I bought a package of DVDs that had about 12 episodes of TLS (all from different seasons). I did watch this show growing up but I'm thinking Mr. Mooney wasn't on the last seasons. Is that right. If so, how did they write him out.?

I bought a package of DVDs that had about 12 episodes of TLS (all from different seasons). I did watch this show growing up but I'm thinking Mr. Mooney wasn't on the last seasons. Is that right. If so, how did they write him out.?

Gale Gordon wasn't on the show during the first season, 1962-63; he was playing Mr. Wilson on Dennis the Menace, having replaced the late Joseph Kearns on that show. The moment Dennis the Menace got cancelled at the end of the 1962-63 season, Lucille Ball quickly signed him to join The Lucy Show for its second season in the fall of 1963. He remained on The Lucy Show all the way until the end in 1968. So he was never written out. It was Vivian Vance who got written out when she quit half way through, in 1965. And in fact, after the five seasons on The Lucy Show, Gale Gordon continued with Lucille Ball for all six seasons of her next series, Here's Lucy, which began in 1968 as soon as The Lucy Show ended, and ran until 1974. So between those two series, he worked with Lucille Ball eleven consecutive seasons, plus the three he did with her on radio in My Favorite Husband (1948-51), and the half season of Life with Lucy in 1986. They also were together, sort of, on The Phil Baker Show on radio back in 1938, he as an announcer and she as a featured player.

Gale Gordon wasn't on the show during the first season, 1962-63; he was playing Mr. Wilson on Dennis the Menace, having replaced the late Joseph Kearns on that show. The moment Dennis the Menace got cancelled at the end of the 1962-63 season, Lucille Ball quickly signed him to join The Lucy Show for its second season in the fall of 1963. He remained on The Lucy Show all the way until the end in 1968. So he was never written out. It was Vivian Vance who got written out when she quit half way through, in 1965. And in fact, after the five seasons on The Lucy Show, Gale Gordon continued with Lucille Ball for all six seasons of her next series, Here's Lucy, which began in 1968 as soon as The Lucy Show ended, and ran until 1974. So between those two series, he worked with Lucille Ball eleven consecutive seasons, plus the three he did with her on radio in My Favorite Husband (1948-51), and the half season of Life with Lucy in 1986. They also were together, sort of, on The Phil Baker Show on radio back in 1938, he as an announcer and she as a featured player.

thanks. Here is what specifically happened on the show that made me think Mr. Mooney left. One of the shows had Lucy being the secretary to Milton Berle (and so I thought for whatever reason she wasn't at the bank anymore b/c Mr. Mooney left)

thanks. Here is what specifically happened on the show that made me think Mr. Mooney left. One of the shows had Lucy being the secretary to Milton Berle (and so I thought for whatever reason she wasn't at the bank anymore b/c Mr. Mooney left)

The set-up for that episode was that Lucy needed to earn some extra money, and Mary Jane found out about this temporary job working for Milton Berle, who needed a secretary "over the weekend." So she was doing that job for Milton Berle on her weekend time off from the bank.

Gale Gordon wasn't on the show during the first season, 1962-63; he was playing Mr. Wilson on Dennis the Menace, having replaced the late Joseph Kearns on that show. The moment Dennis the Menace got cancelled at the end of the 1962-63 season, Lucille Ball quickly signed him to join The Lucy Show for its second season in the fall of 1963. He remained on The Lucy Show all the way until the end in 1968. So he was never written out. It was Vivian Vance who got written out when she quit half way through, in 1965. And in fact, after the five seasons on The Lucy Show, Gale Gordon continued with Lucille Ball for all six seasons of her next series, Here's Lucy, which began in 1968 as soon as The Lucy Show ended, and ran until 1974. So between those two series, he worked with Lucille Ball eleven consecutive seasons, plus the three he did with her on radio in My Favorite Husband (1948-51), and the half season of Life with Lucy in 1986. They also were together, sort of, on The Phil Baker Show on radio back in 1938, he as an announcer and she as a featured player.
and he was also on a few episodes of "I LOVE LUCY" as Rickys boss, and he was a judge on an episode of "THE LUCY-DESI COMEDY HOUR".

.....and he was on the special, Lucy Calls the President and I think Lucy Moves to NBC.

And don't forget Life With Lucy, too!

.....and he was on the special, Lucy Calls the President and I think Lucy Moves to NBC.
yes, he was on LUCY MOVES TO NBC.