Wikipedia Tour: 25 Great TV Shows (1 of 25)

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Wikipedia Tour: 25 Great TV Shows

Welcome to our Wikipedia Tour: 25 Great TV Shows. Each day we’ll send you a link to a new article about a great TV show on Wikipedia. The introduction to each day’s article is included in the installment so you can choose to read just the introduction or the full article.

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I Love Lucy

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I Love Lucy is an American situation comedy, 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. The show continued on 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.

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 ratings (to be matched only by The Andy Griffith Show and Seinfeld), although it did not have a formal series finale episode. I Love Lucy is still syndicated in dozens of languages across the world.

The show won five Emmy Awards and received numerous nominations. In 2002, it was ranked second on TV Guide's top-50 greatest shows, behind Seinfeld and ahead of The Honeymooners^[1]. In 2007, it was placed on Time magazine's unranked list of the 100 best TV shows.^[2] The same year, the Washington Post named it the second best TV rerun, attesting to its longevity and sustained popularity.^[3]

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Wikipedia Tour: 25 Great TV Shows (1 of 25)