LUCY AND THE BOGIE AFFAIR

S2;E13
~ December 15, 1969

Directed
by Herbert Kenwith ~ Written by Pat McCormick and Jim McGinn

Synopsis

When
Kim and Craig find a stray dog in the rain, they take it home and
name it Bogie. Next morning, it gives birth to a litter of puppies! Just as they’ve managed to give away all the puppies to
good homes, Harry hears that there’s a reward and they have to
retrieve them again!

Regular
Cast

Lucille
Ball (Lucy
Carter), Gale
Gordon (Harrison
Otis Carter), Lucie
Arnaz (Kim
Carter), Desi
Arnaz Jr. (Craig
Carter)

Guest
Cast

Lord
Nelson
(Bogie) makes his fourth appearance with Lucille Ball after playing
Nelson, Mr. Mooney’s dog in three episodes of “The Lucy Show.”

Jack
LaLanne
(Himself) was a nationally known exercise guru who owned a chain of
health clubs and hosted a long-running television show from 1952 to
1983.

Happy
(Himself)
is Jack LaLanne’s dog. He appeared with LaLanne on many of his
television shows.

Eugene
Molnar
(Jack’s Cameraman) appeared on four episodes of the series. These
are his only screen credits.

Sherry
Alberoni
(Candy) was a second-season replacement Mousketeer on “The Mickey
Mouse Club” (1955). She also dubbed Patty Duke’s vocals in the
film
Valley of the Dolls
(1967). This is her only appearance with Lucille Ball.

Steve
March
(Steve) is
the son of Mel Torme and the adopted son of the Arnaz family’s
friend, Hal March.
Mel Torme appeared several times on “The Lucy Show.” Hal March
appeared on “I Love Lucy.” Steve March will appear in one more
episode starring Sammy Davis Jr. and will write a song for an episode
starring Ann-Margret.

Debbie
Westcott
(Debbie Westcott) was the daughter of Desilu Prop Master Kenneth
Westcott. This is her only screen credit.

Irwin
Charone (Mr.
Farnsworth) made five appearances on “The Lucy Show.” The
expressive character actor also did an equal number of “Here’s
Lucy” episodes. He died in January 2016 in Maplewood, New Jersey,
at the age of 93.

This
is the first of 14 episodes directed by Herbert
Kenwith.
Born in New Jersey, Kenwith started out as an actor on Broadway, and
then produced 65 productions at Princeton’s McCarter Theatre. One of
these starred a young Lucille Ball, in a show headed to Broadway but
never made it due to the serious illness of its leading man. He died
in 2008 at the age of 90.

This
is the first and only episode of the series written by comedian
turned writer Pat
McCormick.
McCormick previously wrote “Lucy in London” in 1966. This is
the only episode written by Jim
McGinn
as well as his only collaboration with McCormick.

Lucille
Ball was a dog lover and owned many dogs during her life.

Kim
and Craig name the dog they find Bogie because it had the same sad
look standing in the rain as Humphrey
Bogart does
at the end of 1942’s Casablanca.

When
Kim effusively hugs her mother when she comes home, Lucy reminds her
she was “just
at work, not walking on the moon!”
The moon
walk
of John Glenn and Buzz Aldrin occurred on July 20, 1969 just after
this episode went before the cameras.

Coming home in a
thunderstorm, Lucy unwittingly says “It’s
not a fit night out for man, nor beast!”
not knowing the kids have hidden Bogie in the kitchen. Lucy
initially attributes the quote to Shakespeare (wrong!) and then to
W.C.
Fields
(right!). The line was spoken by Fields in the 1933 film The
Fatal Glass of Beer. The quote was also spoken by Gale Gordon in “Lucy and the Monsters” (TLS S3;E18).

When
Lucy sees Bogie in the kitchen, she jokes that he’s a shaggy horse
and calls him “Matt
Dillon’s last mount!”
Matt Dillon was a character played by James Arness (above) on “Gunsmoke,”
the long-running western that was “Here’s Lucy’s” lead-in on CBS.

