The original sequence to I Love Lucy hasn't been seen in almost 50 years. (Brickbats).The original opening sequence to I Love Lucy I Love Lucy is a television situation comedy, starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, also featuring Vivian Vance and William Frawley. The series originally ran from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, on CBS (181 episodes, including the "lost" Christmas episode and original hasn't has·n't Contraction of has not. hasn't has not hasn't have been seen in almost 50 years. And thanks to federal rules, it may never be seen again. For the 50th anniversary of the show's debut, the cable channel TV Land wanted to restore the original intro, showing an animated Desi desi Indian English Adjective indigenous or local Noun informal a person considered to be of South Asian origin [Hindi] and Lucy climbing ropes down the side of a pack of Phillip Morris cigarettes, the show's sponsor. But TV Land had to change its plans. "Philip Morris said 'because of FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. regulations and because of all the different rules...we cannot give you permission to use that in your opening,'" said a TV Land spokesman. |
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