Lucy Goes to the Hospital Lucy Goes to the Hospital "Lucy Goes to the Hospital" is an episode of the 1950s American television show "I Love Lucy" in which the title character, Lucy Ricardo, gives birth to her son, "Little Ricky," after a "predictably chaotic" sequence of events. Twelve hours before the broadcast, the actress who played Lucy Ricardo, Lucille Ball, had given birth to Desi Arnaz, Jr. by cesarean section. The episode had actually been filmed on November 14, 1952. The episode was the culmination of an unprecedented pairing of the fictional pregnancy of Lucy with the real-life pregnancy of Lucille Ball; "real-time pregnancy
All Mine to Give a book with the same title. Original US TV version "The Day They Gave Babies Away", starring Brandon deWilde, aired on the CBS anthology show "Climax!" on December 22, 1955. Eunson and his wife Katherine also went on to write the screenplay for the movie adaptation. The exteriors of the film were filmed in Big Bear, California, Idyllwild, California and Mt. Hood, Oregon. Robert and Mamie Eunson (Cameron Mitchell and Glynis Johns) are Scots who have just landed in America (the year is 1856), having been invited there by Mamie's uncle. They arrive in the tiny logging village of Eureka,