The Lucy Show: The Official Third Season

Amazon.com In this timelessly funny third season of The Lucy Show, in which iconic I Love Lucy cohorts Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance star as two single women, one widowed and the other divorced, who share a home with their children, Lucy and Viv are awarded ample opportunities to carry on like a proto Laverne & Shirley. "What we need is a plan and we need it fast," is this series' comedic raison d'être. Lucy's lost her contact lens? What are she and Viv to do but frantically and messily search through 14 bake sale chocolate cakes for it? Lucy also gets Emmy-worthy support from the great Gale Gordon as Mr. Mooney, the ever-exasperated banker in charge of her precarious finances. But this is, after all, The Lucy Show, and Lucy ("that fantabulous dynamic gifted ball of fire," to quote Danny Kaye in one of this set's bonus features), like all great clowns, will do anything for a laugh. In "Lucy, the Great Skate," she again evokes Charlie Chaplin when she takes to the dance floor on roller skates (don't ask) at a swank country club dance. In "Lucy Meets Danny Kaye," she's a scene-stealing extra on the entertainer's TV show. She has two great comic set pieces in "Lucy Becomes a Father," trying to extricate herself from a sleeping bag, and interacting with a real live bear. This season's Very Special Episode is "Lucy and the Plumber," featuring guest star Jack Benny as a plumber whose cross to bear is that he looks like Jack Benny. Non-spoiler alert: Another legendary FOL (Friend of Lucy) makes a surprise cameo at episode's end. This would be Vance's last season, and she is absent for several episodes. Enter Ann Sothern as an old school friend who is by all appearances a fabulously wealthy countess, but who is actually broke, and whom Lucy helps maintain the charade. Added pleasures for radio, TV, and comedy buffs include appearances by Harold "The Great Gildersleeve" Peary, Pat Harrington (Schneider on One Day at a Time), and episodes cowritten by Garry Marshall (creator of Laverne & Shirley). Each episode can be viewed in color as they were filmed, or in black and white as they were broadcast in 1964-65, complete with vintage openings, closings, and commercials. Bonus features also include footage of Lucy Day at the 1964 New York World's Fair, text bios of the show's cinematographer and costume designer, and bonus clips of a Lucy appearance on The Danny Kaye Show. --Donald Liebenson Product Description The Lucy Show was Ms. Ball's follow-up series to her classic I Love Lucy and subsequent Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour series of specials. To insure its success, she brought along many crew members from her previous series, including the writing staff. During the course of its run, the show underwent several format changes. Initially, the series was set in small town Danfield, New York. Lucy Carmichael was a widow with two children, Chris and Jerry, who shared a house with her buddy Vivian Bagley (Vivian Vance) and her son Sherman. In the first handful of shows, neighbor and occasional boyfriend Harry Conners (Dick Martin) was featured. Many of the plots during the show's first few seasons revolved around parenting and Lucy and Viv's involvement in the community. But Lucy was still Lucy, meaning trouble for anyone who became involved in her ingenious schemes. Holding the keys to her trust fund was tightwad banker Mr. Barnsdahl (Charles Lane) who endured Lucy's numerous attempts to get at more of her money.
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Author/Artist:Dick Martin|Gale Gordon|Jimmy Garrett|Vivian Vance|Lucille Ball|Ralph Hart|Candy Moore
Binding: Dvd
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