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Lucy Show, The aka Here's Lucy

Comedy Series

About This Show

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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People Who Talked About This Show

  • Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf
  • Dick Martin
  • Garry Marshall
  • Harvey Korman
  • Henry Colman
  • Howard Morris
  • Madelyn Pugh Davis
  • Seaman Jacobs

Featured Content

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

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  • Highlights

Highlights

  • Bob Carroll, Jr. &amp; Madelyn Pugh Davis on working on <i>The Lucy Show</i> (01m 52s)Bob Carroll, Jr. & Madelyn Pugh Davis on working on The Lucy Show (01m 52s)
  • Garry Marshall on the origin of <i>The Lucy Show</i> 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 Sleeping Beauty" (airdate: November 15, 1965) (00m 49s)
  • Garry Marshall on the origin of <i>The Lucy Show</i> episode, "Lucy and the Good Skate" (airdate: September 21, 1964) and Lucille Ball's accident while rehearsing it (00m 45s)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)

People Talking About This Show

  • Henry Colman
    • Henry Colman on working as a CBS program executive on The Lucy Show
      (01m 09s)
  • Seaman Jacobs
    • Seaman Jacobs on writing for The Lucy Show (10m 50s)
  • Harvey Korman
    • Harvey Korman on working on The Lucy Show
      (03m 23s)
  • Garry Marshall
    • 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)
    • Garry Marshall on the benefits of writing a Lucille Ball show (01m 28s)
    • Garry Marshall on working as a writer for Lucille Ball (on The Lucy Show) (04m 50s)
  • Dick Martin
    • Dick Martin on being in the cast for the first 13 weeks on The Lucy Show (09m 20s)
  • Howard Morris
    • Actor Howard Morris on working with Lucille Ball on The Lucy Show (01m 22s)
  • Madelyn Pugh Davis
    • Bob Carroll, Jr. & Madelyn Pugh Davis on working on The Lucy Show (01m 52s)
  • Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf
    • Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf on writing for the Lucy show
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