Talk:The Lucy Show

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Here's Lucy and the Lucy Show while similiar are different TV shows and should be on different pages. (Alphaboi867 04:12, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC))

"Here's Lucy" should indeed have its own page; I added a reference to "HL" here, though, since it seems warranted. While they're different shows, the motivation behind ending Ball's "The Lucy Show" and embarking on a new series is her sale of Desilu to Gulf + Western. So it seems worth mentioning here, since it was Ball herself who opted to change shows, as well as the fact that the show's three stars -- Ball, Gordon and Croft -- all moved over to the new series playing essentially the same characters (widowed mother with two children, cranky boss, and wacky sidekick, respectively) albeit with different names and slightly altered details. "The Lucy Show" should probably be cross-referenced on the "Here's Lucy" page, as well. -Markt3

I don't know who keeps insisting that the show's original title "The Lucille Ball Show" was actually aired like that. It was not. You can find proof of this in "The Lucy Book" which details every Lucy appearance and show on television. I am changing the information to state the correct facts. Jude86 05:20, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ads ran in the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune the day the show premiered, October 1 1962, and they say The Lucy Show. 74.104.189.176 (talk) 22:13, 6 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

there have been releases of the lucy show on DVD in australia and new zealand... but i guess they are those public domain ones....Australian Jezza 06:09, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

comment moved from article[edit]

Not sure where this came from, but I just moved it out of the article: "(This author contends that the setting is actually Danfield, New York and that numerous sources have incorrecctly stated the setting as Danfield, Connecticut)" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.167.92.26 (talk) 17:25, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Photo of the "Lucy Show" stage.[edit]

My name is Jimmy Garrett and was involved in "The Lucy Show" playing Lucy's son Jerry. In reading the article, an error jumped out. The photo of Paramount stage 21 is identified as the stage where the show was filmed. This is incorrect. When Paramount bought Desilu-Gower in the late 1960's, they renumbered all of the stages. The stage in the photo I believe to be the former Desilu stage 14. There was no stage 13 and we shot next door on stage 12 (at least for the four seasons I was there). A couple of side notes: Stage 11 on the other side was the home to "My Three Sons" at that time. The stage you have in the photo, 21 (Paramount) or 14 (Desilu), was where the Lucy Show casting was held while the sets, bleachers, and audience street entrance were being constructed next door. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.85.109.230 (talk) 00:29, 28 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Too long and wordy!!![edit]

The "premise" section is awfully long and verbose, and contains too many uninteresting details. This is supposed to be an encyclopedia article, not a doctoral dissertation!97.73.64.144 (talk) 01:26, 6 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Black and white vs. color[edit]

What does the following sentence mean? In the fall of 1965, CBS began broadcasting all programming in color, but continued to produce some programming in black & white. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:36, 1 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It means that they PRODUCED the programs in black-white but they converted the shows to color for later first-run transmissions. The brave celery (talk) 21:03, 17 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That doesn't seem to clear it up. Producing in black and white would mean filming in black and white, there would be no way to "convert" a show that was filmed in black and white into color in the technology of the day. What I think the sentence actually means is NBC was originally broadcasting in black and white, so even if a TV show were filmed in color, and watched on a color set, it would appear black and white because NBC was only sending a black and white signal. Then NBC started broadcasting shows filmed in color on a signal that carried the color, shows filmed in black and white on a signal that only carried black and white. Then in 1965, they just started broadcasting everything on a signal that could carry color, even if the show was only filmed in black and white. 2600:1700:12C8:10:BC77:2159:6FDD:50B2 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 16:48, 22 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Typical wiki nonsense. 71.184.87.187 (talk) 09:52, 29 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Children Mentioned[edit]

Under the heading "Format, setting, and major cast changes", the first sentence of the sixth paragraph states "By January 1966, all references to Lucy Carmichael's children, her trust fund, and her former life in Danfield were dropped." I question this because I just watched the episode "Lucy The Babysitter", first broadcast on January 16, 1967, and in it Lucy, while discussing her qualifications for a babysitting job, states that she raised two children of her own, and further states that they are away at school. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:6C5D:5A00:3694:1C51:3448:C1A6:ACD4 (talk) 16:39, 10 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]