On January 19, 1953, Little Ricky appeared for the first time on the show - just 12 hours after the real-life Lucy gave birth via Caesarian section to Desi Arnaz, Jr. The episode received higher ratings than Eisenhower's inauguration the next day and Queen Elizabeth II's coronation six months later.
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Bewitched broke the double bed barrier by allowing Samantha and Darrin to be shown in a double bed although the show never seems to get the credit for it. People mistakenly say the Brady Bunch or All in the Family was the first show to have a couple shown in a double bed. Although Darrin and Samantha do keep their distance in the bed, the show still does deserve credit for being brave enough to break the double bed barrier.
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Did Bert and Ernie sleep in the same bed? No I believe they had twin beds in the same room. What sitcom first showed a couple in the same bed?   Ozzie and Harriet was the first sitcom to feature same bed sleepin', but there was an earlier show called Mary Kay and Johnny that had one bed for a married couple….
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Making the world better, one answer at a time. The early TV sitcom Mary Kay and Johnny was the first television series to portray a married couple who slept in the same bed. On Tuesday, November 18, 1947, a 15-minute program entitled Mary Kay and Johnny made its debut on the Dumont network. The early TV sitcom Mary Kay and Johnny was the first television series to portray a married couple who slept in the same bed.
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Yeah isn't that strange. The Brady Bunch is ALWAYS credited as being the first series to show the husband and wife sharing the same bed but Samantha and Darrin always slept together right from 1964. Bewitched once again as in alot of things was ahead of its time.
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The Hank McCune Show uses a laugh track for the first time on an American television series. The Cisco Kid, starring Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carrillo, is the first syndicated TV series hit and the first non-network show produced in color. 1951: Amos ’n’ Andy is the first TV series to be filmed with 35mm cameras.
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There was a show before Bewitched where the two main characters slept in the same bed - Mary Kay & Johnny, which ran from the late '40s into the very early '50s. Mary Kay and Johnny were married in real life and on the show, so the censors allowed them to be shown in the same bed. Arfies.
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However, the first couple to share a bed happened nearly 20 years before on the early sitcom Mary Kay and Johnny. In 1947, the married title couple hopped into the same bed in their New York apartment.
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It will be the first series to end its run (in 1957) as the #1 rated show on the air, the first to be filmed on 35mm cameras in front of a live studio audience, and Arnaz as the “I” in I Love becomes the first Hispanic TV star on network television.
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Kukla, Fran & Ollie premieres on a local Chicago station as Junior Jamboree (it is picked up by the NBC network in 1948 and its name changed to KF&O). It is the first show to telecast from ship-to-shore and the first color television broadcast of a network program.
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what was first tv show to show married couple sleeping in same bed
Mary Kay and Johnny was the first TV show to show a married couple sleeping in same bed. Mary Kay and Johnny was the first television show to show married couple sleeping in the same bed.