Having A Ball Podcast
Co-hosts Erika Murrietta and Luci Maples dive deep into the life of Lucille Ball, exploring many facets of her life. They take an episode by episode look at some of her most famous shows Lucille Ball was part of like I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show, and Here’s Lucy. They will also take a closer look at some of Lucy’s movies, explore the creation and works of Desilu productions and learn more about Lucy’s costars throughout her long career spanning decades!
Episodes
Sarah truly captures Lucy’s life, character and grit in this colorful coffeetable book.
There are images and easy to follow chapters to keep up with the aforementioned determined life of Lucy - the woman behind the successful redheaded characte...
Erika tells us about all the newfound adventures in cake making and starting a business that has surprisingly taken off in 2023 and Luci has some big news to share!
We have missed chatting all things Lucy but will be resuming episodes every other week!
Thank you for sticking with us and let us know what you’d love to hea...
This script is what inspired the 'Lucy Changes Her Mind' episode from Season 2 (our next recap).
Luci explains what this episode is about and we get to travel back in time and listen to the original broadcast from June 24, 1949.
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This week, we chat about’The Black Eye”- the infamous black eye that everyone seems to get in this episode!
We discuss all the misunderstandings and underlying serious issues surrounding them.
We have some trivia, too!
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Hello, Having a Ball listeners! This week, Luci discusses an episode of ‘My Favorite Husband’ - chatting about some interesting facts about the show and cast members.
You will then hear the episode as it was played in 1951.
Next week we will compare this episode and ‘The Black Eye’ on I Love Lucy!
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- Director
- Writers
- Leonard Spigelgass(screenplay)
- Damon Runyon(from the Collier's Magazine story "Little Pinks"
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As Lucy struggles to feel good about herself, her loved ones certainly don't help with criticisms of her.
We chat about the real life issue of depression, psychiatry, family support and how it was handled in the 1950's.
Our hearts were with poor Lucy in this episode!
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“Hello everyone and welcome back to Having a Ball podcast! Please don't mind my voice I'm getting over a bought of bronchitis. I'm so glad to be back with this week's episode, ‘Sales Resistance’
In another flashback episode- Ricky, Fred and Ethel start reminiscing about the Handy Dandy company and how Lucy has no sales resistance. I discuss fun facts...
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We chat all things impending baby panics, fun trivia about the guest stars in this episode and the absolute bril...
We also chat the "medicine" used to make Ricky feel better and of course, the crazy pregnancy cravings are back!
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The tutor is played by Hans Conrad- who also had a career history with Lucille Ball.
We chat about Lucy’s pregnancy cravings, our own cravings and raising kids with “perfect” English!
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Ricky needs an act for his ‘Gay 90's’ revue, and Lucy decides this will be her last hurrah before having her baby.
Pepito Pérez AKA Pepito the Clown makes an appearance and we discuss some of the fun ways wardrobe tried to hide Lucy's baby belly. We discuss a lot of songs and barbershop quartets, we even read a fun quote from Vivian Vance that give...
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Broadcast Date: December 23, 1949
Starring:
Lucille Ball (Liz Cooper),
Richard Denning (George Cooper)
Supporting Cast:
Frank Nelson,
Hans Conried,
Jay Novello,
Peter Leeds
Please enjoy and let us know what your favorite 'My Favorite Husband' episode.
(Description from December 20, 2021):
As the streaming premiere date on Amazon Prime of ‘Being The Ricardos’ approaches, Erika of Having A Ball Podcast chats with ABC7 ...
We chat about our own pregnancy stories, how Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz showed genuine and true feelings throughout this announcement and how this made television history!
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To say this is an extensive look at the life, legacy and mysterious death of Bob Crane is an understatement.
They tell us of the 12-year journey they were on to finally...
As we dive into the episode, we see Ricky unable to stage a show due to losing his voice from what seems like a cold or flu of some kind.
Lucy sees this as an opportunity to put on a vaudevillian review using the same dancers from 1927 (it's now 1952).
The episode focuses on the difference between men and women when bedridden with a cold o...
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