A: From 1951 to 1954, network television programming consisted entirely of two shows: I Love Lucy on CBS and ABC's Texaco Star Theater, hosted by Milton Berle. NBC aired a single photograph of Aldai Stevenson. reading the New York Times, from noon until 10PM every day.
Even in his heyday, people didn't really know why Milton Berle was funny. They assumed he had pictures of am ABC executive making love to a horse, or perhaps he was dying and was given a show to make him feel better.
Also, the vast majority of the nation's workforce had recently lost their jobs at the chocolate factory for being unable to keep up with the conveyor built. They could relate to I Love Lucy's stark and uncompromising vision of America.
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