Desi Arnaz TV Schedule
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Mon 27
The Long, Long Trailer — Desi Arnaz
Real-life husband and wife Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz play upwardly mobile honeymooners who decide to buy a "home on wheels" so they can live together while his job takes them around the country. Unfortunately, the joyride hits some bumps in the road.
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Mon 27, 8:00 pm -
Mon 27
Forever, Darling — Desi Arnaz
A neglected wife's wish that her scientist husband would pay more attention to her is answered in the form of a guardian angel (who looks just like her favorite actor, James Mason, because it is him).
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Mon 27, 10:00 pm -
Tue 28
I Love Lucy: Little Ricky Learns to Play the Drums — Desi Arnaz
Little Ricky gets drums---and the Mertzes get headaches. So do Lucy and Ricky, but they're not about to evict themselves.
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Tue 28, 12:00 pm -
Tue 28
I Love Lucy: Lucy Meets Orson Welles — Desi Arnaz
Scheming as usual to break into show business, Lucy teams with Orson Welles. She thinks they'll be doing Shakespeare; he wants an assistant for his magic act. They're both right (sort of): Welles levitates Lucy, who bellows: "Romeo, Romeo, get me down from here Romeo!"
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Tue 28, 12:30 pm -
Wed 29
I Love Lucy: Little Ricky Gets Stage Fright — Desi Arnaz
Little Ricky is a little drummer boy---until he gets stage fright just before a school recital. But Lucy and Ricky are determined to get him over it. They want him to perform at Ricky's club.
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Wed 29, 12:00 pm -
Wed 29
I Love Lucy: Visitor from Italy — Desi Arnaz
Lucy tosses pizza dough---in much the same way as she wraps candy or stomps grapes---to help out a visiting Venetian gondolier, who needs money to get to San Francisco, but can't work or he'll be deported.
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Wed 29, 12:30 pm -
Thu 30
I Love Lucy: Off to Florida — Desi Arnaz
Lucy and Ethel bum a ride to Florida with a health-food nut---who they come to think is an axe murderer. Meanwhile, she thinks Lucy and Ethel are wanted criminals.
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Thu 30, 12:00 pm -
Thu 30
I Love Lucy: Deep Sea Fishing — Desi Arnaz
It's Lucy and Ethel vs Ricky and Fred in a fishing contest while they're on a Florida holiday The wager: $150 (about what Lucy and Ethel had spent in hotel boutiques), so both sides do a little cheating to ensure a victory.
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Thu 30, 12:30 pm -
Fri 31
I Love Lucy: Desert Island — Desi Arnaz
Lucy and Ethel will do anything to keep Ricky and Fred from judging a Miami Beach beauty contest (and end up being menaced on a seemingly deserted island as a result).
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Fri 31, 12:00 pm -
Fri 31
I Love Lucy: The Ricardos Visit Cuba — Desi Arnaz
In Cuba, Lucy's antics make life difficult for Ricky's rich uncle Alberto. "After what I did," she moans, "Cuba might cut off America's sugar supply".
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Fri 31, 12:30 pm -
Sun 2
I Love Lucy: The Operetta — Desi Arnaz
Lucy chews scenery---and chases after it---in an effort to keep her operetta from closing before the final curtain. Her arts club's 25th-anniversary operetta's coming up, but there's no money to pay for it. What to do? Write one herself, and pay for the scenery and props with a post-dated check that she'll cover later with ticket receipts, of course.
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Sun 2, 12:30 pm -
Sun 2
I Love Lucy: Little Ricky's School Pageant — Desi Arnaz
Little Ricky's school pageant---"The Enchanted Forest"---is coming up and it's coming up short on cast members, so the Ricardos and Mertzes volunteer. Ricky's a hollow stump, Fred's a frog and Ethel's the fairy princess (because she can fit into the costume). And Lucy? She's a witch.
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Sun 2, 7:00 pm -
Sun 2
I Love Lucy: Lucy and the Loving Cup — Desi Arnaz
Lucy's head is stuck in a loving cup (and, not surprisingly, everyone on the subway takes notice).
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Sun 2, 7:30 pm -
Sun 2
Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour: Milton Berle Hides Out at the Ricardo's — Desi Arnaz
Lucy invites Milton Berle to her ranch so he can finish writing his book in peace. Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz. Watson: Larry Keating. Miss Aldworth: Elvia Allman. Ethel: Vivian Vance.
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Sun 2, 8:00 pm -
Sun 2
I Love Lucy: Lucy and Superman — Desi Arnaz
"Superman" star George Reeves appears at Little Ricky's birthday party---just in time to save a Super-suited Lucy, who's stuck on the ledge outside her apartment. What she's doing out there has to do with her competing with Caroline Appleby, who was planning a party for her son the same day.
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Sun 2, 11:00 pm -
Sun 2
I Love Lucy: Little Ricky Gets a Dog — Desi Arnaz
Little Ricky brings home a puppy, which is fine---except that dogs aren't allowed in the apartment and a grouchy new neighbour is complaining about the noise.
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Sun 2, 11:30 pm -
Mon 3
I Love Lucy: Lucy Wants to Move to the Country — Desi Arnaz
Lucy's fed up with the city and wants to move to Connecticut. But then it occurs to her that that would mean leaving the Mertzes, so she changes her mind. Too late: Ricky has already put a down payment on a house. Maybe it's not too late---all they have to do is make a bad impression on the sellers.
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Mon 3, 12:00 pm -
Mon 3
I Love Lucy: Lucy Hates to Leave — Desi Arnaz
Fred has rented the Ricardos' apartment before they can move into their Connecticut house---so Lucy and Ricky move in with the Mertzes, furniture and all. Good thing it's only for a few days. Or is it?
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Mon 3, 12:30 pm
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Biography
About Desi Arnaz
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A musican, singer, songwriter, actor and television producer, Arnaz came to the US from Cuba when he was sixteen and became a professional bandleader of popular Latin music. He married actress Lucille Ball in 1940 and, in 1951, costarred with her in their long-running and successful television series, I Love Lucy, in which he played the charming but long-suffering husband/straightman, Ricky Ricardo, a successful nightclub owner and entertainer. Arnaz insisted that the series be photographed on 35mm film at a time when syndicated reruns were a thing of the future and a TV show was lucky to even be preserved as a 16mm kinescope.
He hired top Hollywood cinematographer Karl Freund for the job and supervised the entire making of the series through his and Ball's company, Desilu Productions. Arnaz appeared in several films with and without Ball up until 1960 when they were divorced and she bought out his interest in Desilu. In 1982 he came out of retirement to play a corrupt mayor and father to Raul Julia in the film, The Escape Artist.
He died of lung cancer in 1986.