The Lucy Show Season 4 Released Today

If you are a true Lucy fan, like me, then your love for our favorite red-head goes way beyond the classic I Love Lucy. I am pleased to announce that the Lucy Show: Official Fourth Season has been officially released today!  This series stars Lucille Ball as Lucille Carmichael and co-stars Gale Gordon as Mr. Mooney, the penny-pinching bank manager. 

The fourth season of The Lucy Show saw many drastic changes due largely to the exit of Vivian Vance. It was also during this season that Lucy's children, Chris (Candy Moore) and  Jerry (Jimmy Garrett), are also written-off the show.  The setting also drastically changes as Lucy and Mr. Mooney move to California, leaving Danfield (and presumably, Viv and her son Sherman (Ralph Hart) behind.  Season Four of the Lucy Show is considered by many to be the weakest of the show's six seasons due to the drastic (and somewhat unrealistically explained) plot and character changes. 

Nevertheless, Lucy fans are sure to enjoy this eagerly awaited, newly-restored treasure which includes special features and 660 minutes of run time!

Here's Lucy: Season Four to be Released March 29th

If you are looking at this page, chances are you are a huge Lucille Ball fan, and chances are you will be happy to know that Here's Lucy: Season Four is scheduled to be released by MPI Home Video on March 29, 2011.

Here's Lucy was Lucille Ball's third successful sitcom, which succeeded the ever-popular I Love Lucy, and The Lucy Show. In Here's Lucy, Lucille plays Lucy Carter, who is a widow with two children--Kim and Craig (played by Lucille's real-life children, Lucie and Desi Arnaz, Jr.). Living in the greater Los Angeles area, Lucy is employee of--and sister-in-law to--Harrison Carter (Gale Gordon), who is owner of Carter's Unique Employment Agency.This sitcom focuses around the problems and hilarious predicaments that widowed Lucy and money-conscious Harry get themselves into.

This release of Season Four of Here's Lucy, which aired in 1971-1972 and co-stars Gale Gordon, will feature all 24 episodes, uncut and digitally remastered.  Also included are bonus features of some never-before-seen footage.  Season Four includes guest appearances by many notable celebrities including Vivian Vance, Flip Wilson, Dinah Shore, Ginger Rogers, and many more.

I (for one) am very excited about its release, as I have thoroughly enjoyed getting to fall in love with Lucy all over again while watching Seasons 1-3. As a serious "Lucy fan," I would be lying if I didn't say I like all of her work, including all of her sitcoms (with the exception of Life With Lucy, which I have never seen, and therefore, cannot speak to). While I Love Lucy is (by far) my favorite show--period; ever--and is the most popular and critically-acclaimed of all the Lucy sitcoms, I personally prefer Here's Lucy over The Lucy Show. (And I'm soo glad these are finally coming out on DVD!!)  So, if you love Lucy, but never cared much for The Lucy Show, you may want to give Here's Lucy a chance!  I think you will be pleasantly surprised.  (I am especially fond of Here's Lucy: Season Three (4pc), which happens to be my favorite of the Here's Lucy seasons released thus far).

So, am I alone on this one, or are any of you Lucy fans out there Here's Lucy fans, too??

Final I Love Lucy Mattel Doll Released!



I Love Lucy Boxed Set "Sally Sweet" and "Cuban "Pete
from Episode # 4 "The Diet"


Lucy fans will be sad to know that Mattel has released its final I Love Lucy doll.  It is a Lucy/Ricky boxed set based on I Love Lucy Episode #4, "The Diet" (first aired October 29, 1951). In this episode, Ricky, Fred and Ethel discuss how marriage has aided in their weight-gain over the last few years.  Lucy, however, claims that she weighs exactly the same as she did when she and Ricky married. After Ricky forces her on a scale, Lucy becomes discouraged to learn that she has gained over 20 pounds.  Later, Lucy manages to convince Ricky to let her audition for his show, and he eventually agrees to give her the part--pending that she can fit into the costume they already have on-hand, which happens to be a size 10.  Showbiz-crazed Lucy becomes determined to lose enough weight (all in a ridiculously short amount of time) in order to fit into a size 10 in time for the show.  Lucy, of course, enlists Ethel to help her with her stringent diet and exercise routine.  After starving herself, exercising like a maniac, and even steaming herself in a steam cabinet, Lucy is finally a size 10, able to wear the costume, and sabotauges her way into starring in Ricky's show. As their routine, Lucy and Ricky do a number in which Ricky is "Cuban Pete" and Lucy is "Sally Sweet."  Lucy steals the show, but nonetheless ends up collapsing afterwards due to her extreme diet, and ends up being confined to bed rest.

These beautiful dolls, which are the last in Mattel's I Love Lucy series are sure to please collectors.  Mattel  issued the first I Love Lucy Doll (the "Vitameatavegamin" doll) in 1998 from another episode from season one of the series. The Vitameatavegamin doll was from Episode   #30 "Lucy Does a Commercial," which first aired on May 5, 1952.

Mattel has produced more than 25 I Love Lucy dolls/boxed sets since 1998.  Many of the dolls are from some of the most famous I Love Lucy scenes which could be affectionately summarized as follows:  the grape-stomping scene, queen of the gypsies scene, the candy factory scene, the "we're having a baby" scene, among many, many more.

Hopefully, Mattel will initiate a new series of I Love Lucy dolls, which will be sure to
                                  be enjoyed and collected my millions.