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Who's Quitting! / continued a fortune just by advising the other nine. And I mean that. We don’t know what we’re going to be doing two years from now, and I doubt very much that anyone else knows what he’s going to be doing either. We might do any one of a number of things. We might put Lucy into syndication (we will have 175 Lucy films completed by then). We might do another two years of Lucy for CBS. We might do a monthly hour- long version of Lucy. We might do nothing but a picture a year. We might just do five or six guest appearances—maybe as part of these new color extravaganzas which are just getting started. We might do an entirely different series together, although I don’t think that would be such a good idea. Or we might go fishing in Cuba. * * * I’d like to make one thing clear. Lucy has told me and a lot of other people, many times, that she’s never had it so good since we’ve been on television. And she’s right. Actually, we work only four days a week. That gives us all of Friday, Saturday and Sunday to be home with our children. Right now we are vacationing in Del Mar and are not due back until the middle of September, Our schedule gives us time for three or four weeks off around Christmas, and another week or two in the spring. Why, Lucy was the one who talked June Havoc into doing a weekly film show for just that reason—more time to herself than she’s ever had before. I repeat, we honestly don’t know what we’ll be doing two years from now. I’d gladly pay a lot of money to anyone who could advise us on the subject. * * * And I want to make one more thing crystal clear. Some people have been speculating, in print, about the possibility of I Love Lucy con¬ tinuing with someone else taking Lucille’s place. That is the one thing we are absolutely dead sure about: there will never be an I Love Lucy without Lucille Ball. Period. Exclamation point. Television, like I say, is a crazy business. When you hit the top, as we’ve been fortunate enough to do, all sorts of crazy things happen. People say we can’t last, that they’re getting tired of the same old faces. So we put in a guest star now and again, like Tennessee Ernie, and the same people say, “Oh, now you’re slipping. You have to use guest stars to bolster things up.” And then they say, “Dragnet is creeping up on you—you can’t stay on top much longer.” Well, frankly, we’re not interested in staying on top forever. I don’t think Jack Webb is, either. All we want to do is put on as good a show as we are capable of putting on, and we hope that the American people will continue to enjoy it.