Is there such a thing, or did they not save stuff like that back then?

BTW, I just realized this is my 1,000th post :)

:jig: Congrats on the posts.

I have no idea abt the deleted scenes.

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Thanks! I should be up there with you in no time! :lol:

I have no idea abt the deleted scenes.
They don't have anything like that on the DVD's? I still didn't buy them yet...*ducks*

Thanks! I should be up there with you in no time! :lol:


They don't have anything like that on the DVD's? I still didn't buy them yet...*ducks*
I haven't had time to enjoy my boxset. I seen only one disc. :(

BTW, I just realized this is my 1,000th post :)
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I have the entire series--bought the old fashioned way, season by season.
Deleted scenes are included on the DVDs.

I haven't had time to enjoy my boxset. I seen only one disc. :(
Well you got further than me at least! I've still got this and the King Of Queens box set on my list. They just had to release them around the same time, didn't they? :(

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I have the entire series--bought the old fashioned way, season by season.
Deleted scenes are included on the DVDs.
Thanks for the info. Are there deleted scenes for every season? Also, what are they like? (For example, are they re-takes, bloopers, or bits and pieces that were cut so the show wouldn't run overtime?) Please let me know...

I bet most of the bloopers and outtakes are gone forever. Back then they didn't even have reruns. :lol:

When I met Dann Cahn in Jamestown at the Memorial Day 2004 festival, I asked him about the outtakes and the footage that was photographed from different angles but not used. He said that there were very, very few mistakes and outtakes from ILL, but what did exist from those and from the "b rolls" of the film were destroyed. He said that in the late 1950s or the early 1960s, because of the cost and the space to store all this unused film, Desi Arnaz told him to throw it out. So he did what he was told, and the footage ended up in a Los Angeles dumpster.

Like he said, if he only had known how valuable that footage would have been today! (I do believe that somewhere someone has something of outtakes or footage like this from ILL ..... the lost movie appeared, as did someone's color home movie footage, so I believe that maybe somewhere there may be a few clips floating around.)

Well you got further than me at least! I've still got this and the King Of Queens box set on my list. They just had to release them around the same time, didn't they? :(

Yeah, I hear that. I asked for ILL boxset for Christmas...ask and you shall receive. ;) :lol:

My next move is getting the KoQ boxset. I have 4 on DVD but I'd rather have the whole thing. KoQ is the only show that is perfect to me. Not a bad episode in the bunch. ILL, sorry to say has that Scotland episode. That ruined the perfection for me.

Is there such a thing, or did they not save stuff like that back then?

BTW, I just realized this is my 1,000th post :)


Congratulations!

When I met Dann Cahn in Jamestown at the Memorial Day 2004 festival, I asked him about the outtakes and the footage that was photographed from different angles but not used. He said that there were very, very few mistakes and outtakes from ILL, but what did exist from those and from the "b rolls" of the film were destroyed. He said that in the late 1950s or the early 1960s, because of the cost and the space to store all this unused film, Desi Arnaz told him to throw it out. So he did what he was told, and the footage ended up in a Los Angeles dumpster.

Like he said, if he only had known how valuable that footage would have been today! (I do believe that somewhere someone has something of outtakes or footage like this from ILL ..... the lost movie appeared, as did someone's color home movie footage, so I believe that maybe somewhere there may be a few clips floating around.)
But Jude86 just said there are deleted scenes included on the DVD's...:confused: Is there any truth to that?

If all that unused footage was in fact thrown out, do you think that was also the case with those bits that were cut from the Classic 39 episodes of The Honeymooners? I think I remember reading that Jackie edited those episodes himself, but I could be wrong. If he did though, I'd say there's a pretty good chance he might have kept the footage. After all, he did keep all those kinescopes of the Lost Episodes stashed away in his private vault until the 80's.

My next move is getting the KoQ boxset. I have 4 on DVD but I'd rather have the whole thing. KoQ is the only show that is perfect to me. Not a bad episode in the bunch. ILL, sorry to say has that Scotland episode. That ruined the perfection for me.
I gotta agree with you there about there not being a bad KoQ episode...I'm not sure I've seen every single episode, but I've yet to see one I didn't like. And as you mentioned, ILL, unfortunately, had the Scotland episode.

I also bought seasons 1-4 before they released the full set, but I was planning on buying all the seasons anyway. Plus that complete set just looks so cool as a little IPS truck and everything!

Congratulations!
Thanks Rich! :wave:

The deleted scenes included on ILL's DVD releases are not what I would consider outtakes as much as just "missing scenes." Here's an example:
In the original airing of "Lucy Does A TV Commercial" in the scene where Lucy pretends to be in the TV doing her show, she is seen dressed as the Philip Morris guy. In the original airing she does the "Call for Phillip Morris" call, but in the reruns that part is edited out and the scene is reedited with the "B roll" footage that is now gone, lost, destroyed. (Remember, these were edited after the original airings in the 1950s when this footage was still around.) According to Gregg Oppenheimer at the same festival in 2004 in Jamestown, he had to watch his father's 16mm prints of the shows as broadcast to find the missing footage to reedited it back into the shows because when Desilu and CBS would change music or edit lines, scenes, whatever, instead of using a print of the episode the cuts were made on the master negatives. The best way to see the most complete unedited I Love Lucy shows are to collect the DVDs or collect the shows on the collectors market with the original commercials.

There are not any "goofs" or scenes of the cast laughing at a line and having to reshoot the scene included on ILL. The only "goofs" included are the mistakes that happened in the show that made it onto the air.

Thanks for clearing that up for me Ben.

I too have often wondered if there were ever any deleted scenes

If you ever get a chance to see the CBS special Stars In The Eye that was produced in November 1952 for the opening of CBS' Television City, there is fake outtakes that were produced with Jack Benny appearing and the cast breaking character. Outside of any footage filmed for the feature length movie (which I have not seen) this is the only known footage of the cast breaking character.

Is this the footage that shows them in the bathroom and Jack Benny is in the shower? And then he's behind the couch?

Yes, that is the correct footage. I didn't have time to go more into details last night when I typed that. The Stars In The Eye special was performed live from California and was used to celebrate the opening of Television City for CBS (which, of course, is still around today and going strong). The special starred Jack Benny, and almost all of the top CBS stars from the West Coast were featured ..... except for one. And that is because Lucy had already retired for the next few months to have Desi, Jr. What came out of this was that some fake scenes filmed during actual filmings of ILL had Jack Benny interupting the filming to get Lucy and Desi to agree to appear on his special. The first scene is set in the Tropicana and also features Vivian and Bill, the second scene was when Jack Benny was behind the couch and the third was when he was in the shower. By filming these clips this gave the TV audience a few advantages: seeing some "behind the scene" clips of the show (either if it was staged or not), Lucy's new waistline and furniture before these elements were introduced to ILL, and allowing the top CBS star to still appear on the special while being retired for the next few months.

I just watched this special a few weeks back when I transfered it to DVD from VHS .... some of it is very dated and a few parts just seemed to be "blah." Yet the part with Desi and the filmed scenes from Lucy are great, as is Jack Benny and any appearance that he makes. Special note to this special is that Gale Gordon also costars as one of the top brass at CBS.