Product Details

• Actors: Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball, William Frawley, Richard Keith, Vivian Vance
• Directors: Desi Arnaz
• Format: Black & White, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• VHS Release Date: January 30, 1996
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303912699
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #213,008 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The only Lucy episode that made me laugh out loud, September 18, 1999

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This review is from: Lucy & Desi 8: Lucy Goes to Alaska [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a very clever episode of I Love Lucy. She can actually sing in this one. I loved the hammock scene, but the "dinner" scene, where everything is being mimed, is the best part. It deserves every star I gave it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best Lucy episode ever!, June 22, 1999

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This review is from: Lucy & Desi 8: Lucy Goes to Alaska [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I think that Lucy goes to Alaska is truly the funniest episode. Lucy travels to Alaska only to find problems after problems; like always, Lucy always finds a way to make every situation funny. Wait till you get to the hammock scene!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All you need to know: Lucille Ball and Red Skelton, December 14, 2003

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This review is from: Lucy & Desi 8: Lucy Goes to Alaska [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Recommending the 8th special in "The Lucy & Desi Show" series is really easy because it has both Red and the Redhead, being Red Skelton and Lucille Ball respectively. Even better, Lucy joins Red in a Freddie the Freeloader skit. Not since Harpo Marx showed up on "I Love Lucy" have we had such a great opportunity to smile at the anticipation of how delightful any scene putting these two comic geniuses together would have to be, and in this regard we are not at all disappointed.

The premise is that Ricky is taking the band to Nome, Alaska, to appear on a Red Skelton television special celebrating the admission of Alaska as the 49th state. The Ricardos and Mertzes head north together, and Ricky and Fred are excited about some land they have purchased, sight unseen. Of course, it looks exactly like a frozen wasteland, but the really bad news is that the hotel accommodations force the two couples to share one room, where they draw lots for the one small bed, an army cot, a sleeping bad, and a hammock. If you do not know which one of those four Lucy gets, then you ought to be ashamed of yourself. Meanwhile, the actress who was supposed to appear with Red in his sketch cannot make it to Alaska and Lucy volunteers to take her place. However, before we can get to the best part of the episode, Lucy has to drag Red out to see Ricky and Fred's property so the two can be stuck flying a small airplane by themselves.

The Freddie the Freeloader sketch is enough to justify picking up this show, which first aired on February 9, 1959, but there are a couple of other above-average bits as well. The idea of these hour-long episodes was that the Ricardos and Mertzes would travel to exotic locations, but obviously what made these work was who was the guest star, and having Red Skelton is a biggie. Pay attention to the two Eskimos, because one of them is played by Iron Eye Cody, who would become a major pop culture footnote as the crying Native American in those memorable anti-pollution public service ads.