Carroll, who spent a good portion of his more than 40-year comedy writing career dreaming up new comic stunts and schemes for television's red-haired queen of comedy, died Saturday at his home in Los Angeles...
Carroll and Madelyn Pugh Davis, with "My Favorite Husband" colleague Jess Oppenheimer...wrote the pilot for the landmark series, which premiered on CBS in October 1951, and they were the show's only writers for the first four seasons.
During that time, they were responsible for a string of memorably hilarious episodes, including Lucy and Ethel (Vivian Vance) on a chocolate candy assembly line, Lucy stomping grapes in Italy and Lucy inadvertently getting smashed while doing a commercial for Vitameatavegamin.
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Carroll and Madelyn Pugh Davis, with "My Favorite Husband" colleague Jess Oppenheimer...wrote the pilot for the landmark series, which premiered on CBS in October 1951, and they were the show's only writers for the first four seasons.
During that time, they were responsible for a string of memorably hilarious episodes, including Lucy and Ethel (Vivian Vance) on a chocolate candy assembly line, Lucy stomping grapes in Italy and Lucy inadvertently getting smashed while doing a commercial for Vitameatavegamin.
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