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I Love Lucy: Season One, Vol. 4

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It costs less to make a dvd then to make a vhs, and at four episodes a dvd, you are getting jipped. I agree with the one who said "being nickel and dimed to death." It is true!

179 episodes breaks down into 45 dvds, averaged at $12 a dvd that is $540. I don't have the space to store 45 dvds on Lucy alone; I do have other movies I would like to own. The price is also a little steep. I would rather have it season by season, and at $50 a season, that is still only $300. That is a better deal for storage and value.

As long as people continue to spend the money, we will never see a decent amount of Lucy episodes on a decent priced dvd.

We need to stand up as consumers and stop giving in to the studios by buying these overpriced dvds.

It appears that the diehards are going to kill it for everyone. I think that is sad. Lucy would have wanted more people to enjoy her show on dvd.

I LOVE LUCY continues its DVD debut with this fourth volume of episodes from the historic first season!

THE ADAGIO - Lucy decides to become an Apache dancer in Ricky's new act, and employs the services of an oily Frenchman named Jean Valjean Raymond to instruct her. However, good ol' Jean has other designs on the unsuspecting Lucy...!

THE BENEFIT - Lucy and Ricky decide to perform in a high-brow benefit show. Features the song "We'll Build a Bungalow".

THE AMATEUR HOUR - Lucy decides to get a babysitting job to bring in extra money, and ends up with two spoiled twin brats!

LUCY PLAYS CUPID - Lucy decides to help her kind upstairs neighbour Ms Lewis (Bea Benaderet) in matters of the heart...with hilarious results!

Special features include: Guest cast info, flubs, an episode of "My Favorite Husband" radio show and original Philip Morris opening.

THE 'I LOVE LUCY' SEASON 1 COLLECTION CONTINUES WITH VOLUME 4!! FOUR MORE EPISODES FROM THE #1 SERIES EVER MADE FOR TV IS ON IT'S WAY TO YOUR DVD PLAYER.

EPISODES INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME ARE...
'THE ADAGIO'- WANTING TO BE IN RICKYS ACT, LUCY TAKES PARISIAN DANCE LESSONS BUT THE TEACHER HAS MORE THEN DANCING IN MIND!

'THE BENEFIT'- LUCY WANTS TO DO AN ACT WITH RICKY FOR A BENEFIT.

'THE AMATEUR HOUR'- LUCY BABYSITS TWO TWINS WHO ARE TO APPEAR IN AN AMATEUR HOUR. (HILLARIOUS EPISODE!!)

'LUCY PLAYS CUPID'- LUCY TRIES HER HAND AT MATCHMAKING WHEN HER NEIGHBOR, MISS LEWIS WANTS HER TO SET HER UP WITH MR. RITTER.

THIS VOLUME IS ALSO TO INCLUDE MORE EXTRAS AS THE PREVIOUS VOLUMES HAVE! ALL THE EPISODES ON THIS DVD ARE GREAT AND I WOULD LIKE TO NOTE THAT THE COVER ART ON THIS VOLUME IN PARTICULAR LOOKS VERY,VERY NICE! CAN'T WAIT TO GET THESE NEW VOLUMES AND I AM ANXIOUSLY AWAITING THE VOLUMES TO FOLLOW! HOPE MORE ARE RELEASED IN TIME FOR SANTA TO PUT THEM UNDER MY CHRISTMAS TREE (PLEASE)!

I will not buy any more of these, I Love Lucy as much as the next guy -- even more -- but I won't be nickled and dimed at a four episode a disc rate. Everyone else can release season by season. This is just stupid. Even a "club" will send you the next one when it comes in. To much $$ and effort here. Do us a favor and follow the standards other TV sets have started. Go season by season. You'll probably sell a lot more!

The fourth volume of I Love Lucy's first season features episodes 12-15. Although, like many other people, I wish they would release season-by-season DVDs, this is still a must have collection. Lucy's brand of humor and physical gags transcends time and it shows on this set. And who doesn't love Lucy?

1. "The Adagio" (aired 12/31/51)- Lucy, bitten by the showbiz bug once again, is determined to be in the French Apache dance number in Ricky's Paris revue. Ethel finds a real Frenchman to help Lucy out. His name is Jean Valjean Raymand and when he comes to her apartment for lessons and he sees her trying to hide him from Ricky, Jean assumes that Lucy wants to runaway with him. That night, he climbs up a ladder to Lucy's window to take the woman he loves, but it's not that easy.

