Desilu began the creation of its productions using conventional film studio materials, production, and processing techniques. Marshal fighting crime. | Johnny Slate is the big boss who successfully keeps the circus running as it moves from town to town. 40 Acres War Sets in 1958 (scan courtesy Bison Archives) Although purchased primarily for use in the company's television productions, Desilu continued to rent space on the Forty Acres backlot for motion picture production, including the bombed-out town sets in the eastern wedge of the property, immediately beyond the huge silent era reform school set. An anthology series hosted by Betty Furness in the first season, and Desi Arnaz in the second. As the show was… Keith Andes, Sandra Spence, 60 min What IS missing is Desilu Productions' VERY important contributions to popular culture. Robert Brubaker, | Adapted from a TV series. | Against mounting financial pressure, Desi Arnaz gambles on a Prohibition-era cops-and-robbers drama for his struggling Desilu Playhouse program. | | Stuart Erwin, The series concerned the adventures of the two ... See full summary », Stars: On You Bet Your Life, however, the host, announcer, and contestants stayed in their places. Ball founded Desilu Sales, Inc., for syndication which distributed Jay Ward Productions' Fractured Flickers in 1964. Roger Perry, Desilu Too also partners with MPI Home Video and Lucille Ball Productions (formed by Ball and second husband Gary Morton) on the video releases of Here's Lucy and other material Ball and Arnaz made independently of each other. Drama, Willa Dodger opens a law practice in Renfrew, New Hampshire, USA after graduating from law school but business is slow so she left her boyfriend Charlie Bush in Renfrew, went to New York ... See full summary », Stars: | John Harlan, A couple is conflicted when they are offered a chance at youth. A two part episode was spun off as the popular show The Untouchables (1959). Crime, Western, While this sounds like a western, THE SHERIFF OF COCHISE was a contemporary police drama set in Cochise County, AZ. Whitfield Connor, Stars: Claude Akins, TV-G Arnaz and Ball wanted to adapt Ball's CBS radio series My Favorite Husband to television. Robert Stack, Henry Fonda, Paul Stanley Lynn Loring, The failed pilot for a series starring Carol Channing, which was created by Desi Arnaz, and used some of the same writers on such classic Desilu series as I Love Lucy (1951), _"The Lucy how... See full summary », Director: | Roy Roberts, Unsold pilot for a proposed CBS sitcom concerns the adventures of a young boy who lives with his widowed mother a writer/illustrator of children's books. | Desi Arnaz Productions, along with United Artists Television, co-produced The Mothers-in-Law for the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). Ball and Arnaz divorced in 1960. Drama, Family. William Frawley, TV-PG This film was a critical and financial success. Savage has vowed to track down the eight men responsible, one of ... See full summary », Director: Leonard Nimoy, Jack Benny, Stars: William Lundigan, Unsold pilot for a proposed sitcom revolves around the efforts of a widow to raise and daughter and run a nightclub which is next to a Marine Corps base. Stars: Greg Morris, Background: Desilu Productions was a production company founded in 1950 by then-husband-and-wife comedy duo,? Del Graham, 30 min George Burns. Lesley-Marie Colburn, Stars: Mission: Impossible is a classic action series that is something you'd never expect Lucille to produce. The show ran on the Columbia Broadcasting System between 1958 and 1960. Here’s Lucy premiered in … [original research? Stars: Paul Picerni, TV-PG Comedy adventures of pretty 9-year-old Alice Holliday growing up in the small American town of River Glen in Georgia. 30 min The use of film enabled every station around the country to broadcast high-quality images of the show. Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptable agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago. An anthology series hosted by Betty Furness in the first season, and Desi Arnaz in the second. This is how Desilu Productions ended up producing the show and owning all the film to the I Love Lucy episodes. | Xavier Cugat, after seeing Arnaz perform, hired him for his touring orchestra, playing the conga drum and singing. Their neighbor is Hawkeye who gives them bad advice he wants the Indians to reclaim the land if the Hootens fail. Ron Nyman, 50 min Desilu was formed in 1950 by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz (the studio name being a portmanteau of its founders' first names, Desi and Lucille) to initially produce their vaudeville act, then to serve as the production company for a TV adaptation of Ball and Arnaz's radio series My Favorite Husband, which CBS executives wanted to air on their network. Ted de Corsia, They used Stage Two, which was named Desilu Playhouse. The CBS unit owns all Desilu properties that were produced and concluded before 1960, which were sold to CBS by Desilu itself. Before starring in I Love Lucy, she starred in many B movies, and had a good idea of what television audiences wanted. James Seay, Desilu Productions (seasons 1–2), Paramount Television (seasons 2–3), Norway Corp. ... (List of episodes) Origin: USA Star Trek is an influential science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that