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ME-TV'S "100 MOST POPULAR LUCY MARATHON" AUG. 5TH (NOON) - AUG. 8TH (8AM)

gregg75

gregg75

Me-TV celebrates Lucy's 100th birthday with 100 of the most popular episodes of "I Love Lucy"
"We Love Lucy" and "The Lucy Show".

Don't miss "We Love Lucy" as those shows are rarely aired. They're almost like a whole new series.

http://www.metvnetwork.com/lucyonme.pdf
 
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For those who don't know, "We Love Lucy" is reruns of
the hour-long "Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour" specials made
between 1957 and 1960. They're usually edited into two-part
half-hour episodes.

I notice that "Here's Lucy" and (heaven forbid) "Life With Lucy"
are not included. Perhaps just as well, although it would be fun
to see the episode where Lucy got Elizabeth Taylor's ring stuck
on her finger.

OTOH, I hope they show "The Lucy Show" episode where the bank
built an elaborate vault for Jack Benny in order to attract him as a
depositor. It has to be seen to be believed.
 
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That episode must be public domain, because a low power in Atlanta shows it
about every other week.

"Here's Lucy" had some good shows also. Maybe they don't have access to those.
 
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Wow, she would be 100 now? Seems like only yesterday I came back to my Michigan
hotel room to find wall-to-wall CBS News coverage of her passing.
 
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Our local MeTV affiliate KDOC 56.3 substitutes I Love Lucy episodes with The Lucy Show, because of KTTV/KCOP having the rights (as well as those of "We Love Lucy").

More than likely from August 5th-8th, it'll be wall-to-wall Lucy Show episodes, unless KDOC can miraculously can grab some episodes of Here's Lucy (which, like The Lucy Show, KDOC carried once upon a time in early '90s) to shake things up.
 
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Pax TV launched with Here's Lucy on their schedule. That was probably the last national exposure of it.
 
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ding12 said:
Pax TV launched with Here's Lucy on their schedule. That was probably the last national exposure of it.
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Thank God for that. I am the number one fan of "I Love Lucy" and the number one HATER of "Here's Lucy." :)
 
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I don't honestly remember much about Here's Lucy except that Lucy used her real-life kids as co-stars, and the opening sequence. Except for the profile that PBS' American Masters did on her years ago, I hadn't seen Here's Lucy (in any form) since I was a kid.

I've watched a few episodes of The Lucy Show on the local MeTV affiliate since it was added here...it's a good show, but it's not I Love Lucy (and I know it's not really fair to compare the two).
 
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ding12 said:
Pax TV launched with Here's Lucy on their schedule. That was probably the last national exposure of it.
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I remember that show. It was horrible. I liked The Lucy Show and I Love Lucy, which aired on Nick-at-Nite and TVLAND.

I just think it's not a good idea for ME-TV to pre-empt all their programming for a 3 days for a Lucy Marathon. Not everyone LOVES Lucy. (Pun intended). A 3 day marathon is much different than a one day marathon, which Hallmark Channel does on occasion.
 
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Like anyone else who owns a TV and loves to watch it, I've seen every episode of I Love Lucy at least 10 times. However, I haven't seen a lot of Ball's other series. In my (younger) mind, the Big 4 had incredible magic together, and I wasn't interested in hearing Lucy say "Mr. Mooney!"
*I was born in 1967 and wasn't born/too young to watch Love, Show or Here's.
 
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I don't get why people didn't like "Here's Lucy". I really enjoyed it as a child. Lucy and Gale Gordon were so good together there and on "The Lucy Show". I actually didn't discover "I Love Lucy", though I supposedly saw it when I was very, very young and just didn't remember, until I was a teenager.
 
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vchimpanzee said:
I don't get why people didn't like "Here's Lucy". I really enjoyed it as a child. Lucy and Gale Gordon were so good together there and on "The Lucy Show". I actually didn't discover "I Love Lucy", though I supposedly saw it when I was very, very young and just didn't remember, until I was a teenager.
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The problem is it pales in comparison with Lucille Ball's earlier work. During "I Love Lucy," and the first half of "the Lucy Show," (before California) Lucille Ball was an actress. After she bought out Desi Arnaz, she became detached. Even her own daughter Lucie Jr says after she became head of DesiLu, then sold it and formed her next company, she became to detached, too dependent on cue cards and didn't really care about the scripts and the acting anymore.

I remember Lucille Ball blaming the writers, but Lucie Arnaz saying that her mother was always in total control of the show, and absolutely nothing got on the air without her mother's OK. In other words if the scripts were garbage, as Lucy says, than she could've changed that with a snap of her fingers.

"Here's Lucy" was really no worse than much of the rest that was on the air, but it certainly was not better and was far beneath what Lucille Ball could do. It was even beneath what the talent of her two kids could do.
 
