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Terry Ross · 11-21-2000, 10:21 AM

After the 30-minute "I Love Lucy" episodes went off the air, the four principals went on to do 13-hour long "Lucy/Desi Comedy Hour" shows. The Ricardos andMertzes still lived in Connecticut but often travelled. Which is your favorite? I like the "Make Room For Daddy" episode because I remember that show as a child. Did know that during the filming of the very last episode "Lucy Meets The Mustache" (Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams), Lucy and Desi weren't speaking and are never alone in any one scene (except the last one, which was very emotional for them).

rjrane · 11-25-2000, 04:41 PM

I liked the one where Fred MacMurray joined them on a uranium hunt,that turned out to be a wild goose chase that had started because of a false news-story that Lucy herself had printed.Fred MacMurray and William Frawley would work together in the later years.(My Three Sons.)

I noticed that in the Lucy-Desi/Make Room for Daddy Crossover,the judge in the court scene was Gale Gordon-who would work a LOT more with Lucy in the later years.

jamier42 · 02-05-2001, 05:31 PM

My favorite episodes of Lucy Desi Comedy Hour is The Danny Thomas one, The Hunt Uranium one, the one where Lucy races a horse. I like alot of them though. I have seen all of them.

SOAPDYNASTY · 08-22-2002, 01:43 AM

Hi,

My favorite episodes of Lucy-Desi shows are.....

(1) Hunt for Uranium

(2) Make Room For Danny

Kristina · 09-15-2002, 08:30 PM

"Lucy Goes To Japan" that episode is so funny along with "Make Room For Danny" that one is hilarious!

JaneTVFan · 09-16-2002, 12:01 AM

The Tallulah Bankhead episode is my favorite, followed by Lucy Makes Room for Danny and then Lucy Wants a Career.

dawsongirl · 09-16-2002, 12:48 AM

The first one

SBTB Geek · 09-16-2002, 11:36 PM

The one where Lucy joins a gardening competition, and when Lucy and Ricky went camping, and their boat was sinking.

SPLAIN · 09-17-2002, 03:55 PM

To me the Danny Thomas one is the best and the one that held up the best after all those years. Especially where she's sitting on the edge of the bed and he's kissing her thinking it's his wife, the faces she makes are so different from anything else she's ever done, it cracks me up every time!

JaneTVFan · 09-19-2002, 02:21 AM

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Originally posted by SPLAIN
To me the Danny Thomas one is the best and the one that held up the best after all those years. Especially where she's sitting on the edge of the bed and he's kissing her thinking it's his wife, the faces she makes are so different from anything else she's ever done, it cracks me up every time!

Also, that courtroom scene is hysterical when she is playing charades because she's lost her voice. Gale Gordon was pretty hilarious in that scene as well. I think this and the Tallulah episode are the funniest, but this episode certainly fits the hour long format best as the Tallulah episode (as many critics have noted) is really more like to half hour episodes stitched together.

SPLAIN · 09-19-2002, 09:08 AM

Jane, do you agree that although Tallulah was excellent in that episode, that it would really have been great to see Davis do the role as was originally planned, just the thought of seing those two former students together would have really been something. I agree with you though that the Tallulah and Thomas episodes were the two best of that lot!

JaneTVFan · 09-19-2002, 05:12 PM

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Originally posted by SPLAIN
Jane, do you agree that although Tallulah was excellent in that episode, that it would really have been great to see Davis do the role as was originally planned, just the thought of seing those two former students together would have really been something. I agree with you though that the Tallulah and Thomas episodes were the two best of that lot!

I can see Bette Davis being every bit as good in that role as Tallulah Bankhead. I can EASILY picture Davis in that role. I think she would have been great. Bette Davis, even when she wasn't acting, was very fiesty. Did you ever see her being interviewed in her later years? People talk about Lucy being blunt, but she was nothing compared to Bette Davis. Davis didn't care what she said or who she said it about. She didn't mince words. She used to crack me up with the things she said about people she didn't like. I could so easily see her threatening to pull Lucy's pink hair out by her black roots. But about Bette and Lucy being students together, I don't buy that story. If you've read my earlier comments (and I think you have), you know that I think that whole deal about Lucy being sent ALONE, by her poor, working class mother, to New York City to attend John Murray Anderson's acting school at the tender age of 15, and being kicked out for being too shy (Lucy was ANYTHING but shy) was a fabrication used to cover up a personal situation Lucy's family was trying to hide from the people of Jamestown.

