Here's Lucy - Best Loved Episodes from the Hit TV Series

Here's Lucy - Best Loved Episodes from the Hit TV Series

Here's Lucy - Best Loved Episodes from the Hit TV Series
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Actor: Desi Arnaz Jr., Gale Gordon, Lucie Arnaz, Lucille Ball, Sid Gould
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Unknown
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 720 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-08-17
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Shout Factory Theatr

Movie Reviews of Here's Lucy - Best Loved Episodes from the Hit TV Series

Movie Review: Not the most classic Lucy but a superb DVD set
Summary: 4 Stars

This set of selected episodes of "Here's Lucy" (which ran from 1968-1974) is amazing. Not only do we get a lot of fun, uncut episodes of the series, we get a lot of extras as well. My only real beef, which I will mention early, is that some of the outtakes have raw language. Particularly the Jack Benny outtake in which he uses God's name inappropriately. If you are showing this DVD set to your kids (or anyone else for that matter), beware of this material.

"Here's Lucy" is not of the caliber of the classic "I Love Lucy." So much of the episodes depend a lot on the guest star celebrities, such as Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor, Flip Wilson, Donny Osmond, etc. But knowing this, you can still have a lot of fun with these shows, and some of them are excellent in their own way. The Burton & Taylor episode where Lucy gets Taylor's ring caught on her finger is a classic (and according to the audio commentary, it was the real ring!). The Donny Osmond show is a cute one, with Donny getting a crush on Kim (Lucie Arnaz). A retro bonus in this episode is Eve Plumb, moonlighting from "The Brady Bunch." A lot of big stars worked with Lucy at this time, because she herself was a star!

Unfortunately, the family situations (with daughter Lucie Arnaz and son Desi Arnaz, Jr.) take a back seat to the celebrity antics. There is also a lot of humor with Lucy and her boss/brother-in-law Harrison Otis carter, played by Gale Gordon, a good foil for Lucy whose work with her goes back to radio. Some scripts are more celebrity showcases and sketches than sitcoms. In one episode, when Lucy breaks up a movie scene because ahe mistakes it for real life, she is portrayed as being not very bright.

The bonus special features on here are amazing. There is optional audio commentary with Lucy's kids and also such stars as Carol Burnett, who appears in an episode. There are oriinal promos for the show, extensive behind-the-scenes footage, and clips from related programs. This extensive bonus footage is what really makes this set shine. But again, beware the profane outtakes.

Summary of Here's Lucy - Best Loved Episodes from the Hit TV Series

Lucille Ball, her children and her famous friends delight in this hit TV series!

Here's Lucy, which ran on CBS from 1968-1974, was the fourth hit TV show starring the most beloved comedienne of her time - the immortal Lucille Ball. In this series, Lucy's first that ran from beginning to end in full-color with her trademark hair shining bright, she plays Lucy Carter, a widow raising two teenaged children played by her real-life children Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz, Jr.

These 24 episodes (hand-picked by Lucie and Desi Jr.) of Here's Lucy are packed with Ball's trademark slapstick comedy, but it's her guests that make this a classic TV experience. Stars like Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton, Carol Burnett, Jackie Gleason, Johnny Carson, Milton Berle and Jack Benny are characters in her humorous adventures. Musical talent like Ann-Margret, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Wayne Newton offer memorable performances within the story.

So sit back and enjoy! You have front row seats for the wild, star-studded comedy of a genuine TV treasure.

PACKED WITH EXTRAS!
- Commentary by Lucie Arnaz, Desi Jr. and Carol Burnett on their favorite episodes
- Never-before-seen bloopers
- Rehearsal footage
- Sketch from a Jack Benny television special with Lucy, Jack and Johnny Carson
- Sketch from an Ann-Margret television special featuring Lucy and Ann-Margret
- Audience warm-up with Lucy's husband and the show's executive producer, Gary Morton
- A classic Pepsodent commercial with commentary
- The original CBS network promos
- The "Here's Lucy" syndication sales tape
- Footage from a benefit dinner where Lucie and Desi Jr. play their parents in an I Love Lucy sketch.


Celebrity guest stars such as William Holden, Orson Welles, and John Wayne had always been a successful trademark on Lucille Ball's four television series, beginning in 1951 with I Love Lucy through her fourth and final program, Here's Lucy, lasting 1968 through 1972. Here's Lucy: Best Loved Episodes from the Hit TV Series is a best-of package with an emphasis on celebrity-driven stories starring the likes of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, Jack Benny, Ginger Rogers, and Milton Berle. The anthology has been compiled by Ball's two children, Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr., who co-starred on the show as Kim and Craig Carter, adolescent daughter and son of Ball's character, widow Lucille Carter. The Arnaz offspring are all over this set in a very charming way, offering brief comments once you select a title to watch as well as optional, extended commentary on every episode. They're also personally involved in a couple of many, delightful extra features, including a 1974 sketch from a live charity event in which Lucie and Desi Jr. played their parents in a scene from I Love Lucy.

Most of the programs in Best Loved Episodes feature one or another show-business legend, sometimes playing themselves, at other times portraying a fictional character. Among the latter, Milton Berle is a fount of wicked burlesque as a used-car salesman foisting a psychedelicized hunk of junk on Kim and Craig, and Helen Hayes is particularly memorable as a seemingly desperate and kooky Irish tourist who may be pulling a scam on Lucille's brother-in-law and boss, Harry (Ball's longtime comic foil, the great Gale Gordon). Burton and Taylor, playing themselves, prove wonderful sports in an episode where Lucille mistakes the Welsh master thespian for a plumber and gets Liz's enormous diamond ring stuck on her own finger. (The show features one of Ball's best bits, substituting her own, out-of-control left arm for Taylor's during a press junket.) Shelley Winters is equally playful as a movie star with a compulsive eating disorder; the slender Lucille is pressed into service as a watchdog over Winters's appetite. I Love Lucy co-star Vivian Vance has two welcome appearances as old friend Viv (both episodes make excellent use of Gordon's trademark powers of exasperation), and Jack Benny plays himself twice, once in a touching, funny episode in which he and Ball play people from different chapters of Benny's life. These old pros from radio, stage, and the Golden Age of Hollywood never lost a step. --Tom Keogh

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