With Ball, he founded Desilu Productions.

When Ball sold her share of Desilu to what became Paramount Television, Arnaz went on to form his own production company from the ashes of his share of Desilu, and with the newly formed Desi Arnaz Productions, he made The Mothers-In-Law ( at Desilu ) for United Artists Television and NBC, this ran for two seasons from 1967-68.

Both Desilu, Too and Lucille Ball Productions work hand-in-hand with MPI Home Video in the home video re-issues of the Ball / Arnaz material not currently owned by CBS ( successor-in-interest to Paramount Television, which in turn succeeded the original Desilu company ).

* 1994: Desilu: The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz By Coyne Stephen Sanders and Tom Gilbert ( author ) ( Whole life, and focuses prominently on the Business affairs of Desilu Productions )( PNT )

The series was produced from 1966-67 by Desilu Productions, and by Paramount Television from 1968-69.

Jack Lord was Desilu Productions ' original choice to play Kirk, but his demand for fifty-percent ownership of the show led to him not being hired.

Desilu Productions, jointly owned by Ball and Arnaz, would gradually expand to produce and lease studio space for many other shows.

: In the beginning there was a very definite reason for the decision of Desilu Productions to put I Love Lucy on film instead of doing it live and having kinescope recordings carry it to affiliate outlets of the network.

General Tire was interested mainly in using the RKO film library to program its television stations, so it sold the RKO lot at Sunset and Gower in Hollywood to Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's Desilu Productions in 1956 for $ 6 million.

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Desilu Productions, co-owned by husband and wife Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball, was best known for its hit productions such as I Love Lucy, Star Trek, and The Untouchables.

The couple jointly owned Desilu Productions from its inception in 1950 until their divorce in 1960, after which Ball bought Arnaz out and ran the company by herself for several years.

Desilu Productions was formed in 1950 using the combined names of " Desi Arnaz " and " Lucille Ball ".

Desilu Productions was initially created to produce Lucy and Desi's vaudeville act to sell the television series to Columbia Broadcasting System ( CBS ) executives.

Desilu Productions used Stage Two which was named Desilu Playhouse.

Before starring in I Love Lucy Ball had starred in many " B " movies before helping start Desilu Productions, and based on that experience, she had a good idea of what television audiences wanted.

As a result, even decades after the absorption of Desilu Productions, and the production end of all of the original television series Desilu approved for development, the series have all achieved enduring success and redevelopment into feature length motion picture franchises in their own right, or both ( e. g., Star Trek, Mission Impossible, and The Untouchables ).

Much of Desilu Productions early success can be traced to Arnaz's unusual business style in his role as producer of I Love Lucy.

Arnaz convinced them to allow Desilu to cover all additional costs associated with the filming process, under the stipulation that Desilu owned and controlled all rights to the film.

Some of these programs were created and owned outright by Desilu ; others were other production companies ' programs that Desilu filmed or to which Desilu rented production space.

Reportedly, Lucille Ball, who owned Desilu Studios ( where the pilot was produced ), persuaded NBC management to consider a second pilot, thereby exercising a special option agreement it had with Desilu, because she liked Roddenberry and believed in the project.

Though The Lucy Show was still hugely popular during the previous ( 1967 – 68 ) season, finishing in the top five of the ratings ( at # 2 ), Ball opted to end that series at the end of that season and create a new show, as she had just sold Desilu Productions ( which owned and produced The Lucy Show ), to Gulf + Western.

The copyright was renewed, however, by Paramount Pictures, which had acquired Desilu, and producer Robert Blumofe, but UA has retained ancillary distribution rights via now-sister-studio MGM — both UA and MGM would ultimately become owned by a partnership led by Sony, the parent of Columbia Pictures.

A number of entities, among them Desilu, Too ( successor to Arnaz Productions ), Eve Arden's estate, MGM ( which is a majority owner of UA, which syndicated the series to local stations after its cancellation ), and CBS Television Distribution ( successor to the original Desilu company ), have been believed to have some involvement in the rights, and many different companies ( including The Samuel Goldwyn Company, whose holdings are, in part, also owned by MGM ) have re-issued the series in syndication, mostly in scratchy 16mm prints.

After filming concluded, the façade of Tara sat on the Forty Acres backlot owned by RKO Pictures and then Desilu Productions.

Arnaz's company would be succeeded-in-interest by the company now known as Desilu, Too.

She later co-starred with Kaye Ballard as her neighbor and in-law, Eve Hubbard, in the 1967 – 69 situation comedy The Mothers-in-Law, which was produced by Desi Arnaz after the dissolution of Desilu.

This development in music was mirrored in the TV industry by the concurrent development of videotape recording and the consequent emergence of independent TV production companies like Desilu.

Instead, CBS used the science fiction script for a new show produced by Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball, The Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, in 1958.

Edwards's assistant Al Simon was hired by Desilu to help perfect the new technique for the series.

Along with the change in networks and the transition to color, William Frawley, who played " Bub " O ' Casey, the boys ' maternal grandfather, was declared too ill to work by Desilu Studios and the producers could no longer find insurance for him.

Desilu Too also partners with MPI Home Video and Lucille Ball Productions ( formed by Ball and second husband Gary Morton ) on the video releases of Here's Lucy and other material Ball and Arnaz made independently of each other.

which was shot in 1958 by Desilu ; however, the show was rejected by CBS and in turn Vance continued in her Ethel Mertz role.

This story was the basis for The Fountain of Youth, a 1956 TV pilot for a proposed anthology series, produced by Desilu and written, directed, and hosted by Orson Welles.

** Both the original Mission: Impossible and Star Trek series were made by Desilu Productions.

The show, produced by Desilu Productions, aired on CBS as a summer replacement series ( in place of I Love Lucy ) between July, 1955 and September, 1957.

However, NBC, having been persuaded by Desilu management ( and reportedly by Lucille Ball herself ), maintained sufficient interest in the format to order a second pilot episode in March 1965.

In 1967, Desi Arnaz produced The Mothers-in-Law ( NBC, 1967 – 69 ), which was recorded in front of a live audience at Desilu Studios, with a sweetening performed in post-production.

Contrary to popular belief, Desi Arnaz did not sell his share of Desilu due to his divorce with Lucille Ball.

Arnaz left television production for a few years but returned in 1966 when formed his own company, Desi Arnaz Productions, based at Desilu.

The company also purchased Desilu Productions from Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball in 1967, which included most of Ball's television product, as well as such properties as Star Trek and Mission: Impossible ( it and its successor companies would make millions on both series over the following decades with such projects as Star Treks various hit follow-up TV projects and films, beginning in the late 1970s ).

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz established their first home on a parcel in Chatsworth, which they called " Desilu ," the same name as their studio.

The following week, the head of the production studio Desilu, Desi Arnaz, in concert with ABC and the “ Italian-American League to Combat Defamation ,” issued a formal three-point manifesto:

In 1962, two years after Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz divorced and their final show aired ( using the I Love Lucy format ), Desilu Studios was struggling.

* 1950: Desilu Productions formed by Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball.

They created and wrote the Desi Arnaz Productions series The Mothers-in-Law ( filmed at Desilu ), which starred actresses Kaye Ballard and Eve Arden.

Krusty's " Krustylu Studios " is a spoof on the company Desilu studios set up by Lucille Ball and her husband Desi Arnaz, where the series Star Trek was once filmed.

The tiremen shut down production and unloaded the main RKO facilities, which were purchased by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's company, Desilu.