Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2337 in DVD
• Brand: Paramount
• Released on: 2007-03-13
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, NTSC
• Original language: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 4
• Dimensions: .50 pounds
• Running time: 662 minutes

Amazon.com
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

Customer Reviews

My seasons will now be complete! YEA!!!
UPDATE: March-22-07

(The "I Love lucy Movie" not to be included in the set! from what I have read Paramount is going to be bringing us a seperate set with the "I Love Lucy" movie and a lost scenes/shows set with bonuses. Look for this set in the near future, this is probably another way for Paramount to make money.) Also in the show "The Celebrity Next Door" this episode is cut because it does no explain how Talula is allergic to strawberries, when originally aired Talula said that she got hives whenever she ate strawberries but on this set it does not explain that. All of the other episodes are perfect and funnier than I remembered them!

Update: May-14-2007

A DVD set was just released called "Lucy's Really Lost Moments' and it will include many lost I Love Lucy scenes and tons of other bonuses including Desi and Lucy appearing on a game show and much more. It is available online through Amazon and other websites and you may be able to purchase it in some video stores also! The average price this set costs online is $10 to $13 and is a GREAT value, I just reserved my copy and can't wait to watch it!!!





I am so exited about "I Love Lucy" season 7-9 coming to dvd and I just can't wait to get it at my door. This set was originally aired on television as The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour and the name of this set has been changed to "I Love Lucy," as that is what it is and should have been called in the first place. The only difference in this set than in Season 1-6 of "I Love Lucy" is that these shows were one hour long episodes instead of half hour episodes, and it continues where Season 6 left off in Connecticut when the gang moved to the country.


These seasons have not aired on cable television as much as the other "I Love Lucy" shows, and it is such a disappointment because there are GREAT shows on here. Why do they not air much??? This dvd box set includes 13 classic episodes at each being an hour long and so you get over 13 hours of fun with this set, not mentioning the many bonuses. There will even be some scenes from "I love Lucy" to be set in color and deleted scenes and flubs and fun commercials as well. You will also receive the "I Love Lucy" movie!! It is 3 shows with a continuing story line and has never been shown before, EVER. They were suppose to air it back in the 1950's but it was cancelled due to the Release of "The Long Long Trailer" and it has been lost and forgotten for over 50 years and now we all can own this. They figured that since "The Long Long Trailer was being aired that there was no need for this movie and decided not to air it.



One of my favorite shows on this set is "Lucy Takes A Cruise To Havana," in this episode there will be a flash back of how Lucy first met Ricky on her cruise to Havana. This episode was first originally aired as 75 minutes long but 15 minutes had to be cut out and Paramount is including the 75 minute long episode with this set, which hasn't been seen since It's original broadcast. Desi Arnaz did not want anything cut on this episode and he talked CBS in to keeping the added minutes. It took the full 75 minutes to make the episode perfect and Desi wanted everything, he would not settle for edited content. When this show was first originally aired back in the 50's it was the full 75 minutes with commercials but every since than it has appeared on cable edited. Desi Arnaz would be very proud to know that the full content is being released!


Here is the episode List:



1.) Lucy Takes A Cruise To Havana
2.) The Celebrity Next Door
3.) Lucy Hunts Uranium
4.) Lucy Wins A Racehorse
5.) Lucy Goes To Sun Valley
6.) Lucy Goes To Mexico
7.) Lucy Makes Room For Danny
8.) Lucy Goes To Alaska
9.) Lucy Wants A Career
10.) Lucy's Summer Vacation
11.) Milton Berle Hides Out At The Ricardos
12.) The Ricardos Go To Japan
13.) Lucy Meets The Moustache

The Rarely Seen Episodes
These 13 hour long episodes were actualy part of a series of specials titled "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour" that originaly aired approx once a month on CBS between 1957 - 1960. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz had tired of the weekly grind of filming a series after 7 years and wanted to cut back on their work load the result was this series of specials. Like the original series the show also featrued William Frawely and Vivian Vance as Fred and Ethel Mertz and of course Keith "Little Ricky" Thibodeaux. These shows took place in the Connecticut setting where the regular series left off although in some episodes the quartet did travel to such places as Mexico and Japan among others. The first of these episodes titled "Lucy Takes a Cruise To Havana" originaly aired as an 1 hr 15 min show, something unheard off back then. This was due to the fact that after filming was complete the episode ran over the normal hour long show (approx 50 mins with out commercials)Desi did not want to cut anything out so he convinced CBS to push the show that followed it back by 15 mins and CBS agreed. The syndicated copy and the one on the CBS Video Library collection are the edited version. I am Happy that these episodes are also being made available and look forwrd to really completing my "Lucy" collection. From what I've read it looks like Paramount Home Video is giving this collection the same love and respect as they did the original "I Love Lucy".

The Best From Lucy & Ricky
I have to say that this is the best season from "I Love Lucy" because it shows the Ricardo's and Mertz in various locations and in a new setting. Even though this is not really considered as part of the "I love Lucy" series more like a sequel TV series because it has a whole new tittle and was an hour long. Although it still has the same characters, plot, theme and story line as "I Love Lucy" did. There's also a lot of extras that come in this set, you get the "I Love Lucy" movie that was going to be released around the same time as Lucy and Desi's other movie "The Long Long Trailer" but was shelved because the studio felt that since "I Love Lucy" was so big at the time being the number one show in America, it would harm the sales of "The Long Long Trailer". It has been lost an forgotten for over 50 years and was recently rediscovered. Also there's some clips of an actual color episode filmed secretly by an audience member plus more extras. it also features little Ricky as an older boy and he has a lot more screen time then usual. This has to be the best "I Love Lucy" DVD ever.