Missing "I Love Lucy" Episode - Television: Inside & Out

[NORMALEANOS]

I HAVE IT

[ilovelucyfan7]

I Love Lucy never gets tiring i'll keep watching it over & over. Other shows i don't wanna watch.

[ericpancho]

I have been watching I Love Lucy almost my whole life. As a kid I watched it as I got ready for school and now I watch it on the Hallmark Channel each morning as I get ready for work. Great writing, wonderful casts and amazing show. I will be watching until the day I die. I love and miss you Lucy. :-)

[JazzyFizzful]

I saw the episode... It is on youtube now.

[Soulthinker2007]

I remember seeing it on Rona Barrett's show. No wonder it was put on the shelf:It was emotional and shouldn't belong in a rerun.

[dnewhope777]

Merry Christmas in July everyone.

[NicolesChicMakeup]

@thewordkeeper Thats awesome! Keep doing what you're doing! :)

[wtglb]

Back in the good ol' days when you could say "Merry Christmas!"

[ra86226]

@wtglb haHA. I thought the same thing!

[wtglb]

@ra86226 You know what they say, "Great minds think alike" It is a shame though, the PC Police have made people ashamed to say it, but you know, I go out of my way to say Merry Christmas during the season. I won't let them take my religion and culture away from me!

[thewordkeeper]

@wtglb Likewise. I say Merry Christmas as well. I could be at a table full of atheists and i'll bless my food openly and proudly. A few years ago i was in a market and saw a friend. After some light chatter we parted. I said "Merry Christmas." She replied "no you mean happy holidays." I said loudly "no i meant just what i said, Merry Christmas." Folks stared. I said "that's right MERRY CHRISTMAS! And i don't care who doesn't agree." Upon leaving i wish i had added "and God Bless you."

[wtglb]

@thewordkeeper Lol....good for you! Keep on spreadin' the word!

[bongomanfromdalou]

This episode was a "gift" to "I Love Lucy" viewers since the original baby stories had not been re-run since they were first aired in 1952 and 1953. It aired on CBS at Christmas 1989 and 1990 before going to DVDs. It contained scenes from "Lucy is Enciente," "Lucy's Show Biz Swan Song," and "Lucy Goes to the Hospital." And I must admit, that last scene--where Lucy and Ricky and Fred and Ethel pull off each other's beards to discover the real Santa Claus--still leaves me in tears...

[themaytagrepairman]

Is that Ronna Barrett

[PTYSurferGirl]

@vividwatch47 is it the original episode or a remake like someone said down below. I have the whole set but haven't gotten to season 6. i'm doing a marathon at night before going to bed. i love lucy! :)

[cubanita1101]

:P they did this episode twice once before little Ricky was born and now its kinda a remake really :)

[hispuregarden]

This is such a wonderful episode! It should be shown every Christmas season along with Charlie Brown's Christmas, White Christmas, etc!

[missfine257]

lucy is an icon i hope she isnt dead i luv lucy and da nanny 4eva

[superstar3801]

@missfine257 im very very sorry to say that lucy is dead,she died some time in the 80's and yes she was quite an actress

[bamboorepublic]

I can't stand Rona Barrett. She always thought she was it. I met her in person one day outside her mother's Palm Springs condo and she was so rude, a total bitch. Her mother was so nice. I'm glad she is retired now, good riddance.

[ChandlerandMonica83]

wow not so little ricky! I haven't seen the later shows yet..just on Season 3 and 4 right now.

[MsSunidaze]

Happily this episode is on the DVD collection. I remember a few years ago they ran a colorized version of this episode.

[HypnoticSubliminals]

This is sad, because Lucy has slowly disappeared from the air. Many young kids don't know who she is.

[julie11061]

@HypnoticSubliminals I do, and I think she's brilliant! And I wish they showed I Love Lucy on T.V. more often. I'm 14 and I've even managed to talk my friends into watching some episodes of it and they like it too!

[SuperTom009]

i wanna watch this episode .

[zamoradude1]

wanna buy it IN COLOR for $10???

[TheOneandPrettyOne07]

Wow it makes you wonder if there is a real santa!

[fromthesidelines]

There was a "compilation" feature of three "LUCY" episodes, with new "linking footage" {a typical couple comes to the Desilu Playhouse to watch the episodes being shot before a live audience} that would have been released in 1953, 'vivid' (it was "test marketed" in at least one L.A. movie theater)- but Lucy & Desi signed with MGM to star in "The Long, Long Trailer" instead, and the "LUCY" feature was shelved. It was finally issued on DVD a while ago, and parts of it were on YouTube...

