JohnMor
Senior HTF Member
Originally Posted by Theodore J. Mooney
Also, she NEVER mentions her daughter again, EVER. And in Season 5, she refers to her son Jerry as Jimmy.
In regards to continuity problems, you can't pin that soley on The Lucy Show. There is a whole bunch of sitcoms made during and prior to this one that had lots continuity problems too.
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Very true. Continuity was never a huge issue for sitcom writers prior to the 70's and the introduction of reality-based sitcoms (and even then it was never written in stone.) Most of the time they knew people back then didn't care. They knew they were watching a piece of manufactured entertainment meant to be enjoyed for 30 minutes and take their mind off their cares and (hopefully) bring a smile to their face. Now, with growing up seeing all the eps back to back in syndication and owning them at home, people expect more adherance to continuity. But it wasn't an issue for most people back in the day. Even a more realistic comedy show from the 60's, The Dick Van Dyke Show had terrible continuity from time to time. (Admittedly, they never called Ritchie "Robert" or anything, but that was more a case of no one having the cojones to stand up to Lucy and tell her the script was right and her memory was wrong.)
As far as not mentioning Chris, they did the same with Craig on Here's Lucy except for the one ep he comes back in. Eldest son Mike Douglas was never heard from or referred to again after he got married on My Three Sons (an otherwise fairly "realistic" sitcom on the era). Same with eldest son Chuck Cunningham on Happy Days, although I believe they finally mentioned him in the series finale, ten years later. And infamously, both kids and her father were erased from Doris Martin's life on The Doris Day Show.