SPLAIN · 09-20-2002, 01:44 PM

Ok, i swear i wasn't trying to start something, will think about this whole thin on the weekend and get back to you. As for the thing about Davis, YES YES YES, i've always said Lucy did the same things Hepburn and Crawford and Davis did, but she was a lot more caring and compassionate than they were. All older people get that way, you are at a stage in your life where you don't have to kiss you know what anymore as mnuch as you've done all your life and you can finally muster up the courage to say things honestly and amazingly enough, people usually LOVE that , maybe not on these boards though! I used to LOVE watching Davis rip out those comments, and Lucy was more cautious but she still did also! Jane, you must have heard the one where Desi NEVER let her do talk shows as he thought people would not accept her as she really was and it would ruin her image, and in a way he was right, because it was a shock to me when i first heard her talk like a truck driver, i expected Lucy Ricardo, and that's not who she was, she didn't get to be where she was by being a goodie two shoes, nobody could do that!

JaneTVFan · 09-22-2002, 02:18 AM

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Originally posted by SPLAIN
Jane, you must have heard the one where Desi NEVER let her do talk shows as he thought people would not accept her as she really was and it would ruin her image, and in a way he was right, because it was a shock to me when i first heard her talk like a truck driver, i expected Lucy Ricardo, and that's not who she was, she didn't get to be where she was by being a goodie two shoes, nobody could do that!

Yes, I have heard about Desi keeping Lucy off talk shows. And I understand the shock you felt hearing her on talk shows. I had the same reaction. I used to watch those shows just hoping she wouldn't swear (which she usually did anyway) because I wanted her to come across looking like she had class. Fortunately, she at least managed not to use the "f" word or the "s" word on TV, words she seemed to commonly use in private. I never actually heard her being bleeped.

SPLAIN · 09-23-2002, 10:25 AM

Well, lemme share this one funny story about class and language. When Lucy got her Friar's roast, everybody got warned not to do it really raunchy like with Berle or Hope so Johnny Carson comes out and warns everybody, please let's show some class and decorum and not use foul language etc..., and then he says, Ladies and Gentlemen, Lucille Testicule, nobody laughed harder than Lucy and when she told the story to Merv the following week on his talk show, they were coming back from commercial and still talking about it as they could not do that type of humor on the actual show, and you can hear Lucy saying, well, that's because they can't do that with YOUR name!

11-21-2000, 10:21 AM	#1
Terry Ross Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Nov 20, 2000 Location: New Jersey Posts: 196	Favorite Lucy/Desi Comedy Hour After the 30-minute "I Love Lucy" episodes went off the air, the four principals went on to do 13-hour long "Lucy/Desi Comedy Hour" shows. The Ricardos andMertzes still lived in Connecticut but often travelled. Which is your favorite? I like the "Make Room For Daddy" episode because I remember that show as a child. Did know that during the filming of the very last episode "Lucy Meets The Mustache" (Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams), Lucy and Desi weren't speaking and are never alone in any one scene (except the last one, which was very emotional for them).

11-25-2000, 04:41 PM	#2
rjrane Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Oct 05, 2000 Location: Cleveland,Ohio-U.S.A. Posts: 99	I liked the one where Fred MacMurray joined them on a uranium hunt,that turned out to be a wild goose chase that had started because of a false news-story that Lucy herself had printed.Fred MacMurray and William Frawley would work together in the later years.(My Three Sons.) I noticed that in the Lucy-Desi/Make Room for Daddy Crossover,the judge in the court scene was Gale Gordon-who would work a LOT more with Lucy in the later years.

