Quotes
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Vivian Bagley: Don`t you remember your children? Mr. Mooney?
Lucy Carmichael: [With amnesia] I have a child named Mr. Mooney?
Lucy Carmichael: Weren`t you ever a teenager?
Theodore J. Mooney: Well, of course, what do you think?
Lucy Carmichael: I thought one day they opened the bank vault and out you popped, full grown and stingy!
Trivia
Filmed in color starting in the second season, but not aired in color until the fourth season.
The show ended in 1968 as part of the stipulation of the sale of Desilu to Gulf & Western (in January 1968, midway through "The Lucy Show`s" final season, the Desilu "animated signature" logo was retired when the company officially became Paramount Television, in favor of a roughly animated Paramount "mountain and stars" logo. The company continued to be known as Paramount Television until September 2006, when, after being purchased by Viacom, it became what is now CBS/Paramount Television).
The series` sixth and final season was its highest rated: it ranked number two in the ratings after "The Andy Griffith Show" (1960).
Loosely based on the book "Life without George" by Irene Kampen.
Charles Lane appeared occasionally in the first season as Mr. Barnsdahl. But Lane had trouble remembering his lines and his character was written out of the show.
Vivian Bagley was the first regular character on television who was a divorcée.
At the start of Season 5, the opening sequence featured Lucille Ball`s head on an animated jack-in-the-box. Ball hated this sequence and it was changed back to the Season 4 version, which showed clips of Lucy in a kaleidoscopic fashion. This sequence remained until the end of the show`s run. The "jack-in-the-box" sequence has never been shown in syndication since the 1970s.
Vivian Vance left the program after the third season, because she lived in Connecticut and tired of commuting and leaving her husband.
When Joan Crawford was asked during an interview how she liked working with Lucille Ball on the show, her response was, "And they call ME a bitch - Lucy can out-bitch me ANY day of the week!"
Frustrated with Joan Crawford`s lack of memorizing her lines, Lucille Ball was said to have asked fellow producers if Gloria Swanson was available to film the episode instead (Ms. Swanson was not available).
For reasons which are not entirely clear, 30 episodes have entered the public domain - 2 are from the first season (black & white); 21 are from the fifth season (all episodes in that season, minus #18 "Lucy Puts Main Street on the Map" which is apparently still under copyright); and 7 are from the sixth season (seven of the first eight episodes, with #5 "Lucy Gets Her Diploma" apparently still under copyright). In series order, the full list of 30 public domain episodes are: "Lucy and Viv Put in a Shower", "Lucy`s Barbershop Quartet", "Lucy and George Burns", "Lucy and the Submarine", "Lucy, the Bean Queen", "Lucy and Paul Winchell", "Lucy and the Ring-a-Ding-Ding", "Lucy Goes to London", "Lucy Gets a Roommate", "Lucy and Carol in Palm Springs", "Lucy Gets Caught Up in the Draft", "Lucy and John Wayne", "Lucy and Pat Collins", "Lucy and the Monkey" (aka "Mooney the Monkey"), "Lucy and the Efficiency Expert" (aka "Lucy and Phil Silvers"), "Lucy`s Substitute Secretary", "Viv Visits Lucy", "Lucy, the Baby Sitter", "Main Street U.S.A.", "Lucy Meets the Law", "Lucy, the Fight Manager", "Lucy and Tennessee Ernie Ford", "Lucy Meets Sheldon Leonard", "Lucy Meets the Berles", "Lucy Gets Trapped", "Lucy and the French Movie Star", "Lucy, the Starmaker", "Lucy and Jack Benny`s Account", "Little Old Lucy" (aka "Little Old Lady"), and "Lucy and Robert Goulet".
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