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   From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   anim8rfsk   wrote:   
   >Lynn McGuire  wrote:   
   >> On 4/7/2021 7:47 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:   
   >>> Lynn McGuire  wrote:   
   >>>> On 4/7/2021 5:37 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
   >>>>> A Friend wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> . . .   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> BTW Lucy bought Desi out of Desilu in 1962 for $2.5 mil.  She sold her   
   >>>>>> stake to Paramount six years later for $17 million.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I doubt it was undervalued at the time, and maybe that was all the cash   
   >>>>> she could raise. I'll guess that the value was set during divorce.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I'm not sure why he wanted out of the studio as he knew what he was doing   
   >>>>> and we've always read that Lucy and Desi made excellent business partners   
   >>>>> even if they couldn't maintain a marriage.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> In her biography, she said that Desi was drinking to excess at the time   
   >>>> and she could not stand it any more.   
   >>>> https://www.amazon.com/Desilu-Story-Lucille-Ball-Arnaz/dp/0062020013/   
   >>>>   
   >>>> She also talked about the excessive costs of the Star Trek episodes at   
   >>>> over $200,000 each.  Way more than any other show that they were   
   producing.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Lynn   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> If she said that she would have been wrong.   
   >>   
   >> So give me some facts.   
   >>   
   >> Lynn   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   >The pilots cost that much, but the production episodes were more like this,   
   >and we’ve known these numbers all the way back to “the making of   
   >Star Trek”   
   >   
   >Budget   
   >Season one   
   >$190,000 per episode   
   >Season two   
   >$185,000 per episode   
   >Season three   
   >$175,000 per episode   
      
   I have no context. What would an hour-long drama like a hospital show   
   have cost at the time?   
      
   Too bad Star Trek had no value in second-run syndication.   
      
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