Mike Connors, Eddie Foy Jr., Rick Jason, Glynis is on the absent minded side which often complicates resolving the case. | The use of these materials and techniques meant that the 35 mm negatives (the source material for copyright purposes) were immediately available for production and distribution of prints when the Lucy series went into syndication at local stations around the country. Born out of the partnership between Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Desilu delivered some of the greatest television shows of all time. Comedy, Western. Bernard L. Kowalski Peter Graves, Stars: A two part episode was spun off as the popular show The Untouchables (1959). Barbara Nichols, Jimmy Garrett, own a helicopter company that is hired to perform... See full summary », Stars: 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. In November 2019 CBS Studios registered the DESILU trademark again to protect its previous Common Law trademark usage. George Mathews, Desilu soon outgrew its first space and in 1954 bought its own studio, the Motion Picture Center on Cahuenga Boulevard in Hollywood,[8] what is now Red Studios Hollywood. One member of the team, who knew the answer, would give clues to his or her teammate. Shows TMZ TMZ Live ... trademark in 2016 in order to relaunch Desilu Studios as a "technology-focused film and television studio." Kenneth Tobey, | Glynis Granville write mystery stories while her husband Keith is a lawyer and that combination draws them into amatuer detective work. Dean Miller, Action, Adventure. [7] Ball served as president and chief executive officer of Desilu while at the same time starring in her own weekly series. Nichelle Nichols, TV-PG George Brent, Stars: Stars: The wife of a band leader constantly tries to become a star - in spite of her having no talent, and gets herself (along with her best friend) into the funniest predicaments. Today, Desilu Sales is part of CBS Television Distribution. Keith Andes, Directors: | Victor Maddern, Here’s Lucy premiered in … | Richard Carlyle. The television project eventually became I Love Lucy. Paul Bruce, 42 episodes An anthology series hosted by Betty Furness in the first season, and Desi Arnaz in the second. | Douglas Kennedy. Don Dorrell, With Jack Palance, Stuart Erwin, Michael Consoldane, Del Graham. What IS missing is Desilu Productions' VERY important contributions to popular culture. Mary Costa, 110 min Harry Morgan, 30 min | Gross: Director: During Ball's time as sole owner, Desilu developed popular series such as Mission: Impossible (1966), Mannix (1967), and Star Trek (1966). Xavier Cugat, after seeing Arnaz perform, hired him for his touring orchestra, playing the conga drum and singing. | Director: Bruce Gordon, The use of film enabled every station around the country to broadcast high-quality images of the show. Action, Adventure, Crime. Jimmy Garrett Stars: Grant Sullivan, Desilu Productions retained ownership of those shows that premiered after 1960, and were still in production. Two teams of two players compete against each other to determine the name of a famous person. Stories came from several genres, often based on fact. Pat O'Brien, Anthony Newley, Pages in category "Television series by Desilu Productions" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. [13] It has been falsely rumored that a Desilu loss during this time was Carol Burnett, who declined to star in a sitcom for the studio in favor of The Carol Burnett Show, a weekly variety show that lasted 11 seasons. 111 min Dramatization of events leading up to the attempted Assassination of president Elect FDR in Miami Beach 1933. Richard Travis, 26 min 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: [citation needed] However, neither is true. Robert Anderson. James Dunn, Their neighbor is Hawkeye who gives them bad advice he wants the Indians to reclaim the land if the Hootens fail. Mission: Impossible is a classic action series that is something you'd never expect Lucille to produce. Director: 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. Betty White, The 1955 show concerned sisters Margaret and Barbara Whiting, a coed at UCLA, who lived at home with their mother in Los Angeles, California. Contents. | | WarnerMedia is the show's current distributor, although MPI now holds home video rights under license from Lucille Ball Productions and Desilu Too. Desi Arnaz, Action, Crime, Drama. Comedy, Katy O'Connor is the assistant manager of the Bartley House Hotel in New York City working for Jason Macauley. Stories seemed to be strangely similar to HIGHWAY PATROL, emphasizing ... See full summary », Stars: Phil Karlson Mannix worked originally for Wickersham at Intertect and then struck out on his own, assisted by Peggy Fair (whose cop-husband had been killed) and Police Department contact Tobias. Scott Forbes, Mike Connors, Neither series sold. Joe Mantell, Richard Gaines, Marc Daniels, This list may not reflect recent changes (). Charles Dierkop, 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. Edward Sedgwick Perfect Film purchased Desilu Studios' other lot in Culver City in 1968.