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I Love Lucy - Season One (Vol. 1) |  | Directors: Marc Daniels, Ralph Levy
Actors: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, William Frawley, Marco Rizo
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  48 reviews
Sales Rank: 53496
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 106 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.2 x 0.6
MPN: PARD878984D
ISBN: 0792183959
UPC: 097368789845
EAN: 9780792183952
ASIN: B000065U38
Theatrical Release Date: October 15, 1951
Release Date: July 2, 2002
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 06/10/2003 Run time: 106 minutes Rating: Nr
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The first episodes of I Love Lucy, in comedy terms, look today like a promising map of great things to come from the hugely influential sitcom. This set of episodes, the first volume in a definitive collection of the classic television series, includes the original three broadcast episodes from October 1951, plus the so-called "Lost Pilot" that finds the earliest I Love Lucy production quite rough but genuinely promising. The actual episodes that American audiences first saw--"The Girls Want to Go to a Nightclub," "Be a Pal," and "The Diet"--find familiar elements of the classic series already in place. Housewife Lucy (Lucille Ball), restless for excitement, is married to Cuban bandleader Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz). Ricky's crazy nightclub career, however, leaves him yearning for a quiet home life and a wife content with her simple chores. Alas, it's not to be. With best friends Ethel (Vivian Vance) and Fred (William Frawley) usually aboard for the Ricardos' misadventures, I Love Lucy introduced an engaging blend of sophistication and slapstick, all wrapped in the intimacy of a three-camera TV approach. Bonus material is very satisfying, including a radio broadcast from 1951 later adapted into a TV script, a couple of gaffes, guest cast listings, and a new beginning for the second-season rebroadcast of "The Diet." --Tom Keogh
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 48
 get the box January 1, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a great DVD if you only want the first four episodes. Instead of buying all of the individual DVDs for season one like my family did, buy the box set of the complete season one instead. You save money and there are more episodes per DVD in the boxed set. Don't waste your money, you get exactly the same thing.
Still finding its way, but GREAT FUN nonetheless October 3, 2005
RMurray847 (Albuquerque, NM United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The "Long Lost Pilot" of I LOVE LUCY makes for a better curiosity piece than anything. It is probably the least humorous episode of the show ever, and it features far too much of Ricky Ricardo singing. It does lay the groundwork for the running them of "Lucy trying to get into Ricky's show" but it offers little else. Watch it once to see the roots of this classic...then move on never to return.
The other three episodes are all good, solid LUCY. I feel like the show still didn't quite have its tone. Ricky dressed a bit more "casual" than he did in later shows in which he looks impossibly dapper and handsome. Lucy's "around the house" wear is very frumpy. Fred's personality is a bit too gruff.
But this is still essential viewing. Just think of it...a TV showed filmed "live" (in one take) nearly 55 years ago, and it's still hilarious. The moment when Ricky opens the door to check out his "blind dates" and there stands Lucy and Ethel in "hick" costumes is still priceless after all these viewings. The show boiled comedy down to its core...loveable people doing really silly things. There have certainly been a lot of great sitcoms since then, but while some may argue LUCY has been equaled, I don't think anyone has ever surpassed it.
Also, the show is a great way to look back at the mores of the 1950's. In the first "real" episode, we get to see all four of them enjoying good, long smokes. It's clearly not a habit but a TREAT for them to smoke. And the idea of two women going alone to a nighclub, even the ritzy Copacabana, is unthinkable. Contrast that to some of the things we see in sitcoms today. True, sitcoms exagerrate reality to a great extent, but they also hold up a mirror to some degree as well. I find LUCY shows fascinating...but mostly, I find them hilarious. Check 'em all out!!
Against the Flow September 6, 2003
Hamilton Hamilton (Yokohama, Japan)
10 out of 39 found this review helpful
Warning: this review contains heretical opinions! I will say up front that I was a HUGE Lucy fan as a kid. I remember laughing and laughing to the original episodes and then again to reruns years later. Truly, her comic timing was genius and the Desilu group assembled an original and historical entertainment. No doubt about that. I purchased several of the first DVDs to come out and savored the fun of introducing the hilarity of Lucy to my 7-year-old daughter. However, my hopes and memories were dashed. Yes, my daughter was really tickled by Lucy and her funny antics. But, as I watched with her, the veil fell from my eyes. This original show has not aged well. I'm not referring to the quality of the classic comedy itself, but the cultural mores of the time. The show was sponsored by Philip Morris and part of the Lucy cast contract was to huff down cigarettes at literally every opportunity. It was frankly gratuitous. Yes, I understand the deal and the times but I don't want my daughter to have that influence. Fair enough, you say, but surely you don't judge the work from this more enlightened era and through the eyes of a 21st century parent? No, there's more. I sat down with the shows to watch without my daughter, after my non-tv-watching wife griped at what I was showing our kid, and realized that there was a kind of mean-spirited and petty spirit that ran though the show, particularly from Lucy. She was vindictive, jealous, alternately seductive and infantile, materialistic, unstable, childish, and other things that perpetuate a historically nasty view of women. Yes, I know that this was all part of the humor (adult acts like a spoiled child), the incongruity of it all. And, yes, from the standpoint of the 50s, she was an opinionated woman and a trailblazer and, in real life, a successful businessperson. But, in seeing Lucy through the eyes of my free and strong daughter, I saw that my tastes have changed as well. This may also be colored by my knowledge of the subsequent Lucy vehicles (The Lucy Show, et al, which frankly ....) and by her famously bitter, unhappy personality, that tainted such failed comebacks as the ill-fated remake of Mame and Stone Pillow. Saddened at my "loss of innocence", I put my DVDs up for sale and they sold within 48 hours. Judging from the many "New and Used" available, maybe others have discovered what I did as well. I know that this new DVD series is a hot item. I say all this not to taint or hamper the Lucy legend; I still respect and "love" Lucy. But, I just have put a realistic spin on things so that other like-minded consumers may fully understand what they are buying before enthusiastically investing in all the new Lucy DVDs. So, in summary, adults: maybe no prob. With kids: think about what you are inputting. (Sigh) Life was so simple and fun back when we didn't know squat . . .
 See the very first pilot with Lucy & Desi. June 10, 2003
James McDonald (Lancaster, California)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
The pilot episode is what you will see first. The pilot was filmed on March 2, 1951. It was Desi's 34th birthday. Lucille Ball was pregnant at the time with Lucie Arnaz. This pilot was never broadcast on television until...the man who played Pepito the Clown was given a reel of the pilot as a gift. When he died, this pilot was found (the story goes) under his bed. CBS aired this pilot episode for the very first time on April 30, 1990. It has never been shown in re-runs or syndication. (A pilot epiosde is made as a test. If the powers that be like it, a series could develop) Jerry Hausner appeared in 11 "I Love Lucy" episodes and in this pilot episode. In this DVD, "The Girls Want To Go To The Nightclub" (filmed 9-15-1951, aired 10-15-1951) is not the first episode filmed, but the first to be broadcast. This is actually episode #2. "Be A Pal", episode #3 (filmed 9-21-1951, aired 10-22-51). "The Diet" episode #3, (filmed 9-28-1951, aired 10-29-1951). Bonus material: Flubs, Radio Show, original "Phillip Morris" opening, and a lost scene and a restored soundtrack.
ground-Breaking Show March 13, 2003
mistermaxxx@yahoo.com (usa)
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
even as a Kid I knew there was something truly Unique&special about this Show,but it wasn't until I was a Little Bit Older did I understand Why.Lucille Ball&Desi Arnaz were a Ground-Breaking Couple.Fred&Ethel were something else.Classic Tv.
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