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OCTOBER 9: The Lucy Show: Official Sixth & Final Season -- COVER ART!

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The season had the fewest number of writers of the post-Bob-Bob-Bob-Mad years with most of the scripts done by Bob O'Brien and the team of Ray Singer and script supervisor (or whatever his credit was) Milt Josefsburg. In his 8-year association with Lucy, Milt contributed more scripts this season than any other. Unlike the previous 3 seasons, there were only a handful of episodes done by other writers: Douglas Morrow did "Robert Goulet", his only Lucy script. Fred Fox and Seamon Jacobs debuted as a team and wrote three, none of which is stellar: "Frank McGugh/Philanthropist", "Star Maker/Frankie Avalon" and "Gets Mooney Fired". In "The Lucy Book" several episodes written by Bob O'Brien are credited in error to Ray Singer. To my knowledge, he never wrote one on his own. "French Movie Star", "Gets Involved" and "Boss of Year" were all O'Brien's. My favorite writing credit of the year is for "Lucy and Viv Reminisce" "Based on an Idea By: Hilda Josefsburg". I'll bet this was added so Hilda could get paid for telling Milt: "your scripts are so terrible, why don't you do a episode showing clips of when the show was GOOD?" and it is probably the best episode of the season. And of the 3 flashback episodes done for each of the 3 series, it is the most enjoyable for it showcased Lucy and Viv (and "the Lucy Show") in their prime. To be fair, ILL's flashback show focused on Little Ricky's birth and wasn't meant to be the best scenes of the entire series.

The highest rated episode of the season was "Lucy gets Involved/Jackie Coogan", a pretty funny one if you can stand all that NOISE of Lucy breaking everything from dishes to TV sets. Jackie Coogan is great in all his Lucy appearances. I read once that this was the highest rated episode of the whole series, but somewhere else I read the Oct. 1, 1962 premiere was.

Very few series gain ratings ground this late in their run, but this season is the highest position in the top 10, The Lucy Show earned: #2. ("Andy Griffith" was #1, also its best showing).

1968 was a great year for Lucy's career.

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The season had the fewest number of writers of the post-Bob-Bob-Bob-Mad years with most of the scripts done by Bob O'Brien and the team of Ray Singer and script supervisor (or whatever his credit was) Milt Josefsburg. In his 8-year association with Lucy, Milt contributed more scripts this season than any other. Unlike the previous 3 seasons, there were only a handful of episodes done by other writers: Douglas Morrow did "Robert Goulet", his only Lucy script. Fred Fox and Seamon Jacobs debuted as a team and wrote three, none of which is stellar: "Frank McGugh/Philanthropist", "Star Maker/Frankie Avalon" and "Gets Mooney Fired". In "The Lucy Book" several episodes written by Bob O'Brien are credited in error to Ray Singer. To my knowledge, he never wrote one on his own. "French Movie Star", "Gets Involved" and "Boss of Year" were all O'Brien's. My favorite writing credit of the year is for "Lucy and Viv Reminisce" "Based on an Idea By: Hilda Josefsburg". I'll bet this was added so Hilda could get paid for telling Milt: "your scripts are so terrible, why don't you do a episode showing clips of when the show was GOOD?" and it is probably the best episode of the season. And of the 3 flashback episodes done for each of the 3 series, it is the most enjoyable for it showcased Lucy and Viv (and "the Lucy Show") in their prime. To be fair, ILL's flashback show focused on Little Ricky's birth and wasn't meant to be the best scenes of the entire series.

The highest rated episode of the season was "Lucy gets Involved/Jackie Coogan", a pretty funny one if you can stand all that NOISE of Lucy breaking everything from dishes to TV sets. Jackie Coogan is great in all his Lucy appearances. I read once that this was the highest rated episode of the whole series, but somewhere else I read the Oct. 1, 1962 premiere was.

Very few series gain ratings ground this late in their run, but this season is the highest position in the top 10, The Lucy Show earned: #2. ("Andy Griffith" was #1, also its best showing).

1968 was a great year for Lucy's career.

WAS IT EVER!!!!! '67 also. Two Emmy awards for best actress in a comedy series, a return to movies with her biggest HIT ever, Yours Mine and Ours and contemplating the start of a new series with her own kids, selling Desilu and getting rid of that drain on her time. etc etc etc . . .

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The season had the fewest number of writers of the post-Bob-Bob-Bob-Mad years with most of the scripts done by Bob O'Brien and the team of Ray Singer and script supervisor (or whatever his credit was) Milt Josefsburg. In his 8-year association with Lucy, Milt contributed more scripts this season than any other. Unlike the previous 3 seasons, there were only a handful of episodes done by other writers: Douglas Morrow did "Robert Goulet", his only Lucy script. Fred Fox and Seamon Jacobs debuted as a team and wrote three, none of which is stellar: "Frank McGugh/Philanthropist", "Star Maker/Frankie Avalon" and "Gets Mooney Fired". In "The Lucy Book" several episodes written by Bob O'Brien are credited in error to Ray Singer. To my knowledge, he never wrote one on his own. "French Movie Star", "Gets Involved" and "Boss of Year" were all O'Brien's. My favorite writing credit of the year is for "Lucy and Viv Reminisce" "Based on an Idea By: Hilda Josefsburg". I'll bet this was added so Hilda could get paid for telling Milt: "your scripts are so terrible, why don't you do a episode showing clips of when the show was GOOD?" and it is probably the best episode of the season. And of the 3 flashback episodes done for each of the 3 series, it is the most enjoyable for it showcased Lucy and Viv (and "the Lucy Show") in their prime. To be fair, ILL's flashback show focused on Little Ricky's birth and wasn't meant to be the best scenes of the entire series.

