My Favorite Husband, starring Lucille Ball and Richard Denning, aired on the radio from 1948 to 1951. The show tells the story of Liz and George Cooper, a couple who live together and enjoy their life as a middle-class married pair. The sitcom was based on the 1941 best-selling novel, Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, the Record of a Happy Marriage by Isabel Scott Rorick. The radio show eventually evolved into the groundbreaking television sitcom I Love Lucy. The writers of My Favorite Husband reworked numerous episodes to fit the new TV show, and many of the original radio actors appeared on I Love Lucy, often reprising their roles.