Today, i'd like to recommend the Lucy specials. Most notably the Carol plus 2 special which was the pilot for Carol's show. Lucy and Zero Mostel guest star and the numbers are great, the sketches funny, this is where you will see the famous Good bye Baby sketch that Lee and Jim keep referring to. That musical number that we've all seen excerpts of with Lucy and Carol as charwomen is a riot and a great song. The specila is one of the best Lucy ever did. I also liked Lucy and Dean Martin in that Vegas special that Lucy did with Dino. She even did her own stunts in this one, at one point she drives a car down a flight of stairs,and she's in sixties by this time. The specials with Gleason and Carney are not as good as this one with Dino who was a friend and someone she admired and it shows, it looks like she's having a good time, and we do too!
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