Could this be a flub?

[Timoth26]

Hey, I was rewatching the official first season of The Lucy Show and just got to wondering. Could this be a flub? In the episode "Lucy Buys a Sheep" when they're in the kitchen watching Clemontine eat the grass and they started to talk about mink coats and stuff. Well Viv happens to look out the window and starts to snow. She says to Lucy "Oh, Lucy it's starting to snow!". Well Lucy then says to Viv "I can't be snowing it's to early!" Is this a flub? Because just a couple episodes before in the episode "Lucy Is a Referee" they have a heavy blizzard and Lucy has to keep all those 25 kids over night. Did the writters already forget they made it snow in the second episode? Or did they still not do story continuaty in "The Lucy Show"? So, could this be a flub?

[1960'sTVfan]

Lucy Buys A Sheep was the 2nd episode produced and Lucy Is A Referee was the 4th episode produced. Original airdates did not match up with the production order. This is why I prefer episodes in production order on DVD's, not by airdate order. Going by airdate order sometimes results in continuity errors which are noticeable.

[Timoth26]

Oh, Okay. I've wondered about that since I started watching the show last summer when the first season dvd came out. I knew some of the "I Love Lucy" where done in a different order then aired but, I didn't know "The Lucy Show" was done that way. Do you know where I can find the production codes for the first season?

[jehobden]

Originally Posted by Timoth26

Oh, Okay. I've wondered about that since I started watching the show last summer when the first season dvd came out. I knew some of the "I Love Lucy" where done in a different order then aired but, I didn't know "The Lucy Show" was done that way. Do you know where I can find the production codes for the first season?

The first season production codes are listed here in the 3rd column:

http://www.epguides.com/LucyShow/

There are 31 production codes but only 30 eps produced. That may be accounting for an ep that went to rehearsal but was not produced. Geoffrey Mark Fidelman's "The Lucy Book" gives details of 2 eps, 1 in each of the first 2 seasons, which went unproduced. This ep fell close to Dick Martin's last ep, which was filmed in January and aired in February ("Lucy & Viv Learn Judo"). Now that I look at the production #s and compare them to the original production dates that I read on the DVDs, I see a problem. According to the DVDs, "Lucy's Barbershop Quartet" was the last ep produced in 1962, and "Lucy & Viv Become Tycoons" was the first ep produced in 1963, but these production numbers give the "Tycoons" ep a lower production #, so 1 or the other is wrong here, or the production #s were assigned wrong. The production # list has no ep #11, so that may be the unproduced ep, but Fidelman's book puts it later, so I can't be sure there.