Lucy and Pat Collins

S5;E11
~ November 28,
1966

Synopsis

When
Mr. Mooney gets insomnia, Lucy takes him to see Miss Pat, “The Hip
Hypnotist.” Pat Collins guest stars.

Regular
Cast

Lucille
Ball (Lucy
Carmichael),
Gale Gordon
(Theodore J. Mooney), Mary
Jane Croft (Mary
Jane Lewis)

Guest
Cast

Pat
Collins
aka Miss
Pat (Herself)
ran a nightclub on the Sunset Strip where she was known as “The Hip
Hypnotist.” She presented hypnotism for entertainment, and much of
her act on “The Lucy Show” was the same as what she did in
nightclubs (without the more risque remarks). A year after this
appearance, she played herself in the film Divorce
American Style.
She died in 1997 at the age of 62. A documentary film of her life
was created.

Miss
Pat is appearing at The Royal Club.

Patricia
Cutts
(Fur Salon Salesperson) was an English-born actress who came to America to star
in films and stage plays. She was a replacement for the character of
Irene Malloy in Broadway’s The
Matchmaker
(1955) and did three more plays through 1966. This is her only
appearance with Lucille Ball.

Joan
Swift
(Fur Salon Maid) makes
the second of her six appearances on the series. Swift also did two
episodes of “Here’s Lucy.” Her final screen credit was 1975’s
“Lucy Gets Lucky” with Lucille Ball and Dean Martin.

Georgia
Holt
(Georgia, Model) was a fashion model who famously made a walk-on
appearance as one of Jacques Marcel’s burlap-clad models (the one
with the champagne bucket
on her head) in “Lucy Gets a Paris Gown” (ILL S5;E20). She is
the mother of superstar singer Cher, who was 19 years old when “Lucy
and Pat Collins” was filmed.

A
few of the Audience Members at Pat Collins’ show include:

Hazel
Pierce
was
Lucille Ball’s camera and lighting stand-in throughout “I Love
Lucy.” She also made frequent appearances on the show. This is just one of her many
on-camera appearances on “The Lucy Show.” She was also an
uncredited extra in the film Forever
Darling (1956).

Leoda
Richards
made
at least three background appearances on “I Love Lucy.” This is
the third of her four episodes of “The Lucy Show.” She was also
in the Lucille Ball film Yours,
Mine and Ours (1968)
and did two episodes of “Here’s Lucy.” Her main claim to fame is
her appearance at the party given by Captain Von Trapp in The
Sound of Music,
standing next to Christopher Plummer during the song “So Long,
Farewell.”

Richards sits directly behind and between Lucy and Mr. Mooney at the Royal
Club.

Jerry
Rush makes
the fifth of his nine (mostly uncredited) appearances on the series.
He also did two episodes of “Here’s Lucy.”

Sid
Gould
(Show
Announcer Voice) made more than 45 appearances on “The Lucy Show,”
all as background characters. He also did 40 episodes of “Here’s
Lucy.” Gould (born Sydney Greenfader) was Lucille Ball’s cousin
by marriage to Gary Morton.

Gould
performed this same kind of uncredited voice over introduction in
“Lucy
and George Burns” (S5;E1)
and
“Lucy and Paul Winchell” (S5;E4).

This
is the first episode of season 5 to revert to a slightly modified
version of the ‘kaleidoscope’ opening credit sequence after beginning
the season with the ‘jack-in-the-box’ opening that Lucille Ball
disliked so much. In syndication, most all episodes were re-edited
to begin with the ‘kaleidoscope’ opening no matter which season they
were from.

Spending
their lunch hour at a swanky fur salon (to take advantage of the free
finger sandwiches), Lucy is shown a $16,000 dollar fur coat. The
saleslady says that there is only one other like it worn by the Queen
of England. When Lucy (acting posh) says it is not for her because
she and the Queen go to the same parties, she is shown a full length
chinchilla coat with a hem that detaches to become a stole. It costs
just $35,000 (the equivalent of more than $280,000 today). Mary Jane
and Lucy confide that they only have 27 cents between them.

On
“The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” on April 30, 2013 Georgia
Holt mentioned that she was in this episode.

Through
hypnotism, Miss Pat broke Mary Jane’s habit of biting her nails (as well as the nails of
her boyfriends).

Mr.
Mooney dictates a letter to Rylander and Mosier. Mr. Mooney will also
dictate a letter to Rylander and Mosier in “Lucy Gets Involved”
(S6;E17). In a 1970 episode of “Here’s Lucy,” Carole Cook will
play a character named Lillian Rylander.

To
cure his insomnia, Mr. Mooney says he tried listening to Wayne King
records. Wayne
King
(1901-85) was a musician, songwriter, singer and orchestra leader
with a long association with CBS.
He was sometimes referred to as the
Waltz King because
much of his most popular music involved waltzes. During his career he
released 46 records. Obviously, Mr. Mooney is inferring that King’s
music is boring and could put a person to sleep.

Mr.
Mooney balks about appearing in Miss Pat’s act saying that he has to
uphold the dignity of the bank. Mr. Mooney has previously appeared
on stage doing some pretty outrageous things. Perhaps he questions the legitimacy of hypnosis or the fact that Miss
Pat’s act is performed in a night club (usually a place associated
with loose morals). Gale Gordon previously played nightclub owner
Alvin Littlefield on “I Love Lucy.”

“The
Lucy Show” sound department adds Theremin music to underscore Miss
Pat’s performance, adding an ethereal, science-fiction feeling to her
act. Theremin was also used to underscore Lucy Ricardo’s dream
sequence in “Lucy and the Dummy” (ILL S5;E3). The editors also
employ the “wavy screen” visual effect usually used to indicate a
dream sequence. It is timed to lead into a commercial break.

Under
hypnosis, Mr. Mooney indignantly tells Miss Pat he never turned a
cartwheel in his life. Actually, Mr. Mooney has turned several
cartwheels on “The Lucy Show.” It was one of Gale Gordon’s
special skills. Banker Mooney did a cartwheel in “Ethel Merman and
the Boy Scout Show” (S2;E19) as well as when he was hypnotized in
“Lucy the Stockholder” (S3;E25).

While
still hypnotized, Lucy and Mr. Mooney become Stan Laurel and
Oliver Hardy. In “Lucy in London” Anthony Newley did an
imitation of Stan Laurel and using Hardy’s iconic phrase “That’s another fine mess you’ve gotten us into,” which
Mr. Mooney paraphrases here.

Callbacks!

This is not Lucy Carmichael’s first brush with hypnosis. In “Lucy Conducts the Symphony” (S2;E13) she hypnotized Wally Cox.

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

Lucy Ricardo was
hypnotized (or pretended to be) in
“The Kleptomaniac” (ILL S1;E27).

Like
the characters she played, Lucille Ball also loved furs. She was
often photographed in fur coats or stoles, even doing an ad for
Blackglama in 1984.

Back in Danfield, Lucy shopped at Madame
Fifi’s fur salon in “Lucy
Gets Amnesia” (S3;E4).
She also tried to make extra money to buy a fur coat in 1965′s “Lucy the
Stunt Man” (S4;E5).

In 1951, Lucy Ricardo briefly owned a genuine mink in “The
Fur Coat” (ILL S1;E9) before leaning it was a costume piece rented
for Ricky’s act.

Blooper
Alerts!

Where The Floor Ends! When
the camera pulls back in the fur salon, it reveals were the carpeting ends and the cement stage floor begins. This also
happens in the wide shot of the Royal Club. This error is quite common on “The Lucy Show.”