I Love Lucy(1951)

series - first aired/released 1951-10-15 - audience 7.9

Directed by James V. Kern, Marc Daniels

Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.