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Season: #1 - 1986
Airdate: September 20, 1986
Special Notes: There is a tremendous audience reaction as Lucille makes her first appearance. Her hair (which is a wig) is the same style as the final episodes of Here's Lucy. Among other tidbits, Lucy never had a face-lift, but instead had makeup artists pull back her skin temporarily with adhesive tape, then conceal the tape under her wig. Lucy never memorized any of her lines on the show, and instead used cue cards. This is normally verboten by any actors, even sitcom or soap opera actors who have to learn their lines quickly. Apparently, Lucy had been doing this for more than ten years. She may have continued to use cue cards because of stage fright or a bad memory or maybe a little of both. There were very few screw-ups on the Life With Lucy set; Lucy ran a very tight ship, and everybody knew their lines (even if Lucy had to read hers). Gale Gordon was particularly good at his part, and never blew his lines once during filming.
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Season: #1 - 1986
Special Notes: Unaired Episode
The exterior of Lucy's Hardware Store featured in the show was actually a vacant storefront located directly across the street from what is now the Warner Hollywood Studios, a couple of blocks west of the corner of Santa Monica Blvd. and LaBrea Avenue in Hollywood.
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Season: #1 - 1986
Airdate: October 18, 1986
Special Notes: The most famous scene from this series has Lucy lying on an electric lounge chair that goes berserk. While Lucille has little to do but ride the bucking chair, newspaper columnists chide Lucille and the producers for allowing an older woman to do such a dangerous stunt. While Lucille does get jostled, she is hardly in danger. However, many people feel that Lucille is too old to be doing the same kind of physical comedy she used to do decades earlier.
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Season: #1 - 1986
Airdate: September 27, 1986
Special Notes: Lucille really enjoyed working with Ritter, who is one of her favorites. All week long, she refered to herself as having "Ritter-it is". During the filming of the scene where she force-feeds him a concoction of tofu, wheat germ, and sauerkraut juice because of his hands being bandaged, Ritter ad-libs to her, "This is real sauerkraut juice!" His pained expression breaks Lucille up, and the scene had to be reshot. Lucille commented that this was only the third time in her entire career that she had to yell cut because she broke up laughing.
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Season: #1 - 1986
Airdate: October 25, 1986
Special Notes: When Lucy pulls the saxophone from the trunk, the audience immediately gives applause from its recognition of the Lucy/saxophone scenes from I Love Lucy. Unfortuately the writers choose to center the piece around Jenny Lewis (Becky) instead.
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Season: #1 - 1986
Airdate: October 4, 1986
Special Notes: This is actually the only time on Life with Lucy that Lucille is not wearing slacks, a bathrobe, or a housecoat.
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Season: #1 - 1986
Special Notes: Unaired Episode
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Season: #1 - 1986
Airdate: November 1, 1986
Special Notes: Note that the magnets are being attached to the monitor on the computer, which in the real world, would not have caused any harm.
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Season: #1 - 1986
Special Notes: Unaired Episode
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Season: #1 - 1986
Airdate: November 8, 1986
Special Notes: Lucille Ball of old emerges in the courtroom scene, while dressed in a man's tailored suit, with suspenders and floppy bow-tie, one cannot help but think of Lucy Ricardo.
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Season: #1 - 1986
Special Notes: Unaired Episode
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Season: #1 - 1986
Airdate: November 15, 1986
Special Notes: The scene in the kitchen where Lucy and Audrey have their fight with the cake frosting is one of the only well-motivated comedy spots in the entire series. It is reminiscent of the Lucy Ricardo/Ethel Mertz arguments. There was talk about changing the show format and adding Audrey to the permanent cast, but nothing ever came of it.
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Season: #1 - 1986
Special Notes: Unaired Episode. This is the final filmed installment of Life with Lucy. On the day of the filming of this episode, Aaron Spelling received the decree that the show is canceled. Rather than tell Lucille himself, he has an assistant telephone Gary Morton with the news, which is withheld from Lucille until after the filming. Although the premiere had a respectable twentieth top show in the ratings, the other episodes steadily decreased in viewership. This series has turned into one of the biggest disasters in sitcom history, and Lucille was devastated. She was convinced that the public no longer wanted her. She had never failed before.
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Season: #1 - 1986
Special Notes: This episode was never Filmed.
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