Here s Lucy Opening TV Theme

[Sheri451]

Barry Livingston (Ernie from My Three Sons) said Lucy was one of the nicest people he ever knew. He worked with her on The Lucy Show. He sais what I knew was true, Vivian Vance and Bill Frawley loathed one another. He said Bill would get the boys to throw metal objects at the wall when Viv was on the set . They filmed in the same studio Desilu.He also said Bill had a filthy mouth,

[1967mansfield]

Awesome...!!! Would love to have that doll to put with my Lucille Ball collection...!!!

[MarlonTheMonster]

First time I've seen this intro in years!

I hardly remember this show but I do remember the little dancing doll at the beginning!

How can you people be scared of that adorable little doll?

I love Lucy!

[eugoldlareg]

The stop-motion Lucy used to frighten me when I was a kid. . .

[LBraunhaus]

OMG! When that doll spins around- I still get tickled!

[Sheri451]

I used to love that doll Lucy coming on TV when I was little. It was rerun at lunchtime My Mom and I would watch it .

[oldmanwithers1]

So retro its awesome.

[bigfinewoman]

This is so much a part of my child hood....i would watch this show when my sister and I would stay over my Grandmother's house.

Lucy was just amazing...



[MattTheSaiyan]

Having her real-life children on the show is, to this day, still one of the coolest ideas in TV history...

[fairhillnorrie]

we were easily pleased back then and so happy........ great memories of times passed.. young people today have everything between hundreds of TV channels, Internet , mobiles, etc, etc..... but ye will never have what we had.... we had, the time of our lives.. all we wanted was to watch a few TV programmes..... ha, we hadn't even a house phone, but we got by...

[squeapler]

"Here's Lucy" wasn't my favorite of Lucy's shows - I loved "The Lucy Show" the most because it reminded me of my mom's crazy stories about being a single career woman. But "Here's Lucy" had the best opening sequence! I loved the little dancing Lucy and would always stop and watch the credits even if I decided to skip the rest of the show.

[LuvDaYoni]

is it weird that this little stop motion LUCY used to scare me

[kduideo]

Check out her drumsticks.....Yes tv is full of crap but some of you NEED to write like I do.....RETRO vamp is back. Yet stations need to listen if people speak up. Yet remember it's all about power,money and jewish rulers.

[schs1977]

I loved this show growing. A lot of good memories! Its sad to see TV is full of nothing but CRAP these days!

[fairhillnorrie]

@schs1977 spot on!!

[biffmercury]

The puppet was stop-motion animated by none other than Jim Danforth, who was twice nominated for an Oscar for his stop-motion animated creatures that appeared in 7 FACES OF DR. LAO and WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH. I think he was working for a company called Cascade Pictures that specialized in stop-motion characters when he did this opening for HERE'S LUCY. He also animated the Pillsbury Doughboy and Swiss Miss to name a few. He also worked on Harryhausen's CLASH OF THE TITANS.

[phdseuss]

i remember watchin this show (as well as the lucy show) when i was a child. it was one of the few that i watched weekly. i love lucy was b4 my time but when it did come on i would have that on as well (today it comes on for 2hrs monday - fri on the hallmark channel and i am there to watch it.).

[christheone8773]

There was another opening sequence where the Lucy puppet slowly invited the "spotlight" to come into the scene - that was the opening sequence that featured episodes without Lucie Arnaz-

[jjboy90]

lucy and dezi goot real creative with there kids names... HA!

[mickwillie1]

lucy the queen.

[XxquaddamagexX]

lol its changed now the song is kind of the same but its different lol

[fairhillnorrie]

OH, HAPPY DAYS...

[johe64]

I remember i was about 6 or 7 years old and would sneak into my parents room to watch this on WJIM channel 6... it was on after my bedtime on Monday nights. Fun memories!

[christheone8773]

@johe64 I remember watching "Here's Lucy" on Mondays, right before "Gunsmoke" -

[italy4blktop]

We do admire these consummate professionals ie Lucy, Carroll O'Connor, even today these icons are remembered....some were dyed in wool showbizzerz like Lucy and even a Nathan Lane, they were born to entertain and amuse....these are the exception to the rule....these are the Hollywood standard bearers for all of show business....there are many more i could never mention them all, but they are still a precious minority among the vast mediocrity in the entertainment world we know.

[bashbrannigan]

I was never fond of the show, but the opening was one of the best ever done for any TV show.

