Life with Lucy aired for one season on ABC from September 20 to November 15, 1986. It is the only Lucille Ball sitcom to not air on CBS and the last sitcom she starred in before her death in 1989. Ball plays a widowed grandmother who has inherited her husband's half interest in a hardware store.
Lucy Ball plays a widowed grandmother who has inherited her husband's half interest in a hardware store in South Pasadena, California. The other half being owned by his business partner, widower Curtis McGibbon. The unlikely partners are also in-laws, her daughter being married to his son.