Stars: Stars: Keith Andes, Jack Benny, Phil Karlson This is the second Desilu Productions logo with byline. An anthology series hosted by Betty Furness in the first season, and Desi Arnaz in the second. Director: 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]. Pictured right in an aerial view from 1958, the backlot had just changed ownership to Desilu Studios. | Dramatization of events leading up to the attempted Assassination of president Elect FDR in Miami Beach 1933. Action, Crime, Drama. Murray Hamilton, Stars: Barbara Nichols, 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: James Harrigan and his son run a law firm, but have different ways of proving their clients' innocence. 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. Crime, Director: James Drake, 80 min Before starring in I Love Lucy, she starred in many B movies, and had a good idea of what television audiences wanted. Nichelle Nichols, TV-PG Greg Morris, This list may not reflect recent changes (). Director: 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. Director: Ann Tyrrell, 111 min As a result of his foresight, Desilu reaped the profits from all reruns of the series. Lucille Ball, Comedy, Music, Stars: Katie Sweet, 23 min Jack Palance, [12] This made her the first woman to head a major studio and one of the most powerful women in Hollywood at the time. In 1967, Ball agreed to sell her television company to Gulf+Western,[13] which had only recently acquired Paramount Pictures. Gene Reynolds 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]. Desi? Paramount Home Entertainment (through CBS DVD) continues to hold DVD distribution rights to the CBS library. 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. George Cisar, Crime stories that Walter Winchell had covered while working with the New York City Police Department. | 30 min Arthur Franz, Most subsequent attempts to bring projects to the big screen were aborted until Yours, Mine and Ours (1968) with Ball and Henry Fonda. Grant Sullivan, Bonnie Franklin. Stars: Stars: Stories came from several genres, often based on fact. A two part episode was spun off as the popular show The Untouchables (1959). | Nicholas Georgiade, A two part episode was spun off as the popular show The Untouchables (1959). The wacky misadventures of a forever-scheming woman, her reluctant best friend, and her cantankerous boss. Ball had succeeded in making Desilu profitable again by 1968, when she sold her shares of Desilu to Gulf+Western for $17 million (a valued $130 million in 2019). 40 Acres War Sets in 1958 (scan courtesy Bison Archives) Although purchased primarily for use in the company's television productions, Desilu continued to rent space on the Forty Acres backlot for motion picture production, including the bombed-out town sets in the eastern wedge of the property, immediately beyond the huge silent era reform school set. William Lundigan, Lee Sholem Bruce Gordon, | Helen Kleeb, 60 min This led to continued profits from the programs through reruns, which would recover their high development and production costs. Desilu began the creation of its productions using conventional film studio materials, production, and processing techniques. Dean Miller, Betty Furness, 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. Art Gilmore, They used Stage Two, which was named Desilu Playhouse. 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: Sandra Spence, 60 min Craig Hill, Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Whiting, Mary Treen, 30 min Barbara Bain, In truth, Here's Agnes was offered to Burnett by CBS executives who attempted to dissuade her from having a variety show because they felt that men were better suited for them. It was created to produce Lucy and Desi's vaudeville act to sell the television series to Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) executives. | The television project eventually became I Love Lucy. Desilu's entire library is owned by ViacomCBS through two of its subsidiaries. Douglass Dumbrille, Perfect Film purchased Desilu Studios' other lot in Culver City in 1968.[15]. Comedy, Music. Walter Winchell, Ned Glass, 60 min Examples are The Untouchables, Star Trek and Mission Impossible.[6]. Paul Bruce, Anthony Newley, | Robert Lansing, 90 min Neville Brand, Stars: Jimmy Garrett, 30 min Roger Perry, Harold J. Bruce Dern, Desilu Too LLC was later created by Lucy Arnaz mostly as a licensee for I Love Lucy-related merchandise. Frances Rafferty, Today, Desilu Sales is part of CBS Television Distribution. Howard W. Koch Background. A.H. Weiler, Team of Ball and Arnaz Will Make Own Movies,= New York Times, June 18, 1950, p. X4. Chuck and P.T. | [citation needed] However, neither is true. 42 episodes An anthology series hosted by Betty Furness in the first season, and Desi Arnaz in the second. Lucille Ball, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi. 60 min Johnny Slate is the big boss who successfully keeps the circus running as it moves from town to town. 