[15]. Robert Stack, 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. Nancy Hale, Jan Berry, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi. Louise Fitzhugh Desilu has also been credited as first to use a multiple-camera film setup before a live studio audience, but You Bet Your Life was being produced that way one year before I Love Lucy. Walter Burke, Desilu Productions was formed in 1950 using the combined names of "Desi Arnaz" and "Lucille Ball". James Robertson Justice, 30 min | Greg Morris. Ron Nyman, 50 min Stars: Desi Arnaz, Betty Furness, Bruce Gordon, Keenan Wynn ], 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. Dan Tobin, Suzanne Dalbert, Image: The Everett CollectionFirst, let's acknowledge the brilliance and greatness of Desilu Productions. John Bromfield, | Crime, Drama, Western. Neither Desilu Too nor LBP operates as a production company. Frances Rafferty, 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. Before starring in I Love Lucy, she starred in many B movies, and had a good idea of what television audiences wanted. [7] For example, lacking formal business training, he knew nothing of amortization and often included all the costs incurred by the production into the first episode of a season rather than spreading them across the projected number of episodes in the year. As a result of his foresight, Desilu reaped the profits from all reruns of the series. Dane Clark, He manages to deal with the unexpected frequently and uses Otto King, the accountant, as a sounding board. Later, a special entrance was added at 6633 Romaine Street, on the south side of the lot, to allow direct access to it. Walter Winchell, Co-founders of Desilu Productions ... "I Love Lucy" debuted in October 1951 and quickly became one of the top-rated shows on television. Jimmy Garrett, 30 min | Arnaz's unprecedented arrangement is widely considered to be one of the shrewdest deals in television history. | | Almira Sessions, This film was a critical and financial success. | 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]. Buck Young, 102 min | Crime, Drama, Director: Action, Crime, Drama. | Art Gilmore, Stars: Stars: | DeForest Kelley, Marshal fighting crime. Henry Fonda, 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: Story of how a group of incorruptible federal lawmen helped put 1920s' Chicago gangster Al Capone in prison. Stars: | 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. Judy Carne, George Burns. The old RKO globe logo is still in place. Karl Freund's innovative lighting setup for I Love Lucy allowed performers to move freely about the stage set and to be recorded by each film camera with proper lighting. Background. Steve Allen, | William Frawley, 60 min 30 min Leonard Nimoy, Mabel Albertson, Romance. With Desilu having sole ownership, they were able to sell reruns of their show to affiliates desperate to fill their channels with something local audiences would turn their televisions on for. Craig Hill, The series concerned the adventures of the two ... See full summary », Stars: An incredibly successful series, the show began with Ball and Vivian Vance living together with their children after death and divorce and claimed their respective husbands. James Drake, 80 min Harold J. Dean Torrence, As a result, by the end of the season, episodes were nearly entirely paid for, at preposterously low figures. Desi Arnaz greets the "I Love Lucy" studio audience and invites them to watch Lucille Ball and the cast film a special extended episode. 30 min Comedy adventures of pretty 9-year-old Alice Holliday growing up in the small American town of River Glen in Georgia. Nancy Kulp. | 7,723 Nicholas Georgiade, Ball returned to network television in 1986 with the short-lived Life with Lucy. Hensley says … This led to continued profits from the programs through reruns, which would recover their high development and production costs. Tommy Farrell, Crime, Western, While this sounds like a western, THE SHERIFF OF COCHISE was a contemporary police drama set in Cochise County, AZ. 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]. Stars: Lyle Bettger, If there is a revolution imminent in the production methods of motion picture making in Hollywood, it probably is taking place these days on Stage 2 of General Service Studios, where Desilu Productions, Inc. is turning out 22 minutes of TV program film in 60 minutes of actual shooting time. Ted de Corsia, Stories came from several genres, often based on fact. Crime, Drama. Tom Kennedy, 50 min | | [12] This made her the first woman to head a major studio and one of the most powerful women in Hollywood at the time. Eileen Baral, Stars: Orson Welles Desi Arnaz, A couple is conflicted when they are offered a chance at youth. Pictured right in an aerial view from 1958, the backlot had just changed ownership to Desilu Studios. co-production with Langford Productions Inc. co-production with Ralph Andrews-Bill Yagemann Productions, co-production with Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Television and Cody Productions, co-production with Norway Corporation; Desilu produced Season One and first half of Two only, Desilu produced Season One and