Lucille Ball, who will be best known forever as the titular star of the fittingly named, golden-age sitcom "I Love Lucy," starred in a few other shows afterwards. Her last role was in one of those, the also appropriately titled "Life With Lucy."

That one, unfortunately, was not a hit like "I Love Lucy," and only lasted one 13-episode season before being yanked from the ABC airwaves a few months after it debuted in 1986. Ball died three years later, at age 77.

It featured Ball as a grandmother living with her daughter and her family, getting into the same sorts of good-natured hijinx she got into in her star-making original sitcom "I Love Lucy," which debuted in 1951.

In the interim, Ball had also starred in three other sitcoms, all of which, judging by their titles, also knew which side their bread was buttered on.

The first of these, "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour," debuted in 1957, the year after "I Love Lucy" left the air, and paired her again with her husband and comedy partner Desi Arnaz. It was actually a series of one-hour specials rather than a regular show, and last aired in 1960, the year she and Arnaz divorced.

Two years later, in 1962, she debuted in "The Lucy Show," which ran nearly as long as "I Love Lucy," and teamed her with another longtime partner, Gale Gordon.

She and Gordon paired up again in "Here's Lucy," which ran from 1968, the year "The Lucy Show" ended, until 1974.

There was a longer break between this and her final series, "Life with Lucy," which debuted 12 years later. In the meantime, she appeared in a long string of made-for-TV movies with names such as "Lucy Gets Lucky" (1975) and "Lucy Calls the President" (1977).

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