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. Arnaz left television production for a few years but returned in 1966 when he formed his own company, Desi Arnaz Productions, based at Desilu. Stars: | | Flip Mark, 27 min Director: Scott Forbes, With Ann Sothern, Ann Tyrrell, Don Porter, Jack Mullaney. Mary Costa, 110 min During Ball's time as sole owner, Desilu developed popular series such as Mission: Impossible (1966), Mannix (1967), and Star Trek (1966). Action, Adventure. Family, Director: Duncan Lamont, William Spier Mabel Albertson, In 1967, Lucille Ball sold Desilu Productions and began her third television series on CBS under her own banner, Lucille Ball Productions. James Dunn, Action, Crime, Drama. Desi Arnaz, She expected to get her bosses job when he was transferred to Calcutta, India ... See full summary », Stars: Joseph Kearns, Director: | Danny Richards Jr., Lucille Ball, | | | Robert Stack, Ball founded Desilu Sales, Inc., for syndication which distributed Jay Ward Productions' Fractured Flickers in 1964. Drama. Steve Binder Whether Desilu Too has interests in the Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Museum & Center for Comedy in Jamestown, New York, is not known. 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. Two teams of two players compete against each other to determine the name of a famous person. 60 min Richard Travis, 26 min Stars: ], 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. The CBS unit owns all Desilu properties that were produced and concluded before 1960, which were sold to CBS by Desilu itself. John Harlan, He relates better to the imaginary ... See full summary », Director: Louise Fitzhugh Carol Channing, Jimmy Garrett Stars: Ethel Merman, Wayne Morris, Glynis Granville write mystery stories while her husband Keith is a lawyer and that combination draws them into amatuer detective work. James Griffith, A two part episode was spun off as the popular show The Untouchables (1959). A couple is conflicted when they are offered a chance at youth. Peter Lawford, 50 min Jim Phelps leads the impossible Mission Force to smash the criminal syndicate whose head is Frank Wayne. Barbara Bain, Buck Young, 102 min Stars: Stars: Raymond Greenleaf, In the 23rd Century, Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Jan Berry, 30 min Richard Gaines, | It lasted eight episodes before it was cancelled—a first for Ball—because of poor ratings. | James Griffith, Barry Livingston, The story of a young man in 1911, just out of medical school and anxious to start his own practice. He manages to deal with the unexpected frequently and uses Otto King, the accountant, as a sounding board. The television project eventually became I Love Lucy. Pat Carroll, Desi Arnaz, Mark Miller, Ron Nyman, 50 min Gale Gordon, [11] These acquisitions gave the Ball-Arnaz TV empire a total of 33 sound stages — four more than Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and eleven more than Twentieth Century-Fox had in 1957. [original research? 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. The program ran until 1974 and enjoyed several years of ratings success. Tommy Farrell, | In 1960, Desi Arnaz sold the pre-1960s shows to CBS. As such, no "lost" episodes of programs occurred, and no programs were recorded by kinescope from the television broadcast. | TV-PG Jimmy Garrett, 30 min Peter Graves, LBP continues to exist, and its primary purpose is residual sales of license rights for Here's Lucy. Robert Stack, Dan Tobin, Jane Dulo, Director: Del Graham, 30 min Johnny Slate is the big boss who successfully keeps the circus running as it moves from town to town. | 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 … He manages to deal with the unexpected frequently and uses Otto King, the accountant, as a sounding board. Comedy. 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 Unsold pilot for a proposed CBS comedy series about the comic misadventures of a band trying to make it big on the music scene. Comedy, Family. Everett Sloane, | This is how Desilu Productions ended up producing the show and owning all the film to the I Love Lucy episodes. | | Image: The Everett CollectionFirst, let's acknowledge the brilliance and greatness of Desilu Productions. Director: 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. Stars: Greg Morris. Douglas Kennedy. 50 min Directors: Dane Clark, Enterprise explore the galaxy and defend the United Federation of Planets. Richard Carlyle. own a helicopter company that is hired to perform... See full summary », Stars: Ann Sothern, Martin Landau, Desi Arnaz Productions, along with United Artists Television, co-produced The Mothers-in-Law for the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). Vivian Vance, This film was a critical and financial success. | Stars: Neither Desilu Too nor LBP operates as a production company. Glynis Johns, The old RKO globe logo is still in place. William Frawley, TV-PG Unsold pilot for a proposed sitcom revolves around the efforts of a widow to raise and daughter and run a nightclub which is next to a Marine Corps base. George Brent, Regis Parton, Stars: Katy O'Connor is the assistant manager of the Bartley House Hotel in New York City working for Jason Macauley. John Laing, During the show's first few years, Desilu rented space at General Service Studios (now the Sunset Las Palmas Studios) at S… Co-founders of Desilu Productions ... "I Love Lucy" debuted in October 1951 and quickly became one of the top-rated shows on television. Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. These were merely tenants of Desilu Studios many sound stages and backlots. Jimmy Garrett, 30 min Stars: Walter Winchell, An anthology series hosted by Betty Furness in the first season, and Desi Arnaz in the second. Contents. Stars: The show ran on the Columbia Broadcasting System between 1958 and 1960. In November 1962, Arnaz resigned as president when his holdings in the company were bought out by Ball, who succeeded him as president. Stars: [14] Burnett and Ball, however, remained close friends, often guest-starring on one another's series. Syndication rights for Here's Lucy were sold by Ball to Telepictures, which later merged with Lorimar Television and ultimately was folded into AT&T's WarnerMedia. Lesley-Marie Colburn, Stars: Nancy Kulp. Arnaz and? Paul Stanley Shows TMZ TMZ Live ... trademark in 2016 in order to relaunch Desilu Studios as a "technology-focused film and television studio." | Stars: [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. Lucille Ball, Mercedes McCambridge, Stars: John Peyser Much of Desilu Productions' early success can be traced to Arnaz's unusual business style in his role as producer of I Love Lucy. | Charles Dierkop, Don Porter, Robert Foulk, 49 min Here’s Lucy premiered in … | Steve Pendleton, 90 min She expected to get her bosses job when he was transferred to Calcutta, India but he was replaced by James Devery. She was skilled at proposing new programs that were popular to broad audiences and successful in both their original broadcasts and syndication reruns. 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. In 1951, Lucille Ball – who called him “Papa” – persuaded him to join the Desilu Productions team to shoot I Love Lucy. Desilu Productions was formed in 1950 using the combined names of "Desi Arnaz" and "Lucille Ball". Stars: | [9][10] This purchase included Forty Acres, the backlot where exteriors for Mayberry were filmed. Arnaz's unprecedented arrangement is widely considered to be one of the shrewdest deals in television history. Comedy, Lucy goes to hip London to experience all the current fads, Director: [3] During the show's first few years, Desilu rented space at General Service Studios (now the Sunset Las Palmas Studios) at Santa Monica Boulevard and North Las Palmas Avenue. John Bromfield, | James Seay, Don Dorrell, WarnerMedia is the show's current distributor, although MPI now holds home video rights under license from Lucille Ball Productions and Desilu Too. Rick Jason, Drama, Crime. Stars: The series concerned the adventures of the two ... See full summary », Stars: Nickname: \"Paramount-plain\"Logo: On a grey background with some random shadows, we see the following:AParamount TelevisionProduction...with \"Paramount\", \"Television\" and \"Production\" in their famous script in white letters, with a prominent shadow effect over the background.Variant: Some shows such as Time for Beany would have the text at the bottom of the title card reading as \"a Paramount Television Presentation\".FX/SFX/Cheesy Factor: None.Music/Sounds: None or the intro and outro of th… Judy Carne, Born out of the partnership between Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Desilu delivered some of the greatest television shows of all time. Adapted from a TV series. Arnaz and Ball wanted to adapt Ball's CBS radio series My Favorite Husband to television. Mike Connors, Stars: 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. Arnaz also tried to create a law drama called Without Consent, with Spencer Tracy as a defense attorney, but after several attempts at developing a suitable script failed and because of insurance concerns regarding Tracy's heavy drinking, the project was abandoned. Stars: Georgine Darcy, In late 1957, the company bought the RKO Pictures production facilities for $6 million from General Tire and Rubber, including RKO's main facilities on Gower Street in Hollywood and the RKO-Pathé lot (now Culver Studios) in Culver City. 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. Victor Maddern, Comedy, Katy O'Connor is the assistant manager of the Bartley House Hotel in New York City working for Jason Macauley. The company is best known for shows such as I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show, The Untouchables and Star Trek. Almira Sessions, | What IS missing is Desilu Productions' VERY important contributions to popular culture. Game-Show. [7] Ball served as president and chief executive officer of Desilu while at the same time starring in her own weekly series. Edward Sedgwick Desilu-Paramount TV's holdings are owned by ViacomCBS, the owner of the pre-1960s shows. An elite covert operations unit carries out highly sensitive missions subject to official denial in the event of failure, death or capture. Mary Jane Croft, Claude Akins, TV-G 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. Western. $25.91M, TV-G 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. Keenan Wynn, 30 min | Stars: Wilfrid Hyde-White, Pat Crowley, Not Rated With Jack Palance, Stuart Erwin, Michael Consoldane, Del Graham. | Charles Coburn, Drama. Stars: Juney Ellis, Maureen Stevenson, Three of its 48 episodes served as pilots for the 1950s television series The Twilight Zone (One Episode) and The Untouchables (Two Episodes). Background: Desilu Productions was a production company founded in 1950 by then-husband-and-wife comedy duo,? | A little distorted, but fair. Stars: Tom Kennedy, Stars appearing included Betty Grable, Mario Lanza, Jack Benny, Basil Rathbone, Fredric March, Shirley MacLaine and ... See full summary », Stars: Desilu Productions had basically zero to do with The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, etc, etc. The Texan, a Civil War Veteran whose reputation of being the fastest gun in the west precedes him, roams across Texas from town to town, not looking for trouble, but trouble finds him. 