followed the adventures of the crew of the starship U.S.S. The TV project became I Love Lucy, and the Arnazes, in exchange for accepting reduced salaries, retained ownership rights to the show. Even decades after the absorption of Desilu Productions and the production end of all original series Desilu approved for development, some series have achieved enduring success and, in some cases, redevelopment into feature-length movie franchises in their own right. Don Porter, Peter Lawford, Ann Sothern, Arnaz's unprecedented arrangement is widely considered to be one of the shrewdest deals in television history. Joyce Vanderveen, 30 min | Joe Kirk, TV-G Steve Binder | Boyd 'Red' Morgan, Desilu Productions, co-owned by husband and wife Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball, was best known for its hit productions such as I Love Lucy, Star Trek, and The Untouchables.The couple jointly owned Desilu Productions from its inception in 1950 until their divorce in 1960, after which Ball bought Arnaz out and ran the company by herself for several years. Lucille Ball, Some of these programs were created and owned by Desilu; others were other production companies' programs that Desilu filmed or to which Desilu rented production space. A widower with ten children falls for a widow with eight, and they must decide about forming a huge, unconventional family. Stars: | Glynis is on the absent minded side which often complicates resolving the case. Stars: | DeForest Kelley, Walter Burke, Desilu Too LLC was later created by Lucy Arnaz mostly as a licensee for I Love Lucy-related merchandise. Also included, the Paramount Television 'Blue Mountain' logo at the end. Desilu Productions (/ˈdɛsiluː/) was an American television production company founded and co-owned by husband and wife Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball. An opportunity arises that he ... See full summary », Director: ], She approved original production concepts (such as The Untouchables and Star Trek) for development into broadcast series,[5] assessing how the public would enjoy them and their potential for long-term success. Spring Byington, Glynis Johns, She was skilled at proposing new programs that were popular to broad audiences and successful in both their original broadcasts and syndication reruns. John Larch, As a result of his foresight, Desilu reaped the profits from all reruns of the series. 7,723 Jack Mullaney, 60 min Stan Jones, | At that time, most television programs were broadcast live, and as the largest markets were in New York, the rest of the country received only images derived from kinescopes. | Michael Consoldane, Louise Troy, Votes: The old RKO globe logo is still in place. Joseph Kearns, Director: Robert Foulk, 49 min Comedy, Family. Desi Arnaz, Peter Brooks, Stars: Stars: This is the second Desilu Productions logo with byline. Ball had succeeded in making Desilu profitable again by 1968, when she sold her shares of Desilu to Gulf+Western for $17 million (a valued $130 million in 2019). Stories came from several genres, often based on fact. Desilu is often credited with being the first television studio to shoot on film instead of making a live broadcast or to shoot on film with a multiple-camera setup. Along with Desi Arnaz, Freund perfected multi-camera television production, as well as the “flat lighting” system for shooting sitcoms that is still used today. Crime, Director: Stars: Stars: Director: Don Dorrell, Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}34°05′23″N 118°20′05″W / 34.089777°N 118.334722°W / 34.089777; -118.334722, Television shows produced by or filmed at Desilu. Glynis Granville write mystery stories while her husband Keith is a lawyer and that combination draws them into amatuer detective work. Editions by V of Doom, Shadeed A. Kelly and indycar Background: Desilu Productions was a production company founded in 1950 by then-husband-and-wife comedy duo, Desi Arnaz and Lu cille Ball (hence the name of the company), producing very successful TV shows and films between the 1950s and 1960s. | Stars: One member of the team, who knew the answer, would give clues to his or her teammate. Desilu Productions had basically zero to do with The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, etc, etc. 42 episodes An anthology series hosted by Betty Furness in the first season, and Desi Arnaz in the second. Bob Bryant. 30 min Tom Kennedy, In late 1957, the company bought the RKO Pictures production facilities for $6 million from General Tire and Rubber, including RKO's main facilities on Gower Street in Hollywood and the RKO-Pathé lot (now Culver Studios) in Culver City. Desilu Productions retained ownership of those shows that premiered after 1960, and were still in production. Douglass Dumbrille, John Bromfield, Director: As a result, by the end of the season, episodes were nearly entirely paid for, at preposterously low figures. Ball and Arnaz jointly owned the majority stake in Desilu from its inception until 1962, when Ball bought out Arnaz and ran the company by herself for several years. Stars: Duncan Lamont, Richard Carlyle. Barbara Nichols, Today, Desilu Sales is part of CBS Television Distribution. Romance. James Harrigan and his son run a law firm, but have different ways of proving their clients' innocence. Stars: Barbara Bain, Comedy. Much of Desilu Productions' early success can be traced to Arnaz's unusual business style in his role as producer of I Love Lucy. He manages to deal with the unexpected frequently and uses Otto King, the accountant, as a sounding board. [7] Ball served as president and chief executive officer of Desilu while at the same time starring in her own weekly series. | Stars: Moreover, they were readily adaptable to both comedy and drama formats and were able to handle special effects or feature interior or exterior sets and locations with equal ease.