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TV DVD Fan · 01-08-2006, 04:47 PM

TLS and HL were good, but they can't compare to ILL.

Pat

comedyfreak · 01-10-2006, 10:35 AM

I prefered Here's Lucy since that was more of my era, I remember the show on primetime. Here's Lucy had a great opening theme, loved the animated sequence too.

Dizzy Arnizzy · 01-14-2006, 03:31 AM

"Here's Lucy" has always been my favorite of Lucy's fives series. I liked how you get to see Lucy's own two children in the show, and all the '70s fads & things used in the show..."Here's Lucy" was just great.

"The Lucy Show" is my fourth favorite of Lucy's series. The first few seasons with Viv were fantastic. But the last few seasons when Lucy moved to California aren't very good (althougth some of my favorite "Lucy" episodes of all time were made in these seasons.) And I think those seasons really dampened the quality of the series in the long run, IMO.

Here are my favorite "Lucy" series in order:

1. "Here's Lucy"
2. "Life With Lucy"
3. "I Love Lucy"
4. "The Lucy Show"
5. "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour"

clj2 · 03-29-2006, 08:40 AM

I like TLS, but I LOVE I Love Lucy. Nothing will EVER top that show, Lucy or not. However, I do enjoy "The Lucy Show", and "Here's Lucy" is OK.

TV Knowledge Fan · 04-12-2006, 09:54 PM

"I LOVE LUCY" is the "evergreen"....."THE LUCY SHOW" is the "also-ran" (it had its moments, but when things began to fall apart at Desilu, the show suffered), and "HERE'S LUCY" is "merely okay" (it started to pick up a little after Bob & Madelyn started contributing scripts again). But Lucy was venerable, no matter what series she starred in. However, "LIFE WITH LUCY"....never should have been a series.

Mr. Television · 04-13-2006, 02:27 AM

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Originally Posted by TV Knowledge Fan

"I LOVE LUCY" is the "evergreen"....."THE LUCY SHOW" is the "also-ran" (it had its moments, but when things began to fall apart at Desilu, the show suffered), and "HERE'S LUCY" is "merely okay" (it started to pick up a little after Bob & Madelyn started contributing scripts again). But Lucy was venerable, no matter what series she starred in. However, "LIFE WITH LUCY"....never should have been a series.

I must have been one of the very few that liked Life With Lucy.

Dizzy Arnizzy · 04-13-2006, 11:35 AM

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Originally Posted by I Walk The Line

I must have been one of the very few that liked Life With Lucy.

Me, too...I loved the show...it's my second favorite "Lucy" series!!

rjt100 · 11-20-2006, 04:04 PM

I have seen every Lucy show made and have ranked them in the following order:

1. "I Love Lucy" (Seasons 2-6)
2. "The Lucy Show" (Seasons 1-3)
3. "I Love Lucy" (Season 1)
4. "The Lucy Show" (Seasons 4-6)
5. "Here's Lucy" (Seasons 1-5)
6. "Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour"
7. "Here's Lucy" (Season 6)
8. "Life With Lucy"

treky · 11-21-2006, 02:20 AM

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Originally Posted by TV Knowledge Fan

"I LOVE LUCY" is the "evergreen"....."THE LUCY SHOW" is the "also-ran" (it had its moments, but when things began to fall apart at Desilu, the show suffered), and "HERE'S LUCY" is "merely okay" (it started to pick up a little after Bob & Madelyn started contributing scripts again). But Lucy was venerable, no matter what series she starred in. However, "LIFE WITH LUCY"....never should have been a series.

I just pretend that "LIFE WITH LUCY" never even happened and do my best to just ignore it.

MyMovieRomance · 03-06-2014, 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by That Other Fan

Is there anyone willing to admit preferring TLS and/or HL over ILL?

Come on...just on person

I'll admit that when I first discovered Lucy via "The Lucy Show," watching that and I Love Lucy, it just seemed that she was so much more funnier in TLS.

Absolutely! Not only do I prefer "the Lucy show" over "I Love Lucy", but I do believe that the first season of the Lucy show is actually my favorite show of all time! There's no better couple then Lucy and Viv! The chemistry was enormous between them! I can't say the same of Lucy and her own two children though, I think they completely lacked chemistry.

The first season of "the Lucy show" out shines so much of what was on "I Love Lucy". And that speaks well of the quality of the Lucy show, because I Love Lucy is no slouch. But, the fact is that the best part of "I Love Lucy" was not Lucy herself, but was the relationship between Lucy and Ethel. Well, the Lucy show just took that relationship to a whole new level of awesomeness!

