Lucy Show, The aka Here's Lucy
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From Wikipedia:
The Lucy Show is a television series that aired on CBS from 1962 until 1968. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965-66 season divides the program into two distinct eras; aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program for its second season, remained. For the first three seasons, Vivian Vance was the costar. The earliest scripts were entitled The Lucille Ball Show, but all episodes aired with the title The Lucy Show.
Ball won two Emmy Awards as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for this show, for the years 1966-67 and 1967-68.
Premise: The show began with Lucille Ball as Lucy Carmichael, a widow with two children, Chris (Candy Moore), and Jerry (Jimmy Garrett), living in Danfield, New York, sharing her home with divorced friend Vivian Bagley (Vance) and her son, Sherman (Ralph Hart). Lucy had been left with a substantial trust fund by her late husband, which was managed during the first season by local banker Mr. Barnsdahl (Charles Lane). Comedian Dick Martin, working solo from his long-time partner Dan Rowan, appeared in several episodes as Lucy's boyfriend, Harry Connors, during the show's first season. It is a common agreement among fans of Lucille Ball that the first black and white season of The Lucy Show was the best not only because the show fully utilized the talents of Bob Carroll, Jr., Madelyn Martin, Bob Schiller, and Bob Weiskopf (the original writers of I Love Lucy) in creating several classic episodes , but also because Desi Arnaz was executive producer - at least for eight of the first season's shows.
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Video: Classic b&w episode of The Lucy Show: "Lucy and Viv Put in a Shower" (airdate: 1/28/63), from YouTube Classic TV Shows
Resources

Book: The Lucy Book: A Complete Gudie to Her Five Decades on Television by Geoffrey Mark Fidelman
DVD: The Lucy Show: The Official First Season
IMDb entry on The Lucy Show
Wikipedia entry on The Lucy Show
Highlights
Bob Carroll, Jr. & Madelyn Pugh Davis on working on The Lucy Show (01m 52s)
Garry Marshall on the origin of The Lucy Show episode, "Lucy and the Sleeping Beauty" (airdate: November 15, 1965) (00m 49s)
Garry Marshall on the origin of The Lucy Show episode, "Lucy and the Good Skate" (airdate: September 21, 1964) and Lucille Ball's accident while rehearsing it (00m 45s)


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