The Lucy Show The Official Third Season

Product Description The Lucy Show was Ms. Ball's follow-up series to her classic I Love Lucy and subsequent Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour series of specials. To insure its success, she brought along many crew members from her previous series, including the writing staff. During the course of its run, the show underwent several format changes. Initially, the series was set in small town Danfield, New York. Lucy Carmichael was a widow with two children, Chris and Jerry, who shared a house with her buddy Vivian Bagley (Vivian Vance) and her son Sherman. In the first handful of shows, neighbor and occasional boyfriend Harry Conners (Dick Martin) was featured. Many of the plots during the show's first few seasons revolved around parenting and Lucy and Viv's involvement in the community. But Lucy was still Lucy, meaning trouble for anyone who became involved in her ingenious schemes. Holding the keys to her trust fund was tightwad banker Mr. Barnsdahl (Charles Lane) who endured Lucy's numerous attempts to get at more of her money. Amazon.com In this timelessly funny third season of The Lucy Show, in which iconic I Love Lucy cohorts Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance star as two single women, one widowed and the other divorced, who share a home with their children, Lucy and Viv are awarded ample opportunities to carry on like a proto Laverne & Shirley. "What we need is a plan and we need it fast," is this series' comedic raison d'être. Lucy's lost her contact lens? What are she and Viv to do but frantically and messily search through 14 bake sale chocolate cakes for it? Lucy also gets Emmy-worthy support from the great Gale Gordon as Mr. Mooney, the ever-exasperated banker in charge of her precarious finances. But this is, after all, The Lucy Show, and Lucy ("that fantabulous dynamic gifted ball of fire," to quote Danny Kaye in one of this set's bonus features), like all great clowns, will do anything for a laugh. In "Lucy, the Great Skate," she again evokes Charlie Chaplin when she takes to the dance floor on roller skates (don't ask) at a swank country club dance. In "Lucy Meets Danny Kaye," she's a scene-stealing extra on the entertainer's TV show. She has two great comic set pieces in "Lucy Becomes a Father," trying to extricate herself from a sleeping bag, and interacting with a real live bear. This season's Very Special Episode is "Lucy and the Plumber," featuring g