Desi Arnaz TV Schedule
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Fri 11
I Love Lucy: Never Do Business with Friends — Desi Arnaz
A tug-of-war ensues when the Ricardos sell their washing machine to the Mertzes: it breaks down (of course) and the Ricardos won't take it back.
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Fri 11, 12:00 pm -
Fri 11
I Love Lucy: Ricky's Life Story — Desi Arnaz
A Life magazine spread on Ricky makes Lucy envious---and wanting to break into show biz all the more. Fred has an idea to get her off her kick: Show Lucy "how hard show business really is," he advises Ricky, who concocts a backbreaking "challenge dance" routine for her. That's only the beginning of this chapter of Lucy Ricardo's show-business career.
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Sun 13
I Love Lucy: California, Here We Come — Desi Arnaz
The Ricardos and Mertzes head for California. But first, of coures, there are complications. The chief one: Lucy's mother, who shows up and wants to accompany them. Ricky objects (to put it mildly), and when Fred and Ethel overhear him complaining about too many people on the trip, they take it personally. And when the dust from that blowup finally settles, there's packing to do.
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Sun 13, 12:30 pm -
Sun 13
I Love Lucy: The Girls Go into Business — Desi Arnaz
Lucy and Ethel buy a dress shop. What to call it? Lucyeth's? Ethelu's? That isn't their only problem.
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Sun 13, 7:00 pm -
Sun 13
I Love Lucy: Lucy and Ethel Buy the Same Dress — Desi Arnaz
Lucy and Ethel buy the same dress for the upcoming talent show at the Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League. True, they'll be doing a duet (and their number is "Friendship"), but this is not what they had in mind. Meanwhile, Lucy must persuade Ricky to host the show, so she tries a little psychology.
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Sun 13, 7:30 pm -
Sun 13
Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour: Lucy Wins a Race Horse — Desi Arnaz
Betty Grable and Harry James sponsor a contest and Lucy wins---under Fred's name. Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, William Frawley, Vivian Vance. Little Ricky: Richard Keith.
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Sun 13, 8:00 pm -
Sun 13
I Love Lucy: Equal Rights — Desi Arnaz
Lucy and Ethel demand equal rights for women. Okay, say Ricky and Fred at a restaurant: separate checks for all four. Thus begins Lucy and Ethel's careers as restaurant dishwashers. So they plot revenge: they'll scare their husbands by claiming to have been robbed.
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Sun 13, 11:00 pm -
Mon 14
I Love Lucy: Lucy Tells the Truth — Desi Arnaz
Can Lucy go a whole day without telling one fib? Ricky and the Metzes bet her $100 that she can't. So it's a shame that she has a bridge game coming up (questions will concern her age, weight and hair colour), and a TV-show audition, at which she's asked to list her talents.
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Mon 14
I Love Lucy: The French Revue — Desi Arnaz
Parlez vous Francais, Lucy? Non. So she hires a waiter at a restaurant to teach her. That leads (in a roundabout way) to Lucy's finding her way into Ricky's French revue at the club.
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Mon 14, 12:30 pm -
Tue 15
I Love Lucy: Redecorating the Mertzes' Apartment — Desi Arnaz
It's redecorating time at the Mertzes'. Too bad the Ricardos would stay away.
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Tue 15
I Love Lucy: Too Many Crooks — Desi Arnaz
Lucy is spotted sneaking into the Mertzes' apartment (for a thoroughly innocent reason) and soon she's suspected of being a thief known around the neighbourhood as "Madame X".
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Tue 15, 12:30 pm -
Wed 16
I Love Lucy: Changing the Boys' Wardrobe — Desi Arnaz
It's time the boys got some new clothes, so Lucy and Ethel sell their old ones---without their knowledge (of course). And rival plots ensue. Meanwhile, Ricky's agent has him named "one of the 10 best-dressed men". and Fred is his "fashion consultant."
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Wed 16
I Love Lucy: Lucy Has Her Eyes Examined — Desi Arnaz
Lucy has a jitterbug audition for an upcoming movie role. But can she do it with her eyes fogged with eye drops? That's what happens to her when she takes Ricky to have his eyes examined.
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Thu 17
I Love Lucy: Ricky's Old Girlfriend — Desi Arnaz
Ricky is jealous when Lucy comes up with a long list of ex-boyfriends, so he invents an old flame---who just happens to be in town. Her name: Carlota Romano, with whom Ricky did perform years before.
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Thu 17, 12:00 pm -
Thu 17
I Love Lucy: The Million Dollar Idea — Desi Arnaz
The Ricardo household budget is a shambles (as usual) after Lucy decides to put her salad dressing on the market. Her plan: market it on a TV morning show on the station her friend Caroline Appleby's husband runs. Home economist Mary Margaret McMertz (Ethel) will invite "an average housewife" (guess who?) to taste the dressing on the air.
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Thu 17, 12:30 pm -
Fri 18
I Love Lucy: Ricky Minds the Baby — Desi Arnaz
Ricky decides to spend more time with Little Ricky (actually, Lucy demands it). And he dotes on the boy---until a football game on TV grabs his attention.
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Fri 18, 12:00 pm -
Fri 18
I Love Lucy: Charm School — Desi Arnaz
It's time for charm school for Lucy and Ethel when their men eye a pretty woman at a party. But Ricky and Fred are anything but charmed by the results.
Air Time & Details for Desi Arnaz, Fri 18, 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.