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She wasn't the only one. Her color shows also didn't have one important component of I Love Lucy: William Asher as a director. He was doing Bewitched concurrently, and I was shocked to see Uncle Arthur and Serena doing Lucy and Ethel's old candy factory routine in color in their fifth season!

Lucy's voice was already headed downward all the way back in the I Love Lucy days; she's much higher-pitched in the first two seasons. After Little Ricky was born (and Desi Jr. in real life), you could hear her lose an octave. Booze and tobacco brought it down further gradually and doing Wildcat...

And it gets curiouser and curiouser … Mame screenwriter Paul Zindel wrote the previous year's Alice in Wonderland adaptation for CBS where Eydie was Tweedledum to Steve Lawrence's Tweedledee.

I think a lot of Lucy's continued success on TV in the 1960s and 1970s can be attributed to the fact that they were filmed before an audience when many sitcoms were single-camera shows with laugh tracks. Other shows switched back to the three-camera/studio audience format in the 1970s and took...

And between the last two Lucy shows, her old writers did Alice and got nine years out of that, so that must have been a change of pace for them. The coincidence of that is that the Oscar-winning originator of the title role from the movie Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Ellen Burstyn, had a...

What a coincidence. Lucy's last movie was Mame in 1974, and her last TV show were in 1986, and both were soundly rejected by the public. Both years are years of the Tiger in the Chinese Zodiac since they are twelve years apart. TV changed dramatically then, almost as much as it did from 1962 to...