I wish that either the season one formula would've been continued throughout the whole series, or that the show only lasted for one season, as originally planned, so that I could call the Lucy show my favorite show, without having to make so many specifications (like that I preferred the first season over the last ones).

Season one of the Lucy show really stands on its own, apart from the rest of the series, it might as well be a series of its own, because so much about it is different:

1] it's in black and white
2] it begins with an animated opening sequence
3] it has been next-door neighbor in a prominent part
4] some of the funny episodes of that season rival the quality of the funniest most well-known episodes of I Love Lucy.

It really is remarkable that this show got off on such a good foot from the get-go. It usually takes shows at least a few episodes before it finds its footing. This is even true of I Love Lucy, the earlier episodes are nowhere near the quality of the later ones. But with the Lucy show, it's the opposite. Barely episodes of the best, and those are the ones I love, overall of Lucille Ball's other work.

jehobden · 05-11-2016, 01:42 PM

I'll admit to preferring The Lucy Show, at least Seasons 1-3, over I Love Lucy. My earliest Lucy memories are of the CBS daytime reruns of The Lucy Show, as well as sometimes catching parts of Here's Lucy on CBS primetime. I don't think I saw I Love Lucy until later. My preference for the later shows also appears in my DVD purchases, at least the order of my purchases. I first bought the Here's Lucy "Best-of" set around 2004, then I bought Seasons 1-4 (4 only because it was on sale) of The Lucy Show and Seasons 1 & 2 of Here's Lucy. I also bought a few PD copies of The Lucy Show for 99 cents or so.

I'd never bought any of I Love Lucy on DVD before this past weekend, when I bought the whole series, including The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, from Walmart for about $45. I bought the full set, including all the extras, more to say that I had the series for historical reasons than to go about actually watching the disks, though I certainly intend to watch the discs at some time. I may start with the premiere of LDCH just to see how it looked in its full 75-minute format. I watched every episode of LDCH a few summers ago when Me-TV was running it weekly. Now I can say that I've seen every episode of a Lucy series, but I would certainly like to see the first one completely, especially since the ending of the hour-long version seemed so abrupt, as though a lot of it was cut at the very end.

Adamantium · 05-11-2016, 02:45 PM

To me I Love Lucy is far superior to the other two Lucy series. It’s truly one of the best sitcoms ever made, while The Lucy Show and Here’s Lucy are both simply good shows. However, my grandma always said she preferred The Lucy Show because she didn’t like Desi Arnaz. She made it seem like I Love Lucy and The Lucy Show were the same show because when Nick at Nite would run the original show, she’d complain and say “Oh, it’s one of the episodes with Desi. I like the ones without him better!”

Crusinforabrusin · 06-03-2016, 06:28 AM

I prefer I Love Lucy, but considering how much it's been on TV, I'm just about getting sick of I Love Lucy. I Love Lucy is ran constantly everyday and on at least 3 channels. While the The Lucy-Desi comedy hour, The Lucy Show And Here's Lucy are barely seen in syndication. I'd rather see these shows more often than I Love Lucy

Crusinforabrusin · 06-03-2016, 06:28 AM

I prefer I Love Lucy, but considering how much it's been on TV, I'm just about getting sick of I Love Lucy. I Love Lucy is ran constantly everyday and on at least 3 channels. While the The Lucy-Desi comedy hour, The Lucy Show And Here's Lucy are barely seen in syndication. I'd rather see these shows more often than I Love Lucy

OH Nuts! · 06-03-2016, 07:34 AM

I love "I Love Lucy" the best. It was ground-breaking, iconic and a true classic. It's still just as outrageously entertaining 60+ years later. But I really am fond of her other shows too, but IMO they're not in the same class as ILL.

Basically, you can give me anything with Lucille Ball in it and I will eat it up. Lucy can do no wrong. I love Lucy! Pun intended!

01-08-2006, 04:47 PM	#16
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04-12-2006, 09:54 PM	#20
TV Knowledge Fan Member Senior Member Join Date: Mar 29, 2006 Location: Long Branch, N.J. Posts: 2,577	In my opinion.... "I LOVE LUCY" is the "evergreen"....."THE LUCY SHOW" is the "also-ran" (it had its moments, but when things began to fall apart at Desilu, the show suffered), and "HERE'S LUCY" is "merely okay" (it started to pick up a little after Bob & Madelyn started contributing scripts again). But Lucy was venerable, no matter what series she starred in. However, "LIFE WITH LUCY"....never should have been a series.

