I Love Lucy, Ricky Ricardo, Fred and Ethel Mertz, and The Desilu Years




The Baby Boomer Radio, TV, Movies, Magazines, Music, Comics, Fads, Toys, Fun, and More Show! show

Summary: Ian Rose offers an essay on Desilu Studios, complete with reviews of The Untouchables and Eliot Ness. Desilu was famous in the 1950s-1960s for some great television shows. Mike recalls the original husband-wife "buddy movie" The Long, Long, Trailer, starring Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball. The Moonbeam Boys discuss all the great gag gifts and cool items available from the old Johnson-Smith catalogs. Ian recalls the most famous cap pistol ever, the Mattell Fanner 50. Mike still has some Greenie Stick'm Caps from 1963, and still has some film left over for the spy camera that was ordered in 1962, but never arrived. Plus one a retro-commercial from Smitty's Tape Reel archives, and Ian and Mike chat about the resurgence of old TV westerns on EWest and other cable chanels.