The highest rated episode of the season was "Lucy gets Involved/Jackie Coogan", a pretty funny one if you can stand all that NOISE of Lucy breaking everything from dishes to TV sets. Jackie Coogan is great in all his Lucy appearances. I read once that this was the highest rated episode of the whole series, but somewhere else I read the Oct. 1, 1962 premiere was.

Very few series gain ratings ground this late in their run, but this season is the highest position in the top 10, The Lucy Show earned: #2. ("Andy Griffith" was #1, also its best showing).

1968 was a great year for Lucy's career.

 

Neil: Thanks for clearing up a few of these things, reported wrongly in other places, and for your GREAT KNOWLEDGE; some of these things really add to the legitimacy of the 'chronology'....

Fondly, JK

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The Amazon listing:

 

The Lucy Show: The Official Sixth & Final Season Starring Ralph Hart, Gale Gordon and Jimmy Garrett (2012)

 

I'm speechless. I particularly like the order that the 'stars' are listed.

 

Do Amazon know something we don't know? :lucythrill:

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The Amazon listing:

 

The Lucy Show: The Official Sixth & Final Season Starring Ralph Hart, Gale Gordon and Jimmy Garrett (2012)

 

I'm speechless. I particularly like the order that the 'stars' are listed.

Yeah, Amazon does that alot with the casts of TV Shows they're selling, just a random list not in any order, (even if they're not on the show anymore).

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Any hint of what might be on this set bonus-wise? I know we'll see the usual production notes and photo galleries (which I love) but any rumours of new clips or what not? No doubt a few more bloopers...

I think the listing od the stars of the series is a pretty good start to a major BLOOPER, LOL! :lucythrill:

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I've got to be honest, I'm surprised the Lucy Show sets made it this far. Delighted, THRILLED, to be sure, but surprised. I thought there was a very good chance that season 1 was going to be it for a long time. I was stunned when I heard season 2 was coming out a year later, and delighted that season 3 came out not long after that.

 

I then thought it through. Seasons 1-3 were the Vivian years, and a prime motivator for many people buying them. I knew her involvement would mean that season 3 would sell about as well as 1 and 2 had, thereby prompting a release of season 4. But I thought things might slow down after the release of season 4, as that year in particular is regarded as one of the overall weakest Lucy TV seasons of all time. Plus I knew that some Vivophiles would cease purchasing after season 3. But when I heard that season 5 was coming out, I was blown away once again! I knew the Lucy in London inclusion would be an incentive, as these episodes are easily the msot well known to modern audiences due to their PD status. But the quality improvement is incredible and will hopefully ebb the tide of those budget sets (even though I'm grateful for them because they were the only episodes so many of us had access to for a long time).

 

So whether Spring or Fall, I'll be thrilled when the last of the Lucys comes out :)

You raise such a good point.

I thought the same thing about Heres Lucy. I always thought The Lucy Show kinda had a chance but only for the first seasons.

MANY great TV shows have their DVD lives snuffed because of low sales, but seems like The Lucy Show was a train, each season coming

out with another compartment. Never slowing.

The treatment with it has been simply DIVINE! :) sOMETIMES i LOOK at other DVD seasons and get to wondering who

was responsible for the bland covers-but TLS has gotten special treatment and bonus footage and beautiful restoration and wonderful consideration through out the extras

I mean, Bravo. These are times many people have waited all their lives for, all of Lucy s series. Restored and available.

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You raise such a good point.

I thought the same thing about Heres Lucy. I always thought The Lucy Show kinda had a chance but only for the first seasons.

MANY great TV shows have their DVD lives snuffed because of low sales, but seems like The Lucy Show was a train, each season coming

out with another compartment. Never slowing.

The treatment with it has been simply DIVINE! :) sOMETIMES i LOOK at other DVD seasons and get to wondering who

was responsible for the bland covers-but TLS has gotten special treatment and bonus footage and beautiful restoration and wonderful consideration through out the extras

I mean, Bravo. These are times many people have waited all their lives for, all of Lucy s series. Restored and available.

You people seem to forget we are talking about two top ten series with the First Lady of Television and Queen of Comedy here, i always knew they would all eventually come out. Maybe they were just a little faster out of the gate than i expected.

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This probably means all six DVD sets will be sold in one bundle, but not in any distinctive packaging or box set.

 

Yes, Brock -- you're correct. This "6-season-package" is just all 6 individual seasons in a single shrink-wrapped package (for people who have never purchased the sets one at a time.)

 

There are no plans to issue a "complete series set" per se...

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There are no plans to issue a "complete series set" per se...

 

If there ever comes a time when CBS DOES plan on releasing a "complete series set", it should be in a box shaped like Mooney's ceramic cat. The cylindrical shape would lend itself well to housing the DVDs. :lucythrill:

 

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Unscrew the head, and out the DVDs slide!

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Yes, Brock -- you're correct. This "6-season-package" is just all 6 individual seasons in a single shrink-wrapped package (for people who have never purchased the sets one at a time.)

 

There are no plans to issue a "complete series set" per se...

 

I'm sure a few years down the line the Complete Series set could be released on Bluray. Right after the complete ILL on Bluray.

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