I like this show. I think it's very funny. I have one of those "public domain" DVD's, and liked many of the episode. I heard that "I love Lucy" is better, and if it is, I can't wait to see it.
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I agree with you. I grew up watching this show in the 1960's and absolutely
loved it. In my opinion, some of the episodes were actually as funny or funnier
than the classic "I Love Lucy" ones. One of my personal favorites is the one
where Lucy somehow found out she was missing some High School credits and therefore had not officially graduated. She had to go back and enroll in High
School for a few classes. As you might imagine, hilarious slapstick and jokes
ensued. This episode guest starred actress Barbara Babcock as Lucy's English
teacher (she much later appeared as a regular on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman),actor
Robert Pine as a fellow student (Captain Getraer on "Chips") and in a small role
Lucy's own daughter, actress Lucy Arnaz as another fellow student. The episode
was entitled (I believe) "Lucy Gets Her Diploma." The highlight of the episode
was a scene where Lucy, while describing parts of a skeleton, got the entire
science class including the teacher (actress Olive Dunbar) signing "Dem Bones,
Dem Bones." If you have not seen this episode, you owe it to yourself to see it.
did you ever see "Kiddie Parties, Inc?" Lucy and Viv want to go into a business and give bday parties. While blowing balloons up, Viv keeps letting them fly away, lol! Then Lucy has to play the clown, and nothing at this party goes right, until Lucy goes and gets the balloons and she flys away!!! I LOVE that episode!
Don't Genius Live in a Lamp?-Patrick Star
I Like this show too.
Professor Marvel never guesses. He knows!
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hmm..she sucks huh?
what will you be remembered on earth for?
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much better than anything else on today?...what on earth have you been watching? The Lucy Show is painfully unfunny.
shareYeah, that's true, too all right.
"The Lucy Show" is so great that they should rerun it during prime time - because it's a hundred times better than anything on TV during this past decade all right.
That's for sure with all of that unfunny wasted talent these days that everybody has to suffer through!
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Isn't that the truth?
shareWe watched Lucy Show in reruns with not a clue what I Love Lucy was. I'm the youngest of five and I don't think any of us saw I Love Lucy until well into the '80s when we were in our teens and beyond.
While I think I Love Lucy is funny and funnier, I'm sitting here now watching Lucy episodes out of total nostalgia. The episodes being in color more than anything has me remembering the big tv in the living room.
Again, I think I Love LUcy is funnier, but I would love nothing more than if these shows aired regularly and enjoyed last year when MeTV showed them and don't know why they took them off. That is, it went off in my area.
WOW! It's almost hard to believe that there was a time when The Lucy Show was in reruns but not I Love Lucy! I love I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show and even Here's Lucy. But. I agree I Love Lucy is the best by far!
shareFor whatever reason, in the early seventies, I Love Lucy was not shown in my area, Lucy show was probably making that transition from just going off the air and sort of carrying over into Here's Lucy, which was still on in primetime, but from what the older sibs tell me, was also in reruns by then.
More than likely, there was a preference for color shows as well in reruns, which would knock I Love Lucy completely out. Leave It to Beaver likewise I would not see until the latter seventies. I guess people only wanted to see her in color.
I remember this with other shows, such as Gilligan's Island, which I do recall pretty much as soon as it went off the air, and Star Trek, but would not see Gilligan's Island again until also the late seventies, and Star Trek I would not come across again until mid '80s.
It's just the way shows were carried in this area. We didn't have cable access back then.
I used to see tv schedule listings for other stations I didn't get and saw I Love Lucy. I heard it attached to Ball and I thought she did a soap opera.
I remember a tv special on the transition of tv and Lucy's pregnancy and this dark-haired man with the solid voice was shown IN her bedroom and I was rather appalled. I didn't know who he was.
She was always paired up with older greying banker-types on Lucy show.
By the latter part of the seventies, 'newer' shows such as Good Times, Jeffersons and Sanford & Son were becoming more prevalent in reruns, and also the Brady Bunch, which Bradys completely disappeared in my area in the '80s, but they were run into the ground after they were cancelled in the seventies.
Our area always had I Love Lucy, even in the 70s. The Lucy Show was around, but was not rerun in the same types of high-profile time slots (like late afternoon) as ILL. And TLS disappeared from syndication in our area by 1980, while ILL was still being rerun multiple times per day.
The problem with TLS in reruns is that it's wildly uneven. The first two seasons are pretty consistent and funny, but then the writers change and the cast changes, and those last three seasons are mostly awful. If they could have kept the same format with the same writers, I think it would have had a longer life in syndication.
Vance retired. My mother has always told me that. She was tired of doing the show.
Without Vance, there was no reason to keep all those kids, so they all departed where they did as well.
I think both Lucy Show and Here's Lucy disappeared in my area when Here's Lucy went off the air in primetime.
I do recall Lucy Calls the President, when Carter was president, but the sitcoms were gone by then.
Glad I now have all 6 official seasons of The Lucy Show on DVD.
So now I won't ever have to suffer through I Love Lucy anymore and wonder, "When is The Lucy Show ever going to turn up on TV again?"
I also look forward to (eventually) purchasing the entire series box set of Here's Lucy. There were many funny episodes in that series as well.
I have never seen any of the reruns of her shows other than I Love Lucy. I've been a fan of I Love Lucy show since I was 10. I want to get the DVDs for The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy.
Nice 2 laugh, but don't be the joke.👎✋
I am a HUGE I Love Lucy fan. I've seen every single episode ten times over, LOL. But I'm getting back into The Lucy Show lately and I am really, really loving Lucille's work on this series.
She was kind of like Jerry Lewis--amazing with a partner, legendary, in fact, but also totally extraordinary solo.
There was a fantastic stand-out courtroom parody scene she did in an episode, "Lucy Is Her Own Lawyer" where she sues Mr. Mooney and also decides to be her own lawyer in the lawsuit. She goes back and forth hopping up and down from the witness stand, playing the lawyer asking questions in Perry Mason-mode and the witness answering them as herself. It's a brilliant little comedy routine, ROFL! I swear Woody Allen seemed to have sort of copied it in 1971's Bananas.
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I like the first three seasons of this show as much as ILL and the LDCH, tbh.
I started watching The Lucy show recently. I really enjoyed the first season, but I Love Lucy still remains my #1 favorite Lucy series and the best show she had ever done in her entire career. It was the show that I had fell in love with first, had it been the other way around I probably wouldn't have been enamored with The Lucy Show that much or felt compelled to check out Lucille Ball. Just seeing an American being married to a Cuban made the show more inspiring, cute, and lovable. The Lucy Show had some funny moments, but in my opinion, I think I Love Lucy had more funnier characters all around and none of the male characters on The Lucy Show were nearly as charming, handsome, and funny as Desi Arnaz. I just happened to find Hispanic men very attractive and gorgeous.
Don't play games with a girl who can play better.