Television in the 1950s was an insistently domestic medium, abundant with images of marriage and family. Since passing into the electronic museum of reruns, I Love Lucy has become the Mona Lisa of television, a work of art whose fame transcends its origins and its medium. And its remarkable popularity has barely waned in the subsequent decades. When it ceased production as a weekly series in 1957, I Love Lucy was still the number one series in the country. Eisenhower's presidential inauguration in January 1953 drew twenty-nine million viewers, but when Lucy gave birth to Little Ricky in an episode broadcast the next day forty-four million viewers (72% of all U.S.
It spent four of its six prime-time seasons as the highest-rated series on television and never finished lower than third place. I Love Lucy debuted on CBS in October 1951 and was an immediate sensation.
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