I Love Lucy - The Indian Show Bear
“I
Love Lucy”
Episode #59
"The Indian Show"
#1500 of ONLY 5000
Classic
Collecticritters, Inc. commemorated
Episode #59 of the widely popular "I Love Lucy" series
with a Numbered, Limited Edition Bear of Lucy in her "Indian Squaw"
costume, with Little Ricky
Stands approximately 10" tall
EPISODE #59
Even though Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball) has expressed to her husband,
Ricky (Dezi Arnaz), her contentment with
being a new mother, she continues to long to be in Ricky's Nightclub
Show. Ricky is planning an Indian Number, so
Lucy persuades the female singer to let her stand in for her. Not
wanting to leave Little Ricky with a sitter,
she takes him with her and makes him part of the number, by putting him
in a "papoose carrier".
Origin
of I Love Lucy:
I Love Lucy was an
American
television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and
William Frawley.
The black-and-white series originally ran from October
15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, on CBS. After the series ended in 1957,
however, a modified version continued for three more seasons with 13
one-hour specials, running from 1957 to 1960,
known first as The
Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show
and later in reruns as The Lucy–Desi
Comedy Hour.The show, which
was the
first scripted television program to be shot on
35 mm film in front of a studio audience, won five Emmy Awards
and
received numerous nominations. Another award that the show won was the
coveted George Foster Peabody Award
for "recognition of distinguished
achievement in television." In 2012 it was voted the
'Best TV Show of
All Time' in a survey conducted by ABC News and People Magazine.
I Love Lucy
was the most watched show in the United States in four of its six
seasons, and was the first to end its run
at
the top of the Nielsen
ratings (an accomplishment later matched by The Andy Griffith Show and Seinfeld).
The
show is still syndicated in dozens of languages across the world,
and remains popular, with an
American
audience of 40 million each year.
A colorized version of its Christmas episode attracted
more
than eight
million viewers when CBS aired it in prime time in 2013 – 62 years
after the show premiered.
