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[Will and Grace Fanatic]

Did I Love Lucy run for six years or eleven. I heard that it ran for six years on some entertainment show then I read it some magazine it was on for eleven years. So how long was it on six or eleven years

[jamestownfan]

I Love Lucy ran for six seasons. 1951-1956. You might be getting confused and counting the hour long specials they made after that before they split up

[NCVARick]

Originally posted by shyguy418
Did I Love Lucy run for six years or eleven. I heard that it ran for six years on some entertainment show then I read it some magazine it was on for eleven years. So how long was it on six or eleven years

The original half-hour "I Love Lucy" episodes were produced and originally aired over the course of six seasons on CBS, from October 1951 through May 1957. The follow-up series of hour-long specials, "The Lucille Ball - Desi Arnaz Show" (renamed "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour" for later rebroadcasts) ran on CBS during the three seasons immediately following "I Love Lucy," from November 1957 through April 1960. Meanwhile, episodes of the original "I Love Lucy" half-hours were rerun on CBS in primetime during the 1957-1958 and 1958-1959 seasons. During the summer of 1960, the Connecticut episodes of "I Love Lucy" were aired in primetime on CBS under the title "Lucy in Connecticut." Several episodes of "I Love Lucy" were also aired in primetime on CBS in the summer of 1961. That was the last primetime airing of the half-hour series. From that point until 1967, "I Love Lucy" continued to air on CBS only during its morning line-up, where it had already been running since 1959. The hour-long episodes were first packaged as a CBS summer primetime series under the title "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour" beginning in the summer of 1962. The LDCH was run again as a summer series during the summers of 1963, 1964, 1965, and 1967. Both "I Love Lucy" and "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour" were finally released into off-network syndication in 1967.

No series has ever had as lengthy a network afterlife as "I Love Lucy," which continued to air on CBS for a full ten years after going out of production (and the comedy hours for seven years after going out of production). Lucille Ball's next series, "The Lucy Show," was in production for six seasons from 1962 until 1968. "Here's Lucy" followed on CBS for six seasons from 1968 to 1974. CBS aired reruns of "The Lucy Show" for the first time during the summer of 1968. It again rebroadcast "The Lucy Show" as a summer replacement series for "Here's Lucy" during the summers of 1969, 1970 and 1971. "The Lucy Show" also ran during the CBS morning lineup (as "I Love Lucy" had previously) from 1968 to 1972. Reruns of "Here's Lucy" occupied a slot in the CBS morning lineup from April to November 1977. Thus, all of Lucille Ball's CBS series were at some point rerun on network television long after going out of production. That must be some sort of a record.