After
Lucy agrees to let Bogie stay, she says “If
you want anything, just whistle”
paraphrasing Lauren Bacall’s famous line to Humphrey Bogart in the
film To
Have and Have Not (1944).

The
nine puppies go to:

Stevie – Craig’s girl crazy classmate
Blanche
– Lucy’s lonely friend from New Orleans
Candy
– Kim’s friend looking for the latest trend
Pauline
Lopus – Lucy’s friend looking for a watchdog
Debbie
Westcott – Craig’s classmate who takes a puppy in exchange for
going steady with Craig
Natalie
Schwartz (unseen) – a friend of Craig’s
Freddy
Dawson (unseen) – a friend of Kim’s

Lucy tries to give one
to Jack LaLanne but he ends up giving her one of his dog Happy’s pups
instead. Including the one she was intending to give LaLanne, this
still leaves one puppy unaccounted for by the script.

Lucy’s
telephone call with an unseen Blanche
from New Orleans is likely a nod to Tennessee Williams’ 1947 play and
1951 film A
Streetcar Named Desire,
whose principal character Blanche Dubois lives in New Orleans.

To
convince Candy that owning old English Sheepdog puppies is the newest
fad, Kim crops photos of the pups with music celebrities Barbra
Streisand and
Herb
Alpert and
tapes the photos to the inside of her locker. In 1969 singer
Streisand won an Oscar for her performance in the film Funny
Girl.
Herb Albert was a trumpeter who performed with his group the Tijuana
Brass. In 1969 they released the album
Warm.

Lucy’s
telephone call with the unseen Pauline
Lopus
is a tribute to her childhood friend Flo Pauline Lopus, whose name
used on many Lucille Ball sitcoms.

Harry
has been diagnosed with an allergy to dog fur. In “Lucy and
Harry’s Tonsils” (S2;E5) we learn that Harry is also allergic to
flowers.

Harry
dictates a letter to Rylander,
Mosier and Tebbit.
These names are Gale Gordon’s go-to addressees for dictation, having
been used on both “Here’s Lucy” and on “The Lucy Show.”

Craig
says he is now going steady with both Debbie Westcott and Natalie
Schwartz. Kim has to go the prom and the spring formal with Freddy
Dawson (who she calls “The Creature from the Black Lagoon”).
Both Natalie and Freddy don’t appear on camera. In real life, Natalie
Schwartz
was a wealthy friend of Lucille Ball’s from Rancho Mirage. Her
husband Danny was the owner of Elmhurst Dairies in Queens, NY.

Trying
to get the reward for Bogie and the nine pups, Harry appoints himself
banker
of
the group. This is ironic since Gale Gordon’s previous character
with Lucille Ball was banker Theodore J. Mooney.

In
the high school scenes, Craig wears his letter sweater with the large
“A” on the chest. It was mentioned in “Lucy and Carol Burnett”
(S1;E17, above) that Kim and Craig attend Angeles High School. In that
episode, many of these sweaters were worn by the boys in the chorus
of the musical fundraiser.

Humphrey
Bogart never appeared on screen with Lucille Ball. However, in
“Ricky’s Movie Offer” (ILL S4;E5) Desi Arnaz does an impression
of Bogart.

In
“Lucy and the Andrews Sisters” (S2;E6) Lucy blows a kiss to a
large poster of Bogart from the movie Casablanca. Coincidentally, a poster of W.C. Fields – who Lucy quotes in the episode – is hung next to Bogart!

Lucy’s
children bring home a dog against their mother’s wishes, just like
Little Ricky did in “Little Ricky Gets a Dog” (ILL S6;E14).

The only other “Lucy” show to feature more dogs was “Lucy and Viv Learn Judo” (TLS S1;E22) in 1963.

Shut the Door! When Harry comes in to share the news about the reward, he leaves the front door open – in a house with unleashed dogs!

Where the Floor Ends! In
Jack LaLanne’s studio and in the Carter home, the camera pulls back
too far and reveals the cement stage floor. This is a weekly
occurrence.