I REALLY want to see this episode, but I have no idea where to find it. I have searched all over the internet for it. Hulu, Youtube and other sites, but they just dont have it. Is there a site that I missed where I can just watch the episode?

I REALLY want to see this episode, but I have no idea where to find it. I have searched all over the internet for it. Hulu, Youtube and other sites, but they just dont have it. Is there a site that I missed where I can just watch the episode?

It will be out on DVD within the next 18 months when HL Season 6 is released.

One of the few HL episodes I had seen before the DVDs started to come out, and was disappointed in the episode. Maybe if I saw it again now my opinion would be different but at the time I did not care for this episode much.

One of the few HL episodes I had seen before the DVDs started to come out, and was disappointed in the episode. Maybe if I saw it again now my opinion would be different but at the time I did not care for this episode much.

It seems to me that whenever Lucille Ball stepped away from her studio audience to do a one-camera show (which was necessary in this case because of the camera tricks required to create two Lucys) the pace was always different, with less energy and spark. Somehow that studio audience seemed to feed Ms. Ball's performance. So that's missing here, which may be the problem. Of course, it would have been impossible to shoot this episode with an audience. Also, it was basically a commercial for Mame, and really only interesting in that respect. Many people love this episode for some reason, but I only enjoy it as a curiosity. There aren't a lot of laughs, though I do think Carole Cook's contribution was funny. Listen to the lyrics she sings for the Mais Oui jingle (and the look on Lucy's -- er, Lucille Ball's -- face when she does it), it's hilarious.

Wasn't the purpose of the episode to promote "Mame"? Wasn't Lucy Carter talking to Lucille Ball mostly about that?

Wasn't the purpose of the episode to promote "Mame"? Wasn't Lucy Carter talking to Lucille Ball mostly about that?

Yes, the purpose was to promote Mame. However, even though there is a scene where Lucy Carter is in Lucille Ball's dressing room looking at pictures of Ms. Ball on the set of Mame, the Mame theme music is played several times throughout the episode, and Lucille Ball is wearing costumes from Mame, oddly, they never actually mention the movie by name. They either refer to Lucille Ball's "latest picture" or her "new musical picture." Perhaps this was a legal way of promoting the film without Warner Brothers having to pay for advertising??? (And I'm assuming Warner Brothers didn't pay as an advertiser for this episode.) Lucille Ball obviously had a vested interest in promoting the movie, but wouldn't want to upset the actual sponsors of her TV show by blatantly promoting a film on Warner Brothers' behalf on her show for free, which would mean those sponsors would essentially be paying for a commercial for Mame (again, I'm assuming here that Warners paid nothing for this Here's Lucy episode). But still, it's clearly a promotion for the film, and aired strategically on March 4, 1974, just three weeks before the March 27, 1974 release of Mame in theaters across the country. Mame, incidentally, first went into production in January 1973. So it was a full 14 months after that before it finally hit the movie screens. I guess that's pretty typical of a big budget movie that not only takes time to film, but involves months of editing and sound work, and then scheduling the right time for release.

so is there somewhere i can watch it now? or do i have to wait til 2012 when season 6 comes out?

so is there somewhere i can watch it now? or do i have to wait til 2012 when season 6 comes out?

In case you haven't seen it yet, here you go...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SW75mIQEc8


Enjoy!

Ed :)

Thank you Edster for posting. Just got a look at it. It was really funny. I sure miss Lucy.

Great episode and I couldnt help think of The Doris Day Show Look-alike episode :wave:

A great episode would have been Lucy meets Lucy Carmichael and Harry mets Mr Mooney!

MAME was supposed to come out in time for Christmas of 1973. But it needed a lot of post-production work to make it passable. The silly vanity of Lucy meeting Lucille is a glint into the ego that made Lucy think she could get away with a role like Mame Dennis for which she was totally unsuited in age, looks, type and singing ability.