This collection showcases Lucille Ball’s amazing spectrum of radio work, from comedy to mystery and everything in between.

As Lucy Ricardo, Lucille Ball brought a tomboy’s enthusiasm and a scatterbrained quality to the long-running television program I Love Lucy. She was the wacky wife producing life problematic for her adoring but exasperated hubby Ricky Ricardo, performed by Ball’s real-life hubby Desi Arnaz. A long time before I REALLY LIKE Lucy, Ball proved helpful her way up Hollywood’s ladder, appearing in movies about Classic Radio Spotlights: Lucille Ball and many radio shows, including dramatic tasks in which she could show her performing chops.

In the summer of 1948, she accepted the function of Liz Cooper, a zany housewife who found herself facing comical situations, in the radio comedy My Favorite Husband. In the series, Liz Cooper’s spouse George Cooper was played by veteran acting professional Richard Denning. But Lucille Ball also acted in episodes of the air mystery Suspense and in Lux Radio Theatre’s adaptation of Broadway has.

This assortment of eleven episodes that aired from 1945 to 1951 includes:

From THE BEST Husband: “George’s Mother Visits”

From Suspense: “A Shroud for Sarah”

From Lux Radio Theater: “The Dark Corners” with Lucille Ball and Mark Stevens

From “Bill Stern Sports Newsreel” with Lucille Ball as visitor

From Suspense: “A Little Little bit of Rope”

FROM YOUR Screen Guild Players: “Too Many Husbands” with Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, and Lucille Ball

FROM YOUR Screen Director’s Playhouse: “Bachelor Mother” with Lucille Ball and Robert Cummings

From Suspense: “The Red-Headed Woman” with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz

FROM YOUR Screen Director’s Playhouse: “Her Husband’s Affairs”

FROM YOUR Kraft Music Hall with Al Jolson and Lucille Ball

THROUGH THE Screen Director’s Playhouse: “Miss Grant Takes Richmond”