11-20-2006, 04:04 PM	#23
rjt100 Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Nov 13, 2006 Location: Elmsford, New York Posts: 87	Rating all the Lucy shows I have seen every Lucy show made and have ranked them in the following order: 1. "I Love Lucy" (Seasons 2-6) 2. "The Lucy Show" (Seasons 1-3) 3. "I Love Lucy" (Season 1) 4. "The Lucy Show" (Seasons 4-6) 5. "Here's Lucy" (Seasons 1-5) 6. "Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour" 7. "Here's Lucy" (Season 6) 8. "Life With Lucy"

06-03-2016, 06:28 AM	#28
Crusinforabrusin It's time to move on, Goodbye Senior Member Join Date: Dec 27, 2015 Posts: 2,056	I prefer I Love Lucy, but considering how much it's been on TV, I'm just about getting sick of I Love Lucy. I Love Lucy is ran constantly everyday and on at least 3 channels. While the The Lucy-Desi comedy hour, The Lucy Show And Here's Lucy are barely seen in syndication. I'd rather see these shows more often than I Love Lucy
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01-10-2006, 10:35 AM	#17
comedyfreak Cheers! Forum Fanatic Join Date: Dec 14, 2005 Location: Sunny California Posts: 11,061	I prefered Here's Lucy since that was more of my era, I remember the show on primetime. Here's Lucy had a great opening theme, loved the animated sequence too.

01-14-2006, 03:31 AM	#18
Dizzy Arnizzy Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Dec 19, 2004 Posts: 110	"Here's Lucy" has always been my favorite of Lucy's fives series. I liked how you get to see Lucy's own two children in the show, and all the '70s fads & things used in the show..."Here's Lucy" was just great. "The Lucy Show" is my fourth favorite of Lucy's series. The first few seasons with Viv were fantastic. But the last few seasons when Lucy moved to California aren't very good (althougth some of my favorite "Lucy" episodes of all time were made in these seasons.) And I think those seasons really dampened the quality of the series in the long run, IMO. Here are my favorite "Lucy" series in order: 1. "Here's Lucy" 2. "Life With Lucy" 3. "I Love Lucy" 4. "The Lucy Show" 5. "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour"

03-29-2006, 08:40 AM	#19
clj2 Member Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Sep 16, 2005 Location: SC Posts: 3,501	I like TLS, but I LOVE I Love Lucy. Nothing will EVER top that show, Lucy or not. However, I do enjoy "The Lucy Show", and "Here's Lucy" is OK.

05-11-2016, 01:42 PM	#26
jehobden Member Senior Member Join Date: Jan 06, 2002 Location: DFW Area, TX Posts: 2,006	I'll admit to preferring The Lucy Show, at least Seasons 1-3, over I Love Lucy. My earliest Lucy memories are of the CBS daytime reruns of The Lucy Show, as well as sometimes catching parts of Here's Lucy on CBS primetime. I don't think I saw I Love Lucy until later. My preference for the later shows also appears in my DVD purchases, at least the order of my purchases. I first bought the Here's Lucy "Best-of" set around 2004, then I bought Seasons 1-4 (4 only because it was on sale) of The Lucy Show and Seasons 1 & 2 of Here's Lucy. I also bought a few PD copies of The Lucy Show for 99 cents or so. I'd never bought any of I Love Lucy on DVD before this past weekend, when I bought the whole series, including The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, from Walmart for about $45. I bought the full set, including all the extras, more to say that I had the series for historical reasons than to go about actually watching the disks, though I certainly intend to watch the discs at some time. I may start with the premiere of LDCH just to see how it looked in its full 75-minute format. I watched every episode of LDCH a few summers ago when Me-TV was running it weekly. Now I can say that I've seen every episode of a Lucy series, but I would certainly like to see the first one completely, especially since the ending of the hour-long version seemed so abrupt, as though a lot of it was cut at the very end.

05-11-2016, 02:45 PM	#27
Adamantium TVAdam No More Forum Veteran Join Date: Sep 11, 2002 Location: Springfield, Ohio Posts: 7,839	To me I Love Lucy is far superior to the other two Lucy series. It’s truly one of the best sitcoms ever made, while The Lucy Show and Here’s Lucy are both simply good shows. However, my grandma always said she preferred The Lucy Show because she didn’t like Desi Arnaz. She made it seem like I Love Lucy and The Lucy Show were the same show because when Nick at Nite would run the original show, she’d complain and say “Oh, it’s one of the episodes with Desi. I like the ones without him better!”

06-03-2016, 07:34 AM	#30
OH Nuts! Member Forum King Join Date: Feb 15, 2005 Posts: 133,383	I love "I Love Lucy" the best. It was ground-breaking, iconic and a true classic. It's still just as outrageously entertaining 60+ years later. But I really am fond of her other shows too, but IMO they're not in the same class as ILL. Basically, you can give me anything with Lucille Ball in it and I will eat it up. Lucy can do no wrong. I love Lucy! Pun intended!