Brock Posted October 16, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 TV Magazine (The Sunday Star, Washington D.C.) April 19 - 25, 1964 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C L A U D E Posted October 16, 2014 Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 Ooooooooooh she looks absolutely terrific there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leenorman Posted October 17, 2014 Report Share Posted October 17, 2014 Thanks for the date, Brock; now, I suppose someone will think WE are engaged! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvsbway Posted October 19, 2014 Report Share Posted October 19, 2014 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted October 19, 2014 Report Share Posted October 19, 2014 "because of pleas from her fans" So MY letter did the trick! -- written in CRAYON in big block letters that filled the page "Please don't take The Lucy Show off!!". If I had known she was going to listen to me, I would have added...."but patch things up with Bob and Madelyn and if that's not possible, hire someone other than Milt Josefsburg!" TV Magazine (The Sunday Star, Washington D.C.) April 19 - 25, 1964 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C L A U D E Posted October 19, 2014 Report Share Posted October 19, 2014 You should have added that she ditch that barry norton fella. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Posted October 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2014 You should have added that she ditch that barry norton fella. So, what's Miss Ball to do if she got Neil's crayon'ed request to ditch Barry at the same time as yours to make him her permanent TLS boyfriend? Spin your letters around on a lousy susan? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C L A U D E Posted October 19, 2014 Report Share Posted October 19, 2014 Oh good one, I thought somebody would hit me with that when I posted LOL! I did write that and I did want him on the show, she needed someone else to play off of. By the by, every time I see the cast of SNL and their pictures at the opening I laugh when I see Kevin "MOONEY", LOL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Posted October 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2014 Love this cover from Argentina: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C L A U D E Posted October 24, 2014 Report Share Posted October 24, 2014 So, Lam is freelancing now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvsbway Posted October 24, 2014 Report Share Posted October 24, 2014 Those shape of nails are actually in vogue right now. Lucy and Lady Gaga are sporting the same manicure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C L A U D E Posted October 25, 2014 Report Share Posted October 25, 2014 She was always way ahead of her time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leenorman Posted October 25, 2014 Report Share Posted October 25, 2014 Brock: Dates of TV 'Canal' - Paris, please!!!! You probably should know, in advance, I'd be asking and will continue to do so ad nauseum.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted May 7, 2015 Report Share Posted May 7, 2015 From the March 16 ,1968 edition of TV Guide: "Lucy begins reruns tonight with Frankie Avalon as Mr. Cheever's nephew Tommy"----THAT'S the first episode they pick for reruns, one of my least favorites of that 6th season. . Poor Frankie was only 27 when this show was filmed, but his career had already peaked. There was probably some residual popularity from his early 60s Beach Party movies to warrant this guest star role, but by the time of "The Carters meet...", he was 33 and pretty much forgotten. And the night before on the Ed Sullivan show, Lucy is among the performers listed. Under "Musical Highlights", it says "Yours Mine and Ours".....................Lucille 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Posted May 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2015 TV Today -- July 31, 1954 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 From the TV Guide on January 2, 1960 "Bill Frawley and Gale Gordon have completed the test film for thier planned "Mr. Harkrider and Mr. Sweeney" series". COMPLETED???!! Where is it? This was a couple years after Gale's "The Brothers" which coincidentally co-starred Bob Sweeney. That week instead of the Desilu Playhouse, "Lucy Makes Room for Danny" was rerun. This was DP's 2nd season, shuttled to Friday at 8:30 opposite the hottest season of ABC's 77 Sunset Strip, which finished #7 for the year. DP was canceled, but I wonder how the LDCH's fared against it. This was the season of only 3 new LDCHs but it seems reruns were sprinkled throughout. "Sun Valley" had run a few weeks before. Also from a TV Guide in the fall of 1964, ratings for new shows are listed. Lucy's ABC competition "Wendy and Me"(the only sitcom ever put up against LS or HL) came in at #15, but this ratings period was the average of 2 weeks. ABC had the advantage of starting their new shows one week earlier than CBS so there were 2 Wendys and only one Lucy ("Good Skate"). Viewers seemed to be sampling shows they later abandoned. "No Time for Sergeants" (opposite "Vacation Playhouse" and one Andy Griffith, ironically based on his own movie) was #7 and "The Tycoon" (Walter Brennan comedy) was #14. All 3 of these ABC shows were gone after one season. