9 | My favorite husband had been on for 124 episodes and had millions of listeners. |
| 0:37.3 | Lucille's announcement came as a surprise. |
| 0:39.5 | But now I'd like to thank everyone connected with the show. |
| 0:42.4 | She held it together as she thanked the sponsor and the cast. |
| 0:45.7 | But when she got to the crew, her voice cracked. |
| 0:49.5 | Lucille was crying on the air. |
| 0:51.1 | Lucille was back to her. |
| 0:58.1 | And of course, our director, Jess Oppenheimer, and Madeline Pugh and Bob Carroll Jr. who wrote the scripts with him. |
| 1:01.1 | Lucille wasn't leaving them behind. |
| 1:03.1 | She was taking them to a new show, a TV show, a show that was the biggest gamble of her career. |
| 1:14.1 | Television was new back then. |
| 1:16.1 | Compared to radio and movies, the TV audience was tiny. |
| 1:20.1 | The new show was going to be called, I Love Lucille. |
| 1:23.1 | With Lucille's real-life husband, Desi Arnez, as her co-stone. |
| 1:27.1 | Rickie Ricardo and his orchestra are the beautiful tropical. |
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