[MultiMrfalcon]

Cute opening but, the show was pretty bad.

[julie11061]

@MultiMrfalcon not as good as i love lucy

[MultiMrfalcon]

@julie11061 You are correct with that statement Julie. I think this show only lasted no more then 2 years. I could be wrong.

[julie11061]

@MultiMrfalcon I'm not sure about the facts but I do know that nothing could ever beat I Love Lucy, except Lucille Ball herself!

[greennice]

@MultiMrfalcon

It ran six years (1968-74)

[Beejjjjjj]

@MultiMrfalcon , no, Here's Lucy ran six years, from 1968-74. The Lucy Show also ran six years ('62-'68), and so did I Love Lucy ('51-'57), though I Love Lucy continued in the hour-long "specials" format an additional three years ('57-'60).

[jjboy90]

@julie11061 all of lucy's stuff was great altho i hghave neveer saw this show or the lucy show eiither im asure they were boloth just as good as i love lucy.

[julie11061]

@jjboy90 it was all great, you're right but they're also all very different so it's hard to judge so i suppose it depends on your taste, but yes all of lucille ball's movies and shows are great!

[ElderAngel3]

does anybody know what happened to that lucy puppet?? is it in a t.v.museaum?? there should repoduce it as a collectable figure. i'd buy it.

[Beejjjjjj]

@ElderAngel3 , the puppet was stored in a warehouse and years ago it was stolen out of that warehouse. It's never been recovered.

[daniel81991]

i watch heres lucy everyday, they are showing to everyday in australia now :) loving it!, i didnt watch the past ones cause i wasnt born yet :P good that the new generations get to see her work even after she passed away

[MERVskilton]

HaPpY BiRtHdAy LUCiLLE BALL born on this day (6th Aug) in 1911 ~ 1989 R.i.P... & HERE'S LUCY,,,,

[Sheri451]

BTW Happy Birthday Lucie Arnaz Luckinbill.

[Sheri451]

When I was little, they showed Here's Lucy around 12 noon in reruns, I would eat my lunch and watch this. I loved that claymation Lucy. But I Love Lucy is still my alltime favorite. Gale Gordon was Uncle Harry here right? was Viv on there? It was a long time since I've saw Here's Lucy.

[christheone8773]

@Sheri451 YES you are correct - Gale Gordon played Harrison Otis Carter, the brother in law of Lucy Carter, from 1968 to 1974

[christheone8773]

@Sheri451 Vivian Vance had several guest spots on "Here's Lucy", and Lucille Ball wanted to make her a series regular, but Vivian Vance began to tire from the pressures of doing a weekly show - She wasnt even living in Hollywood when "The Lucy Show" or "Here's Lucy" was filmed - I read somewhere she was living in Connecticut-

[margotdarby]

Gawd what a stinker of a show! But it's a great time-capsule of late-60s LA. Is there anything worse than a 60-year-old Lucille Ball pretending to be a hip, stylish working mother? Those recurrent plotlines where they dress as swingers or hippies! I wish Lucille Ball and Gale Gordon had just continued coming up with ever-more-hackneyed sitcom variations, to the point where Mr. Mooney was totally deaf and getting around on a Zimmer frame, and Lucy's smoke-cured rasp almost unintelligible.

[fjccommish]

@margotdarby It did well in the ratings and there are many funny situations. Later in the series she acted and dressed more like a 30-year old career gal. But it was still funny. If it would make you happy they could make "Here's Lucy's Ghost".

[parkman35]

Lucy was such a beautiful and funny Wpman. I'll never understand why Dezi Arnez cheated on her so many times. She was a dynamite Gal...

[christheone8773]

BY THE TIME this show was on the air from 1968 to 1974, Lucille Ball was already firmly established as the Queen of Comedy-

[catchersmitt0]

Funny to think the great "I love Lucy" series was less than 20 years before.

[fromthesidelines]

Roy Rowan is the announcer (and was Lucy's announcer for over 20 years, going all the way back to "I LOVE LUCY"); originally, he added, "Brought to you by..." at :30, leading into a sponsor I.D. [usually for primary sponsor Lever Brothers] and the first commercial...Wilbur Hatch wrote the theme (as he'd done for Lucy's previous series), before his death in 1969.

[woodylove85]

love lucy

[patsaxon]

I like this opening the best as I remember this as a child! Mr. Moony was great with Lucy, the were so funny together!

