Here's Lucy!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 4:04pm

COZI TV (check your local listings) shows two episodes of Lucille Ball's last TV series (that lasted more than 6 months) every afternoon at 4pm. I happen to be home from work today and am delighted to see that the 4:30 (eastern time) episode today features "gender illusionist" Jim Bailey as Phyllis Diller. And it was shot a mere 4 years after Stonewall.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 4:06pm

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 4:56pm

Slightly disappointed. I though this was about another Lucy.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 5:04pm

Here's the fabulous way the episode ended… Lucie Arnaz and Jim Bailey do "Fever". It was edited for Cozi.


Forsooth

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 5:26pm

I thought it was going to be about the other Lucy too!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 5:28pm

Me, three.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 5:39pm

That's a brilliant number! It reminds me of the dance recitals me and my twin sister used to do at dinner time.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 8:41pm

They're no Nikki and Rich. That's for sure.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 9:08pm

I like how the wrist motions are in the style of Bob Fosse.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 9:24pm

In Case You Didn't See These Photos Yet

[HorseTears]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 9:41pm

JordyCats - those LIFE photos of Lucy are wonderful! You can practically feel the heat coming off of this one. Those boys sure were thirsty.




(edited to say: does the one behind Lucy and with his arms draped around her shoulders (!!) look a bit like a young Sondheim?)


Updated On: 10/27/14 at 09:41 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 9:46pm

I hope she made it with the hairdresser, since Desi was always cheating on her.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 10:40pm

Lucy liked to have rough sex with the MGM chorines doing an early version of T.S. Eliot's "Cats.".


She could've had her own CBC show!

Updated On: 10/28/14 at 10:40 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 11:02pm

Yay! But I was hoping you'd know who choreographed Lucie and Jim Bailey.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 11:42pm

I was hoping you'd know who choreographed Lucie and Jim Bailey.

Funny that you should ask. I've always been curious about him.

He was a Hollywood actor and choreographer named Jim Bates, who did a few numbers for Here's Lucy, some Disney shows, and was a regular on Father Knows Best.

But he started out as a boy actor (working under the name Jimmy Bates) and is in Singing in the Rain. He is also the boy who watches Fred Astaire throughout this "Drum Cray number"

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 11:48pm

I KNEW YOU WOULD KNOW!

[inception]

Posted: 10/28/14 at 12:06am

Thanks a lot... there went Monday night, lost to youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJjA8qckQd8

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 10/28/14 at 8:08am

I came across COZI TV back in August. Didn't realize my cable system had it. Just in time for them to be bringing Here's Lucy on to coincide with the Lucille Ball Annual Comedy Festival. I was THRILLED! I hadn't seen the show in ages.

I was also excited to see they had Make Room For Daddy. It comes on at 6 and 6:30 p.m. ET. Most nights I walk in the door just in time to see one ep, if not both.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 10/28/14 at 9:45am

Meh...give me The Lucy Show! Mary Jane was no Viv!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b39Dy6r1Z0