Recent content by Joe Lugoff

No, that's an often-repeated error from some book. I remember (as if it were last week) watching the first episode on the night of Monday, Oct. 1, 1962 and it was called The Lucy Show from Day One. I think this error might have come from the fact that, for some reason, TV Guide listed the show...

Was anything Lucille Ball did after I Love Lucy any good?

I don't get it. Is the implication that the Luftwaffe had nothing to do with the Nazis? This is #5,612,884 on the list of things I don't get.

The books I've read said he sold I Love Lucy, specifically, to CBS in 1957 in order to raise the money to buy RKO, thinking they weren't of much value because no one would want to watch the same shows over and over and over. 1960 must have been when he sold the other pre-1960s Desilu shows. At...

Not all syndication before I Love Lucy was based on kinescopes. There had been filmed series before, such as Trouble with Father and Amos 'n' Andy. CBS showed reruns of the series for three seasons after the original run, which was all profit because they owned the series by then. That's not...

I don't think this is correct. Shows were in syndication long before I Love Lucy ended its run. (Amos 'n' Andy, for instance.) Besides, Desilu didn't own I Love Lucy any more. Desi had sold it to CBS to raise the money to buy RKO. He thought he was being shrewd, because no one would want to...

About Darrin of Bewitched being a fool or an idiot -- yes, one of the biggest in TV history. But what words do we use for Samantha who was willing to give up her powers for him?! The same words come to mind. There was something fundamentally wrong with the entire premise. Of course, it still...

I'm not sure why I didn't think of this before, but my all-time #1 "I just don't get it" show is Star Trek. I say this as a lifelong fan of science fiction, too. My favorite thing to speculate on is life on other planets, and what it would be like, and if they've made a better world for...

I find myself agreeing with almost everything that's being said! Which raises the question, if I find so many of them so bad, why do I keep watching old TV shows? Because I'm a nut, that's why! Actually, a good case can be made that most highly praised TV shows are overrated. I absolutely do...

I certainly agree with you about Hogan's Heroes. I don't find much that's funny about Nazi POW camps. When Mad Magazine did their satire of it way back when, they ended with the question of what's next -- a show about the hilarious adventures of the Jews in a concentration camp? Along the...

I see. So you meant "another one not long before her birthday"? This reminds me of one of the greatest coincidences of my life. On December 17, 2018, someone mentioned the musical Hair and I wondered if the composer of that show, Galt MacDermot, was still living. I went to Wikipedia to check...

" ... another one long before her birthday!" I don't understand what this means. Unless you die on your birthday (as supposedly Shakespeare did ... and as Ingrid Bergman did), doesn't everyone die before or after their birthday?

I got a stack of old Mad Magazines I'm going through (very disappointing -- it's not as clever or funny as I thought it was). Anyway, in Issue No. 56 (July, 1960), they gave out their TV "Alfie" Awards, named for Alfred E. Neuman, of course. And one of the winners was Gale Storm for My Little...

Yes, and an example of that involves the very show that this thread is about. When "Father Knows Best" switched networks in 1955, from CBS to NBC, it knocked "My Little Margie" off, and it was due to a sponsor controlling a time slot. Scott Paper had been sponsoring "My Little Margie" on NBC...

I thought "My Little Margie" had some episodes without laugh tracks. I've seen them for decades. Were those supposed to have laugh tracks?