Quote:
Originally Posted by
LeoAmes 
Someone mentioned early in this thread "
I don't believe the missing strawberries bit from the hour long show is back". What does that mean? Is there a scene missing somewhere, the original show opening isn't used, or what? Are they all intact and uncut? I've seen all those hour long episodes in syndication as the Lucy Desi Comedy Hour, but I'm unaware of what they're referring to and would like to know if it's there if it should be.
I can explain about the strawberries scene.
It refers to the hour episode with Tallulah Bankhead, "The Celebrity Next Door."
That was one of the first five hour shows (from the 1957-58 season). Those were shown as "specials," while the other eight hour shows were part of "The Westinghouse-Desilu Playhouse" series in 1958-59 and 1959-60.
The five "specials" ran longer than the other eight shows, so they had to have more cut out when the thirteen shows were first shown as "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour" on CBS in the summer of 1962.
For those five shows on the so-called "Season 7" DVD, several cut scenes were not reinserted where they belonged because the only available footage wasn't up to the standard of the rest of the shows.
However, those missing scenes were given as extras.
In one of the "missing scenes" in "The Celebrity Next Door," Bankhead tells the Ricardos she's allergic to strawberries. This comes into the story later when Lucy tricks her into eating strawberries during the play they're putting on.
This scene was included as an extra on the Season 7 set, but for some mysterious reason, the line where she tells them about the strawberries was missing from the start of the scene. The scene just starts abruptly, almost in the middle of a sentence if I recall correctly.
Now, whether or not the full scene has been restored for the Complete Series set, I don't know.
