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(More customer reviews)Over 50 years ago during the early years of broadcast television, the very inspired talents of Lucille Ball (1911-1989) and her then husband Desi Arnaz (1917-1986) were showcased on their hilarious television show "I Love Lucy". TV execs had initially rejected the plausibility of the show because of Desi and because they intended to tape the shows. However, thanks to the tireless efforts of Lucille Ball and Desi's obvious talents, the show first aired in 1951 and quickly became one of the most successful TV shows during all six of its regular seasons. As Lucy and Ricky Ricardo on "I Love Lucy", Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were joined by William Frawley (1877-1966) and Viviane Vance (1909-1979) as their best-friends/apartment landlords of Fred and Ethel Mertz.
The sixth & final season of "I Love Lucy" that aired between 1956 and 1957 had 26 memorable episodes and one special:
1. "Lucy and Bob Hope": After Lucy spots Bob Hope (himself, 1903-2003) at a baseball game, she attempts to contact him by pretending to be a hotdog vendor and a pitcher.
2. "Little Ricky Learns to Play the Drums": Thump. Thump. Thump, thump, thump. Little Ricky (Keith Thibodeaux) learning to play the drums starts to drive everyone crazy; including Fred & Ethel with his persistent rhythm.
3. "Lucy Meets Orson Welles": After Lucy gets to perform with Orson Wells (himself, 1915-1985) at the Tropicana, she tries to turn his magic-act into Shakespeare to impress her old drama teacher in the audience.
4. "Little Ricky Gets Stage Fright": Little Ricky appears fine before he debuts his drumming skills in front of an audience, but then panics immediately before the show.
5. "Visitor from Italy": Mario (Jay Novello, 1904-1982) from Italy comes to visit on his way to San Franchesca to see his brother, but Lucy thinks it's supposed to be San Francisco so she helps Mario get a job in a pizza parlor to raise money, only to have to flip some pizza dough herself.
6. "Off to Florida": To visit Ricky & Fred in Florida, Lucy & Ethel carpool with Mrs. Edna Grundy (Elsa Lanchester, 1902-1986) and her watercress sandwiches, but they come to think that she is a murderer after hearing a report on the car radio.
7. "Deep-Sea Fishing": Still in Florida, the gang goes out on a boat to go fishing with the women betting the men on who can catch the biggest fish.
8. "Desert Island": To stop Ricky & Fred from judging a Florida beauty contest, Lucy & Ethel make it appear that their boat runs out of gas, leaving them stranded on seemingly deserted island.
9. "The Ricardos Visit Cuba": Finally visiting Cuba after many years, Lucy gets the opportunity to meet more of Ricky's relatives, but ends up trying to hide while rolling cigars.
10. "Little Ricky's School Pageant": Ricky, Lucy, Fred & Ethel appear in Little Ricky's school show with Lucy as a wicked witch.
Special: "'I Love Lucy' Christmas Show": A.K.A. "Jingle Bells" or "The Lost Episode", this special has the gang reminiscing as they decorate a Christmas tree.
11. "Lucy and the Loving Cup": Lucy gets a trophy stuck on top of her head.
12. "Lucy and Superman": Lucy pretends to be Superman for Little Ricky's birthday, but then the real Superman (George Reeves, 1914-1959) shows up.
13. "Little Ricky Gets a Dog": When Little Ricky gets a puppy, no one is happy with its non-stop, late-night barking.
14. "Lucy Wants to Move to the Country": After Lucy wants her, Ricky & Little Ricky to buy a home in Connecticut, she starts to have second thoughts and gets help from Ethel & Fred to sour the deal with the sellers: Mr. & Mrs. Spaulding (Frank Wilcox, 1907-1974, & Eleanor Audley, 1905-1991).
15. "Lucy Hates to Leave": The Ricardos with their belongings temporarily move in with the Mertz's until they can move into their new Connecticut home.
16. "Lucy Misses the Mertzes": Alone in their new home, Ricky & Lucy decide to visit Fred & Ethel in New York, but Fred & Ethel decide to visit Ricky & Lucy.
