Lucy at Marineland

S4;E1
~ September 13, 1965

Synopsis

Lucy
moves to California and enrolls Jerry in Military School. When she
discovers the students are about to go on a field trip to Marineland
for Jimmy Piersall day, Lucy and Mr. Mooney take Jerry along, too.
Jerry’s autographed ball rolls into a pool and Lucy must swim with
dolphins to retrieve it!

Regular
Cast

Lucille
Ball (Lucy Carmichael), Gale Gordon (Theodore J. Mooney)

Mary
Jane Croft (Mary Jane Lewis) joins the show as a regular cast member
this season, but she does not appear in this episode.

Guest
Cast

Harvey
Korman
(Major Grayson) previously
played stockbroker Mr. Phillips in “Lucy the Stockholder”
(S3;E25) and Mr. Slater, the Camp Director in “Lucy,
the Camp Cook” (S3;E6).
Korman is best known as a cast member of “The Carol Burnett Show”
(1967-1977), four episodes of which featured Lucille Ball. He will
make two more appearances on “The Lucy Show.” In 1977 he had his
own show on ABC which lasted just one season. At the time of this
episode he was a regular on “The Danny Kaye Show” (1963-67) which
aired Friday nights on CBS.

Jimmy
Piersall (Himself)
was a professional baseball player. At the time, he was with the Los
Angeles Angels. Piersall
fought a well-publicized battle with bipolar
disorder
that
became the subject of the 1955 book and 1957 film Fear
Strikes Out.
He retired from the game in 1967.

Jimmy
Garrett
(Jerry Carmichael) was part of the original regular cast of “The
Lucy Show” having appeared in 54 episodes. He will make just one
more appearance on the series.

Robert
S. Carson
(Mr. Potter) was
a busy Canadian-born character actor making the third of his six
appearances on the series. He also made five appearances on “Here’s
Lucy.”

Ted
Eccles
(Harold) previously played Mr. Mooney’s son Arnold in “Lucy’s
Contact Lenses” (S3;E10). He began
his show business career at the age of 4 and was 9 years old when he
first appeared on “The Lucy Show.” He will make one more
appearance on the series. His last screen appearance was in 1977 and
is now producing for television.

The
military school student shows Lucy and Jerry into Major Grayson’s
office. He is referred to simply as Corporal.

George
Barrows
(Bruiser) played
a gorilla in his very first screen credit, Tarzan
and His Mate (1934).
He donned a gorilla suit 18 more times from 1954 to 1978. His final
simian character was on “The Incredible Hulk.” This is his second
appearance on “The Lucy Show” but his first out of the ape suit.

The
character is sitting in the Marineland grandstands with his
girlfriend. He is not called by name.

Larry
Clark
was Marineland’s animal trainer. This is his only screen credit.
Richard
Williams
was Marineland’s announcer.

Some
of the spectators at Marineland are played by:

Lucie
Arnaz is
the real-life 14 year-old daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
She was born in 1951 just before the premiere of “I Love Lucy.”
Lucie played Chris’s friend Cynthia in several earlier episodes of
the series but she made her first (uncredited) appearance in “Lucy
is a Referee” (S1;E3)
as
one of the spectators at the football game. Lucie also appeared with
her mother and brother Desi Jr. on “Here’s Lucy.”

Desi
Arnaz Jr. is
the real-life 12 year-old son of Lucille Ball. His birth was worked
into the plot of “I Love Lucy,” although Desi Jr. never played
the role of Little Ricky Ricardo. His first series appearance was as
one of the pee-wee football players in “Lucy
is a Referee (S1;E3)
although
he played Jerry’s friend Billy
Simmons in four episodes. He later appeared with
his mother and sister on “Here’s Lucy.”

Hans
Moebus was
a German-born actor who appeared as an uncredited background
performer in hundreds of movies and TV shows, including the Lucille
Ball films DuBarry
Was a Lady
(1943),
A
Woman of Distinction
(1950)
and The
Facts of Life (1960).
He was seen on the dock during the “I Love Lucy” episode “Bon
Voyage” (ILL S5;E13).
Moebus was previously part of the riverboat chorus in “Lucy Meets
Arthur Godfrey” (S3;E23).

Monty
O’Grady was
first seen with Lucille Ball in The
Long, Long Trailer (1953)
and played a passenger on the S.S. Constitution in “Second
Honeymoon” (ILL S5;E14).
He was a traveler at the airport when “The
Ricardos Go to Japan”
(1959).
He made a dozen appearances on the series and a half dozen more on
“Here’s Lucy.”

For
season four the series has a new ‘kaleidoscope’ opening credit
sequence designed
by Howard
Anderson, Jr.,
who was also responsible for the ‘heart’ opening of
“I
Love Lucy.”
As in previous seasons, the
theme music was composed by Wilbur
Hatch,
who was the show’s musical director, a role he also performed on “I
Love Lucy.”

