Sitcom: I Love Lucy by ric gustafson
The story of the sitcom emerges from the tail end of the 1940's. Television was an outgrowth of the 1930's. RCA began selling five, nine and twelve inch TV's. The prices for them ranged from $200-600 dollars. I Love Lucy debuted on CBS in 1951 and was an instant hit. Lucille Ball played Lucy Ricardo a housewife who was married to a nightclub performer named Ricky Ricardo.
Between 1949 and 1953, television ads increased ten fold and stars from Henry Fonda, Milton Berle and Steve Allen became pitchmen. I Love Lucy and the sitcom became a part of American life. I Love Lucy was successful at pairing order and subversion and Lucy and Ricky became sitcom's first couple. Ball and Arnaz were married in real life also. Lucille Ball got her start as a model and then came to Los Angeles to be in pictures. Arnaz was a successful bandleader. The couple took advice and produced their own pilot and creative control. This produced huge financial rewards. I Love Lucy was the first sitcom to be shot on film in front of a studio audience. Arnaz formed a production company called Desilu which also produced The Dick Van Dyke Show and the Andy Griffith Show. Their neighbors were the Mertz's played by Vivian Vance and William Frawley. The show was on ten million TV sets on Monday night.
I Love Lucy lasted for six seasons and 180 episodes.
research : ' Sitcom' by Saul Austerlitz
Peace and God's blessings. Love Ric
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