The Lucy Show: Season 3 (rumor of a Dec. 2010 release)

[McGillicuddy]

Originally Posted by rjt100

Season four will definitely be out (in my opinion) around July 2011 because the sales of season three will be high, especially if season three is released during the holidays of this year. I don't think CBS would be stupid enough not to release the last two seasons. Believe me there are a lot of diehard Lucy fans, if there weren't, "Here's Lucy" wouldn't be selling that well.

Yeah, rjt! I like your hope and optimism for the complete Lucy Show. I like your predictions, better than Little Ricky's (Sorry, Little Ricky!)

I think even M.P.I. and CBS are working with each other with their schedules of HL and TLS, so they don't have to compete with each other.

[Marvo301]

Originally Posted by markway895

Yeah, rjt! I like your hope and optimism for the complete Lucy Show. I like your predictions, better than Little Ricky's (Sorry, Little Ricky!)

I think even M.P.I. and CBS are working with each other with their schedules of HL and TLS, so they don't have to compete with each other.

And MPI has already committed to releasing all six seasons of "Here's Lucy" so it would reflect poorly on CBS if they didn't do the same with "The Lucy Show". I don't think they will have any problems finding customers either. There are many Lucy fans out there who would love to own the entire catalog of Lucy's TV career on DVD!

[nvtlover]

I agree that the Lucy Show will be harder to sell especially after season 3. I personally am buying Here's Lucy right now because I haven't seen them before and I like to space out my Lucy viewing. I then plan to buy the Viv years of the Lucy Show. However, besides the public domain shows, I have almost all of season 6 and a good share of season 4 as well. The quality isn't great but because I work part-time I won't rush out to get the DVDs. I agree that Lucy could be just as funny in the California years as the Viv years but there were bad shows in those years. I find that Lucy was great but the scripts and their character development were lacking.

I look forward to the rest of Here's Lucy. I got the Best of and at that time I wasn't impressed but now I am up to season 3 of Here's Lucy and I actually enjoy the show. I find it funny and I like how the characters are developed. I have to watch each show as different because they all are and not compare them to I Love Lucy. Each was classic in its own way.

I hope soon Happy ANniversary and Goodbye and Catherine Curtis will be released. A friend mailed me a horrible copy on VHS of Anniversary which later broke but I found it very entertaining and cannot wait to see the Catherine Curtis special, which was critically acclaimed.

Someone said that the NBC special was horrible, what are your opinions? I saw a clip with Lucy and Gary Coleman on YouTube and found it distrubing especially when Gary grabs Lucy's face and makes her smile. is there anything good in that special? Will the Nashville special ever be released? My dad loves Lucy and country music and I would think it is good, is it?

[rjt100]

I am one of the biggest Lucy fans but there is absolutely nothing good about "Lucy Moves To NBC." I will buy it when its released on DVD but only for the extras. It aired in February 1980 on a Friday night. It ran for 90 minutes from 8:30pm-10:00 pm. It competition was CBS' powerhouses "Dukes of Hazzard" and "Dallas." It was killed in the ratings and rightly so. The special consisted of NBC's top TV stars welcoming Lucy to NBC and the final half hour was a pilot starring Donald O'Connor and Gloria DeHaven. "Lucy Comes To Nashville" was not a Lucille Ball special. Basically, Lucy was just a hostess and introduced country singers. She did one or two comedy bits but I guess CBS probably thought that putting her name on the special would get viewers. I believe this special is owned by CBS and I wouldn't count on it being released on DVD. There was nothing special about this program.

[McGillicuddy]

My favorite "Lucille Ball Special" is Lucy Calls the President! Its so cool that Lucy, Viv, Gale, Mary Jane and Mary Wickes were all reunited one last time. I also like Lucy Gets Lucky, but for some reason this one doesn't seem so popular. I'm having trouble getting into Three For Two, maybe because Lucille is not playing "Lucy". I think I will get Lucy Comes to NBC, out of curiosity.

[LittleRickyII]

Originally Posted by markway895

Yeah, rjt! I like your hope and optimism for the complete Lucy Show. I like your predictions, better than Little Ricky's (Sorry, Little Ricky!)

