Video: '1952: Guiding Light in TV'
(Monday, June 30, 1952, 2:30 p.m. EST) — Meta laments to her sister Trudy that she has left her husband Joe and her step-daughter Kathy hates her on today’s CBS television debut of The Guiding Light, a popular radio program for 15 years now. The soap opera is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running drama in television history, running 57 years until 2009.
Video: 'Lucy Does a TV Commercial' (clip)
(Monday, May 5, 1952, 9 p.m. EST) — Desperate to be in Ricky’s new television commercial, Lucy makes every attempt to get her way on tonight’s episode of the CBS-TV sitcom I Love Lucy.
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(Sunday, March 30, 1952, 8 p.m. EST) — Jackie Gleason performs his bakery comedy routine with the conveyer belt on tonight’s edition of the CBS-TV variety show The Ed Sullivan Show.
Video: 'Fred and Ethel Fight' (clip)
(Monday, March 10, 1952, 9 p.m. EST) — Fred and Ethel have been going at each other’s throats for the past few days now, and aren’t talking to each other any more on tonight’s episode of the CBS-TV sitcom I Love Lucy.
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(Thursday, February 14, 1952, 9:00 p.m. ET) — The police interrogate a suspect whom they believe to have murdered more than a dozen men on tonight’s episode of the NBC-TV crime drama Dragnet.
Video: 'Breaking the Lease' (clip)
(Monday, February 11, 1952, 9 p.m. EST) — The Mertzes, as landlords, decide that the Ricardos’ merrymaking have gone too far on tonight’s episode of the CBS-TV sitcom I Love Lucy.
Video: 'The Séance' (clip)
(Monday, November 26, 1951, 9 p.m. EST) — Lucy suddenly becomes interested in numerology and superstitions on tonight’s episode of the CBS-TV sitcom I Love Lucy.
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(Sunday, November 18, 1951, 6:30 p.m. ET) — See It Now, a newsmagazine and documentary series, debuted tonight on CBS-TV with the first live simultaneous coast-to-coast TV transmission.
The series was created by Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly with Murrow serving as host.
'I Love Lucy' open
(Monday, November 5, 1951, 9 p.m.) — Lucy is deeply engrossed in a brand-new whodunit, called “The Mockingbird Mystery,” and is, understandably, a nail-biting wreck on tonight’s episode of the legendary TV sitcom I Love Lucy.
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Video: 'Be A Pal' (clip)
(Monday, October 22, 1951, 9:00 p.m. ET) — In order to keep the honeymoon from ending with Ricky, Lucy consults a book that leads to all sorts of hilarious situations on tonight’s episode of the TV sitcom I Love Lucy.