[santaskitch]

Wow, I remember seeing that years ago. Thanks so much for posting this! I admit, I cried.

[wntoply6]

i had never seen this episode, and i had to wipe the tears away before i could type my response to you.

if one was lucky enough to see "i love lucy" when it originally ran, then one understands the emotion they brings out when seeing them again for the first time in years.

they are a direct link to our babyboomer childhood days.

thank you vivian, bill, desi and of course the fabulous lucy for the best memories a person could have.

[poosaypirate]

who cried ? i did

[HELLAhandsomeKRiiS]

i dont get it. how come u guys cried???

[snuggiey]

i love lucy

[mcfrdmn]

Excellent video....

Who played the FIFTH Santa Claus?

[KarlDan]

Vernon Dent, he was in many Three Stooges episodes.

[voodooodoll123]

i have this one

[blancface]

I can see why they shelved it ......

[EdGauthier1]

No, Rona, this "Santa" episode was NOT the only "missing" Lucy one. The original Lucy pilot ("Circus Clown") was actually lost for decades before it was later recovered and reshown.

And they hadn't just put that one on the shelf, either - they actually knew it was missing for real. It was just by accident that someone found a rare copy of it under some bedding in a storage area in Mexico.

[ishukaur]

i have this Episode

[gymnastix]

I swear I recall two, different Christmas episodes of "I Love Lucy," one with the Santa Clauses singing and dancing in the "Ricardo" living room, the other with the real Santa Claus in the kitchen.

Does anyone recall seeing two, or a variation of this one with different scenes?

[Hevynly1]

This may not be what you were thinking of, but the dancing Santas were present in a recreation of Judy Garland's living room on her own show in the early 60s. That's the closest thing I can think of to what you described.

I always wished I Love Lucy had more Christmas episodes, though!

[sara1964fox]

i don't know if your talking about this but i'll give it a shot. on the complete series dvd set in one of the bonus features there is an extra scene that aired right after the episode (i think it was "drafted") aired b/c the day it aired on cbs was december 24, 1951. the scene featured the two couples (minus little ricky) dressed as S.C., dancing around a christmas tree in the ricardos' apartment and singing when suddenly after they went around the christmas tree the real S.C. appeared.

[MeaghanEdwards]

They should put it out on DVD, if they haven't done so already. I have a really old tape of it somewhere and saw it a few years back; unfortunately it was on a bad tape :(

[graphic8189]

It's on the 6th season dvd set.

[vividwatch47]

This episode is on the six D.V.D. set "I Love Lucy: Season 6", and I think it's on Disc 3.

[Seyahhsod]

WOW, I bet

• Bea Arthur

• Dolly Pardon

• Joan Rivers

All got in cat suits and robbed the host of the show (in black) clean faster than she could say Whoopsy-Daisy!!

[FortegoLite]

He's so lucky... He got a Lionel model train!!

Wonder what it is??

[dakota975]

CBS aired the color Christmas I Love Lucy episode in December of 1990.

[JBToppersmith]

I think I have a recording of that.

I remember watching it, and (get this)...WAS SCARED OF SANTA CLAUS!

It scared me how some guy ended up in the "Lucy" group and went unnoticed. And the fact the episode ended with a huge confusion.

Well, I guess I watched when I was like...five or so. I was a scaredy cat back then.

[fromthesidelines]

The scene with the "five Santas" was originally staged as a "holiday tag" at the end of the December 24, 1951 episode "Drafted", but omitted from future broadcasts because it was intended, as the '56 special was, to be seen only once during the original series.

[bongomanfromdalou]

Actually, the "baby" episodes were never re-run during the CBS network run of "I Love Lucy." The Christmas episode was designed to display the highlights of the baby episodes as a reward to loyal viewers. One of the writers is quoted as saying the episode was shelved so you wouldn't see the Christmas episode on, let's say, June 19th! (IMHO it's a little weird to watch a Christmas episode of any TV show in mid-summer!)

[gillisgrant]

Actually, the baby episodes were re-run on CBS on Saturday nights in late 1955-early 1956 under the title "The Lucy Show"...just not in this 'flashback' format.

[bongomanfromdalou]

That must be something Bart Andrews overlooked...he mentions the '55-'56 "The Lucy Show," in his "I Love Lucy" book, but nowhere have I seen any reference to the baby episodes being re-run before the show went into syndication in 1967.

[gillisgrant]

As far as I know, it's not mentioned...but having looked up some old TV Guide issues from those years...I found that they were in fact aired with the alternate series title.