I think even M.P.I. and CBS are working with each other with their schedules of HL and TLS, so they don't have to compete with each other.

I'm not about making predictions, I'm simply saying it would be in the best interests of the fans if the TLS releases are spread out the way they have been so far. CBS is not MPI. MPI has a business model that enables it to release just about anything and still make a profit. The big companies like CBS/Paramount and Fox are not set up that way and they require far more sales volume in order to continue with a business venture. For CBS, this is all about business, nothing else. You can be as optimistic as you want, but that isn't going to change CBS's business model. All they care about is their bottom line. And all I've done is outline a scenario where we, the fans, have the best case for seeing all the seasons of TLS released. Rushing the releases is not the best case scenario. You may be eager for CBS to rush out new seasons, but in the end if they do that, the consequence could wind up being exactly the opposite of what you ultimately hope for, meaning one or two or three seasons might not ever see the light of day. You know the saying, patience is a virtue? If you want the best odds for the whole series getting released, then be patient and let them take their time to ensure the marketplace is working in their favor.

[LittleRickyII]

Originally Posted by nvtlover

I agree that the Lucy Show will be harder to sell especially after season 3. I personally am buying Here's Lucy right now because I haven't seen them before and I like to space out my Lucy viewing. I then plan to buy the Viv years of the Lucy Show. However, besides the public domain shows, I have almost all of season 6 and a good share of season 4 as well. The quality isn't great but because I work part-time I won't rush out to get the DVDs. I agree that Lucy could be just as funny in the California years as the Viv years but there were bad shows in those years. I find that Lucy was great but the scripts and their character development were lacking.

I look forward to the rest of Here's Lucy. I got the Best of and at that time I wasn't impressed but now I am up to season 3 of Here's Lucy and I actually enjoy the show. I find it funny and I like how the characters are developed. I have to watch each show as different because they all are and not compare them to I Love Lucy. Each was classic in its own way.

The thing with Here's Lucy is I think you have to put I Love Lucy out of your head when you watch it. If you are constantly comparing it to that classic, you'll come up disappointed. But if you can watch it like you would watch any other show (i.e., not measuring it against some impossible standard), it can be enjoyable.

Originally Posted by nvtlover

I hope soon Happy ANniversary and Goodbye and Catherine Curtis will be released. A friend mailed me a horrible copy on VHS of Anniversary which later broke but I found it very entertaining and cannot wait to see the Catherine Curtis special, which was critically acclaimed.

I, too, got ahold of one of those "horrible" copies of Happy Anniversary and Goodbye, and I also found it very entertaining. It's my favorite of her 1970s specials, and I'm looking forward to getting a good copy when the DVD comes out. I've never seen the Catherine Curtis one.

Originally Posted by nvtlover

Someone said that the NBC special was horrible, what are your opinions? I saw a clip with Lucy and Gary Coleman on YouTube and found it distrubing especially when Gary grabs Lucy's face and makes her smile. is there anything good in that special? Will the Nashville special ever be released? My dad loves Lucy and country music and I would think it is good, is it?

Well, from what I remember, the Gary Coleman segment was pretty typical of the humor in the first hour of the special, which I didn't think was terrible, though it wasn't great, either. That last half hour, though, the Donald O'Connor pilot was pretty horrible. It is no surprise at all that NBC did not pick that up as a series. It kind of reminds me of that Lucie Arnaz show pilot episode they did on Here's Lucy: terrible. It's ironic that Lucy seemed to have a keen ability to sell winning concepts for dramatic shows (Mission: Impossible, Star Trek, Mannix), but her ideas for comedy shows were awful.

[jehobden]

Originally Posted by rjt100

I am one of the biggest Lucy fans but there is absolutely nothing good about "Lucy Moves To NBC." I will buy it when its released on DVD but only for the extras. It aired in February 1980 on a Friday night. It ran for 90 minutes from 8:30pm-10:00 pm. It competition was CBS' powerhouses "Dukes of Hazzard" and "Dallas." It was killed in the ratings and rightly so. The special consisted of NBC's top TV stars welcoming Lucy to NBC and the final half hour was a pilot starring Donald O'Connor and Gloria DeHaven. "Lucy Comes To Nashville" was not a Lucille Ball special. Basically, Lucy was just a hostess and introduced country singers. She did one or two comedy bits but I guess CBS probably thought that putting her name on the special would get viewers. I believe this special is owned by CBS and I wouldn't count on it being released on DVD. There was nothing special about this program.

