The Lucy Show: The Official Fifth Season

MUSICALS & MOD BRING LUCY AN EMMY!
At the start of Season 5, Lucy was contemplating about selling Desilu Productions. At age 55, Lucy decided that she still loved performing, but at this age could easily give up the enormous responsibility and stress of running an entire production studio on top of acting and producing her own show. With the thought of selling Desilu this season, Lucy's focus was on the shows more than the previous years. Her focus on the great musical numbers and great guest stars really paid off, as Lucy won her first Emmy for The Lucy Show as Best Actress in a Comedy Series. Lucy had won Emmy's twice earlier in her career in 1953 for Best Comedienne and in 1956 for Best Actress in a Continuing Performance for the beloved I Love Lucy Series. Gale Gordon was also nominated for an Emmy this year for Best Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series, but lost to Don Knotts return to The Andy Griffith Show. This Season of The Lucy Show held a solid 4th place in the Nielsen ratings for the year.

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""The Lucy Shows" Keep Coming!!!!
Standing by their word that all 6 seasons of the beloved 1960's sitcom "The Lucy Show" would become available in its entirety, CBS/Paramount has just announced "The Lucy Show-Season 5" comes to DVD December 6, 2011 just in time for Christmas in a 4 disc set! This leaves just one more full season left before the entire library of "Lucy Show" episodes will be made available for posterity for legions of Lucille Ball fans to enjoy.

Season 5 (1966-1967) finally gave Lucille Ball an Emmy win as Best Actress in a Comedy after three nominations. This would be followed yet by another win in "The Lucy Show's" final year.

22 episodes were made and have been restored in pristine condition and are in beautiful color. The rarely seen "jack-in-the-box" opening of this season is shown during the first 10 episodes. During the summer of 1966 Lucille Ball ordered that there be a new opening. When the series premiered, without seeing the opening beforehand, she was mortified and...

I Can Finally Toss All Those Cheap Public Domain Sets Out the Window!
This is Carol Butler's writing this review. Finally, after countless times of buying the public domain episodes, with some companies having varying quality prints of the episodes, I can now get rid of them! Some of those public domain prints are so damaged, they're almost unwatchable. The worst quality episode is "Lucy and Carol in Palm Springs". Half of the prints look like they were just left on the floor and had been stepped on countless times, and nothing has been done to fix them in any way.

These episodes have also been seen on many low power TV stations throughout the years, and sometimes, they look even worse on TV!

It will be so nice to see these episodes from what is most likely the most popular season among fans of the show in pristine quality, and in their entirety, without splices and lines in the film.

I can't wait 'til this is released, and it will be just in time for Christmas!

Edit: I now own this set. I bought it for...

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