Posted on 05/17/2015 3:38:20 PM PDT by SMGFan
Here’s your chance to see the Ricardo’s and the Mertzes like never before. Fans of I Love Lucy will be treated to another colorized presentation of two classic episodes on CBS tonight. The I Love Lucy Superstar Special may just be an elaborate repackaging of two 60-year-old black-and-white sitcom episodes, now meticulously colorized and shown back-to-back without a pause. But anything Lucy related remains a gold mine for CBS, even six decades later, and the May 17 special will probably not be an exception as reported by Movie Fone. Both episodes will be the debut of their colorized versions. At 7 p.m. central standard time tonight, CBS will air the I Love Lucy Superstar Special featuring the classic 1955 episode “L.A. At Last!” and the 1957 episode “Lucy and Superman.”
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well, through the 70s I was watching the color version of 60's TV in B/W. Watched "Dallas" at grandparents in color.
Thanks for the heads-up!
Corlorizing old classics.
Maybe they should color in the Mona Lisa with Crayola crayons at the Louvre. Obviously, DaVinci didn’t know what he was doing.
Colorized? Isn’t that racissss?
Amazing that Lucy is still ‘the IT girl’ 50 something years later. I always got the feeling, Lucy could be just as cranky and fussy as Milton Berle when off stage. They were only human, and you have to balance out all that ‘hilarity’
in some manner. Jerry Lewis is the same way, one tough customer unless he is in total control.
I catch a few episodes weekly of the old half hour Gunsmoke on the Western Channel in black and white. Color would ruin it for me.
I don’t mind colorization if it retains a vintage look and they don’t look washed out or muted. The show could easily have been shot in color originally, probably just that the viewership was overwhelmingly watching on b&w tvs.
Sharpton and Jackson will be calling for a boycott any minute now
My mom waited on her a few times at Bullocks Wilshire and said she was wonderful sweet gracious and fun
My great grandmother baby sat Lucy in NY many, many years ago.
Not sure of the particulars but it did happen.
If they keep the original lengths of about 28 minutes, rather than cutting content to make them fit the current timespan of about 21 minutes, they might be worth watching.
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I recall watching one episode broadcast on one of the channels about a decade ago.
Before the middle break, Lucy and Fred had an exchange. I had seen those episodes so many times that I knew them by heart. I wondered why that scene was cut out — because, at the end of the program, Lucy and Fred had a related scene. The related scene was based on the previous scene (now missing) that made the end scene funny. It was like a belated punchline, except that the original joke was not there.
I wondered how many viewers new to the Lucy comedies wondered what the heck that last scene was all about.
Young viewers have probably missed a lot of the content/comedy due to stations cutting the content.
Cool. I created an itinerary for a Niagra Falls tour I conducted a couple of years ago and included the Lucille Ball museum in Jamestown. Everyone enjoyed it.
A few decades ago, IIRC, Ted Turner had some of the classic movies colorized.
It is a toss-up as to whether the b/w or colorized is the better one to watch.
When we finally got a color TV, I remember watching shows and thinking “Wow, that was in color all that time?” Har, nowadays watching shows online without commercials is the BIG treat!
My question is is why aren’t early colour videotape programs like the Dinah Shore Chevy Show or the Pontiac Star Parade or the Evenings with Fred Astaire not shown either on NBC as a special occasion or on the PBS stations. You can see them on YouTube, of course, but these programs should also be showcased. Hope I am not getting off topic here but any thoughts or memories on early colour television?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1fIhPW9hns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp8eT8mFDlo
More of those old, almost forgotten classics are starting to find new audiences with Netflix and DVDs.
Some of the old 1950s/1960s live broadcast tv shows were not put to film. A few did survive because someone at the time was keen enough to have them put to film.
when I still had a B/W TV I could tell when those 60’s sitcoms switched over to color. Gilligan’s Island , I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, Beverly Hillbillies, 1 Get Smart episode.
In the case of I Love Lucy Dezi must have had his reasons and that was that. :)
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