2. "The Benefit" (aired 1/7/52)- Lucy convinces Ethel that she and Ricky are the perfect husband and wife act for a benefit performance at Ethel's club. Now all Lucy has to do is convince Ricky. When he agrees and comes up with a comedy act for them to do, Lucy is mad when she finds out that Ricky gave himself all of the jokes and left her with nothing. She then decides to tell the punch-line of the jokes before he has a chance to finish them.

3. "The Amateur Hour" (aired 1/14/52)- To pay for a new dress she just bought, Lucy decides to get a job baby-sitting. She's supposed to be watching a little boy, but is her mind playing tricks on her or does Lucy see two little boys?

4. "Lucy Plays Cupid" (aired 1/21/52)- Miss Lewis (Bea Benaderet, who was the original choice for Ethel Mertz), a sweet, elderly neighbor, asks for Lucy's help in asking out Mr. Ritter, the grocer, who she has had her eye on for awhile. Ricky forbids Lucy to be a matchmaker, but, of course, that has never stopped her before. When Lucy tells Mr. Ritter about Miss Lewis, he thinks that Lucy is lying and that she is the one who is interested in him.

In this decade, every episode of "I Love Lucy" will be celebrating its 50th Anniversary. Every episode is still funny as funny as when they first aired. The shows are good. The shows are wholesome. They are healing and warm and will make you feel good. Buy them on VHS or DVD today.

What can I say? I Love Lucy on dvd is a dream come true. A must have for fans of I love Lucy. Let's hope the rest of the series makes it to dvd. Buy them here from Amazon.com. The content of the dvd's are exactly like what is being released by that video club and they are much more inexpensive through Amazon.com. Tell Paramount we want more Lucy!

The notion of who loves Lucy gets expanded by the first and last episodes collected on Volume 4 of the first season of the classic television situation comedy:

Episode 12, "The Adagio" (December 31, 1951) has Lucy all excited about doing an Apache routine at the Club. But then her French dance coach (Shepard Menken) takes a romantic interest in her and suddenly this does not seem like such a good idea.

Episode 13, "The Benefit" (January 7, 1952) finds Lucy blackmailing Ethel into letting her perform at a benefit at a woman's club. It seems Lucy has promised Ricky will perform but has somehow neglected to mention this fact to her busy husband.

Episode 14, "The Amateur Hour" (January 14, 1952) has Lucy making the big mistake of baby-sitting twins at an amateur talent contest. It is a wonder Lucy ever wanted to have a baby after this escapade.

Episode 15, "Lucy Plays Cupid" (January 21, 1952) features a couple of great character actors in supporting roles as Lucy plays matchmaker between the grocery man (Edward Everett Horton) and the neighborhood spinster (Bea Benaderet). But the grocery decides that what he really likes...are redheads.

It is rather interesting to watch these episodes within the context of four episodes to a disc. In a lot of these early scripts Lucy is close to going solo as writers Jess Oppenheimer, Maedelyn Pugh, and Bob Caroll, Jr. have not yet gotten comfortable with the fact that Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance and William Frawley are pretty good comic actors playing pretty good comic characters. Overall these episodes would grade out as slightly above average, but the classics are still waiting for us down the road. See you there.

All the episodes here are in correct order as filmed. "The Adagio", episode 12, Filmed on November 23, 1951. Broadcast on New Year's Eve, December 31, 1951. "The Benefit". episode 13, Filmed on November 30, 1951. Broadcast January 7, 1952. "The Amateur Hour", episode 14, Filmed on December 7, 1951. Broadcast January 14, 1952. William Frawley is not in this episode. "Lucy Plays Cupid", episode 15, Filmed on December 13, 1951. Broadcast January 21, 1952. Vivian Vance and William Frawley are not in this episode. Bea Benaderet is in old woman make-up. Bea Benaderet worked with Lucy on the radio show "My Favorite Husband". She was Lucy's first choice to play the Ethel Mertz character, but thank goodness the role went to Vivian vance. Bea Benaderet was already playing "Blanche Morton" on the "George Burns and Gracie Allen" show also on CBS.

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