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This was Lucy's first series after the Lucy-Desi break-up. In many ways though it followed the same formula as I Love Lucy in that the comedy was set up just as well and Lucy is just as funny. Her character was developed as one that actually hit the times well.

Lucy was portrayed here as a single woman and still energetic enough to pull it off. Folks like Garry Marshall were among the talented writers enlisted to do scripts and many of the scripts were very funny. Lucy with her talent added to all of them.

Famous guest stars littered the shows, from her second encounter with legend John Wayne to Jack Benny and the first physical sighting of his famous vault where he squeezed his first dime. Gale Gordon was a great support actor as Lucy's boss at the bank she worked at during the series. That was the difference between this series & I Love Lucy is that most of the time Lucy was trying to keep her bank job with Mr. Mooney instead of trying to be a star.

It is a subtle change but important to note that Lucy could still be funny in different situations. Viven Vance is always a delight when she is on this show. She could not be on all the time due to some health problems she had but she did appear a lot. Ratings for this show were number 1 until it's last season when NBC stripped a gear & Laugh-In came on board.

Lucille Ball is definitely the First Lady of television comedy. In her life after her "I Love Lucy" years where the show was both a masterpiece and set standards and broke conventional rules, she returns as Lucy Carmichael, a divorced mother of two, and a secretary to bank Vice President, Theodore J. Mooney, played by longtime friend, Gale Gordon. Vivian Vance returned as her best friend Vivian not Ethel. The show is set in Los Angeles where there are plenty of celebrity guest stars like John Wayne, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Elizabeth Taylor, Carol Burnett etc., just to name a few. Ball is still in her element with physical comedy like babysitting three monkeys. If you thought Lucy lost it, she never did. She has perfect chemistry with Gale Gordon. They had worked together on radio and later in television. In fact, Gordon was Ball 's choice for Fred Mertz in "I Love Lucy" but William Frawley was the perfect choice for that role.

Although it was called "The Lucy Show," the core of this program was always the interaction between Lucille Ball, Vivian Vance and Gale Gordon. Having key film crew personnel from "I Love Lucy" certainly didn't hurt. The show did lose some punch when Vance left for she,along with Ball and Gordon, were "The Lucy Show Triumvirate". However, I feel the post-Vance episodes were almost as enjoyable for they featured interesting and entertaining guest stars. The "Main Street" episode featuring Mel Torme, Paul Winchell AND John Bubbles is a delight for musical fans. Check out the sequence showing Bubbles dancing with Lucy. Also, these later episodes still featured Gale Gordon who bounced off Lucy just as effectively as Vance did. Plus, the addition of Roy Roberts as Gordon's boss helped for he and Gordon bounced off each other well.

What began as a nice fun to watch show about 2 single moms and their children ultimately devolved into the Lucy & Mr. Mooney show losing the charm of the earlier seasons.

I think that "The Lucy Show" should be brought to DVD and released by individual seasons. Paramount Home Video owns the rights to "The Lucy Show" and it would be great if we can have season 1 sometime in 2006. "The Lucy Show" was an excellent sitcom. It ran for six seasons on CBS-TV in the 1960's (1962-1968). It was never out of the top 10 shows during its six-season run. It was the number two show during the 1967-68 season. It earned Lucille Ball four Emmy nominations and two wins for Best Actress In A Leading Role In A Comedy Series during the 1966-67 and 1967-68 TV seasons. I will say that the first three years with Vivian Vance were the best; but the remaining three seasons were just as good. This show established Lucille Ball as the Queen of Comedy and the First Lady of Television. There were 156 episodes produced and when Lucy sold Desilu to Paramount; "The Lucy Show" went with it along with two outstanding TV specials: The Lucille Ball Comedy Hour (1964) w/Bob Hope as guest and "Lucy In London" (1966) which I think was Lucy's best TV special. (I hope that these specials eventually make it to DVD) Unfortunately, the episodes of "The Lucy Show" that are out now on DVD are bootleg copies. There are 30 episodes that are public domain and the quality of the DVDs are not that great. Two episodes are from season one, 21 episodes from season five and seven episodes from season six. I would love to see an officially authorized release of "The Lucy Show" released season by season just like the way Paramount released "I Love Lucy." I love "I Love Lucy" but fans of Lucille Ball would love to see all her shows on DVD. She was one of a kind and a great comedy actress. Till today, there is not one actress on TV or in the movies that can doe what she did on television for over 23 years. PLEASE PUT THE LUCY SHOW ON DVD!

That fact that Lucy was multi talented is indisputable; however some of the episodes were stupid. For example, the episode where she fed a dog a chocolate cake! Everyone should know chocolate is poison for a dog! In other episodes I found her overbearing personality and bossiness irritating.

Lucy Carmichael (Lucille Ball) is a widow with teen daughter Chris and younger son Jerry living in Danfield, New York. She rents to her friend Vivian Bagley (Vivian Vance) and young son Sherman. That's the first three seasons. Each episode usually sets up a ridiculous premise for either solo Lucy or a combo to do some physical comedy later. It's like The Golden Girls doing The Three Stooges. The first season is in black and white. The show goes to color after that. Banker Mr. Theodore J. Mooney (Gale Gordon) manages Lucy's late husband's money from season 2 onwards. In season 4, Lucy moves to LA. Only Mooney stays as a main character. Chris goes to college. Jerry goes to military school. Vivian gets remarried.

