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Ball ended the series after the sixth season in 1968; a new series, ''Here's Lucy'', debuted in its place. This change was done for two reasons: one, to allow Ball's children, Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz, Jr., to appear alongside their mother and two, because Ball felt enough episodes were produced for syndication. The fact that she sold Creator/DesiluStudios (the company that produced ''The Lucy Show'') to Creator/{{Paramount}} also reportedly influenced the decision, as Ball didn't want to continue a series she no longer owned; ''Here's Lucy'' was produced by her new company, Lucille Ball Productions.

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Ball ended the series after the sixth season in 1968; a new series, ''Here's Lucy'', ''Series/HeresLucy'', debuted in its place. This change was done for two reasons: one, to allow Ball's children, Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz, Jr., to appear alongside their mother and two, because Ball felt enough episodes were produced for syndication. The fact that she sold Creator/DesiluStudios (the company that produced ''The Lucy Show'') to Creator/{{Paramount}} also reportedly influenced the decision, as Ball didn't want to continue a series she no longer owned; ''Here's Lucy'' was produced by her new company, Lucille Ball Productions.
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** "Lucy and Bob Crane" includes a cameo appearance by Werner Klemperer, playing Colonel Klink from Crane's own series, ''Series/HogansHeroes''. Klink delivers his famous catchphrase from that show: "I know nothing! I see nothing! I hear nothing!"

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** "Lucy and Bob Crane" includes a cameo appearance by Werner Klemperer, John Banner, playing Colonel Klink Sergeant Schultz from Crane's own series, ''Series/HogansHeroes''. Klink Schultz delivers his famous catchphrase from that show: "I know nothing! I see nothing! I hear nothing! I know nothing!" Crane then tells him he's in the wrong war, as the movie they were filming was set in WWI.
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For unknown reasons, 30 episodes of the series have lapsed into the public domain. These episodes were issued on home video by numerous public domain content distributors. Paramount themselves never issued any official releases of the show on VHS, it was only after Paramount's TV library was acquired by CBS that the show got official home video releases in the form of season sets, and later a complete series set, on DVD.

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For unknown reasons, 30 episodes of the series have lapsed into the public domain. domain - 2 from the first season, 21 from the fifth season, and 7 from the sixth season. These episodes were issued many times on home video by numerous public domain content distributors. Paramount themselves never issued any official releases of the show on VHS, it although 20 episodes were licensed by Columbia House, split over 5 tapes. It was only after Paramount's TV library was acquired by CBS that the show got official home video releases in the form of season sets, and later a complete series set, on DVD.
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* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Lucy was very prone to letting even a small amount of public attention go to her head, especially in "Lucy the Astronaut" and "Lucy Enters a Baking Contest." Even lampshaded by Viv in the latter.
--> '''Viv''': I'd forgotten how insufferable you get with just a little success!
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* SecretCompartment: Federal agents approach Lucy to pose as her lookalike, Rusty Martin. Rusty is the girlfriend cum cohort of bank robber Big Nick, and the feds need Lucy to discover where Nick stashed the $100,000 in cash from his latest heist. Big Nick falls for the decoy, but Lucy discovers that Rusty was the one who hid the loot. When Nick asks where she hid it, Lucy tries bluffing with "the usual." "The usual?" asks Nick, "Baby, that's brilliant!" Then he puts out the second drawer of a dresser and exposes its underside, which holds several bundles of cash.
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* MilitarySchool: A positive version of the trope appeared in ''Series/TheLucyShow''. In "Lucy and the Military Academy", Lucy's son Jimmy goes to military school. Jimmy is sent home, not because he's unhappy. It's Lucy makes a nuisance of herself being unable to give him up. Jimmy would later be PutOnABus to military school after the {{Retool}} (see below).

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* MilitarySchool: A positive version of the trope appeared in ''Series/TheLucyShow''. In "Lucy and the Military Academy", Lucy's son Jimmy goes to military school. Jimmy is sent home, not because he's unhappy. It's Lucy who makes a nuisance of herself being unable to give him up. Jimmy would later be PutOnABus to military school after the {{Retool}} (see below).
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* PromotedToOpeningTitles: Gale Gordon, starting with season four.
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* FakeGuestStar: Although Mary Jane Croft became a semi-regular for the last three seasons, essentially “replacing” Vivian Vance, she was only ever billed under “with” in the closing credits. (According to lore, Ball refused to ever have a full-time female co-star again out of loyalty to Vance.)
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** The set for Lucy and Viv's kitchen was heavily redesigned and expanded for the second season. Though that set would remain for the rest of the Danfield run, the stovetop and sink would frequently shift positions on the counter, depending on plot needs. (For “Lucy, The Disc Jockey,” the oven and refrigerator swapped locations for the same reason.)

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** The set for Lucy and Viv's kitchen was heavily redesigned and expanded for the second season. Though that set would remain for the rest of the Danfield run, the stovetop and sink would frequently shift positions on the counter, depending on plot needs. (For “Lucy, The “Lucy is a Disc Jockey,” the oven and refrigerator swapped locations for the same reason.))
** The Danfield Bank appeared once during the first season. When it returned as a recurring location for the next two seasons, its design was completely changed.
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* SpiritualSuccessor:
** Developed as the follow-up to ''Series/ILoveLucy'', initially featuring not only Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance but many of the same writers and behind-the-scenes personnel.
** ''Here's Lucy'' was the spiritual successor to this show.
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Creator/LucilleBall stars as Lucy Carmichael, a widow with two children, Chris (Candy Moore) and Jerry (Jimmy Garrett), who shares her house in [[{{suburbia}} suburban]] Danfield, New York with her divorced friend Vivian Bagley (Vivian Vance) and Vivian's son Sherman (Ralph Hart). Lucy had been left a substantial trust fund by her late husband, which was managed during the first season by Mr. Barnsdahl (Charles Lane), then by Theodore J. Mooney (Gale Gordon) during the next two seasons. Personality-wise, Ball and Vance's characters were effectively the same ones they played on ''Series/ILoveLucy''.

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Creator/LucilleBall stars as Lucy Carmichael, a widow with two children, Chris (Candy Moore) and Jerry (Jimmy Garrett), who shares her house in [[{{suburbia}} suburban]] Danfield, New York with her divorced friend Vivian Bagley (Vivian Vance) and Vivian's son Sherman (Ralph Hart). Lucy had been left a substantial trust fund by her late husband, which was managed during the first season by Mr. Barnsdahl (Charles Lane), (Creator/{{Charles Lane|1905}}), then by Theodore J. Mooney (Gale Gordon) during the next two seasons. Personality-wise, Ball and Vance's characters were effectively the same ones they played on ''Series/ILoveLucy''.

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