first half of two only, Desilu produced the first half of Season One only, George Cheeks (CEO, CBS Entertainment Group), This page was last edited on 2 February 2021, at 20:28. Howard W. Koch Stars: 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]. Vivian Vance, | Robert Brubaker, Whitfield Connor, | | Stars: Peter Lupus, Unrated An anthology series hosted by Betty Furness in the first season, and Desi Arnaz in the second. | - Votes: 2,267 Lucille Ball’s follow up to “I Love Lucy,” “ The Lucy Show ” was produced by her ex-husband, Desi Arnaz, for their company Desilu productions. Walter Winchell, Adventure, One hundred eleven episodes of this syndicated show were produced between 1956 and 1959, debuting in the US in January 1957. Juney Ellis, | Desilu Too officials have worked with MPI Home Video for the home video reissue of The Mothers-In-Law. Stars: Enterprise explore the galaxy and defend the United Federation of Planets. Everett Sloane, Its CBS Television Studios unit owns the rights to everything Desilu produced after 1960 as successor in interest to Paramount Television. | | Wayne Morris, A two part episode was spun off as the popular show The Untouchables (1959). Drama, Family. Unfortunately he's stuck as an assistant at a pharmacy. Comedy, Music. Adventures of three globetrotting reporters working for an international wire service. In 1967, Ball agreed to sell her television company to Gulf+Western,[13] which had only recently acquired Paramount Pictures. Margaret Whiting, Kathy Garver, Stars: Through the use of orthodox Hollywood filming and production techniques, the content and quality of Desilu productions displayed a high standard (for 1950s-60s television productions) from the outset. Desilu Productions had basically zero to do with The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, etc, etc. Katy O'Connor is the assistant manager of the Bartley House Hotel in New York City working for Jason Macauley. Greg Morris, | She expected to get her bosses job when he was transferred to Calcutta, India but he was replaced by James Devery. J. Carrol Naish, | | Game-Show. Ann Tyrrell, 60 min Murray Hamilton, Stars: Helen Kleeb, 60 min LBP continues to exist, and its primary purpose is residual sales of license rights for Here's Lucy. Bruce Dern, Mary Treen, 30 min Comedy, Lucy goes to hip London to experience all the current fads, Director: While the TV show was fictional and completely scripted, ... Brought to the small screen by Desilu Productions and Lucille Ball, the show ran for three seasons before being canceled for low ratings. The company went to work on her new series Here's Lucy that year. It lasted eight episodes before it was cancelled—a first for Ball—because of poor ratings. Enterprise. Lucille Ball, Lucille Ball, Lucille Ball, Robert Stack, Michael Consoldane, Stars: Most subsequent attempts to bring projects to the big screen were aborted until Yours, Mine and Ours (1968) with Ball and Henry Fonda. Comedy. Arnaz and Ball wanted to adapt Ball's CBS radio series My Favorite Husband to television. Stars: It was produced at Desilu, but under the banner of Zanra Productions (Arnaz spelled backward). Crime stories that Walter Winchell had covered while working with the New York City Police Department. Ward Wood, Stars: Keenan Wynn, 30 min Stars: With Ann Sothern, Ann Tyrrell, Don Porter, Jack Mullaney. 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. The wacky misadventures of a forever-scheming woman, her reluctant best friend, and her cantankerous boss. Sammy Davis Jr., The television project eventually became I Love Lucy. Stars: Stars: It was created to produce Lucy and Desi's vaudeville act to sell the television series to Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) executives. | Maureen Stevenson, James Harrigan and his son run a law firm, but have different ways of proving their clients' innocence. 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. Desilu-Paramount TV's holdings are owned by ViacomCBS, the owner of the pre-1960s shows. Stars: Douglass Dumbrille, Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. Stone, Ned Glass, 60 min John Harlan, Jane Dulo, John Laing, Boyd 'Red' Morgan, The CBS unit owns all Desilu properties that were produced and concluded before 1960, which were sold to CBS by Desilu itself. Arnaz attempted to sell other television pilots, including a comedy with Carol Channing and an adventure series with Rory Calhoun. During the show's first few years, Desilu rented space at General Service Studios (now the Sunset Las Palmas Studios) at S… | Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptable agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago. Babs Hooten, husband Bill and son Brook escape the frantic pace of NYC, buying dude ranch Guestward Ho in New Mexico. Mercedes McCambridge, 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. Bobby Rydell, An opportunity arises that he ... See full summary », Director: Betty Furness, | On You Bet Your Life, however, the host, announcer, and contestants stayed in their places. Barbara Whiting, Neville Brand, Spring Byington, Del Graham, 30 min Stars: 