Editing I Love Lucy (section)

===Nielsen ratings===
The episode "[[Lucy Goes to the Hospital]]", which first aired on Monday, January 19, 1953, garnered a then-record rating of 71.7, meaning that 71.7% of all households with television sets were tuned to the program, the equivalent of some 44 million viewers.<ref name="Lists">{{cite book |first=Michael |last=Karol |title=The Lucy Book of Lists: Celebrating Lucille Ball's Centennial and the 60th Anniversary of "I Love Lucy" |section=Ratings Record |publisher=iUniverse |year=2010 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KzLYd4iRp5gC&q=%22Ratings+Record%22+%22Elvis+Presley%27s+first+appearance%22+%22I+Love+Lucy+episode%22&pg=PT147 |isbn=978-1-4502-7414-2 |access-date=June 13, 2017 |archive-date=November 19, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191119195627/https://books.google.com/books?id=KzLYd4iRp5gC&q=%22Ratings+Record%22+%22Elvis+Presley%27s+first+appearance%22+%22I+Love+Lucy+episode%22&pg=PT147 |url-status=live }}</ref> That record is surpassed only by [[Elvis Presley]]'s first of three appearances on ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]'', which aired on September 9, 1956 (82.6% share, 60.710 million viewers and a 57.1 rating ).<ref name="Lists"/> The overall rating of 67.3 for the entire 1952 season of ''I Love Lucy'' continues to be the highest average rating for any single season of a TV show.<ref>{{cite book |first1=Tim |last1=Brooks |first2=Earle |last2=Marsh |title=The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows – 1946–Present |edition= 9th |section= Appendix 3: Top Rated Programs by Season |pages=1679–1698 |publisher=Ballantine Books |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-345-49773-4 }}</ref>