I Love Lucy

Lucy Ricardo

Ricky Ricardo

Ethel Mertz

Fred Mertz

This show attracted many huge Hollywood names as guest stars who did the show not for the money (which was actually very little), but because they liked the show or were personal friends of the stars. The impressive list includes John Wayne, Bob Hope, Van Johnson, Orson Welles, Rock Hudson, Charles Boyer and William Holden, to name only a few.

Other sponsors of "I Love Lucy" are Procter & Gamble's Cheer Detergent and Lilt Home Permanent.

CBS cut approximately four minutes out of each episode (to allow for more commercials) when they prepared the 16mm television syndication prints. Much of this was accomplished by simply cutting footage from the beginning and end of scenes.

For an entire season, the closing credits list Wilbur Hatch conducting the "Dezi" Arnaz orchestra. He spelled it Desi Arnaz.

The regular tenants in the Mertzes' apartment house are the Mertzes, the Ricardos, Mrs. Trumbull, the Fosters, the Bensons, and there's at least another apartment temporarily rented out to the Johnsons, and other guest characters. Unless the apartment house was expanded into adjacent houses (which is never confirmed or denied), there is no way one brownstone could contain at least six of these middle-class 1-2 bedroom apartments.

When the Ricardos are moving to the country, Lucy is standing for the last time in the apartment and talks about how she will miss the place since they lived in that apartment for 15 years. However they had only lived there for 4 years. Prior to that they were in the other apartment in the same building.

Peggy: [Describing a boy she's got a crush on] He's got curly hair, sad puppy dog eyes and he looks like Gregory Peck.

Ethel Mertz: There's lots of things you're good at.

Ricky Ricardo: I won't be home tonight. I've got to rehearse a couple of hours after the club closes.