Marathon on The Hallmark Channel on May 2, 2010

[Pavan]

Sunday, May 2, 2010
The Hallmark Channel's I Love Lucy Marathon

9:00 am - 9:30 am "I Love Lucy: ""Fred and Ethel Fight"": To gain Ricky's sympathy after a fight, Lucy pretends to have been hit by a speeding bus."
9:30 am - 10:00 am "I Love Lucy: ""Pioneer Women"": The Mertzes and the Ricardos bet they can live the same pioneer existence as their ancestors."
10:00 am - 10:30 am "I Love Lucy: ""The Freezer"": Lucy and Ethel install a battered meat locker in the basement, and Lucy learns the hard way how cold it is - she gets locked inside!"
10:30 am - 11:00 am "I Love Lucy: ""Lucy Does a TV Commercial"": Lucy is hired to do a TV commercial for Vitameatavegamin health tonic. After four takes she's happy, but not very peppy."
11:00 am - 11:30 am "I Love Lucy: ""Lucy Gets Ricky on the Radio"": Lucy is so impressed at Ricky's correct answers to a radio quiz show that she gets him on the show as a contestant."
11:30 am - Noon "I Love Lucy: ""Lucy's Schedule"": Ricky is determined to teach Lucy the importance of punctuality, so he puts her on a rigid time schedule."
Noon - 12:30 pm "I Love Lucy: ""Ricky Thinks He is Going Bald"": Ricky's receding hairline is giving him much concern, so Lucy decides to give him scalp treatments."
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm "I Love Lucy: ""Job Switching"": Ricky and Fred think doing housework is much easier than earning money. Lucy and Ethel feel the opposite. So the boys try doing the housework while the girls attempt to hold down a job at a candy factory."
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm "I Love Lucy: ""Tennessee Ernie Visits"": Tennessee Ernie Ford shows up in the big city with his guitar and a letter of introduction to the Ricardos."
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm "I Love Lucy: ""Tennessee Ernie Hangs On"": Ernie is still boarding at the Ricardos."
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm "I Love Lucy: ""California, Here We Come!"": Lucy and Ricky are all ready to start their trek to California when complications develop: Lucy's mother decides to join them."
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm "I Love Lucy: ""First Stop"": After a long day of non-stop driving, the Ricardos and the Mertzes pull into a run-down cafe somewhere near Cincinatti."
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm "I Love Lucy: ""Tennessee Bound"": Lucy's rush to get to California lands the Ricardos and the Mertzes in jail in Bent Fork, Tennessee, the home town of their favorite ""peapicker"", Tennessee Ernie Ford."
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm "I Love Lucy: ""Ethel's Home Town"": The Ricardos and the Metzes arrive in Ethel's home town: Albuquerque, New Mexico. Lucy, Ricky, and Fred are jealous when the townfolk give Ethel a big welcome."
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm "I Love Lucy: ""L.A. at Last!"": Arriving in Hollywood, Lucy goes star hunting at the Brown Derby, and finds William Holden in the next booth."
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm "I Love Lucy: ""Don Juan and the Starlets"": Ricky leaves Lucy at home and goes out for an evening of publicity with five gorgeous starlets."
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm "I Love Lucy: ""Lucy Gets in Pictures"": Lucy finally gets her chance - she lands a part as a showgirl in a major MGM musical."
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm "I Love Lucy: ""The Fashion Show"": Lucy is determined to have a beautiful Don Loper gown for her very own."
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm "I Love Lucy: ""The Hedda Hopper Story"": Desi's agent concocts a publicity stunt designed to land Ricky in Hedda Hopper's celebrity gossip column."
6:30 pm - 7:00 pm "I Love Lucy: ""Don Juan is Shelved"": When producer Dore Schary decides to shelve Ricky's film, ""Don Juan,"" Lucy schemes to create public demand for Ricky's talent."
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm "I Love Lucy: ""Bull Fight Dance"": Asked to appear in a Spanish dance number on Ricky's ""Heart Fund"" show, Lucy envisions herself as an exotic Senorita. But Ricky has something altogether different in mind."
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm "I Love Lucy: ""Hollywood Anniversary"": Ricky has forgotten the date of their anniversary, but he has a scheme to convince Lucy that he knew it all along."
8:00 pm - 8:30 pm "I Love Lucy: ""The Star Upstairs"": Lucy poses as a bellboy to gain entrance to movie star Cornell Wilde's hotel room."
8:30 pm - 9:00 pm "I Love Lucy: ""In Palm Springs"": Upset by a quarrel with their husbands, Lucy and Ethel leave for a weekend in Palm Springs, where they encounter Rock Hudson."
9:00 pm - 9:30 pm "I Love Lucy: ""The Dancing Star"": Carolyn Appleby, a friend of Lucy's visiting from New York, wants to meet some of the stars that Lucy has befriended, starting with Van Johnson, who is appearing at the Ricardos' hotel."
9:30 pm - 10:00 pm "I Love Lucy: ""Lucy and Harpo Marx"": Lucy promised Carolyn Appleby she'd produce some real Hollywood celebrities. Now she's got to deliver."
10:00 pm - 10:30 pm "I Love Lucy: ""Ricky Needs an Agent"": Lucy pretends to be Ricky's agent and tries to bluff a studio executive into casting Ricky in a film."
10:30 pm - 11:00 pm "I Love Lucy: ""The Tour"": Lucy and Ethel take a bus tour of movie stars' homes in Beverly Hills, and Lucy winds up picking grapefruit in Richard Widmark's back yard."
11:00 pm - 11:30 pm "I Love Lucy: ""Lucy Visits Graumans"": Lucy discovers that the cement slab with John Wayne's footprints in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater has come loose."
11:30 pm - Midnight "I Love Lucy: ""Lucy and John Wayne"": Lucy and Ethel have made off with the cement slab of John Wayne's footprints. Now the police are called in to investigate."
Midnight - 12:30 am "I Love Lucy: ""Lucy and the Dummy"": MGM asks Ricky to help entertain executives at a studio party. Ricky has plans to go deep sea fishing, but as far as Lucy is concerned, ""the show must go on."""
12:30 am - 1:00 am "I Love Lucy: ""Ricky Sells the Car"": Ricky sells the car and buys train tickets for the trip back East, but he forgets about Fred and Ethel."
1:00 am - 1:30 am "I Love Lucy: ""Pioneer Women"": The Mertzes and the Ricardos bet they can live the same pioneer existence as their ancestors."
1:30 am - 2:00 am "I Love Lucy: ""The Freezer"": Lucy and Ethel install a battered meat locker in the basement, and Lucy learns the hard way how cold it is - she gets locked inside!"
2:00 am - 2:30 am "I Love Lucy: ""Lucy Does a TV Commercial"": Lucy is hired to do a TV commercial for Vitameatavegamin health tonic. After four takes she's happy, but not very peppy."
2:30 am - 3:00 am "I Love Lucy: ""Job Switching"": Ricky and Fred think doing housework is much easier than earning money. Lucy and Ethel feel the opposite. So the boys try doing the housework while the girls attempt to hold down a job at a candy factory."
3:00 am - 3:30 am "I Love Lucy: ""Tennessee Ernie Visits"": Tennessee Ernie Ford shows up in the big city with his guitar and a letter of introduction to the Ricardos."
3:30 am - 4:00 am "I Love Lucy: ""Tennessee Ernie Hangs On"": Ernie is still boarding at the Ricardos."

[Pavan]

Accompanying blog story:

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/blog/20...-premiere.html

[Coffeecup]

OH i plan to tune in. Just have to remember the day.