List of I Love Lucy episodes
I Love Lucy is an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance and William Frawley. The 180 black-and-white episodes originally ran on Monday nights from October 15, 1951 to May 6, 1957 on CBS. The pilot episode, which was not produced for broadcast and did not air during the show's original run, is generally excluded from the list of episodes, although it is available in the DVD and Blu-ray releases of the first season.
Following I Love Lucy, 13 hour-long episodes were produced under the title of The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show, with the same cast and later packaged for syndication as Seasons 7, 8 and 9 of the I Love Lucy series.
Series overview
Episodes
Unaired pilot
The unaired pilot was kinescoped on March 2, 1951 and was considered lost until the widow of Pepito Pérez, a clown who appears in it, notified CBS Entertainment president Bud Grant that she owned a copy given to her husband by Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball. The pilot was first broadcast as part of a 60-minute special on CBS television stations nationwide on Monday, April 30, 1990, 39 years after it was originally filmed. However, the opening titles and the initial voiceover were damaged or missing, so Lucie Arnaz read the beginning lines of the opening voiceover, which then segued into the surviving footage.The original 2003 DVD edition of I Love Lucy contained the pilot episode with a reconstruction of the opening titles and voiceover. The original 35mm kinescope of the pilot was later located in the CBS archives and was included in the Season 1 Blu-ray release on August 4, 2015.