It’s been 75 years since I Love Lucy made its debut on CBS. But before the premiere episode, “The Girls Want to Go to a Nightclub,” aired on Oct. 15. 1951, the network ran a promo introducing the cast of the show to America.
The rarely-seen promo was shared in a post to Lucie Arnaz’s Instagram page on the 75th anniversary of I Love Lucy. In the short black-and-white clip, series stars Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz say in unison, “Hey, we’re on TV now!”
“Watch for I Love Lucy,” Ball continues. “[With Lucille Ball] and Desi Arnaz… he’s my husband!”
“Typecastin’ that’s what I calls it,” Arnaz chimes in.
Vivian Vance and William Frawley are also introduced in the short clip, before Ball says once again, “Watch for us in I Love Lucy!”
You can see the promo HERE.
View this post on InstagramWhen I Love Lucy was first pitched as a television show to CBS in the early 1950s, some network executives and sponsors were hesitant to introduce a show about the intercultural marriage of Lucy and Ricky Ricardo. According to the I Love Lucy Museum, Ball once revealed, “[They] said the public wouldn’t believe I was married to Desi.”
Ball, who married Arnaz in 1940, refused to back down, and the rest is history. I Love Lucy changed the landscape of TV comedy forever.
In honor of the 75th anniversary of I Love Lucy, previously unseen production materials have also been acquired by the National Comedy Center.
The Hollywood Reporter noted that the National Comedy Center has acquired a series of behind-the-scenes photographs, 35mm film prints, and even original scripts from the show that were owned by Ball and Arnaz. In the early pilot script acquired, the series was titled The Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Show and the main couple on the sitcom was named Lucy and Larry Lopez.
On the I Love Lucy anniversary, Lucie Arnaz, the eldest child of the late comedy stars, shared a poignant post to Facebook to credit the whole team for the sitcom’s 75-year success.
“This sums it up best for WHY the show has lasted 75 years,” she captioned a Television Academy Foundation interview with the show’s writers. ”THE WRITING. The guy who says YES to those writers’ ideas and the genius of the lady who could pull those brilliant ideas off,” she wrote. “I raise my glass to that fantastic team of Bob Carroll, Jr., Madelyn Pugh, Martin Davis, Jess Oppenheimer and my mother and father, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. I could not be more proud to be a part of this family.”
Related: 75 Years Ago, the ‘I Love Lucy’ Episode That Was Filmed First Didn’t Air as the Series Premiere
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