Desi Arnaz TV Schedule
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Fri 6
I Love Lucy: The Ricardos Dedicate a Statue — Desi Arnaz
Lucy's stone-faced in the series finale: she's impersonating Westport's Revolutionary War statue. The reason for that, of course, is that she did something dumb (she ran over the statue with her car), and to repair the damage she does something dumber.
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Sun 8
I Love Lucy: Lucy Is Matchmaker — Desi Arnaz
Lucy plays matchmaker when she meets a friend of the Mertzes who happens to be an eligible bachelor. His line of work? He's a lingerie salesman, a fact that just might get her (and Ethel) into trouble when her matchmaking efforts inevitably backfire.
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Sun 8, 11:30 am -
Sun 8
I Love Lucy: The Girls Want to Go to a Nightclub — Desi Arnaz
A madcap mix-up involving the Mertzes' wedding anniversary. The problem: Fred wants to go to the fights while Ethel wants to go the Copa. She enlists Lucy as her ally, he enlists Ricky and zaniness ensues.
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Sun 8, 6:00 pm -
Sun 8
I Love Lucy: Be a Pal — Desi Arnaz
Can Ricky be losing interest in Lucy? She seems to think so, and she's determined to keep him interested. So she does it by the book ("How to Keep the Honeymoon from Ending," that is). And before long, she's going bananas. Actually, she's wearing them on her head, as part of her Carmen Miranda impersonation.
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Sun 8
Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour: The Ricardos go to Japan — Desi Arnaz
Bob Cummings tries to sell Lucy some pearls while she and Ricky are in Japan. Osato: Teru Shimada. Mama-san: May Lee. Girls: Sondi Sodsai, Linda Wong. Lucy: Lucille Ball. Ricky: Desi Arnaz. Fred: William Frawley.
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Sun 8, 7:00 pm -
Sun 8
I Love Lucy: The Diet — Desi Arnaz
Uh oh: Lucy has been gaining weight since getting married---22 pounds, to be precise---and it's beginning to show. "On behalf of the tubby trio, I welcome you to the flabby foursome", Ethel tells her. She wants out, especially since she has a chance at singing spot in Ricky's nightclub act. All she has to do is lose 12 pounds in four days. Desi Arnaz's longtime pianist Marco Rizo performs in nightclub scenes.
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Sun 8, 10:00 pm -
Sun 8
I Love Lucy: Lucy Thinks Ricky Is Trying to Murder Her — Desi Arnaz
Lucy fears Ricky is planning to murder her. The trigger: she's reading a murder mystery. Then amateur fortune-teller Ethel predicts her imminent doom. Then she overhears Ricky saying ominous things on the phone. What's poor, paranoid Lucy to do? Arm herself with a bulletproof skillet, head to the Tropicana and confront the killer.
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Mon 9
I Love Lucy: The Quiz Show — Desi Arnaz
Lucy's in need of cash since Ricky cut off her allowance and charge accounts, so she goes on a game show called "Females Are Fabulous". The prize: $1000. But to win it, Lucy must introduce Ricky to her "long-lost first husband" Not that she has one, but as it turns out, she might have two. Phil Ober, costar Vivian Vance's real-life first husband, plays the first husband.
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Mon 9, 11:00 am -
Mon 9
I Love Lucy: The Audition — Desi Arnaz
Ricky's band auditions for a TV show. Guess who that clown is who's crashing the audition? The reason: Lucy's mad at Ricky because he wants her to stay home and be a homemaker, so she decides to get even.
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Mon 9, 11:30 am -
Tue 10
I Love Lucy: Men Are Messy — Desi Arnaz
Ricky's a slob, Lucy moans. So she divides their apartment in two (her half is tidy; his half isn't). Then a magazine photographer arrives and Lucy, thinking that he's only from a music magazine, clowns around amid the mess.
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Tue 10
I Love Lucy: The Fur Coat — Desi Arnaz
Lucy and Ricky's wedding anniversary is coming up and Ricky brings home a mink coat. But don't jump to any conclusions, as Lucy does. Alas, Ricky rented the coat for his act at the club, and when Lucy finds that out she vows to get even.
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Wed 11
I Love Lucy: Lucy Is Jealous of Girl Singer — Desi Arnaz
Lucy suspects that Ricky is cheating. First, a columnist links him to a singer. Not true, he swears. Then she finds lace in his pocket. She's not buying his explanation---that it was accidentally torn off a dancer's costume during rehearsal---so she decides to go undercover on the Tropicana chorus line.
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Wed 11
I Love Lucy: Drafted — Desi Arnaz
Have the boys been drafted? Or are the girls expecting? It all begins when a letter from the War Department arrives, informing Ricky to report to Fort Dix. The Army wants him to perform for the troops, and Fred's tagging along. But that's not Lucy and Ethel's take on the situation. So they start sewing socks for their husbands to take to boot camp, but when Ricky and Fred see this they suspect something else.
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Thu 12
I Love Lucy: The Adagio — Desi Arnaz
Ricky needs a dancer for his act. Guess who volunteers. But first, Lucy needs a teacher. Enter sexy Frenchman Jean Valjean Raymond, who has more than dance on his mind.
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Thu 12
I Love Lucy: The Benefit — Desi Arnaz
Ethel wants Ricky to perform at her women's-club benefit show. Not surprisingly, Lucy wheedles her way into the act. But then she gets a look at Ricky's material---an old vaudeville act titled "Songs and Witty Sayings"---and rewrites it because he has all the punchlines.
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Fri 13
I Love Lucy: The Amateur Hour — Desi Arnaz
Lucy needs money to pay for a dress, so she takes a job babysitting rambunctious 8-year-old twins who are excellent practical jokers. They're pretty good singers, too, as Lucy discovers when she takes them to an amateur talent contest.
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Fri 13, 11:00 am -
Fri 13
I Love Lucy: Lucy Plays Cupid — Desi Arnaz
Lucy plays Cyrano de Bergerac for her shy neighbour who 's sweet on the neighbourhood grocer but can't tell him so, or bear to ask him to dinner. So Lucy does it for her---and of course he gets confused as to just whom the interested party is. It's a good thing, then, that Lucy also taught her how to flash a come-hither look.
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Fri 13, 11:30 am -
Fri 13
Alice: The Cuban Connection — Desi Arnaz
Alice mediates a squabble between a womanizing photographer (Desi Arnaz) and his fed-up wife (Janis Paige). Polly Holliday, Beth Howland. Mel: Vic Tayback. Henry: Marvin Kaplan.
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Fri 13, 1:00 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.