Was the Baby on I Love Lucy Their Real Son

Ricky Ricardo, Jr.
Little Ricky every bit played by Richard Keith on "I Love Lucy".
Vital data
Gender:	Male
Nickname(s):	Niggling Ricky
Birthname:	Ricardo Enrique Alberto Fernando Ricardo y de Acha, Jr.
Hair Color:	Dark Brown
Personal and Family information
Born:	January 19th,1953
Birthplace:	New York
Related to:	Lucy Ricardo (mother) Ricky Ricardo (father) Ethel Mertz (godmother, aunt) Fred Mertz(godfather, uncle) Mrs. Ricardo (paternal grandmother) Mrs. McGillicuddy (maternal grandmother)
Hometown	New York (built-in), Connecticut (currently lives)
Character information
Grapheme description:	Son of Lucy and Ricky Ricardo; Born during the 2nd Flavor of I Dearest Lucy; Shows an interest in music but like his dad Ricky in the series
Appeared on:	I Dear Lucy/The Lucy-Desi Comedy 60 minutes
Starting time seen:	Lucy Goes to the Infirmary
Last Seen	Lucy Meets the Mustache
Character played by:	I Love Lucy: James John Ganzer (season 2) Richard and Ronald Lee Simmons (Season 2) Joseph and Michael Mayer (Seasons 3-5) Jerry Mathers Flavour three dream scene Richard Keith (Season 6) The Desi-Lucy Comedy Hour: Richard Keith

Ricardo Enrique Alberto Fernando Ricardo y de Acha, Jr. (AKA: "Trivial Ricky") was born on Jan 19th, 1953 at 11 am. He was probably conceived sometime in the jump of 1952 in the first season of I Love Lucy, around episodes #32-35, when Lucy and Ricky were still sharing a single bed. He was born at least 2 weeks before his due date, because Lucy'southward baby was supposed to be due in February. Petty Ricky is the apple of his parents' optics, being that he is the Ricardos' but child. Fred and Ethel Mertz are his godparents, and he is so close to them that he calls them "Aunt Ethel and Uncle Fred." He fifty-fifty named his dog "Fred" after his godfather. As for other pets, he has Hopalong the frog, turtles Tommy and Jimmy, parakeets Alice and Phil, and fish Mildred and Charles. He once had a pet cadger, too, but information technology accidentally cruel out the window.

TRIVIA

The episode when he is born, "Lucy goes to the Hospital" was aired on the same solar day as Lucille Ball'southward real son, Desi Arnaz, Jr. was born — Monday, January xix, 1953.

About Fiddling Ricky [ ]

For the first five years of his life, he lived in a small brownstone flat building in Manhattan, located at 623 Due east 68th Street. He was a mischievous toddler, often getting into things he shouldn't have. He usually was being watched by neighbor Mrs. Trumbull or his maternal grandmother, so his parents could become have fun with the Mertzes. When his parents and godparents set off on their route trip to Hollywood, Piddling Ricky stayed behind in New York, beingness cared for by his grandmother. A few weeks after the Ricardos and Mertzes arrived in Hollywood, Mrs. McGillicuddy flew out to California with Little Ricky.

Little Ricky historic his tertiary birthday with merely his grandmother Mrs. McGillicuddy (Lucy'south mother), every bit his parents were vactioning in Europe at the time. Lucy sent him to nursery school shortly before his third birthday. There, he contracted another bout of tonsillitis and had to have his tonsils removed. He turned five years sometime a twelvemonth before he should have, in 1957, so nobody knows what happened to him during most of his fourth twelvemonth of life. Right earlier he turned five, Little Ricky discovered he has a true talent playing the drums, merely like his father. He entered music school under the didactics of Mr. Crawford shortly after he commencement started playing drums. His first public recital was only a calendar month subsequently he started playing. Little Ricky has since performed playing the drums many times, both in a six-piece Dixieland band while in New York, as well equally for several performances with his dad. Besides his pulsate playing, Little Ricky's Dixieland band included Buddy Noble on bass, Earl Robie on ukulele, Robert Norman on trumpet, Jeff Woodruff on trombone, and Larry Gleason on piano accordion. While in kindergarten, his teacher Miss Pringle ended upwardly giving him the pb office of Billy Brown in the school play called "The Enchanted Forest."

His last months in New York saw him playing drums and playing with his New York best friend, Stevie Appleby. Picayune Ricky was lucky enough to take Superman appear at his fifth birthday political party. But in 1957, his parents decided to movement to the country, so Little Ricky started life anew in Westport, Connecticut. His parents feel that the country lifestyle will exist healthier and more beneficial to their son'southward well-existence. He quickly became good friends with the neighbor boy, Bruce Ramsey, and they often played together and slept over at each others' houses. He also appears to be friends with the Munsons' boy, Billy. Little Ricky and Fred the domestic dog even stayed overnight with the Munsons ane nighttime. He stayed friends with Stevie Appleby, though, and one weekend, he visited the Applebys in New York and supposedly went to the zoo and to a Dodgers' game. Equally he got older, his Connecticut best friend became Billy Thompson, he won a pet racehorse named Whirling Jet in a cereal contest, became a proud member of Cub Scout Pack 714, and he supposedly got two new pet lizards.

Was the Baby on I Love Lucy Their Real Son

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