I Love Lucy
About I Love Lucy
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, who also happen to be their best friends.
I Love Lucy is a comedy series that ran on CBS. Its 6 seasons and 180 episodes were broadcast from October 1951 to May 1957.
The series is filed under slapstick comedy, singer, husband wife relationship, and neighbor. Lucille Ball leads the cast as Lucy Ricardo, Desi Arnaz as Ricky Ricardo, Vivian Vance as Ethel Mertz, and William Frawley as Fred Mertz.
Produced by Desilu Productions. It streams on Paramount+ Amazon Channel, Paramount Plus Apple TV channel, and Paramount Plus Essential in the United States.
227, Friends, and Bewitched make useful companions to I Love Lucy, all filed under friendship and housewife. TMDB voters put it at 7.9 out of 10 across 269 votes and it carries a TV-G rating.