Tag: Norma Varden

• LUCY: 40 YEARS OF TELEVISION

  1964 Part Two ~ AUGUST to DECEMBER In addition to kicking off Season Three of “The Lucy Show,” Lucille Ball does specials with Danny Kaye, Bob Hope and Jack Benny.  “Lucy and the Good Skate” (TLS S3;E1) ~ September 21, 1964 When Lucy fears she isn’t spending enough time with her kids, she takes up roller…

  Michael T. Mooney

  October 30, 2018

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  1964, Allen Ludden, Arte Johnson, Bob Hope, CBS, Danny Kaye, Desi Arnaz Jr., Fifi D’Orsay, Gale Gordon, Gary Morton, Harvey Korman, Jack Benny, Jill St. John, John Williams, Lloyd Corrigan, Lucie Arnaz, Lucille Ball, Madge Blake, Marilyn Maxwell, Max Showalter, Norma Varden, Password, Paul Revere, peter lawford, Rhonda Fleming, The Danny Kaye Show, The Jack Benny Program, The Lucy Show, tv, Vivian Vance

• RIP Adam West (1928-2017)

  Although Adam West never appeared on “The Lucy Show,” many of his “Batman” co-stars did!  MADGE BLAKE (Aunt Harriet Cooper on “Batman”) played a  driver picking up a hitchhiking Mr. Mooney in “Lucy, the Camp Cook” (S3;E6).  STAFFORD REPP (Police Chief O’Hara on “Batman”) played Joe the Plumber when “Lucy and Viv Put in a Shower” (S1;E18).  REPP returned…

  Michael T. Mooney

  June 10, 2017

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  1960s, Adam West, Alan Hale, Batman, Ben Welden, Ellen Corby, Ethel Merman, Gale Gordon, Lucille Ball, Madge Blake, Milton Berle, Norma Varden, Stafford Repp, The Lucy Show, tv, Vitto Scotti, Vivian Vance

• Lucy Gets Her Maid

  S3;E11 ~ November 30, 1964 Synopsis To impress a local women’s club, Lucy hires a maid.  But to afford a maid, she must take a job – as a maid!  When her new employer hosts a dinner party she recruits Viv to help out – only to have to serve dinner to the very women…

  Michael T. Mooney

  April 29, 2017

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  1964, Caryl Lincoln, CBS, Cha-Cha, Frere Jacques, Gale Gordon, Harriet McCain, Hilda Crocker, In A Little Spanish Town, Jean Vachon, Jingle Bells, Kathleen Freeman, Lucille Ball, Lucy Gets Her Maid, Luree Wiese, Maid, Mickey Spillane, Norma Varden, Oh Solo Mio, Paula Ray, Song of the Volga Boatmen, The Lucy Show, tv, Vivian Vance, YMCA

• Domestic Drama!

  You can’t get good help these days!   Lucy pretends to be a maid to impress Fred’s old vaudeville partner in “Mertz and Kurtz” (I LOVE LUCY S4;E2). Ethel pretends to be a maid to impress Tallulah Bankhead in “The Celebrity Next Door” (THE LUCY-DESI COMEDY HOUR S1;E2) Lucy gets a maid of her own: Mrs. Porter…

  Michael T. Mooney

  August 27, 2015

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  1953, 1964, CBS, Charles Winninger, Ethel Mertz, Fred Mertz, I love lucy, Julie Andrews, Kathleen Freeman, Lucille Ball, Lucy, Lucy Carmichael, Lucy Gets Her Maid, Lucy Hires a Maid, Lucy Ricardo, Maid, Mertz and Kurtz, Norma Varden, Tallulah Bankhead, The Celebrity Next Door, The Lucy Show, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Ricardos Switch Apartments, The Sound of Music, tv, Verna Felton, Vivian Bagley, Vivian Vance, William Frawley