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Mark said:
vchimpanzee said:
I don't get why people didn't like "Here's Lucy". I really enjoyed it as a child. Lucy and Gale Gordon were so good together there and on "The Lucy Show". I actually didn't discover "I Love Lucy", though I supposedly saw it when I was very, very young and just didn't remember, until I was a teenager.
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The problem is it pales in comparison with Lucille Ball's earlier work. During "I Love Lucy," and the first half of "the Lucy Show," (before California) Lucille Ball was an actress. After she bought out Desi Arnaz, she became detached. Even her own daughter Lucie Jr says after she became head of DesiLu, then sold it and formed her next company, she became to detached, too dependent on cue cards and didn't really care about the scripts and the acting anymore.

I remember Lucille Ball blaming the writers, but Lucie Arnaz saying that her mother was always in total control of the show, and absolutely nothing got on the air without her mother's OK. In other words if the scripts were garbage, as Lucy says, than she could've changed that with a snap of her fingers.

"Here's Lucy" was really no worse than much of the rest that was on the air, but it certainly was not better and was far beneath what Lucille Ball could do. It was even beneath what the talent of her two kids could do.
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I never knew all this.

I was going to say I liked "The Partridge Family". But I remembered something. I saw them on the cover of TV guide on a commercial which must have been for TV Guide. I though Shirley Jones looked like Lucy, Laurie looked like Kim, and Keith looked like Craig, but wait ... who are those other kids?

And that's how I got started watching that show. It may have also been the letter to TV Guide complaining that the kids didn't actually sing, except Keith.
 
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ShawnHill1 said:
Our local MeTV affiliate KDOC 56.3 substitutes I Love Lucy episodes with The Lucy Show, because of KTTV/KCOP having the rights (as well as those of "We Love Lucy").

More than likely from August 5th-8th, it'll be wall-to-wall Lucy Show episodes, unless KDOC can miraculously can grab some episodes of Here's Lucy (which, like The Lucy Show, KDOC carried once upon a time in early '90s) to shake things up.
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I believe We Love Lucy is now in the normal syndication package for I Love Lucy.

Right about KDOC airing The Lucy Show in the 90s. The prints they aired were terrible. I remember the station always used to run a seedy looking doctor's advertisement for male enhancement pills during the program as well. Not something you want to have ingrained in your head as a child. If you've seen and remember the commercial, you'll know what I mean. :eek:
 
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vchimpanzee said:
I don't get why people didn't like "Here's Lucy". I really enjoyed it as a child. Lucy and Gale Gordon were so good together there and on "The Lucy Show".
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I agree with the Chimp that "Lucy Show" was more enjoyable (to me) than "I Love Lucy". The former had Lucy surrounded by three pretty much useless cast members. Ricky was arrogant and a one-trick pony with his mangling of English. Ethyl was generic and Lucy's conscience. And Fred was a disagreeable old fart who, if he coughed, would have strangled on his belt.

Gale Gordon wasn't the funniest man on the face of the Earth but as Lucy's physical comic foil he came about as close as anyone could have. I much enjoyed the two of them to the four of ILL.
 
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Vivian Vance was careful to portray Viv much different from Ethel an to me, that caused the character to lose a lot of warmth she had on "I Love Lucy." When Lucy moved away from Ethel you got a feeling that the characters really loved each other and would be miserable without them.

On "the Lucy Show," it seemed the girls were good friends, but Lucy and Ethel were like sisters, while Lucy and Viv were like old friends. And the kids never seemed to work with Lucille Ball. Even on "Here's Lucy," there were only a handful of episodes where you got any chemistry between Lucy and the children, even her own. And Vivian Vance had NO chemistry with her on screen son Sherman.

That's what I didn't like about "Here's Lucy," the writers never seemed to understand that Lucy and Harry were related by marriage but Lucy's kids were Harry's blood relations.
 
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OCradiodude said:
ShawnHill1 said:
Our local MeTV affiliate KDOC 56.3 substitutes I Love Lucy episodes with The Lucy Show, because of KTTV/KCOP having the rights (as well as those of "We Love Lucy").

More than likely from August 5th-8th, it'll be wall-to-wall Lucy Show episodes, unless KDOC can miraculously can grab some episodes of Here's Lucy (which, like The Lucy Show, KDOC carried once upon a time in early '90s) to shake things up.
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I believe We Love Lucy is now in the normal syndication package for I Love Lucy.

Right about KDOC airing The Lucy Show in the 90s. The prints they aired were terrible. I remember the station always used to run a seedy looking doctor's advertisement for male enhancement pills during the program as well. Not something you want to have ingrained in your head as a child. If you've seen and remember the commercial, you'll know what I mean. :eek:
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LOL...let's just say that KDOC had come a long way since Wally George, Gene Scott, the Asian dramas on weekend evenings, and reruns of shows that hadn't touched a Southern California TV screen in years. Assuming that if you watched 56 on and off through the years like myself, you'll notice that the majority of the present MeTV schedule is what KDOC used to/currently air.
 
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