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I must get the east coast Cozi feed because on my cable, Here's Lucy has the coveted time 4:30am slot.

HL opposite ILL.......If you have PIP,  maybe you could see the tasting scenes from "Vitameta" and "Polly Parker's Pickles" simultaneously.

It's like in the 73-74 season NBC's Monday Movie Yours Mine and Ours ran opposite Here's Lucy's Joan Rivers Jury Duty episode.

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Lucie Arnaz's NBC Made-for-TV Saturday Night Movie "Black Dahlia" opposite the underrated, under-appreciated "Lucy Gets Lucky".

One drawn out, clumsily staged scene (the chase) does not a bomb make!  Everyone says they prefer no laugh track,  but the absence of one in a show like this seems strange. Even single-camera higher-brow "Mash" had canned laughs.  I wish they'd shown the "Lucky" film to a liquored-up audience of invited guests in Lucy's presence and used that.

(I posted the following elsewhere, but....) Sometimes when they do transfers of old shows, they've lost the laugh track.  I don't know how that could happen. Maybe it's on a separate reel but several Hazel's are missing one.  But the strangest missing-laugh-track show is Antenna's recent Saturday morning addition "My Mother the Car".  At least the one episode I saw didn't have it.  "Car" is infamous more because of the sheer lunacy of  the premise and the even more ridiculous notion: that some NBC executive would add it to their schedule.  Because for that high-concept sitcom era, "Car" isn't all that bad.  Certainly better than the show that follows it on Antenna "It's About Time".

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I must get the east coast Cozi feed because on my cable, Here's Lucy has the coveted time 4:30am slot.

HL opposite ILL.......If you have PIP,  maybe you could see the tasting scenes from "Vitameta" and "Polly Parker's Pickles" simultaneously.

It's like in the 73-74 season NBC's Monday Movie Yours Mine and Ours ran opposite Here's Lucy's Joan Rivers Jury Duty episode.

 

 

Antenna TV, in the 7:30 AM time slot (West Coast), they're airing Dennis the Menace.  Perhaps at some point everything will align and there will be a couple days where Gale Gordon's Mr. Wilson, Mr. Livermore and Harry Carter are all airing simultaneously.

 

 

One drawn out, clumsily staged scene (the chase) does not a bomb make!  Everyone says they prefer no laugh track,  but the absence of one in a show like this seems strange. Even single-camera higher-brow "Mash" had canned laughs.  I wish they'd shown the "Lucky" film to a liquored-up audience of invited guests in Lucy's presence and used that.

 

I saw a M*A*S*H documentary awhile back and they were claiming that the show's production folks (and I believe Alan Alda) did NOT want a laugh track for the show, but CBS insisted on it and made them put it in.

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I've read that too.  And the compromise was they eliminated laughs in actual operation room scenes.  The only comedies I can recall without a laugh track up to that time were both on NBC:  "The Bill Cosby Show" (as PE teacher) and "Julia"--the latter not exactly an LOL comedy.


I saw a M*A*S*H documentary awhile back and they were claiming that the show's production folks (and I believe Alan Alda) did NOT want a laugh track for the show, but CBS insisted on it and made them put it in.

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yesterday we had Lucy is a Bird sitter competing with Lucy Raise Chickens

 

Really?  What channel were you watching when you saw "Lucy Raises Chickens"?  MeTV here is currently airing S1 episodes of I Love Lucy, and yesterday it was "Lucy Is a Bird Sitter" versus "The Benefit." on MeTV. I figured they would be airing the same episode nationwide.  Today it was "Lucy and Chuck Connors Have a Surprise Slumber Party" on Cozi versus "The Amateur Hour" on MeTV.  So this was one of those rare occasions when the Here's Lucy episode is superior and wins the morning.

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It was the Hallmark channel that was showing Lucy Raises Chickens. I actually don't get MeTV from 5 am to 8 am - all paid programming during that time -thru local and cable TV - we used to get it.

 

Ah, and I don't get the Hallmark Channel.  And I didn't even know Hallmark was still running I Love Lucy.  It's been a long time since it moved from TVLand to Hallmark.  Is Hallmark also running I Love Lucy at 7:30 AM?

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When i used to watch mash on the bbc it had no laugh track. It comletely threw me recently when u watch a rerun with the laugh track. .. it seems there are 2 versions of the show out there

 

 

I've read that too. And the compromise was they eliminated laughs in actual operation room scenes. The only comedies I can recall without a laugh track up to that time were both on NBC: "The Bill Cosby Show" (as PE teacher) and "Julia"--the latter not exactly an LOL comedy.

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