When "Here's Lucy" went off the air in 1974, TV Guide magazine reported that Miss Ball's face had been seen "by more people more often than the face of any other human being who ever lived." While praised by critics as a gifted and talented comic with a keen sense of timing, a high degree of energy and a capacity for hard work, Miss Ball was also a shrewd businesswoman. Miss Ball also starred in two other television series, "The Lucy Show," which began in 1962, and "Here's Lucy," a redesigned version, which was first telecast in 1968, and in several television specials. It became a Monday night ritual for millions of Americans who tuned to CBS for the latest episode in which Miss Ball, cast as the zany wife of rumba band leader Ricky Ricardo, seemed to be hatching one wacky scheme after another. 15, 1951, and the series would later become the prototype of the situation comedy. Television was in its formative years when the first episode of "I Love Lucy" went on the air on Oct. Filmed reruns, which were telecast in more than 75 foreign countries, remain popular more than 30 years later. It was rated first four times, second once and third once. With her husband, Desi Arnaz, Miss Ball designed, produced and starred in "I Love Lucy," which from 1951 through 1957 dominated the Nielsen ratings as few television productions have done since. Doctors said she died of a ruptured abdominal artery, a condition unrelated to the surgery. Lucille Ball, 77, television's most enduring comedian whose madcap escapades as Lucy Ricardo made the "I Love Lucy" show one of the most popular in television history, died yesterday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, one week after undergoing emergency heart surgery.
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