17. "Lucy Gets Chummy with the Neighbors": Like Lucy ever needed an excuse to buy new furniture, her new friend & next-door neighbor Betty Ramsay (Mary Jane Croft, 1916-1999) helps to convince Lucy that she needs to.
18. "Lucy Raises Chickens": To help pay their bills, Lucy & Ricky decide to get chickens and sell the eggs; so Lucy & Ethel buy 500 baby chicks that Little Ricky finds hidden away and accidentally lets loose.
19. "Lucy Does the Tango": After Ricky threatens to sell their chickens that won't lay eggs and he & Fred aren't speaking to each other, Lucy plans to plant store-bought eggs in the nests; but she also has to hide them and practice the Tango with Ricky with some sticky results.
20. "Ragtime Band": When Ricky refuses to perform with Lucy, Fred & Ethel for a benefit, she gets Little Ricky on the drums instead.
21. "Lucy's Night in Town": Lucy, Ricky, Fred & Ethel plan to see a New York play, but problems arise, including Fred getting nervous about carrying $500 in cash.
22. "Housewarming": Ethel's jealousy of Betty Ramsey's friendship with Lucy quickly becomes Lucy's jealousy of Ethel when Ethel & Betty find out that their both from Albuquerque. Things get worse when Lucy thinks that Ethel is planning a surprise housewarming party for her & Ricky.
23. "Building a Bar-B-Q": Ricky & Fred build a wonderful brick barbeque, but Lucy thinks her wedding ring fell into the cement; so she & Ethel take it apart looking, then attempt to put it back together with hilarious results.
24. "Country Club Dance": Lucy, Ethel & Betty get mad at their husbands that all become smitten with a young blond (Barbara Eden) at a dance.
25. "Lucy Raises Tulips": Tulips and riding lawnmowers don't go together, which is what Lucy finds out when she tries to mow her yard and takes out Betty's prize tulips. Lucy also discovers that wax tulips don't do well in the sun.
26. "The Ricardos Dedicate a Statue": In the very last regular "I Love Lucy" episode, after Lucy accidentally destroys the statue to be dedicated, she pretends to be the statue. The real children of Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz (Lucie Arnaz & Desi Arnaz, Jr.) made uncredited cameo appearances.
To date, Paramount Home Video has done a superb job of packaging the various episodes of the first five seasons of "I Love Lucy" on DVD, so it's a good indication that they'll do as good a job with the sixth season. Overall, for superb packaging and a great price, I rate the "I Love Lucy: The Complete Sixth Season" DVD box set with an anticipatory 5 out of 5 stars and highly recommend it! Hopefully the 13 hour-long "The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show" episodes from 1957 to 1960 will follow in another DVD box set.
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I Love Lucy - The Complete Sixth Season (1951)They say all good things must come to an end, but the sixth and final season of I Love Lucy's leaves a hilarious legacy with this four-disc, must-have DVD set. Season Six of this classic television sitcom sees the Ricardos longing for a less-hectic life in the country, so they make plans to move to rural Connecticut . . . but not before Lucy leaves The Big Apple reeling with some riotous escapades. To help further her "showbiz" aspirations, Lucy attempts to get chummy with comedian Bob Hope at a baseball game – by masquerading as both a hot dog vendor and a tobacco-chomping pitcher. Then, with Little Ricky's birthday approaching, Lucy makes a superhuman effort to have Superman (George Reeves) appear at the festivities. And only Lucy could somehow wind up with jockey Johnny Longden's loving cup stuck firmly on her head! Will life in rural Connecticut be more tranquil? Well, not when Lucy believes that her wedding ring has fallen into the mortar Ricky has used to build a new patio barbecue. And in one of the funniest TV episodes ever, Lucy learns the hard way that you shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket …er, um … blouse! Here are all 27 "Final Season" episodes of I Love Lucy – television's timeless, unforgettable comedy series.
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