Maury
Thompson takes over as director from Jack Donohue. He will be
director of record for all of seasons four and five. Donohue returns
to direct all but the first episode of season six.

This
is the first episode of “The Lucy Show” to be broadcast by CBS in
color. Seasons two and three were filmed in color, but aired in
black and white.

Lucy
explains that she and Jerry have moved to Southern California to be
closer to Chris, who is attending college there. Vivian Bagley
re-married to a man named Vern Bunson and remained in Danfield. Lucy
says that Sherman is enjoying having a new dad. Mr. Mooney has also
made the move West. He was given a choice between the state of
California and the state of unemployment and chose the former.

Lucy enrolls Jerry at the Los Angeles Military Academy. Although an institution by this name existed at the turn of the 20th century, the name was probably chosen to help reinforce the show’s new location. The last time Jerry was enrolled in military school on the East Coast it was called the Longridge Academy, although students and uniforms were provided by the real-life Page Military Academy in Los Angeles.

Lucy’s trust fund has been
transferred to the Westland Bank in Hollywood, coincidentally the
same bank where Mr. Mooney has been reassigned.

Marineland
on the Pacific was
a public oceanarium
and
tourist
attraction
located
on then Palos
Verdes Peninsula
in
Los
Angeles County,
California.
When
it opened in 1954, one year before Disneyland,
Marineland was the world’s largest oceanarium.
In
1987 it was purchased by the owners of Sea
World, who moved
the popular killer
whales
and
other animals to their San Diego facility and abruptly closed
Marineland.

CBS had previously arranged location shoots at Marineland for “The
Munsters” and “The Beverley Hillbillies.” Coincidentally, Sid
Gould, Gary Morton’s cousin and a bit player in 45 episodes of “The
Lucy Show,” played the Munsters’ Marineland tour guide.

This
is the first time the cast of “The Lucy Show” has left the studio
for location shooting. The weather was unusually cold during the
shoot. For the scenes in the water tank, Lucille Ball wore a wet suit
under her clothes. The wet suit recently came up for auction with a
top bid of $800.

The
Marineland show begins with Bubbles the whale unfurling the American
flag. Bubbles
was the first pilot whale every captured for display.

Lucy
says before marrying and settling down she was a secretary, a
cashier, a telephone operator, a saleslady, a waitress and a
librarian – all during her two week stay in New York City.

Mr.
Mooney agrees to leave work and drive Lucy and Jerry to Marineland in
his light colored Ford Falcon convertible. Mr. Mooney must like Ford
Falcons because in “Lucy, the Camp Cook” (S3;E6) he drives a red
Ford Falcon convertible.

Jimmy
Piersall says about Lucy: “And
they call me a kook!”
This is a brave reference to Piersall’s public battle with bi-polar
disorder.

Lucy
once again does her seal impersonation – this time in the company
of real seals! She previously did it in “Lucy and the Countess
Lose Weight” (S3;E21) but originated it in 1951’s
“The
Audition” (ILL S1;E6).
Lucy
Carmichael adds seals and dolphins to the every-growing list of live
animals she has appeared with on the series.

TV
Guide devoted their August 28, 1965 (vol.
13, no. 35, issue #648)
cover to this episode. In a four page article, Ball
told
TV Guide
she
was scared during filming due to the size of the animals. She was
assured that the dolphins were harmless but was warned the sea lion
had bitten attendants twice.
The cover identifies the dolphin behind Lucy as Splash. This was just
one of Lucille Ball’s 39 TV Guide covers.

In
an appearance on the short-lived “Steve
Lawrence Show” (1965),
which aired after Lucy on Monday nights, Lucille Ball showed outtakes
from this episode. In once scene, she’s accidentally tossed out of
the raft being towed by the seal. She says the closing 30 second shot
where she cries while the porpoises do tricks took 45 minutes to
shoot because the animals were more interested in her than in doing
their stunts.

Callback!

Lucy
previously enrolled Jerry in a Military Academy in “Lucy and the
Military Academy” (S2;E10) but withdrew him almost immediately
because she missed him so much.

While
“Deep Sea Fishing” (ILL S6;E7) in Florida in 1956, Lucy Ricardo
says that Ricky and Fred are at the Miami Seaquariam taking publicity
photos, although no scenes were shot there. The Miami Seaquarium had
only just opened, two years after Marineland in California.

Lucy
brags about Jerry’s little league baseball experience, criticizing
some “bad umpiring.” This is a direct callback to “Lucy and
the Little League” (S1;E28).

Blooper
Alert!

Mr.
Mooney says that banks in California give gifts to customers opening
accounts. He forgets that they also did that in Danfield, when Lucy
gave toasters to those signing up for new accounts in “Lucy Takes a
Job at the Bank” (S2;E21).