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The Lucy Show
The Lucy Show is an
American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962 to 1968. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A
significant change in cast and premise for the fourth season (1965–1966) divides the program into two distinct
eras; aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program for its second season, remained. For the first
three seasons, Vivian Vance was the co-star.
The earliest scripts were entitled The Lucille Ball
Show, but when this title was rejected by CBS, producers thought
of calling the show This Is Lucy or The New Adventures of Lucy, before deciding on the title The Lucy
Show. Ball won consecutive Emmy Awards as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the series'
final two seasons, 1966–67 and 1967–68.
 The show began with Lucille Ball as Lucy Carmichael, a widow
with two children, Chris (Candy Moore) and Jerry (Jimmy Garrett), living in the fictional town of
Danfield, New York, sharing her home with divorced friend Vivian Bagley (Vance) and her son, Sherman
(Ralph Hart). In order to get Vance to commit to the series, Arnaz acquiesced to her demands for an
increase in salary, co-star billing, a more attractive wardrobe and, finally, that her character's name be
Vivian. Although the book on which the show was based, Irene Kampen's Life Without George, centered on two
divorcées living together in the same house raising their children, it was decided early on that the Lucy
Carmichael character should instead be a widow. The consensus was that fans would be offended with a Lucy
who was divorced, despite the fact that this was a new character and Ball herself was divorced. The
character of Vivian Bagley became the first divorced woman on primetime television.
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Carl Hoffman
Carl Hoffman - Vietnam 1968
