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I LOVE LUCY: LUCY GOES TO THE HOSPITAL (TV)

Summary

One in this series of comedies about the escapades of Lucy Ricardo, a zany redheaded housewife with show business aspirations, her Cuban-born bandleader husband Ricky Ricardo, and their best friends and neighbors Fred and Ethel Mertz. This episode centers around the preparations for the birth of Lucy's first child. Even though Ricky and the Mertzes rehearse for the trip to the hospital, bedlam ensues once Lucy is ready to go. Ricky causes a commotion in the waiting room when he appears in the voodoo costume for his nightclub act. The episode concludes with the birth of their son, "Little" Ricky.

Details

  • NETWORK: CBS
  • DATE: January 19, 1953 9:00 PM
  • RUNNING TIME: 0:25:52
  • COLOR/B&W: B&W
  • CATALOG ID: T76:0018
  • GENRE: Comedy
  • SUBJECT HEADING: Comedy; She Made It Collection (Lucille Ball); She Made It Collection (Madelyn Pugh Davis)
  • SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1951-1957
  • COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

  • Desi Arnaz … Executive Producer
  • Jess Oppenheimer … Producer, Writer
  • William Asher … Director
  • Bob Carroll … Writer
  • Pugh, Madelyn (See also: Davis, Madelyn; Martin, Madelyn) … Writer
  • Eliot Daniel … Music by
  • Lucille Ball … Cast, Lucy Ricardo
  • Desi Arnaz … Cast, Ricky Ricardo
  • Vivian Vance … Cast, Ethel Mertz
  • William Frawley … Cast, Fred Mertz
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