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I'm not even sure there's a current editor for this show, but I guess, sadly, since there are no posts what's the use of having an editor right?  Well if anyone out there is listening, we should try to get this show back on the air or released on some sort of home entertainment medium. 

I do remember watching this show for a very brief time on NickAtNite a few years ago.  They didn't show it uncut like they did I Love Lucy, and lots of times the episode was completely unwatchable from an objective point of view, too bad shows like this get murdered in the name of the all might advertising dollar.  And the VHS and DVD's I've found of this show are basically very low quality and always the same handful of episodes, not even the classics and the best from the first couple years of the show.

Come on people, 20 million posts for junk like American Idol and nothing here?   Egads!

Wow, I thought no one would ever respond to my post  heh.

I totally agree, we have to keep great classic shows like all of the Lucy vehicles alive.  I know it's not expensive to make and package these DVD's, I wonder if it's got something to do with distribution rights or something.  I'm just unnerved that this show has been killed off without a proper funeral.  I mean, the series finale of Will & Grace was on the DVD shelves before the end credits ran on the actual tv premier of it....this is absurd!

Gunsmoke?  I've tried watching this show, it's a pretty torturous task.  Only think I have to say about is that I caught a couple episodes with a character named Dirty Sally, played wonderfully by Jeanette Nolan.  I know this show was spun off at the time and lasted only a short while, too bad, she's the only interesting thing to come out of the Gunsmoke franchise, at least in my opinion.

Dramafreezone!

That's right! "Dirty Sally" was played by Jeanette Nolan, a wonderful character player. The show's run was so brief while that I never even recognized and remembered that this talented actress played her. I also didn't know that this series was a spin-off of a character introduced on "Gunsmoke." Good for you to provide these important facts for those of us who know these tv series.

I never watched "Gunsmoke" actively but I always thought it was a good show. I used to be familiar with the show as a child since it was a staple of family tv viewing in my childhood. Even my parents  would remember earlier first run seasons of this show  from their childlhood. The fact this show lasted for so many years, from the '50s to the early '70s, is remarkable in itself. The fact that it was almost canceled in the late '60s, AND that "Gilligan's Island" was to have been picked up for another season that same year BUT later canceled to keep "Gunsmoke" alive just because a ranking CBS exec. (or his wife?) liked "Gunsmoke" makes a truly unique story, don't you think?

John, 45

ps the story of the "big reason" that "Gilligan's Island" was canceled is an often told story with variations so I give it reasonable credibility

...meanwhile, '"The Lucy Show," starring Lucille Ball...'

Lucy Show fan here! I was not even a gleam in my parents' eyes when this aired, but I LOVE the episodes in which Carol Burnett co-stars! I have on DVD the one in which she moves in with Lucy... comedy at its best!

Surprisingly, I never really got into I Love Lucy, but I would really like to see The Lucy Show come back.

I used to watch this first-run on CBS, then when the network aired it on weekday mornings. Also Here's Lucy, which some consider to be the same series, but that's another thread. The Lucy Show was initially panned by critics as Dykes Sans Dick, what with two sinlge mothers (a widow and a divorcee) living together, a precursor to Kate And Ally. Nevertheless, it was a huge hit, nearly as popular as I Love Lucy. Lucy was every bit as funny as she was in her earlier pioneering sitcom, and Vivian Vance being in the earlier episodes didn't hurt. There are collections of episodes on DVDs sold cheaply, but not an official release.

Incidentally, when Gunsmoke was moved to Monday nights in 1967, bouncing Gilligan's Island off the schedule, it was immediately followed by The Lucy Show, which was not a casualty in the move to save Gunsmoke. BTW, the CBS "suit" in question was network founder and chairman William Paley. He, and his wife, were huge Gunsmoke fans, and I think that show, from its radio inception, was largely his idea to begin with.

I first saw "The Lucy Show" when it was part of the CBS morning reruns around 1968 - 1969. I was only 3 or 4, so I don't have any memory of the show in prime time.

At that time, "The Lucy Show" was more prominent in reruns than "I Love Lucy", which had already been around for many years.

So, I knew Lucy from "The Lucy Show" long before I ever saw "I Love Lucy". In fact, I was probably in college before I realized that most people consider "I Love Lucy" to be her landmark series.