02-05-2001, 05:31 PM	#3
jamier42 Member Senior Member Join Date: Nov 09, 2000 Posts: 1,263	My favorite episodes of Lucy Desi Comedy Hour is The Danny Thomas one, The Hunt Uranium one, the one where Lucy races a horse. I like alot of them though. I have seen all of them.

08-22-2002, 01:43 AM	#4
SOAPDYNASTY GIMME A BREAK Frequent Poster Join Date: Jul 17, 2002 Location: RI Posts: 285	Hi, My favorite episodes of Lucy-Desi shows are..... (1) Hunt for Uranium (2) Make Room For Danny

09-15-2002, 08:30 PM	#5
Kristina Member Forum Fanatic Join Date: Mar 27, 2001 Location: CaLiFoRnIa, UsA Posts: 8,890	"Lucy Goes To Japan" that episode is so funny along with "Make Room For Danny" that one is hilarious!

09-16-2002, 12:01 AM	#6
JaneTVFan Member Forum Regular Join Date: Nov 06, 2001 Posts: 641	The Tallulah Bankhead episode is my favorite, followed by Lucy Makes Room for Danny and then Lucy Wants a Career.

09-16-2002, 12:48 AM	#7
dawsongirl Member Forum Icon Join Date: Jan 04, 2001 Posts: 53,128	The first one

09-16-2002, 11:36 PM	#8
SBTB Geek Smooth Moderator Forum Veteran Join Date: Feb 21, 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,004	The one where Lucy joins a gardening competition, and when Lucy and Ricky went camping, and their boat was sinking.

09-17-2002, 03:55 PM	#9
SPLAIN I Love Lucy Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 04, 2002 Location: MONTREAL, CANADA Posts: 4,563	To me the Danny Thomas one is the best and the one that held up the best after all those years. Especially where she's sitting on the edge of the bed and he's kissing her thinking it's his wife, the faces she makes are so different from anything else she's ever done, it cracks me up every time!

09-19-2002, 09:08 AM	#11
SPLAIN I Love Lucy Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 04, 2002 Location: MONTREAL, CANADA Posts: 4,563	Jane, do you agree that although Tallulah was excellent in that episode, that it would really have been great to see Davis do the role as was originally planned, just the thought of seing those two former students together would have really been something. I agree with you though that the Tallulah and Thomas episodes were the two best of that lot!

09-20-2002, 01:44 PM	#13
SPLAIN I Love Lucy Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 04, 2002 Location: MONTREAL, CANADA Posts: 4,563	Ok, i swear i wasn't trying to start something, will think about this whole thin on the weekend and get back to you. As for the thing about Davis, YES YES YES, i've always said Lucy did the same things Hepburn and Crawford and Davis did, but she was a lot more caring and compassionate than they were. All older people get that way, you are at a stage in your life where you don't have to kiss you know what anymore as mnuch as you've done all your life and you can finally muster up the courage to say things honestly and amazingly enough, people usually LOVE that , maybe not on these boards though! I used to LOVE watching Davis rip out those comments, and Lucy was more cautious but she still did also! Jane, you must have heard the one where Desi NEVER let her do talk shows as he thought people would not accept her as she really was and it would ruin her image, and in a way he was right, because it was a shock to me when i first heard her talk like a truck driver, i expected Lucy Ricardo, and that's not who she was, she didn't get to be where she was by being a goodie two shoes, nobody could do that!

09-23-2002, 10:25 AM	#15
SPLAIN I Love Lucy Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 04, 2002 Location: MONTREAL, CANADA Posts: 4,563	Well, lemme share this one funny story about class and language. When Lucy got her Friar's roast, everybody got warned not to do it really raunchy like with Berle or Hope so Johnny Carson comes out and warns everybody, please let's show some class and decorum and not use foul language etc..., and then he says, Ladies and Gentlemen, Lucille Testicule, nobody laughed harder than Lucy and when she told the story to Merv the following week on his talk show, they were coming back from commercial and still talking about it as they could not do that type of humor on the actual show, and you can hear Lucy saying, well, that's because they can't do that with YOUR name!