[christheone8773]

@patsaxon YES, but by the time THIS SHOW aired in the fall of 1968, Gale Gordon was no longer known as Theodore J, Mooney - his character was now Harrison Otis Carter, the brother in law of Lucille Carter-

[68lincoln]

I love Here's Lucy, especially the first two seasons, 1968-69 and 1969-70, when both her kids were her co-stars. Lucy looked absolutely beautiful, her kids were adorable teenagers and Gale Gordon as her brother-in-law/employer, Harry Carter, was very funny. A perfect cast!

[christheone8773]

@68lincoln I read somewhere that when she revamped her show into "Here's Lucy" in the fall of 1968, she wanted the writers to make her two children her character children as well - she didnt want to have to worry about them out doing drugs or getting into some other kind of trouble

[Neville6000]

@christheone8773: But they WERE already doing drugs and getting into trouble-at least Desi Jr. was.

[walwaad]

Real Lucy fans, are real Americans who respect the president, as Ms. Ball did throughout her career. Let's keep the hate off the "Lucy" posts.

[gibby100]

always thought this so clever for it's time with Lucy giving a wink at her likeness and the doll blowing a kiss at Gary Morton's name, of course her husband at the time.

[patsaxon]

I thought that this was very best comedy, along with Mr. Moony! I love this with Lucy as it was much better than "I love Lucy"! Mr. Moony made me laugh so hard as Lucy was great in this show!

[criscokiddo]

Luvly Lucy roughed up and stretched er cords out by screamin too much Wildcat, smokin too many Kools, and eatin too much Creesco!...She wuz/is a doll!

[Ariamaluum]

What an athlete!

[wendyglowworm]

My dream of dreams is to one day be Mrs. Desi Arnaz Jr.

[Hersheys11]

wheres the one with the "Lucy, im home!!!" and then "weeeeeh!!!"! lol! is that an episode?

[tracyterry]

this show looks like it sucked. i'm glad i wasn't around when this shit came out

[craigblast]

I`m sorry your around now.

[tracyterry]

i thought you were aborted

[Monbloid1963]

I loved this one as a kid. I always wanted a doll like that!  ha ha :)

[KarenM526]

Aww, so cute. I totally remember this. Lucy looked so beautiful in the opening, and I love the way her little doll smiles when her children's names come on the screen, and she blows a kiss to her husband's name, Gary Morton.

[christheone8773]

@KarenM526 YES - that was one of the great things about watching this show, was the opening credits, when the Lucy puppet dances around like that, when the REAL Lucy winks at her puppet cariacture, etc-

[sexymama1966]

it used to freak me and one of my sisters out..lol

[Slashh222]

I guess it was universal then. I can't say it "freaked me out" but I was certainly concerned when that thing appeared on screen. Interestingly though, I was weirdly attracted to that puppet. It's kinda sexy.

[rachelazw]

Sexy?  With that Vanna White-sized head?

[Slashh222]

What can I say? It's a scientific fact men are attracted to ladies with big heads like those on babies. (sup wit dat?)

[ELBSeattle]

OMG - me too. This little doll freaked me the hell out. Watching it now brings back all the same willies. I used to have nightmares that this little Lucy doll would run out from underneath my bed across my floor into my closet.

Freaky, freaky, freaky ...

[keef78]

LMAO, although she is a bit before my time...i concur, the doll is freaky.....i wonder if they know that there lucy creation freaked so many kids out in the 70's

[1958val]

thumbs up

[mikey42]

The Lucy puppet did not freak us children of the '70's out. We were a tough as nails brood. And we weren't taught all the pc bullshit so prevalent in today's schools. Barack Hussein Obama! Mmm! Mmm! Mmm!

[keef78]

for some unknown reason you went right of topic....crazy rednecks and computers dont match

[joebloughy]

Lucy and company were great.But I will admit that doll gave me the creeps too when I was about 2/3 years old,dont know why.

[napelvision]

@joebloughy

That doll scared the hell out of me too. This show followed Gunsmoke, and my parents would let me watch it with them, but I had to leave the room during these credits, because of the creepy marionette!

[PoxyBear]

I loved this opening with the doll. Your comment made me lol! I never thought about the doll running from underneath the bed though.

[marco6886]

For some,"unknown" reason. This scared me!! To this day,my family say's--"Watch out for the Lucy doll"!  (I'm 40 years old)!!! LOL!!! I guess, the "Lucy" doll,was my "Chucky", back in the early 1970's!!! LOL!!!