I Love Lucy - The Complete Seasons 7-9
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Actor: Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball, Richard Keith, Vivian Vance, William FrawleyBrand: BALL,LUCILLE
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; 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
Product features:
- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- Closed-captioned; NTSC
DVD Reviews of I Love Lucy - The Complete Seasons 7-9
DVD Review: EXCELLENT WITH A FEW FLAWS
Summary: 4 Stars
This last installment of shows featuring the I LOVE LUCY cast has a treasure trove of features, and some flashbacks to the half hour series. Most enjoyable is the color footage from Season One's AUDITION episode that was taken by an sudience member. What a great way to see the show as it was actually made.
For the 13 hour shows, all are stunningly sharp in picture and sound. I'm extremely glad that the premiere Havana Cruise episode is restored to its complete presentation. If space allowed, even on another disc, I would have also included the full edited version that has been rerun since the intial broadcast as a contrast piece. Showing the difference between the two with just the Balcony scene doesn't cut it. I now have to keep my VHS version to have this shorter edition.
I agree with other comments noted below about the Tallulah episode (the best of this series, comedy-wise). The set-up about the allergy to strawberries is a major flaw. With the 16mm extras footage, I'm not sure if this was an error, or what was available to work with. When you choose this scene, it starts at the tail end of the conversation about the allergy where Lucy says, "Oh, I'm so glad...uh, you know what I mean", with Tallulah responding "I know exactly what you mean", and it continues. It is true that when "We Love Lucy" (syndicated hour and half-hour versions of Lucy-Desi Hours issued in the 90s) broadcast in the episode and the 2-Hour compilation specials, a poorer quality section of this conversation was inserted, but did not continue to the full Mertz walkout in the kitchen, but to the edited version of that scene. Regardless, the allergy piece was still "in". I even remember watching a film rerun of this show 12/30/73 on NY's Channel 5, when they began to rerun monthly on weekends what was advertised as The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour. It was the first time I viewed it as The Lucille Ball - Desi Arnaz Show, with the animated "Ford" opening, only without the sponsor mention and voice-over (theme only). The titles also only had the flipped card announcing Viv and Bill, the little extra pull-down for Little Ricky, then would fade quick to a separate still while the theme faded stating "and Special Guest Star Tallulah Bankhead". I have an audio tape of this show as broadcast, as we weren't at the point of owning VCRs then. This edited film version featured the entire two kitchen scenes with the Mertzes, and the Strawberry allergy reference. Therefore, a film version may still exist in Viacom's archives somewhere. The closing credits were also the animated ones as you see here in the Bonus features, but no Roy Rowan voice over or guest cast references. It is also the full two chorus orchestral theme vs. the choppy ones on the L-D Hour closing credits on some of the shows.
As a point of reference, when these film versions (prior to remastering to video, etc) were broadcast in the 70s on Channel 5, all but two used the "Ford" animated opening without sponsor mention and voice over, and the same animated closing credits with the full double-chorus theme, and referencing The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show. When the Paul Douglas and Ida Lupino episodes were broadcast, they were in the Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour versions you see here, with maybe a different tweak here and there for commercials, but mostly what you see here. This confirmed I wasn't crazy, and remembered these openings from summer reruns on CBS in the 60s. The animated "Ford" openings were new to me at the time.
The menus are adorable, but I wouldn't have used any incidental music from the half hour series, even if this is advertised as an I Love Lucy box. I would have extracted some incidental music from the hour shows to add when you switch between the menus. Glad the 1957-60 instumental opening theme is used at main menu start, even if edited.
I am also happy that the completed Westinghouse Promotion Video is included with this set. It is a very necessary piece, and compared to the horrible edited versions with verbage printed all over it on bootlegged Good Times releases, you get to see it complete for the first time without interuption.
My only other peave with this set is some of the chapter marks. There shoud have been an additional one or two added during the Geisha House scene in the Japan episode. The last chapter marker is at the first scene of the guys at the table, and then you would have to fast forward to get to a specific place. Should have added a marker either at the start of Tokyo Pete and/or at either when Lucy & Viv discover each other in the Geisha costumes, or at the break for commercial after Lucy dances, and then the last scene is set up.
Lastly, I am not sure if the Milton Berle Special that Desi refers to in the bonus features was a Desilu production, but broadcast on NBC. Once prior to, and once right after her passing, this program was shown "somewhere", probably on Fox affiliates, with the latter broadcast I remember being called MILTON LOVES LUCY, with Berle doing opening and closing comments on video. I have this somewhere on VHS. Based on the time of original broadcast, if it was a Desilu produced project and was available, I would have added this show to this set as part of a Bonus Disc, and also include the Danny Thomas Show episode with Lucy & Ricky, as well as the Ann Sothern Show episode with Lucy, since these both were definitely done at Desilu. That would have really completed the package with a big POW!
Don't get me wrong. A fan of my caliber has to point out all these things, but as a whole, this is a great package that entertains, provides historical background and gives us a glimpse of behind-the-scenes magic. A few necessary minor details still need to be worked out, especially if a second pressing will follow.
Now that one full series is out, we can only hope for The Lucy Show, all of Here's Lucy, the 1976-80 specials & even Life With Lucy, and any other odds and ends in between (the 1960s special with Bob Hope, and the Lucy Goes To London Special with Anthony Newley).
Description of I Love Lucy - The Complete Seasons 7-9
Continues the comic adventures of Lucy Ricardo, her bandleader husband Ricky, and their former neighbors Fred and Ethel Mertz after Lucy and Ricky move to Connecticut.Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 13-MAR-2007
Media Type: DVD
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