[17]. Robert Lansing, 90 min ABC's Wide World of Entertainment is a late night block of programs created by the ABC television network. Game-Show. After selling Desilu, Ball established her own new production company, Lucille Ball Productions (LBP), in 1968. William Schallert, | Comedy, Family. Art Gilmore, Desi? Danny Richards Jr., The television project eventually became I Love Lucy. | Adventures of three globetrotting reporters working for an international wire service. | Stars: Stone, 60 min Stars: William Frawley, 60 min Ward Wood, Victor Maddern, Arnaz left television production for a few years but returned in 1966 when he formed his own company, Desi Arnaz Productions, based at Desilu. Ethel Merman, Robert Stack, | Until 1962, Desilu was the second-largest independent television production company in the United States, behind MCA's Revue Studios, until MCA bought Universal Pictures and Desilu became and remained the number-one independent production company, until being sold in 1968.[1]. Edward Sedgwick Stars: Flip Mark, 27 min Desi Arnaz greets the "I Love Lucy" studio audience and invites them to watch Lucille Ball and the cast film a special extended episode. Peter Graves, Eddie Walker of New York City and Tommy Finch of London, England had been World War II buddies and they decide to swap teenage daughters Patty and Heather for a year. Comedy, Family. Becoming a star attraction encouraged him to start his own band, the Desi Arnaz Orchestra. Two teams of two players compete against each other to determine the name of a famous person. Action, Crime, Drama. Unsold pilot for a proposed CBS comedy series about the comic misadventures of a band trying to make it big on the music scene. | Gross: [3] During the show's first few years, Desilu rented space at General Service Studios (now the Sunset Las Palmas Studios) at Santa Monica Boulevard and North Las Palmas Avenue. Melville Shavelson Dane Clark, David Alexander | | In truth, Here's Agnes was offered to Burnett by CBS executives who attempted to dissuade her from having a variety show because they felt that men were better suited for them. James Drake, 80 min Howard W. Koch Tommy Farrell, Its CBS Television Studios unit owns the rights to everything Desilu produced after 1960 as successor in interest to Paramount Television. | Lee Sholem He manages to deal with the unexpected frequently and uses Otto King, the accountant, as a sounding board. Rick Jason, Douglas Kennedy. John Peyser Robert Anderson. Image: The Everett CollectionFirst, let's acknowledge the brilliance and greatness of Desilu Productions. | It was created to produce Lucy and Desi's vaudeville act to sell the television series to Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) executives. Later, a special entrance was added at 6633 Romaine Street, on the south side of the lot, to allow direct access to it. Stories came from several genres, often based on fact. Mark Miller, Charles Coburn, Katy O'Connor is the assistant manager of the Bartley House Hotel in New York City working for Jason Macauley. Gene Reynolds 30 min Pat Crowley, Not Rated June Havoc, Arnaz was told it was impossible to allow an audience onto a sound stage, but he worked with Freund to design sets that accommodated audiences, allowed filming, and adhered to fire, health, and safety codes. A two part episode was spun off as the popular show The Untouchables (1959). | | United States Marshal (renamed from Sheriff of Cochise) is a crime drama set in Cochise County, Arizona about a U.S. | Crime, Drama, Director: Mike Connors, Vivian Vance, Helen Kleeb, 60 min Nancy Kulp. Family, Director: Dean Torrence, | Georgine Darcy, Stars: Mike Connors, George Mathews, Earlier filmed series included Your Show Time, The Stu Erwin Show, and The Life of Riley, and Jerry Fairbanks had developed and was using multiple-camera film production for television in 1950.[16]. Drama. Harold J. Action, Adventure, Crime. James Griffith, Pages in category "Television series by Desilu Productions" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. These were merely tenants of Desilu Studios many sound stages and backlots. A little distorted, but fair. The company was renamed Paramount Television, and the former RKO main lot on Gower Street was absorbed into the adjacent Paramount lot. 60 min Stars: Steve Pendleton, 90 min In November 2019 CBS Studios registered the DESILU trademark again to protect its previous Common Law trademark usage. Stars appearing included Betty Grable, Mario Lanza, Jack Benny, Basil Rathbone, Fredric March, Shirley MacLaine and ... See full summary », Stars: Bill Mumy, Greg Morris. Follow-up to [title=tt0043208], Lucy Ricardo continues her wacky schemes as she travels with her husband, Ricky and their friends Ethel and Fred to various locations and meeting celebrities. 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