I just spoke to Jeff Nemerovski, Vice President of Business Development of CBS Home Entertainment in California and he told me that "The Lucy Show" season five has a tentative release date for December 6th. I told Mr. Nemerovski what a wonderful job CBS and Paramount have done on the Lucy releases. He told me that Tom Watson should be thanked since he is the execuitve producer of the releases. ALSO, BIG SCOOP - "Lucy In London" will be released but they haven't decided yet to include it in season five. It seems that they are in talks with NET to have a pledge drive for "Lucy In London" in celebration of the 60th Anniversary of "I Love Lucy" and the 100 Birthday of Lucille Ball. I believe he said that the pledge drive would also include the DVD version of American Master's Finding Lucy, which was offered a few years ago in VHS version on NET as a pledge drive. This is just great news. So we either get "Lucy In London" in season five or we can purchase it through NET if they have a Lucy pledge drive.

P.S. I also failed to mention that if CBS includes "Lucy In London" in season five of "The Lucy Show" they would consider a pledge drive for Lucille Ball's guest appearance on "The Danny Kaye Show" which aired in 1964.

FANTASTIC NEWS about both The Lucy Show Season 5 AND Lucy in London and also the release of American Master's Finding Lucy!!! By the way, what is NET?

is the Public Broadcasting System. In New York it's channel 13.

I think Lucy In London should be included on the season 5 DVD, that's where it belongs not as a separate release.

I think Lucy In London should be included on the season 5 DVD, that's where it belongs not as a separate release.

And if released as a seperate DVD release, we should have the option to purchase it in stores and not from some $250 pledge drive for public television.

I have no problem with PBS and people donating money for it, but I do have a problem for something like this possibly going as a NET pledge drive release. After the asking and letter writing to get the special released, this is how CBS is thinking about treating the fans???

Great news about season 5 at least.

What a nice Christmas present this would be from CBS Home Entertainment!

I was getting a bit worried that Season 5 was not going to get a release because normally CBS announced the next season of Lucy Show before the release of the season before (if that makes sense! :o )

December is a long wait... I was expecting October-November release if my previous worries mentioned above were nothing!

I'm ready for Season 5 now, but will wait ever so patiently until December.

Just announced on tvshowsondvd.com http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Lucy-Season-5/15517

The 6 month countdown starts now! :happyface

Time will go real quick we're already half way through the year. Hopefully sales of season 5 will be impressive so we can have six.

It would be ridiculous not to include Lucy in London with Season 5, because the episode "Lucy Goes to London" leads up to it (obviously).

I always felt it was part of The Lucy Show, anyway. After all, Lucy plays Lucy Carmichael in it. And there were only 22 episodes in Season 5, instead of 24, as all the remaining years of Lucy's sitcoms had. So, considering the hour special as two half-hour episodes, we get the normal 24 half-hours for Season 5.

All of the above logic leads to the inescapable conclusion that Lucy in London belongs in the Season 5 set, no matter what CBS finally decides to do.

Is Mr. Mooney/Gale Gordon in Lucy In London? I don't think he is, but he is in the episode Lucy Flies to London, so where was he while Lucy was in London?

If I remember correctly, Lucy needed to fly to New York to get her plane to London. By coincidence, Mr. Mooney was on the same plane to New York, so that's where he was when Lucy flew on to London.

It would be ridiculous not to include Lucy in London with Season 5, because the episode "Lucy Goes to London" leads up to it (obviously).

I always felt it was part of The Lucy Show, anyway. After all, Lucy plays Lucy Carmichael in it. And there were only 22 episodes in Season 5, instead of 24, as all the remaining years of Lucy's sitcoms had. So, considering the hour special as two half-hour episodes, we get the normal 24 half-hours for Season 5.

All of the above logic leads to the inescapable conclusion that Lucy in London belongs in the Season 5 set, no matter what CBS finally decides to do.

Yes, those are also my sentiments exactly.

Is Mr. Mooney/Gale Gordon in Lucy In London? I don't think he is, but he is in the episode Lucy Flies to London, so where was he while Lucy was in London?
Thanx! Well, now it makes sense. Except that this episode should be called "Lucy Flies To New York", since the London lag of the trip wasn't in the episode!
But atleast I understand where Mr. Mooney was, while Lucy was in London!

FANTASTIC NEWS about both The Lucy Show Season 5 AND Lucy in London and also the release of American Master's Finding Lucy!!! By the way, what is NET?


I've watched "American Masters Finding Lucy" at least a dozen times. I don't know who produced that documentary, but I hope they won some awards for it. That was one of the most moving, touching things I have ever seen.

Is there still no word on the season 5 release?? It seems word leaked out on seasons 3 & 4, on CBS Facebook page, before TVShowsonDVD.com. I would think a press release would be coming soon, if its coming in December!