The Lucy Show: Lucy's Barbershop Quartet

Air Date

February 4, 1963

Production Code

021

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  6.5 Fair

  A pleasant episode that focuses on one thing only, as with other early episodes, could use some other characters. hide show

  Lucy is desperate to learn how to sing so that she can perform with the "Four Alarms" at a big music competition.
  
  A standard episode in many ways, "The Lucy Show" usually featured one grand gag or guest star and either you really liked it or you didn't as much. This one was OK but not hysterical for me.
  
  Standard set-up, some opening banter between Lucy and her daughter about "modern" music and Lucy then wants "to join the show" when it becomes apparent that Viv needs one more singer to make up a "barbershop" quartet. After squabbles over the song to sing, Lucy is signed up for singing "bootcamp" with an eccentric teacher played by Hans Conried. And the lessons are the major draw here, filled with odd requests that let Lucille Ball make the most of her expressive face. The show finishes off with Lucy having severe stage fright in the hotel room immediately before the performance.
  
  A well-known episode, this one plays almost entirely in the living room of the Carmichael house. Good but not one of my favorites. Season 1 of this series is a little "house-bound" overall, I tend to like the following three seasons best.

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  Mac-Ale Added Oct 24, 2007 All my reviews

• Guest Cast

  • Hans Conried Dr. Gitterman
  • Dorothy Konrad Dorothy Boyer
  • Allan Ray M.C.

• Stars

  • Lucille Ball Lucy Carmichael
  • Vivian Vance Vivian Bagley (1962-1965)

• Art Directors

  • Rolland M. Brooks Art Director
  • Pato Guzman Art Director

• Musics

  • Wilbur Hatch Music

• Director Of Photographys

  • Maury Gertsman Director of Photography

• Writers

  • Bob Carroll Jr. Writer
  • Madelyn Pugh Davis Writer
  • Bob Weiskopf Writer
  • Bob Schiller Writer

• Directors

  • Jack Donohue Director

• Recurring Roles

  • Carole Cook Thelma Green
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• Goof: The quartet meets at the Vivian and Lucy's house to find a replacement. As Lucy runs across the room to grab the telephone, the shadow of the mic boom follows her across. [edit]
• Lucy auditions for the quartet by singing "Be My Little Baby Bumblebee". [edit]
• The Four Alarms sing "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" in the contest. [edit]

• The entire scene of Hans Conried teaching Lucy to sing will be repeated virtually as is in the episode Lucy Teaches Ethel Merman to Sing. Next time, Lucy is the teacher and Ethel Merman is the pupil. [edit]

• Lucy: (softly)Down by the old mill stream.
  Dr. Gitterman: We haven't a moment to lose. [edit]

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