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C L A U D E Posted June 4, 2015 Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 From the TV Guide on January 2, 1960 "Bill Frawley and Gale Gordon have completed the test film for thier planned "Mr. Harkrider and Mr. Sweeney" series". COMPLETED???!! Where is it? This was a couple years after Gale's "The Brothers" which coincidentally co-starred Bob Sweeney. That week instead of the Desilu Playhouse, "Lucy Makes Room for Danny" was rerun. This was DP's 2nd season, shuttled to Friday at 8:30 opposite the hottest season of ABC's 77 Sunset Strip, which finished #7 for the year. DP was canceled, but I wonder how the LDCH's fared against it. This was the season of only 3 new LDCHs but it seems reruns were sprinkled throughout. "Sun Valley" had run a few weeks before. Also from a TV Guide in the fall of 1964, ratings for new shows are listed. Lucy's ABC competition "Wendy and Me"(the only sitcom ever put up against LS or HL) came in at #15, but this ratings period was the average of 2 weeks. ABC had the advantage of starting their new shows one week earlier than CBS so there were 2 Wendys and only one Lucy ("Good Skate"). Viewers seemed to be sampling shows they later abandoned. "No Time for Sergeants" (opposite "Vacation Playhouse" and one Andy Griffith, ironically based on his own movie) was #7 and "The Tycoon" (Walter Brennan comedy) was #14. All 3 of these ABC shows were gone after one season. What is this? Do you work for Neilsen on the sly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leenorman Posted June 5, 2015 Report Share Posted June 5, 2015 Neil: As always, these things are really important entries in the chronology, with credits to you and the Lounge, of course. Loving you, JK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted March 19, 2016 Report Share Posted March 19, 2016 TWO ads for the Oct. 1962 Bob Hope Special on separate pages. Interesting that one photo is current (circa 1962) and in the other she's wearing her I Love Lucy bun so the shot has to be at least 5 years old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted June 13, 2016 Report Share Posted June 13, 2016 From "TV Teletype" in the TV Guide of Sept. 6, 1958 LUCILLE BALL may make her first serious dramatic role on TV as the star of "The Night The Phone Rang" on the new Desilu Playhouse. CO-STARRING FLORENCE HALOP?? Or maybe they were going to 'appropriate' the "Sorry, Wrong Number" script with Ball and Halop and call it "WHOOPS! THERE GOES MY DOORBELL" Also in the teletype of this edition: Desi Arnaz has written an original drama for the series called "Guns and Guitars" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvsbway Posted June 14, 2016 Report Share Posted June 14, 2016 Oh I really want to see Guns and Guitars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Posted July 7, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2017 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeySanJoaquin Posted July 7, 2017 Report Share Posted July 7, 2017 Coolness! Love the "dated" graphics...just wish it were dated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted July 22, 2017 Report Share Posted July 22, 2017 Here's how TV Guide's Fall Premiere issue of 1962 described "The Lucy Show": "The Lucy Show reunited that far-out, far-gone twosome, Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance of the I Love Lucy series. "It's a comedy", Lucy says, "and I'll have Vivian Vance back with me and the same writers who wrote I Love Lucy and Desi is the executive producer and we're shooting at the Desilu-Gower Studios before a live audience for which we got permission from the fire department and that's all I'll say." But there is more: The Ball-Vance team plays a pair of man-hungry females who stop at nothing in their effort to snag a husband. An airline-pilot neighbor, Dick Martin, is a prime quarry for the husband-hunters, but he's a confirmed, hard-shell bachelor, just as elusive as they are expert. Ladies and gentlemen, place our bets. Debuts Oct. 1st CBS" It's not a very accurate description of the series. The Lucy&Viv after the same man premise was used only in "Music Lover" and the 2nd season "Art Class" as far as I recall, but it was a fun premise. I'm surprised they didn't use it more. Interesting to note that the composite picture of "New on Monday" features 6 series and only The Lucy Show made it past the first season. Cancelled opposite Lucy at the end of the 62-63 was one of them "Saints and Sinners' and the last season of long-running "The Rifleman". Of the 31 new series, only Lucy and Beverly Hillbillies, Jackie Gleason, Combat, The Virginian, McHale's Navy, The Nurses, The Andy Williams Show and Jack Paar's prime time show made it to 63-64. 9 out of 31 which is probably a better than average season. Jackie had good run before his 1970 cancellation. As did Hillbillies and The Virginian (both 9 seasons until 1971), but Lucy topped them all by running 12 years (if you count both series, and why not?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted July 22, 2017 Report Share Posted July 22, 2017 Also of note in the week of this issue: Sept. 16-21, 1962 was the last Lucy-Desi show of the season at 9pm on Monday "Japan/Bob Cummings". Not all 13 were run that summer of 1962, its first of 5 years as a 'summer replacement show'. The reruns were a surprise hit that season, topping the summer ratings and obviously continued to be a huge draw. LDCH ran every summer through 1967 (skipping 1966). The order of episodes did not follow any rhyme or reason but were run in the same sequence every summer. Usually the last ones were "Summer Vacation" "Paul Douglas" and "Meets the Mustache". Few summers aired them all. Every summer started off with Danny Thomas, then Havana, Race Horse, Mexico and Milton Berle. "Danny" was picked as the first episode because the first season of reruns replaced "The Danny Thomas Show" and "Andy Griffith" Mondays 9-10. Seasons 2 and 3 (summers of 63 and 64) replaced Jackie Gleason, Saturdays at 7:30. In 1965, they replaced Danny Kaye Wednesday at 10. I don't know what they replaced in 1967, but aired at 7:30 on Thursdays. I've often wondered if they were brought back in 1967 because of the protest of their absence in 1966. LDCH has the distinction of being the very last b/w series aired by any network in prime time. Also the most prime time showings of any series. Most of the episodes had 8 prime time airings including the original broadcast. (Sometimes I repeat myself, I know!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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