Starter of this subject: David Chamberlain
Last post in this subject: 2/15/2000
Messages in this subject: 1
| David Chamberlain | 2/15/2000 1 replies |
| Recently I was listening to several episodes of My Favorite Husband with Lucille Ball and Richard Denning from 1949 and 1950. The story lines of at least two of these shows were remarkably similar to later I Love Lucy tv shows. Was this a case of Lucy having some of the same writers or did the producers or perhaps Lucy herself own the rights to these scripts. Can anyone enlighten me? |
| Jeff G | 2/15/2000 0 replies |
| As far as I know there wasn't much to it. The shows you heard that were similar to TV were in fact used straight from radio scripts, only adapted slightly for television. I'm not sure how the whole legal issue went about, so I can't say much. I have one episode of My Favourite Husband where Lucy goes to her next door neighbour's and notices they have a new TV set... then George damages it, and they go to court. They re-enact the crime at the courtroom, with the Judge's TV, and damages it too... That is one of the many storylines that were used for I L |