The first season is in black and white. That has a timeless quality. With the return of Vivian Vance, it's really a continuation of the old show. Seasons two and three are in color. The only comment I have is that Lucy needs to tone down the makeup. She's done up like a vaudevillian clown which makes sense. Despite being in color, most TVs are still black and white and small. The next big change is season four. She dumps the kids and Vivian. She must have wanted to make a single gal in the big city sitcom. Moving to LA allows her to use all her Hollywood connections and clear out the space for these guest starts to shine. She does keep Mooney despite not making any story sense, but it does make sense to keep the performer. She never really gets a good best friend character except for a few episodes with Carol Burnett. That's what happens sometimes. They get a great guest star and the episode shines.

I have fond memories of watching that one famous episode where Lucy and Viv get stuck in the shower. Now, I don't know about any of you, but my mom was making dinner in the kitchen the first time I was watching that episode, and she thought I'd gotten hurt and was crying, when in reality, I was laughing my butt off! I know some people will have problems on the last three seasons, in color, and without Viv, but I know for a fact she guest starred later on. Vivian Vance was extremely underrated an should have been given more credit. She also spoke what I believe to be one of the first swear words Ever aired on television. Lucy: You have to admit, I've done some crazy things in life, but at least they were sensible! Viv: Sensible? Honey, sensible my ass! This must not have been scripted, because Lucy turned to the audience, half shocked, half laughing her sensible butt off. Overall, an underrated installment to the Lucille Ball saga.

I am in complete agreement with the majority of the previous reviewers in that the first two seasons in black-and-white with Vivian Vance playing Vivian Bagley (television comedy's first divorcee) where undoubtedly the finest of the series. I am second to none in my admiration for Lucy, but after Vivian's character vanished, I thought the shows got more grating, annoying, repetitious and less funny as a rule. Vance was indeed a great co-star for Ball, they played off each-other beautifully and had genuine "star chemistry" between them. Mr. Mooney yelling at Lucy Carmichael got to be distractingly boring, uninspired and plain stupid. I have always been a great fan of Vivian Vance: in my thinking she was a vastly underrated comedy performer who had a unique voice, delivery style and physical mannerisms. Lucy was indeed fortunate to have had Desi finding Vivian playing in a play in La Jolla back in 195O. Lucy wouldn't have been nearly as successful without the special magic this actress brought to Ethel & Viv!

This superb series wrapped up just one year after Nicole Kidman (who would later play Lucille Ball) was born.

I remember this was staple TV when growing up. I could not get enough of this fine series. Lucille Ball's comic timing was spot on, and I learned later that in real-life she was quite a serious business woman.

Lucille Ball is the greatest comics of all time. The Lucy Show was a fun, campy show. It was great to see Lucy, Viv, Gale, and Mary Jane all acting together. Fans now have the complete series of I Love Lucy and The Lucy Desi Comedy Hour. I would love to see The Lucy Show released as season sets on DVD. I hope to see complete series releases of The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy, and Life With Lucy. All of these shows are important parts of Lucy's television history. If you haven't voted yet, please do so at tvshowsondvd.com. Maybe we will get some good news on a future release!! The more votes, the more fans can show their enthusiasm!! Can you imagine owning all the Lucy shows in your own collection?!?!?

Five years after I Love Lucy ended, Lucille Ball returned to TV in her second sitcom, titled The Lucy Show. Unlike Lucy Ricardo, she played a widowed mother of a daughter named Chris, played by Candy Moore and a son named Jerry, portrayed by Jimmy Garrett. Also adding to the hysteria was her former I Love Lucy sidekick Vivian Vance, a divorced mother of a son named Sherman, who was played by Ralph Hart.

As the show progressed, the kids were no longer seen on the show and Vance left after the third season. Also adding to the mayhem were Gale Gordon as Mr. Mooney and Mary Jane Croft. Ball and Gordon had outstanding chemistry that would last until Here's Lucy went off the air in 1974.

Just like I Love Lucy, the show featured the slapstick and physical comedy that made ball one of the funniest female sit=com actresses of all time. I saw Lucy Gets Caught Up in the Draft and she constantly gives her commanding officer a hard time. It was also a very funny episode. There were also numerous episodes with guest stars, including several with Ann Sothern as The Countess.

From the cute animated opening in the first season to the full color episodes in it's sixth and final season, the Lucy show is laugh out loud funny and Ball doesn't miss a beat.

I've been watching Reruns of The Lucy show, costarring Vivian Vance, and I have to say it's down right terrible. The scripts are terrible, and the acting is terrible. What happened to Lucille Ball? Her comedic timing is non-existent in this series. She plays a rather childish character and her voice grates on my nerves. I'm sorry she ruined her vocal chords playing on broadway, but jeez tone it down a bit lady, she always sounds like she's screaming.

