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Laughs, Luck...and Lucy: How I Came to Create the Most Popular Sitcom of All Time

by Jess Oppenheimer · 1996

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The man Lucille Ball called the brains of I Love Lucy gives us an inside view of television history as it was being made. Jess Oppenheimer's famous sitcom was the most popular and influential television phenomenon in the history of the medium. Forty-five years after its debut, it remains a favourite the world over.

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