Viv drags a reluctant Lucy to the movies to prove that horror films are not a bad influence on Jerry and Sherman. Lucy ends up even more frightened and has a nightmare that she and Viv are trapped in a vampire's abode. This gives Gale Gordon the chance to camp it up as Dracula.
This aired in early 1965 when The Munsters and The Addams Family were in prime time and old monster movies were still in vogue. This is one of the campiest episodes of The Lucy Show, but not in a good way like Season 4's Lucy in the Music World. What's here seems more suited to The Hilarious House of Frightenstein or a Sid & Marty Krofft kid's show. Heck, Lucy and Viv look like Witchipoo prototypes in their crone costumes.
The jokes are lame and predictable ("I'm the head of the house") and this is one of the first episodes where a dreaded gorilla shows up. The best scene occurs before the nightmare sequence where Lucy barricades herself and Viv in the bedroom and we get a sight gag of the bed collapsing-twice!
Future star of Grindhouse cinema Sig Haig appears but is unrecognizable as The Mummy.
This aired in early 1965 when The Munsters and The Addams Family were in prime time and old monster movies were still in vogue. This is one of the campiest episodes of The Lucy Show, but not in a good way like Season 4's Lucy in the Music World. What's here seems more suited to The Hilarious House of Frightenstein or a Sid & Marty Krofft kid's show. Heck, Lucy and Viv look like Witchipoo prototypes in their crone costumes.
The jokes are lame and predictable ("I'm the head of the house") and this is one of the first episodes where a dreaded gorilla shows up. The best scene occurs before the nightmare sequence where Lucy barricades herself and Viv in the bedroom and we get a sight gag of the bed collapsing-twice!
Future star of Grindhouse cinema Sig Haig appears but is unrecognizable as The Mummy.
