But Lucy and Ethel prematurely buy hundreds of baby chickens before they have a place for the chicks to live comfortably. And after a door is left open, the chicks escape all over the Ricardo's house.

There is no question that Vivian Vance is an icon of classic television, and that's largely because of her role of Ethel Mertz besides Lucille Ball's Lucy Ricardo on I Love Lucy. Yet as beloved as ...

In 1953, Lucille Ball gave her I Love Lucy costar Vivian Vance a very special Christmas gift. Titled This Is Your Life — Vivian Vance, the binder contained a collection of personal photos and ...

COSTA MESA, Calif. - For years, fans of "I Love Lucy" have had to content themselves with reruns of the black-and-white sitcom that captured the American imagination when it first aired in the 1950s.