Anyone digging "Lotsa Luck" with Dom DeLuise?

[dakert]

I bought this 1 season series on a whim and thought is was very good. I already watched the whole season and now re-watching some of my favorite episodes--like the one with Suzanne Somers.
I like finding hidden treasures.
Anyone else?

[robyrob]

i enjoyed watching the episodes, but think I only made it through 2 disks before i got sidetracked and started watching something else

[Chocolate Moose]

I enjoyed it when it was new, and I enjoyed it when I rented it a few months ago.

[TJ]

Suzanne Somers made her first sitcom guest appearance on Lotsa Luck on March 8, 1974.



She promoted the guest appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on February 21, 1974 (5 days before I was born). What a beauty.

Suzanne Somers Was Discovered One Week After Moving to Hollywood | Carson Tonight Show

[1960'sTVfan]

Originally Posted by dakert

I bought this 1 season series on a whim and thought is was very good. I already watched the whole season and now re-watching some of my favorite episodes--like the one with Suzanne Somers.
I like finding hidden treasures.
Anyone else?

I have the DVD's also and glad that I own a set because it's out of print for awhile now. It's a fun show and deserved a longer run than just the one season.

I like Beverly Sanders in this series. In the episodes they made her up to look plain and homely but she's actually a cute looking woman.

The pilot episode is funny where the family goes out to buy a new toilet, the one they end up getting is a gaudy orange color with a purple lid and seat that looks like it's straight out of the 1970's, gaudy and flashy colors were in fashion then.

There's an error on the first disc with regards to episode titles. The pilot episode which I described is titled Olive's Present, but this title is used for the 1st episode on disc 1 which is not correct. The 1st episode has to do with sickness going around in the family, I think Family Flu is the actual title of this episode.

[TMC]

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NBC struck out with both of its new sitcoms this year, though both certainly looked good on paper. Lotsa Luck was created by Carl Reiner, Bill Persky and Sam Denoff, three of the best writers for The Dick Van Dyke Show, which Reiner also created. Persky and Denoff also created That Girl.

There was an All in the Family vibe about the series, about a multi-generational working class family in New York. Stanley worked the lost and found counter at a bus company. He lived with his domineering mother, his sister Olive, and her unemployed husband Arthur.



I was amazed when I reviewed the posts on IMDB and YouTube about this series, most of which were rave reviews. I thought it was awful, even with its laugh track dialed up to 11 for punch-less punch lines. Hiring Dom DeLuise as Stanley strikes me as one of the worst examples of miscasting in the history of television. He was a born second banana, best utilized in over-the-top characters opposite Dean Martin on the singer’s variety series, or flamboyant nuts in movies with Mel Brooks or Burt Reynolds. But as an ordinary Joe beaten down by life? It doesn’t work at all.

If you’re still curious, go to YouTube and select the episode “Bummy’s Girl,” as it features Suzanne Somers, who doesn’t play the material at the same exaggerated volume as everyone else, and is easily the best thing in the show.

[1960'sTVfan]

Lotsa Luck has a talented group of actors, Dom DeLuise is good in the role of Stanley Belmont, Kathleen Freeman is good in the role of Stanley's mom. The other actors are good in their roles also. Stanley's mom often times says to Stanley whenever she sees him "Oh hi Stanley how are ya?"

In one of the episodes, don't recall which one it is, there's a funny routine where Stanley's mom sees him and she says "Oh hi Stanley how are ya?" Then Stanley replies "Hi I'm fine mom." Then later she sees him a second time and again she says "Oh hi Stanley how are ya?" Then he replies "Hi I'm still fine mom!"

[BestTVever]

I was too young to remember the show but caught it a few years ago when they aired it on MeTV or Antenna TV. I really enjoyed it. But the show ran like a play instead of a sitcom. I dont know why but the characters or the acting just was not natural and maybe because back in those days they filmed in front of a live audience made it seem like a play.

[cd637299]

I was 14 when it came on, and I felt it deserved better. Of course, what’s the opinion of a 14 year old?

AntennaTV ran a marathon for a St Patrick’s Day. I don’t think they had the rights to the pilot ep (about a toilet, totally visible throughout the ep). I could empathize with Stanley (DeLuise) putting up with that lazy no-good son-in-law.

Kathleen Freeman (Ma) seems good at everything she ever did. She knew how to get to Stanley….

Ma: I need you to [name job to do here] for me.
Stanley: I won’t do it!
[long pause]
Ma: Do I have a son, or do I not have a son?
Stanley [under his breath]: You have a son.
Ma: Will my son [name job], or will he not [name job]?
Stanley [under his breath]: I will [do the job].
Ma: You’re a wonderful son, Stanley.
Stanley: You’re a pain in the neck, Ma.

Sure they did that bit a lot, but it worked, at least for me! Of course I wouldn’t say that last line to my own folks.

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