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The videos are great. We all enjoy watching these Lucy episodes over and over:)
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This season of Lucy shows the Ricardos away from home in Hollywood and Europe.
Though the episodes in Hollywood with Lucy and Ethel "souvenir hunting" John Wayne's footprints are great for laughing out loud, the favorite episode in our household is Lucy's struggle to get her passport. More than once the look on Ricky's face when he walks through the front door to the apartment and discovers a little man (the doctor from Lucy's childhood) dancing in his living room and hears a trunk (Lucy trapped inside) singin along has caused me to laugh until the tears stream down my face. Lucy just doesn't get any better.
And, by the way, did anyone ever really appreciate just what a great straight man Desi Arnaz could be?
Don't miss the almost-forgotten episode on the train trip home from Hollywood. It's a roll-in-the-floor laugher, too.
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I Love Lucy - The Complete Fifth Season picks up right where the gang left off in Hollywood including the John Wayne episode and Lucy dancing with a replica of Ricky's face, so hilarious! Also in this collection are the episodes where they go to Europe. My favorite episodes from season five are: The Great Train Robbery, The Nursery School, Bon Voyage, Second Honeymoon, and Return From Europe. I highly recommend this timeless classic, you will have a ball!
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I own this dvd collection and am really happy with it.
I just hope that this release prompts season set releases.
Please vote for ALL of Lucy's remaining shows to be released as season set dvds. We now have complete sets of I Love Lucy and The Lucy Desi Comedy Hour. We just need The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy, and Life with Lucy.
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Season five of I LOVE LUCY (1955-1956) from Paramount Home Video has some of the series' most classic episodes, including John Wayne's footprints in Hollywood and a memorable transcontinental train journey home to New York City on disk one; bon voyage to Europe and Lucy needing a helicopter to reach a missed ship on disk two; and all over Europe on disks three and four, including the grapes stomping (and fighting!) in Italy, romancing Charles Boyer and starting a nutty fashion trend in Paris, winning at gambling in Monte Carlo when they were not even consciously playing (and are not even supposed to be in the casino per Ricky), and, funniest of all, smuggling a huge smelly cheese through transatlantic customs disguised as a baby (then getting accused of murder in New York when Lucy and Ethel eat it en route to save on the price of a baby plane ticket!). It is especially funny to see tight-wad Fred Mertz made Ricky's Band Manager and constantly take penny-pinching to new heights. This matchless series is as great as TV sitcoms get. And season five is close to the best season. Other seasons have truly classic episodes, but season five has the most of them, especially impressive because it only has 26 episodes.
And we finally get I LOVE LUCY completely remastered, uncut, and non-commercial after half a century with cuts. (The original shows clock in at around 26 minutes, so a full four minutes are missing from every syndicated episode, even now on TV Land.) We also get a glimpse of what the show was really like in prime time, with bonus sections filled with animated commercials, original animated openings and intermission lead-ins, and animated fade-outs that have not been seen in fifty years. The "hearts on satin" credits were not created until syndication. And while Desi Arnaz still chain smokes, the series is now blessedly sponsored by Sanka, Lilt permanent, and Fluffo vegetable shortening, not a forgotten cigarette company.
The show, in season five, has a very special episode that aired on my fifth birthday--January 30, 1956. It has also acquired two more writers. Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf join Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, and Bob Carroll, Jr. Their writing is world-class and the actors are immortal after more than half a century. The latter three writers go back to 1949 and Lucille Ball's radio sitcom "My Favorite Husband", four episodes of which are included on the four disks. We also see "lost" and flubbed scenes, and Jess Oppenheimer takes us behind the scenes on how he got the writing gig for the series.
This is an elegantly produced DVD from Paramount Home Video, with lots of fun bonuses and superb packaging. I highly recommend renting or buying I LOVE LUCY season five. I recommend buying because you will have an entire season in one trim package and will watch favorite shows often.
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