by brijeshmarand | Public
When Berle left the air in 1956, TV was in 70 percent of the American homes, increased from 2 percent when it debuted, and Berle had acquired the nickname “Mr. Television."
If Milton Berle’s The Texaco Star Theatre had been TV’s first big hit, I Love Lucy was the first bona fide blockbuster.
It became, for the remainder of the century at least, the longest-running fictional series on American prime-time television.