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Ricky and Lucy visit the Littlefields

A visit to the Littlefields on I Love Lucy

In the I Love Lucy, Season 1, Episode entitled Lucy’s Schedule the Ricardo arrive  an hour late for dinner at the Littlefields due to Lucy putting the clock back instead of forward.  Mr Littlefield values punctuality so dinner is over by the time they arrive.

Gale Gordon as Mr Littlefield, Ricky’s new boss

In this episode Gale Gordon makes his appearance  on the show as Mr Littlefield. We first see him seen reading an issue The American Weekly magazine dated May 25, 1952.

Lucy eats after dinner mints

Ricky and Lucy have missed dinner so when Mrs Littlefield offers Lucy after dinner mints she is so hungry she takes all of them to hillarious effect. The glass dish is a Fostoria ‘American’ Compote Candy Dish which we looked at in a different scene previously.

Moments later Lucy spots the bowl of wax fruit and another hilarious scene ensues when Lucy bites into a wax apple

Lucy vs the wax apple
1950’s wax fruit on eBay

Related Post: http://www.50slucy.com/lucys-glass-candy-dish.html

Lucy’s Holiday Magazine


THE SAXOPHONE, Episode 40, S2, 9.22.52
While Lucy wants to make Ricky jealous (so he will not go on a road trip with his band) she plants Fred’s derby and gloves on the
coffee table. Next to it, is a copy of Holiday magazine. She later picks it up and waits for Ricky to rush around the apartment looking
for an alleged man hiding in the hall closet. The magazine is the February 1952 issue.

Fred Mertz’s Sports Illustrated Magazine

Fread reads Sports Illustrated Magazine
Fread reads Sports Illustrated Magazine in Little Ricky Learns to Play the Drums

In the I Love Lucy episode Little Ricky Learns to Play the Drums  Fred Mertz is seen reading a copy of Sports Illustrated dated Nov 22 1954. This was actually Season 6 (1956–57) of I Love Lucy and the film date of this episode was June 28, 1956 which aired on October 8, 1956 so the magazine was over a year and a half old when the episode was filmed. This was not just any back issue though, it was the magazine’s first cover to feature a professional football player.

Sports Illustrated Nov 22 1954
Sports Illustrated Nov 22 1954

Vol. 1 No. 15 Sports Illustrated November 22, 1954 with San Francisco 49ers quarterback and Hall of Famer Y.A. Tittle on the front cover.

See one on eBay HERE

Ref:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y._A._Tittle