TV Guide cover, promoting Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's famous appearance on a 1970 episode of Here's Lucy

Here's Lucy was Lucille Ball's third network television sitcom. It ran on CBS from 1968 to 1974. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (760x1071, 145 KB)September 5, 1970 TV Guide, featuring Lucille Ball, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (760x1071, 145 KB)September 5, 1970 TV Guide, featuring Lucille Ball, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... Lucille Ball Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an American actress, comedian and star of I Love Lucy. ... For other uses, see CBS (disambiguation). ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1974 calendar). ...

The program's premise changed from The Lucy Show. Ball's character now lived in Los Angeles, California and was named Lucy Carter. In this new incarnation, she had two children named Kim and Craig, played by her real life children Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz, Jr. She worked for an employment agency run by her brother-in-law Harry (played by Gale Gordon, in a role completely unrelated to his Mr. Mooney role from The Lucy Show though the two characters did share the same temperament). Mary Jane Croft who had costarred on the last three seasons of The Lucy Show, also became a regular on the new series, and Ball's longtime costar Vivian Vance also made numerous guest appearances through the series' run. Lucille Ball in still from a 1966 episode of The Lucy Show The Lucy Show was Lucille Balls follow up show to I Love Lucy. ... Nickname: City of Angels Official website: http://www. ... Lucie Arnaz (born Lucie Desiree Arnaz, July 17, 1951 in Hollywood, California) is an American actress. ... Desi Arnaz, Jr. ... Gale Gordon at his home in Borrego Springs, California (he was honourary mayor of the town) Gale Gordon (b. ... Theodore J. Mooney was a fictional character on the 1960s CBS situation comedy The Lucy Show, starring Lucille Ball. ... Mary Jane Croft (February 15, 1916 – August 24, 1999) was an American actress well-known for her association with Lucille Ball in Balls best-known television series. ... Vivian Vance publicity photo. ...

Perhaps the most famous episode was one from 1970 in which Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor guest star in a storyline involving their famous diamond, which becomes stuck on Lucy's finger. Ball and Burton reportedly did not get along, as he found Ball's rigid perfectionism grating and he subsequently wrote about her in extremely unflattering terms in his memoir. 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... Richard Burton CBE (November 10, 1925 – August 5, 1984) was a Welsh actor from the late 1940s through the 1980s. ... Elizabeth Taylor Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton Warner Fortensky Taylor DBE (born February 27, 1932) is an iconic two-time Academy Award-winning actress. ...

In 1972, Ball suffered a leg fracture in a skiing accident and as a result, spent much of the 1972-73 season in a full-leg cast. (This was written into to the show, with the Lucy Carter character also breaking her leg.) The "slapstick" was toned down for the remainder of the series, given Ball's decreased ability to perform physical comedy, as a result of her injury. 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1972 calendar). ...

The series was produced by Ball's newly-formed production company, Lucille Ball Productions, which she formed with her second husband and business parter Gary Morton, after the 1967 sale of Desilu to Gulf and Western. Gary Morton (born 1924) was the second husband of Lucille Ball. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Desilu Productions was a company jointly owned by American actors Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. ... Gulf and Western Industries, for a number of years known as Gulf+Western, was a United States conglomerate. ...

DVD Releases

• "Here's Lucy: Best Loved Episodes from the Hit Television Series"

• The LUCY LOUNGE
• The Long Live Lucy Message Board