Least Liked Minor Characters on The Lucy Show

[rezny717]

And this includes ALL seasons-I did not like that soda shop owner in first season's episode "Lucy is a Soda Jerk",or,in a latter third season episode that featured Ann Sothern as Lucy's friend who subbed for Vivian Vance,that stuck up high society woman (played by the late Reta Shaw)whose henpecked husband told her to shut up.Know any others?

[McGillicuddy]

Originally Posted by rezny717

And this includes ALL seasons-I did not like that soda shop owner in first season's episode "Lucy is a Soda Jerk",or,in a latter third season episode that featured Ann Sothern as Lucy's friend who subbed for Vivian Vance,that stuck up high society woman (played by the late Reta Shaw)whose henpecked husband told her to shut up.Know any others?

I think you have Reta Shaw mixed up with Barbara Morrison. Barbara played the snooty woman in the department store who kept running into Lucy.

I don't think I really disliked many minor characters, but I got sick of Sid Gould, the actor who was in almost every other episode of TLS and HL, playing a different character. He didn't have a regular part til he played Sam the bartender in the final seasons of HL. Why didn't they utilize other actors?

[jehobden]

Originally Posted by markway895

I think you have Reta Shaw mixed up with Barbara Morrison. Barbara played the snooty woman in the department store who kept running into Lucy.

I don't think I really disliked many minor characters, but I got sick of Sid Gould, the actor who was in almost every other episode of TLS and HL, playing a different character. He didn't have a regular part til he played Sam the bartender in the final seasons of HL. Why didn't they utilize other actors?

I suspect that Sid Gould got so much work on those shows because he was Gary Morton's cousin, so I've read in "The Lucy Book" anyway.

[bogdanloveslucy]

Originally Posted by markway895

I think you have Reta Shaw mixed up with Barbara Morrison. Barbara played the snooty woman in the department store who kept running into Lucy.

I don't think I really disliked many minor characters, but I got sick of Sid Gould, the actor who was in almost every other episode of TLS and HL, playing a different character. He didn't have a regular part til he played Sam the bartender in the final seasons of HL. Why didn't they utilize other actors?

I don't think you're the only viewer that got sick of that putz real fast.

[lucyandethel]

Gould's wife, Veda Barra, was annoying too. She yelled all of her lines.