I Love Lucy - The Complete Seasons 7-9

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Actor: Desi Arnaz, Joseph A. Mayer, Lucille Ball, Vivian Vance, William Frawley
Brand: Paramount
Producer: Lucille Ball
Producer: Desi Arnaz
Writer: Everett Freeman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 662 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-03-13
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Paramount

DVD Reviews of I Love Lucy - The Complete Seasons 7-9

DVD Review: I love Lucy seasons 7-9
Summary: 3 Stars

It wasn't what I'd hoped. The old Lucy shows were excellent. This was one of her latest and it just wasn't as good. such is life.

DVD Review: Lucy's Antics Live On
Summary: 5 Stars

Anyone who is an "I Love Lucy" fan will love this collection of their later hour-long classic episodes, shown as "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour." The one I particularly wanted to see again was "Lucy Goes to Alaska" with Red Skelton. The hotel room scene was just as hilarious as when I saw it on television many years ago. I equate it with the Harpo Marx pantomine with Lucy on the "I Love Lucy" episode. What a talent!

DVD Review: Lucy & Desi Comedy Hour ''rocks''
Summary: 5 Stars

As a young person i use to watch the repeat broadcasts of "The Lucy & Desi Comedy Hour. I loved everyone of them and laughed out loud each time
i viewed them on tv! My favorites are: winning the race horse "Whirling Jet" in a cereal contest, plus the horse has a crush on Lucy! But what a
"fast" race horse he is! 2. Tallulah Bankhead is lucy's new neighbor!
I laugh til my sides hurt. The dvd print is excellent. just love having
all the episodes on a handy dvd. I was diaappointed on the bonus items
on the dvd's that's my only negative. If you are a die hard Lucy & Desi,Ethel, and Fred Mertz fan this is a must have dvd to own.

DVD Review: Great Memories
Summary: 5 Stars

First off I rate this set a solid ten in picture and sound quality. Yes, It's that good. I watched a summer rerun of this series in the summer of 1965 on CBS on Wednesday nights at ten. My favorite of these hour long shows is the Alaska trip. I had most of these comedy hours on VHS but DVD is 100 times better. My only complaint is it took 11 days to arrive from the time it left Amazon's facility. I don't know why, as most order take 3-4 days.

DVD Review: 3 Stars - Only Out of Respect for Lucy & Desi
Summary: 3 Stars

I would love to give this 5 Stars but it's sadly lacking the greatness of all the other seasons. It's really heart breaking, since usually, things get better with time, regarding TV shows.

It seems to me that for the most part, Lucy and Desi were just going through the motions. It seemed really forced and I must agree with other reviews, the hour long format seemed far too long. 30-45 minutes tops would have been about right. They stretched it out with nonsense skits and far fetched plots. It was an insult to their talent, wasn't it?

Bill Frawley and Vivian Vance were wonderful, as always, but the marital strain showed between Lucy and Desi. Lucy looked as if she aged ten years after her new hair-do and the clothes she wore were grandma-like. I even noticed the changes the house went through, like the weird floral curtains?? and the missing china cabinet and what about the view into the living room from the kitchen - where did the hallway come from suddenly?? The glass windows are missing and the back-drops move when the actors walk past them! These are big things.... maybe they thought nobody would notice?? I guess they didn't count on DVD sales let alone multiple re-runs!

No, these shows were thrown together, shoving TV and film stars in to compensate for the lack of quality. Such a shame. I'm the biggest I Love Lucy fan there is, but I'm also realistic. What I'd love is the complete set of The Lucy Show with Vivian Vance - the black and white series. Now those were good!

Description of I Love Lucy - The Complete Seasons 7-9

The I Love Lucy Hour Shows is a series of hour-long specials that aired from 1957-1960 that continued the I Love Lucy saga. Housewife Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball) lives in Westport Connecticut, with her bandleader husband, Ricky ( real-life husband Desi Arnaz,) and their son, Ricky Jr. (Keith Theibodeaux.) Always nearby are the couple's best friends Fred and Ethel Mertz (William Frawley and Vivian Vance.) Ricky's job as an entertainer requires him to travel a lot. As a result, he often takes Lucy, little Ricky, and the Mertzes with him to such far-off places as Japan and Mexico. Ricky's career also allows him to meet many famous celebrities, from Betty Grable to Ida Lupino. Of course, when Lucy meets up with these celebrities, chaos naturally ensues.

From Lucy-tormented Hollywood A-listers and bongo-propelled production numbers to archival goodies such as long-lost footage, there is much to love in this collection of all 13 episodes from The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show (also known as The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour). Following I Love Lucy's sixth and final season, these monthly (give or take) specials reunited America with Ricky and Lucy (and Keith Thibodeaux's adorable Little Ricky, still living the country life in Connecticut. The expanded, hour-long format allowed for celebrity guest stars and excursions to far-flung locales, such as Japan and Mexico. Not matter where they go, Lucy can always be counted on to act, in Desi's words, "a little crazy in the head," which is how she winds up masquerading as Ernie Kovacs' chauffeur in "Lucy Meets the Moustache" (an episode making its home-video debut), dangling Milton Berle from a construction crane in "Milton Berle Hides Out at the Ricardos," or sparking a uranium uproar in Las Vegas in "Lucy Hunts Uranium."

A highlight of this set is the first-ever home video release of the uncut version of "Lucy Takes a Cruise to Havana," a flashback episode in which Lucy meets Ricky on a "maiden voyage" to Cuba. She also meets future best friend Ethel (Vivian Vance) and her new husband Fred (a toupeed William Frawley), and goes overboard for her first celebrity sighting, Rudy Vallee. Because these episodes do not play as often in syndication, they seem fresher than their endlessly re-run counterparts. They are full of delights for movie, TV, and Lucy buffs, among them, Fred MacMurray getting "Uranium" fever, Maurice Chevalier singing "Yankee Doodle Boy" in the "Mexico" episode, prolific character actor Sid Melton as a bellboy in the "Alaska" episode, and a va-voom Vance decked out as maid and a dance hall girl, respectively, in the "The Celebrity Next Door" and "Milton Berle" episodes. Among this set's prodigious bonus features include 1951 color footage that an audience member surreptitiously filmed, rediscovered scenes that were cut from the original broadcasts, and a filmed presentation to Westinghouse, which sponsored the series. If you don't add this to your library, you have some 'splainin' to do. --Donald Liebenson

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