Sorry, I thought we were talking home video releases - I meant that Here's Lucy has never been released by Paramount/CBS home video. My understanding is the entire series ended up being under control of Lucille Ball Productions. I apologize for being imprecise.
Here's Lucy was never Paramount, The Lucy Show was; when she left Paramount to go to Universal, she set up her own company separate from Paramount and retitled and reformulated The Lucy Show into Here's Lucy.
I noticed that, too. I wonder if that may have been the result of Lucy saying to her, "You've gotta play to the back row!" No one on any Lucy show ever spoke quietly; I am sure in the early 50s there was more of a challenge making sure everyone could hear - I have read that was even a problem on...
There was one episode of Life with Lucy called "Lucy Among the Two-by-Fours" that I thought had a glimmer of a good show in it. Lucy dates a man (Peter Graves) for the fist time since becoming a widow, and she and the daughter have a heart to heart conversation about life. Lucy and her date...