My Favorite Husband
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My Favorite Husband was a radio program on CBS Radio. The show starred Lucille Ball and Richard Denning as Liz and George Cooper (Liz and George Cugat in early episodes). The couple live at 321 Bundy Drive, and are billed as "two people who live together and like it." The main sponsor was Jell-O, and an average of 3 "plugs" for Jello were made in each episode. The program ran from 1948 through 1951, throughout which 124 episodes were aired.
Many episodes inspired I Love Lucy episodes. The 1948 episode entitled "Giveaway Program" inspired the I Love Lucy episode called "Redecorating," some lines being exactly the same.
When Lucille was asked to do a television show, CBS insisted Richard Denning continued to be her costar. However, she said that she would not do a husband-and-wife sitcom without her real-life husband Desi Arnaz being the husband. The network reluctantly agreed.
[edit] Characters
- Liz Cooper; happily married housewife
- George Cooper; Liz's husband, works for Mr. Atterbury
- Mr. Rudolph Atterbury, played by Gale Gordon; George's boss, friend of the Cooper family, refers to male acquaintances as "boy"
- Mrs. Iris Atterbury, played by Bea Benaderet; friend of the Cooper family, refers to female acquaintances as "girl"
- Kate, played by Ruth Perrott; the Cooper's maid, enjoys making Jello
- Mrs. Leticia Cooper, played first by Benaderet and in subsequent episodes by Eleanor Audley; George's aristocratic mother, who typically looks down on Liz.
[edit] DVD Releases
Though the show was never released on its own CD or DVD collections, one episode can be found on each disk from the I Love Lucy DVD releases.
In 2003, two episodes were released together on a CD in the UK.