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. Ward Wood, Vivian Vance, Rory Calhoun, Claudio Guzmán The studio's initial attempt to become involved in film production was the film Forever, Darling (1956), Arnaz and Ball's followup to their highly successful MGM release The Long, Long Trailer (1954), but it was a box-office failure. Whitfield Connor, Against mounting financial pressure, Desi Arnaz gambles on a Prohibition-era cops-and-robbers drama for his struggling Desilu Playhouse program. | Ball and Arnaz divorced in 1960. It was produced at Desilu, but under the banner of Zanra Productions (Arnaz spelled backward). Ball returned to network television in 1986 with the short-lived Life with Lucy. In November 2019 CBS Studios registered the DESILU trademark again to protect its previous Common Law trademark usage. The company went to work on her new series Here's Lucy that year. The company was renamed Paramount Television, and the former RKO main lot on Gower Street was absorbed into the adjacent Paramount lot. William Schallert, William Frawley, 60 min Drama, Family. The TV project became I Love Lucy, and the Arnazes, in exchange for accepting reduced salaries, retained ownership rights to the show. Savage has vowed to track down the eight men responsible, one of ... See full summary », Director: Xavier Cugat, after seeing Arnaz perform, hired him for his touring orchestra, playing the conga drum and singing. The company is now called CBS Television Studios. Crime, Western, While this sounds like a western, THE SHERIFF OF COCHISE was a contemporary police drama set in Cochise County, AZ. Stars: Its CBS Television Studios unit owns the rights to everything Desilu produced after 1960 as successor in interest to Paramount Television. As the show was… Desilu Productions was formed in 1950 using the combined names of "Desi Arnaz" and "Lucille Ball". 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. [4], Ball's contribution was more on the artistic side. Peter Graves, | Adventures of three globetrotting reporters working for an international wire service. Joe Mantell, Comedy, Family. Neither series sold. One member of the team, who knew the answer, would give clues to his or her teammate. Romance. Desilu Productions (/ˈdɛsiluː/) was an American television production company founded and co-owned by husband and wife Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball. Desilu Too officials have worked with MPI Home Video for the home video reissue of The Mothers-In-Law. Paul Picerni, TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Director: Director: Bob Bryant. Comedy adventures of pretty 9-year-old Alice Holliday growing up in the small American town of River Glen in Georgia. Phyllis Coates, | Michael Consoldane, Becoming a star attraction encouraged him to start his own band, the Desi Arnaz Orchestra. Stories came from several genres, often based on fact. Also included, the Paramount Television 'Blue Mountain' logo at the end. Leonard Nimoy, Susan Watson, | Robert Stack, Desi Arnaz | 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. [2] Gulf+Western then transformed Desilu into the television production arm of Paramount Pictures, rebranding the company as the original Paramount Television. Karl Freund, the cameraman on I Love Lucy, and Arnaz himself have been credited with the development of the linked multifilm camera setup using adjacent sets in front of a live audience that became the standard production method for situation comedy. Stars: On You Bet Your Life, however, the host, announcer, and contestants stayed in their places. | Jack Mullaney, 60 min Joe Kirk, TV-G June Havoc, Stan Jones, John Bromfield, Stone, Adventure, One hundred eleven episodes of this syndicated show were produced between 1956 and 1959, debuting in the US in January 1957. George Burns. Comedy, Family. Joanne Dru, Robert Stack, 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. Enterprise. Stuart Erwin, Bill Mumy, | Crime, Drama. Robert Anderson. Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptable agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago. 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. Stars: The use of film enabled every station around the country to broadcast high-quality images of the show. Stars: Glynis is on the absent minded side which often complicates resolving the case. 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]. William Shatner, James Robertson Justice, 30 min | Stars: | Boyd 'Red' Morgan, George Mathews, 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. | 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. J. Carrol Naish, Richard Deacon, Roy Engel, ABC's Wide World of Entertainment is a late night block of programs created by the ABC television network. - 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. Crime, Drama, Western. Stars: Barbara Whiting, Pat O'Brien, 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. | Their neighbor is Hawkeye who gives them bad advice he wants the Indians to reclaim the land if the Hootens fail. Desi Arnaz, 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 ... 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