At five or six years old
on holiday near Swanage
we watched TV for the first time
and what we saw was
I Love Lucy
an American sit-com
my Dad was not a fan
American rubbish
he declaimed
but with a longer view
the series was quite bold
ahead of it’s time
depicting as it did
an inter-racial marriage
that might seem
commonplace today
back then caused
moral outrage
but we British children
more taken up with
the novel medium
saw nothing amiss
in the union of
the eponymous Lucy
and her husband Desi…
Andrew Wilson, 2024
Over at dVerse Poets Pub, Melissa Lemay in Uncategorized invites us to write about favourite TV shows…
Oh yes! I have watched endless re-runs through the years. Thanks for the joyous memories. She was “one in a million” ~~
Thanks Helen – she was irrepressible…
I do remember that this one was shown in Sweden as well… but the only thing i remember my father complaining (not about the racial part, but the sitcom laughter)
That I don’t remember but I suppose we quickly got used to it…
I remember watching this. I know now she was ahead of her time in terms of keeping control of her business and supporting others, and not wanting to just be another pretty face.
I think it was a while before my parents then bought a TV at home but this was definitely my first memory of it…