The 181st episode of 'I Love Lucy,' titled 'The Ricardos Dedicate a Statue,' aired on this day in history, May 6, 1957. The now-iconic TV sitcom ran for six seasons in its original run.
Although"I Love Lucy" ended, the show's characters would go on to appear in a spinoff,"The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show," which was also called"The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour," notes the Emmys website.
"The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show" consisted of 13 hour-long episodes over three seasons, from 1957 to 1960, the same source indicates.Lucille Ball won for Best Actress-Continuing Performance in 1956; Vivian Vance won Best Series Supporting Actress in 1954; and the show was awarded Best Situational Comedy in both 1953 and 1954.
A cultural phenomenon,"I Love Lucy" was the most-watched show in the United States for four of its seasons, notes the Emmys website. The episode"Lucy Goes to the Hospital," from season two, attracted 44 million viewers when it initially aired on Jan. 19. 1953, said the Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Museum's website. Real-life husband and wife Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz are seen here in the pilot episode of the television series"I Love Lucy" in 1951.
This figure is reportedly 15 million more than the viewership of the inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, which took place the next day, the museum added.
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