Tag: Lucy
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RIP KENNY ROGERS
1938-2020 Kenny Rogers, country music icon, was born on August 21, 1938, in Houston, Texas. Rogers charted more than 120 hit singles across various music genres, topped the country and pop album charts for more than 200 individual weeks in the United States alone, and sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the…
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RIP Robert Conrad
1935-2020 Robert Conrad (born Conrad Robert Falk) was an actor probably best known for his role as the sophisticated Secret Service agent James T. West in “The Wild, Wild West” (1964-68) and later as World War II ace Pappy Boyington in the television series “Baa Baa Black Sheep” (syndicated as “Black Sheep Squadron”) from 1976 to 1978.…
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RIP Gene London
1931-2020 Gene London (born Eugene Yulish) was the host of a long-running, Philadelphia local children’s show, “Cartoon Corners” (aka “The Gene London Show”) from 1959 to 1977. He was tall, slender, had dark hair and a soft-spoken manner. Sometime in 1967, Lucille Ball made a guest appearance on his show, one of her only appearances on…
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The same TV Guide issue with Lucille Ball kept popping up on The Andy Griffith Show
The Queen of Comedy had more TV Guide covers than any other performer! This one turned up frequently on “The Andy Griffith Show.” The same TV Guide issue with Lucille Ball kept popping up on The Andy Griffith Show
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RIP Lee Mendelson
1933-2019 Lee Mendelson, producer of more than 50 Peanuts television specials and winner of 7 Emmy Awards, died on Christmas Day 2019 at the age of 86. He was also the lyricist of the song “Christmas Time Is Here”. At one time or another, all four of Mendelson’s children voiced Peanuts characters. On May 1, 1966,…
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A VERY LUCY CHRISTMAS
with Cary Grant and Ann Sheridan lost flashback opening for a rerun of “Lucy in Snow Valley” (LDCH S1;E5)
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Colorful “Paris” Cuts!
On December 20, 2019, CBS broadcast a colorized version of “Paris at Last” (ILL S5;E18). A few moments of the original show were edited out for time. Here’s what you missed… In the opening scene, a few lines where Lucy sticks her tongue out at Ricky are cut: LUCY: (consults her French dictionary) Just a minute,…
Papermoon Loves Lucy 