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  1. Joe Lugoff

    Lucille Ball, the Post-I Love Lucy Thread

    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...
  2. Joe Lugoff

    The Lucille Ball Specials [discussion thread]

    Was anything Lucille Ball did after I Love Lucy any good?
  3. Joe Lugoff

    Classic TV show you should be into/couldn’t get into

    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.
  4. Joe Lugoff

    Classic TV show you should be into/couldn’t get into

    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...
  5. Joe Lugoff

    Classic TV show you should be into/couldn’t get into

    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...
  6. Joe Lugoff

    Classic TV show you should be into/couldn’t get into

    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...
  7. Joe Lugoff

    Classic TV show you should be into/couldn’t get into

    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...
  8. Joe Lugoff

    Classic TV show you should be into/couldn’t get into

    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...
  9. Joe Lugoff

    Classic TV show you should be into/couldn’t get into

    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...
  10. Joe Lugoff

    Classic TV show you should be into/couldn’t get into

    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...
  11. Joe Lugoff

    Our Miss Brooks on DVD

    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...
  12. Joe Lugoff

    Our Miss Brooks on DVD

    " ... 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?
  13. Joe Lugoff

    My Little Margie - Complete First Season on DVD!

    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...
  14. Joe Lugoff

    My Little Margie - Complete First Season on DVD!

    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...
  15. Joe Lugoff

    My Little Margie - Complete First Season on DVD!

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

    My Little Margie - Complete First Season on DVD!

    "Bachelor Father" was on all three networks: 1957-59, CBS; 1959-61, NBC; 1961-62, ABC.
  17. Joe Lugoff

    My Little Margie - Complete First Season on DVD!

    That's far from being the complete series. There were 13 episodes on CBS in the summer of 1952; 5 on NBC in the fall of 1952; 30 on CBS January-July, 1953; then two seasons on NBC (1953-54; 1954-55) of 39 episodes each; for a total of 126 episodes. Tubi has the first 13; 13 of the next 35; 12...
  18. Joe Lugoff

    The Bugs Bunny Show on DVD and Blu-ray

    Has it been discussed why Porky Pig didn't seem to exist for this show? My theory is they might have been planning to give him his own show if this Bugs Bunny show had been more successful. There was a daytime Porky Pig Show later in the decade. I remember watching it before I went to school.
  19. Joe Lugoff

    Our Miss Brooks on DVD

    I think I wrote here already that, years ago, I read an interview with Eve Arden where she said she only agreed to do the show if Miss Brooks were never shown actually teaching, because that's something she could never do in real life (she never finished high school). Of course, that doesn't...
  20. Joe Lugoff

    Rarest sitcoms of the 60s

    It was Ann Sothern's first sitcom, "Private Secretary" (1953-57) that was syndicated as "Susie." Her second sitcom was "The Ann Sothern Show" (1958-61). She was asked to replace Vivian Vance on "The Lucy Show" but demanded co-star billing with Lucy, so that didn't work out (although she...
  21. Joe Lugoff

    Our Miss Brooks on DVD

    Two things: Actually, "Our Miss Brooks" wasn't a Desilu production. It was the first show after "I Love Lucy" to be filmed there using the Desilu crew, but it was actually a CBS production. And, GMBurns said he hasn't yet seen Miss Brooks in a classroom. And he never will. I read years ago...
  22. Joe Lugoff

    My Little Margie - Complete First Season on DVD!

    I said to someone today that now we're going to start saying things from the 1950s are seventy years ago. For instance, next year, "I Love Lucy" will be 70 years old. "My Little Margie" hits that mark in 2022. In other words, I'm shocked we even had one release. If another one happens, fine...
  23. Joe Lugoff

    Our Miss Brooks on DVD

    I had said the same things in another thread on "Our Miss Brooks" in this forum. I liked the radio show so much, I was excited when the series came on MeTV a while back. It was a very disappointing experience, for many reasons. One thing, on the radio, you can imagine there are other students...
  24. Joe Lugoff

    Our Miss Brooks on DVD

    Coincidentally, yesterday I sent an e-mail to someone where I said it's hard for me to believe that in three weeks, 1970 will be 50 years ago. So, listen, things are bad enough without rushing things. Actually, 1982 was 38 years ago. :thumbs-up-smiley:
  25. Joe Lugoff

    Is the b&w era of TV on DVD slowly coming to an end?

    This thread will soon celebrate its 8th birthday. If the b&w era of TV on DVD is slowly coming to an end, "slowly" is the correct word, evidently. Maybe its time to retire it and start a new thread about b&w TV on DVD. After all, it can be argued even the era of DVD in general is slowly...
  26. Joe Lugoff

    Ozzie & Harriet Release From Sam Nelson?

    I can't stop myself from replying to this. After all, this is a forum, which is supposed to be an exchange of ideas. What Gary O says here is what he'd like to be true, not what necessarily is true. I live smack dab in the middle of America. I love "Leave It to Beaver" and "Father Knows...
  27. Joe Lugoff

    Ozzie & Harriet Release From Sam Nelson?

    Did the O&H-philes here watch "Here Come the Nelsons" on TCM last night? You'd have loved it. It was just like the TV series, bland, predictable and unfunny. It did have some wild, offbeat casting though. Ozzie's domineering, cantankerous boss (he was actually shown to have a job!) --...
  28. Joe Lugoff

    Is the b&w era of TV on DVD slowly coming to an end?

    My guess is the original negatives were cut for syndication and the cut parts thrown away, so the syndicated version is all that exists now. They never dreamed there'd be home video and people talking about this series on the Internet over 60 years later. I've read other examples of what was...
  29. Joe Lugoff

    Is the b&w era of TV on DVD slowly coming to an end?

    To beat the dead "Our Miss Brooks" horse a little more: There were many episodes I thought were actually hilarious in the radio version which laid a deadly bomb when translated to television. I guess there are many reasons for this, most of which have been pointed out already. About a little...
  30. Joe Lugoff

    Is the b&w era of TV on DVD slowly coming to an end?

    LOL. Is he really that much different on "Our Miss Brooks"?! Talk about a one-note actor. Oddly enough, I like the radio series much more. It was better written and acted. Like this exchange (paraphrased): Miss Brooks: Mr. Conklin suffers from bad nervous headaches. Mrs. Davis: How long...
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