The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour
- TV Series
- 1957–1960
- 1h
Follow-up to I Love Lucy (1951), Lucy Ricardo continues her wacky schemes as she travels with her husband, Ricky and their friends Ethel and Fred to various locations and meeting celebrities... Read allFollow-up to I Love Lucy (1951), Lucy Ricardo continues her wacky schemes as she travels with her husband, Ricky and their friends Ethel and Fred to various locations and meeting celebrities.Follow-up to I Love Lucy (1951), Lucy Ricardo continues her wacky schemes as she travels with her husband, Ricky and their friends Ethel and Fred to various locations and meeting celebrities.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe last filmed episode of Lucy Meets the Mustache (1960) was the last time Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz would work together. Immediately after filming, Lucille Ball filed for divorce. This episode - and the background drama of these 2 - had been subsequently talked about. (Edie Adams discussed in detail that during the filming - and especially whilst she was singing, Lucy's eyes were visibly red... from crying. Though Ms Adams says no one on the set discussed, or even knew exactly what was going on).
- Quotes
Lucy Ricardo: But how's Ricky ever going to find out who took the pearls?
Ethel Mertz: He'll ask me and I'll confess.
Lucy Ricardo: Why?
Ethel Mertz: Because while he's asking me, he'll have his fingers around my throat!
- Alternate versionsA crucial scene from episode 2 of season 1, _"The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour" (1957) "The Celebrity Next Door" (#1.2)_, has been omitted on TV broadcasts as well as from the video version, even from the so-called complete prints titled "We Love Lucy". Fred gets splattered with strawberry pie, he retreats to the kitchen with Ethel, and Lucy says how humiliated she is. Tallulah Bankhead quickly & personally said "Oh, forget it darling. This is my lucky night, I'm allergic to strawberries. They give me hives!" Lucy and Tallulah then banter back and forth for a moment. The tail end of this scene is missing in recent prints, where Ricky asks if Tallulah would like some coffee. This brief missing scene sets up what happens among the final scenes, where Tallulah Bankhead broke out in hives.
- ConnectionsFeatured in CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years (1976)
Now on to Miss Bankhead (and I think that if she were still alive she would be Miss not Ms. Bankhead.) It has been written that Tallulah Bankhead was drunk the night of the filming of this episode. I wasn't sure that I wanted to buy into that until I saw her on several other TV shows (including her own show) and her eyes tell the story: she really was plastered during the LDCH as compared with other performances. How she could rise above being lit and still deliver a consummate performance is beyond me. I do know that some alcoholics have a very high tolerance level and still maintain a degree of how to keep it together.
The other line that Tallulah delivers brings me laughter every time: first the withering look casting daggers: "When Miss Bankhead is bored, Miss Bankhead will let you know."
The other thing AND I HAVE NEVER FOUND OUT THE WHAT AND THE WHY: At 23:58-59 there is a glitch in the continuity of Ethel's comment, "Oh, (glitch) at these prices we should have unlimited bickering." There was obviously an edit made there by Dann Cahn or somebody else. Of all the interviews I have watched and reminiscences, this one really obvious edit has never been spoken of or commented on. These don't make it any less of an episode. Funny is funny.
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- The Ford Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show
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- Runtime1 hour
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1