For one hundred weeks that started in October, 2025 this podcast is going to recall the “Top 100 Milestones in the First 100 Years of Television and Video.”  The Countdown is pegged to culminate on September 7, 2027 – the 100th anniversary of the day television was invented. 

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In 1940, RKO Pictures released the film adaptation of a Broadway musical, Rodgers and Hart's Too Many Girls.  Modestly successful at the box office, the movie might have faded into cinema history except for one minor detail: 

That's where Lucy met Desi. 

After a whirlwind romance and marriage six months later, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz formed one of the most formidable partnerships in Hollywood history. 

When CBS approached the couple about creating what became "I Love Lucy," Desi proposed an arrangement that not only produced one of the most successful sitcoms in television history, it also turned the industry on its ear.

That arrangement lives on decades later: The dial has given away to the remote, but just a few minutes of channel surfing can still pull up an episode of I Love Lucy. 

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Visit: https://100YearsTV.com 

Read: The Boy Who Invented Television: https://amz.run/6ag1

Chapters

• (00:00:00) - 100 Years of Television: Countdown to the 100th Anniversary
• (00:01:24) - I Love Lucy
• (00:12:07) - I Love Lucy: The Life of Lucille Ball
• (00:14:29) - 100 Years of Television