Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : some splainin' about Lucy TV. Television in the home and the home on television : Fifties TV and Lucy TV
  • Origins of I love Lucy : authorship and production contexts
  • Narrative and comedic conventions and innovations of the situation comedy : the basics of Lucy TV
  • Trickster Lucy : popularity, comedy, gender, and culture
  • A spotlight on 1953 : Lucy TV in its cultural context
  • The end of I love Lucy and beyond.