I remember reading a review of "Lucy Moves to NBC" in my local paper and then watching the whole special on its original airdate in 1980. I never cared for Dukes of Hazzard or Dallas, and I loved relaxing & watching tv when I was a teen, so I saw the whole special. I remember very few details about it other than seeing Gary Coleman, Johnny Carson, & Bob Hope appear on the special. I have no memory of the Donald O'Connor pilot as part of the show, but it has been 30 years now.

I also saw the "Lucy Comes to Nashville" special because I was in the Grand Ole Opry House audience for what I think was the 2nd of 2 nights of taping. Lucy didn't seem to appear in much of this part. I think she'd done her biggest comedy piece, attempting to direct the McGavock High School Band, on the 1st night, and what was left was mostly introductions and performances by other people like Barbara Mandrell, who sang her hit "Sleeping Single in a Double Bed". I don't remember being too impressed by this show either, and my mom got to see & enjoy a later taping of a special called "Carol & Dolly in Nashville", which she liked a lot more than this one.

[LittleRickyII]

Originally Posted by jehobden

I remember reading a review of "Lucy Moves to NBC" in my local paper and then watching the whole special on its original airdate in 1980. I never cared for Dukes of Hazzard or Dallas, and I loved relaxing & watching tv when I was a teen, so I saw the whole special. I remember very few details about it other than seeing Gary Coleman, Johnny Carson, & Bob Hope appear on the special. I have no memory of the Donald O'Connor pilot as part of the show, but it has been 30 years now.

My memory of the Donald O'Connor pilot isn't too sharp after all these years, but it had a generation gap theme. It was something about a music store that Donald O'Connor ran. Gloria DeHaven played his wife. And there was a teenage guy named Scotty Plummer who played their son. I could be wrong, but it seemed like the story had something to do with the son being in a band and clash of musical tastes between him and his father. Lucy had a cameo as some old lady collecting donations (or something). Lucy's brief appearance was the only thing worth seeing during that half hour of the special.

Incidentally, Scotty Plummer worked with Lucie Arnaz several years earlier in a segment of The Wonderful World of Disney. I saw that show on Youtube about a year or so ago, but I think it's since been removed.

Sadly, Scotty Plummer, who was something of a child prodigy banjo player, according to Wikipedia died in 1992 as the result of a motorcycle accident. Here's his wiki biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotty_Plummer

And here are a couple clips of him, an interview clip and one of him performing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qN8cOdYg40
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCHANg3A0RA

There are a number of other clips of him on Youtube, so he apparently did have a following. I imagine Lucy was just as impressed with him as she had been with Wayne Newton 15 years earlier.

Originally Posted by jehobden

I also saw the "Lucy Comes to Nashville" special because I was in the Grand Ole Opry House audience for what I think was the 2nd of 2 nights of taping. Lucy didn't seem to appear in much of this part. I think she'd done her biggest comedy piece, attempting to direct the McGavock High School Band, on the 1st night, and what was left was mostly introductions and performances by other people like Barbara Mandrell, who sang her hit "Sleeping Single in a Double Bed". I don't remember being too impressed by this show either, and my mom got to see & enjoy a later taping of a special called "Carol & Dolly in Nashville", which she liked a lot more than this one.

Lucky you, at least you got to see Lucille Ball in person. The closest I ever got to seeing her was standing for a few minutes by the curb on the street outside her house a couple months after she had had her stroke. I remember an upstairs window being open with the curtains blowing in the breeze, and I assume she was inside somewhere as she probably wouldn't have been getting out much at that time. And some older woman fan stopped by while I was out there and stood staring at the house as if she had just discovered Oz. But alas, I never actually saw Ms. Ball, just settled for the happy thought of knowing only those walls, and about 30 yards, separated me from her.