[ROBERT9205]

rona barrett sounds like a gruff district attorney

[vividwatch47]

I remember Rona Barrett when she used to her Hollywood report on the Metromedia news (I used to see her on KNEW Channel 32 in in 1969), though I always thought she was a tad annoying.

[rubyredjewel]

Lucy Ball in one of the many books about her is quoted as saying the episode was shelved because she & Desi didn't think it was all that funny and decided to leave it out of the syndication package.

[bongomanfromdalou]

You didn't see that drum kit after the Christmas episode either!

[cvstar411]

thats bc TV land cuts out parts of it.

[sakara18235]

whatever happened to rona barrett?

[shaspassren]

I hacve never seen this epasoid i got to look at tv land more on christmas

[lildivagirl09]

I HAVE THIS ONE. I own so much I Love Lucy memorablia. I own 135 movies,with Desi and shows Of I Love Lucy and the Lucy show and also behind the scenes movies. AND MORE!!!

[SweeneylovesLovett]

Do you have the made for tv movie "Lucy"?

[UBUIBME8]

I never saw this one before. It was nice to see something "old/new to me." Thank you.

[arvinwynn]

i watched this classic show when CBS reaired it and aired it in as a color show, which i loved seeing ..it is my favorite tv show of all time ,and I just hope that tv land keeps the 5-6pm run of it on for ever.

[jelowery2]

Is that Rona Barrett? What ever happened to her?

[CzapigaKielbasa]

I don't know, but her accent and voice is annoying as hell! GEEZ.....

[keepurchinup]

that's cuz she's a new "yawka" (yorker)

[walamylove]

I can't believe there was a missing episode of I Love Lucy. I never knew. interesting.

[daris89]

In Miami "I Love Lucy" is shown 4 times a day, 5:30 A.M., 1:00 P.M., 5:00 P.M. and 5:30 P.M...I love this show, it's my all time favorite TV Show.

[delsur2009]

even now in 2007 chanel 13 LOS ANGELES twice a day

[Hepster420]

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY

[rkmfl]

Just an FYI: If you click my video response to this video, it will take you to the xmas special part 2 of 3. Part 1 all the way through 3 are on my channel.

[kay2be2]

ok no, I have never seen this episode in my life. It seems too fake or fantasy like for an I Love Lucy episode, which were usually very realistic.

[rkmfl]

Well guess what? Its not fake. I just added the video in question a few days ago. Checkout my channel and you can watch the i love lucy christmas special :)

[kay2be2]

I'm not saying that the video is fake. I'm saying that the whole concept of Santa Clause appearing and then dissapearing into thin air is too much of a fake story for the usual realistic story lines that I Love Lucy had. It's more of Bewitched type episode. That's what I meant. My comment had nothing to do with the video, I'm just saying I didn't really like that episode cause or the unrealistic story line.

[rkmfl]

My apologies. I read your comment wrong. Must have been the turkey lol. I see what your saying now.. However.. IMO i think it was a fine touch to the xmas special.

[zzzzz87]

who are you? it's true that this episode existed, and it has been appearing on TV Land for years at Christmastime.

[kay2be2]

OK for the last time, Like I had responded before a long while ago.... I never said that the video or the episode it's self was fake, I said that the story line of the episode (the whole santa clause thing) seems a lot more fake than the usual I love Lucy episodes, but I never questioned the episode's authenticity. It's pretty obviouse that it really did exsist.

[zzzzz87]

oh, well, it was unique for the show

[firstjohn47and8]

I think the lost episode has to be Lucy asking Robert taylor to sign her orange. Where is that episode?

[techtvfan]

Ummm... this episode was lost? I had it on vhs when I was a kid. It was on the same vhs as rudolph the red nosed reindeer... I wonder if we still have it, I can't remember if it was taped off tv or not.

[thealphacenturi]

"Ummm... this episode was lost?"

Apparently.

[mayluv21]

how did you get it in color?

[wunderchic]

Now thats one episode I can say that I've never seen before.

[Starlet21]

I have the colorized episode on dvd.

[ckri2]

I vividly remember watching this in 1981. It's hard to be believe it's been that long!

[rkmfl]

Visit my channel and you can see the I love lucy christmas special :)

[vividwatch47]

Does anybody remember that was a "I Love Lucy" feature film? According to Bart Andrews in his book "Lucy, Ricky, Fred And Ethel: The Story Of I Love Lucy" director Edward Sedgwick did an original film or had taken several episodes, and filmed bridges to give it continuity. Sadly, he died after supervising the editing of the film. If it does exist, post it!