The episodes seems like regurgitated episodes of I love Lucy, with a slight change from the original. The stories are far fetched and leave me saying WHY??? But than that's probably Gary Marshall's influence since he was a writer on this show, (so I've heard). I gotta say, I can't stand Gary Marshall....and we will leave it at that!!

Lucy and Vivian Vance seem awkward on this series, and oddly have no chemistry, considering their history in working together in the past. They both seem so mechanical in this and the gags are just gags. Nothing funny or endearing. The rest of the cast also lack spark. Lucy plays a widow and Viv a divorcee and they have children, which again no chemistry all around.

It's lucky Lucille Ball had Desi and the two of them made history with I love Lucy, unfortunately it's hard to follow a series like that. Perhaps all the stresses in her life, divorce from her husband and business partner, keeping up with Desi Jr. (also a handful) and running a studio changed her and made her cynical and harsh, so this show has no spark...she's just going thru the motions it seems.

Her later show in the 70's with her real life children was not any better. Plus her interviews, she always seemed bitter. She does deserve praise for her business sense, being a women dealing with men in those days must not have been easy, but she did it. Her early work on I love Lucy is golden and she deserves all the praise she received for it, and on going praise of today. I will fondly remember her as Lucy Ricardo.

I agree that the B & W eps were the funniest--LOoved the one where they put up an antenna on the roof and even the colored ones with viv in them--she was a perfect foil and sidekick as was gale gordon. When Viv left and the series shifted to California, it was always Lucy meets a celebrity and that got repetitious even on here's lucy. I do not think I can ever forget the shower episode, the one where lucy locks herself and mooney in the bank vault (mooney is a meeney), chasing the bird on the roof. it seems that when viv left, the show simply fell by the wayside. A few of the California eps were good--the one where lucy is in Te dolphin tank was excellent and the ones where viv visited were good, but overall, it lacked a lot of luster

This show was meant to only be one season and thank goodness it kept going.

The first 3 seasons have the charm and feel of I Love Lucy without Ricky and Fred... and you really don't miss them as Ball and Vance hold their own. When Vance wanted out Ann Southern pops in and holds the spot very well and have some funny episodes as the Countess!

Season 4 changes to California and the episodes start to change and turn into a workplace sitcom mostly. While these are still good episodes, I prefer the Danfield years the best. I honestly think the last season is the most tiring relying heavily on special guest appearances.

90 percent of the episodes are pretty good! My favorite is when Lucy goes on the roof (2episodes) to put up the TV antenna and to catch Mr. Mooneys bird. The contact lens episode is good too!

A favorite from the later seasons is the Substitute Secretary where Lucy goes into many disguises and ankther gem is where she visits Stacy's Department Store to buy a table.

Hi. Well, you have really bad acting, bad or very silly scripts, a massive putting on of airs, Lucy's voice, is really really bad and, if I hear " Mrs. Carmichael!!! ", just one more time, from Gale Gordon, I'm going to call the network.

So absolutely condescending, and all lines, from Gordon, to her, are annoying, unkind, and worse.

I never cared for Desi, frankly.

Arnaz, purchased a whole houseful, of expensive maple furniture, on credit, from my father, in 1956, and after 6 months, he refused to pay for it, and said " I'm Desi Arnaz and I don't pay for anything!!" And, Desi kept all the furniture, valued at $60, 000, ( in today's money) But, he was a good producer, such as the Mothers in Law, which was about 1967, a wonderful show.

But, the Lucy show, just is terrible, especially the way that they use the laugh track.

Add my opinion to the others...Vivian Vance added a great deal of class to all the "Lucy" shows. None was more evident than in "The Lucy Show" when she departed (much too soon). After Vivian left the show it was apparent that Lucy needed a sidekick and various guest stars tried to fill Vivian's shoes but none came close. Once the show was broadcast in color, Lucy doing too much (such as running Desilu) started acting with too many broad strokes thinking that whatever she did would be funny. It wasn't. Some of the later shows were actually embarrassing to watch and you realized that not only were the writer's out of ideas but Lucy should have ended this show years before.

Desi made I Love Lucy, and produced her work. She had to use the same formula over and over because she couldn't come up with anything new. And over reliance on guest stars - regardless of him funny. She was always looking away from the camera, and talked loud. Not funny. It was worse later when she brought children on - especially her own. She taught them to look away from the cameras and talk loud, and MORE guest stars. Except Donny Osmond, because he was my crush at the time. But every show was the same. I stopped watching after Donny. And why does it matter how long my review is? Enough said.

Although this show was weaker than "I Love Lucy" it was still pretty funny in its original form. The chemistry of Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance, as single mothers raising their children, made "The Lucy Show" work, especially its first season on the air. Despite some of the bizarre plotlines the two women were believable as two friends struggling in a largely manless environment. But with Vance's departure in 1965 it fell apart at the seams...Lucy became more of a cartoon character as the show became more shallow and relied too heavily on "guest stars," and Gale Gordon and Mary Jane Croft were weak substitutes.

Lucy probably should have pulled the plug on this one in '65.