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. James Seay, William Shatner, June Havoc, Comedy, Family. Director: Ralph Clanton, View full company info for Desilu Productions. Against mounting financial pressure, Desi Arnaz gambles on a Prohibition-era cops-and-robbers drama for his struggling Desilu Playhouse program. Stars: Lee Sholem William Lundigan, Stars: | Gail Fisher, Vivian Vance, Joyce Vanderveen, 30 min Ball founded Desilu Sales, Inc., for syndication which distributed Jay Ward Productions' Fractured Flickers in 1964. | Duncan Lamont, In 1951, Lucille Ball – who called him “Papa” – persuaded him to join the Desilu Productions team to shoot I Love Lucy. A widower with ten children falls for a widow with eight, and they must decide about forming a huge, unconventional family. Rory Calhoun, Unsold pilot for a proposed CBS comedy series about the comic misadventures of a band trying to make it big on the music scene. The show ran on the Columbia Broadcasting System between 1958 and 1960. Adventure, Western, Set in the Louisiana Territory around 1830, wealthy planter Jim Bowie encounters many famous people in New Orleans or the backwoods, relying for protection on the knife he supposedly ... See full summary », Stars: Stars: Desi Arnaz, | Desilu Productions was an American production company founded and co-owned by husband and wife Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball, best known for shows such as I Love Lucy, Star Trek, and The Untouchables.Until 1962, Desilu was the second-largest independent television production company in the U.S. behind MCA Inc.'s Revue Productions until MCA bought Universal Pictures, and Desilu became … Christopher Cook, Jimmy Garrett, 30 min George Cisar, Danny Richards Jr., Ethel Merman, | United States Marshal (renamed from Sheriff of Cochise) is a crime drama set in Cochise County, Arizona about a U.S. Director: Desi Arnaz An anthology series hosted by Betty Furness in the first season, and Desi Arnaz in the second. Katie Sweet, 23 min Ball and Arnaz divorced in 1960. He relates better to the imaginary ... See full summary », Director: [14] Burnett and Ball, however, remained close friends, often guest-starring on one another's series. Stories came from several genres, often based on fact. He manages to deal with the unexpected frequently and uses Otto King, the accountant, as a sounding board. | | Becoming a star attraction encouraged him to start his own band, the Desi Arnaz Orchestra. 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. Jerry Paris, Robert Lansing stars as April Savage, a homesteader whose wife, daughter and son are killed by a band of renegades in 1871. In 1960, Desi Arnaz sold the pre-1960s shows to CBS. Three of its 48 episodes served as pilots for the 1950s television series The Twilight Zone (One Episode) and The Untouchables (Two Episodes). They used Stage Two, which was named Desilu Playhouse. Pat Carroll, | Robert Stack, Stuart Erwin, | Whether Desilu Too has interests in the Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Museum & Center for Comedy in Jamestown, New York, is not known. David Alexander Louise Troy, Votes: Robert Foulk, 49 min Family, Director: Crime, Director: Stars: | Peter Brooks, 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: Desi Arnaz | Stars: Carol Channing, Richard Deacon, Jane Dulo, Jimmy Garrett Votes: 19 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. Peter Lawford, Paul Stanley Network executives considered the use of film an unnecessary extravagance. Desi? 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. Arnaz persuaded them to allow Desilu to cover all additional costs associated with filming, rather than broadcasting live, under the stipulation that Desilu owned and controlled all rights to the film prints and negatives. Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. Jack Benny, Pat Crowley, Joanne Dru, Arnaz left television production for a few years but returned in 1966 when he formed his own company, Desi Arnaz Productions, based at Desilu. Savage has vowed to track down the eight men responsible, one of ... See full summary », Director: Lucille Ball, Adventure, Drama, Family, A CBS variety show that ran monthly from 1954-1958, broadcast in color. Comedy, Charming and wise Lily Ruskin lives with her daughter and son-in- law who, along with her close friend Hilda Crocker, are always trying to find suitable older marriageable companionship for... See full summary », Stars: | | Bonnie Franklin. 50 min 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. Bob Bryant. After selling Desilu, Ball established her own new production company, Lucille Ball Productions (LBP), in 1968. The company was renamed Paramount Television, and the former RKO main lot on Gower Street was absorbed into the adjacent Paramount lot. In the 23rd Century, Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Roger Perry, Rex Evans, Desilu Productions (/ˈdɛsiluː/) was an American television production company founded and co-owned by husband and wife Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball. Stars: | Arnaz and? 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