'I Love Lucy' co-creator dies (Bob Carroll Jr.)

[The Straight Story]

'I Love Lucy' co-creator dies

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Bob Carroll Jr., who co-created the classic sitcom "I Love Lucy" and worked on all 180 of its episodes, died in his home in Los Angeles. He was 87.

Carroll had been in ill health for the past few weeks, Zap2it.com said.

Carroll first teamed with Lucille Ball on her radio show "My Favorite Husband." Then Carroll, writing partner Madelyn Pugh Davis and writer Jess Oppenheimer co-created "I Love Lucy" in 1951.

The show ran through 1957, setting the situation comedy template -- filming in front of a live audience and selling reruns into syndication.

Carroll worked with Ball on several shows after "I Love Lucy" ended, including "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour," "The Lucy Show," "Here's Lucy" and "Life With Lucy."

http://www.newsdaily.com/Entertainment/UPI-1-20070130-18532300-bc-us-carroll-obit.xml

[msongs]

1. thanks for memories Bob, YOUR show will live forever or

longer maybe.

Msongs
www.youtube.com/videos/msongs

[Bluebear]

2. Waaaaaaaah. >>>>

Thank you for everything, Bob.

[Ecumenist]

3. Fare well, Bob...

Well done, old boy, well done.

[Captain Hilts]

4. Should have kept taking his Vitameatavegamin. nt

[The Straight Story]

5. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! (nt)

[scytale888]

6. Scene at the pearly gates

:grouphug:
Lucy !!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm home.

[Elwood P Dowd]

7. I want some Vitameatavegamin

I Love Lucy was my favorite show (along with American Bandstand later) as a kid growing up in the 1950s.

[Bluebear]

8. The creators of Lucy & I Dream of Jeannie die the same night . . .

We're getting old, bub. :(

[Elwood P Dowd]

9. Tell me about it

x(

[Berry Cool]

10. I still pop out at parties, and I'm unpoopular.

Thanks, Bob...

[bridgit]

11. that's too bad...

:(

[Elwood P Dowd]

12. I want to work at that factory that makes chocolate drops

Can I keep up at my age?

[bridgit]

15. LOL, you got it...

:rofl: :thumbsup:

[Bluebear]

13. Speed it up a little!!!!! >>>>>

[NYCGirl]

14. I've seen every one of the "I Love Lucy" eps DOZENS of times, and I still laugh.

It's pure genius.

[Bluebear]

17. I have it all on DVD

The episodes are older than me, even, and I laugh like I am seeing them the first time. Talk about timeless!

[Elwood P Dowd]

16. Cousin Lucy

and the Tennessee Ernie Ford shows were classics. The William Holden show from Hollywood. The John Wayne show when they stole his footprints. Too many memories.

[kskiska]

18. Oh, Ethel! Look what happened to YOUR washing machine!

Ricky gets Lucy a new washing machine. so Fred & Ethel purchase their old one, but it doesn't work as well as expected.
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[pinniped]

19. That's the episode that got me hooked.

Harpo was on the other day.

The Hollywood episodes are good, especially when they ate at the Brown Derby.