Lucy Conducts the Symphony

S2;E13 ~ December 30, 1963

Synopsis

When
Viv’s nervous cousin can’t perform in his debut with the Manhattan
Symphony, Lucy takes his place – with disastrous results!

Regular
Cast

Lucille
Ball (Lucy Carmichael), Vivian Vance (Vivian Bagley), Ralph Hart
(Sherman Bagley), Candy Moore (Chris Carmichael) and Jimmy Garrett
(Jerry Carmichael)

Gale
Gordon (Theodore J. Mooney) does not appear in this episode.

Guest
Cast

Wally
Cox (Wally / Harold Tuttle) was a beloved character actor best
known as “Mr. Peepers” (1952-55) and one of the original
“Hollywood Squares” (1965-73). This is his first and only
appearance on “The Lucy Show” but he will do four episodes of
“Here’s Lucy.”

The
character was originally named Harold Tuttle, but during rehearsals
was changed to Wally. The closing credits still credit Wally
Cox
as
Harold Tuttle. He is
Viv’s cousin. His wife’s name is Edna and they have children.

Jack
Donohue
(Conductor) was
the director of this episode and 106 others. He also directed 35
episodes of “Here’s Lucy.” He was previously seen as Man in the
Bank in “Lucy and the Bank Scandal” (S2;E7).

Leon
Belasco
(Concert Master) was
born in Russia in 1902. He was in three films with Lucille Ball
before playing the art store clerk in “Lucy
Becomes a Sculptress” (ILL S2;E15).
He previously played the violin in “No More Double Dates”
(S2;E21) and will play a Maitre d’ when “Lucy Meets Danny Kaye”
(S3;E15).

Roy
Rowan (Symphony Announcer) was
the off-camera announcer for every episode of Lucy’s radio series “My Favorite Husband,” “I Love Lucy” as
well as “The Lucy Show” and “Here’s Lucy.” He was also the
voice heard when TV or radio programs were featured on the plot of
all three shows. He was heard announcing the TV
football game in “Lucy is a Referee” (S1;E3).

Appearing
(uncredited) as the Manhattan Symphony was the 46-piece Glendale
Symphony Orchestra of Glendale, California.

Lucy’s
opening lines refer to the fact that the carpenters have just left
and they have just finished re-decorating. This was originally
episode #39, filmed a week after “Lucy Decides to Redecorate”
(S2;E8), but then aired out of sequence.

Miss
Pierson is Jerry’s arithmetic teacher.

When
Chris hides her rock and roll records from Wally, Lucy says it won’t
hurt her to go 24 hours without hearing “The Surfer’s Stomp.”
This song, a
1962 hit for The Mar-Kets, was
also mentioned in the beach-themed “Lucy is a Chaperone”
(S1;E27).

Wally
Cox gets entrance applause from the studio audience. This is “The
Lucy Show’s” first recognizable ‘celebrity’ guest star. Viv’s cousin Wally
was formerly with the McKeysport Businessman’s Symphony.

In
the living room, Wally rehearses the percussion part from The
Nutcracker Suite by
Pyotr
Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
This is also the music performed by the symphony. Tchaikovsky’s
Sleeping
Beauty Ballet
was mentioned in “Lucy the Music Lover” (S1;E8).

Lucy
mentions Audrey and Harvey Simmons, who hypnotized a man during a
party. Although she does not appear in this episode, Audrey was played by Mary Jane Croft.

In “Lucy the Stockholder” (S3;E25) Lucy and Viv pretend to be under hypnosis for an age regression experiment.

In season five, Lucy and Mr. Mooney will have an encounter with Pat Collins “the hip hypnotist.”

This
is the only Lucy program ever to have its entire second half
performed completely in pantomime, with not a single word spoken!

A
short clip from this episode was incorporated into the season 3 opening credit sequence.

Callbacks!

In
“The Kleptomaniac” (ILL S1;E27) Lucy Ricardo was hypnotized by a
psychiatrist (Joseph Kerns) and regresses to childhood.

Blooper
Alerts!

Vocabulary Test! Viv
uses the word “credenza” when referring to a musical
performance. A credenza is an item of furniture. She means “cadenza.”